Fifa 2002, Madden 2002 & Nhl 2002

[noyb1]

Hi, peeps:

Okay, here's the situation, I would appreciate your help on ...

I'm working with NEW RETAIL ORIGINALS, have made backups of each one and all backups work fine, no problems there.

The problem is, the "AutoUpdaters" on these games "seem" to be screwed:

On Madden 2002, I get a message saying "No update available", now I know there's an update v2.31 and my game is v2.0, so that's wrong.

On FIFA 2002, I get a long ass error message from the updater, basically saying the NET_CAST blah, blah, blah site at port 80 is unreachable blah, blah, blah and quits after you click OK.

On NHL 2002, same message as with FIFA 2002.

I have gone to ALL the EA sites, and I mean ALL their sites, including their FTP sites and can't find a friggin patch file available for download for FIFA 2002 nor MADDEN 2002 anywhere on their sites. They even have the directory for MADDEN 2002, under patches at their FTP site, but it's empty! and FIFA 2002 just has no directory, period!

These are like the best kept secret update patch files ever! I have read ALL the tech support docs, faqs, etc on the EA sites and there's nothing relating to this "AutoUpdater" problem. I have read some usenet articles of other peeps having this problem, but nothing is addressed by EA anywhere, that I could find.

I have even tried (*gasp!*) their "Tech Support(?)" and that has been, as expected, a total waste of time!

Anyone have a "DIRECT LINK" to these update patch files for FIFA 2002 and MADDEN 2002 -OR- a fix to the "AutoUpdater" problem?

BTW, I know it's not a firewall problem, etc. Not a newbie in the firewall arena, so don't waste your time going that route.

TIA!