FM2021 Licensing and Real Name Fix File v4.0 for FM21.4 [released on 16/03/2021]

You can do it in 2 ways: either through the lnc files (which means any changes are save-game compatible but the club nicknames will disappear), or through editor data files (which will need to be in place before starting a new game).

Either method will involve you typing in the changes manually, I'm afraid. No shortcuts around it...

However, I do believe there is a file already in the community (possibly in the editor hideaway download forum over on the official Sigames forums) which possibly does what you're looking for already. Have a look for it before possibly duplicating somebody else's work.

Brazilian leagues kits and colors need more work. I'm planning to fix those for myself in the comming days using 3D kits as a reference. Perhaps others will be interested to share with them once I'm done?

There is already a file for this available as part of this download.

Hi mons, I have 2 things that need to be changed, Two Belgium teams that are not displayed correct if you play FM in Dutch. I've reported this as so many others for years at SI games but they just don't care it seems... Can you add this to the next update? Thanks!

"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 216 "RFC Seraing" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 536240 "Olympic Club Charleroi" ""

I used this Brazilian kit of color changes on the FM20. It worked, I will not have problems later, if I start a save?

Are the above to be changed in the Dutch language only or in English as well?

Hi mons I read a couple of weeks ago about the juventus rivalries disappearing which I was also suffering from, I still use your fix but have changed my skin to a diffrent one ( just the base one but with a transparent background- dont think this matters at all) and they are now there again. Just thought I would share if you are still investigating the problem

It's not the Juventus rivalries which disappear, though. It's rivalries for other clubs which have Juve as rivals. So, for example Torino's and Inter's rivals list is affected.

Hi, so i have the real name fix downloaded so i have about 10 .fmf files for Ajax staff, Juve fixes etc.

I want to change a few things like some award names that are in a different language. which file do i load in editor to change? Just wondering how the game will know which files to use if they are all ticked when i start the game

thanks in advance

I've moved this to here since it's related to these files and not to editor data files.

If you want to change the award names (or the competition names), just open the respective lnc file(s) with Notepad and make the changes that you want to. The lnc files are quite self-explanatory tbh. These changes will be save-game compatible.

If there is anything else you'd like to edit, then let me know and I can guide you accordingly 👍

Sorry if i am being dumb, but what do you mean by open the inc file with notepad?
if i right click on one of the fmf files, it doesnt give me the option to do that?

Only reason i asked which to edit in editor is also so i can search for all awards in certain country for e.g. Italy so i can change all Italian awards
I assume in the notepad i would need to search through alot of coding to find each award and i am not sure which ones i need to change without having the editor filter?

This download contains some editor data files, which as you say will need to be opened using the pre-game editor, but another aspect of this download are the files contained in the lnc folder, which have a .lnc extension. (P.S. it's short for licencing, so it's .lnc not .inc 😉 )

As can be seen in this screenshot in the main post, one of these files is the one titled Awards. This contains all the changes to award names included within this download. You can decide to remove this file outright, which would mean that you would remove all the award name changes included within it and the game would run without any issues at all and display the default award names.

You could also decide to edit this lnc file, which you can do by opening it with Notepad. (Right-click, open with and choose Notepad). If you do so, you will see that all the entries are sorted by country or competition, so it would be quite easy to find, for example, Italian awards and remove them all if that's what you want.

Hope this helps 👍

Ahh right! Wasn't making sense to me as i am currently on my work PC so couldnt actually see the files. I went and downloaded a random editor data file on here and couldnt see and LNC (inc) 😉 file but makes sense now.

OK cool, shouldn't be a problem when i get home now, thanks!

Sorry guys but i had missed something cause even if i downloaded and installed this, German national teams keeps being fake. no real players in it.
what i did wrong ?

I know this might not be the right area to post, but regarding DDT. How does one create such a file say if I had some parameters in mind -so for example all players U23 with potential of 165+