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Editing strings of text

Postby vetmin on Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:06 am

Has anyone managed to mod any strings of actual text in this game? Just wondering if it's within the realm of possibility or if it's 100% locked under the hood of the game.

If possible, any pointers would be helpful, particularly as regards changing "Allie LaForce" and "David Aldridge" to different text, editing names of social media people, and altering the job title text on the Staff page.
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Re: Editing strings of text

Postby Mahmood on Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:13 am

vetmin wrote:Has anyone managed to mod any strings of actual text in this game? Just wondering if it's within the realm of possibility or if it's 100% locked under the hood of the game.

If possible, any pointers would be helpful, particularly as regards changing "Allie LaForce" and "David Aldridge" to different text, editing names of social media people, and altering the job title text on the Staff page.

This is entirely possible through hex editing the VCLOCALIZEDATA in the english.iff. Psamyou'll and I did so last year for NBA 2K21 Remastered and we were able to change social media phrases, names, menu prompts, and more. It's pretty damn cool. The stuff you want to change is entirely possible, and if you need any guidance just lmk.
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Re: Editing strings of text

Postby vetmin on Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:14 pm

Mahmood wrote:
vetmin wrote:Has anyone managed to mod any strings of actual text in this game? Just wondering if it's within the realm of possibility or if it's 100% locked under the hood of the game.

If possible, any pointers would be helpful, particularly as regards changing "Allie LaForce" and "David Aldridge" to different text, editing names of social media people, and altering the job title text on the Staff page.

This is entirely possible through hex editing the VCLOCALIZEDATA in the english.iff. Psamyou'll and I did so last year for NBA 2K21 Remastered and we were able to change social media phrases, names, menu prompts, and more. It's pretty damn cool. The stuff you want to change is entirely possible, and if you need any guidance just lmk.


Wow, this rocks! Thanks a ton for pointing me in the right direction. I'm assuming it's only possible to replace existing alphanumerical characters (for instance, "team" could be changed to "teem"), but not to add any new characters, since it would shift all the data and mess up the mapping (so "team" cannot become "squad"), or is there some trick to add new characters to a string without screwing everything up?
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Re: Editing strings of text

Postby Mahmood on Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:59 pm

vetmin wrote:
Mahmood wrote:
vetmin wrote:Has anyone managed to mod any strings of actual text in this game? Just wondering if it's within the realm of possibility or if it's 100% locked under the hood of the game.

If possible, any pointers would be helpful, particularly as regards changing "Allie LaForce" and "David Aldridge" to different text, editing names of social media people, and altering the job title text on the Staff page.

This is entirely possible through hex editing the VCLOCALIZEDATA in the english.iff. Psamyou'll and I did so last year for NBA 2K21 Remastered and we were able to change social media phrases, names, menu prompts, and more. It's pretty damn cool. The stuff you want to change is entirely possible, and if you need any guidance just lmk.


Wow, this rocks! Thanks a ton for pointing me in the right direction. I'm assuming it's only possible to replace existing alphanumerical characters (for instance, "team" could be changed to "teem"), but not to add any new characters, since it would shift all the data and mess up the mapping (so "team" cannot become "squad"), or is there some trick to add new characters to a string without screwing everything up?

Currently no trick to adding more characters, the data has to stay at the same character count in order for everything to work. You can, however, easily shorten statements / names found in the data by utilizing spaces. Just be sure to be mindful about spaces, don't delete any of the periods that separate letters or it'll result in your file being unusable.
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Re: Editing strings of text

Postby TGsoGood on Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:56 am

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