Stupid Question from a Newbie - Unfaking.

devils fan#1 · Post by **devils fan#1** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:57 pm

Hey All,

Apologies in advance for what is probably a very stupid question. What is the Unfaking patch that people keep mentioning on here? What does it do? How does it enhance the game? Where can it be downloaded from?

Post by **archibalduk** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:47 pm

It corrects all of the fake names in the game to their real life counterparts, e.g. it renames the AAL leagues to the UHL and CHL. It also corrects team and player names. To see the changes, you have to start a new game. It doesn't affect saved games.

This guide explains how to install databases.

The Unfaking Database can be downloaded here: LINK

devils fan#1 · Post by **devils fan#1** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:14 pm

Thanks dude. I dont know what part i am doing wrong, but i've tried it several times now. Everytime i start up a new game, the leagues still show as AAL3-4 etc, so i cant be doing it right

Post by **archibalduk** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:01 pm

Are you putting the files directly into the database folder? It shouldn't create any subfolders within that folder.

Post by **archibalduk** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:17 am

devils fan#1 wrote:Dont know what i'm doing wrong. I downloaded winzip, that was fine, and i download the database, also fine. Thats where i get lost. It doesnt come up with the same screenshots as your guide. I've never had to use winzip before, so i dont know if i'm unzipping the files into the wrong location or something.

Try following these instructions exactly:

1) Copy the ZIP file to your desktop

2) Right-click on the ZIP and drag it to another part of the desktop (you need to keep the right-mouse button clicked down whilst you do this).

3) Let go of the right-mouse button whilst your mouse pointer is on top of the desktop. You should then see a menu appear like the one below:

4) Find the WinZip section of the menu and click on 'Extract to here' (you can see it in the screenshot above).

5) This will create a new folder on your desktop called 'database'.

6) Double-click on the 'database' folder. You will see the contents of this folder displayed in a window:

7) Open My Computer and go to the folder where EHM 2005 is installed. Then go to the 'data' folder and then the 'database' folder. In other words, you want a window displaying the contents of EHM 2005's 'database' folder.

8) You should now have two windows open: One of EHM 2005's 'database' and the other of the Unfaking 'database':

9) Select all the files in the Unfaking 'database' folder so that they are all highlighted (see the screenshot above).

10) Left-click on one of the highlighted files and drag it to EHM 2005's window. This should mean that all of the files in the Unfaking 'database' folder are dragged across.

11) Let go of the left-mouse button whilst it is over the EHM 2005 'database' window.

12) A window should pop-up asking whether you want to overwrite all of the files. Click on 'Yes to all':

13) Start a new game of EHM.

Have you figured it out now?

grazza · Post by **grazza** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:11 pm

Does that unfake DB work on top on version 2.1.3 ?, as when it was made it was 2.1.2 that was out.

hluraven · Post by **hluraven** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:43 pm

Yes it does, as 2.1.3 didn't change the database

Post by **Alessandro** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:47 pm

Thanks to anyone who uses the unfaking or just explain other people how to play with it

devils fan#1 · Post by **devils fan#1** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:59 pm

I tried several more times, but still no luck. Did it exactly as outlined above, but the files that are replacing the current database show the same date. However, when i start a new game, the leagues are still called AAL-3 etc, and the Arena names are still all the same

Post by **Minstrel** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:13 pm

The only other possible thing I can think of is to remove you .dam files but honestly I have no idea if that will work. If you want to give it a shot copy all files ending in .dam from your database folder and store them somewhere else as a backup. The game should rebuild/recreate those files for you when you next start up your game; I vaguely remember someone having a similar problem when we made a big db upgrade during testing and I think that was the solution that finally worked for him... but, I don't know what your actual result will be so make sure you keep the files you remove in this process so you can restore them if it causes you problems.

Post by **archibalduk** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:13 pm

This is really strange

All I can suggest is downloading the Unfaking patch once again or perhaps Smetana's.