re: Teams disappearing in NCAA 09 and other glitches (WTF)

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the gameplay wasn't that bad last year on the ps2

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The poor AI pursuit angles ruined the gameplay last year.

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On a side note.... the "disappearing teams" glitch seems to come from this:
When inputting player names, some players have names that are longer than 11 characters. Last year, 11 was the limit. This year, the limit to how long the names can be is 13. The theory is, when you put in names with more than 11 characters, the database can't handle it and starts to make room for it by removing other info. Unfortunately, this is as extreme as entire teams being deleted.

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How ridiculous is that?

Reading this OS thread is just depressing.
When will EA finally get it right?!?

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Then again...I havent found the need to edit the rosters I downloaded.

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Yeah, they seem to work fine as long as you do not edit them. Someone told me that the pastapadre guy took the rosters out of his locker, can you confirm that for me? If he did, would you mind putting yours in a locker for people on TD.com to grab them?

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Someone told me that the pastapadre guy took the rosters out of his locker, can you confirm that for me?

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I will post the answer to this as soon as I get back from work. I already planned on putting the rosters in my locker regardless for my friends to download.....and obviously anyone else who chooses to do so. Gamertag: kdawg219

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Someone told me that the pastapadre guy took the rosters out of his locker, can you confirm that for me?

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His roster is no longer available for download. I just uploaded mine so anyone can download it.

kdawg219 = gamertag

Spread the word

I've also had the game for a few days and I did some LSU edits based off of Pastapadre's base file. You are free to use it, but I wouldn't recommend editing more than one or two other teams. Also, the EA designer said that editing any player on a team will count as the whole team being edited in the game's database, so keep that in mind. As long as you don't edit it too much, things should work fine for all facets of the game. The sign that you've done too much is if FIU, FAU and/or WKU disappear out of the team database.

360 Gamertag is Geauxlden

I posted this on Operation Sports to help out one of the roster editors who will improve on FK's base roster:

QB
#3 Jordan Jefferson changed to #9

HB
#28 RJ Jackson changed to FB Stevan Ridley #34 RFR 5-11 209

FB
#55 Kellen Theriot changed to LOLB. (Scout.com listed him as a FB, but he enrolled early and only played LB in the spring. May eventually move to MLB)

WR
#80 Terrance Toliver's class is wrong he should be listed as Soph
#89 DeAngelo Benton changed to #19 DeAngelo Peterson 6-3 195
#6 Chris Tolliver will wear #21

TE
#82 Richard Dickson switched to #18 in the spring
#41 Jordan Corbin (took hardship waiver, won't play any longer) changed to #83 Mitch Joseph RFR 6-5 240 medium skin if you care about that
#83 Matt Branch is actually (looking at height/weight) #46 Tyler Edwards

LT
#76 Jarvis Jones moved to RT where he's battling for starting job

LG
#77 Earnest McCoy moved to 2nd string LT
#64 Matt Allen (Transferred to aTm) changed to #60 Will Blackwell RFR 6-4 293

C and RG are good as is

RT
#66 Max Holmes (Transferred somewhere D-1aa) changed to #75 Greg Shaw true FR 6-5 285 change skin to dark

LE
#94 Chancey Aghayere will wear #81

RE
#90 Ricky Jean-Francois should be toprated DT he started and dominated from that position in both SEC and BCS championship games
#95 Chase Clement will wear #88 and has light skin not dark

DT
#97 Al Woods is this year's Brandon Graham or whoever it was that EA had rated as a 99. He should be the #4 DT at best behind #'s 90,99, and 91.

LOLB
#52 Ace Foyil is actually the #3 MLB

MLB
#30 Ryan Baker will wear #22 and play ROLB

ROLB
#50 Kyle Prater will wear #57
#17 Shomari Clemons is actually a LOLB

CB
#45 Patrick Johnson will wear #7
#33 Tyson Andrus (no longer listed on roster) changed to #25 Phelon Jones RFR 5-11 195
#28 Brandon Taylor will wear #15
I created 2 RFR who at the very least will see back up time and contribute in the return game:
#13 Ron Brooks 5-11 180 medium skin from Dallas, TX
#31 John Williams 5-11 175 medium skin from Breaux Bridge, La
Brooks is a little bit ahead of Williams

FS
#41 Karnell Hatcher will wear #37, either he or #23 Stefoin Francois needs to be switched to SS

I just read that EA is recommending people not use pastapadres rosters because they act like a virus and they asked him to pull them from his locker