NFL Blitz 20-13 (20-03 Roster Update)

[DiscoTaco]

Just randomly looking for NFL Blitz 20-03 iso and I ended up finding a link to a guy who has updated the 20-03 rosters. He did a good job as I'm playing it now. Just thought I'd give you guys a heads-up!

http://tecmobowl.org/files/file/459-nfl-blitz-20-16/ (you'll need to register to download)

[jaker3]

Thanks for the link Disco,

Pretty legit hack.

[johnz1]

Hi guys, I made the 20-16 hack.  Let me know if you have any questions about it.
I'd love to get some help in finding out how to edit these things:

- Player skin color
- Team schedules
- General player size (height & weight can be adjusted, but there's also a size category that can make them very thick and wide like a fullback)
- Player name assignment for the announcer
- Jersey number color and style

[jaker3]

its crazy that the skin color isn't by the player data,just messed around with it the other day and nothing near the player data seems to control it.  In the older version they had an image with the set of numbers on it for the jersey, are you using a tool to edit the graphics? maybe I can take a look to see if they use a similar naming convention as older blitz games for their graphics. 

Also looked into that program you were talking about, hex on steroids... pretty legit.

[johnz1]

Hell yeah, Hex On Steroids is my go-to tool for hex editing.

The only thing i'm using for graphics is Dolphin's texture replacement feature.  None of the graphics are being changed in the ISO.

Yeah, I too am certain the skin color isn't with the other player data.  If you copy the complete player data for one guy and paste it over another's, the player will still have the same skin color (and general size) as they did originally.  I believe there's a "player model" section somewhere in the code, but I can't find it.

[johnz1]

Really excited to try the roster update out. Can these changes be re-written to an ISO file if I wanted to try to run this through a GCN loader on my Wii? I can deal with the game on PC, but it would be awesome if I could run it on my Wii.

Yep. You just wouldn't have any of the new graphics. Texture replacement is made possible by the Dolphin emulator.

[johnz1]

yeah, use GCRebuilder to replace the files in the ISO

[jaker3]

Just noticed zfleeman's account was accidentally deleted when removing spam accounts. His posts seemed to have been removed also :\. zfleeman if you see this post feel free to recreate an account while I try to look into restoring the other one.


On another note, Johnz1. Did you manage to ever find the location of player skin color?

[johnz1]

No, never did figure that out.  But haven't really tried since the 20-16 update was released