Andrew's Live 2005 retro roster

@Andrew
fff geocities. when I first used geocities for my NBA Live 2003 rosters patches everything was fine.


just let me know what you plan. what do you need? shall I send out the zipped patches to you via email?
regards, Pat

Sure, if you email them to me I'll upload them ASAP and add them to the downloads section. I'll let you know too, so that you can announce them as well.

they are all on their way to you. pls check your email account.
regarding announcement. just do it by your own. I guess you got more experience announcing such patches.

92-93: a great NBA Finals matchup

same with me:

*92-93 season was one of the most exciting ever (nice finals CHI - PHX) but I like all seasons from 88 to 93 for those great rivalries like CHI - DET, CHI - NY and all those other great matchups

close to that comes:
*93-94 season, after MJ's 1st retirement. a lot of great games all over the season and one of the best final series ever: NY - HOU with great matchups (Ewing-Olajuwon; Starks - Maxwell; Harper - Cassell/Smith; Oakley/Mason - Thorpe; a fight for every ball and basket, my favorite finals series)

(I can't believe that it's more than 10 years ago!!! )

Hey , great job on those retro rosters, I've played a few games on the 84-85 roster and it is awsome. and by awsome I mean totally sweet.

I have found a way to use the 84-85 patch in a season with just one "dummy team" it take a little tiny bit of the realism out but in my opinion its better than simulatins a bunch of gamnes vs 7 differant dummy teams.

what I did was edit the rosters before I went to Start season, I fiklled dummy yeam one with marginal players from the other NBA teams as if their was an expansion draft that year, mostly I only took guys from team that had 15 or 14 players. So then I went to start season and made all the dummy teams "empty" except for the dummy team in the southeast division, with the Hawks and the others. this game me an even amoiunt of teams and I could start the season. So then I just have to pretend that their is an expansion team. when I play them, it still says "dummy team" but they have the court and jerseys of the Bobcats.

WELL I'M OUT ,

a few comments on the 84-85 roster patch. I'm not critisizing, as I know I could never be able to make a roster patch, I would love to know how, but I would never have the time. But there are a few things I think could improve the roster patch, I dont know if it is possible but here goes,...

1) when I simulated the season to test it out none of the players averaged very high points per game. Wilkings/ Jordan/ Bernard king / Larry Bird and a few others all averaged between 27-30 points a game that season, but in the patch only averaged 15-20 points. No one in the simulated season averaged more than 22 points a game. I tried adjusting the primacy of the main scorer on each team but it did not deam to help much. Is their any way to edit the teams so they have more realistic offenses so that their best guys shoot more? other stats were more realistic, as the rebounds were pretty good and the assist leaders were good but the averages were a little low.

2) This would be awsome and blow away all other patches. I have seen that some people have been able to add their own m,usic to the game. So how about an 84-85 roster patch with actual music from that time? Even though 80's music is kinda cheezey is would be cool to have in the game. I wanna hear Thriller rockingh the areana when I go in for the Jam.

3) Finnaly any hopes at any other 80's seasons? My vote would be for the 1988 season, possible the NBA"s greatest. I dont know if any of you read SLAM MAGAZINE, but they did a whole retro issue on that season because of its awsomness.
3a)The lakers re-peat fot the first time and te first time anyone had done it in 19 seasons
3b) the Celtics had the BIG THREE and Larry Bird who average 29.9 pnts per game that year and won the 3-point shoot out.
3c) the Hawks had a great year winning 50 games, it was the year of Nique's classic duel with Bird in the playoffs and with Jordan in the dunk contest. Wilkins average 30.7 a game
3d) The bulls were on the verge of contending, Jordan had a great year winning MVP and defensive player of the Year averaged 35 a game and won the dunk contest and the bulls won 50 games
also the pistons made it to the finals and almost won, the JAZZ were a up and comming power, BARKLEY average 28.3 and Drexler and Olajuwon and Ewing and Stockton were reaching their Prime. Rookies included Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, Kenny Smith, Greg " cadillac" Anderson Regie Miller, Kevin Johnson, Tyrone Bouges, Mark Jackson(rookie of the year) Reggie Lewis, David Robinson (Ok not really cause he went to the navy but I'm willing ot overlook that) and everyone's favorite police impersonator Olden Polynice

all right I'm done begging, thanks

@HaroldMiner
it makes me happy to hear that you like the retro rosters.
regarding the simulating problem. I guess it`s the CPU, which simulates wrong. I have added the correct 1984/85 stats ( point per game, rebounds per game etc. ) for all the players. anyway in NBA Live 2005 the CPU doesn`t simulate correct stats even if I change player ratings.
in NBA Live 2003 everything was fine. in the 1961/62 retro season W. Chamberlain had 50 ppg plus 25 boards a game... and the CPU simulated it! that was real realistic.
I do not know how to get the CPU simulate the right way in NBA Live 2005.

My suggestion would be to leave the remaining teams spare with placeholder players all rated 30 overall but edit the schedule so that they do not play any games.

Has this been tried succesfully before?
Apart from the schedulefix with the 30 teams and all, how much work would it take to convert last years great 95/96 patch to 2005?

It would be pretty difficult, I'd rather just create it from scratch. I reckon I could do it pretty quickly this year.

having some trouble, I can start the season and play or simulate games just fine, but after saving and then going back an re-loading the season when I go to the schedule and play or simulate the next game, the game freezes. the music continue for a few seconds and then everything is frozen. I have done this several times. when I close the game (cntrl/alt/delete/) and I go back to my desktop theie is a box which says

Error# -70
Error # 91102
Reading File

d.file 4 ...()

TEAMS

any idea what could be wrong? Is anyone else going through the Hell that is this ? thanks for any help?

98/99, the drama season that was shortened, with weakened bulls and the championship title open for grabbing (and jazz failing to take advantage of weakened bulls and grab it).