RedSawn - Comments

Yeah… don't wait for me, I can't help. Can't even import the 2430 DBCs to take a look at them. Completely stumped

Ah yeah, I wondered if you got it the wrong way around.

Japan_loans.dbc is the thing that turns all of the real life loans into permanent contracts, so I/we don't actually want it. But 2430 doesn't have it like you say, so it now seems to be embedded deeper into the database itself or something, I haven't used the editor since CM2001 so I'm not capable of saying where or how or what. Guess now's the year to buy it

EDIT: So the actual database still has the loans correctly filled in, so that's good. The fact I saw the 2024 squad of my team and only 2024 loans threw me for a 2 hour loop though so I'll try making an actual effort to find the culprit file tomorrow

Ah, sorry. So after early access all of the Japanese clubs had their loans in/out turned into permanent contracts because of licensing. There's a file in /2400/dbc/permanent/ called japan_loans.dbc that handled that at the time, but that file is not in the 2430 database. When I use your fix to replace 2430 and 2400 as the instructions say, the loans still haven't been restored. Since your fix has me completely overwrite 95% of files in both databases and it doesn't contain the loans file, I have no clue where to begin.

Hmm, seems like the licensing based removal of existing loans in Japan is contained within the fix? Considering I'm completely upending the 2400/2430 folders with yours I'm not sure if it's a me issue or what to actually do about it. Fiddling with the current extractions (as the last thing that references Japan) did nothing.