Official patch from easports.com doesn't work

[Jazzy Jeff]

i need this patch to play nba live 2004 with custom art enabled (yeah, you may know that already). but i can't figure out why i can't install it. i suppose this patch is the correct one: http://www.easports.com/games/nbalive2004/patches.jsp
i tried to download and install it manually and i tried the patch integrated into the website. when i execute the NBA2004PATCH.EXE, it says:

"Old file not found. However a file of the same name was found. No update done since file contents do not match."

i did not install nba live into c:\program files\ea sports\nba live 2004, but that should not be a problem.
can anybody help me? btw it's a german version of nba live....

Thanks for each of your answers
Jazzy Jeff

[Icemena$]

Buy legal version

[Andrew]

Check out this directory on EA's FTP server. That should be the file you need for the German version of the game.

[Jazzy Jeff]

Thank You very much Andrew! This file works pefectly. I wonder why it is only half as big as the one I downloaded from the page, but at least there was no error.
@Icemena$ I do have a legal version. Why should'nt I? 04 is fantastic.

Now I'm gonna test it in the game

[Andrew]

No worries. The file size does tend to vary for the alternative language versions, I'd say that the auto-update function was trying to retrieve the wrong version of the patch.

[monci]

how do you know what specific patch to download? i also experienced that problem by Jazzy Jeff.. i dont know if my version is german, american or what... well, i dont have the legal version.. can someone tell me what to do?

[Jing]

how do you know what specific patch to download? i also experienced that problem by Jazzy Jeff.. i dont know if my version is german, american or what... well, i dont have the legal version.. can someone tell me what to do?

Busted.

[f.t.w.]

you get a used version of live04 on amazon.com for $0.01 + shipping. why the fuck do you have an illegal version?!

by the way, can someone send me everything from Program Files/NBA Live 2004. J/K Andrew!!!!

[kingrjames]

Ei I also had a problem regarding that issue likewise with jazzy jeff...,what if the cd i used to install nba 04 was a pirated cd or what if i just downloaded 8 from a torrent?,Would 8 be ok,or would 8 crash?

[Andrew]

If you're using a pirated copy then the official patch won't work. Also, just to give you a heads up, discussions about illegal versions are strictly against Forum rules.