Changing Teams Tutorial

[Cottager]

I've not tried international changes. Will maybe give it a go tomorrow or something

 

[Imager36]

Would be great if this works. I might even do a county cricket patch.

 

[satishmania]

I've changed the link in the post to be the actual download link I think. if that doesn't work, just google hex workshop. but it should work

Thanks, I also tried fiddling around with the game dates but that does not change anything.
BTW where is the option/entry to change the country?

 

[Themer]

Not sure if you've found it but there was a thread a few years back that did alot of experimenting with this.

I used to use it for changing counties well in the future when bored.

Also I think you'll find it impossible to change from an English team to an Aussie one as the other domestic tournaments aren't simulated when you pick the other country.

 

[Chewie]

Off topic, but if someone created a save file before the patch was applied, then an exactly the same one right after the patch was applied, couldn't we open it up with a hex editor to see what's different?

 

[Cottager]

what sort of things would you want to look for? also...are we talking the new 10.16 or whatever it's called? how much has actually been changed anyway

 

[Chewie]

Well the changes in the database would be the only things affected in comparing save files so something along those lines I was thinking

 

[Cottager]

I think until we work out how to get past the encoding of the database, that'll be unhelpful. It's the same as 2002

 

[Chewie]

The save files are basically the database attached to some strings about where the save game is, what date it is, and previous results. So if we see some changes between the two, the only explanation would be database changes in players.

 

[danish12345]

I thought this might be helpful, because firstly a lot of people aren't aware of the ability to change teams, and secondly there's plenty I'm not capable of and I would love to know how to take this further.

What will you need? A hex editor. Mine is this one here (Hex Workshop). I have never tried another one to be honest.

The steps (do not follow these until you have read what is possible, you could be destroying a game. in fact, don't try this on a save file that you actually care about until you have practiced it on one or two dummy files):

1. Load the .cap file in the hex editor
2. Locate on the right hand side where it says the team that you are

3. On the right hand side, you should see your name, then a dot, then the team you are. Click so that you have clicked just before the dot. Then on the right (in the data inspector section) you should see uint8 and then a number to the right of it. That number is how many letters is in your current team. Click on that number and change that to the number of letters in your desired team (you will need to work this out clearly). Press enter when you have put in the new value

4. Type Ctrl+H. Put "Type" as Text String. Type your old team's name next to "Find". Type your new team's name next to "Replace". Click replace all.

5. Save and load your game. Should be done.


What is possible:

I really do recommend moving at the end of a season. This might take some planning, but the fixtures changing is definitely not an exact science, and games have also been corrupted from time to time. So yes, definitely recommend this.

It is possible to change from an english team to an english team. It is possible to change australian team to australian team but only after the contract stage of the season. It is possible to change the difficulty from easy to hard (this is done by changing a 02 that comes not long after the team name on the left hand side to a 03). It is possible to change nations, although I've not really looked into this. I tried changing from England to Ireland. it sort of worked, but at the same time things weren't quite right (never got to choose squads, couldn't change the teams for matches).

If people could try what I've said here, and maybe play around with things or try to understand things so that we can make this possible, I believe the game would be better for it. Quite often I've gotten into situations where a file has gotten stale, and I'd like to look for maybe a bit more of a challenge at a worse team. This would allow that if we could work on this a little. So hopefully everyone can understand everything above and we can work together a little like we did for the editor.

SUPERB COTTAGER SUPERB
I DID IT AND I AM SUCCESSFUL
PLZ ALSO HELP ME TO EDIT PLAYER ABILITIES IN SEASON MORE THAN 2030:happy:happy:banana2

 

[habib]

I do not know why every one wants to edit? Dont u enjoy the game the way it is? or it is just for fun?( would have been a fun 4 some guys but it has made online play really a market of cheaters. I request every one to stop it plz.

 

[Chewie]

We edit for fun. I don't think any of the guys who do it here play online

 

[habib]

We edit for fun. I don't think any of the guys who do it here play online

I believe that but many can learn that from different threads and tutorials which are available here. So in my idea all who do that for fun can do that through PM's to each other and not in general and open threads to give ideas about editing to others. I know it could be a fun and a sort of challenge for those who are computer software engineers or designers but all I mean is that many people use that fun for cheating. Which does not help at all to play a game or the purpose for which the game was designed. I have stopped playing online just because of that one thing and offline game never appeals me more.

 

[Cottager]

I'm not particularly sure how changing teams can help you in online play. so yeah, this is all for increased fun. I'm not a computer literate person really, but I do enjoy looking at these things and trying to understand them. Also, if everyone knows that this hex thing is available (which obviously I haven't discovered, but I might have brought it to people's attention), then it might get them to introduce it in the next version. there should be some element of sacking, hiring and available positions within the game. other sports management games have it, it can't be impossible. Also, looking at a few other games around, you can edit a large number of things on fifa for example, but when you go online, it loads up non-edited squads. and within the championship manager games, there has always been an available editor to use, but rather than view that as a way people can create a new database (and therefore threaten the sales of the newer versions, which is how I reckon childish games view it currently), it just forces them to introduce a number of new features into the game to improve it enough to warrant buying. the number of new icc features over the last 10 years is staggeringly low.

 

[hedger_14]

I do mine just to make it more realistic and so that we don't have South African players noone has ever heard off destroying every other team.