Michael Jordan: I have just heard that Michael Jordan will not in Live 2005. Not much of a problem since most of us can and will create him.

NOTE: I've replaced blogger comments with haloscan. You can now comment with a nickname and not just as Anonymous.

Nba Live 2005 All-Star Week-end: Want a closer look at Live 2005 All-Star Week-end. Hands on experience by gamerankings.

Cover of Nba Live 2005: Carmelo Anthony, Tony Parker, and Pau Gasol will be on the covers of NBA LIVE 2005. C. Anthony will appear on NBA LIVE games distributed in North America. Parker and Gasol will appear on packaging in France and Spain.

Make computer shot more mid-range shots: From the poll, it seems that few people think that computer takes too many 3’s. Well, there is actually a glitch with the game that few people actually noticed. I didn’t realize it until about 3 months of playing. But once I found out, it just annoyed the hell out of me. Here is what it does.

Computers don’t take many 3’s if they are leading but once you lead, they will throw up 3’s to try to catch up or to take the lead. Most of the time computer usually makes them, putting them back on top so no one ever really noticed it if the score shifts back and forth. But once you led and consistently lead, you will notice that computer will just keep shooting 3’s until they catch up. Once you realized this, you can just guard computer really tight on the 3-point line, their 3 point % will dramatically decrease and you will easily beat them. Don’t believe me, play a game and watch what computer does once you lead. 90% of the time they will shot a 3. If you consistently lead, they will just keep shooting 3’s. If you played a quarter where you led most of the time, check the shooting display, you will noticed that more than 50% of the shots taken in that quarter by computer are 3’s.

Solution: It took me 3 months to find the solution to this problem. What you have to do is change players' shooting range from 25 to 24. This doesn’t affect their 3-point rating. This will cause computer to take more mid-range shots and take 3’s only when they are open. This means you, the user have to worry about computer taking mid range shots and not just the 3’s, adding more realistic playing. The bad thing is that the game doesn’t allow you to edit shooting range so you have to do it with DB commander.

How to Get Charlotte into Dynasty/Season Mode. Someone asked me why NBA Live even put Charlotte in the game when you can’t even play them. I decided to add a link with directions on how to get Charlotte into the game. I’m not sure why Charlotte was in the game, probably for endorsement or advertisement purposes.

Transfer new players to your current roster: Tired of spending so much time creating new players? Well, there are people who has done all the work and all you got to do is transfer them over. Using DB Commander and the help of NLSC, this can be easily done and will save you a lot of time.

Directions:
1) Download updated roster patches from NLSC
2) Before installing patches, move your current roster elsewhere, eg. Move your saved files out of nba live 2004 folder and place them somewhere else because installing patches may replace your current ones
3) Be sure to move your current roster back after updated roster patches has been installed, if files have the same name, rename them
4) Open up DB commander
5) Open your current saved roster on left side of DB commander; eg. Go to file/open/left/my documents/nba live 2004/saves/000/players.dbf
6) Open up updated roster on right side of DB commander; eg. Go to file/open/right/my documents/nba live 2004/saves/001/players.dbf
7) Transfer players from new roster to your current roster by highlighting the players that you want in the new roster patches and click the 5th tool bar, “Transfer selected record over”

Edit things that aren’t editable in the game: DB Commander is a database utility. In simple usage for NBA Live, you can use it to edit .dbf files. This allows you to edit certain things that you’re not able to edit in the game, eg. Players’ name, years in the NBA, etc.

Directions:
1) Download 30 day free trial from DB Commander and follow direction to install it.
2) Open up DB commander
3) Go to file, open, left or right
4) Locate .dbf files that you would like to edit, eg. Players info by locating my documents/nba live 2004/saves/000/players.dbf

Refer to resources from right side bar of NLSC to determine what each category means. To save changes, just close DB commander. Changes will appear after you reload your save files in the game.