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NBA Live '95 Player Patch V3.01
-------------------------------
written by Lutz van Hasselt and Everett Fitzgerald
(the author looks forward to answer all your questions and comments, but to
save him some time, read this text first before you ask)

What's new 3.00 -> 3.01
-----------------------
- rosters updated in 95-96.exe and players.exe (through 10-23-95)

Introduction
------------
This is an unofficial patch for the commercial game NBA Live '95 by EA Sports,
based on hex editing. It provides the executable with data of new players,
who were not originally in the game, most noteably Michael Jordan, Charles
Barkley and David Robinson, and generally updates the rosters, regarding
trades, the recent NBA draft and the two expansion teams. Other than that, it
replaces the 93-94 stats with 94-95 stats and includes retouched skill values
and starting lineups, plus LOTS more.

What's new 2.xx -> 3.xx
-----------------------
- full 95/96 rosters with all the trades and rookies
- the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies replacing the all-star teams
- legend teams with your all-time favorites, check out Magic, Larry, Wilt,
  Dr J, Kareem etc.
- every NBA all-star team since 1992
- Dream Teams 1, 2 and 3, with official DT3 roster as announced
- more national teams
- special silliness mode
- UCLA and Duke championship teams
- all-NBA and all-rookie teams of each year since 1991
- more brilliant athletes and thinkers of our time and the past: Al Bundy,
  Bill Clinton, Dan Quayle, Beavis and Butthead, Raymond Luxury Yacht, our
  great Pope, Helmut Kohl and more than 300 even more wonderful and
  intelligent more or less human beings
- teams of slam dunk specialists, 3 point shooters, tall and short players
- a free dead Indian with every registered patch version
- inclusion of anyone who asked me to be in the game
- more accurate season performance of Jordan and Rodman
- new installation routine
- corrected starting lineups for both exhibition and season play (maybe that
  was already fixed for the last version, I can't remember)
- support for the official PAS/16 sound and joystick patch

Files
-----
install.exe
94-95exh.pat
94-95sea.pat
95-96.pat
legends.pat
silly.pat
players.pat
stuff.pat
readme.txt
If you are missing something, note that the full .zip-file is available at
ftp.cdrom.com /pub/games/something or via e-mail at
[e-mail]
All other files from former patch versions can be deleted.

Installation
------------
This patch replaces all former patch versions, most probably downloaded by
you under the name nbapv2**.zip, nbapat**.zip or nbapatch.zip. You can delete
all the files created by unzipping one of the above mentioned, namely patch.1,
patch.11, patch.111, patch.2, exhibi.bat, league.bat and gosuns.msg
(support the quest for disk space).
Copy all the unzipped files into your main NBA directory, which is the
directory where nba95.exe is located.
Make sure an original, unchanged copy of nba95.exe either as on the CD or as
from the PAS/16 patch is available in this directory.
Run install.exe by typing 'install' (Return), then follow the instructions
appearing on your screen.
The program will automatically determine if your .exe-file is the original or
the PAS/16 patch.
You will be asked if you want to install the following files:
94-95exh.exe, 94-95sea.exe, 95-96.exe, silly.exe, players.exe, stuff.exe and
legends.exe (read below for details) Each of those requires about 1.1MB of HD
space.
When finished, you can choose one of the created .exe-files to start.
If you decide to install some more files than originally chosen, just run
install.exe again.
You can delete the .pat-files after the installation if you keep the corres-
ponding .exe-files.

95-96
-----
This is probably the most important file. It includes the probable 95-96
rosters of all 29 NBA teams, with all the offseason moves like rookies and
free agents signings, retirements and trades, including the Price, Rodman and
Majerle trades. I tried to pick the 12 players for each team who have the best
chances to make the roster on 11-02.
IMPORTANT: This league is not created for season play. It will give weird
results trying to start a league with it and the game will most probably crash
sooner or later. The reason for this is, that there is no way for me to
change the calendar, so that the expansion teams could participate in the
season and that I'd have to give a lot of players wrong portraits. IMHO, it
wouldn't make any sense making this work with season play.

94-95sea
--------
You already know this file from elder patch versions. It contains updated
94-95 rosters with 94-95 stats and corrected starting lineups. A few players
use wrong portraits, but Jordan, Barkley and Robinson are there.

94-95exh
--------
Also taken from the last patch version (with a few corrections). It's the
same as 94-95sea, but without any wrong portraits. Don't try using this for
league play, it won't work. This might seem pretty useless to you, as you
have the 95-96 version, but if you are a nostalgic sort of a person, you
shouldn't delete this, as it might be cool to check it out again in a few
years.

legends
-------
This features all-time greats as all-star teams with Magic, Larry, Dr J and
others. Hint: When going for 100 with Wilt Chamberlain, switch off the color
on your monitor (if possible) to enhance the realism of experiencing a
historic event.

players
-------
This means you. If you mailed me, load this, check out your favorite team and
guess who's on. If I messed up your look or your number, or if you don't agree
with your skill values, read on to find out how to change this yourself. I
tried to make the skill values as realistic as possible, so I did not
exaggerate. Don't take it personal if your values are too low; of course, I
have never even seen you play, I just made them up from your own comments. I
just hope I did not forget anyone, there's quite some chaos in my mailbox.
Some people forgot to gave me their favorite team. Just check out the players
menu to find out where I put you. Trade yourself if you don't like it.
Don't start a league with this.

silly
-----
This is meant for more sensible use of NBA Live '95. Forget this ridiculous
crap about Jordan, Barkley and the others. This is the real thing. Michael
Jordan, who the fuck are you? Here are the real heroes, regardless of their
current state of decay or their nobility. Each of those teams would kick any
NBA team's ass any day.
Just check out the rosters and look who's on. The different logos might help
you to find stuff. When you see a blockers logo, you'll find real NBA players,
(with silly lineups), when you see allstar logos, you'll find a compilation
of the dumbest guys from other teams.
If you think, your skills are not good enough in the 'players' file, you'll
find yourself in one of the teams marked with the slammers logo. This is how
good you are in your wildest dreams (at least the wildest 'dry' dreams :-)
A lot of people have been complaining that this game is far too easy and that
they beat their opponents by 100 even on all-star level etc. In that case,
take the 'very worst' team and try to beat the 'very best', just look for
the jammers logos. All the other teams use stealers logos, except a few
original logos, like for Dallas and Denver. It should be pretty obvious what
bunch of morons you'll find on those teams. Of course, Clinton and Quayle are
with the Bullets and Al Bundy is on the Bulls roster. Oh yeah, and check out
the Highland team, huh huh. The other teams suck.

stuff
-----
Here, you'll find everything not contained in one of the other files.
Check out Dream Teams 1-3 (abbreviated DT 1-3, or find the jammers logos).
If you are arguing with someone if DT 1 or DT 2 was better, just invite him
to your place and find out (well, actually, you'll just find out who's better
with his joystick (no pun intended), but it's fun anyway). Just in case this
is too exciting for you, the slammers logos indicate other national teams
which may be crushed by your Dream Teams (nice for relaxing after work).
The teams with the blockers logos are all-NBA or all-rookie teams of each
season since 91/92 and you'll find all the allstar teams starting at the same
season behind the allstar logos, named W 92, E 92, W 93 etc. There are even
more teams to have fun with (look for stealers logos).
Don't even think of starting a season with this file.

How to edit the game yourself
-----------------------------
NBA-Ed 2.02 has just been released. It is a great tool, written by Jose de
Leon, allowing to edit all the player data. It has lots of new features since
v1.x, most importantly player name editing and PAS/16 patch support. It's
easy to use and generally brilliant. It's available at ftp.cdrom.com in
/pub/games/new or pub/games/something or in whatever directory. Or mail the
author (Jose) directly at [e-mail]. If you get it and
create a cool league, check out the NBA-Ed doc files on how to create a small
patch file and upload it. Share your work with others. Jose and I have put
so much time into the editor and the patch respectively, now it would be
pretty cool to relax and enjoy other people's creations.
If moves are made, look for the trade/copy options of NBA-Ed instead of the
trade option of NBA Live. Using the latter with patched versions may cause
some trouble.

Future versions
---------------
Version 3.02 is due to release at about the start of the season, after the
teams had to reduce their rosters to 12 players. Shortly after that, EA Sports
is going to release NBA Live 96, which is supposed to come with a full editor.
If the 3D graphics don't totally suck, I'll probably buy it and stop patching
NBA Live 95.
Look for v3.02 and other patches on ftp.cdrom.com. Or e-mail me about me, you
won't receive it automatically.

Legal bits
----------
This patch is freeware. Spread it, put it on your CDs, on your WWW sites,
whatever, as long as you don't sell it for profit. Please spread the whole
.zip-file. If you spread parts of it, you should at least include this text.
Feel free to use it as a basis for your own creations of leagues, though.
This patch was written by Lutz van Hasselt and Everett Fitzgerald.
Original idea, silly stuff, the 'stuff' and 'players' leagues and the 94-95
and 95-96 leagues by Lutz van Hasselt
Legends by Everett Fitzgerald.
Any resemblance to Suns forwards or Spurs centers dead or living is purely
coincidental and not at all meant to violate any fucking rights.

Thanks to
---------
-Jose de Leon for NBA-Ed. Without him, this would not have been possible. You
 just can't create 500 new players just with a hex editor
-EA Sports the best computer game since Doom
-Bernd Schmidt for some technical help
-Jose again for the infos on the PAS/16 patch
-Everett Fitzgerald for the legends patch
-EA Sports again for the joystick patch
-BHSCard for his continuous support and infos
-Jacques Chirac for the radiotherapeutics
-Bill Gates for everything
-anyone else I forgot

FAQ
---
Q:You already said last time you'd retire from patching. You remind me of
  Charles Barkley.
A:Uhhh. Oh yeah. Sorry for that.

Q:Don't you know how to spell 'Vancouver'?
A:Well, no, it wasn't on Wheel of Fortune yet, so how should I know...
  Actually, there's not enough space allocated for it, I know how to change
  the pointers, but I somehow can't apply team names that are longer than the
  original ones, and it used to say 'Western'.

Q:When will the next version be finished?
A:A few days into November.

Q:What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?
A:42.

Q:I have started a league with 94-95exh/95-96 or whatever and it works.
A:Not really. Have a close look at the stats of the new players, they are
  probably rather messed up. Plus, your game may crash sooner or later.

Q:Someone uploaded something to ftp.cdrom.com, but I get my permisson denied.
A:Due to security reasons, you can't download stuff from their /incoming
  directory. You'll have to wait for them to check the file and move it to the
  /new directory.

Q:Magic and Larry can't run or jump on your Dream Team 1.
A:Well,they couldn't, in 1992. Check out 'legends' to see them in their prime.

Q:What is the PAS/16 patch you mentioned?
A:It's an official patch by EA Sports fixing some problems with joysticks and
  PAS/16 sound cards. Check out ftp.ea.com or the Electronic Arts WWW site or
  any site where you usually get your game patches.

Q:How do I register the patch?
A:Of course you don't. It's freeware.

Q:Player X has the wrong skin color/shooting hand etc.
A:You can change those things easily with NBA-Ed 2. Nevertheless, any infos
  about such mistakes are appreciated.

Q:Is there a life after death?
A:No.

Q:Why can't you make a patch that can be used for season play without wrong
  portraits?
A:The offset that is used for the portraits is also used for loading season
  data during league play, so if someone uses someone else's portrait, he'll
  use his stats. Especially if someone has the no-portrait-avaialble sign
  (All-Star Center's portrait), the game will load some random data as stats
  and calculate with it, which gives very strange statistical results and will
  probably sooner or later crash the game due to a divison by zero or overflow
  error. This is actually bad programming style by EA Sports, but hey, mine is
  even worse, I used to have a C-64.

Q:How do you pronounce 'Raymond Luxury Yacht'?
A:'Throatwobbler Mangrove'.

Q:Team A traded player X to team B for players Y and Z. What now?
A:Check out NBA-Ed 2. It's pretty easy to make the trades or to apply new
  players. Or, search ftp.cdrom.com for someone uploading the changed league.

Q:Who is Willi Wienke?
A:Does it ring a bell when I say 'Ja...! Schlecht! Unzureichend! Sechs!'? No?

Q:Fuck you! It just says:'No portrait available'. I want my Jordan portrait.
  And Butthead's jersey should read 'AC/DC'. And Kelly Bundy has long hair.
A:Sorry, I can't (yet) include any of my own graphics. I have to stick to what
  is in the game already.

Q:The Grizzlies and Raptors still have all-star logos. And the announcer keeps
  giving wrong team names.
A:see above

Q:Can you change the calendar, so that the Raptors and Grizzlies can take part
  in season play?
A:Not with hex editing. You'll have to wait for EA Sports to do it. They have
  the source code.

Q:Is this patch legal?
A:I don't know and I don't care. Legal/illegal/scheissegal.

Q:What does 'scheissegal' mean?
A:Check out your favorite English/Hungarian phrasebook.

Q:The patch crashed, even though I played only exhibition games.
A:If you got some (maybe messed up) message ending with 'Would you like to try
  to run the program anyway (Y/N)', when starting the game, the crash was most
  probably caused by memory problems. If not, there might actually be a bug.
  Mail me the exact part of the game where the crash occured and the patch
  file you used, and I'll try to help you out.

Q:How do I unzip?
A:42.

Q:Can you make the backboards shatter/the players fight?
A:Yeah, sure, and I can make beer out of water (or was that whiskey?).

Q:The memory message at the beginning is corrupted.
A:Well, I had to write the new names somewhere. It sure is more elegant to
  find some old names to overwrite, but this was somehow easier for me.

Q:How do I run your patch with Windoze 95?
A:Drop dead.

Q:Are you really from Germany?
A:Unfortunately yes. NBA coverage is really poor around these parts. Any info
  by European users on how to receive American TV channels other than CNN Int.
  , TNT Eur. and NBC Super Ch. is greatly appreciated. Rumors are that there
  are ways to pirate US Army TV and they are said to cover games live.

Q:Oh no! It said, my hard disk is corrupted. My dad's gonna kill me.
A:Dumbass.

Q:Are there other patches?
A:Look for alltime.zip on ftp.cdrom.com, with all-time greats for each team.

Q:Where do I get NBA-Ed 2?
A:FTP to ftp.cdrom.com or e-mail Jose de Leon, address ug93etc., see below.

Q:Who is Roy Black?
A:No, no, ask: Who WAS Roy Black? Tsshehheh!

Q:What about editing portraits, 95-96 season play, correct announcements and
  real courts and jerseys for the expansion teams?
A:NBA Live 96 will be released in, I guess, November. It will have all those
  features. (If you have NHL 96, NBA 96 will look about the same.)

Q:What do you really get if you multiply 6 by 9?
A:Uh, I dont'know, huh huh.

other questions and comments
----------------------------
General questions about the patch go to
  [e-mail]
Please send your comments about the legends league to Everett Fitzgerald,
  [e-mail]
For stuff related to NBA-Ed, ask Jose de Leon ([e-mail])
Jose also accepts gifts, especially nudes. If they have big tits, though, send
  them to me instead.
For general questions on NBA Live '95, check out the NBA Live '95 FAQ,
  available at ftp.netcom.com /pub/av/avatarx/faqs, ftp.cdrom.com and other
  places.
Complaints about DOS and Windoze go to [e-mail].

And now enjoy the game and always remember to rake at the Gates of hell.
Cheers, Lutz.