There is still a chance for you to get involved with the development of FIFA and TCM. Read below for details.
EA SPORTS are looking for football enthusiasts, who are interested in doing volunteer research work on a new football database which is currently being developed. This database will provide the data for EA's current range of football products (eg. the upcoming TCM 2004 and FIFA 2004).
We have had a great response so far, however are particularly needing researchers from the following countries: Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Finland and North and South Ireland.
If you are interested, please visit Soccer Gaming for full details and the application form you need to fill out.
We thank everyone who have sent in their applications so far. We're still sorting through them, and will be contacting people in the upcoming weeks. As I said, EA are very happy with the response and thank everyone who took the time to submit their application.
The eargerly awaited World League Patch is now officially available over at Soccer Access.
It features
Tango System that allows you to keep your FIFA 2003 with no changes. It's like a whole new game!
16 teams with top players from the following leagues:
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Spain, Italy, England, Benelux, Portugal, Sweden, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, Korea and USA
Great fantasy kits with fantastic Nike Numbers
New Flags and High Quality Adboards
New Intro and Celebration Cinematics
Boots (Nike)
Great Gameplay patch by Sameer Munot (Latest Version 5.3)
New Popups and Indicators
New Faces for top players
New Cameras
Incredible Music
Three Tournament styles
.... and much more!
Get on over to Soccer Access now to grab your copy of the most talked about Fifa 2003 Super Patch so far. Full details as always over with Sweetpatch and her Patches Database.
Over at World League they are hosting a FIFA 2003 online tournament. For those of you who have never heard of them, they are a Danish language site, and are currently looking for serious players for this competition. If you think you have what it takes click here and sign up.
I have been informed that the Pharaos patch will be released tomorrow. The patch will include:
All home and away kits for Egyptian League Teams (High Quality Kits)
All Mini kits for the 14 Teams
Great Adboards
Cool 4 Menus
The most accurate rosters (100%) with the correct numbers & names
Some Faces players with their Accessories
All Flags & Banners
Logos & Badges
Nile Sport (Scoreboard)
3 New Referee Kits
GK kit for Every Team
The Egyptian National Team With (Flags & Banners) & Kits (Home & Away & GK)
Roster update such as Oliver Kahn in (Germany), Ronaldo will be In (Brazil), Ahmed Hossam Mido will be in (Celta Vigo), Batistuta will be in (Inter Milan) and Ibrahim Said will be in (Everton)
Don't forget, EA SPORTS' are still actively seeking volunteer player database researchers for their upcoming football titles. Read all about it here and find out how you can help make games like FIFA 2004 and TCM 2004 an even more realistic experience.
Leo has more great news from his site Fifa Online. They have now released 2 new Chants Packs made by made by Cheva who found all the chants on the Internet. Here is a list of some of the chants:
Arsenal
Italy
Celtic
Bayern Munich
Valencia
Monaco
Juventus
Inter
Manchester United
Chelsea
and a whole lot more...
To check out the full list and to download these great patches go over to Fifa Online right away.
Shlomy is currently on his honeymoon in sunny Florida in the USA. As it is his birthday today, he has a present for us all - is that the right way around?
His first music patch for Fifa 2003 is the Champions League Theme Music which provides 2 new music files which will play at the end of each half.
Wish Shlomy a happy birthday by downloading his great new patch from Sweetpatch's Fifa 2003 Download Boutique.
Creation Centre Update - Chau Le To Program New Version
In undoubtedly the biggest news since the release of FIFA 2003 itself, EA Sports today announced that Chau Le, creator of the famous FEd FIFA Editors, would be in charge of producing an updated and vastly improved version of the Creation Centre for FIFA 2003.
Version 1.5 of the FIFA 2003 Creation Centre is scheduled for release in late April.
Chau Le has opened a special topic in the Creation Centre Forum at Soccer Gaming where you can post your requests for what you'd like to see fixed and/or added to version 1.5 of the Creation Centre.
We have just updated our Tips & Tricks section with five new user submitted tips and tricks for playing FIFA 2003. Included is a tricky, yet sometimes effective way of scoring from corners. We also tell you how to do a bicycle kick.
Leo, and the guys over at Fifa Online have released another great utility. This time they have published the Super Ball Installer. With this tool you can choose any ball out of 27! Included are balls for every Italian Serie A club as well as some others (Nike, Adidas, etc...).
Super Ball Installer
I suggest everyone go and pick this utility up as a good number of outstanding new balls have been released. Go over to Fifa Online to download the Super Ball Installer.
Bolzer Mike from FifaFX has released a couple new must have files for FIFA 2003.
FIFATV Primera División PopUp + HQS Adboards: The second great Xtension-Package for BMs FifaTV-MegaPopUp-Patch has been finished, the Spanish Primera División TV PopUps for Fifa 2003. Completed with all new high resolution quadro-size HQS-adboards, as well as new LFP menus, this Patch will bring the real Primera División feeling to your game. FifaTV and EPL-Extension are required before you can install this Patch.
FIFA 2003 CamPatch: Are you missing a camera that provides a full view on the pitch? Do you want to know where your forwards are BEFORE you make the long pass? Want to avoid offsides with better timing of your runs? Then you need this edited CamPatch which brings zoomed out PANORAMIC and zoomed out and lifted BROADCAST camera.
FIFATV Primera División PopUp and FIFA 2003 CamPatch
To see more screens and to downloads these new files click over to FifaFX.
Indianfootball.com are pround to announce the opening of their Game Zone. Game Zone will provide you with the latest news and downloads for many PC football games. A special status will be given to the new Championship Manager 4 by Eidos / SI Games. The latest version of the game includes the Indian National Football League (NFL) with the data of the season 2002/03. To visit the Indianfootball.com Game Zone click here.
Electronic Arts are looking for football enthusiasts, who are interested in doing volunteer research work on a new football database which is currently being developed. This database will provide the data for their current range of football products.
If you are interested, visit Soccer Gaming for full details. This is your chance to get highly involved in the creation of EA's future football games.
Sweetpatch is back with El Dawry (Egyptian League)
To welcome her back to the world of Super Patches, Mohamed El Tanany from Fifa Eqgypt has created the biggest Fifa 2003 Egyptian patch, and it is also the only patch in Fifa editing so far that contains huge numbers of new faces.
This great new patch features:
30 High Quality kits for all Egyptian league teams
120 very realistic flags and banners for all league teams
30 new kits in kits preview
New official badges of all the league teams
New Menu flags and field and popup logos
New Adboards
New Rosters Last updated 6-3-2003
Egyptian national team rosters, kits, mini kits, flags and logo
28 very realistic specific faces
Appearance of Egyptian international referee Gamal el Ghandour in the league games
New Accessories for star players (visit Sweetpatch for full list of these amazing accessories)
Installation manual with photos to help easy setup
Get your copy of this great new patch direct from the Patches Database.
Over at SoccerGameZ they have released their first tool for FIFA 2003, the SgZ Quickstart! Select a home team, an away team, a stadium and play. No legal screen, intro movies, or menues, just the match. The graphics were created by Joris Jonckheer and the tool was programmed by Jan Van Haaren. Here are a few of the features:
Full screen/windowed
Resolution
Language
Referee strictness
Half length
Game speed
Commentary
Music
Game Style
Difficulty
and much more...
SoccerGameZ Quickstart
Version 2.0 will be released soon with many more features, but for now download the current build over at SoccerGameZ.
Over at FifaFX, Bolzer Mike has released some must have files for FIFA 2003.
BMs FIFATV - PREMIER LEAGUE-PopUp: The first great Xtension-Package for BMs FifaTV-MegaPopUp-Patch has been finished. Here comes the most realistic Barclaycard Premiership TV-PopUps for Fifa2003. Completed with all new high resolution quadro-size HQS-adboards, as well as new EPL-menus, this Patch will bring the real Premier League feeling to your game. At this time the PopUp will only be available as an extension to BMs FifaTV-MegaPatch, but a standalone download will be released later today.
BMs FIFATV - MegaPopUp-Patch: An amazing collection of all new realistic TV-PopUps for FIFA 2003 has been finished. Included are TV-PopUps for all major German TV-Stations and tournements, combined with all new TV broadcasting style Menus. Besides original PopUps for German ARD, ZDF (+ special DFB-Cup), RTL (and many other european stations) for Champions League, Sat1, Premiere and DSF you will get all new High Quality quadrosized adboards related to the chosen tournement.
High Resolution HQS-Adboards: A new great invention to maximize your Fifa-gaming experience is here. HQS-adboards enable quadruple sized adboard textures for FIFA 2003 and will bring you 4 times the details for adboard graphics within the game. A first template for Patchmakers with some small instructions about how to use it are also available.
FifaFX Patches
Head on over to FifaFX now and check out all of these amazing patches.
Leo's latest creation over at his site, Fifa Online, happens to be his first stadium for FIFA 2003. The stadium is the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, USA where the World Cup '94 Final between Brazil and Italy was played.
Rose Bowl by Leo
This stadium overwrites the Olympiastadion of Munich in the game. Go over to Fifa Online to download this great file.
Jofre, the webmaster from Club of Games, has finished working on his newest kits. He has released both the normal and Champions League Home and Third kits for FC Barcelona.
Barcelona Normal and Champions League Home & Third Kits
Check into Club of Games for these and other great kits.
Fifa Mercosul will be hosting a Brazilian Cup for all who are interested. Plus, the tournament is completely free! Head on over to Fifa Mercosul to sign up, they are waiting for you.
Leo has released a new utility over at Fifa Online called the ItA Bug Corrections. This new tool fixes the problems foudn in the Creation Centre concerning the dissapearance of players and teams when installing a package. The program works with all languages supported by FIFA 2003 and all versions of Windows.
ItA Bug Corrections
If you are having this problem with the Creation Centre, head over to Fifa Online and download this useful untility.
Now it is time for those of you who are from France or Italy and would like to play their part in the production of FIFA 2004 to put their hands up.
EA will be holding a special FIFA event in Paris on the evening of Wednesday the 12th of March. If you are interested in attending please send me an email and I will have someone send you full details.
The Italian FIFA event will be taking place in Milan from Sunday the 23rd of March thru until Wednesday the 26th of March. If you live in or near Milan and want to be involved click here to send me an email.
We are still also wanting people from the UK and Germany to contact us. But be quick!
If you're from the UK and are interested in attending the Chertsey, Surrey event at EA UK Headquarters on March 8th, 9th and 10th click here to send me and email for more info.
If you're from Cologne, Germany and are interested in attending the event for German FIFA fans click here to send me an email for more info.
We'll soon have details on how Spanish fans can become involved as well. All of these events will give you a chance to contribute to FIFA 2004 in a very unique way, as well as meet the people from EA who help put the game together. The events will also be catered for with free drinks (beer for those who are old enough) and appetizers for those who attend.
Leo has sent some news about the latest releases over at Fifa Online. First, the Chant Importer, made by Orcun Atakan, allows the user to import up to 8 of their favorite chants into FIFA 2003. The file weighs in at about 2.4 MB.
Chant Importer
Also, over at FIFAMania.it, Giorgio Lunardon has discovered how to create FIFA 2003 stadiums from scratch. The first stadium he has released is Rotterdam ver. G2003. They plan on releasing more stadiums soon.
Rotterdam ver. G2003
Go over to Fifa Online or FIFAMania.it to check out what other great things these guys have been doing.
After nearly a year of silence Fifa.nl are now presenting a new Dutch Fifa forum. A few weeks ago it opened up and more than 200 forum members already signed in. Because of this higher then expected attention and future guest posting option they are also looking for some Dutch moderators! Please visit their website for more details.
Also, they are also working on a multiplayer matchup ranking system, but still have loads of time to spend on it, so they cannot release a date as of yet. Anyway, pay them a visit by clicking here.
Over at FIFA Web Portal, they have just relased "Blank Flags 1.0". Inside are 3 blank flags all modeled after real flags.
You can find their Blank Flags 1.0 in our brand new Downloads Center. Also if you want, your FIFA 2003 files can be published at their Downloads Center. Just visit their site over at FIFA Web Portal.
First screenshots from Sweetpatch Super Patch 2003
As reported yesterday, Hrvoje from the Fifa Web Portal has started work on the Sweetpatch Super Patch 2003 (SSP 2003). Today we have the first early beta screenshots for you, and tomorrow we will have some of the new adboards.
You can find the full details of this excellent patch and more screenshots over with Sweetpatch.
Iranian Super Patch 2003
