How soon will we start seeing 2004 patches???

by **daddieflash9** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:14 am

How soon after live 2004 will we start seeing 2004 patches??? i'll make my self patch and shoes and tats and hair and skin but...that takes time but how about everything else????I'll probly start doing rafter patches w/ retired numbers and banners like i did in live 99...

by **Pirate** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:40 am

I think the question of the hour is... How customizable is 2004? Is it like last year or is it harder considering the graphics rebuild... When patching High Heat 2004 it was much more difficult than in years past because of new graphics... I hope that the change is good and still easy to patch.

by **DANet** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:26 am

It totally depends on how much EA has changed from Live 2003. Last year EA changed the graphics formats a bit and we had to wait until Brien Smith graciuosly updated EA Graph before we could really do any graphics patches. Even after the update to EA Graph...patchers had problems with the letters on the back of the jerseys until Don Daily discovered the problem and made an update for FSHtool (Don called the update NFSHTool). If nothing has really changed in Live 2004 from Live 2003 I would guess it is a matter of hours until the first patch is released (there seems to always a race by some of the patchers to be the first to release something). If things have changed significantly...it could be weeks before the things really get going...as was the case last year.

It will also help if a demo is released prior to the release of the game...since it gives everyone a sneak peek at the files and provides a bit of a head start to patching the full version of the game.

by **Full Surface** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:31 am

DANet pretty much summed it all up.

I'm hoping that the PC version will be able to have the same patching structure as last year's game where you only had to make folders of players you wanted to replace (such as xplayer\stnash_) instead of importing graphics onto the actual .viv files.

If they kept the structure the same, then I would probably guess patches being released in the first week of the game being sold.

by **cocobee** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:45 am

For quality patches, i would guess about 2 weeks after release especially when patchers like Tony and out of the country patchers get there games. Man, I'm hoping this year will be easy to patch! That would make the game just that much better! :lol:

YouTube · by **Andrew** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 7:18 pm

As soon as patchmakers get the game and are ready to start patching. As DANet pointed out, differences in the graphics files may leave the EA graphics utilities (EAGE, FshEd, etc) in need of an upgrade before anything can be done.

On the other hand, it should be possible to release roster patches fairly quickly.

by **diafenes** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:50 am

someone will come out first with Kobe's new tats :shock:

for 2004
I'm guessing Rey J or someone is already on to it

by **Tony** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:17 am

kobe has tats? pics?

by **TravisLee324** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:23 am

Tony wrote:kobe has tats? pics?

Yeah, he has some new tattoos on his right arm (not sure if he has some on his left or not). It was pictured on today's Sunday L.A. Times. I'll have it scanned if you want and posted on here. It's not really a good angle, but it's there, heheh

Travis

by **Bredrin** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:39 am

yea man post that ....looks like damn near everyone in the league has tats now

by **TravisLee324** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:03 pm

Here it is, can't really tell what it is exactly..

Travis

by **ReyJ** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:45 pm

Wow, Kobe looks kinda weird with the tats.

Thanks for posting that up Travis, much apperciated!

by **Shadow** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:45 pm

Someone at OS found two pics with Kobe's new tats and he has another one on his forearm.

by **BIG GREEN** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:48 pm

well..he's a hardcore sexual offender now...jailbound..so he has to look the part.

by **Tony** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 9:55 pm

well... thugs do sell shoes better... i wouldn't be surprised if everything in the kobe situation is a marketing ploy, conspiracy from nike... heh.

and these may be better quality pics, than what Trav scanned there, so Rey J can get cracking, and patch these

// pic 1

// pic 2

by **The Big Racist** on Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:26 pm

He got the one from 2nd pic first so i wasnt surprised when i saw that but when i saw the 1st pic i was like

by . on Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:49 pm

I personally hate tats, but its his body and he can have it tatted up if he wants to. What do tats have to do with Thugs btw? I got friends with tats, my brother has a tat, still they aint thugs. I heard he also has a bigger tat on his back, the face of his wife but it could also be a rumor

by **ReyJ** on Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:36 am

Yohance Bailey wrote:well..he's a hardcore sexual offender now...jailbound..so he has to look the part.

Hahaha!!!

Trade him to the Blazers!!

by **Filip** on Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:46 am

Trade him to the Blazers!!

LOL, he really belong there now

Kobe looked like a little kid in his first seasons, always smiling and shit.
This season he has really changed, he bulked up bigtime for the the 02-03 season, he has maybe raped a women and now got tattoes. He is no longer that happy little thinn kid anymore.

by **fvdmc** on Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:48 am

I think all pedophiles have tats. lol

Auto-sers.: Do you think Kobe looks better with a fro or without one.
I personally think he's better off without one; he looks younger. This can ally that whole sexual-offending. MUAHAHAHAHA

by **Filip** on Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:49 am

BTW does any player got tattoe in his face? It would be cool if someone
would get a fat tattoe on their face like Mike Tyson! He looks f!cking
dangerous with that shit on his face!

by **fvdmc** on Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:49 am

Slam harder wrote:BTW does any player got tattoe in his face? It would be cool if someone
would get a fat tattoe on their face like Mike Tyson! He looks f!cking
dangerous with that shit on his face!

I would die on the spot if I had a needle impaling my face!!!

by **Filip** on Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:56 am

fvdmc wrote:I would die on the spot if I had a needle impaling my face!!!

Yeah I would not like to have tattoes on my face either. But me and my
big brother will get each a Hermelin (a little mink looking animal) tattoed on our left leg since our last name is Hermelin.

by **Filip** on Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:58 am

BTW as we were talking about Kobe apperance. I think he looked much better with that little afro he haid before, looked cool. The hairstyle he has
now is not half as cool

by **Hotshot** on Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:24 am

Slam harder wrote:Yeah I would not like to have tattoes on my face either. But me and my
big brother will get each a Hermelin (a little mink looking animal) tattoed on our left leg since our last name is Hermelin.

oh, so that's your jersey that you got as your avatar, huh?

How soon will we start seeing 2004 patches???

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