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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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mons
I've fixed the Greek Cup name
If not SL1 and SL2, what would you recommend instead?
egbertjan
can you change this
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130487 "OLIMP FNL" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 130487 "FNL" ""
in
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130487 "OLIMP Pervenstvo FNL" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 130487 "FNL" ""
and
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 8051008 "Profesionalnaja Futbolnaja Liga" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 8051008 "PFL" ""
in
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 8051008 "OLIMP Pervenstvo PFL" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 8051008 "PFL" ""
daherlihy
Sorry I'm only replying to this now - managed to get it working properly, must have been my own mistake.
Works fine on FMT on Android in case anyone's wondering
teo_dim_
I guess full name on both short and long would be good since there are no sponsorships to make a shortcut of the name.
mons
Qvordrup
#Russia
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130486 "Rosgosstrakh Russian Premier Liga" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 130486 "RPL" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 130487 "OLIMP Pervenstvo Football National League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 130487 "FNL" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 8051008 "OLIMP Pervenstvo Professional Football League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 8051008 "PFL" ""
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23210915 "Bank of Bhutan Premier League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23210915 "Bhutan Premier League" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23195083 "Bhutan Pepsi Super League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23195083 "Bhutan Super League" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23220650 "Bhutan District Division" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23220650 "Bhutan District Division" ""
mons
Should
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23099991 "A-Division" ""
be retained?
Qvordrup
Sorry got it wrong.
#Bhutan
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23210915 "Bank of Bhutan Premier League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23210915 "Bhutan Premier League" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23099991 "Bhutan Pepsi Super League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23099991 "Bhutan Super League" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23195083 "Dzongkhag League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23195083 "Dzongkhag League" ""
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 23220650 "Bhutan District Division" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 23220650 "Bhutan District Division" ""
mons
Lovely stuff. All fixed for the next version
djtosh
mons
Siciik
mons
Have the fix in place before starting a new game. If not, you need to make sure the files are installed in the right folder AND do the workaround in the first post
Smallville2.0
Not sure if keep this short name though, maybe change ''Supercoppa'' in ''Supercup''? :
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 1301414 "Supercup" ""
This is the post where they announced the new name for the match that will be played between Juventus and Lazio:
https://twitter.com/SerieA/status/1206884928882917379
Tommy Hughes
FM 2020 received a patch today and I just noticed that Windows Explorer's very recent "date modified" date suggest something in the \db\2010\ folder has changed today.
Do we need a new version of the Real Names Fix or are we good to proceed?
mons
@Tommy Hughes, as you're the only person who has pointed it out, I'm going to assume there haven't been major changes and so you can use the current files without any problems. I'll have a look when I get home later tonight and release a new version if need be
Maumau76
Thank you
mons
Which parts of the current installation instructions aren't there?
Maumau76
Database folder is not in iPad version, and I don’t know where files have to put in the game.
Maybe I can’t found iOS version
Qvordrup
"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 7880028 "UAE First Division League" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 7880028 "First Division League" ""
mons
I'm afraid I don't have any visibility on the iOS installation instructions. Perhaps if someone has managed to make it work, s/he could provide a guide on how to do so...
Maumau76
I hope for this
Thanks
Lobini
Hi @mons , the change is to a file called "canada.lnc". Would you be so kind as to confirm if a change has needed to be done later please? Much appreciated and Happy Holidays
mons
Maila66
mons
I'm not sure why you've quoted a post from page 16 without any context which was resolved later in the same page
Weiry
L0L0_Z
mons
Never heard of this before
Can you give me screenshots of the issue in-game, and also of your editor data folder?