89-90 season (360 only)

[portlandblazer]

filename: 89-90 season

gamertag: portlandblazer

for transfer kit users: 89-90 season.z36 - 13.35MB

this roster took a damn long time to finish. i originally chose to do the 90 season because of the fact that the pistons, bulls, hawks and cavs were already complete and the 92 blazers, 91 lakers and 86 celtics had pretty much the same core players so i had a good head start but it still seemed to have taken forever.

anyway heres some things of note. i was torn over whether to use the current blazers since they have the correct retros or the 92 blazers since they have the correct shorts length and court design. i ultimately went with the 92 blazers slot.

i created a separate sonics, nets and bullets team, you can use which ever you want, they are identical other than the unis. the sonics unis look real nice, just like i did on 2k10, bullets are ok and i threw the nets on there last minute, at least the uni color matches the old school nets.

i usually throw in the all star teams for these season rosters but it doesnt allow you to pluck players off of the retro teams when creating a team. basically i was too lazy to trade all the players to current teams, and then trade back and redo all the rotations again. i think the roster itself should keep you occupied enough.

i found a workaround to those horrible nicknames on created players. i used the same glitch i use for renaming players and edited the nickname "dimes" and then gave that nickname to most of the caps so you wont hear "the bodyguard passes it to miracle man, stolen by mr. fundamentals!" instead the commentators mostly say nothing and occasionally will say "number 33"

as for the re-named players im really satisfied with the choices i made. most players have similar skin tones and hairstyle/color. im really disappointed though in the fact that a few random names in the database were lost, some of them very significant. barkley and miller are the biggest. davis, cooper and morris to name a few others. the strange thing is i didnt rename any players with these names. i found out way too late in the process that this happened and didnt even think to check because this didnt happen in 2k10. not a deal breaker by any means but its kinda lame that reggie miller is now "number 31" and chuck is "number 34". the only way i could check for something like this would be to play a game with every team and score with every player after every single rename i do (i think i did over 70). i was able to determine that changing daniel orton to randy white was what caused the name davis to disappear, i have no idea the correlation or why, so that tells you how random it is. theres also a few other strange occurrences with commentating where a renamed player will occasionally be called by their original name and sometimes random players will be sometimes called by their name and sometimes by number, hersey hawkins i noticed in the same game called hawkins and number 33. overall most names are in the database and this is one minor flaw in what i think is possibly my best roster to date.

i decided to just fill out the current teams that werent in use with all the top rated players so if you take this roster into association or season mode you wont have stars signing to random teams and ruining the retro experience. just make sure to customize the league properly. i also edited down the remaining players and the free agent list has a nice list of edited players with generic-ish names.

it wouldnt let me upload the file to 2kshare without changing vinny del negro so after you download it add the "o" on the "negr"

ive been using default sliders/allstar/simulation, the game is playing good to me, even better today after the patch. if anyone has any suggestions for sliders or tweeks that need to be made to the roster, feedback etc... appreciate it.

i have been having a blast playing with this the last few days. i made some nice playlists using rubens custom music to help the late 80s early 90s atmosphere. i added a few songs of my own and am continuing to add more here and there. i love the player of the game highlights, i usually re-play it 4 or 5 times lol. i just set my 1990 playlists up to "all arenas" each time i pop in the game and dont save my profile to avoid having to redo my current nba playlists.

no decision yet on what i will do next as far as rosters. i am contemplating jumping ahead to 99-00, maybe ill do some years in between after that but for right now im gonna take a break for maybe a few weeks and might start an 89-90 season or association, i havent really played association for real since 2k8.

ok, this post is long enough, go get it, enjoy!

[VDusen04]

Super duper. You. Are. TheMan.

[Perfect23]

Blazer, could you post the roster on here for Non Live users? It would be appreciated, thanks.

[randogu]

Excited to check this out......thanks for the effort!

[mkharsh33]

Nicely done!!

[sheredia]

great news, blaze......can't wait to try it out. all of your hard work is much appreciated. i'm sure the quality will be top notch as usual.

[nogster]

PB. could you explain the name change glitch and how you do it..?
I dont understand how you do it.

I know about the name change glitch when you sometimes export and load teams. but how do you manipulate that to change names of real players??

[portlandblazer]

Quote: Originally Posted by nogster

PB. could you explain the name change glitch and how you do it..? I dont understand how you do it. I know about the name change glitch when you sometimes export and load teams. but how do you manipulate that to change names of real players??

say you want to change dirk nowitzki into john doe. create a team and name the coach dirk nowitzki. take that team into association mode and export it. load up the roster in which you want the name change and also load up the exported team. go to edit team and change dirk nowitzki to john doe, exit and then you can delete the team. now dirk nowitzki will be john doe.

thats the basics of it. there are some things to keep in mind though. you want to try and use names with equal or more letters in both the first and last names. so say for instance you want to create a guy named john doe you need to use a player with at least 4 letters in the first name and 3 letters in the last name. 2k11 is a little more flexible in this regard, in 2k10 you would end up with random players though out the league with jumbled up names if you strayed from this but strangeness still occurs so try and stick by this rule if you can.

the other thing is if you change a name it is universal, meaning if you change a player like dorrell wright to john doe then brandan wright will brandan doe. or chris richard to john doe then richard jefferson will be doe jefferson.

if you plan on changing multiple players names then there can be quite a bit of thought involved. if you want i can post or pm you a list of players that are good candidates (meaning not so common names that likely wont cause other changes) along with their skin tone and amount of letters in their names. doing this really simplified the decision/searching process for compatible name changes.

one other thing i do is create the team i plan on exporting on a separate roster before taking it into association and exporting and then loading that team on a fresh create a team slot that hasnt had a coach named on it originally.

make sure to keep multiple roster saves during this process since you can run into some strange stuff and may need to go back to a previous save. doing 70+ name changes takes forever, once you have the exported team on file you can use it later for other rosters so name the exported team save as the name you gave the coach to make it easy to re-use or troubleshoot if needed.

after each name change you make, be sure to skim through your entire roster to see if any unwanted changes have occurred. they can be completely random and as i stated in the original post sometimes names get wiped from the commentators database and the only thing you can do to combat this is manually check each player in game by scoring with them after each name change which isnt practical so beware, this is a glitch afterall. getting around the cap limit to me outweighs 5 or 6 players being called by number rather than by name.

if you want to get rid of those stupid nicknames just do this glitch and give the coach the last name of a nickname like "dimes" and then change it to "D". then give dimes to all the players who you dont want to have a nickname.

let me know if you need any more help or advice or maybe if you have a transfer kit i can just upload a mem card save of all the exported teams with coach names i have so far.