rockstrongo
Retired Footballer
Yeah I get that you may have different view on these games if you play local multiplayer.
Fore as a ML player I think 12 was very underrated.
PES 2014 Appreciation Thread
- Thread starter Chris Davies
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Fore as a ML player I think 12 was very underrated.
SirConnery
Conference
- 18 September 2019
I guess I'm comparing the modded Pes 2020 to a modded Pes 2014. Meaning modded gameplay. Firstly, the 2020 Klashman tactics make a huge difference. Secondly, use this gameplay mod from Gabe.Paul.Logan. I can't really play either game unmodded.
Link https://www.mediafire.com/file/4k4nt6agm84nysa/GAB_GP_NEW-V4.rar/file
Thread https://evo-web.co.uk/threads/new-gameplay-with-dt18_all-cpk.80757/page-198
For 2014 the catchup removal makes the game much better. There used to be a good gameplay mod for it as well that fixed the unresponsive dribbling. Tbh I can't really compare the vanilla games too much since I've played them with mods most of the time.
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Having spoken to the other mods about this...
Firstly - we do not advocate piracy of any currently available titles. Forum rules state this pretty clearly. If a game is available to purchase legally (excluding second-hand sales as these don't benefit the publishers / developers anyway), we will not allow discussion on how or where to illegally download those games, nor how to bypass their copy protection, nor any similar subject matter other than general discussion and (of course) modding discussion.
However - as is the case with "classic" titles like PES5 & PES6, as those games are no longer for sale, and this is a enthusiasts' community where we look back through all previous PES games for retro-lovin' reasons, we do allow discussion of these games, including posts containing non-site-hosted links where you can download these older games, and any necessary "no-DVD" EXE files in order to allow modded content to appear in the game. These games are considered "abandonware" (where the publisher no longer distributes the titles for sale, and where the developer no longer supports those titles, and has turned off the servers for necessary data-pack downloads and online play).
With that in mind... For anyone who would like to install the game on PC and have a play around with it...
I've uploaded PES 2014 to a Google Drive, so nobody has to go through dodgy links to find it - click here to access it.
To install - download the ZIP, extract the files, mount the ISO (in Windows 10 you just right-click and click "mount").
Then go to Windows Explorer (the "folders" icon), go to the virtual CD drive it's created (called PES2014) and run setup.exe from there.
It will ask you for an install key at some point, which is included in a text file in the folder.
Once installed, and a mod patch is installed, a modded EXE will likely replace the original and you should no longer need the disc to be mounted - at which point, you can right-click on the virtual drive and click "eject" to unmount whenever you're done with it.
Then:
If you want to get stadiums working with the Fire Patch:
To remove catch-up issues (and increase individuality):
Have fun - and upload some videos if you enjoy your time with it!
Firstly - we do not advocate piracy of any currently available titles. Forum rules state this pretty clearly. If a game is available to purchase legally (excluding second-hand sales as these don't benefit the publishers / developers anyway), we will not allow discussion on how or where to illegally download those games, nor how to bypass their copy protection, nor any similar subject matter other than general discussion and (of course) modding discussion.
However - as is the case with "classic" titles like PES5 & PES6, as those games are no longer for sale, and this is a enthusiasts' community where we look back through all previous PES games for retro-lovin' reasons, we do allow discussion of these games, including posts containing non-site-hosted links where you can download these older games, and any necessary "no-DVD" EXE files in order to allow modded content to appear in the game. These games are considered "abandonware" (where the publisher no longer distributes the titles for sale, and where the developer no longer supports those titles, and has turned off the servers for necessary data-pack downloads and online play).
With that in mind... For anyone who would like to install the game on PC and have a play around with it...
I've uploaded PES 2014 to a Google Drive, so nobody has to go through dodgy links to find it - click here to access it.
To install - download the ZIP, extract the files, mount the ISO (in Windows 10 you just right-click and click "mount").
Then go to Windows Explorer (the "folders" icon), go to the virtual CD drive it's created (called PES2014) and run setup.exe from there.
It will ask you for an install key at some point, which is included in a text file in the folder.
Once installed, and a mod patch is installed, a modded EXE will likely replace the original and you should no longer need the disc to be mounted - at which point, you can right-click on the virtual drive and click "eject" to unmount whenever you're done with it.
Then:
If you want to get stadiums working with the Fire Patch:
To remove catch-up issues (and increase individuality):
Have fun - and upload some videos if you enjoy your time with it!
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MadbaLL
Interista per sempre!
fair enough @Chris Davies 
Tinker
Premiership
- 23 April 2008
- Juventus
Finally PES 2014 is getting some love. I played that game the whole year, purely due to gameplay and all the progressive things that were introduced then. Remember being surprised it was so universally refuted by the community, while now we would probably start salivating if Konami even announce returning to the more sim direction that they tried back then.
Thanks Chris, definitely going to give this a go having never played this version.
Oh man thanks for this, I was just too lazy to hunt around for shady files and install in my pc. Ill give this a go today. Did the catch up bug tool work? I hope it feels better than the demo, which to be honest after a few games I just uninstalled. Will try play with latest patch to see if increased responsiveness
Camaldinho
Cam
- 20 February 2019
Hi. I have tested the catch-up tool and it works fine, also it describes a 'player individuality' which I have noticed with players like Tevez, you are able to get past players well with his pace and strength.
I have PES 2014 on disk, So Installation is likely to be the same if you download PES 2014 from above...
To install
Run the Tool
Click open and find your original exe and press open
Now back to the tool and click patch
Go back to your original PES 2014 directory and you should have two exe files. One called pes2014 and pes2014 without CATCHUP
Go ahead and delete the original PES 2014 and rename the new exe to 'pes2014' so that your patch has no problems booting up the exe
And you're done
incas36
International
- 4 November 2015
Thanks @Chris Davies I'm very interested in this Pes .
Madmac79
Champions League
- 11 September 2006
I've ended up reinstalling it, with all the patch updates (not the DPs tho, never had much confidence with the dpfilelist things, might try later).
I've always put this title aside mostly for the meager content (the no rain thing always bothered me to no end) and for the fact it had that marked catch up bug and other issues, but I must say it's a nice breath of fresh air. The flow of the game is fantastic. Got two penalties in the same match (AFC Champions League):
Even tho I somehow managed to fail them both.(EDIT: I realized I picked the wrong second clip which was just a funny collision and deleted the second penalty I wanted to show
. RIp, you'll have to take my word for it 
)
Regarding AI, I'm seeing such good things. For example here:
The first a very nice goal AI did to me, that it's kinda what is missing from for example 19 and 20.. the forward guy feint and completely surprised me by pointing to the center, finishing with a nice curling shot in the low corner. The second, a low free kick try by CPU (I'd like to be corrected but thinking about this last years I haven't seen one in such a long time).
Then the last one, that made think about the Reus play Chris posted pages before:
The CPU guy keeping ball and "looking" at the side, only to suddenly try a Pirlo-like central through ball. Lovely.
If I had to say the thing that bothers me the most on the field, is the fact first touch error is very hard to see at all with the default stats, maybe even cause there was the tendency of setting the most of them upwards, even in minor teams like the AFC ones. Just to test waters I lowered all to forty thanks to the global editor and for the single match I did it looked better, might be worth to experiment a bit with it (and not only with ball control.. I bet with a through review of stats, this game would shine even more).
I've always put this title aside mostly for the meager content (the no rain thing always bothered me to no end) and for the fact it had that marked catch up bug and other issues, but I must say it's a nice breath of fresh air. The flow of the game is fantastic. Got two penalties in the same match (AFC Champions League):
Even tho I somehow managed to fail them both.(EDIT: I realized I picked the wrong second clip which was just a funny collision and deleted the second penalty I wanted to show
. RIp, you'll have to take my word for it )Regarding AI, I'm seeing such good things. For example here:
The first a very nice goal AI did to me, that it's kinda what is missing from for example 19 and 20.. the forward guy feint and completely surprised me by pointing to the center, finishing with a nice curling shot in the low corner. The second, a low free kick try by CPU (I'd like to be corrected but thinking about this last years I haven't seen one in such a long time).
Then the last one, that made think about the Reus play Chris posted pages before:
The CPU guy keeping ball and "looking" at the side, only to suddenly try a Pirlo-like central through ball. Lovely.
If I had to say the thing that bothers me the most on the field, is the fact first touch error is very hard to see at all with the default stats, maybe even cause there was the tendency of setting the most of them upwards, even in minor teams like the AFC ones. Just to test waters I lowered all to forty thanks to the global editor and for the single match I did it looked better, might be worth to experiment a bit with it (and not only with ball control.. I bet with a through review of stats, this game would shine even more).
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normazimuth
League 1
- 18 May 2013
There's a global stat editor? Cool. I've got this game on XBox360 (which clearly struggles as there's very obvious slow-down at times) but given Chris's post above about its availability as effectively abandonware, I'm tempted to try it on PC, particularly if modifying stats actually makes a difference. I get the feeling in recent PESs that many stats have no effect, whether set to 40 or 100.
It would also allow me to play it using my PS4 controller on PC (I hate the Xbox360 controller for PES).
Incidentally, really like the Pirlo-like AI play.
Madmac79
Champions League
- 11 September 2006
You can find the editor here:
https://www.moddingway.com/file/39622.html
As for how much does it make a difference to global edit.. truly can't say for now. Unfortunately any single Pes game after 2013 does have this very unstable and blurred relationship with stats. But in the end I think it's worth to re-try it anyway.
rockstrongo
Retired Footballer
Just the fact that Pirlo is in this game makes me happy.
(Btw I'm playing this on my PS3 controller which I hate and wished I had my 360 )
just gave the full game a try with patch 1.07. I saw some good things and movements from the AI. Some goals I scored felt really good. However, I felt the reaction times were still pretty slow (not as bad as demo; ie: I would have no one close to me before making a cross and by the time I pressed the button and the animation went thru, the AI would reach me from 10 ft behind.
It's not a bad game, it does play nice and has nice player movements (doing a 180 with the ball you can feel the momentum), I feel this game punishes you more than other PES for sprinting like a maniac. I don't know if I would start a ML in it now though but will try more games as I played right after playing '18 so it felt weird.
I've read people saying "why didnt Konami work off this game", but then how was 2015? Was it complete different? a bit more "arcady"? (honest question), I dont remember how it played but I think I felt it was an improvement over '14 but probably with more positioning/scripting issues which have prevailed for the last 5 years.
I can see why most people wouldnt like this game, its slow and a couple of my games played like a total drag... but then again that happens in real life
It's not a bad game, it does play nice and has nice player movements (doing a 180 with the ball you can feel the momentum), I feel this game punishes you more than other PES for sprinting like a maniac. I don't know if I would start a ML in it now though but will try more games as I played right after playing '18 so it felt weird.
I've read people saying "why didnt Konami work off this game", but then how was 2015? Was it complete different? a bit more "arcady"? (honest question), I dont remember how it played but I think I felt it was an improvement over '14 but probably with more positioning/scripting issues which have prevailed for the last 5 years.
I can see why most people wouldnt like this game, its slow and a couple of my games played like a total drag... but then again that happens in real life
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Why not 1.16 out of interest?
SirConnery
Conference
- 18 September 2019
2014 got so much backlash that 2015 was basically NHL with a football skin. And guess what? People loved it. "The king is back" etc.
Anth James
International
- 22 September 2017
Possibly dumb question, but how do I install each data pack as @Chris Davies said? Can I use current DP File List Generator or do I need an older version?
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That's the last DLC but you have to use the last EXE as well, or you won't get new gameplay (1.13 will be installed with the PESEdit patch, 1.16 will be installed with the others - both are identical except for the Road to World Cup mode only being available in 1.16).
You shouldn't need to touch DPFileList - unless you want to apply extra stadiums (which are included in the Fire Patch install anyway)!
If you're installing PESEdit 4.4 you just open the "all DPs plus EXEs" zip I mentioned in the instructions list earlier - then extract the files from each DP folder in order from 1.0 to 6.0, into your C:\ProgramData\Konami\Pro Evolution Soccer 2014\download folder.
Each one will overwrite a part of the last, don't worry about that. Then, you install PESEdit and it'll "top up" those DP files to 6.1, which is what it needs. (Ignore all the patch folders in that file that contain EXEs, they shouldn't be required.)
If, however, you're installing the Fire Patch one... You don't have to bother with the above at all.
You just download the Fire Patch DLC installer, install that to the same ProgramData folder I just mentioned, then install the Fire Patch install EXEs in order (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d and 6.1), pointing them at your PES install directory.
The Fire Patch seems to have more content - but it's also missing decent stadium assignments (and lots of stadium names) for the EPL and Championship, plus it's missing around half the international team logos for the menus.
The upside is that it's DP7 (i.e. Road to World Cup) compatible, with lots of added faces and extras (such as classic UEFA CL winning teams hidden in the Classic League section).
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Anth James
International
- 22 September 2017
Thanks man, got it working! Massive help.
Anth James
International
- 22 September 2017
I've just played a few games and what a breath of fresh air to see the pitch so compressed! 100x better than all the space and retreating we see on 2020 (2015+ to be honest). This change alone can make me forget about so many other shortcomings in a football game because you are required to THINK and pass your way up and down the pitch. Really enjoying it so far. The obsession with 'highlight' moments in modern offerings of football games is completely counter-intuitive in my opinion because they're just so common that they lose their appeal.
Camaldinho
Cam
- 20 February 2019
Agreed. There is much more emphasis on midfield battles in PES 2014, In PES 2020 I feel there's way too much space in the middle.
SiuMing
WEPES Collector / Modder
Thanks for the instruction and I just got the game installed on my PC also. I will play on both PC and PS3 platforms.
p.s. There are still some physical copies of PES 2014 in HK which can be installed. The physical copies seems came form Europe so I think there may be still some kinda legal ways to find it.
Matt10
International
- 5 February 2004
Allrighty then. I'll reinstall it! Thanks for the upload, mate.
robbieryan
I dream of occasional fanzine mentions
That's my work day sorted tomorrow!
rockstrongo
Retired Footballer
Took the advice from the Pes 20 thread and I'm using auto switching (cursor) and I feel it's more snappy and responsive that way,that half a second or what it takes to switch goes much better with it.
Might try +1 game speed to see if reactions gets better too
Might try +1 game speed to see if reactions gets better too
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Still having a great time with this. The dribbling response time is the biggest frustration, rather than any other input response time - but.
This game has truly reminded me (beyond reading the words in old reviews and not really registering them), why I used to play PES - you really do see something different every game (except for the hard-fought midfield battles that end 0-0 maybe, where nothing happens at all).
This morning before work, I put the game on while I was having breakfast, leaving the controller to one side. After a minute or so, the game goes into demo mode (AI vs AI).
Now I don't think I have EVER uploaded a clip of AI vs AI before - some people insist on playing full careers with the AI playing the game for them, and that boggles my mind (why wouldn't you play Football Manager instead, it's 100x deeper).
But I found myself glued to it - and again, it's something else that makes you realise just how well-developed the older games are. Another line from every classic PES review was "if you watch the AI, you'll learn something about how to play"...
(The blimp replay angle is the best one!)
This game has truly reminded me (beyond reading the words in old reviews and not really registering them), why I used to play PES - you really do see something different every game (except for the hard-fought midfield battles that end 0-0 maybe, where nothing happens at all).
This morning before work, I put the game on while I was having breakfast, leaving the controller to one side. After a minute or so, the game goes into demo mode (AI vs AI).
Now I don't think I have EVER uploaded a clip of AI vs AI before - some people insist on playing full careers with the AI playing the game for them, and that boggles my mind (why wouldn't you play Football Manager instead, it's 100x deeper).
But I found myself glued to it - and again, it's something else that makes you realise just how well-developed the older games are. Another line from every classic PES review was "if you watch the AI, you'll learn something about how to play"...
(The blimp replay angle is the best one!)
Topaz
Programmer/TheAwesomeGem
Hey Chris, what are the differences between the PC and PS3 version?
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I don't know that there are any really significant differences - response time is slightly better, and the frame rate of replays isn't a complete disgrace like it is on the PS3...
Plus you've got the mods of course, including the "eliminate catch-up bug" patcher. Which does make a difference. Not as big as you'd like, because the sluggish dribbling response times make it difficult to really burst past someone (although the "double-tap sprint" helps).
rockstrongo
Retired Footballer
Can be quite fun watching the game that way.
Wrote about Coach mode on Pes 20 yesterday in league mode (spoiler alert....it's shite).
Always a good way to check if the game is properly done