Posted by Don Sweey in PES 2008 News on Fri 09 Nov 2007
As a user with 4GB RAM in Vista x64, I was simply not happy to use the msconfig fix to boot up the OS with 3GB RAM just so that PES would work correctly. Thankfully, there is now a way to get the game working properly without reducing the amount of RAM available to the OS.
Firstly, download Kitserver 7.0.1 from any of these locations:
Speedyshare link
Rapidshare link
Filefront link
Copy the kitserver folder from within the archive into your PES 2008 installation directory and then run the setup program (in Vista, right-click the icon and select Run as administrator) found in the kitserver folder. Once the correct game executable and settings file have been picked up, click Install and it will apply itself. Once this has been done, run the program lodcfg. You will see an option allowing you to force the game to run at a particular resolution. Type one in, click Save and then run the game. It will override whatever resolution was picked in the usual Settings program. Be warned that you should only pick a resolution your graphics card is able to use. There is a help button in this program which explains all of the options.
Posted by Dan Bolas in Interfering With Play on Tue 06 Nov 2007
It’s Tuesday and it’s PESGaming.com, so that means its time for this week’s Interfering With Play. With the views on the new Pro Evolution Soccer split pretty much 50:50, I am fully aware that for everyone that agrees with one of my points, there will be another person calling it rubbish. For the first time in a very long time, actual fans of Pro Evolution Soccer are exceptionally disappointed with the product, and that is a sign that Konami really need to start listening to their audience if they want to continue being ‘the premier football game’ on the market. With that mini rant over, lets get going.
The Need For Speed
With so many problems seemingly ruining gamer’s experience of PES2008, I am going to start by picking up on something which I still feel is unique to the PES series, and something which has been progressively improved on in each instalment of Pro Evolution Soccer. There is no doubt that speed is a crucial part of football, with quicker players seeming to be the most devastating and dangerous players, and this is always represented very well in Konami’s franchise, with quicker players such as Ronaldo, Wright-Phillips and Walcott having the ability to get clear from their bigger, slower counterparts. However, in early versions of PES, you could build a team of small quick players, and be unbeatable. Players like Shearer and Kevin Davies were not getting the recognition for their abilities, because they lacked the pace that made them so lethal in the last third. In the last few editions of PES though, and in PES2008, bigger, stronger players are now as key as the smaller, quicker ones. Having someone like Viduka or Bendtner to hold up the ball is a genuine tactic now, and Konami should get some credit for identifying this. Of course, it is realism, and of course its something that should come as the norm, but for so long, the physical side of the game was shunned in favour of pace players and tricky wingers. I am not ashamed to say there are games when I play a very defensive long ball style, looking to exploit teams from set pieces using my centre backs. This is a situation that would never occur 5 years ago, and I am glad to see it getting progressively better in the PES series.
“I Want To Go….”
Several weeks ago, I mentioned the fact that Konami’s choice of music for their PES games was ‘questionable at best’. Konami are a company that have a rich history of using music to increase the atmosphere and mood in their titles. One of the most memorable gaming moments was hearing those 12 notes played at the start of Metal Gear Solid’s loading screen, and Silent Hill is a game the craves a quality soundtrack as a way of increasing tension and adding pressure. Whilst the commentary is a point of much debate in the PES series, there is no doubting that Jon Champion does a respectable job, and providing better scripting occurs, it has the potential to get better and better as the next gen console games continue to improve. However, the menu music is defiantly not acceptable in any way shape or form, and is something that needs to be sorted as soon as possible. I personally can tolerate ‘Go For The Goal’ as a pop style tune that would have been at home on the mega drive or SNES, but that is were my patience runs out. Konami have two main options, which they need to explore in order to get rid of the unbelievably dated tunes that are playing a great deal of the time. They could allow gamers to import their own music into a folder on their console or PC, with the game then reading the music from here as opposed to the CD or Blu Ray Disc. Surely a Media Player program takes up less space than a selection of over 50 tracks, and as long as it can play MP3 files, most people will be more than happy to use some of their hard drive to store their tunes of choice. Failing this, and knowing full well Konami are never going to shell out the money to use signed, famous bands for anything more than a entrance video, they should approach unsigned bands with music that is actually bearable. They could speak to DJ’s and get them to mix tunes that actually sound like songs you would hear in a club, not in a cartoon and they could approach unknown rap artists, rock bands and people who are musically talented, offering the option of promotion in return for the use of their tracks in the game. I know this won’t bother many people, but its something that I feel Konami really struggle on, and there is proof the EA Sports used to do it before they started getting big names to provide their ‘EA Trax’. On Fifa Manager 06, there was a tune by a band called Whitesilver, which I had never heard before. Intrigued, and having really enjoyed the song, I checked out the band to find out they were an unsigned Swedish group, who were currently starting up and had been approached by EA as a way of promoting their debut album. Surely Konami can take a huge note from this. Your views on the music in PES, and whether or not it needs sorting are very much appreciated.
Four More Years
Just a quick point regarding the PSN and the release of the PES2008 demo last Thursday. If anyone is thinking of downloading the 1GB+ demo as a guideline on whether or not to buy the game, I strongly recommend you avoid doing so. Firstly, by downloading the demo, you are showing to Sony that irrelevant of what they release or when they release it, it will still get downloaded and supported. This will result in many demos being delayed to after their games release, which is not what a demo is about. Secondly, it is a 70% version of a game, which is struggling with glitches as it is, and therefore it is a poor comparison to the ‘finished’ article. Sony and PES has always been a strong partnership, however with this demo situation, the questionable improvement of the PS2 version, and the problems plaguing its PS3 counterpart, links are looking frayed between the two.
Not A Patch On Me
At the time of writing I am yet to apply an option file to my version of PES2008, for the main reason that I am waiting until the next versions of the v1.0 ones are coming out. I tend to only update once or twice on each version of PES, as to get a settled squad lists and strips for playing Master League. Many people have asked how to set up the option file on their PS3, and as I have not done it myself yet, I am responding with the answer I am not sure. My best advice is to follow the guides offered, having read through them two or three times, or even print off copies and go step by step, in order to end up with the desired results. It’s also good to see a patch has been made available for the PC version of the game. Lets hope that the console versions will get their patches soon, although having been in the gaming world for a long time, I know not to hold my breath.
I Want The World And I Want It Right Now
Having read many good articles and humorous comments from various sources in recent weeks, I have to look back and just realise how demanding a group PES gamers truly are. Of course, we want the best possible footballing experience on our consoles, and although you would be hard pressed to find people played PES6 whilst owning PES2008, the newer title still doesn’t satisfy enough people. I am personally please with PES2008, and although I can see many areas for improvement, would defiantly say it is a better game than PES6. And yet many people feel hard done by. Hard done by for playing an improved game. Granted, the improvement may not be as great as in previous years, but its still there. And then there are the releases of option files and demos. Like many PS3 gamers, I was infuriated when the demo wasn’t released; getting more frustrated each week with Sony. I was calling up video game stores, like many of you out there, trying to persuade shops to release the game two or three days early in order to be playing it sooner. I was even queuing along with 200+ others at my local Asda the night of release, in order to get a quick game in the night before my mates. The impatience is quite shocking among PES gamers, and it still carries on. Whilst people are working hard trying to create realistic option files, there are still hundred of people out there demanding a better one, being abusive that one hasn’t been released yet, even though the title has been out just over two weeks! Some of the best PES6 option files were being released 6 months after the games release, but apparently that’s not acceptable nowadays! The computer gaming industry is the fasting moving one in the world, and sometimes, I feel people out there need to remember that its humans that are responsible for certain things, and need to cut others a break. I am sure that when the best option file is available, it will be released, and I am sure only a quarter of the people that use it will ever say thank you to those that developed it, and it probably won’t be the people who were being so disrespectful in these last few weeks.
Where It All Went Wrong
I am ending on a topic that has been bubbling over the course of the past few weeks, and with Fifa and PES being released so close to each other, probably has missed a lot of people’s attention. Whilst PES is receiving its worse response from gamers in years and Fifa is picking up the scraps with its regular ‘decent but not perfect’ accolades, the question that is on a lot of peoples lips is “Which Is The Best Football Game?” For many years the answer would simply be stated as PES, but nowadays it’s not something that can be answered to sharply. Is this because that the games are so commercial now that they are aimed at a different audience to what they were three years ago? Is it because that due to graphics and sponsorship deals, they know there games are going to sell based on adverts and promotion alone? I feel the answer is a lot more ‘grass routes’ than that. When you look back 12 years ago, and the beginning of the Playstation era, the football game market was still very much up for grabs. Taking management simulation games aside, there was still a great deal of choice for football gamers. Games like Sensible Soccer were still firm favourites on older systems, and on the Playstation, as well as ISS Pro and FIFA 96, you had titles such as Actua Soccer and Adidas Power Soccer available. Whilst these games were far from perfect games, they were an alternative that brought a different rival to Konami and EA. Then through Playstation and PS2 generations there were series such as VIVA Football, Libero Grande and This Is Football, which offered new ideas and concepts to provide a different challenge to gamers. None of these titles were classics, but they meant that Konami and EA had to raise the bar, and that along with competing with each other, they had to ensure their product was better than whatever the other developers were throwing out there.
Coming into the present day, and the era of the next generation consoles, the football gaming world is truly suffering from a drought. With the exception of football management games, and Super Mario Strikers (which is nothing more than an arcade game themed around football) there are two companies currently making football games, Konami and EA. There may be several titles from EA on the market, themed around tournaments or the champion’s league, but they still use the same engine as the FIFA series, and Fifa Street is also from the EA lab. Sports with a smaller universal following, such as Rugby and Cricket manage to send out games from two different developers each year, with sports like F1 and Super bikes managing more! This is surly not right. However, the facts are that EA and Konami only have each other to compete with now, and as a result, the people who are suffering from this two horse race are the consumers. Your thoughts on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
So that’s you lot for this week, and yes, as usual I have rambled on a bit. Views on anything you have read here would be greatly appreciated. I am getting some really interesting messages and mail, which is taken on board and read before each Interfering With Play gets penned. I want to take my hat off to Andrew Bengston, for his top review of PES2008 on X Box 360. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and will be writing my own in Interfering With Play next week. Any comments can be added here; alternatively you can hit me directly at danbolas@hotmail.com. As always, if you’re going to add me on MSN please mail me first, as I won’t accept you if I don’t know whom you are.
Thanks for Reading
Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Sun 04 Nov 2007
The first ‘decent’ PS3 option file has landed, courtesy of WEMerica and DJpelle. The file includes:
- Updated transfers
- Updated kits
- Replica kits for Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpol and Manchester United
- All names including stadiums, cups and teams changed
- Updated team line ups and formations
- The missing Bundesliga teams added
Rating: 
Rapidshare Mirror
FileFront Link
This file will overwrite any cup or league records you may have. It only works offline.
First you need a usb memory stick or a PS3 compatible memory card
Unzip (VERY IMPORTANT - use WinRar) the rar file on the desktop
Take the PS3 folder and put it onto the usb key
Put the usb key in the PS3
Then go in save data games and usb data then copy the edited game data one by one from the usb key to your PS3 hard drive
