Supreme Update Mod V1 work for NBA 08???

[voodoochild]

im new at patching so this might be a dumb question but if this mod is compatable with NBA 08 how do you go about installing it . If it is not compatable with NBA 08 then what do you guys suggest? Downloading files one by one from the 07 section or wait till NBA 08 gets it's own mod made in the future .



Thanks and GO RAPS GO

[Patr1ck]

If you have 07, you should install it for 07 and then move the files to 08. You could also just make a temporary directory, install the SUM mod to it and and do the same thing.

[stealth2920]

If you have 07, you should install it for 07 and then move the files to 08. You could also just make a temporary directory, install the SUM mod to it and and do the same thing.

I installed the mod to a temp folder. I copied the folders and replaced the 08 folders with the mod folders. The game would not start. Did I do this incorrectly? Is there an AIACT file in your mod? The o8 AI is horrible.
Thanks for your efforts

[stealth2920]

Nevermind, I copied the whole folders over instead of copy the files inside and transferring over to 08. Works now. I still would be interested in any AIACT update for 08 if you know of one. Thanks

[Patr1ck]

If you haven't reinstalled 08 yet, there are some thing you can do to get it to run.

Here are the conflicts(I believe).

-Artificial Intelligence Update/AIACT from 07 won't work in 08.
-Camera won't work. merlin/nbacam.mgd
-Automatically installed portraits (SUM fe folder-plyrprts.viv) don't need to be used because the new portraits in 08 will be overwritten those players won't have portraits. You don't need it, but you can always extract all the portrait files at once into the sgsm directory using bigGUI.
-Any files that begin with "screens" or "bckgrnds"(backgrounds) in the SUM sgsm directory may not be compatible with 08. These are automatically installed with SUM. You should delete or rename them.
-The High-Res basketball is incompatible with 08, unless you get the ebo from 07, but I haven't tried that, I am only assuming that it would work.
-The Stadiums and courts are buggy, but they are playable and shouldn't crash the game. Bugs - court graphics don't always show up properly, and the 3dcrowd will look wrong unless you copy over the 3dcrowd.viv file from 07.
-The cyberfaces are from 07, and their is a combination of fsh files inthe SUM sgsm directory, and the sgsm/players directory - plyrface.viv. If you use that there may be some missing faces in 08, but you can always extract all the files at once with bigGUI into your 08 sgsm directory.
-The real shoes patch is semi-compatible. The problem is, you will need the batch file from the patch itself if you don't want to reassign 700 player's shoes in game. Another problem with that is that the batch file was made for 07 many months ago, and players have changed teams and shoes, etc and the batch file will not be updated. Also, a LOC file is installed, this file is incompatible with 08 and should cause a crash. If it doesn't, you will notice that all the text in the game is wrong.
Also, there will be no previews unless you copy the "misc.viv" file from the FE folder of 08 into the FE directory of where you are installing SUM(V2 only) because I made a batch file that inserts them into the viv file so the sgsm directory didn't have ~900 shoe preview files.
-A roster will be installed into your My Documents/NBA Live 07 folder. It is incompatible with 08 if you try to use it. However, you will need to put the shoesacc.dbf file into your 08 rosters to use the Real Shoes patch.

There are original files on the 08 dvd in CAB files that you can extract with winrar to overwrite any SUM conflicting files. The names are a bit different, but the naming scheme is pretty easy to understand because it contains the path of the file(i.e. sgsmPlayersPlyrface_viv = sgsm/players/plyrface.viv). Each CAB archive contains all the files for one folder of 08. Since you are crashing, start with deleting those screens and bckgrnds fiels from the sgsm and replace the LOC files(one chinese, one english) with the original 08 version. Delete the AIACT and replace it with the original, and do the same with the camera file. Also replace the merlin/nbarepl.mgd file because I believe I modified it in SUM 2.1.

I may be missing something, but can't think of anything else. Don't hesitate to ask anymore quesitons if you run into problems converting it.