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nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby sdot_thadon on Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:58 am

Hey guys, been a while. I saw the topic for nba jam for android here. I've been playing around with the files and it is somewhat customizable. I've been able to extract textures but haven't had success reinserting them yet. The spreadsheet for the roster is editable as well. I've reassigned players to different teams(jerseys remain the same however) and edit ratings. I was searching through the textures and found players not listed in the roster. I was able to add tmac, yao ming, demarcus cousins, and allen iverson into the roster. I thought some of you might be interested in exploring and modding the game. If anyone is interested I can post more info on what Ive found so far.

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The file path on your phone would be:
sd:/Android/data/com.eamobile.nbajam_sxperia_wf/res

I'll give a quick rundown of the important files:

1.NBAJAM_Players_CONSOLE.csv-This can be opened via Excel or any other spreadsheet program. It acts as the player/roster database file. Here you can edit ratings, assign teams, textures, and animation info.

2.NBAJAM_Players_Teams_CONSOLE.csv-This can be opened via Excel as well. This acts as the team database file. Team ID, info, court assignment, ect.

The rest of the files have generic extensions, but are accessible using either notepad or an archive program such as winrar or 7zip. Navigate to the files in the program or rename the file to filename.zip

3.0 file-Can be opened using notepad. Seems to act as a listing of the assets used by the game.

4.a file-Can be opened in winrar. An archive containing audio for the game. Audio is in .caf format

5.g file-An archive containing player texture file, opened using winrar. Textures are in .pvr format

6.ga file-An archive containing animation files, open via winrar as well. Animations are in .anim format.

7.i file-Opened using winrar. An archive containing menu art and animation files, loading screens, as well as player portraits. loading screens and portraits are in .png format.

These were done editing the NBAJAM_Players_CONSOLE.csv. I added players back into the roster, perhaps removed after an update because the texture files remained. I put Lebron back on cleveland by assigning his textures to Jamison.
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Lebron & Varejeo reunion

The textures are in .pvr format which is compressed .png I believe. They can be decompressed using PVRTexTool, found here:
http://www.imgtec.com/powervr/insider/powervr-pvrtextool.asp

I have been able to extract and edit the textures, but have not successfully reinserted them into the game. This is what I got so far:
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This is where I'm stuck, testing different encoding options within the program and hoping to get lucky. Lol So close.
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby JaoSming on Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:04 am

iOS versions are nicely editable as well, but I'm not going to jailbreak my devices for it

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Postby Andrew on Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:59 am

That's pretty cool, I'd be interested to see what you come up with. (Y)
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby sdot_thadon on Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:15 pm

First post updated..
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby JaoSming on Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:30 pm

very nice,

I was trying to experiment with BlueStacks, a PC Android emulator, but didn't get far with it.
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Postby Andrew on Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:41 pm

Interesting stuff so far. Best of luck figuring out the rest. :)
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby sdot_thadon on Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:25 am

Tried a few things and I've been able to extract textures and rename them or just replace the originals and rebuild the archive and everything work fine. That narrows down the problem to formating and compressing the images. Got to do more investigating.

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tried an new program called texture packer, it's only a trial version and watermarks the textures with words and red tint....but
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby Patr1ck on Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:08 am

Looking at my log, files are compressed with zlib.

I have nbajam on my EVO 4G, but it crashes on my EVO 3D. I really want it working on my 3D since it will run smoother and the screen is a higher resolution. I found a file called override which contains data on overriding resolutions for specific devices. From what I read, I would have to change data in the APK, though.
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Postby sdot_thadon on Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:36 am

Got it working, I'll get some pics up in a lil while when I get to the laptop. Much easier than I thought, was overthinking things majorly.
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Postby sdot_thadon on Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:50 am

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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby Andrew on Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:58 pm

That's awesome. (Y) Any luck changing the names and ratings?
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Postby JaoSming on Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:14 am

it's pretty easy to do that i think. here are some iOS csv files, are they the same as the android version?
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Postby sdot_thadon on Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:52 am

Andrew wrote:That's awesome. (Y) Any luck changing the names and ratings?

Ratings, yes. Names, not yet. Going to do some fiddling with the roster file to figure out how.

JaoSming wrote:it's pretty easy to do that i think. here are some iOS csv files, are they the same as the android version?

Yeah, the same files on android as well. I'm home sick, may find a solution with my free time today lol.
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Postby Andrew on Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:49 am

Sounds good, looking forward to whatever else you find out. :)
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby sdot_thadon on Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:11 pm

No luck with names guys, when I try to change them it crashes at the menu...There must be a different place to change them that I haven't found. (There's a file called res.dat that I haven't been able to open, sound familiar?) When I restore some of the removed players the name comes up as a blank space in game. So I've assigned Jordan and Barkley's textures to Randy Foye and Jermaine O'neal's Player ID and successfully changed their portraits and ratings as well. Just no names though. Thinking of doing Reggie Miller and a self mod perhaps. The jerseys appear to be almost hand drawn, may try one hires one just to see if it's an upgrade or not noticable.
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby deihatein on Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:48 pm

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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby sdot_thadon on Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:39 pm

Been playing around with the game when I get spare time, here's a few pics of some courts and player mods in progress:
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and just for laughs.....
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Still unable to change names or add new Player ID numbers without the game crashing.
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Postby Andrew on Sat Apr 07, 2012 5:39 pm

Nice. (Y)
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Postby JaoSming on Sat Apr 07, 2012 7:42 pm

omg the last one
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Postby Patr1ck on Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:51 pm

You should mod in Gasol's face while he was getting dunked on by Blake Griffin.
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Postby sdot_thadon on Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:11 am

JaoSming wrote:omg the last one

Hat Man has been a running joke with me and my friends since those pictures came out. lol Might have to do the lebron headband one as well.

Pdub wrote:You should mod in Gasol's face while he was getting dunked on by Blake Griffin.

lol yeah, that was just terrible. Poor Pau, soft like woman.

I want to do a Wilt, Russell , and Kareem but its proving difficult to find good color pictures of Wilt. Do you guys know any good source of nba pics outside of google?
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby dreamer609 on Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:57 am

I just ran across this thread. Pretty amazing. Anyone know what programs were used in the end? The modified States he was overthinking it. I would love to add MJ along with motumbo, Reggie Miller and others to this game.

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Postby dreamer609 on Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:19 pm

As for images outside of google for those players, you might try getty images, amazon or even facebook. I saw Colorado images for Kareem with hair on his face book page.
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby -viper- on Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:31 am

Hello all... Can anyone please upload me the Nba_player_console.csv with allen iverson, yao ming inside (ORIGINAL ONE) from the first update....cause i have the latest update and the upadte removed them.
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Re: nbajam android modding anyone?

Postby Vedouch on Fri Mar 01, 2013 12:06 pm

where do you get the portraits and textures
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