Football Manager 2006
 

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Anything else I missed?

LOL

The crack is NOT for the demo.

The game in question has not been released yet. So Joe, can I jump to a conclusion about the post by DABhand and assume he is talking about an illegal crack then ? Or am I wrong again and it is just a no-cd patch for people who already own the original game ? ;)

There is a "time limit extended" ;) patch for the demo version of this game on GCW, see it yourself.

yes it is for the smaller demo that is available,not the gold demo.

the game is released friday anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i neeeedddddd ittttttttttt

lol

But isn't that completely illegal then ? Hacking a demo to make it run longer than it was supposed to ? That is not the kind of act I would expect to hear supported by a long time member of a forum that just serves the kind of people looking for no-cd patches for original copies of the game they have bought ? Or am I completely wrong again ?

well it only lasts 6 more months,not a big deal..if its there to be modded,people will mod it...6 months longer is not gona effect there sells is it.

I got mine this morning from amazon, and well, i found out why I never bought last years..

The players AI is very very poor. They spend too much time running about back and forward instead of crossing a ball. All too frustrating.. I usually just go for Instant Score lol

Then the severe referees, yellow cards and red cards galore..


And the stupid scorelines, 12-0 I beat Rangers today.. Its all kinda surreal.


Sorry Glenbo, I would keep your money for champ manager which would be a better all round simulator :P

@japajapa: Yes, I agree with you, but who am I to publicly question the competence of forum moderators and administrators?

Its not out til tomorrow... and plus Football Manager is Champ Manager in all but name

arghhh nooo not championship manager,thats a awful game lol!

footie manager is sweet aslong as you are a football boffin :P

Let me put it this way, if seen Fifa Manager on a friends pc and this is in the same league, they didnt tune that AI properly.. Not realistic scoring etc.

Its a shame as I was looking forward to it. But with CM you get realism :(

If I can just take this oppotunity to stir the pot a bit, none of the games you guys talk about is real football anyway!!! Australian Rules Football now thats a real football game!! :D :p :D :p ;)

P.S: And I am not talking PC games here, as I dont play the PC Sports game I cant really comment on the actual games.
And I do expect some possible flack flying back to me on the above comment! :p

Grumpy Australians are like the Americans, they took our football game and re-arrange it to something else :P

We did invent the game first ;)

Eh the American game is nothing like the English or the Australian game, and you guys play with a round ball and can only kick it along the ground with your feet, no handballing etc. The Australian game is more of a spectacle, high flying marks (catches) long distance kicking, hand balling. scores from both teams in all games, no riots etc, and all this with not a round ball but with an odd shaped ball, a bit like the shape of the zeppelin, so it takes major skill just to bounce it let alone kick it straight. Our game is totally different to any other football in the world, it did not evolve from the English (European) football. Yes we do play your style football over here as well but we call that 'soccer'. And just to clarify, I am not talking about rugby or gridion. I'm talking Aussie Rules! Aussie Aussie Aussie oiy oiy oiy. :p :D

When will the crack (or mini-image) for this game be released?

Nobody knows. It will be rlsed when someone feels like it.

EDIT

Mini image is on g a m e b u r n w o r l d.

That's actually for Fifa Manager 06 when you unrar it. Anyway, I found how to use Football Manager without the CD:

Right click on the shortcut icon on Desktop.
Click Properties. Go to Compatability tab.
Change the Compatability mode to Windows NT and it should work.

Did not work with RIP version. :(

RIP? As in the compressed downloaded version?

DABhand you can't be serious? That bullcrap eidos is pushing with the name the guys at SI made is hideous. EAs game lacks immersion badly compared to FM05 even, let alone the new version with the team talks and such nice additions.

I don't know if you know this but FM = CM. CM05 is not the real CM and is a load of crap.

eirebhoy you beauty.

I was looking around for ages to fix my poorly made image that comes up with 'insert the correct cdrom' message. I set it to nt compatibility mode like you said and it works a treat.

cheers.

Ill try and make a minidisc for you lads admitly by the time I make it some proffesional group would have made it but... ill try.

Doesnt take a group to make a mini image lol. Just a brain with a higher IQ than George Bush, a computer with Alcohol 120%, and a pair of hands.

this is championship manager buddy!

it is made by sports interactive,the makers of every champ manager game other than champ manager 5.

eidos and sports interactive split up,sports interactive got to keep the game and its database,wheras eidos just got to keep the championship manager name.NOT anything to do with teh game whatsoever,that was all trademarked/copywrited by sports interactive years ago.

this is not a ea game,or anything to do with fifa,this is the real deal,the real championship manager that we all know and love :P

championship manager 5,is not anything to do with any of the older championship manager games,other than eidos release the game,and it has the same name as its predecessors.

very confusing lol!

but championship manager 5 was probaly the worst game ever and they probaly wont be making anymore.

FOOTBALL MANAGER 2005 and 2006 is what we all know as championship manager from a few years back.

With CM you get better matches, not lets just score 12 in one game. Not realistic enough with FM.

And remember CM was around since amiga days, which spawned into Premier Manager, which then spawned into Football Manager.

There was a Football Manager before CM, but it was nothing to do with SI.

So why do you call it football? lol

If most of the game your using your hands, its only after a few steps they kick for some strange reason (perhaps you can only hold the ball after so many steps?)

dude your gettting this so confused with fifa manager.

football manager is the game we all know as cm.

cm 5 is a brand new game with bad ai,and the tendancy to send off 5 of your players in every match.

i lost 23-0 to inter milan with real madrid in cm 5 lol! with 6 men.

maybe it is your personal prefrence tho mate :P

i know that cm5 got reviews of like 30% and 2/10 in most magazines..

wheras football manager got 10/10 and 90% everywhere,and nominated as the british game of the year,and the highest selling pc game of last year also.

sports interactive the makers of football manager 2005,where the makers of every single championship manager that was ever made exept last years,which was entirely new,and they lost a lot of money (even i took my copy back to teh shop,it was pants!,lol)

btw,the zx spectrum,c64,amiga version of football manager has nothing to do with these games,other than this game has aquired the trademark for the name.

Not with Fifa Manager no...

Ive seen Fifa Manager running and its just as bad.

But hey, I was giving a warning before you buy it lol

already purchased today! and been playing it for 4 hours straight (even running in a window now) it is pure amazing,and the best footie manager sim anywhere!

if a cm6 ever comes out (****ing frauds!) i wont even contemplate looking at it lol! it really was worthy of a zx spectrum.

football manager is almost identical to cm4 with added features...ie same 2d pitch (somthing else the new fraud cm has ripped off)

so teh goals aint really unrealistic,cos its 2d lol!

i know you have your own taste,but im so sure you have this mixed up with fifa manager lol! cos saying football manager is not very good is like saying thierry henry is crap,or ronaldinho is crap lol

They are imho, especially ronaldo, biggest paid goal poacher..


And no I aint mixed up with Fifa Manager.

lol some1s lost the original CMs never became Premier manager and then FM... Premier Manager afaik became Fifa manager, CM became FM when SI split with Eidos... they kept everything but the name.. whereas Eidos kept the name and churned out a load of crap :S

nope

premier manager is still going,always has been and has just released a new game.

fifa manager/total club manager are the same thing.

championship manager is football manager

championship manager 5 makers are a new independent company paid by eidos,and ruined the championship manager name.

when sports interactive used to make champ manager and it was published by eidos..

they were known as 'eidos interactive'

now sorts interactive games are published by sega.

and last i read,championship manager is litrally dead...and there will be nomore of these rip off games.

aarrgghh
 

will some extremely kind person for the love of god send me or tell me where to get the no cd patch for FM2006, im going past desprate to point of considering chewing of my own leg as enjoyment.

Please help!!!!!

p.s this is my first post if i have broken any rules then i am sorry and i retire back within the cave i once came from.

-throws a head fit- thierry henry crap? man! please dont tell me henrick larsson,john hartson or chris sutton even deserve to be on the same pitch as him lol!

plus whilst your all on the subject of the history of FM here is mine!!!

It all started for me on my trusted Amiga with the orginal cm(Cant remember the year!)
then onto CM Italia (Again Amiga)

before its mighty rise to the PC where foreign leagues came in (Oh how i remember these great days!!!)

from there CM has evolved into the most successful football management games of all time, and then came the split... the dark days some call it,

well they were if you bought cm05 (Crock of crap that was) FM is the only sim you will ever need,

Long may it continue!!!!!

just incase anyone is working on a crack,there is a patch out already for football manager 2006

heres the fixs..

* Tuning of young player physical progression
* Spanish regenerated players and virtual players do not get given common names as much.
* Goalkeeping coaches now do not have high ratings for other coaching types.
* Loan players who have a "cannot play in cup matches" clause, can play in competitions which their main team are not entered for.
* Arsenal now use their red and white home top from the 2006 season onwards.
* Slovenian wages tuned.
* Mental attributes and happiness have more effect on training levels
* Ensured team talk slight concerns get cleared down for loan players who have been loaned from non_selected leagues.
* Toned down severe post-match player morale changes, this ensures players take at least a couple of good matches to go from poor/very poor morale to very good/superb morale and vice versa
* Ensured human managers don't get criticised for not praising thier own players when in fact they have left team-talks to their assistant managers.
* Stopped "grey team managers" being given negative attributes and therefore sabotaging their own teams causing some very big defeats.
* Teams in the same division should not have the potential for a giant-killing news story even if one is semi-pro and one is pro.
* Prevented board/fans/former club favourite/current player congratulations news items from appearing after a team has qualified for the Uefa Cup via the Intertoto Cup
* Adjusted the increase / decrease of human manager visible attributes.
* Reduced inflation of price clubs are willing to pay for a player based on domestic average rating.
* Ensured assistant coach/manager can't give feedback on himself.
* Some tweaks to coach and team reports.
* Monaco virtual players now have French nationality instead of having Monaco set as their nation.
* Fixed stadium expansion bug where team would sometimes not move back to their old stadium once it was finished.
* Fixed problem where some players would start the first season with stats from the previous year
* Fixed second nationalities for regens - previously weren't getting set properly.
* Fixed problem with caretakers manager's hanging around for ages without being offered the job or a replacement being found
* Fixed differing time periods for injury between profile and physio report
* Fixed players reaction to manager mind-games not showing up on client machines when playing network game.
* Fixed receiving news story stating Liverpool fifth times when should be sixth times champions.
* Fixed cases of manager being hired from within the club having the wrong 'time in charge' stat
* Fixed players on loan at a club who are signing for them at a later date (e.g. Laurent Robert) getting wrong player_bio about them.
* Fixed a bug where you can fine a player who is on loan to you and he will get upset with the club that owns the player.

Interface

* Injury league table not filled in for domestic leagues that had finished.
* Squad screen filters now filter WB L/DM (C) players correctly.
* You now have to pick a goalkeeper in quick tactics like you do in detailed tactics.
* Added "Help" to the Mac menu bar to follow standard behaviour on the platform.
* Help for "offer to clubs" now shows the correct information (instead of the "transfer offer " page).
* Pressing the escape key now closes the help dialog.
* Training section "attributes" list could display slightly different values than the player profile.
* Improved goal net graphics.
* 3rd placed Royal League teams displayed the 3rd placed team order instead of the proper group they were in.
* Used "Far" as short text for both "attack far post" and "stand on far post".
* Squad filters for teams works for b-teams if user is browsing the game without having added a human player.
* "Release comment" section disappeared when you clicked on another section of a player (before you had confirmed the comment).
* You were able to change some tactical settings from the full time team talks.
* If you used quick flicks to go to next team while on your own tactics section you might end up seeing their instructions.
* Referees now show a 'Based' city (if city is known) instead of showing an unknown city of birth on their profile.
* Clicking 'View Draw' might not take you to the results of the draw if you viewed a different section of the same competition.
* Minimum fee release clause was not visible while making a transfer offer for players in countries where this is mandatory (Spain).
* Substituting a player at half time would initially leave his overall team talk at "None" until you it again.
* Sometimes players were duplicated in part-exchange offers in the "Transfer listed" menu on the "Add" button.
* Can now give team talks to players who were substituted.
* Added more printing functionality to panels like Match Report, Match Stats, Home
* Player instructions "swap player" (outfield) and "distribute to" (goalkeeper) did not remember settings if set outside a match.
* In-match tactic panel updates the tactic title on the right panel properly.
* If you were in control of both a nation and a club, using the quick flicks did not go anywhere.
* If you were controlling a nation and a club, the context of the national FA confidence was the club and not the nation.
* Corrected "Upcoming Fixtures" to "Fixtures & Results" on the manager home section.
* In rare cases the player profile would display "-" for form even when the player had valid form.
* Player histories did not show season year properly for clubs where season overlaps the new year (2004-05 format).
* Go On Holiday dialog could have the "reject all offers as well as another item selected (they're mutually exclusive).
* Go On Holiday dialog "Return from holiday after:" N days edit box layout fixed.
* Inputting extended characters using AltGr (or Alt+Control) did not work.
* Pasting a single character from the clipboard to an edit box did not work (multiple characters did).
* Continue game timeout does not get used when a manager is making a team talk after the match.
* Reset requested scroll position when loading new HTML screen.
* Fixed wrong team being used in news item stating reasons for transfer delay being refused.
* Fixed exchange players showing up on news item but not on transfer offer screen
* Fixed home page snapshot of K-League (displayed opening stage intead of combined league).
* Fixed Belgian lower divisions snapshot (displayed opening stage and not combined league).
* Fixed possible crash browsing through teams staff list using the Quick Flicks.
* Fixed potential crash on European World Cup qualifiers second placed teams table if clicking on team position to see progress.
* Fixed some duplicate news items.
* Being able to deselect the 'Index' panel in the tutorial by reclicking on the 'Index' button.
* Fixed every second seperator line in tree view items being slightly longer than the others

Competitions

* Scottish league cup ties are now seeded properly.
* Fixed some issues with the CONCACAF Champions League when MLS is not a selected league.
* Mexican teams now do not register too many foreign players.
* Implemented English Conference changes for 2006/07 season.
* Mexican First Division groups are now correct for 2005.
* Prize money removed from Serbia and Montenegro Cup.
* Manager snapshot panel now shows full stage name in the competitions panel. E.g. North Semi Final instead of Semi Final
* All-Ireland Cup now stores past years correctly.
* Teams from 2006 African World Cup qualifiers do not qualify to the 2008 African Nations Cup any more.
* Some English FA Cup prize money amounts fixed.
* Hong Kong AFC Playoff now gets scheduled once all of the domestic competitions have finished.
* Ramat-Hasharon now deducted 2 points in 2005 Israeli National League.
* Spanish teams now start playing friendlies earlier.
* All Ireland cup now uses refs from Ireland or N. Ireland.
* European player awards tunning
* Greek player of the year problem fixed.
* Greek foreign player of the year problem fixed
* Player winning more than one seasonal award fix
* Attacking bias added to seasonal player awards.
* Some fixes for managers withdrawing players from international friendlies
* Australian players no longer win Asian awards.
* Award winner news item appears after player thanks manager news item.
* Fixed string error (australian pre match odds news) declaring league as being finished when it hasn't.
* Fixed some fixture dates in England for non World Cup/Euro Championship years.

Match

* When 2 human managers are playing each other in a match, the game now shows both team talk screens at the end of the match instead of just the one.
* When a human changed the order of his penalty takers just before a shootout, the score would sometimes not be stored properly when the result gets processed.
* Fixed a match screen crash which would sometimes happen after making quick tactic changes.
* If a human manager leaves a match (goes on holiday, disconnects from network game, etc), the assistant manager will now make tactical changes in his place.
* Fixed bug where the view menu on the tactics screen might be disabled for a second human manager on the same machine.

Transfers

* Starting foreign loans are now not treated as domestic loans for English teams when counting the number of loans done so far.
* Fixed bug where occassionally the game might forget to process a future transfer.
* Fixed a bug where national teams would sometimes appoint a director as their new manager.
* Players signed after a club has finished its season, now get put on holiday.

Assets

* ADDED Livingston player pictures
* Fixed Scott Thomson (Dunfermline) picture mapping to the wrong Scott Thomson
* ADDED Nottingham Forest player pictures
* Fixed Cardiff pictures (Darren Purse, Jeff Whitley, Joe Ledley and Neal Ardley)
* Fixed Stafford Rangers player pictures (Peter Thomson)
* Fixed Blackpool badge
* Fixed Rotherham kits not displaying
* Fixed Daejeon kits not displaying in first season
* Fixed Joao Goncalves FaceInTheGame picture

Data Editor

* Fixed potential crash on the squad screen
* Fixed manager preferred formations sometimes defaulting to 442

Tutorial Note

* The tutorial will only display properly in the languages installed with the Retail CD.

holy crap a few fixes then!