TheRareButter wrote:There are 644 files in both the 08 and 12 ANIMDATA, I wonder if the files were simply swapped into 08's ANIMDATA as a template only type thing if it would work. If that works then maybe even NCAA animations could be added into Madden.
Good to know. That's why it doesn't crash, because it has the same # of files. When you have a different # of files that's typically when DATs crash the game, at least in certain DATs for NCAA 06 PS2 / NCAA 08 PS2.
I think with the ANIMDATA.DAT situation for Madden 08 PC / Madden 12 PS2, they probably just updated a lot of those files, maybe "expanded" certain animations (files within the DAT) while keeping the number of animations the same. Probably the file size of many of the files in that .DAT are different, maybe larger in Madden 12 PS2's ANIMDATA.DAT which is why you're seeing new animations. They just probably replaced the old ones with newer, smoother, better looking, maybe in some cases longer animations.
As far as possibly adding NCAA animations into Madden, or vice versa, that's something I'm very interested in testing. It may not work though. I'll take a look at NCAA 06/08's ANIMDATA.DAT, I bet NCAA PS2 has a different number of files than 644. That doesn't mean certain files wouldn't be compatible with one another but we would have to do a detailed comparison between the two .DATs to see if we can find any similarities that would tell us which animation (file/slot#) from Madden would relate to which one from NCAA. I know that NCAA has some different gameplay/animation features than Madden like that test of strength tackling mini-game in NCAA that sometimes happens when tackling a RB, when you have to mash the X button to determine if the RB gets tackled or if he breaks the tackle. That animation would probably cause Madden to crash
One thing I'm very interested in is trying to get Madden PS2's sidelines into NCAA. Because Madden PS2's sidelines have a lot more players than NCAA's sidelines. If in fact the # of players on the sidelines is in ANIMDATA.DAT then maybe we can find the file from Madden 12 PS2 and try getting those Madden sidelines into NCAA 06.