ESPN NBA 2K5 Royal Ivey and Donta Smith creation guides

Hello again, Today I have creation guides for Royal Ivey and Donta Smith (in which Donta was popular in international leagues but also spent 2 seasons in the NBA on the Atlanta Hawks, specifically 2004-05 and 2005-06) since these 2 are not in ESPN NBA 2K5, even in the official DLC roster updates for the original XBOX version, which is strange, but anyways here are the guides! These will work with both the PS2 version and the original XBOX version.

*THESE WERE THE CLOSEST I COULD GET TO THEM ON THIS GAME*

Royal Ivey

*Basic Info*
First Name: Royal
Last Name: Ivey
Position: PG (Point Guard)
Jersey Number: 36 (The number he wore during his first 3 seasons on the Atlanta Hawks)
Height: 6'3"
College: Texas
Best Hand: Right

*Appearance*
Face: Head 2
Skin Color: Skin 2
Muscle Tone: Buff
Build: Normal or Thick (Your choice but setting it to thick makes him his exact weight, 200lbs)
Hair Style: Waves
Hair Color: Black
Beard Style: Beard Style 3
Moustache: Moustache 1 or Moustache 2
Sideburns: None

*Tattoos*
Lt Neck Tattoo: None
Rt Neck Tattoo: None
Lt Bicep Tattoo: None
Rt Bicep Tattoo: None
Lt Forearm Tattoo: Tattoo 7
Rt Forearm Tattoo: Tattoo 8

*Accessories*
Headband: None
Shades: None
Left Arm Band: None
Right Arm Band: None
Left Elbow Pad: None
Right Elbow Pad: None
Left Wrist Band: None
Right Wrist Band: None
Shorts Length: Long
Left Knee Pad: None or Team Sleeve (He sometimes wore one during the 2004-05 season so it's up to you)
Right Knee Pad: None
Sock Length: Short
Home Sock Color: White
Away Sock Color: White

Shoe design is up to you and for attributes, I just used his NBA 2K6 attributes as I do not know his exact attributes from the 2004-05 season sadly, used a studio pic of Royal Ivey for tattoo reference of the ones he had during the 2004-05 season.

Donta Smith

*Basic Info*
First Name: Donta
Last Name: Smith
Position: SG (Shooting Guard)
Jersey Number: 15 (The number he wore during his time in the NBA apart from a 2006 Media Day picture of Donta Smith on the Charlotte Bobcats)
Height: 6'7"
College: Southern Illinois (Southeastern Illinois College is not in the game sadly so you must substitute with Southern Illinois)
Best Hand: Right

*Appearance*
Face: Head 1
Skin Color: Skin 3
Muscle Tone: Buff
Build: Thick
Hair Style: Waves
Hair Color: Black
Beard Style: Beard Style 3
Moustache: Moustache 1 or Moustache 2
Sideburns: None

*Tattoos*
Lt Neck Tattoo: None
Rt Neck Tattoo: None
Lt Bicep Tattoo: None
Rt Bicep Tattoo: Tattoo 9
Lt Forearm Tattoo: None
Rt Forearm Tattoo: Tattoo 7

*Accessories*
Headband: None or Headband 1 (He wore a headband for a very few games during the 2004-05 season so it's up to you)
Shades: None
Left Arm Band: None or Team Lower Band (Found a picture of him wearing one on GettyImages taken from an actual game from the 2004-05 season so it's up to you)
Right Arm Band: None
Left Elbow Pad: None
Right Elbow Pad: None
Left Wrist Band: None
Right Wrist Band: None
Shorts Length: Long
Left Knee Pad: None
Right Knee Pad: None
Sock Length: Short
Home Sock Color: White
Away Sock Color: White

Shoe design is up to you and for attributes, I just used his NBA 2K7 attributes (He's a free agent on that game despite going international in 2006) as I do not know his exact attributes from the 2004-05 season sadly just like Royal Ivey, used an NBA Media Day 2004 picture for tattoo reference of the ones he had during the 2004-05 season.

Included actual pictures of the 2 in their previews as I figured that would be a good idea!

Last edited by boxMAN29 on Thu Dec 26, 2024 2:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Many thanks for sharing! As I said in the other topic, I'm glad to see more retro gaming resources coming together for old favourites.

Many thanks for sharing! As I said in the other topic, I'm glad to see more retro gaming resources coming together for old favourites.

You're welcome! It's a shame that Southeastern Illinois College is not in the game so I had to use Southern Illinois for Donta Smith, I wonder what their exact 2004-05 attributes are for 2K5's attributes system as it's different than NBA Live 2005

That's always a bit annoying, when the school is missing because it isn't shared by anyone already in the roster. Older NBA Live games have had "None", "N/A", and "Unknown" as selectable placeholders, and I think a couple of NBA 2K games might have had similar options as well, but it's an idea that was dropped unfortunately.

But hey! At least I have them both in 2K5 now! These creations are great for the official DLC roster updates, in which they also never updated the player's ratings on the DLC rosters but thankfully there's a ratings update guide on GameFAQS

I also found it weird how Royal Ivey and Donta Smith were not included in the official DLC roster updates SEGA provided for the Xbox version back then, you can still get them though today in a certain circumstance, that's how I got the DLC on my original Xbox.

Them being excluded in the DLC roster updates is the reason I made these formulas but they work on PS2 as well as the create a player mode is the same on both.

Absolutely, it shouldn't have been an issue adding them to those official rosters.

Last night, when I was browsing through Rashidi's Player Rating FAQ on GameFAQS, I found 2004-05 Royal Ivey attributes on there though the dunking attributes had a typo, that is: he meant to type in 50 for the dunking attributes as Royal Ivey could never dunk but once I applied them with the dunking attribute set to 50, it now plays like how Royal Ivey did during the 2004-05 season, it also had attributes for other 2004-05 rookies too, including Carlos Delfino, which I made last night with the attributes for him on there.

I realized that if you set the build to Thick on Royal Ivey, it makes him his exact weight in real life (200 lbs) so I updated my formula for him above.

Good looking out! That was one of my least favourite aspects of whipping up my 2005 roster for NBA 2K6, not having a customisable weight value. Thankfully they moved away from that approach, but some combinations do work out perfectly.