Beemss

hi, im just wondering is there any way to change the year of which you start a new game. for example i want to start a new season in the english premiership and i want to change the year from 2006 to 2007?

basically im gonna try and start a new game starting at the 2007/2008 season rather than 2006/2007???

thanks

retired_sportfanni

i had a thread on this....

i got told it was unchangeable and hard coded into the game but if someone could figure it out it would be great.

retired_Th4

It'll be hard coded in the game I'd reckon. There'd be no need for FM05, 06, 07 otherwise would there?

retired_mojka

Ok... I can accept the fact that it's not possible to change the game starting date without changing the code in the game files... but wasn't this ability to personalize the game start date one of the most important feautures of this FM 2007?

danny00

I have...

All you have to do is know where to look, then with a hexeditor change a value from 7D0 (meaning the first year) to 7D1 (starting the next year)
What you are looking for lies somewhere in the 98b706 address (68 d0 07)if using the XVI32.

But it's not worth it, because you also have to change all other references to that 7D0 and the 7D1 which are the ending dates, and the transfer rules, and have problems with your teams going to european competitions, and a lot of other stuff, just to TRY and get a running .exe. By the time you're finished the FM2008 will be out and your effort will be pointless.

I did have fun changing a league to start at 1960 and end at 2010 thought. I played the last 3 games of the league in 3 seasons :p

Beemss

cheers for your posetive feedback LtCyc. you do have a very good point if you put it like that

Beemss

BTW where do you find this 98b706 address???

retired_jean08

Yo LtCyc, any other info like that?

I'd love to have a gander at it.

danny00

It's simple:
Step 1. Disassemble fm.exe, so you can have the whole code in assembly programming language.
Step 2. IF you are familiar with assembly, start looking for something you don't even know how it should look like.
Step 3. When you manage to figure out the specific part of offset or integer push, you wish to change, realise that procedures interract with each other and you need to figure out the whole code in order to do it properly.
Step 4. Spent the next 2 months doing so.
Setp 5. When you figure out the code, and now do all the changes you wanted to do, realise that you've wasted a lot of time of your life, and now need to work on your final-year project, otherwise you won't graduate.

Seriously guys, every league was proggramed slightly differently from the other, so there's no standard pattern you can just go and change.
Also if I'm not mistaken it's illegal to mess with an .exe code.
Also by doing what I did, I appreciated the work SI has done, and I am now eagerly waiting for FM2008.

(the only easy thing you can do is change the player restrictions (non-Eu and such) so you can swap leagues)

retired_jean08

That's what I was wondering more on, actually. I couldn't give a crap about start dates. :p

Amount of subs, Non-EU rules and stuff. But with that info... eh?