Hey everyone,

I'm not a really experienced hacker (edited some NES and Genesis games) but I've been messing with NBA Showtime for N64 for about the last month or so, with the intention of updating the rosters and adding some legends.

I Hit jaker3 up a little over a week ago about potentially getting some help/tips on my NBA Showtime hacking quest. He was very helpful and also suggested that I post a topic on this board so here it goes:

I've begun creating a file on google docs to keep track of my findings. I'm happy to share that info with anyone who is interested. I still have a ways to go as far as logging addresses for everything but I have a good chunk figured out. Basically, I can edit player names, most attributes, team names and abbreviations and player appearances (change in game models, not replace textures).

Using Texture64 v0.1.1 I've been able to edit and replace jersey textures. They are CI4 and I had to locate the palletes, but it worked. I've attached some pics of the Rockets uniforms.

The other textures in the game are compressed and with jaker3's help I was able to decompress and locate the face textures for players (these are also CI4) and court textures. To find these I used Universal N64 Compressor and Zoinkity's EDL decompressor tool. I still don't have a way of inserting edited ones back into the game though.

I still haven't located some player attributes. Each player has 3 hidden attributes (pass, rebound and clutch). Also, I haven't been able to figure out how to change a player's dominant hand. There are a few lefty's in the game and I'm not sure where that value is.

I'm pretty happy with where I'm at right now and if I'm never able to find more info then so be it. That said, if people are interested in having a look and possibly lending a hand that would be awesome!

Thanks everyone!

So I honestly know nothing about file tables... When the EDL Decompressor spits out a series of files are those named after the location of that file? For example, I believe the first head file I have is CF076. It looks to be a secret player's head. Now I'm fairly positive that the heads are in alphabetical order based on initial. After 2 secret heads to start off I get: Alan Henderson (D4A0E) followed by Allan Houston (D5D26) followed by Anfernee Hardaway (D35BE). If I were to make a list of the filenames for these heads does that help??

Thanks so much for taking the time man!

That would be great, thank you!! So, I don't believe any of the programs I have now support compressing EDL files.

Which files specifically are you trying to replace?

Hey glitchrichmond,

Are the files the same size as the ones being replaced? When does it crash? on load or on the part that would load the newly inserted image?

Hmm, could u give me a few example images and which ones your trying to replace? I'll see if I can get anything working. I wonder if there is any header on these images.