NBA Live 08 DBF Editing Guides

[Andrew]

Change their ISPLAYABLE field to False.

[Kurisu]

I need some help here. Im playing dynasty mode, then i change some of the values ing players.dbf but its not reflected in the game. I check back .dbf file but it is updated. Did i miss anything?

[Andrew]

Are you updating the right dbf file? You need to update the one in your save folder, not the ones in originaldb, workingdb or currentdb.

[Kurisu]

Are you updating the right dbf file? You need to update the one in your save folder, not the ones in originaldb, workingdb or currentdb.

I updated the players.dbf from the saves folder. Im editing the salary of the players and their jersey nos. The jersey nos. were updated in the game but the salary is not. Ichecked back the dbf file but its already updated but is not reflected on the game

[Andrew]

If you're editing players on your own team, there are two entries for each of your players. Make sure your update both instances for the changes to take effect.

[Kurisu]

But sir my created player is only one entry

[Spree#8]

There have to be two lines for each of your player in dynasty. The second is at the bottom of the file, if I remember correctly.

[Andrew]

That's correct. If the player is on your team there'll be two entries in the database, one that appears on the rosters and one that is used for the comparison between seasons.

[hamzie]

Sometimes, i have a workingdb/faces.dbf error on my newly created roster, esp during the rookie loto draw during the next season. How is the faces.dbf connected to your player.dbf?

[Andrew]

faces.dbf contains the face data for created players.

[hamzie]

Why is it that my newly created roster have aroung 580 total players while the faces.dbf have 680 faceid. Does the faces.dbf ever change when i edit a player or add a new created player or the faces.dbf is only used to get what faceid to use for the appearance.dbf.

[Andrew]

Whenever you create a new player, it adds an entry to faces.dbf.

[hamzie]

Thanks again Andrew. Now i know where i made the mistake. I started my ROSTER from an empty PLAYER.dbf and an empty APPEARANCE.dbf, but i failed to use an empty FACES.dbf. My roster is playable but sometimes it crashes during Rookie lottery draw at the 2nd season of Dynasty.

[Andrew]

That does sound like it would be the problem, databases can be touchy like that.

[MyrOsLove-Answerfan]

Hello!
Can you help me?
Who knows - in schools.dbf: what number has every school?

[Andrew]

I don't have a listing of that, sorry.

[MyrOsLove-Answerfan]

But who has, help me please...

[Spree#8]

Probably it's alphabetical, like in game. When I was editing Sprewell's line in some dbf files, I saw 2 or something like that in field "SCHOOLNUM" for his Alabama, so I'm pretty sure it's going this way.

[Andrew]

You can't really follow that rule though since new schools have been added game-to-game with the next available ID numbers. Australia for example has an ID number that doesn't place it amongst the other options beginning with A.

[Spree#8]

True, I noticed this also. The only way to find out all school IDs is to find/create players from each school and check the IDs in dbf files then. Quite a big amount of work and time is needed to do that.

[Andrew]

One of the reasons I haven't mapped out the values, it would be a tedious and time consuming task.

[lomanity]

Andrew,
The tutorial instructs to open franchise.dat in the dynasty's save file
I can't seem to find the dynasty's save file
where specifically would that be?

[Spree#8]

My Documents -> NBA Live 08 -> saves -> [name of your saved dynasty].

There you will find the file franchise.dat.

[Bryan_C.]

Can you put the player names below the jersey numbers using the DBF editor?

[Andrew]

I don't think so, there's only two values for NAMETYPE and neither of them place the name below the numbers.