Editing Draft Picks
This tutorial will help you edit draft picks in Dynasty Mode. It contains information originally posted by Terry in the NLSC Forum.
Games
- NBA Live 2004 PC
- NBA Live 2005 PC
- NBA Live 06 PC
- NBA Live 07 PC
- NBA Live 08 PC
The Guide
- First backup franchise.dat and then open it up with a file editor.
- If there have been no draft pick trades before you save the game, the draft pick will be in the following format:
- 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D
- 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D
- 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D
- The format of the draft pick is straight forward. 60 bytes, 30 teams, one team after another in alphabetical order (same as in the game), all first round picks store together follow by all second round picks. And the draft pick is indicated by the team ID. So 00 is Atlanta Hawks and 1D is the HEX format for the team ID for Washington Wizards which is 29.
- Now let's say you want the Heat to give up a second round pick for the first round pick of the Lakers (red) and Spurs give all their draft picks to Pistons (blue). Here's how it look like after the change:
- 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0E 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 07 1A 1B 1C 1D
- 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0C 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 07 1A 1B 1C 1D.
- So all you need to do is search the address for this 60 bytes in the file. Simply search three consecutive teams (like 09 0A 0B as long as you know Rockets Pacers and Clippers did not trade any draft pick) will get the job done.
- After you found the address, just mess around and save. I did try to change all 60 bytes to 18 and the Kings did get all 60 picks.