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Hey Y4L,
Yeah, I know what you mean about the Washington Nationals...in my first game against them using the Reds, I only beat them by one run thanks to a Griffey double in the bottom of the 8th, if I remember correctly. We probably forget, but the Nationals were actually quite good that season and even by July that summer, there was a viable chance of them making a run for the playoffs. The NL East that season all had teams that were at least .500. So maybe it wasn't too surprising that we had a difficult time against that team and it goes to show that the MVP Baseball game had spot on rosters too, huh?
Case it point, I remember my 2nd game using the Yanks against the Rays....Mike Mussina scattered a bunch of singles and the Rays scored on an error; but I wiped them out pretty bad. Ironically, in that game the first HR i hit with MVP Baseball 2005 was with.....you guessed it....A-Roid. LOL! I was pretty excited with that....Ahhhhh memories!
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The 2nd game I played:
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Since this week marks the 10 year Anniversary of the release of MVP Baseball 2005; I wanted to start a thread to showcase any member's first experiences with this tremendous game. Whether you bought this on it's release date a decade ago or tried it the first time last month...feel free to post stories and screenshots about your experience.
I'll start it off with mine....
I didn't get the chance to purchase the game for PC until my birthday in May of that year. I didn't know what to expect since I didn't own or play the previous year's MVP 2004 Baseball game. Needless to say, I was blown away with every aspect of this game and remember playing it constantly that Spring and Summer. I'm sure my girlfriend at the time I lived with, didn't share the love of the game that I had since I was semi-obsessed with it....but a decade later I still love this amazing game.
My very first game I played after I got it installed was to play my hero Ken Griffey Jr.'s Reds at home against the "new" Washington Nationals team. Then my second game was using the Yankees against the Tampa Bay Rays in the Tropicana Dome.
These are screenshot re-enactments of those first games and a great trip down memory lane playing these tonight.
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Is there anyway to turn off walk up music on MVP14?
Here ya go bro....:
daflyboys turned me onto creating a copy of one of my MVP 14 installs where I blank out the walk-up music and turn off the announcers. I call it my "SILENT" install and it's a blast to play. Different...but still fun in a different way.
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thats great, i'll give negro league a shot.
Are stadiums, uniforms for the respective packages a separate deal or all inclusive?
I had to stick my head in here to firstly tell you "thank you" for all of your pioneering work with modding this great game. Secondly, you were a HUGE inspiration to my desire to even attempt modding this game and making improvements with the Total Classics concept. Years ago when I first stumbled upon this site and the work being done with historical themes and teams...I was utterly floored with amazement. It's a pleasure to speak with a legend such as yourself.
To answer your question, Yes, any of the total classics mods that I've done or that Jim825 and I have collaborated on, include full uniform and stadium updates to correspond with that particular era. We even go so far as to include period correct music and other menu visuals to the era as well.
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This is the Chase Field I use for the MLB game and I see no white blocks or anything like that. Go ahead and try this one.
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Sabugo, that was sincerely one of the best posts I've ever read concerning those issues. I appreciate your informed, mindful, and objective points on "the big picture" of these problems. I have many relatives in the Philippines that are affected (to a lesser extent) by the Muslim radical factions based mostly in the south of the country and it's a slowly growing problem. I enjoyed all of your points sir. Thank you.
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Yeah, unfortunately even MLB The Show is the same way where you can only play Double-A ball and up. You can only sim Single-A games in that too. MVP 2005 was the first game I believe that allowed all levels available.
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That's for MVP though. I'm wondering about MLB2K12. From what I see, Single A unis have never been updated.
You know what, my apologies because I thought the question was geared towards MVP Baseball. As far as I know though, you cannot actually play Single-A games in all the 2K games, you can only sim them, so only the Single-A logos appear and not the actual uniforms because of this. That's one of the reasons I love MVP for the minor leagues because they always include all the levels.
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I'm sure those Daytona uniforms will be done for this season. I made sure that every Single-A uniform was current for MVP 14 and they are all in there. As far as I recall, the only uniform set I did not get a chance to update was the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs new uniforms for 2014.
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These look superb. Thank you!
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I can't tell you how long I've been wanting to change the position like you did. Thank you so much Rising Son. Thank you 100 times!
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No luck there. My settings were already there. I'm not sure if my models.big or databases folder are corrupted. Maybe I can redownload.
Konbanwa sjbushido, your problems sound similar to one that mjeff and a couple of others were experiencing. Likely later tonight I'll be able to send you over some files/solutions that may solve your problem. I'll PM you to let you know.
Dennis
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I re installed the MVP 2005 using the original discs. I used the windows program to uninstall first. the 05 file I referred to was whatever was originally installed from the discs. I had transferred files such as my profile and a couple of owner modes to a different folder before downloading the 2014 file
(its a data 7z) and extracting it to the MVP folder in program files x86. I have just started an attempt to start over, this time I moved those files i wanted to save to a flash drive, which I will remove before extracting the zip.
I am only slightly computer savvy,..( such as how to turn on the computer and how to shut it off) so if you could explain how i could learn to use the MVP edit tool that would be awesome
You might want to try this variation of applying the "DATA" folder that is contained in that data.7z file.
- Go ahead and install the core game of MVP Baseball 2005 and run it to make sure you have no problems playing the game.
- The 2 main downloads I posted for MVP 14 are the data.7z file and then daflyboys' roster pack (which contains 3 different rosters).
- Go to your install folder of MVP Baseball 2005 and DELETE the entire DATA folder.
- Extract/Copy the data folder (which is in the data.7z file) to the install folder. This will replace the data folder with all of the new MVP 14 material.
- Next, extract one of daflyboys' rosters into the DATA---->>>database folder
- Start the game and you should be playing MVP 14 with all of the graphic/sound upgrades and with updated rosters.
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Will test this out momentarily
Thank you KC...it's always great to get insight from the master.
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Hey guys, just wondering if anyone else has experienced this minor, but annoying problem.
You can see from the Angels Stadium screenshot, that when the pitch is thrown (and taken), the pitch speed is displayed properly with the silver circle and the strike zone is framed with a silver overlay border.
In the Target Field screenshot, there is some error that makes the display looked messed up. I suspect that it's the frontend.sync file but I might be wrong. The strange thing is that these are 2 different installs of the game and one looks right and the other does not. I have updated both installs with KCityStar's newest global and the new post season overlay; but I don't understand why one differs from the other. This isn't an Earth-shattering problem, but I wondered where/which file that the problem lies in.
-Dennis
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Is anyone having issues with AT&T Park? I'm trying to play a home game with the SF Giants but the stadium comes up for a few seconds then crashes to the desktop. Both Day and Night games are crashing to the desktop. Can someone verify on their end that playing a game at AT&T Park is working for them. Thanks.
I tried loading a Day game at AT&T Park with Tim Hudson starting and it worked fine. I then tried to start a Night game with Matt Cain and it crashed right when the first batter comes up. So, I tried to "edit" Matt Cain within the game to check him and it crashed...obviously a cyber-face issue.
I found this Matt Cain cyberface <attached> and installed with TiT and now I have no problems with the Giants and At&T Park.
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Like the other posts stated, the Models.big file may be the culprit in your issue and what type of rig you are using. The weird thing is that in my case, my toshiba laptop with Win 7 64-bit can play the MVP14 mod with no issues. Even with the default Models.big file at 819mb. But when i try to play the mod on my Dell Desktop Win 7 64-bit, the bar will bar will go half way and the game will crash to the desktop. Now when i did some modifications to the Models.big file and reduced it to approx 660mb, the game is working flawless on my Dell Desktop now. Also if you look at other mods, the Models.big file is not that big. I believe in MVP08, the Models.big is about 572mb which is the biggest i've seen prior to MVP 12. MVP 12; MVP 13; and MVP 14 Models.big file are in the 700mb plus range. For some odd reason, my Dell Desktop can't handle it and the game will crash to the desktop. Once i did some deletions in the Models.big and broke it down to about 660mb, the game is running with no issues. IMO it all depends on what type of rig that you are running and if it can handle the size of the Models.big file. Also break the Models.big file down to about 660mb and see what happens. Great Mod!!! Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your thorough testing mjeff35. I made sure to try my final build of MVP 14 on 3 different PCs of different classes (2 year-old laptop, older desktop with XP, and my gaming/graphics rig desktop). Thanks to Homer's theory last week about the size of the Models.BIG file...I experimented with a simple fix using the BIGGUI tool: '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>
By simply opening your Models.BIG with BIGGUI, clicking File and then clicking Rebuild...after a 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.
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My MVP 14 doesnt work on Windows Vista, even with the bigGUI edits, and the MVP 13 models.big tried out. It crashes when i try to edit a player, or right before I play a game. Any suggestions? Thanks
Did you happen to try and run the EXE file with Compatibility Mode (Windows XP sp2) AND Adminstrator mode?
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Hey Guys,
I don't know if anyone else is having problems with Cubs games. Specifically, I noticed last night that I everytime I clicked Javier Baez (on the Cubs) in the Manage Rosters section or when he came up to bat during a game...the game would freeze and crash to desktop. Obviously there was some strange issue with his portrait. I found a portrait of him from last season and installed that with TiT and everything worked fine.
Here it is; just in case you're having the same problems...
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Hey Guys,
My apologies for not being in here...I have been working odd and long hours this week. Homer, I want to thank you for taking the time to come up with a viable theory regarding the occasional crashes with MVP 14. I thought the issue was similar to what you said; but I thought the problem might have been with my Stadiums files. I mentioned to daflyboys that last week, before we released, that I went through every single stadium and made sure that components of the stadiums were properly compressed (after editing) AND I discovered that if I used the bigGUI tool; I went ahead and "Rebuilt" each stadium using a sub-utility of the program. Surprisingly, it reduced the file size of each stadium by 30%-40%.
So, when you mentioned the "red flag" size of the models.BIG file; I went ahead and opened up models.BIG with bigGUI, clicked file, and then clicked "REBUILD". If you wait a few seconds, it does its thing and it reduced the file size for models.BIG from 819mb down to 760mb.
The acid test was that I just got done starting 10 games with all different teams and stadiums. They all started properly with no crashes, in a row.
I wonder if if any you guys (daflyboys, Homer, Y4L) could try the same thing by at least using the bigGUI program to reduce the file size and perhaps try to start just a couple games in a row and see if there is any improvement. It's working flawless for me and I couldn't be happier that I think Homer solved this mystery.
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Ok cool. I thought it was just me and maybe unzipped the files to the wrong directory.
Hey guys, could you possibly post a screenshot of the Athletics Stadium with the green/red missing textures? I just tried both the day & night versions and panned around with the replay camera and couldn't find an error. If you could post a screenshot, I'll be glad to look into that for you.
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Do you have to install the patches for MVP 2005 like before or just a clean install?
No the patches are not really necessary. I installed this to a completely clean MVP 2005 and it works fine.
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File Name: MVP 14 Baseball
File Submitter: dennisjames71
File Submitted: 16 Sep 2014
File Category: Total Conversion Mods
Version: 1.0MVP 14 BASEBALL
by dennisjames71 & daflyboys
SUPPORT LINK: '&do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>
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:
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) The Original database folder / roster set that came with the MVP 14 game.
- (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) 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
Mvp Baseball 2005-Your First Experience
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That was an awesome story and I love hearing all these different experiences that we had with the game. Back in 2005, I was still playing a lot of games on my Ps2 and was actually tempted to purchase it for the console instead. Obviously, I'm beyond happy that I went the PC route. I remember in early 2008, I assumed that the current gen console baseball games were going to be lightyears better than MVP 2005 and I bought 2K8 for the Ps2 and was definitely disappointed. I'm sure if I owned a PS3 at the time; the SHOW would have lured me that way...but I went back to MVP 2005 and discovered some the mods available out there....and then MVP 08 dropped and I never looked back. The graphical upgrades made my jaw drop and I almost instantly saw all the possibilities.