Possible to change both Damien Sandow's Announcer Call Name and Display name?

[Stylesismilo]

Hi all, I am still quite noob in modding,  however I did go through the help section, but did not see similar questions or tutorials on this. 

I was wondering if I can change Damien Sandow's Announcer Call name as well as his display name. Is it possible to do both, or just his display name (by modifying the string values?)

[ItzTheRampage]

Jeah you can change his name to Damien Sandow . And you can change his announcer name, but you would have to get one from youtube, filter it and inject it into a caw announcer name. So it would be unnessecary to change his in game name

[4 Life]

Both are very possible, I've replaced several superstars in my roster now and this includes changing their call names and text strings

To edit text strings you'd firstly need to have the future proof string installed. Download HxD and open the string.pac file with it. Then do the following:

1) Click near the top of the document. Hit Ctrl+R to bring up the Replace menu. Set the Datatype to Hex-values and the Search direction to All.

2) Open this page - it's basically a text string to hex converter. Type in the text you want to replace in all caps (DAMIEN SANDOW or DAMIEN MIZDOW in this case, whichever it is I can't remember). Hit Convert then hit Select, then hit Ctrl+C to copy the code. Paste it into the Search for box back in the HxD Replace menu.

3) Repeat step 3 to get the code for the text you want to replace it with and paste that code into the Replace with box HxD. NOTE: The text you want to replace it with can be no longer than the original text. It can be short, but not longer.

4) Once you paste that into the Replace with box, if the new text has fewer characters that the old text, then you're going to need to replace any missing characters with blocks of 00s. So, for example, if I wanted to replace DAMIEN SANDOW with BUTT MUNCH - the original text is 13 characters long whereas my new text is only 10 characters. So my text in the boxes would look like this:

    Search for: 44 41 4d 49 45 4e 20 53 41 4e 44 4f 57

Replace with: 42 55 54 54 20 4d 55 4e 43 48 00 00 00

5) When you're done there, hit Replace all and HxD will replace all instances of DAMIEN SANDOW in the file. That'd mean it'd be changed in the selection screen if that was his name there and also in the Creation Suite or wherever else it may appear. Hit save when you're done.

6) Navigate to your 2K16 installation directory and to the pac folder. Scroll down and you'll see a file named string.pac.bak - this is a backup file that HxD made before saving, so put this somewhere safe and if you need to back up then delete the .bak part from the name and then copy/paste it back over your string.pac file. NOTE: You'll need to move this .bak file to another folder as the game might still try and read it rather than your current string.pac file.

That's it, now try it in game You can edit all sorts of strings with this method. If you look right at the start of this video you can see I've also edited my roster names, changing SUPERSTARS to WWF ROSTER and DOWNLOADED SUPERSTARS to WCW ROSTER.

 

As for how to replace announce sounds, Trap Master made a nice tutorial http://smacktalks.org/forums/topic/61213-trap-master-wwe-tutorials-dlc_40pck-finished/

[Stylesismilo]

Ah nice! Thanks for the help guys! =D