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This file will need to be re-applied if/when official patches/updates are released to ensure full compatibility. This is due to the fact that some files which are removed when installing this file are automatically re-installed by Steam when official patches come out.
Some of these changes, ESPECIALLY THE CLUB NAMES, do NOT apply in FM Touch or in existing save-games. There's a workaround for that in the first post.
The sortitoutsi real names fix changes the instances of fake names in Football Manager 2020 to the proper, real life names for awards, cities, stadiums and competitions, in cases where the actual name is not licensed, such as Champions League, Europa League and Premier League displaying instead of EURO Cup, EURO Vase and Premier Division respectively. It will also fix the fact that the German and Japanese National teams don't call up real players and that the Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach managers have fake names. These are all fully save-game compatible.
There is also a club name changes file, which changes the names of clubs in a way which ensures that any nicknames entered in the default database are retained. This file includes the proper names for Brazilian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (including Juventus) and French clubs to circumvent licensing restrictions. It also adds real-life media and journalists, encompassing most major footballing nations and continents. Brazilian clubs' text colours are also changed through an editor data file. Finally, it includes a small file which corrects the 3-Letter competition names to correspond with any changes made in the lnc files. For all the files in this paragraph to work, however, you will need to start a new game.
Follow the below instructions to install this version of this file
STEP 1.
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
Notes:
STEP 2:
COPY the dbc, edt and lnc folders from the downloaded pack
STEP 3:
PASTE them into each of your respective folders mentioned in step 1.
These are what the respective folder structures should look like in the 2040 folder:
dbc:
dbc/permanent:
edt/permanent:
lnc:
STEP 4:
COPY the 8 files located in the EDITOR DATA FILES folder in the downloaded pack
STEP 5
PASTE to
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 2020’
This should be what your editor data folder looks like now. There may initially be a config.xml file in this folder and it can be safely overwritten; it is generated by FM every time the game starts.
To make sure the files have been applied correctly, go to the Champions Cup and EURO Vase in your saved game, and they should be renamed to Champions League and Europa League respectively. If you are in the middle of a save-game, Japanese national teams will be populated in the next instance that players are called up, and not immediately. Do keep in mind that this file does not add Japan-based players, who are not in the official database and will need a third-party add-on to be created and added.
Club names are only changed if you apply the editor data files before starting a new game. For a workaround if you've already started a new save-game, then please read the opening post of this thread.
Some of these changes, ESPECIALLY THE CLUB NAMES, do NOT apply in FM Touch or in existing save-games. There's a workaround for that in the first post.
The sortitoutsi real names fix changes the instances of fake names in Football Manager 2020 to the proper, real life names for awards, cities, stadiums and competitions, in cases where the actual name is not licensed, such as Champions League, Europa League and Premier League displaying instead of EURO Cup, EURO Vase and Premier Division respectively. It will also fix the fact that the German and Japanese National teams don't call up real players and that the Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach managers have fake names. These are all fully save-game compatible.
There is also a club name changes file, which changes the names of clubs in a way which ensures that any nicknames entered in the default database are retained. This file includes the proper names for Brazilian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (including Juventus) and French clubs to circumvent licensing restrictions. It also adds real-life media and journalists, encompassing most major footballing nations and continents. Brazilian clubs' text colours are also changed through an editor data file. Finally, it includes a small file which corrects the 3-Letter competition names to correspond with any changes made in the lnc files. For all the files in this paragraph to work, however, you will need to start a new game.
Follow the below instructions to install this version of this file
STEP 1.
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2000OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2001OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2010OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2030OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2040Notes:
\Program Files (x86)\\Program Files\Mac
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
You can find these folders by clicking, in the Finder, the Go menu in the menu bar, then choose Go to Folder and type the folder path name (obviously inserting your username), then click Go.
You can get to the Library folder by simply selecting Go from the top bar and holding "alt" key - The Library folder suddenly appears on the drop down
For Mac Lion users, the Library folder will be hidden. Use this link to find out how to show it.
For those struggling to find the Steam and Steam Apps folder etc using Mac with the new OS High Sierra, this link below shows how you can unhide your Library folder which will then let you find the other folders.
Slightly more detail in this post
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2020 / data / database / db / 2000 OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2020 / data / database / db / 2001 OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2020 / data / database / db / 2010 OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2020 / data / database / db / 2030 OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2020 / data / database / db / 2040 You can find these folders by clicking, in the Finder, the Go menu in the menu bar, then choose Go to Folder and type the folder path name (obviously inserting your username), then click Go.
You can get to the Library folder by simply selecting Go from the top bar and holding "alt" key - The Library folder suddenly appears on the drop down
For Mac Lion users, the Library folder will be hidden. Use this link to find out how to show it.
For those struggling to find the Steam and Steam Apps folder etc using Mac with the new OS High Sierra, this link below shows how you can unhide your Library folder which will then let you find the other folders.
Slightly more detail in this post
STEP 2:
COPY the dbc, edt and lnc folders from the downloaded pack
STEP 3:
PASTE them into each of your respective folders mentioned in step 1.
These are what the respective folder structures should look like in the 2040 folder:
dbc:
dbc/permanent:
edt/permanent:
lnc:
STEP 4:
COPY the 8 files located in the EDITOR DATA FILES folder in the downloaded pack
STEP 5
PASTE to
\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\editor data\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\\GAMEPASS\editor dataUsers/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports InteractiveOpen Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 2020’
This should be what your editor data folder looks like now. There may initially be a config.xml file in this folder and it can be safely overwritten; it is generated by FM every time the game starts.
To make sure the files have been applied correctly, go to the Champions Cup and EURO Vase in your saved game, and they should be renamed to Champions League and Europa League respectively. If you are in the middle of a save-game, Japanese national teams will be populated in the next instance that players are called up, and not immediately. Do keep in mind that this file does not add Japan-based players, who are not in the official database and will need a third-party add-on to be created and added.
Club names are only changed if you apply the editor data files before starting a new game. For a workaround if you've already started a new save-game, then please read the opening post of this thread.
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NinetyNine
Do exactly the same with the 2010 folder yes. That's just the new database, from the most recent game version (20.1).
mons
The 2010 folder structure needs to be similar to the other 2 as well
You can only open fmf files with the editor (you can use the FM19 editor to do so). You can only open edt and lnc files with Notepad
mons
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13211633 "GFA League First Division" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13211633 "GFA League First Division" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13211634 "GFA Cup" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13211634 "GFA Cup" ""
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13211639 "SportPesa Premier League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13211639 "SportPesa Premier League" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 12084359 "FKF National Super League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 12084359 "FKF National Super League" ""
Qvordrup
#"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" xx "Liga e Dytë" ""
#"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" xx "Liga e Dytë" ""
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 98015063 "FL1 Aktiv-Cup" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 98015063 "FL1 Aktiv-Cup" ""
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13191166 "Moçambola" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13191166 "Moçambola" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13191167 "Divisão de Honra" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13191167 "Divisão de Honra" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13193812 "Taça Moçambique" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13193812 "Taça Moçambique" ""
#"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" xx "Taça da Liga" ""
#"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" xx "Taça da Liga" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13193813 "Supertaça Mário Esteves Coluna" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13193813 "Supertaça Mário Esteves Coluna" ""
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 7540024 "Casa Liga I" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 7540024 "Liga I" ""
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13211718 "SSFA Premier League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13211718 "SSFA Premier League" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 13211719 "SSFA National Cup" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 13211719 "SSFA National Cup" ""
Qvordrup
""COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 5512772 "Segunda División B Nacional de Uruguay" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 5512772 "Segunda División B" ""
it is a really small thing.... but there are a " to much
PequenoGenio88
mons
Any more you find, do let me know as early as possible so I can add them to the file to be released when the full game comes out
ID - 43156138
Name - Campo Ale & Ricky
Juventus Training Ground
ID - 43443589
Name - J-Village
mons
They should be fixed in the latest download of this morning
tdurb0
Tommy Hughes
I use PC, so I wouldn't know how exactly it differes from the Mac version.
Otherwise, I would gladly help.
Hopefully there's someone who is familiar with FM on Mac and who can compile you, or refer you to, an easy step-by-step guide.
VP.
You don't delete the whole folder, just the dbc, edt & Inc ones inside. Then replace them with the new dbc, edt & Inc that you have downloaded.
wicksyFM
Mons, could you remind me what the difference is between this beta name fix and the one you release when the game is out officially. I dont what to start a save now on miss out on something?
mons
Does this video help at all? It's for FM13, but the steps are broadly similar. If it's still not helpful, get in touch with me via PM, I may have an alternative suggestion
The editor data files are done with the FM19 editor and on the FM19 data. For the time being, and until the game and the editor are officially available, I cannot make changes to clubs newly-added to the FM20 database, of which I have a handful in hand already. I'll also need to sift quickly through the files to see if there's any other changes which need doing.
That said, any changes will presumably be quite minor in nature and you should be able to use the current files in the full FM20 release
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 2300047 "Pirma Lyga" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 2300047 "1 Lyga" ""
fmilln7
mons
If you're going for the club name changes via the lnc file, you have to remove the # from that line of code. The hashtag is the file's way of telling the game to ignore that line, so if it's still there, it just can't work.
Alternatively, if you want to change a club name which is already changed in the fmf file, you'd have to do so with the editor. That's because changes in the fmf file take precedence over any changes in lnc files.
Matheus Seixas
Matheus Seixas
Could you help me? Is it possible to install on an iPad? How to? What are the steps? Couldn’t find it.
mons
As I don't have an iPad, I'm afraid I can't really help or add much more to what Fidney has already told you in this thread...
ilpauso
The name of the training ground is JTC and not J village (which is the name of the whole area) https://www.juventus.com/en/club/jvillage-project/
Anyway, as always, amazing work mons! Thank you
GoonerJoe
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\ i can see Football Manager 2019 and Football Manager 2019 Editor. Has the 2020 folder been moved to a new location?
Many thanks
Joe
VP.
It has to be
Try searching for the folder.
mons
As @VP. said, it must be there
To find the exact path go to your Games menu in Steam, right-click on FM20 and select properties. Choose the local files tab and click on browse local files. It'll take you to the right path