packmanuk4 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Is it possible to make a mod that will allow for shorter seasons ? 40 games would be great or maybe a half season mod. I can't see myself being able to play a full season and if I sim games i don't really feel part of my teams success so short seasons would be the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFATTY Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 I would be interested in this also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikitundra Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carter Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 bump Come on now! Give it a little longer than 17 minutes or add a useful comment. Otherwise you are just spamming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter5897 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Last year someone found some files that were something like shortseason40 and shortseason81. They might have these same files somewhere in this year's version. Sadly I'm in a library right now and can't look at my own game files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeexDev Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 If I find out how to make the season shorter il put it out on the site. I think i know how to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packmanuk4 Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 That would be great to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikitundra Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 definitely... thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleMo Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 agreed. i work full time and this is very necessary. i am tired of simming until i only have 30-40 games left and then i jump in to play all games and win them all so i can barely make the playoffs. this is important the the working man. if you make this mod i will vote for you to be president of the united states man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squeegeedeadly Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 In 2004 there was 3 files (sched15g.dat, sched30g.dat, sched60g.dat) in "C:Program FilesEA SPORTSMVP Baseball 2004data" for 15, 30 or 60 games season. Change the sched file of the number of games you want to play to sched03.dat and sched04.dat . Only problem is that your minor teams play full schedule. They may still be there in 2005, if not you can always try to use the 2004 files and see if it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packmanuk4 Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 Those files don't seemt o be in the game this year. Its just one big schedule file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeb68 Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Hi, My name is Jim B. and I'm the one who created the 17 game season last year. I've been doing schedule editors since the Front Page Sports and High Heat days. I am in the process of trying to figure out what is needed to be done to do this again the year. The files are different this year and are all embedded in the schedule.big file. I have been testing what I have done so far and I keep on running into a problem when there is a one game playoff. The game cannot get past this one game playoff. I have made the MLB, AAA, AA, and A leagues all have 17 games. I think the problem may be that the minor leagues have to finish their playoffs before the MLB starts them. I'm not sure yet but hopefully that is the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleMo Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 jeb68, Any way of making it a 40 game season if you are successfull with your 17 game season? BTW, Why only 17 games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikitundra Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 This is great news so far... A 40 games schedule would make a lot of people happier though. In any event, I am sure the entire community appreciates your work on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEnigma510 Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 I'll have to check the files in 2005 because I did some experiments with 2004 and noted you could change the schedule as someone else noted above. Yes, you do have to play the minor leagues games out before the playoffs. However, there was also a file in 2004 where you could change the minor league sch too. If you didn'd care about the minor leagues, you could always truncate the minors schedule so that the season ends on or before your shortened major league schedule. This would prevent the problem of simming the minors games long after your major league schedule ended. I'll check my 2005 tonight to see how the schedules look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleMo Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Go Forth And Mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stecropper Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 The answer is Absolutely the Schedules in 2005 for Majors and all Minors can be edited into whatever you care to. I am currently editing strickly for 7 game Series between only two teams just so Stats can be kept. Any combination can be done. The schedule files are a bit different in 2005 than 2004 due to them all being packed within a schedule.big file but they can be extracted, changed and repacked without much problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEnigma510 Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Just curious..how do you extract info from a *.big file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeb68 Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 You use eagraph to extract from the big file. I just finished editing the mlb files so that the mlb regular season ends after the minor leagues playoffs. I'll let you know if it works. By the way, I only do 17 games because I wanted a schedule that looks like this: 1. Play each and every team once in you league. 2. Play the All-Star game at the half (after 9 games). 3. Play 1 interleague game before the all-star game and 1 interleague game after the all-star game. This is how I did it last year and everything worked great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleMo Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 So, will anyone be creating a 40 or maybe an 81 game mod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeb68 Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 I'm not sure anyone is going to be able to create a schedule mod this year. I have been doing a lot of editing and testing and there seems to be a problem with 1 game playoffs. Every time the MLB (not minors) has a 1 game playoff, the game will not let you continue. I tried all kinds of different schedules: 1. MLB starts after the minors playoffs. 2. MLB starts before the minors playoffs. 3. Just edited the MLB schedules. 4. MLB has 10 games in April and then 10 games in September and October. I wonder if the 1 game playoff bug is part of the regular schedule. Could someone do some testing and check on this. This is not good news for me because I do not have time to play 162 games. I'm going to go back to ESPN if I can't find a solution (it lets you play 10 games/season). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleMo Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 A lot of people that are married, work full time, or both would be gratefull for a shortened season mod. 40-81 games would be great. Whoever reads this, take this as your mission. I'd try if I knew anything about modding or if I had time. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEnigma510 Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Do you recompress using EAGraphics Editor or another program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEnigma510 Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 I'm not sure anyone is going to be able to create a schedule mod this year. I have been doing a lot of editing and testing and there seems to be a problem with 1 game playoffs. Every time the MLB (not minors) has a 1 game playoff, the game will not let you continue. I tried all kinds of different schedules: 1. MLB starts after the minors playoffs. 2. MLB starts before the minors playoffs. 3. Just edited the MLB schedules. 4. MLB has 10 games in April and then 10 games in September and October. I wonder if the 1 game playoff bug is part of the regular schedule. Could someone do some testing and check on this. This is not good news for me because I do not have time to play 162 games. I'm going to go back to ESPN if I can't find a solution (it lets you play 10 games/season). Did you try reducing the minor league schedule? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packmanuk4 Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 Anyone had any luck with this mod yet ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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