[Tool] Copy player ratings between roster+savegame files

Hey,

I started writing this tool for personal use at first but maybe others will appreciate it, too
It was bothering me that i started an Association with Med's Ultimate Roster which is based on a flawed version of the official roster (too high 3pt tendencies and ratings for lots of players for example). So I wanted to be able to copy the ratings and tendencies from another roster into my existing association savegame.
Also, I wanted to be able to do that again, once rosters get released that really improve the gameplay.

So here it goes.
what does it do ?

• input files: should work for all non-compressed files that contain player-data. Tested with .ROS files and .FXG (association save) files.
• the output file must be a valid roster file or savegame as well, of course
• identifies all players in the input file by their CFID and looks them up in the output file. If a CFID is found in the input file but not in the output file, the according player is ignored. And players who appear only in the output file are not treated as well, obviously.
• All ratings and tendencies are copied at once, no selection or viewing of individual values is possible
• copying can be done for a list of selected CFIDs or for all players at once, that are found in the input file

usage

• only command-line based right now
• checksum needs to be calculated and updated manually right now (there was a tutorial for this around here somewhere)
• running it with -h or --help will display the available options (there are two additional ones which dump some info on about a roster file on the commandline, used it during development
• [for copying:]

  Code:

  RosterCopy.exe -w [infile] [outfile] -1

  will copy all player ratings from [infile] into [outfile], if you replace the -1 parameter with a list of CFIDs, the tool will consider only those players for copying.
• on the copy operation, it dumps some runtime info on the commandline as well, e.g. each found player, in case you don't want to see this info you can run the tool with

  Code:

   >some_log.file 2>@1

  appended to the command, which will redirect the all output to [some_log.file]. You can then open that file in a text editor to read the output

future stuff

• automatic crc32 calculation
• copying of sigskills
• copying of gear
• gui
  
  • selection of cfid's from the gui
  • selection, which things should be copied (ratings, tendencies, sigskills, gear)

I tested the tool by taking the Official Roster from the NLSC download section (the one from Nov.24th) and copied it's ratings into an existing Association savegame of mine.
There might very well be bugs left to fix, so be invited to do the beta-testing with me .
Comments, Criticism, ThumbsUp >> [me]

Lots of thanks goes to Jaosming for providing helpful tips on roster stuff and tutorials in general. And to all the people who put in effort and free time to investigate the internals of this game and share it freely with others. (Especially to the guys who compiled the list of CFIDs )


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Steps to run the tool
- copy RosterCopy.exe + files you want to change into the same directory (not necessary, but makes things a little easier)
- open the windows command line (aka dos window): [windowskey] + [r]
- navigate to the to the directory where the RosterCopy.exe is stored
- type

Code:

RosterCopy.exe -w [inputfile] [outputfile] -1

- enter
- fix the checksum of the output file
- copy the output file back to the NBA 2k14 Saves directory, on windows 7

Code:

C:\Users\[your_username]\AppData\Roaming\2K Sports\NBA 2k14\Saves

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Last edited by flitzpiepe on Tue Dec 03, 2013 5:18 am, edited 3 times in total.

OMFG YOU 'BOUT TO GET HIRED BY 2K

Great effort and tool! You should probably also put your tool in the NLSC Download Section as well.

I get an error whenever I try to run the exe file on my system. It says something about a missing dll file of sort. Thanks.

I get an error whenever I try to run the exe file on my system. It says something about a missing dll file of sort. Thanks.

No problem. Could you post the name of the missing dll file ? And what version of Windows are you running ?
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edit:
Previously, I built the tool with MinGW (Linux utils for Windows). Here is another build, now with MS Visual Studio. Try if that works better for you.

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how do i run this? whenever i open it a cmd window pops up and then just closes

doesn't work, it pops up and then closes. that tool would be very useful, in my case i would like to put slimm's tendencies and ratings into my association

Great effort and tool!

does it work on mycareer file ?

how do i run this? whenever i open it a cmd window pops up and then just closes

doesn't work, it pops up and then closes. that tool would be very useful, in my case i would like to put slimm's tendencies and ratings into my association

I included another description on how to use it at the end of the first post.

Great effort and tool!

does it work on mycareer file ?

I added the necessary offsets and file extensions and it worked for me. I copied values from a .ROS file into a .CMG file and I also copied values from a .FXG file into a .CMG file.
The newer version is uploaded with the OP. Thanks for the notice

Great effort and tool! You should probably also put your tool in the NLSC Download Section as well.

Good idea

can you explain this step? - fix the checksum of the output file

can you explain this step? - fix the checksum of the output file

bottom of Leftos' first post, or my first reply
viewtopic.php?f=150&t=88190

Wow this is a great tool and exactlly what i have been looking for but i cant seem to get this to work, i just finished copying a whole roster edits to another roster manually and this tool would of helped bigtime. it took me 2 weeks and 8 hours a day to do it manually lol. I never have been good when it comes to command line i keep getting the error not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. When following the instructions

Wow this is a great tool and exactlly what i have been looking for but i cant seem to get this to work, i just finished copying a whole roster edits to another roster manually and this tool would of helped bigtime. it took me 2 weeks and 8 hours a day to do it manually lol. I never have been good when it comes to command line i keep getting the error not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. When following the instructions

Sorry, I don't know the exact wording of this error in the english version of Windows but this sounds to me like you are not in the correct directory, I might be wrong though.
What did you exactly do ?

Can this tool Copy an Exact Player to another roster? I want to copy MyCareer player to my Association Mode (Already started Association)

to quote the initial post:

Code:

RosterCopy.exe -w [infile] [outfile] -1

will copy all player ratings from [infile] into [outfile], if you replace the -1 parameter with a list of CFIDs, the tool will consider only those players for copying.

So, in other words: yes

Actually, scratch that. I don't know if that would work but tend to say no. What the tool does is to copy an existing player according to his cyberface id over another player with the same cyberface id. These players are usually the same. But since your MyPlayer doesn't exist in an Association savegame, the tool doesn't find his CFID in that save. I also don't know atm how the cyberface of a MyPlayer is exactly stored.

on my computer it does not work

on my computer it does not work

Because you did what and then happened what ?

Really struggling with this tool.
Any chance someone could post up a video of how to do a transfer?
Please

Is there a way to copy all the players from one savefile to overwrite another savefile?

I added some signature skills to a player, but it didn't transfer over to my career save file? Anyone else experience the same thing? Ratings seem to transfer fine though

This is exactly what I was looking for!

When playing Association I always edit players during the season and would like to implement these changes on a roster file so that when I start a "new" Association I can utilize the player ratings/tendencies from the older Association which will save a lot of time!

when I load my roster now its corrupted , but great effort of making the tool

This sounds awesome!! I'm wanting to start an association with the opening night rosters but I want to update my association rosters player ratings, injury status, accessory updates and up to date player rotations and transactions. I tried using the reditor for this but as new players are added sometimes it throws everything out if whack. Your tool sounds like potentially it could do these things as your tool uses cf Id's to update ratings. Some of the things I've outlined probably wouldn't be possible but your tool does ratings which is huge, it looks like you'll be doing accessories but injuries sound achievable. How about transactions? I'd definetley consider donating if I could get an association like this rolling haha.