Andrew Begley
Andrew Begley is the current webmaster and Forum administrator of the NLSC. Andrew has been running the site since August 2001, having taken the reigns from Lutz van Hasselt, one of the NLSC's three founders and interim webmaster after co-founder Tim Tschirner joined the NBA Live production team at EA Canada. Before his tenure with the NLSC Andrew founded and ran the NBA Live Domain. He is currently responsible for the current roster updates for NBA Live 2005, NBA Live 06, NBA Live 07 and NBA Live 08 and oversees daily site operations.
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The NBA Live Domain
Andrew founded the NBA Live Domain in 1998 at Yahoo! Geocities as a means of sharing his roster updates with other NBA Live players. Over the next three years, the site was expanded and eventually covered each of the NBA Live games up until NBA Live 2001. The NLD was eventually absorbed into the NLSC in December 2001.
The NLSC
Beginning in August 2001, Andrew assumed NLSC webmaster and forum administrator duties from Lutz, who had run the site on an interim basis following Tim's departure. During this time Andrew also took over responsibility for the NLSC's roster updates and with the help of the NLSC team, developed several new designs that incorporated new forum and downloads database software. As of 2008, he is the longest serving NLSC webmaster/administrator.
Patches
Andrew's work has consisted mainly of rosters updates as he has at one time maintained the NLSC's current roster patches for NBA Live 2001 (taking over from Lutz), NBA Live 2003, NBA Live 2004 and currently NBA Live 2005, NBA Live 06, NBA Live 07 and NBA Live 08. He has also produced rosters for NBA Live 95, NBA Live 96, NBA Live 97 and NBA Live 99. With the help of several talented graphics patchers he has also produced retro season rosters, specifically 1995/1996 season updates for NBA Live 2001 and NBA Live 2004. Andrew generally does not make art updates, instead concentrating instead on roster updates and other mods involving DBF editing.
He is currently updating the rosters for the PC versions of NBA Live 2005, NBA Live 06, NBA Live 07 and NBA Live 08.
Personal
Andrew currently resides in Newcastle, Australia. His favourite team is the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan is his favourite all-time player, while Derrick Rose is his favourite active player. Apart from the NBA Live series, his favourite video games include the NBA Jam series, Grand Theft Auto series, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Fallout 3, the Mortal Kombat series, LucasArts' adventure series (including the Monkey Island series, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Full Throttle and The Dig), the WWE Smackdown vs RAW series, NBA Street and the Need for Speed series.
