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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 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 2022 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. 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, as well as Manchester Utd, 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. Another editor data file creates the Ajax non-playing staff and the German national team manager missing from the database due to licensing restrictions. 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
You may find this (windows) Video Tutorial useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrhgEG2YbM
STEP 1.
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2201
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2210
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2230
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2240
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
Notes: \Program Files (x86)\ could be \Program Files\ depending on your set up.
Equivalent folders for PC players on Gamepass
Before being able to operate these files, you need to get Gamepass to enable mods - thanks to @MrGizMo for help on the below guide on how to do so
Click on the game in Gamepass and enable mods as per the below:
When you click “Enable Mods”, this is what comes up:
When you click “Enable Mods”, you'll be notified that mods are now enabled:
And when you click “Open Mods Folder", it'll take you to the location where the game is installed:
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\database\db\2201
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\databasee\db\2210
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\databasee\db\2230
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps\Football Manager 2022\data\databasee\db\2240
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
Equivalent folders for PC players on Epic Games
Epic Games Installation
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2201
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2210
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2230
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager2022\data\database\db\2240
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
Notes: \Program Files (x86)\ could be \Program Files\ depending on your set up.
Equivalent folders for Mac users
Mac
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2200
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2201
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2210
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2230
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
OPEN
/ Users / username / Library / Application Support / Steam / SteamApps / common / Football Manager 2022 / data / database / db / 2240
DELETE only the dbc , edt and lnc folders
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 menu
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.
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 2240 folder:
dbc:
dbc/permanent:
edt/permanent:
lnc:
STEP 4:
COPY the 11 files located in the EDITOR DATA FILES folder in the downloaded pack
STEP 5
PASTE to \Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2022\editor data
This is also the same folder to be used for Gamepass.
As stated by SI themselves, for Gamepass, however:
You are not able to change the user data location as such but you can use the user data folder in Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2022 to store facepacks and graphics.
Equivalent folder for Mac
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
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 2022’[/spoiler]
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.
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 and German 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.
- Date Created
- 17 Oct 2021 11:12:05
- Date Updated
- 04 Apr 2022 16:17:29
- Last Comment
- 15 Mar 2024 11:30:39
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mons
Probably next to none again.
Riscas
I pre-installed the game with gamepass, and there is an option to change the files in the installation folder.
This year it's possible.
gai jin
Can we have real comeptition colours also?
Thanks
mons
As I don't use Gamepass myself, I'll have to rely on the community to test it and provide installation instructions, but I'd certainly release a Gamepass version for it if it does indeed work.
Define real competition colours. Won't be possible until the editor comes out.
gai jin
Hi mate, I mean true colours on titlebar for every competitions.
mons
What are the true colours on a competition's titlebar, though? This file will include titlebar colour changes for the European competitions, but I'm not aware of any other competitions that need their titlebar colours to be amended.
gai jin
Something like that, but for sortitoutsi NoFake 😀
https://www.fmscout.com/a-football-manager-2022-competition-colour-fix.html
ianvou
Check SI FORUMS , majesticeternity has created custom files one of them being competition colours fix, but I don't know if he does this as well for fm22 you may ask him
mons
It's not really a licensing issue, so I don't really see the need for it, especially as there already exist other files which do what you're asking for, and which can be used in parallel with this download.
montymc15
if i replaced the files of the normal database when downloading this, how can i revert back to the default database? (i didnt save an original copy of the files)
mons
If you verify the integrity of the game's files, Steam will re-download any deleted files or folders accordingly 👍
RoMbA
Work very well 🙂
RoMbA
Yes 🙂
Baja
One of the first names on this post/screenshots is wrong. 8403725 is Busovača,not Busovaća.
I didn't try fix yet,but in Serbia,all stadium and clubs names fix should be removed,except club names:
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 1955 "FK Crvena zvezda" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 1955 "Crvena zvezda" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 62124464 "FK Crvena zvezda Mali Mokri Lug" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 62124464 "Crvena zvezda (MML)" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 62058708 "FK Crvena zvezda Novi Sad" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 62058708 "Crvena zvezda (NS)" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 62165558 "FK Crvena zvezda Rusko Selo" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 62165558 "Crvena zvezda (RS)" ""
"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 5747354 "FK Crvena zvezda Gnjilane" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 5747354 "Crvena zvezda (G)" ""
Also,all fixing the names from Montenegro and Slovenia should be removed,since we've fixed everything in original db.
Maverick0993
Hi! This No Fake also adjust Juventus Legends, Icon and favourite staff that are missing in the game?
wfm18
This also needs to be added via the editor, so after release.
mons
Thanks for this. Seems like Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian and Slovenian cities (and also the Czech ones) have the correct diacritics in their name in the database so the entries will be removed from this file. North Macedonian and Slovak cities not yet.
This also prompted me to review some of the other city and stadium names, which are fine in the database now, so they've also been removed.
As for Serbian club names, I've removed the lot from the lnc file apart from the ones above. However, there are 225 Serbian club name changes to undo in the editor data file, which have to be done one club at a time. For the time being, I'll focus on removing the top divisions' clubs' name changes and I'll do the rest at a later stage. If they're fine already, undoing the changes will still show the same name anyway, so it'll have no tangible effect anyway.
kamackeris
Also pre-installed on gamepass and it looks like we can just put the fix in the same way… the file structure is the same
mons
When the full game is released in the next few hours, followed shortly by the next release of this fix, would you mind if you could reconfirm this please? Ideally including the exact installation path for the files. Thanks 👍
MrGizMo
Next few hours 😛
Still 13 hours buddy 😀
mons
You never know at what time it'll be released 🙂
Oh, and the new download will be made available as soon as I get my hands on the game and the editor, perhaps I'll need an hour or so to convert the files and test what needs to be tested. Perhaps you guys could be so kind as to point the inevitable multitudes of impatient users who'll come in 2 full minutes after the game is released asking when it'll be available 😉
MrGizMo
Hehe! Good luck buddy the next hours 😉
kamackeris
If it is before I got to work
kamackeris
The instillation path is weird in that you right click on 3 dots next to the icons in gamepass and select allow mods which takes you to the folders you need and from there on it looks the same
mons
As I don't have the game on Gamepass, I'll need detailed instruction, possibly with screenshots, of all steps which are needed so I can add it to the first post.
Whoever gets the file working on Gamepass after I release it is more than welcome to provide the above in this thread, or send them via PM 👍
Carsie
Quick question in regards to INC files is it possible to have multiple INC files to have separate files the UK leagues etc and the rest of the word?
mons
You can have separate changes for different leagues/nations in separate files, but it makes more sense to have everything in one place. However, you can have as many lnc files as you want (I've not tested to see the exact amount allowable tbf).
P.S. They're LNC files (short for licensing) 😉
yamzie12
Hello Guys! Thank you for producing quality content for this hungry community! 🙂
RhylFCKiko
Coming in here and seeing Gamepass might be an easy fix this year is great news!
Grant MacDonald
Hello fellow managers,
Could someone remind me whether the “full ” FM game releases on the due date - 9th in this case – or the evening before?
Kind regards.
Grant.