Custom Resolution Guide

You know, I was searching the net all yesterday trying to figure it out. I finally gave up and posted here. Then, I started trying to work backwards, using 640 in the list above, and using Windows Calculator. I saw the pattern that you described, but I figured that could not be it. I tried it anyways and it worked. Crazy. Now NBA 08 looks half decent. Thanks.

This is great. Now I have 1680x1050 res.
2moro gonna try 1600x1200 and see which one to stick with.

KUDOS!!

Thank you a lot sir!
I ask myself how you always get to know these things! Are you EA developer?

size[/youtube][/url]

Last edited by Ckay on Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Can you have 1680x1050 and have it keep the 4:3 aspect ratio so that it's not stretched? Would that be a setting in your video card or in the game?

thats odd i open up my nbalive08 and i dont see any of the numbers in the screenies ive seen like 00922000 but none of the other ones and, im trying to get it to run in 1440x900

You have to open the exe with a hex editor. I youre using a crack it should change a bit. I helped my friend (a pirate) to get it with the crack done but here youre not allowed to speak about cracks

oh so if i used my cd and used that exe it would work then?

oh so if i used my cd and used that exe it would work then?

What exe are you using?

I made a copy of my cd with alcohol, so i could lend the cd to my buddys so im using a img file from alcohol atm

Riiiight. Are you sure you have the english version? You can always just search for one of the resolution sequences in hex and see if you find it.

what's the hex for 1152×864 resolution?

Calculate it. PduB wrote how^^
Just to give you a challenge

at the first post he also said that he will tell if anyone asks!!!!!!

I want to know my custom resolution (1280x800) in Hex Values...

Thanks

If I want to replace 1024*768 by 1680*1050, what do I do?? I'm lost on the swapping numbers part..

1280x800 = 2003 0000 0005

Kevin_D, look at the photo I showed in the first post. It shows you the numbers to replace and what they match up to in the code section above it. 1680x1050 is on there, you just need to replace the 1024x768 code with the 1680x1050 code.

i do everything as written but when i try and save the file in hex editor and error message about temporary files path or something like that pops up....

what do i do?

This worked perfectly... playing this on my 1366x768 flat screen looked horrible until this change. thank you
was wondering if you know how to do this with madden 08?

i cant seem to get it to work anyone can help?

True. You deserve credit for figuring out that it doesn't work for some people.

Does anyone know which lines to edit for 07 or 06, they are not structured the same as 08, this works great by the way.

This guide will assist you in making custom resolutions for NBA Live 08.

You will need a hex editor. I recommend Hex Workshop. Open up the nbalive08.exe in your hex editor.
....
....

If you want a custom resolution, just post it here and I'll tell you the hex values.

Aha, a couple of days before you created this thread I posted an application that does all this automatically that I did in mid october... All the user needs to do is press Patch, nothing else unless he/she wishes to change resolution.

http://www.m0interactive.com/archives/2 ... patch.html



I don't recommend people to alter the hex file by themselves cause it might corrupt the file if they do anything wrong and forget to backup old file. And many people don't understand hex, and small endian converisons etc. So that is why I created this to make it all auto. Converts the resolution to a small endian and replaces its values within the assembly.

The application I did in October, lets you assign your own resolution (desktop resolution by default), and applys this patch. If you didn't install it in default location it will ask you to browse to nbalive08 location.

Enjoy! It is pretty cool, over 10000 views and over 5000 downloads.

Does anyone know which lines to edit for 07 or 06, they are not structured the same as 08, this works great by the way.

Should be the same way for 07, I don't think it works for 06 since EA used a different schema. 08 screen resolution is same as 07 screenresolution.

The 08 way was imitating the 07 way. You could use the application I did above, and rename the file back to nbalive07.exe or whatever the assembly is called and it will replace the hex automatically for you.

I just checked the original and 1.1 patched 07 exe and the resolutions don't show up.