GAfootballfanatic Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 There's a whole bunch of rivalries on this game that are incorrect. Some I'm willing to take a chance with, but others I wish to change. How do I do that? And please give me the exact step by step process to do so. I am very new at this!!! Also, how do I add a team to a conference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappy Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 First, back up your pstats.dat folder. I just zipped mine, so if I need it back I can just unzip the original on top of my edited one. Assuming you have MS Access, open the program files folder, then the GDS folder, then the Bowl Bound folder. Right click on the pstats.dat file, and then click on "open with". Choose MS Access from the list of programs. Open the table entitled "teams". Each team has a number in the first field. The team number in the rival column is the team the game as assigned as the rival. Just change the number to the number of the correct team, and that's really all there is to it. I have noticed that they won't work unless they are in week 15. So, for example, don't try to put the Miami-FSU game as a week 1 rivalry matchup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAfootballfanatic Posted December 7, 2005 Author Share Posted December 7, 2005 hmm, I keep getting a message saying that C:/programs folder/GDS/Bowl Bound College football/pstats.dat is not a valid win32 program. I have the 97 version of access. What version do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappy Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 You may need to change the extension to .mdb first, then change it back to .dat after editing. I'm using the newest Access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomerSimpson98 Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Chappy, Ive done a little playing, and it appears you can make certain teams play in Week 1 that are out of conference rivalries. For example, Colorado and Colorado State generally play each other the 1st game for each team. Within pstats, what I've done is make them rivals, but make the Rivalry Week set to zero. Then go into the SchedMatch DB and insert the team ids (30 and 73). When a new league is created, the game will be played first. I also did this with Iowa/Iowa State and Louisville/Kentucky. They play in Week 1. Just an fyi . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlie Rahn Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 HS98 is right with one caveat. They do not need to be rivals to get the scheduled game. You can schedule any game between any two non-conference foes in the SchedMatch table. As an example, South Bend is setup to play Michigan, USC and Purdue in that table (even though none are their rivals). From a scheduling AI standpoint here's the order the game schedules: 1. Conference games. 2. rival game (does not need to be in the schedmatch table) 3. Schedmatch table games. So, once a team reaches 12 games in that above logic, it quits trying to schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAfootballfanatic Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Arlie Rahn, how do I convert .dat files to .mdb files? On older computers, I knew how to do it. but from '97 office on, I do not know how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAfootballfanatic Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 let me change that from Arlie Rahn to anyone. Anybody know how to convert a .dat to a .mdb file? I can convert .dat to a text file, but that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azamien Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 No need to convert AKAIK. Just rename it with the extension being .mdb instead of .dat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azamien Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Although, after opening the file myself in Access 2003, I don't think Access '97 will open it no matter what the extension is. It's in the 2000 file format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Plum Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 I would use open office as an free alternative to access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAfootballfanatic Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 Uh, what's open office??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 [url]http://www.openoffice.org/[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlie Rahn Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 [QUOTE=GAfootballfanatic]Arlie Rahn, how do I convert .dat files to .mdb files? On older computers, I knew how to do it. but from '97 office on, I do not know how.[/QUOTE] the .dat file is in .mdb format. You just need a version of MS Access 2000 or higher to read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAfootballfanatic Posted December 14, 2005 Author Share Posted December 14, 2005 [QUOTE=Tim Plum]I would use open office as an free alternative to access.[/QUOTE] Tim, have you ever taken a really good look at that program and the features? It's almost identical to MS Office. sheesh, I feel extremely stupid for even downloading it!! I deleted that program and everything I could find related to that download!!! Microsoft will probably have Sun Microsystems shut down for this (not to mention legal proceedings (ala the rcaa and napster) against the downloaders as well). Arlie Rahn, I should have waited for your reply so I could have listened to you. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk9827 Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Maybe I missed somethng here -- what exactly is wrong with Open Office? Granted, the Open Office version of Access, is still rather immature, but honestly, Access as a programming IDE leaves a lot to be desired as well. Not that it doesn't do the job -- rather it allows a person so many ways to accomplish certain tasks that from trying to maintain the code can be a real chore -- especially when dealing with code written by people not versed in the basics of relational databases. Anyhow, Open Access works. You can edit those databases no problem with it. The only real downside to Open Office, from what I've seen, is that it is a bit of a resource hog. Anyhow, Base will allow you to edit the rivalries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAfootballfanatic Posted December 14, 2005 Author Share Posted December 14, 2005 Do you remember the old Napster conflict? I fear that Open Office will be headed the same direction... I'll just copy the pstats file onto a disc, take it up to a local college's computer lab, edit the rivalries in the lab, and then take it back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mh2365 Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Off topic but about editing ... is it possible to edit the colors of the type ... When I'm Purdue that white on gold is pretty hard to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azamien Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 [QUOTE=GAfootballfanatic]Do you remember the old Napster conflict? I fear that Open Office will be headed the same direction... I'll just copy the pstats file onto a disc, take it up to a local college's computer lab, edit the rivalries in the lab, and then take it back home.[/QUOTE] If that were the case, Microsoft would've been sued by Corel for stealing [i]their[/i] office suite. Just because it's similar doesn't mean it's in violation of law. Open Office has been around for awhile now, and I'm sure MS is quite aware of it. And even if there was a lawsuit coming, that's no reason to hastily uninstall it and chastise the person that linked it. They won't come after [i]you[/i]. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Kaputnik Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 [QUOTE=Azamien]If that were the case, Microsoft would've been sued by Corel for stealing [i]their[/i] office suite. Just because it's similar doesn't mean it's in violation of law.[/QUOTE] Not to mention the fact that pMS Windows is a copy of Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 This could be the silliest worry I've ever heard. What could possibly be illegal about OpenOffice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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