Finally, found the way to edit dynasty point.

[Terry]

Did anybody notice there are not only dbf files in the save folder? Just found out that there are also three dat files in the folder: fanchise.dat, save.dat and setting.dat. So I tried to edit the fanchise.dat and found a way to edit the dynasty point. Here's how to do that.

Copy down the dynasty point you have and save the game. Use a file editor like UltraEdit to open the fanchise.dat. Use the calculate in windows to convert your dynasty point from dec to hex. Search for the hex number. Pay attention that the lower byte should be in front of the higher byte. For example, if you dynasty point is 1230, convert to hex is 4CE, and you should search for CE04. The address you found should be somewhere around 00005900. Change the value to the number you want in hex and save. Remember to make a copy before you do this.

I think we can also edit this file to change the draft pick. I am still trying but it seems not that easy. Whoever interested in this please also give a try.

[COOLmac©]

wow thats a good start. many thanks man. you have been a lifesaver. i'm gonna try it tonight

[Matija]

thanks man it is helpful

[LegoTP]

Very helpful, don't think I'll use it anyway, but it's nice.

[COOLmac©]

come on lego..join us legoTP join the dark side......anyways i tried it. i got my game crash but i'm still gonna try. remember always do back ups because shit can happen!

[Terry]

It should not crash the game unless you edit the wrong address. I tried on three different save and they all work fine.

[Micchy_boy]

well i try it but never saw the dynasty points maybe a better tutorial will be nice...

but i try different things about it and got some good results and its fun

[Terry]

What do you mean by "never saw the dynasty points"? Let me know and see if I can help. I think you should be able to find it if you fellow every step I said above.

ps, what did you find? Please share.

[COOLmac©]

but i try different things about it and got some good results and its fun Laughing

we are ready to hear about this mitchy.........pls do share

[Terry]

COOLmac©, are you able to make it work now?

[COOLmac©]

sorry not yet. i've fallen asleep last night.
pls tell me more to how many points did you achieve? can you go over the 50000?

[tweak420]

Here, there is a much more simple solution.
Just use this trainer: Hoodlum's trainer
Unzip, drop it in your game (program files/EA Sports/Nba live 2005)
Run it, and this will start the game, then load your dynasty press 0 (i think that is the button for 1000000 dynasty points) then save your dynasty. Quit the game and restart it the normal way (don't use the trainer), load your dynasty and everything should be the same except you have tons of points. I wouldn't play any games with the trainer on, especially if your using the keyboard for controls.

Personally, I find dynasty mode kinda boring, its just too easy. I don't use the trainer and I sim all my games (aside from all-star weekend), yet my teams always win championships within 2 or 3 years of starting. Today I started one with Boston (and updated rosters). I traded away my bad players with big long term contracts (Blount and Lafrentz) for even crappier players with short big contracts. I don't remember the exact moves but I got Penny Haraway (14 mil contract expiring that year) from New York and some other SG for both of them. Then I traded that SG along with Al Jefferson for Dwight Howard. I made it to the finals that year as a 3 seed, simming all games. Then I let Walker and Penny go, leaving 20 million to resign players. I got Payton back for 2 years for around 7 million, and then I signed Gasol for a 7 year deal about 8 million a year. Then that year I won the finals as a 3 seed again. I made some more moves got some strange role players (Mashburn and others off the free agent list) and had the best record in the league but lost the championship in 7. Then offers started flying in to take over their dynasties, Chicago, New York, Seattle among others. Now I'm working with Chicago.
Trick to dynasty mode:
-Other teams don't value potential of players
-Always trade away your huge contracts for contracts ending that year, unless the player is a star (pierce, wade etc)
-Don't scout, rookie stats are too low, just sign them or trade for them after they breach the 70 overall mark.
-Make your team as young as possible
-Stay under the cap, the easiest way to get a budding star is to sign him
-Go after future stars (like Howard) not current ones (Walker)
-Only use dynasty points for team training, usually 50-50 or just one category at 100
-Before the offseason save, if your offered a job it means that around 5 teams also want you. Just sim the offseason, reload your saved dynasty and a new team will ask you each time.

Okay I really rambled there, must have lost focus

[Terry]

Trainer will be an easier approach but editing can go over 1000000 points.

[tweak420]

Yes, but how could you possibly spend that many points? I feel like that would be impossible, as you constantly earn points as the game goes on. And if you ever ran out you could just redo the process. I guess you could use Artmoney or tsearch to do this as well, anyway I just stick to the simple things.

[Micchy_boy]

well actually its not that big
i just able to change the message for the PDA like i change the TEAM OWNER to JERRY BUSS.

[Terry]

tweak420, you are right but unfortunately I didn't there was a trainer at that time.

Micchy_boy, where did you change to achieve that? I am trying to edit the draft pick and I am kind of stuck.

[Micchy_boy]

i dont know bro, maybe were not on the same page...
i can't how you edit stuff lik that and also goes with you.

Maybe a little tutorial so i cn see how you do it so that we can help each other.

[Terry]

All right. I will try to explain more clearly. First of all, you need to load your dynasty save and see how many points you have. Let's say 2500. Then you save your game and quit to windows. Now you need to convert 2500 from decimal to hexadecimal because data in files are stored as hexadecimal. Use the calculater in windows and you can see that 2500 convert to hexadecimal is 9C4. But as I said before, lower byte store in front of higher byte in data file, so it actually store as C409. Now you need to use UltraEdit to open the francise.dat. Use the search command on the manu bar. Search for C409. When it's found, the cursor will move. Look at the left panel, you will see something like 00000120h, that's the address. The address of the points will be arround 00005900h. Then if you want to change to 1000000 point, you convert 1000000 to hexadecimal which is F4240, you then change C40900 to 40420F. Save the file and enjoy.

[tweak420]

Terry maybe you should try Tsearch, that way you could use autohack and freeze the value of the dynasty points so you would never run out.
Is the value DMA or static?
http://membres.lycos.fr/tsearch/cheattools.html

[Terry]

Well, we are talking about editing the save file. The game is not running when you edit the file so the value in the save file is certainly static. Tools like Tsearch are real time tracking program, they need the game to be running so that they can search the memory (not the save file). So these are two different approach.

[futzy99]

This should probably be a sticky, seeing as how many people want to be able to do this.

-JKidd

[J@3]

Good idea. Although they'll probably just ignore it and ask anyways.

[bdot19]

When I go to extract it to my Programfiles/EA Sports/NBA Live 2005 folder it says i need a password, What is the password?

[bdot19]

ps. its Hoodlum Trainer im talking about

[gifted]

I'm having a bit of trouble with the trainer. I followed tweak420's instructions but it doesn't seem to work for me. And when I try the other options the game just crashes