bep713 / hc09-editor

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Documentation #1

Open gatywilliam opened 1 year ago

gatywilliam commented 1 year ago

It appears to have been over a year since this was project was last touched, so I don't have much hope for a response, but you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I just now found this editor from a forum post on FootballIdiot, and wanted to use it for Madden 22. I've already done a ton of work on these rosters, so no use buying 23.

Main question.... is there any kind of documentation for what the fields in the database actually mean in the game? Some of it is pretty obvious, and some other things I can figure out through looking at editor's the source code. But a lot of stuff, especially in the PLAY and TEAM tables (my two main concerns), are totally escaping me.

Any help here? Thanks!

bep713 commented 1 year ago

Hey @gatywilliam, great question! I have most of the player and stats tables documented (keep in mind this is for HC09 not Madden but they use similar columns):

HC09_DB_AttributeMapping (2).xlsx

Other than those tables/columns though, it's difficult to find information outside of trial and error. You can poke around Operation Sports for the EA DB Editor and definition files (they're just XML). Some of the tables & columns are documented there and you can get an idea of what some of the 4 letter abbreviations mean.