Champions league format

[Latepicks]

That was the biggest shock from taking a 15 year hiatus from this game. I had completely forgot about the 2nd group stage in the Champions League.

So glad that has died.

[Golly]

Sorry to disagree with another reply but editing the knock-out stage of the CL is very possible. There are a set of offsets for every knock-out round that can easily be edited.

However it's not easy because the offset you need to change to have the fixture played at a neutral venue (in the host country of the final) is PUSH EBX and needs to be changed to PUSH 4 or PUSH 40 and that won't fit so it requires other lines being rewritten to accomodate.

If you tell me what you want I'll post some instructions for you to edit them.

[Bhaalspawn]

I really sute it is possible. I want to the quarter finals amd semi finals only use 1 match with extra time and penalties, and in neutral ground. I know the neutral ground is push 4, but idk where is the correct lines.

[Golly]

Quarter-Final

0058435B to 0058438D - FILL WITH NOPs

0058435B - PUSH 40 (Venue. 4= National Stadium, 40= Next biggest grounds)*
0058435D - PUSH ECX
0058435E - PUSH 2 (Kick-off Time: 0=AM, 1=PM & 2=EVE)
00584360 - PUSH 2 (Day of Week: 0=Mon, 1=Tue, 2=Wed...)
00584362 - PUSH 1 (Year: For 2020/21... 0=2020 & 1=2021)
00584364 - PUSH 3 (Month: 0=Jan, 1=Feb, 2=Mar, 3=Apr...)
00584366 - PUSH 4 (Date of Month: 1= 1st, 2=2nd, 3=3rd...)
00584368 - PUSH EBX
00584369 - PUSH ESI
0058436A - CALL 00521EB0
0058436F - ADD ESP,40
00584372 - PUSH EBX
00584373 - PUSH -1
00584375 - PUSH -1
00584377 - PUSH -1
00584379 - PUSH EBX
0058437A - PUSH EBX
0058437B - PUSH ESI
0058437C - CALL 00521F10
00584381 - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+7],78
00584387 - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+9],BX
0058438B - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+0B],BX
0058438F - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+0D],BP (Match 1 outcome: BX=90 mins, BP=ET & Pens...)

005843AA - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+0F],BP > BX (Match 2 outcome: as above)

005843B5 - MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ESI+21],2 > 1 (Legs in Round: 1=1, 2=2)

* I would suggest PUSH 40 for venue of QF as this will have 4 matches played simultaneously in the 4 biggest non-National Stadium grounds. If you use PUSH 4 you have all games played in the same stadium & 3 matches are cancelled and rearranged for a later date and the fixture list gets very, very messy.

Semi-Final

005843E2 to 00584452 - FILL WITH NOPs

005843E2 - PUSH 4
005843E4 - PUSH EAX
005843E5 - PUSH 2 (EVE)
005843E7 - PUSH 1 (TUESDAY)
005843E9 - PUSH 1
005843EB - PUSH 4 (MAY)
005843ED - PUSH 1 (1ST)
005843EF - PUSH 1
005843F1 - PUSH ESI
005843F2 - CALL 00521EB0
005843F7 - ADD ESP,5C
005843FA - PUSH EBX
005843FB - PUSH -1
005843FD - PUSH -1
005843FF - PUSH -1
00584402 - PUSH 1
00584404 - PUSH ESI
00584405 - CALL 00521F10
0058440A - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+6F],82
00584410 - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+71],1
00584416 - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+73],BX
0058441A - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+75],BP
0058441E - MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ESI+7F],8
00584422 - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+80],4
0058442B - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+82],2
00584434 - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+84],BX
0058443B - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+77],BX
0058443F - MOV WORD PTR DS:[ESI+86],BX
00584446 - MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ESI+88],BL
0058444C - MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ESI+89],1
00584453 - MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ESI+8A],BL

*With these offsets the Semi-Finals are both played in the National Stadium. The first match is planned for Tuesday and the 2nd match is played the following day (Wednesday).

[David00C]

Is it possible to make a game in a fixed stadium? Like for example the European super cup final is always played at stadium of Monaco (in .68).

I know Push 4 is national stadium and push 40 is biggest stadium but are there other values?
i´ve seen Push 8000 - in the european super cup final venue and also other values in other competitions like 2A but i dont know if it is possible to fix a stadium.

Thank for any help

[clipeus]

Sorry to disagree with another reply but editing the knock-out stage of the CL is very possible. There are a set of offsets for every knock-out round that can easily be edited.

However it's not easy because the offset you need to change to have the fixture played at a neutral venue (in the host country of the final) is PUSH EBX and needs to be changed to PUSH 4 or PUSH 40 and that won't fit so it requires other lines being rewritten to accomodate.

If you tell me what you want I'll post some instructions for you to edit them.

great news!! thanks a lot Golly, so we can arrange in 1 game qt and sm but we can't take off the 2nd group stage...

thanks again!!
Marco

[John Locke]

IIRC, the European Super Cup is always played at the home of AS Monaco [9D0264], changing it to another club should be very easy - but only 'hard-coded' clubs can be used (although you could remove the Monaco hard-code and replace it with a different club if you know how, as I don't think Monaco is there for any other reason).

[Golly]

IIRC, the European Super Cup is always played at the home of AS Monaco [9D0264], changing it to another club should be very easy - but only 'hard-coded' clubs can be used (although you could remove the Monaco hard-code and replace it with a different club if you know how, as I don't think Monaco is there for any other reason).

Somewhere in the host nations section of offsets is a redundant offset for the UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final. You can edit this so it's for the UEFA Super Cup and pick a host nation that way.

[Golly]

005FA2F3 - MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[9CF6EC] > [9CF6F4] (Uefa Cup Winners Cup > UEFA Super Cup)
005FA324 - MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[9CF300] > [9CF???] (France > Any country you wish- see The [9CF***] thread

This will override Monaco being the host for the USC. I'm not sure if it will result in random hosts for future finals as happens with UCL & UEL.

[David00C]

I think you dont need to change the host nation.

If you change 0057A48D PUSH 8000 > Fill with NOPs > PUSH 4 the USC will be played at random national stadiums.

I dont know how to do the reverse for other cup competitions. Make a final be in a specific stadium. Might be the Push 8000. (can anyone tell me?)

In here:

0085C346 |. 81FB 00800000 CMP EBX,8000
0085C34C |. 75 3B JNZ SHORT cm0102.0085C389
0085C34E |. 8B4E 1C MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+1C]
0085C351 |. A1 64029D00 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[9D0264]

compares the 8000 and it reffers to [9D0264] - Monaco

sorry about my english

[footballer]

Not sure how much anyone has investigated different Push values for stadium allocation in cups. Did a little bit of tinkering and have found the following occurs;

Changed Scottish League Cup to take teams from Scotland, Ireland, N. Ireland, Wales. Left the competition in Europe, but it has No Nation.

Push 0, Push 1, Push 10, Push 1A, Push 6, Push 7 (I tried a pile of random values) - all resulted in the Home Team in the semi-finals hosting the tie
Push 2, Push 2A, Push 3, Push 4, Push 9 - resulted in the semi-finals being played in random large stadiums across Europe (although more often than not with Push 9 this tended to be UK and Ireland based stadiums)
Push 5 - seemed to be random National stadiums in Europe
Push 40 - random large European stadiums, but it would also result in the two semi-final matches taking place on separate days (this didn't happen with other values used)
Push 8 - seemed to keep it random, but in UK (lot of games when tested ended up at Anfield, Old Trafford, Tottenham stadium) - particularly when used to set final venue


I then tried Golly's solution above using the defunct Cup Winners Cup to set a host nation.

Push 8, Push 9 - low level Scottish venues (very small! - including final venue, although Push 8 tends to have final in a mid-sized venue)
Push 40 - large stadium (not national stadium)
Push 4, Push 5 - national stadium for final - this forces the semi-final matches to take place on separate days
Push 1 - still uses Home team to host in semi final, and also when set as the final
Push 2A - random mid-sized stadium in semi-finals, and also for final