NBA Live

One of the first things that most people discover when they join our community here at the NLSC, or indeed what brings them here in the first place, is our collection of downloads for NBA Live and NBA 2K. Usually after trying out a few updates and marvelling at the skill and creativity of the talented individuals in the community, a lot of people ask the question: How can I do this myself?

We have a collection of tutorials that teach you the specifics of making different kinds of updates for NBA Live and NBA 2K, but I thought it might be helpful to compile some general tips on how to start making your own patches and mods. It’s always nice to see new people trying their hand at making updates for their fellow gamers, so I hope this article will prove to be useful for those of you looking to join the ranks of patchers in our community.

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The Dynasty Five Fantasy League has restarted using the latest NLSC rosters and is currently looking for enthusiastic GMs to sign up. The new season will begin shortly, after all vacant teams have been claimed.

If you’re interested in joining the league, check out this section to see a list of the available teams and register to claim one before somebody else does. You can also check out a listing of Dynasty Five’s rules and procedures here.

A popular patching question in recent years has been “How do I edit the intro videos for NBA Live?”. If that’s something you’d like to try out yourself then you’ll want to check out today’s file addition, a tutorial which will help you convert to and from the vp6 video format.

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VP6 Conversion Tutorial

We now have a new poll up which asks: “Do you mostly play basketball video games online or offline?” Cast your vote now and feel free to post your thoughts in the comments below!

Our previous poll asked “Do you consider yourself a sim or arcade player when it comes to basketball video games?” It appears as though most folks around these parts seek realism from their virtual basketball experience, with 67% of voters identifying themselves as sim players compared to only 8% who consider themselves arcade players. A further 25% saw themselves as being somewhere in between.

Jhiane has released the following resource which contains accurate colours for use in creating jersey updates. It should be useful to jersey patchers for both NBA Live and NBA 2K.

True Colours Resource for Jersey Making

Unquestionably one of the greatest and most dominant players in the history of the NBA, Shaquille O’Neal’s services have been sought out by a number of teams throughout his career. He’s also been one of the most wanted players in NBA video games, with the Diesel changing uniforms and landing all over the league in several Dynasty and Association games in years gone by.

NLSC Forum user badreligionau – who also happens to have one of the best Dynasty stories going – has started a discussion called Journeyman Shaq, with the aim of collecting screenshots of Shaq on all the different teams that he’s ended up with during the course of Dynasty and Association games. You’re also invited to come up with city-specific nicknames for all of Shaq’s virtual stints around the league. Eleven teams are currently represented, including five of the six teams he actually played for, so join in the fun!

If you could make your own basketball game – NBA or otherwise – what would it be like? Which league would it be, what kind of features would you include and which player would you have on the cover? Would it be simulation or arcade? Could gamers create mods for it? Have your say here in the Virtual Hardwood section of the NLSC Forum!

Special thanks to Mavs4Life for creating such an interesting topic. If you don’t have an NLSC Forum account yet, I strongly encourage you to register one ASAP. In addition to being able to take part in discussions such as this one and many more, you can also use your account to upload files to our Downloads section, rate files that others have uploaded and post comments on our front page news posts and feature articles. Signing up is quick, easy and 100% free, so join our community today!

You may be familiar with Da_Czar’s Ten Teams in Ten Days and Battleground series while he was at Operation Sports.  Well as he states in his new blog, he stepped down at the beginning of the summer and today started a new blog called “Sim Citi”.  Check it out!