
Installation Instructions

** Please BACKUP your exhibition.exh, db.viv, local.viv files before proceeding **


Step 1:
Copy and Paste or unzip exhibition.exh and exhibition.exha.tdb to your USER(My Documents)\NHL09 FOLDER. Say Yes to 
overwriting the files.

Step 2:
Copy and Paste or unzip db.viv to your C:\Program Files\EA Sports\NHL 09\db FOLDER. Say Yes to overwriting the file.

Step 3
Copy and Paste or unzip [B]local.viv[/B] to your C:\Program Files\EA Sports\NHL 09\fe FOLDER. Say Yes to overwriting the file. 
(credit to CGYFlames for string edits)

Step 4:
Copy and Paste or unzip [B]BHImport09.bat, genbhnhl.exe, ImpBIG.exe, gfxpak.exe, addon_installer.bat[/B] to your 
C:\Program Files\EA Sports\NHL 09 FOLDER (if you dont have them already). Click on BHImport09.bat.


That should do it.


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These are highly accurate up to date rosters and player attributes for NHL09 on PC (updated for NHL, AHL (about 75% accurate)
and top 7 Olympic teams only: CAN, USA, RUS, SWE, CZE, FIN, SVK (Vancouver 2010 rosters). Roster is updated regularly 
(every other day) by myself. Look for the "amnesiac's roster (Month updates) has been updated!" post for most recent update.
All Euro and KHL teams are not updated. Personally, I have no interest in updating these

The main NHL team rosters are at 23 players (like in real life),, while the other players (whove played during the season)
are found in the "additional" roster in NHLview, and/or the AHL teams. Team lines are done by myself and may not be accurate
to date, as they get changed too often in real life.

Salaries for most (95%) of the NHL players (not AHL) have been updated. All the NHL teams have been adjusted to be under the
cap (for dynasty mode), although some are very close to it, so be aware when trading in dynasty mode.

The height and weight for 95% of the NHL players has been adjusted to 6'1, 205 lbs. The reason for this is because tall and
heavy players are too slow, while short and light players are too fast in the game. This way Im able to adjust the players'
speed and acceleration relative to each other without have to guess, as speed is the most important/dominant attribute in
the game. That being said, I do slightly adjust the extreme tall players to have some noticeable appearance in the game
(ie. 6'4 players are put to 6'2, 6'5 to 6'3, etc). All in all its barely noticeable, and it makes the game more fair, in my
opinion. No I will not change them back.



Created teams:

- All-star national team (under Japan) with players that are not citizens of one of the top 7 nations (players such as: 
Kopitar, Vanek, Streit, Hiller, etc). Makes an even 8 competitive teams for Olympic tournaments.

- Additional NHL "All-Star teams". Apart from actual 2011 All-Star teams, Ive created the best possible teams from East 
and West under the following: All-Star A East and West teams are under SKA St.Petersburg and Spartak Moscow, All-Star B 
teams are under Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Ak Bars Kazan, and the All-Star C teams are MODO and Jokerit. 

- Battle of Canada tournament. Team West (BC, AB, SK, MB) are under Farjestads BK, Team Ontario are under Djurgardens IF, 
and Team East (QC and Maritimes) are under Brynas IF.

- East and West "Young Gun Teams" consisting of the 10-11 sophmores and rookies of the NHL under Frankfurt Lions and 
Hamburg Scorpions.

- "All-Time Legends" teams, including players such as: Gretzky, Orr, Lemieux, Roy, Plante, Lafleur, Richard, Bossy to name 
a few. These teams are under Avangard Omsk and Dynamo Moscow. See below for facepack and cybers (credit to Turbo 6, Slomo76,
 Jo-Naz, heninsh).

You will find all 11 of these teams in the Elitserien league, as well as the regular All-Star teams. Hope you like them.



IMPORTANT NOTES:

-- If you have problems running the game after following these steps and you have Vista or Win 7, I suggest disabling the 
UAC as it blocks BHimport from copying the files (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-uac-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista). 
Although please beware as this makes your computer more vulnerable.

-- To enable the roster for online play you can download Egorgiy's patch here,
http://www.thebreakaway.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1190

Copy all files and the Patches folder to your C:Program Files\EA Sports\NHL 09 FOLDER, and click NHL09rosterpatch file in 
Patches folder (it will not appear to do anything).

Your anti-virus may prevent the patch from working, as they detect a trojan with browserengine.dll. You will need to ignore 
this threat or the roster will not work for online play. I suggest you check your virus vault (such as for AVG) after a 
scan to make sure this file was not deleted.

-- Youll need the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Icepack (and boards) to play with National teams (links below):

TH's Vancouver 2010 Icepack, http://www.thebreakaway.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2861
Shadow's Vancouver boards ver 3.2, http://www.thebreakaway.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2916

-- The All-Time Legends teams facepack and cybers can be downloaded here, http://www.sendspace.com/file/x2yjkl

Copy all big, ebo, and fsh files to your C:Program Files\EA Sports\NHL 09 FOLDER.
Click addon_installer and wait until its done. Then click BHimport.



Enjoy my roster!