dennisjames71

NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL Version 4.0
By dennisjames71
 
About 12 years since the most recent version of this mod; I wanted to finally release a notable update to my mod.  Much of the reason for this update is because of the 2020 announcement that Negro League statistics were formally recognized by Major League Baseball and that career statistics for players (which were previously difficult to compile) were now being added to databases and websites such as BaseballReference.com.
 
https://www.mlb.com/news/negro-leagues-given-major-league-status-for-baseball-records-stats
 
Because of this I went through and recalculated at least 38 of the top/famous players in my mod using the BaseballReference site and of course DylanBradbury’s tremendous calculators.  For example, I was able to use Jackie Robinson’s 1945 season with the Monarchs and added his 1946 season with the Montreal Royals to calculate his ratings for the Negro League Mod.  I was pleasantly surprised that there were mostly only minor differences with the ratings I calculated 12-13 years using books and some rough databases for these players, and that a lot of that hard work in research was not in vain or totally “off”.
Another significant update in this version are the uniforms.  About 8 years ago bctrackboi11 (John) created some Negro League uniforms and sent them to me and allowed me to utilize in future mods.  I have used these uniforms sets which are a little more than half of the uniforms.  I have created (such as a 2nd set of Chicago American Giants uniforms) or re-created the other half of the uniforms for the mod.
 
Other changes will be listed in the changelog below and I did this to make available a little more refined version of this mod which was a huge passion project for me all those years ago.  I still love this mod and like many, many of the Total Classics mods; I still find the time play these on a regular basis.
 
I want to thank the sparkplugs of my update project; bctrackboi11 who sent me those wonderful uniforms and inspired me to re-do them all.  Also, in recent years Bob Kendrick’s wonderful “Black Diamonds” podcast which focuses on the History and Legacy of the Negro Leagues has been a constant inspiration.
 
Thank you all for checking this out,
-Dennis
 
The method for updating or installing this will be very simple.  The file you download will be a zipped (.7z) folder containing the all-important DATA folder.  Whether you have a previous version of the Negro League Baseball mod, a clean MVP Baseball 2005 install, or any other MVP Baseball mod; the instructions are the same:
 
1.     Delete the entire DATA folder in your installed game (this is where you are going to install this mod). (ex. C:\MvpBaseball2005\DATA)
2.     Extract/Unzip my file you downloaded into your main game directory. (ex. C:\MvpBaseball2005) This is your new DATA folder.
3.     Double-click the mvp2005.EXE to start the game.
 
 
 
[ORIGINAL SYNOPSIS 2011-2012]
Link to my Original Mod
NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL
By dennisjames71
After nearly a year of work…I wanted to finally present my All-Negro League Baseball Mod for MVP Baseball. After making my first negro league uniform last December, the effort snowballed into a full-fledged mod, thanks to all of the knowledge I’ve picked up and applied since then. At first I went at it for the purpose of making it for myself because of my love for the Negro Leagues; but I figured I would share my effort here so others may enjoy it as well.
So here’s what this thing is:
*A complete mod that transforms MVP Baseball into an 18-team (plus 2 EAST/WEST All-Star Teams) Negro League Mod. I’ve pulled some of the best all-time players from each franchise and through multiple eras, into a single team. Teams such as the New York Lincoln Giants will mostly have players from their best years in the 1910’s and early 1920’s for example.
*I’ve utilized the excellent Complete Book of Baseball’s Negro Leagues (John Holoway) and some Ootp All-Time Negro League spreadsheets to obtain the tough to find career statistics of many of the players. Statistics and Ratings for the better known players are more ‘polished’ than some of the lesser known players. Thanks to DylanBradbury’s superb batting/pitching calculators, I feel I was able to develop good but rough ratings for some lesser-known players who had very little information. I have portraits for the popular players and decided to use a generic negro league portrait for other players instead of the ‘blanked-out’ photos.
*Practically every single aspect of this game has been modded to get the user into a term me and redeck coined when we did our TC 1927 Integration series; historical immersion.
 
All music (walk-up & jukebox) is changed to very early blues and jazz songs.
Thanks to bctrackboi11; you’ll find “old” and worn baseball bats and a dirty, hard-to-see baseball.
African-American crowd in each of the 18 stadiums with celebrities like Joe Louis, Robert Johnson, and Duke Ellington making an appearance.
All fireworks visuals are removed. All fireworks and sirens sounds have been removed when a home run is hit. You will just hear the crowd roar.
All of the created uniforms are from the most popular eras of each franchise. Some teams (like the KC Monarchs) have 2 sets of home/road uniforms.
*I’ve modded/made 18 stadiums for the Negro League teams. They are typically modifications of the stock 1927 stadiums along with others. These are interpretations of well-appointed stadiums for the teams to play in and are by no means accurate; but they provide an excellent environment to play the games in.
*Much thanks to bctrackboi11 for his excellent and iconic 1942 KC Monarchs home uniforms and New York Cubans uniforms in which he gave permission to use. Credit goes to Thome25 for his late 40’s/early 50s New York Cubans uniforms which adds a nice touch as well. I had completed the remainder of the uniforms along with the brand new, original uniforms I made for the East and West all-star teams.
*I used many of the cyberfaces for popular players that me and redeck had in out TC 1927 Integration Mods. They were done predominantly by Homer and jogar84 and others. I apologize if I missed any of the other cyberface makers who allowed us to use them in our previous mods.
*I want to give thanks to my old partner redeck for being a motivator for making Negro League material when we worked on our mods in the past Winter/Spring. His painstaking work on those rosters enabled me to use many of the players and ratings into my full Negro League mod. Thank you bud.
*A ton of thanks goes out to OTBJoel for stadium and team audio. Back in the spring and before his epic Legends of the Booth mod; he was kind enough to provide his Legends to announce proper city/stadium names as well as team names for my mod personally. You will hear Ernie Harwell announce the game is between the “Homestead Grays versus the Kansas City Monarchs” for example.
*Unfortunately because I do not know player audio, there will be little of that throughout the game but perhaps if I am able to learn those skills, I can always update this project. Also since this was done prior to the Legends of the Booth release; this will have Kiper/Krukow play-by-play and commentary.
*Much thanks goes out to DylanBradbury who had created a tentative schedule that has a few kinks that we will iron out and it is included in the game. It is a 126-game schedule for Dynasty Play.
*Finally thank you Jim825 for keeping the flame burning of your excellent efforts of Total Classics Baseball. You have been an inspiration from Day 1 for me.
My mod is by no means the ‘end-all-be-all’ and definitive Negro League Mod but its accuracy and realistic values I feel are good enough for many of the Classic Baseball fans here at MVP Mods to enjoy and perhaps be inspired to create their own work or improve upon the foundation I have laid down, hopefully.
Lastly, this effort was done because of my enduring passion and respect for this group of men who played a wonderful style of baseball in the Negro Leagues. It was my nod of admiration and a way of creating a historical experience with these superb players and the game they played.
Feel free to try this out guys and I hope you enjoy the experience. It was well worth the effort to me.
-Dennis
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*** VERSION HISTORY ***
v4.0
All uniforms updated/improved. (including East/West All-Star Teams) BaseballReference.com statistics used to update player ratings for 38 major players in the mod. Added Intro Video Updated at least a dozen player portraits All team logos redone Removed Walk-Up music (Beginning of game and between-inning music still intact) Some graphic refinements with the stadiums and other minor updates/improvements to the general roster v3.0
Fixed issue in Dynasty mode where the wrong teams are displayed in the team standings Restored file that removes fireworks and siren sounds after home runs are hit v2.0
Added player name audio to about 175 players Fixed some minor stadium issues v1.0
Initial release -------------------------------------------

I know it's strange to release a MiLB Stadium on the last day of their regular season but I tend to play a lot of minor league games in the winter months too.

This is a Security Service Field that is based on the Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees stadium released a while back. I thought it had the best overall look to use.

This stadium will replace the "aaa1nite" file and copy the included .TXT file into your /data folder for proper collision/physics info.

Enjoy!!

Ad update for Cheney Stadium, home of the Tacoma Rainiers (Seattle Mariners AAA-affiliate). This will replace Triple AAA Stadium 2(aaa2nite); however you can rename it to any other stadium.

Enjoy!!

Here is a version of Milwaukee’s County Stadium for use with the 1974 TC Mod. Day & Night versions are included for the stadium. 
Also included the period-correct home/away uniforms for the Brewers (1970-1977). Install the ZIP file with TiT.
Enjoy!!

Here are versions of Milwaukee’s County Stadium for use with the 1974 & 1978 TC Mods. Day & Night versions are included for both stadiums (‘74 & ’78). Copy the included .TXT files into your /data folder for proper data/collision data.

Also, I went ahead and included the period-correct home/away uniforms for the Brewers (1970-1977). The uniform font files remain the same. Install these with TiT.

Install the "Brewers Uniform Select Fix" file in TC Mods 1974 with TiT to update the Select Screen with these uniforms.

Enjoy these!!
:drinks:

Ad update for Fifth Third Field, home of the Toledo Mud Hens (Detroit Tigers AAA-affiliate). This will replace the Classic Cleveland Municipal Stadium (clevday); however you can rename it to any other stadium.

Enjoy!!

A couple of errors that I had made were brought to my attention and i am happy to get those corrected in this patch.  This will correct the proper Orioles 1955 road uniforms as well as remove the names on the back of the Red Sox road uniforms as well.  Simply use TiT to install the included ZIP file into your main game directory for Total Classics 1955 and these issues will be corrected.
 
-DENNIS

Here are (2) Create-A-Stadiums for use with the MVP Asia Series Mod. There is (1) for Japan and (1) for Korea. Even though these stadiums require the use of the included Owner files; you CAN use this stadium in any Exhibition or Dynasty game.
 
This is a CREATE-A-STADIUM, so you should simply copy the venuday & venunite files (DO NOT RENAME) into your data/stadium folder.
 
Also included both "KOREA" and "JAPAN" owner mode files. Place file into your My Documents/MVP Baseball 2005 folder. Load it when selecting the "Create-A-Stadium" (at the Stadium Select Screen) to get the proper configurations of these stadiums
Enjoy!

Here are 4 additional modded stadiums for use with the MVP Asia Series Mod. Included are stadium files for (3) Japanese Stadiums:
-Generic All-Purpose Dome (Named Osaka Dome)
-Hiroshima Carp Stadium (Using Great American Ballpark as the stadium model and the Camden Yards slot)
-Hanshin Tigers Stadium (Using Guaranteed Rate Field as the stadium model and the Ballpark At Arlington's slot)
 
(1) Korean / KBO Stadium is included:
-Generic All-Purpose Dome (Named Seoul Stadium)
I have enjoyed the MVP Asia Series Mod since it was released years ago and have worked on these stadiums over the past 2 years.  I had watched numerous KBO and NPB game highlights and used screenshots to transpose many of the wordmarks and ads used in the stadium.  When ads were not available; I created them myself.
 
I will be releasing (2) CAS (Create-A-Stadiums); 1 for Japan and 1 for Korea likely tomorrow that can be used for this great mod.
I am also working on an additional outdoor KBO stadium.
 
Simply copy the stadium files into your data/stadium folder and copy the datafile.txt files (arliday.txt, arlinite.txt, orioday.txt, orionite.txt ) to your data/ folder.
 
Enjoy KBO and NPB fans!
-DENNIS
 

Quite a few years back I released a team-by-team uniform set for the Total Classics 1927 mod. Here is an updated set of completely redone uniforms that will drop right into Total Classics 1927. Of course you can download the ZIP and plug the uniforms into other mods by renaming the uniform numbers/letters if necessary. I have also included redone Uniform Select files here too.
Simply install the included ZIP file with TiT and it will update your TC 1927.
 
Enjoy!
DENNIS

Hello All,
Working through some projects lately, I discovered that I goofed when I did the uniform sets for TC 1977 & 1978.  I now have here the corrected road uniforms for Blue Jays along with the updated Uniform Select images for those 2 mods.  Simply install the individual ZIP files with TiT and you're ready to go.
-DENNIS

Use TiT to install the following patch.
*This patch will correct the portrait for 3B Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles.
*Also, this will correct the Chicago Cubs road uniforms from the gray color to the corrected sky blue road uniforms they wore that season.  The uniform image I used from the Dressed to the Nines website appeared gray; but after viewing actual photos of the 1976 road uniforms, I realized that they were a sky blue-ish color instead.
*The corrected uniform select file for the Cubs is also included in this ZIP file.
 
Enjoy!

Ad update for the Olympic Dome, home of the defunct Montreal Expos from 1977-2004; that you can use for the 1978 & 1988 TC Mods. This stadium will replace the "Classic Stadium" version of the Olympic Dome.

Enjoy!!

Ad/Stadium updates for the Seattle Kingdome. I have 3 versions here for the 1978, 1988, and 1998 TC Mods (in folders).

Enjoy!!

Here's a minor update to the Royals Stadium originally in the TC 1974 Mod. For use with the 1974 or 1978 TC Mods; I only changed the scoreboard text from "Kauffman Stadium" to "Royals Stadium", blocked out the modern ads, and a few other cosmetic changes. Day & Night versions are included. Copy the .TXT files to your /data folder for proper data/collision info.

Enjoy!!

Here is an update of Jack Murphy Stadium for use with the 1974 & 1978 TC Mods. Day & Night versions are included.

Copy the included .TXT files into your /data folder for proper data/collision data.

Enjoy!!

Here are versions of Comiskey Park for use with the 1974 & 1978 TC Mods. Day & Night versions are included for both stadiums (‘74 & ’78). Copy the included .TXT files into your /data folder for proper data/collision data.

Enjoy!!

Here's a minor update to Sean O's great rendition of Candlestick Park. For use with the 1974 or 1978 TC Mods; I only changed the outfield sign/scoreboard, changed team logos on the right field fence, and slightly darkened/saturated the astro-turf. Day & Night versions are included. Copy the .TXT files to your /data folder for proper data/collision info.

Enjoy!!

Here is a rendition of Jarry Park Stadium, home of the Montreal Expos from 1969-1976. This stadium is based upon the original Metropolitain Stadium. I made this with the TC 1974 Mod in mind and it replaces the rfkday/rfknite stadiums in the game. Copy the rfk .txt files into your data directory for proper physics/collision data.

*You can use this stadium for the TC 1969 Mod too: Just rename the day/night stadiums to the Marlins stadium (propday & propnite) and copy the included propday/propnite .txt files. The reason it cannot be RFK Stadium in the 1969 Mod...is because oddly enough the Montreal Expos and the Washington Senators "share" the same RFK Stadium.

Day & Night Versions Included.

Enjoy!!

Pretty minor update here for Metropolitan Stadium to use with the 1974 & 1978 TC Mods. Added a period-correct Team Logo to the scoreboard and the Minnesota state flag mostly. The main plus with this package is that I made a day-time version of the stadium in addition to the existing night stadium.

So the metrdome (default for the Twins) stadium = the NIGHT version
The metpnite = the DAY version

Copy the .TXT files to your /data folder for proper data/collision info.

Enjoy!!

Minor update for Cleveland Municipal Stadium to use with the TC 1974 & 1978 Mods. 70s baseline graphics, dugout (top) logos, and a couple of the outfield ads/signs. Day & Night versions included.

Copy the included data/collision (.TXT) files into your /data folder.

Enjoy!!

Update for Baltimore Memorial Stadium to use with the TC 1974 & 1978 Mods. This has a slightly updated look based upon the 1971 World Series Footage. Day & Night versions included.

Copy the included data/collision files into your /data folder. The problem of the lack of dugout is seen throughout the stock Baltimore Stadium from 1974-1988.

Enjoy!!

Here a "plainer" Dodger Stadium that you can use for the 1964 - 1988 TC Mods. I only added the basic Union 76 and a Farmer John ad throughout the stadium. The wall color is more realistic for the 60s & 70s era.

Day & Night versions included.

Enjoy!!

Here's an update for Atlanta Fulton County Stadium made specifically for the TC 1974 Mod. Created many of the special signs from scratch in order to maintain authenticity from this season.

Day & Night versions available. Copy the .TXT data/collision files into your /data folder.

Enjoy!!

Minor ad & stadium update for Pirate's 1980s Astrodome. This will update a couple of the scoreboard ads and baseline graphics for the 1974 and 1978 Mods (all are included).

Copy the included data/collision files into your /data folder.

Enjoy!!