Rugby 08 Modding limitations?

[RobbieD_PL]

Hi everyone,

It's been a very long time since I posted here, but I was the one who managed to unlock the Lions Tour way back with the Rugby 06 menu files. I can see that things have really progressed with entire season mods & even new stadiums! However, I have some fundamentals that I want to ask about, specifically some limitations that have existed (& if there have been any progress made since).

1. Keyboard diagonal sprinting: I don't know if anyone has been able to overcome this limitation with the spacebar & if it's possible to reassign keys.
   
   
2. Australia/Australia A away white kit. I remember that the files had both full & minikits for a white alternate kit, but which was never able to be unlocked in the menus or playable in-game.
   
   
3. Lions Tour & Ten Nations menus. I know that I was able to unlock the Ten Nations & Lions Tour using the menu files from Rugby 06, but they didn't quite fit the Rugby 08 format. Did anyone ever fix them?
   
   
4. English/French language selection: Is it possible to select between the 2 languages, using the similar code in locale.ini like in the old FIFA games?

Any replies will be appreciated! I might have some more questions to add here later.

 

[EN9ne]

@ama1 @jim546 @geostar @dcwilko90 @JPilky @Pieter1989 @peter83

 

[geostar]

For point one, I changed to a gaming keyboard and now I run any way without needing to smash the arrow keys.

Australia A has been played with in past mods

Ten nations and lions tour is playable, but the background issue is still there

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Another question I have. Is it possible to convert the national stadiums that were in Rugby 2004? I think there were locations like Montevideo, Tokyo, Bucharest, Moscow & it'd be great to add those teams as well. Plus, I can't remember if there were multiple Pacific Islands stadiums (other than just Suva).

 

[jim546]

Argentina don't have an away kit either.

The big one for me is having more flexibility in tournament schedules. I can't do a Super Rugby 22 or URC schedule because the game won't let the tournament use more/less than 14 teams.

It seems the game is limited to 80 stadiums so there's not much space to add extra's, I've made a list of 79 grounds to cover most teams + RWC 23 but I still have Fiji, Tonga and Samoa sharing Suva.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

BTW, the FIFA version of Stadio Olimpico is much better than the SketchUp converted one I saw here. It's even possible to use the old .o & .fsh format from the old FIFA games.

 

[geostar]

Technically, the fixtures for URC can be made (Argentina added to Tri-nations file as an example)

If we use the Premiership and add 4 more teams (they cannot be selected or played with) it should work, but we cannot add more fixtures. There wont be a full season, but at least there will be enough to have a tournament

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Does anyone have a copy of the rugbygob.xls spreadsheet? The original planetcricket link is dead.

 

[EN9ne]

Does anyone have a copy of the rugbygob.xls spreadsheet? The original planetcricket link is dead.

Thread 'EA Rugby 08 - File List For Modders'
https://www.therugbyforum.com/threads/ea-rugby-08-file-list-for-modders.47550/

 

[dcwilko90]

Hi everyone,

It's been a very long time since I posted here, but I was the one who managed to unlock the Lions Tour way back with the Rugby 06 menu files. I can see that things have really progressed with entire season mods & even new stadiums! However, I have some fundamentals that I want to ask about, specifically some limitations that have existed (& if there have been any progress made since).

1. Keyboard diagonal sprinting: I don't know if anyone has been able to overcome this limitation with the spacebar & if it's possible to reassign keys.
   
   
2. Australia/Australia A away white kit. I remember that the files had both full & minikits for a white alternate kit, but which was never able to be unlocked in the menus or playable in-game.
   
   
3. Lions Tour & Ten Nations menus. I know that I was able to unlock the Ten Nations & Lions Tour using the menu files from Rugby 06, but they didn't quite fit the Rugby 08 format. Did anyone ever fix them?
   
   
4. English/French language selection: Is it possible to select between the 2 languages, using the similar code in locale.ini like in the old FIFA games?

Any replies will be appreciated! I might have some more questions to add here later.

Still unable to resolve the Ten Nations issue, however since been able to add the Rugby Championship using the 6N Tournament. Appreciate if you've any information on how the original modders were able to assign CyberFaces to uses who's .big file isn't located within the data.gob

 

[jim546]

What's the limit for the number of enabled teams? I've been switching teams on/off to test and I'm not getting crashes, from what I've read above a certain number the game CTD's after ending a match?

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Hi guys, another question to ask here. Does anyone have a profile from Rugby 06 with all trophies won on Pro difficulty? I would like to see inside the profile file with a hexeditor to see how the bonus to unlock the ability to play as the home team in the Lions Tour is encoded to maybe apply it to Rugby 08.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Guys another question. Does anyone have the full list of players which had faces in Rugby 06, but those faces were removed in Rugby 08? I've found a couple on the forums: Michalak, Elissalde, van Niekerk, but it'd be good to have a definitive list somewhere. Another thing I want to know is, is it possible to change the minifaces for those players in order to have them show in squad management? It's a bit frustrating to have the the in-game faces updated but not the menu minifaces...

 

[Bogdam]

Guys another question. Does anyone have the full list of players which had faces in Rugby 06, but those faces were removed in Rugby 08? I've found a couple on the forums: Michalak, Elissalde, van Niekerk, but it'd be good to have a definitive list somewhere. Another thing I want to know is, is it possible to change the minifaces for those players in order to have them show in squad management? It's a bit frustrating to have the the in-game faces updated but not the menu minifaces...

Face ID="20594">
<Name>Joe Van Niekerk</Name>
<FileName>6d1d83db1f47114c6864850dad4b2f45.big</FileName> if you replace a fake player(ex F.Fritzz) with hex with this id 20594 , he has miniface

Face ID="1052">
<Name>Jean-Baptiste Elissalde</Name>
<FileName>def5c4f3e9fa9ba5e5822f7c7ce9369e.big</FileName> doesnt have the miniface ingame R.Laidlaw

Face ID="29704">
<Name>Freddie Michalak</Name>
<FileName>5de52ab39c6ca4bee127da8f524c426b.big</FileName> if you replace a fake player(J.Elissguy) with hex with this id 29704 , he has miniface

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Face ID="20594">
<Name>Joe Van Niekerk</Name>
<FileName>6d1d83db1f47114c6864850dad4b2f45.big</FileName> if you replace a fake player(ex F.Fritzz) with hex with this id 20594 , he has miniface

Face ID="1052">
<Name>Jean-Baptiste Elissalde</Name>
<FileName>def5c4f3e9fa9ba5e5822f7c7ce9369e.big</FileName> doesnt have the miniface ingame R.Laidlaw

Face ID="29704">
<Name>Freddie Michalak</Name>
<FileName>5de52ab39c6ca4bee127da8f524c426b.big</FileName> if you replace a fake player(J.Elissguy) with hex with this id 29704 , he has miniface
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@Bogdam Where to edit in hex? In the .db or the .pro file? Can you show a screenshot how to do this?

I also found that there is commentary lines for match situations for both Michalak & Elissalde. I'm hoping that changing the player ID like this can help for unlocking that too.

2 more things:
1. How to hexedit mini faces for players with generic faces?
2. Is it possible to convert/add players from Rugby 06 to 08? There are 2-3 players missing from 2005 NZ Maori All Blacks team that I want to re-add.

 

[Bogdam]

@Bogdam Where to edit in hex? In the .db or the .pro file? Can you show a screenshot how to do this?

I also found that there is commentary lines for match situations for both Michalak & Elissalde. I'm hoping that changing the player ID like this can help for unlocking that too.

2 more things:
1. How to hexedit mini faces for players with generic faces?
2. Is it possible to convert/add players from Rugby 06 to 08? There are 2-3 players missing from 2005 NZ Maori All Blacks team that I want to re-add.

@Bogdam Where to edit in hex? In the .db or the .pro file? Can you show a screenshot how to do this?

I also found that there is commentary lines for match situations for both Michalak & Elissalde. I'm hoping that changing the player ID like this can help for unlocking that too.

2 more things:
1. How to hexedit mini faces for players with generic faces?
2. Is it possible to convert/add players from Rugby 06 to 08? There are 2-3 players missing from 2005 NZ Maori All Blacks team that I want to re-add.

edit the Db file for exemple for Michalak ,sometimes i copy paste insert, make a copy before editing
Yes it is posible to convert from rugby 06 ,cause its the same ids(most of them), i already converted from rugby 05 some of players(ex martin Johnson English lock or Keith Robinson Nz Lock and many others)


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[RobbieD_PL]

edit the Db file for exemple for Michalak ,sometimes i copy paste insert, make a copy before editing
Yes it is posible to convert from rugby 06 ,cause its the same ids(most of them), i already converted from rugby 05 some of players(ex martin Johnson English lock or Keith Robinson Nz Lock and many others)
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Arrrgh, I tried to edit the .ros file & the game crashes when selecting as France! I've lost all the edits that I did since the past 3-4 months now! The only thing I did was edit the first 2 bytes before F.Michalak name like how you circled in the .ros file. Even reverting back to the original bytes of my Unlockable Lions Tour .ros doesn't work. In woosah's editor, France has only 28 players & everytime I try to add 2 more, it doesn't save properly. How to add the player into the team with hex?

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Hmm, so instead what I did was go through all the teams that I edited & I've managed to restore most of what I updated. I had to open the crashing .ros with woosah editor & go through all the teams manually. The only teams left are the international teams. I still didn't manage to update the DB player IDs to have the correct minifaces.