Tag Archives: Fictional

Today’s mod releases for NBA 2K14 feature an assortment of jerseys from SlippyG, including 2013 season jerseys for the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers, as well as a fictional pink Lakers uniform. Check them all out at the links below!

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2012-2013 Phoenix Suns Jerseys
2012-2013 Phoenix Suns Latin Nights Jerseys
Los Angeles Lakers Noche Latina Jersey
Los Angeles Lakers Pink Jerseys

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It’s always great to see new mod releases for a classic like NBA 2K13 after all this time! To that end, Sayantifico has recently uploaded a massive Draft Class project, featuring 165 unique fictional players. Check it out at the link below!

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Sayantifico Mega Draft Class Project

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We’re at midcourt, and the ball is about to go up…it’s Monday Tip-Off! Join me as I begin the week here at the NLSC with my opinions and commentary on basketball gaming topics, as well as tales of the fun I’ve been having on the virtual hardwood. This week, I’m tipping things off with some suggestions for indie developers who may be interested in making a basketball game.

Even as someone who grew up with video games, I never really dreamed of working in the industry. Way back in 2008, I did receive an offer to join the NBA Live team, an opportunity that I ultimately turned down for personal reasons. Of course, given what was on the horizon with NBA Elite 11, there’s a very good chance that I’d have been back in Australia and running the NLSC again within a couple of years anyway! In any case, even though I remain passionate about video games, creating one isn’t my calling. It’s a fanciful thought, but it is indeed a fantasy more than a dream.

If nothing else, I simply don’t have the skills and knowhow to create a game, and I somehow doubt that a major studio will randomly offer me creative control over a project of my choosing! When it comes to video games, I’m a consumer, critic, and content creator, and that’s absolutely fine by me. With that being said, I still have some ideas about games that I’d like to see, in particular basketball titles. Obviously that includes new NBA Live, NBA Jam, and NBA Street releases, but the indie scene also has a ton of potential. To that end, I’d like to throw out a few ideas! If you’re an indie developer who is considering creating a basketball video game, may I suggest…

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From courtside of the virtual hardwood, it’s Episode #576 of the NLSC Podcast!

Although we mostly play and primarily cover NBA and NCAA licensed basketball video games, there have certainly been some classic releases that lack their high profile branding, as well as real teams and players. This week, we join the community in recalling some of our all-time favourite unlicensed basketball video games. We also name a handful of favourites that only licensed one or two real players, starred fictional characters, or otherwise didn’t have anything to do with the NBA or NCAA. As we discuss, these games inspired us to use our imaginations, created many Virtual Hardwood Legends, and sometimes included impressive features and gameplay mechanics.

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Today’s NBA 2K24 mod releases feature a couple of concept jerseys by Dyop Dyop, and a New Gen scoreboard by Looyh. Check them out at the links below!

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DET Pistons Concept Uniforms – DyopDyop
ORL Magic Concept Uniforms – DyopDyop

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2K24 New Gen Scoreboard For 2K24

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Today’s NBA 2K14 mod releases feature a custom concept court for the Brooklyn Nets created by Tshirtinshorts, and Baskonia jerseys by Pasha46. Check them out at the links below!

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Brooklyn Nets Custom Court

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Baskonia 2023-24 Jersey Set

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Welcome to another edition of The Friday Five! Every Friday I cover a topic related to basketball gaming, either as a list of five items, or a Top 5 countdown. The topics for these lists and countdowns include everything from fun facts and recollections to commentary and critique. This week’s Five is a list of five times that basketball games featured fictional content.

Authenticity is the name of the game when it comes to sim basketball titles. There are acceptable breaks from reality, of course. MyTEAM allows us to construct lineups that span multiple eras, with everyone in their prime and ignoring that some players have passed away. It’s a fantasy mode, after all. We can also choose to have classic teams from different eras square off, play with teams featuring all of the best players in club history, or even have a team face itself. Even in a sim game, there’s fun to be had doing things that can’t be done in real life.

Fictional content is something else altogether. It’s usually the mark of an arcade game, such as the Stickmen and other bonus teams in NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, or the inclusion of Mortal Kombat characters in the arcade version of NBA Jam Tournament Edition. Most of the fictional content in sim titles comes from our own modding and roster customisation. With that being said, there are some times when fictional content appeared in sim basketball games, beyond the obvious examples of Roster Players filling in for unlicensed names. From placeholders and bonus content to questionable design choices, here are five times that sim basketball games had fictional elements.

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This is Wayback Wednesday, your midweek blast from the past! From retrospectives of basketball games and their interesting features, to republished articles and looking at NBA history through the lens of the virtual hardwood, Wednesdays at the NLSC are for going back in time. This week, I’m taking a look back at the Silly Rosters that Lutz made for NBA Live 95.

From the moment I discovered the NLSC – then the NBA Live Series Center – way back in August 1997, I was enthralled with the work that our founders were doing. As is the case with basically everyone who’s joined our community over the years, I was utterly amazed at what was possible with modding; even in those early games. After trying to update NBA Live 96’s rosters with only the in-game functions for a year or so before that, the possibilities now seemed endless. You’re telling me that my created Michael Jordan can have full bio data, and that I can overwrite players? Incredible!

The work that Lutz and Tim were doing with those original NLSC updates inspired me to try my hand at the hobby, which led to me creating my own site, and ultimately still being a part of the community over twenty years later. Those roster packs were more than just current season updates, and when I picked up NBA Live 95 PC a year or so later, I was finally able to mess around with Lutz’s rosters on top of dabbling with some work of my own. A project from that pack that I’ve mentioned a few times before but haven’t covered yet is the Silly Rosters. It’s a product of its era, and the early days of our modding community. Let’s take a look back…way back…

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Today’s NBA 2K22 mod releases feature an assortment of face updates, including a few fictional ones. Download them all at the links below!

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Fictional Cyberface 20005

Shuajota
Jeff Dowtin Face

TGsoGood
Fictional Female CFID 30037
Fictional Female CFID 30003

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We have some new fictional player faces by OG2K and TNG Aura in today’s mod releases for NBA 2K22. Check them out at the links below!

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Fictional Cyberface #3 by OG2K

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Fictional Players Face Pack by TNG Aura

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Enhance a custom Draft Class with today’s mod releases for NBA 2K21! OG2K has released a couple of fictional player faces, which you can download at the links below.

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Fictional Cyberface by OG2K
Fictional Cyberface #2 by OG2K

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Today’s new mod releases for NBA 2K22 feature more fictional player faces by OG2K. Download them all at the links below!

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Fictional Cyberface by OG2K
Fictional Cyberface Pack 1 by OG2K
Fictional Cyberface Pack 2 by OG2K
Fictional Cyberface Pack 3 by OG2K
Fictional Cyberface #2 by OG2K

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We’ve got a big batch of face updates in today’s mod releases for NBA 2K22! These include fictional player faces, both standalone and in packs, and retro faces for Stephen Curry and Rasheed Wallace. Download all of today’s NBA 2K22 mod releases at the links below!

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Although it was a controversial game in its day, it’s always cool to see some new mod releases for NBA Live 07. Today’s addition to our database is a fictional roster by Cpt(K), ideal for Dynasty mode. Pick it up at the link below!

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NBA Live 07 Fictional Rosters

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With jubba910 entering a new season in his ongoing NBA 2K story topic, he’s made the roster that he’s using available to everyone in today’s NBA 2K18 mod releases. Pick it up below, and check out the story here in the Forum!

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NBA 2K10 & Beyond Project: 17-18 Opening Day Roster

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