Realistic Roster 2007-08 v.2.1 by Albys
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06/08/2007
The Realistic Roster has been developed to offer the best level of simulation possible while playing an NBA Live 07 Dynasty mode or Season mode. I spent hundreds hours watching videos, reading official stats and others to be able to make every NBA player behave exactly as he does in reality.
Among all sources I used to make this roster the most important are:
-nba.com (rosters, stats and bio)
-nbadraft.net (rookies)
-playitusa.com (rookies and other)
-hoopshype.com (rosters and salaries)
-youtube.com (videos)
-NLSC forum (misc)
-draftexpress.com (rookies’ size)
-my personal knowledge, of course
Features:
1) Team rosters updated at 06-08-2007 (Kevin Garnett trade included), including the first 37 rookies drafted on June and 12 more from the second round, beside them, up to 200 Free Agents.
Unsigned FA have been placed in the FA list or left in their team roster, depending on the number of player already present in their team’s roster and the last rumours.
2) Players have more realistic values, all manually updated one by one referring to the NBA official stats. Fix primacy, scoring area, learning, destiny, dunk packages.
3) Real contracts both in salary and duration. Some missing contracts have been set following hoopsype.com rumours, to have the most realistic salary cap possible.
4) Some starting five have been edited to avoid CPU’s bad substitution managing. In a few words the starting five are those players who plays the most important minutes during the game.
5) Lot of fix including body, muscles and skin colour.
6) Completely renewed teamgear.dbf, which allows now to use all the alternative jerseys, among these some hidden and others found on the web:
- St. Patrick Day’s Boston, Chicago and New York jerseys.
- New Orleans’ St.Valentine jersey
- Black for Toronto, Houston and Orlando
- Red one for Milwakee
- Glacier and some old Phoenix’s jerseys
- Blue 2006 and old Philadelphia jerseys
- Gold jerseys for Sacramento and Washington
- Silver and grey San Antonio jersey
- Alternative and fictional Memphis jerseys
- Cleveland 2002-03 away and home (2x, by Looser))
- Dallas 2003-04 alt. (2x, by Looser)
- New 2007-08 jerseys for Atlanta and Philadelphia (2x, by Conr4d and Looser)
All files except 2X jerseys (this files is too big) are included and located into the sgsm folder.
7) Updated all players’ shoes (new rookies’ shoes also!) through the shoesacc.dbf file, including every version of the accurate shoes’ patch until version X. Obviously all shoes’ files must to be placed into the sgsm folder. Updated also just traded players’ shoes.
8) Updated appearance.dbf file including real players’ stuffs (bands, bracelets, tattoos and so on)
Installation:
1) Unzip the file “RealRoster07-08” into your SAVES folder, which is usually placed here (Win XP): X:\Documents and settings\user\Documents\NBA LIVE 07\saves
2) Copy all files from the sgsm folder into your game sgsm folder, usually located at (Win XP): X:Program files\EA SPORTS\NBA LIVE 07\sgsm. Overwrite older files if asked.
Copy the files from the subfolder “uniforms” into the same sgsm subfolder on your hard drive.
3) Start the game, from the options-charge\save menu select RealRoster07-08 and charge it.
4) Enjoy the Realistic Roster 2007-08!!
Notes:
The Realistic Roster is fully compatible with every patch relased, official or unofficial.
To improve the game realism (but the good level of play depend on good setting of sliders in game options…), I suggest you to install:
a) The EA Sports official patch:
http://www.nba-live.com/download/pafile ... le&id=1198 (Italian version)
http://www.nba-live.com/download/pafile ... le&id=1196 (English and American version)
b) Supreme Update Mod patch(SUM):
http://www.nba-live.com/download/pafile ... le&id=1349
A great pack containing both graphic and gameplay patches.
Remember to install the fix about tattoos or the game will crash http://www.nba-live.com/download/pafile ... le&id=1350
c) Shoes patch:
Updates all players’ real shoes!
http://www.nbaliveforums.com/ftopic42059.php
d) Total court update by Looser:
http://www.nbaliveforums.com/ftopic4276 ... 94d76cd646
An amazing pack updating all NBA courts, excellent in realism and graphic quality.
Or you can choose to install Lagoa’s court, another great patch:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/wq60fa
e) Jump 07, the best jersey pack existing, by Lean (Crappystuff)
http://www.nba-live.com/download/pafile ... le&id=1432
Thanks to:
All cyberfaces, portraits and jerseys included into this pack haven’t been done by me, they are from these patchers from the NLSC forum:
So thanks to Looser, Samutei, Miner0w, Conr4d, Utopia, Cerv, Veyso, Killer Crossover, Njkobe, Lean for allowing me to include their files in my roster.
You’re great guys!
I hope I didn’t forget anyone, if so please forgive me and mail me at instant!!
Special thanks to Andrew Begley, NLSC administrator and author of one of the best NBA Live 07 roster available on the net, who allowed me to start from one of the old version of his NLSC roster to realize the Realistic Roster.
Last but not least, thanks to my friend Fede41 for Readme translation (my English is very bad, more than Ron Artest
).
My contact for suggestions, info and critics here:
danielito@email.it
ciao!
Realistic Roster 2007-08 chronology:
v. 1.0 July 2007, only for my personal use – beta testing
v. 2.0 3 August 2007, after Garnett trade – only for my friend – testing.
v. 2.1 6 August 2007, this definitive release.
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Download here (21MB):
http://files.filefront.com//;8245461;;/
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