Sky Sports Patch Beta 0.9
Here is the beta version of the Sky Sports Patch. When playing this, if you can please use Fraps so you can take screenshots of any problems or where you think any improvements can be made!
The instructions to install the patch are pretty simple, but you have to follow them exactly!
What you need:Prakashs Config Editor 2.0 (download from
here)
Notepad or similar text editor
Winzip or similar
How to install:
1: Download the list.txt file attached with this post, savethe file in the same folder as the "Config Editor.exe" file, it will overright the exisiting file.
If you dont want to overwrite the existing config editor settings (not your config files for Cricket 2004 made any any AI patch), insert the following line into your own list.txt file using notepad - XML_PCSC_TV,498030593
If you do this, make sure this file is on the last line of the list.txt file with no blank lines underneath!
2: Open up the Config Editor and from the drop down menu list ( "List : " next to the save icon) choose the bottom option "XML_PCSC_TV". About 20 seconds later the TV graphics settings will load in the config editor, if an error message is shown press OK as it will still work.
Next delete all the text from this section of the config editor, there is quite alot of text so right click and press select all before pressing delete. The "Currents Bytes / Bytes Opened" should now read 0/51192 . Dont close the config editor yet.
Download the Sky09.txt file which is attached to this post, open this file in Notepad, Click Edit, Select All and then Edit, Copy before then switching back to the Config Editor where you should now have a blank page. Right click anywhere in the blank area and click Paste from the popup menu.
The "Currents Bytes / Bytes Opened" should now read "51192/51192", if it does not, try the whole process again! If it does click save, this will take around 3 minutes to save. When this is complete a "Save Complete" message will be displayed, during the saving proccess the Config Editor may be displayed as "Not Responding", ignore this as it is just the editor taking a while to save, when its done the Save Complete Box will be shown. When this is done close the Config Editor.
3:
Next open up the Sky09.zip file also attached to this post in Winzip, choose to extract all the files into your \Cricket 2004\Data\Bats folder e.g. C:\Program Files\EA SPORTS\Cricket 2004\Data\Bats .
4 : Run the game, the patch should now work!
If you are having any problems please post details here, also please give details and if you can screenshots of any bugs or anything that you think could be improved!
If you want to modify the patch to other TV channels and need help please post on this topic, email
[email protected] or contact me on MSN messenger
[email protected] or if you have modified the patch please post screenshots of what you've done here! Something simple to do is to change the the .tga files to other TV channels graphics.
Yet another thing that would be good is if people with TV cards could take pictures of graphics from other TV channels I will try and make those grahics!
I hope it all works!
Ste
EDIT - If the Sky09.zip file wasnt attached when you downloaded the other 2 files, please make sure you download this file and extract the files in the zip file into your Cricket 2004\Data\Bats folder! The patch will not work without this!