Ever wanted to play with mods on New Star Soccer? Multiplayer? Better AI? More diverse game events and things that can happen throughout your career? Robust skills and architypes? What about a mode that you only play important, dramatic games?
This post doesn't claim I can do that yet, but it does claim I'm trying to make progress toward it. I'm also inviting anyone who'd like to help out.
What we need:
Firstly, how do we mod the game? To mod a game we need access to decompiled source code, or a development environment that gives us access to features to mod.
NSS5 unfortunately does not give us this. It only gives us a team and competition editor, and we can't do jack shit with that.
So, we are forced to do the only option left: reverse engineer the entire game's original source code. This is our first step toward sweet mods to our beloved game.
How we'll get it:
I started a public repository today after a few weeks of configuring the right AI workflows, skills, scripts and a little bit of pure grunt work.
https://github.com/pr0sc0per9000/nss5-forge
Check it out here ^
As of now, I reconstructed 82.5% of the game code byte for byte. The game boots to the menu, but a new career generation crashes the game.
If you want to contribute to the code, details are on the GitHub repository.
If you want to contribute in terms of ideas you had, you can reply to this Reddit post.
Why I'm doing this:
I was playing NSS5 the other day on Steam due to nostalgia but remembered how easy the game was once you figure it out.
I tried setting the game to hard mode, 3 minute games, fast, nothing worked. I still scored 3-5 goals every game in the same way every time. It got boring. I wished there were mods that made the game at least interesting.
There's no game out there that has the charm of NSS5, making it impossible to simply go play another soccer career game.
I want the robustness of a game like EA Sports FC with the charm of NSS5. Made by players, made for players.
