Mvp 14 Baseball

[dennisjames71]

File Name: MVP 14 Baseball

File Submitter: dennisjames71

File Submitted: 16 Sep 2014

File Category: Total Conversion Mods

Version: 1.0

MVP 14 BASEBALL

by dennisjames71 & daflyboys

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Presenting a full conversion mod to bring the MVP Baseball experience into the 2014 season.

Based upon the success from the last 2 season's mods (MVP 12 & MVP 13), this mod heavily focuses on realism of not only the major league rosters as well as the minor leagues. This is thanks to the superb talents and painstaking dedication of daflyboys and his rosters along with heavy collaboration with ENCBase13 and his tremendous contributions. A huge thanks goes out to Oscar Morales for his constant updating of the Player ID list which ensures accuracy and uniformity. Rising Son’s cyberfaces and portraits have been a great contribution to the community and this mod as well.

Graphically, this has been a pet project of mine since Spring Training of this year and I was lucky enough to get a large majority of the work compiled by around April/May. After a lengthy layoff...I decided to revisit the project and finish what I started. As I mentioned, daflyboys' excellent and accurate rosters was a huge motivator for me in this project. Behind the scenes, the comments and kind words from people like Y4L, Jim825, daflyboys, and bctrackboi11 helped me tremendously in even bringing this to the table in the first place. To be honest, if it wasn't for these good friends, this project would not have seen the light of day.

Anyway, what we have here is a considerable modification from my own personal MVP 13 from last season which not only updates the experience, but also adds some unique touches to the game. First of all, this mod focuses on the modern game. I have eliminated all classic stadiums and have repurposed/modded a set of 24 minor league and/or spring training ballparks to play in. From the stadium select screens, it’s obvious that some stadiums are team specific but there are also some "generic" minor league parks to play in too. Of course there are versions of all MLB stadiums and you'll find the night version of Target Field among the minor league parks (just scroll through and you'll find it).

Updated and new custom uniforms are there for MLB and minor league teams. The only team that I did not update to the 2014 season was the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs (AAA) and I will do those and release them at some point when I get a chance as an add-on. Now the question will come up with the blank/blacked-out slots in the uniform-select screens. Yes, there are SOME blanked out slots for SOME teams and the reason why I did that was to try to eliminate the stock throwback uniforms that just are not up to par with the rest of the uniform sets. Also, the other main reason I blanked some of those slots is because each team has “hard-coded” attributes for their uniform sets such as “Classic Tight”, “Classic Baggy”, etc. The problem is if you take a modern or baggy uniform and try to place it in a “Classic Tight” slot, then the uniform looks warped…in other words, it looks horrible. I combed through many of my Total Classics uniforms in order to fill as many slots as possible but I wasn’t going to waste my time looking for Classic Tight uniforms for the D-Backs for example, when they never really existed in the first place. Overall, there is a tremendous collection of uniforms here to choose from and I have tried to label them as completely as possible. Otherwise, just pick one that looks good and go with it.

The core of this mod comes from daflyboys & ENCBase13’s roster set which is based on current rosters as of September 14, 2014. Unlike many baseball video games, these rosters are not based on stats and ratings from last season; these are based on THIS season. The painstaking work and great attention to detail is what’s going to make this mod an enjoyable experience. You’ll be pleasantly surprised with the sim results as well.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

• You must have a clean install on MVP 2005 baseball for this to work.

• There are 4 links to choose from below. Pick one and download the ZIP file; it’s called “data”

• Use the LINKS to download the updated content of the game. If you click the green "Download" button, that contains a copy of daflyboys' roster pack.
• Simply take the DATA folder that you downloaded and copy/extract it to the directory where the MVP 2005 baseball game is installed.
• YOU MUST OVERWRITE EVERYTHING and let it copy over all the new material that was in the original DATA folder.
• Start the game.

I have tested this method and the game itself on 3 different PCs running Windows XP and Windows 7 64-bit. This works on a gaming desktop PC (Win 7), a standard desktop PC (Win XP), and a 2 year-old standard quality PC laptop (Win 7).

With that being said; I’m sure there will be “My Game Crashes when I try to start a game” issues. To minimize some of these possible problems; please try some common sense, troubleshooting tips so that the support forums will not get flooded unecessarily.

TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS

• Re-boot the computer and try to start the game from there.
• Make sure that you don’t have multiple programs, browsers, media players, etc. running at the same time.
• Check your in-game resolution. When I test this game on a laptop, I make sure I’m running it at 1024 x 768. If it’s running on a system with a larger monitor; I use the 1280 x 1024 resolution.
• Make sure your video card drivers are updated.
• Run the game in Windows XP Compatibility Mode & Run As Administrator. Just right-click the .EXE file, click the Compatibility Tab, and then makes sure to click Apply.

• Download the BigGUI Tool:

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• Open your Models.BIG (in your DATA folder) with BigGUI, click File and then click Rebuild...after a few seconds, the program re-organizes the Hex Addresses of all the components...more importantly it brings the Models.BIG file down from 819mb to around 760 mb. I have had ZERO crashes since doing this on all of my installs of MVP 14. I would highly recommend anyone having crash issues to give this solution a try. It's quick and easy.

I know the requirements for the original MVP 2005 Baseball were quite low; but keep in mind that with all of the conversion mods, the requirements are a bit steeper. Resolutions of uniforms and stadiums primarily are doubled or quadrupled but still, almost any modern PC will run this fine. For example, my laptop cannot run NBA 2K14; but it runs MVP 14 with no problems. I’ve made sure to properly compress and rebuild (in biGUI) all stadiums so that the file sizes are minimal. When I tested this, I started 8 exhibition games in a row on my gaming desktop and I started 5 games in a row on my laptop with no crashes.

Now, the only operating system I have not tested this on has been any version of Windows 8 (8.1), etc. All I could recommend is to make sure you are running the game in compatibility mode/administrator mode.

I’ll be creating a support forum thread for MVP 14 where questions can be addressed; but again, please review the trouble-shooting tips I posted above to see if that doesn’t solve your problem.

Most of all, enjoy the game!!

-Dennis

ADDENDUM:

Clicking the green "download" button contains daflyboys' collection of 3 Roster Sets.

1. (1) The Original database folder / roster set that came with the MVP 14 game.
2. (2) BaseUp! Rosters MVP 14 CPU v CPU Ver. 4.0: Sit back and watch your favorite teams compete against each other in realistic games! Everything you need is contained in the zipped file.
3. (3) BaseUp! Rosters MVP 14 Alternate Phase 4: This roster set reflects season-ending injuries (with the injured players placed elsewhere in the organization).

DOWNLOAD LINKS

MEDIAFIRE: http://www.mediafire.com/download/6eze5h526g9gmb6/data.7z

COPY: https://copy.com/fMJp9YGIgHix

4SHARED: http://www.4shared.com/archive/9u8FVkvGba/data.html

MEDIAFIRE (alternate): http://www.mediafire.com/download/vnter4f97p4s9g7/data.7z

[kyleb]

Great stuff, Dennis. Maybe we can start work on MVP 15 soon!

[Yankee4Life]

Great stuff, Dennis. Maybe we can start work on MVP 15 soon!

Quote of the week!!!!!

[Jim825]

Great stuff, Dennis. Maybe we can start work on MVP 15 soon!

When will you be done with MVP15?

[bctrackboi11]

Outstanding work Dennis, the minor league stadiums are a nice touch.

[SolsetMiami]

Now the alternate Mediafire link is giving me problems. I can load it, but the Captcha doesn't show up on either. And on the 4Shared link, it stays stuck on waiting 20 seconds for the free download, with no countdown.

[jogar84]

great job on the mod guys

[LouisvilleLipp]

Installed default MVP 05, running Win 7 64 bit home premium, changed it to run on XP compatability mode, got the game screen to come on for 3 seconds, then error msg says MVP 05 .exe not working, program shuts down. Also having trouble with the computer recognizing the CD in the tray. Just trying to get the game running before installing MVP 14. Are any prior patches required to be installed, before the game works correctly? Any help would be appreciated .

[Yankee4Life]

Installed default MVP 05, running Win 7 64 bit home premium, changed it to run on XP compatability mode, got the game screen to come on for 3 seconds, then error msg says MVP 05 .exe not working, program shuts down. Also having trouble with the computer recognizing the CD in the tray. Just trying to get the game running before installing MVP 14. Are any prior patches required to be installed, before the game works correctly? Any help would be appreciated .

That's odd because on my laptop I have Windows 7 64 home premium and I do not have to run the game in XP compatibility mode. I just run my game in administrative mode and everything works well.

Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your disks?

Once you do get the game installed off the CD's do NOT install any mods in this. Install the EA patch #2 and then install the Mvp 14 mod.

[sask3m]

Installed default MVP 05, running Win 7 64 bit home premium, changed it to run on XP compatability mode, got the game screen to come on for 3 seconds, then error msg says MVP 05 .exe not working, program shuts down. Also having trouble with the computer recognizing the CD in the tray. Just trying to get the game running before installing MVP 14. Are any prior patches required to be installed, before the game works correctly? Any help would be appreciated .

I have the game running on my windows7 64bit but I never told it to run under windows xp mode. If you can't get it running DELETED. That's what I do cause I don't like having to keep popping the cd in and out.

[Homer]

what are your hardware specs?

[Homer]

I have the game running on my windows7 64bit but I never told it to run under windows xp mode. If you can't get it running DELETED. That's what I do cause I don't like having to keep popping the cd in and out.

please remember, no talk about pirated software. if you don't like to use the cd, you can create an image file from your discs. perfectly legal.

[LouisvilleLipp]

what are your hardware specs?

Intel Core 2 Duo E9500 @ 3.00 Ghz, 4.0 GB of ram, Nvidia 9600 GT Video card, Asus P5KPL-AM-EPU MB, Win 7 64 bit Home Premium OS. I have no trouble running any games or software to this point.

[LouisvilleLipp]

That's odd because on my laptop I have Windows 7 64 home premium and I do not have to run the game in XP compatibility mode. I just run my game in administrative mode and everything works well.

Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your disks?

Once you do get the game installed off the CD's do NOT install any mods in this. Install the EA patch #2 and then install the Mvp 14 mod.

No scratches on the discs Y4L.

[LouisvilleLipp]

I have the game running on my windows7 64bit but I never told it to run under windows xp mode. If you can't get it running DELETED. That's what I do cause I don't like having to keep popping the cd in and out.

What exactly do you mean deleted? I thought disc 2 has to be in to run the game.

[Homer]

What exactly do you mean deleted? I thought disc 2 has to be in to run the game.

i had to edit his post. just read what i wrote in a reply to him. if the cd isn't being recognized, try using imgburn to create an image file and then run it with daemon tools lite.

Intel Core 2 Duo E9500 @ 3.00 Ghz, 4.0 GB of ram, Nvidia 9600 GT Video card, Asus P5KPL-AM-EPU MB, Win 7 64 bit Home Premium OS. I have no trouble running any games or software to this point.

yeah that should be plenty actually. i was just wondering because i've noticed a lot of crashing with newer builds. i still am seeing a lot of issues from people who have the more powerful hardware.

[LouisvilleLipp]

i had to edit his post. just read what i wrote in a reply to him. if the cd isn't being recognized, try using imgburn to create an image file and then run it with daemon tools lite.

yeah that should be plenty actually. i was just wondering because i've noticed a lot of crashing with newer builds. i still am seeing a lot of issues from people who have the more powerful hardware.

I just installed all 5 patches that Y4L posted in the d/ld section from EA after the game came out. Srry.. but I'm not familiar with using imgburn or daemon tools file. Will run it again shortly to see if that helps.

[LouisvilleLipp]

Tried it again after all the patches were installed, nothing has changed, still says MVP 05 .exe not working.

[sask3m]

Tried it again after all the patches were installed, nothing has changed, still says MVP 05 .exe not working.

Have you tried re-installing it, worth a shot.

[Homer]

try disabling your firewall or antivirus.

[Yankee4Life]

Tried it again after all the patches were installed, nothing has changed, still says MVP 05 .exe not working.

Strange as all hell but this has happened to others in the past too. I just don't know how they fixed it.

[Gordo]

One of the first fixes I ever saw around here for W7 users was installing it to a desktop folder. I don't think simply moving it to your desktop at this point will work. So uninstall. As far as official patches, all you need is #2 (or #3 if you're planning on playing online, from what I understood). So see what installing to a desktop folder might do. After installing to a desktop folder, I would still do the compatibility tab suggestions.

If that still doesn't work, one last suggestion would be to try ticking the box entitled "Disable desktop composition" also under the Compatibility tab (right click on the .exe file or on the desktop shortcut and select "properties").

We have similar specs and vid cards (I have quad core), so this really should work.

[LouisvilleLipp]

I'm stumped...I created the desktop folder to install the game, and a error msg says it cannot install to the selected directory, because it may cause the system to become unstable. I don't know what to do next, I really want to install this but it may be too troublesome unless someone that has Win 7 64 home premium can chime in on how they got it to work. Thx for all the help and replies from the community to this point.

[vincentlunag]

I'm stumped...I created the desktop folder to install the game, and a error msg says it cannot install to the selected directory, because it may cause the system to become unstable. I don't know what to do next, I really want to install this but it may be too troublesome unless someone that has Win 7 64 home premium can chime in on how they got it to work. Thx for all the help and replies from the community to this point.

You have to create a new folder on your desktop, name it MVPBASEBALL or whatever, after you do that, try again and install the game on that folder.

[LouisvilleLipp]

You have to create a new folder on your desktop, name it MVPBASEBALL or whatever, after you do that, try again and install the game on that folder.

I tried that, if you read my post and it won't allow me to do it.