NOTE: You must know how to do some basic dbf editing through db commander, cdbf, or any other dbf editing prgrams.
Step 1: Creating Your Team
The first step of making your custom team is picking out what players you want to be on your team. either create them, take them from free agency, or take players from other team. Make sure these players are in free agency unless it's a player you want from another team but you dont want that team to lose them. For example if you want paul pierce on your team but you dont want the celtics to lose him leave him on the celts for now....
Next go into teams.dbf and copy the row with all the bobcat's information and paste it at the bottom of the teams.dbf file. Change the team name and city to what every you want it to be. Then change the team number to one that hasn't already been taken (this varies since some rosters include custom teams).
Now go into players.dbf and find the players you want on your team again. If it's a player you want from another team but you dont want that team to lose them copy the row with this player in it to the bottom. Now change all the players TEAM and SALARYTEAM field to what ever your team number is.
If you want a coach for your team you'll have to go into coaches.dbf and add a line for your coach. I suggest you look at the Coaches editing guide to make this easier for you. Unless you have a cyberface made for your coach you'll have to use a generic one...
Part 2: Art
Your not done yet my friend. it gets a bit tricky here. If you have logos, jerseys and art for your team read section one, if you plan on just using the 90's team art or another teams art read section 2.
Section 1: Ok this is the hardest part of making the team. go into teamgear.dbf and add lines for at least a home and away jersey (if you have practice jerseys or alternate jerseys feel free to add those in) I suggest you look at the Team Gear editing guide to make this easier for you. Now go back to teams.dbf and change the two letter abbreviation to match the abreviation of your art files (make sure it isnt already uesd). Now either import the art through ea graph/viv magic or use custom art, either way it should work....
Now hopefully you have a court to use, if you dont' extract the 90's one or what ever and rename it to match your 2 letter abbreviation and then reimport it/ use custom art. Now once you've done that go into currentdb and find the locations.dbf add a line at the bottom and name your arena what ever you want (don't forget the number you use for ID). Now go back to teams.dbf and find the field LOCATIONID make the number there match the one that you added in the locations.dbf file. See the bottom of these instructions now.
Section 2: If you want to use another team's jerseys and logos because you don't have any art for your team to use, simply go into teams.dbf and change the two letter abbriation to match the two letter abbreviation of the team who's art you want to use. Find the field LOCATIONID and make sure it also matches with the team who's 2 letter abbreviation you used. Then go into teamgear.dbf and add lines for at least a home and away jersey.
Step 3: You're almost finished.
Now enter the game and load up the roster you added your team into. if you go to the reorder roster screen your roster'll probably look really wierd and messsed up. To fix this simply sign then, if you want to, release that player. Now you can reorder your roster and do what ever you want with it. Save your roster and thats it. You've successfully created a custom team
Have fun!
