Tutorial: Renaming Courts

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Tutorial: Renaming Courts

Postby JaoSming on Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:56 am

This tutorial will give you the ins and outs on renaming courts and how they show up in the game. Before we start I'd recomend a renaming program such as File Renamer.

NBA Live (2005-07) uses a 4 letter abbreviation to deliniate which court (or jersey) is for which team. A list of the abbreviations can be found here.


For this tutorial we will convert Andreas Dahl's amazing next-gen practice court for 06 to 07.

Download Dahl's court here.

Run the installer and locate the files. It should install to C:/Program files/EA Sports/NBA Live 06/sgsm (aka the 06 sgsm folder)

According to the abbreviation list 06's practice court abbreviation is "pgym". Locate every file who's first four characters are "pgym" in the sgsm folder.

In Live 07 the practice abbreviation is "prac" so rename all of the files that begin with "pgym" to "prac" (this is where the file renaming program can come in handy. Locate the Live 06 sgsm folder then goto the Find / Replace tab. Type in pgym in the find box and prac in the replace box.)

Now select all of the newly renamed files which should now begin with "prac". Right Click or goto the edit menu and cut or copy them. Then navigate to the Live 07 sgsm folder (c:/program files/EA Sports/NBA Live 07/sgsm) and paste the files in there.

Check to make sure all 20 of the court files got copied to the 07 sgsm.

Load up the game and enjoy dahl's amazing court!
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Postby JJones on Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:10 am

Thanks, this could come in help Im going to attempt to make some courts and jerseys.
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Postby High5 on Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:37 am

ummm, i don't have anymore nba live 06 so i can't rename and replace from 06 to 07 in sgsm folder. so can someone please upload those files so that i can just move them into my sgsm folder. please :cry:
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Postby JaoSming on Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:33 am

In accordance to what Andreas Dahl said, I cannot re-upload his files converted for 07. That is why I made this tutorial so people can do the conversion themselves.
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Postby Scorer--20 on Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:33 am

wow , great ... now i dont have to rename 99 number files for the fictional alternates !! (Y)

Thanks YAO MING , err John :mrgreen:
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Postby JaoSming on Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:31 am

err Jon heh
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Postby bigh0rt on Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:10 pm

Stickied for convenience.
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Postby Andreas Dahl on Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:47 pm

Nice tutorial Jao (y)


For those that are interested: If you don't have Live 06 installed, the files will be put in the 'C:\Program\NBA Live 06\sgsm' folder, so just grab them from there..
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Postby Hixer on Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:41 pm

this court is amazing man!!! you're cool! thanks
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Postby The Debilash™ on Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:26 pm

Fantastic court (Y) I've enjoyed this in Live 06, but I didn't know how to convert this to 07. It would be perfect if someone re-upload that court with files renamed. That would be very comfortable to install this. Anyway, thanks JaoSming for totorial and off-course respect Dahl for his amazing court (Y)
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Postby Fluffy Taco on Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:41 am

what does the 'eazip' thing do?
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Postby k-d on Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:00 pm

Hi, Jao. I'd like to change the name of the NOK court from "NO Arena" to "Ford Center". what .dbf file have I to edit?
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Postby JaoSming on Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:45 am

well, from taking a gander at the files, id pick the location.dbf.

eazip is a program that can compress and do other things to files in viv files.
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Postby .jrmagic on Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:56 am

High5 wrote:ummm, i don't have anymore nba live 06 so i can't rename and replace from 06 to 07 in sgsm folder. so can someone please upload those files so that i can just move them into my sgsm folder. please :cry:


Same problem. :cry:
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