PES Off!! 14 May 2009

I’d like to kick off this week’s article with a quick look to Dan’s IWP this week about the new Messi screenshot released by Konami.  By the way – some of you may be under the impression that it was released to WENB exclusively, but that is not the case.  Konami have been issuing the screenshot to many different sources, ourselves included.

Anyway, Dan basically questioned whether the screenshot released was just “..taken from a cut scene or entrance video, and could actually in no way represent the graphics of the end product.”

Jon Murphy, PES Team Leader at Konami read this article and had the following to say, which I can exclusively reveal:

“I totally understand why Dan and members are questioning whether the screenshot we’ve released is in-game or not. However I can confirm this has been taken from a machine running dev code. I saw for myself the lighting techniques and new textures actually running on test kit when I recently visited Japan. The screenshot WEP has released is genuine and has not been rendered.”

Whilst I totally understand the cautionary nature of Dan’s statement, it’s very heartening to hear directly from Jon to let us know that it is the real deal!
Personally speaking, the screenshot has really got my imagination going wild!  I have to say that I have a new found optimism in the forthcoming game, primarily brought about by the unprecedented level of openness that we now have from Konami.  We can safely say that our cries and pleas are not falling on deaf ears, and that we’re truly being valued.

The next couple of months should help consolidate our optimism for the series.  These are indeed exciting times!

Thank you guys for the comments to my article last week – it’s great to see idea generation and open mature debate on the subject.  It’s good to see that we agree that goalkeepers should have a life of their own, and not be as passive in their abilities are they generally are in all football games – the complaints against current goalkeepers isn’t aimed solely at PES.

As we are now well and truly into the current generation of super consoles, we have much higher expectations from football games, and quite rightly so.  PES on the PS2/Xbox had peaked by PES6, and were fantastic games.  But even Konami back then were talking about architectural limitations hindering the progress of the series.  But now that isn’t an issue anymore, we should expect truly groundbreaking representations of the game, and judging from the Messi screenshot, PES2010 should see the dawn of the new era in football games.

As some of you may recall, my primary gaming machine was the 360, but I’ve now moved on to the PS3.  I never did hear from Major Nelson about Microsoft allowing option files to be edited in a controlled manner.

So as a result, I decided to move to the PS3 to allow myself to take full advantage of the PS3′s editing abilities for PES.  I have to say I am a complete beginner with editing files on the PS3 and not very good at it.  I got hold of an option file via our Editing Forums, but found it a bit of a pain having to copy across files individually to the system.  I was expecting to just copy over a folder into a set location, and job done.  In fact, even having copied the files over, I haven’t done anything else with them.

Part of this has been down to being blatantly lazy – with so many games and so little time, I haven’t been able to dedicate that much time to the editing side of PES.  But if there is any helpful tips you guys could give me in terms of instructions on how to go about modifying the option files, that would be very much appreciated.  I have already looked in our forum pages for help, but haven’t been too successful with it.  I do want to pull my finger out and get to grips with editing on the PS3, since that was the primary reason for ditching my 360 in favour of the PS3!

Finally a note to the real Amateur – we’re discussing user logins for leaving comments on the site.

I understand your frustration at the fake Amateur, but I have been reluctant to delete the comments or ban the individual because they’ve not written anything offensive (although you are clearly offended by them spoofing with your ID.) so it’s no harm done in the bigger picture.  We should have a resolution on this matter shortly.

Thanks for reading

Dougiedonut

(dougiedonut@pesgaming.com)