2025 Real World Mod (Version 14.0.3)

[slybelle1]

Hello, the following is a Realworld to represent realworld information for the pro basketball '25 game. Feel free to download and use if you like.

DISCLAIMER
The installer and materials contained within the Real World Mod are provided "as is" and the user assumes all risk of downloading, installing, and using the mod. It is possible that your security software may report a possible risk with the file(s) as each software has it's own methods of identifying threats. A number of security software products are proactive in flagging relatively unknown files (such as mods) or installers as a risk in order to be extremely cautious as they should be. Since the file(s) get posted on the internet and on file hosting sites, I can't control and don't assume responsibility for what might happen to the file(s) and whether an actual threat gets attached. It's each person's responsibility to download, install, and use the mod.

What's Included

NBA

- League Logo (this will overwrite the game's default league logo--backup original if you want to keep)
- Eastern Conference Logo (this will overwrite the game's default logo--backup original if you want to keep)
- Western Conference Logo (this will overwrite the game's default logo--backup original if you want to keep)
- (30) Team Names, Arena Names, Arena capacity, Arena Date, Owner Names, Logos
- Jerseys for displaying on main game screens when not using real photos
- Jerseys for displaying home/away/alternate Jerseys during 2D games
- 30 NBA courts (thanks to SRT-LeBron for the floor designs)

Note 1: Information for NBA teams will be the same, regardless of the league year being used. This means names, logos, arena info, owner info, etc. will always be based on modern NBA versus what it was for a specific year. To the best of my knowledge, the game does not have a way to mod differently per league year.

Note 2: All courts and jerseys are currently the same as the 2023-2024 season, even though some have changed such as the Clippers. Not sure if/when any further updates will be made, it's possible that none will ever be.

NBA G League (Development)

- League Logo (this will overwrite the game's default league logo--backup original if you want to keep)
- (28) Team Names, Arena Names, Arena capacity, Arena Date, Owner Names, Logos, Changed Some NBA Team Affiliations

Note: In real life there are currently only (28) G-League teams (that aren't exhibition oriented) but the game requires (30) teams so that (1) can be assigned to each NBA team. Therefore two NBA teams still assigned to generic d-league teams.

College

- (333) School Names, Nicknames, Logos

What's Not Included

- No Real Player Photos
- No real player/coach rosters (the base game already includes these)

How to Install Non-Steam Version

1) Make sure the Pro Basketball 2025 Game is installed.
2) Download the Realworld mod from https://mega.nz/file/CMpxSKyA#H4_rUbVjO ... L8w-UHmuoc
3) Extract the DDSPB-RW-Mod-Non-Steam-v14.0.3.zip file to a temp folder like c:\temp
4) Run the DDSPB-RW-Mod-Non-Steam-v14.0.3.exe file (if your security programs block it, you'll need to make sure to add an exception to allow its installation)
5) In the destination folder box, you must put the path where you installed the game. By default it uses "C:\Wolverine Studios\DDSPB2025", but you can change to any path where you installed the game.
6) Create a new league within the game (will not update any existing leagues--besides graphics). When creating a new league you must UNCHECK the "Randomize Owner Characteristics" checkbox on the League Settings screen, otherwise you won't get real owner names.

How to Install Steam Version

1) Make sure the Pro Basketball 2025 Game is installed.
2) Download the Realworld mod from https://mega.nz/file/HBZFRS6S#aJikRyy7G ... jgnVmIn9oo
3) Extract the DDSPB-RW-Mod-Steam.zip file to a temp folder like c:\temp
4) Run the DDSPB-RW-Mod-Steam.exe file (if your security programs block it, you'll need to make sure to add an exception to allow its installation)
5) In the destination folder box, you must put the path where you installed the game. By default it uses "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Draft Day Sports Pro Basketball 2025", but you can change to any path where you installed the game.
6) Create a new league within the game (will not update any existing leagues--besides graphics). When creating a new league you must UNCHECK the "Randomize Owner Characteristics" checkbox on the League Settings screen, otherwise you won't get real owner names.

If you follow those steps, you should be good to go. If any problems, feel free to post here and will do my best to help.

Note: If you ever reinstall the game and/or install a game patch that replaces a number of the data files, you'll need to reinstall this mod in order to work again. Typically when game patches are released, I'll try and release an updated version of the mod to stay in synch.

Why Mod Requires Updating
Within the mod there are two databases included...the default database and the historical database. The way modding works requires updating those databases so that is why included in my mod. Typically I would prefer not to include those types of core game things, but no way around it for modding certain things (i.e. team names, gm names, arena info, etc.)

Every time there is a patch release, there is a "potential" the developer made changes to those databases for other reasons (i.e. bug fixes, updated coaches/players, etc.) although doesn't happen with each patch and probably is infrequent. Instead of taking a chance that people playing with my mod would have outdated database files, I recreate my mod each time using the latest databases regardless if they changed.

[ukSUNSfan]

Thank you for the tremendous work, as always, @Slybelle1

[markprior22]

Anyone have issues with this starting a new league with 14.03? I used the mod with the first version and it was fine. Updated game, d/l 14.0.1 and ran the extraction process. Try to start new league, click sandbox, default rosters and click continue. Game will not create league. Maybe it needs a 14.0.3 version but I'm not sure.

[slybelle1]

Yes, the latest version added new fields to the database so that is why your seeing the issue. I have updated the mod to include the new database so you have to redownload and install before starting a new league.

[markprior22]

Thanks as always!

[Mwilliams01]

Thank you! Great work as usual!

[VCJones3526]

Thank you. I play on Steam, can I use the 2024 version? or I should wait until you update this version to work on Steam?

[tvotaw]

Thanks (as always!) for the mod. Really adds to the game.

Question on player faces ... I see for randomly-generated leagues, it appears players have faces. But for this mod, they are all the blank face. Is there a way to have randomly-generated faces if using this mod?

I don't see something in Game Options or the Commissioner's Office which relates to faces (only HTML pages).

Oh ... do we install these photo packs?
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