Pistons Court Glitch

[inbar]

Hey, so every time I try to put a new court in for the pistons or overwrite it, it doesn't work. I take a downloaded court, one of the retro ones, and title it "f021" and then put it in the nba 2k12 folder. However, the court is still the default pistons court. Also, even if I take the file out completely, the court remains. Help?

Thanks!

[JaoSming]

its because 2K has updated that court and the game will use the f021.iff in your folder below
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\2K Sports\NBA 2K12\Online Data\downloads


To get around it, use the Keep My Mod tool

[inbar]

Thanks so much, bro!

[inbar]

Can I just edit the court in that folder?

[JaoSming]

nope, cause it redownloads each time the game connects to the internet. I would use that tool I linked it, it overrides the downloading.

[inbar]

I haven't tried it out yet. Would I have to use it to start the game each time? I'm doing this on my phone as I'm not home.

[JaoSming]

correct, but the program is pretty streamlined and works nicely in the background of the game

[inbar]

How would I work that out in a mass release? Also would I have integrate that into my roster?
And there is absolutely no way around it?

[ILL-Patch guy]

is it possible to edit a d-league court and than just assign this court into the court of Detroit via REDitor?

[JaoSming]

How would I work that out in a mass release? Also would I have integrate that into my roster?
And there is absolutely no way around it?

what do you mean by a mass release? and that tool doesnt touch the roster. You could edit a roster to force the pistons to use an unused floor file and then you wouldnt have that issue if you really dont want to use a simple tool.

is it possible to edit a d-league court and than just assign this court into the court of Detroit via REDitor?

yea, or you could simply give the pistons a floor ID that doesnt exist so you dont overwrite anything.

[Leftos]

Hello there, I'm the creator of Keep My Mod. JaoSming did a pretty good job describing the issue, but let me elaborate.

2K, this year, has the ability to remotely and silently install updates to the game art, such as the Pistons floor. Since they've done so, the game will always use 2K's updated floor, instead of any mod you have installed, or even the original retail Pistons floor, no matter what mod you install by overwriting the file in the game's installation folder. The game checks the "Online Data\downloads" folder for the updated court by 2K every two minutes. If it doesn't find it there, or finds a mod in its place, it redownloads 2K's update, and replaces your mod again.

So whatever you try to do manually, the game will always download 2K's update of the Pistons floor, and use that.

You can overcome that issue by using Keep My Mod. Keep My Mod needs only to be set-up once, and then as long as you start the game from inside the tool, it automatically keeps your mods for you over 2K's updates.

How it works is that the first time you run it it gives you a list of the files 2K has updated, and you select which of them you want to keep modded. After you do that, every time you start the tool and then start the game from inside the tool, it automatically watches for when the game downloads 2K's updates again, and EVERY TIME replaces them with your mods. It automatically makes sure that at every given moment, the "Online Data\downloads" folder has your mods along with the rest of 2K's updates, and whenever the game tries to remove your mods and replace them with 2K's updates, it just puts your mods there again, so you don't have to do so.

You don't have to watch it and press buttons at the right time or anything, it's fully automatic. You just tell it which files you want to keep modded over 2K's updates, and it does the job for you, every time.

Visit the tool's thread (link in my sig), I explain more there, and there's also a video tutorial.

You don't need to edit your roster, you don't need to mess with any files. Just download it, install it, run it, tell it which mods you want to keep, and let it do its work by running the game from inside the tool. That's all.