Fifafs — first tool to work with FIFA 11 files

We've managed to reverse .bh file format and hashing algorithm of new next-gen FIFA 11. So the first tool to support FIFA 11 Demo is… old-good Fifafs. Right now changes are minimal, just to allow hardcore patchmakers to get up and running with new FIFA. However more updates will follow, to make fifafs more friendly tool.  

We are going to share our knowledge with FIFA community and welcome others to share any useful info with us too :-)

You can’t always get what you want…

Fate has always been putting up obstacles in front of us. A derby day coinciding with your girlfriends’s mother arrival from world cruise or favourite TV series season premiere happening the very same Tuesday your friend has a party – what can you do when this happens?  

Solution to any of those problems suffers badly from drawbacks. Really, how can one judge whether it is better to be still drunk at work the morning after or miss the new House M. D. episode? Miss a derby that happens once a year or hear your girlfriend whining that you, yes you, a guy mad about football and various PC simulators, can’t even spend a few moments of his miserable life with her beloved mother? And how one can make such important decisions in his life when he has to cope with one game not letting him finish what he started, full of eager and hope?  

Fifasoccer.ru won’t save your relationship and won’t make you drunk while watching TV, freeing you from hangover the other day. However, it can remove a few obstacles that fate has put in your way in one of your favourite games. FIFA 09 Unlock Patch won’t pick a lock to your girlfriend’s heart, but will let you keep on doing season and tournament modes as long as you want even without EA account activated. Moreover, it doesn’t suffer from hangover after patch and will let you freely install all the official updates. Combined with a weight of tiny 0.2 Mb, you get a must-have tool, so handy in the life full of parties and relatives’ arrivals. 

You can’t always get what you want. But if you click sometimes, you will find you get what you need. ;)

FIFA 09 Demo downsized

As we said before, we have a tradition here, in Russia, on fifasoccer.ru.  

Every year (sometimes twice a year) EA Sports releases a demo of FIFA Series game. Usually that demo is quite big, like 500, 600, 700 or even 800 MB. Then we take it and make some magic, reducing its size in 3, 4, 5 or even 8 times.  

How we do it? We remove files which are not needed to play a game (keeping same graphics and details level like original demo).  

Why we do it? There are some places on earth where internet connection and traffic costs big money, especially in Russia. Also connection can be very-very sloooow.  

So the result is rebuilded FIFA 09 demo — FIFA 09 Demo Resized Edition. It's only 164 MB now, reduced in about 4.5 times. Yes, reduced by about 600 MB. As a bonus, we pulled up difficulty level and set control keys like they were in FIFA 08.

FIFA 09 Demo Keyboard Patch

EA Sports made a strange decision to redefine control keys in FIFA 09 Demo.

Our decision now is to release small automatically installing patch (90Kb) that will return keyboard controls to FIFA 08 style.

FIFA 09 Demo Keyboard Patch — download, run and in second you will get «A» as sliding tackle again, «E» as sprint, etc

FIFA 09 Demo is out today…

And new version of FifaFS tool is out 4 hours later after we got demo. We marked it ALPHA release, because it's not tested very well. However, full FAT rebuilding produces the same fifa.fat as original one. That means, you can do changes to zdata files and FAT will be rebuilded correctly for 09 version. If you noticed any bugs, feel free to write to admin@fifasoccer.ru or even better to our feedback page.  

Attention, default game type in fifafs is changed to fifa09demo.
 

P.S.  

FIFA 09 Demo is available here or here. Also, we've made some FIFA 09 Demo screenshots for those who don't like downloading without viewing first.

fifaFS raises its head again

When another FIFA Series game is coming out, it's time to update fifafs tool. Luckily, fifafs based on solid framework developed in years (not .NET Framework of course, he-he ;)), so update takes about an hour.  

So meet first tool for UEFA 08 — fifafs 5.1.20 beta :)  

P.S. Be aware: In EURO 08 Demo fifa.fat renamed to file.fat. Fifafs 5.1.20 is set to work with EURO 08 Demo by default. Thus, to apply 5.1.20 to older games, use «-gametype=xxx» option.

UEFA EURO 2008 Demo Repacked Edition

In Russia we have tradition (on our web-site mostly). Every year EA Sports releases one or two demos of football simulator game and we take and «just remove everything that doesn't look like demo»  

The result is usually comes as reducing demo in 2-3 times in size.  

This time is not an exclusion — UEFA EURO 2008 Demo Repacked Edition that is only 160 Mb

FAT-fix go in public

The only possible solution to beat FAT limitation is (unfortunately) fixed fifa08.exe.  

So here it is — FIFA 08 unlimited FAT fix.