The Retro FIFA Discussion Thread (All FIFA games by EA are welcome!)

[TheKusanagiBlade]

Oh, hello there. I ran into this thread trying to find functional links for long-forgotten tools for games of yesterday.
(read: I got back into FIFA 2003 (!!) and I'm trying to mod it - I actually have been having ideas for modding the older FIFAs, up until 2005 at least, for a while now - , but I read there was this tool called FCDB XP 2003 that can do stuff the officially-released Creation Center cannot do, but I can't seem to find it even on FIFA Korea, which has always been my go-to site for such long-forgotten tools as they always had them even after Filefront started cleaning house. Soooo... Does anyone, by chance, still have it floating around? Or any of the CC updates, for that matter? I managed to find CC 1.0 but it's rather limited).

EDIT: Never mind, I managed to get them. FIFA Korea was going through one of their downtimes when I wrote that... Either that or somehow it's easier to download through my phone than the computer (I uploaded the files to Google Drive so I could pick them up on the PC). Either way, I'm trying everything out to see what I can do.

EDIT 2:
So I started modding FIFA 2003 with FCDB XP, and I'm making some headway here.


My final objective is changing the teams composition (not all of them, just a few leagues, NTs and completing the Brazilian League), but so far covering one of the most glaring omissions the game shipped with has made me optimistic (this kit was all me).

 

[TheKusanagiBlade]

BUMP because this is good enough that I needed to share.
Went a bit further with FCDBXP and added two more of the teams that I wanted:


Still need to figure out the menu things (logos and minikits), but so far so good. Seems like I can work it better than Creation Centre.

 

[Yosefus99]

how did you add Japan in it ? I know there's a DB file in fifakorea site but it felt it was made by another person? , I can sense it's the original database of Japan and Holland hidden in the game how did you do that ? Thanks

 

[Eb.bela1125]

FIFA 21 PS5 is kind of a hidden gem. Last game before hypershit ruined animations and dribbling, and the DMF AI wasn’t nearly as bad as FIFA 21 PS4

 

[Topaz]

Yeah FIFA 21 and FIFA 20 i would even say is better than FIFA 19(which was too easy to exploit the CPU), FIFA 18(way too fast and easy to score goals). I have created mods for playing FIFA 21 and it has a very good base. The CPU always very realistic football where they take tactics into account and not just ping pong their way into the goal(introduced in FIFA 22) and they also cross. FIFA 21 is very underrated. The main issue is positioning in FIFA 21 but you can easily fix it with mods and sliders.

 

[TheKusanagiBlade]

how did you add Japan in it ? I know there's a DB file in fifakorea site but it felt it was made by another person? , I can sense it's the original database of Japan and Holland hidden in the game how did you do that ? Thanks

I made the kits and most of the players from scratch (only Hide Nakata, Inamoto and Ono were in the game) on FCDB XP, using PES 2/WE 6 as a basis. Same for Holland (where I only needed to create Frank de Boer, who was not in the game despite being one of Barcelona's key players at the time). I didn't download any patch from there because I want to make my own thing in FIFA, separate from what others had done (might just pick up kits to speed things up, though).
The good thing of FCDB XP is that it actually lets you put more teams in the leagues - CC doesn't allow you to do that even if it looks like it does. I just couldn't put in their UI elements (badges and minikits), and I'm having trouble working the Raptors to manage that.