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This is a landmark release for our NCAA NEXT team. This release includes a lot of game changing mods that we've been working on for months and are very excited to share with everyone!

The major new release highlights include:

  • College Football Playoffs
  • Expanded Playbooks
  • Accelerated Play Clock
  • Updated Game Clock rules
  • Modified league structure
  • Updated Textures and Stadiums
  • Game Fixes
  • All-New Batch Mod Set-Up Helper File

V13.1 Quick Fixes

  • FBS/FCS missing roster for new league setup fixed
  • Team Swapping for new league structure now available!!
  • Week 0 now shows in Simulation Menu

V13.2 Update

  • Fix "New" League roster bugs
  • Fixed Time of Possession Calculation for Accelerated Clock
  • Added Player Jersey Names for various schools

V13.3
Updates to 40 Second Playclock to alleviate quicker play calling by CPU and display issue fixes
Fixed "New Realistic League" bug with Playoff/Bowl phase in dynasty mode

Modified League Structure

This mod now has two league structures to play with. The image below shows the two choices.

NEXT 23 is the same league structure that has been in this mod since V11 and V12. This version will allow some compatibility with existing saves with a DB Editor modification shown later down in this document.

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The NEXT 23.5 is a new league structure that completely removes two of the conferences from the game, and provides a realistic modern NCAA league format. Due to the team size limitations in the game, the CUSA and MAC conferences had to be combined and truncated to make this work. With V13.1, Team Swapping now fully works with created teams and FCS teams!!

Accelerated Play Clock/Game Clock Rule Change Tips

There is now an accelerated play clock option and game clock rule changes.

The game clock rule changes update the game to have current-day NCAA Football rules. In other words, the game clock continues to run when it is outside the final 2 minutes of each half. It will run on every completed pass or run, no matter if they player goes out of bounds. The clock only stops on change of possession, incomplete passes, or after special team plays. This speeds up the game quite a bit.

The play clock is now set at 40 seconds, instead of the old 25 second play clocks. In addition, if users enable EASY PLAY mode in the game settings menu, the user can go into EASY PLAY menu, and enable accelerated clock. There will be options to change the time when the play clock starts after selecting a play. For example, if the option is set to 20 seconds, the clock will automatically change to 20 seconds after a play is selected if it was above 20 seconds at the time it was chosen. The game clock will also wind down 20 seconds as well. This speeds up game time significantly.

In many user trials, it is recommended to double the Quarter Length to get the same amount of normal play time. This makes playing 12-15 minute quarters quite easy and quick, and it gets pretty realistic stats at 15 minute quarter game play.

Expanded Playbooks

Expanded playbooks is sort of a lie. This mod now allows users to replace the GOAL LINE formation with another other playbook formation the user desires for the USER playbook. A future update may increase more playbook capability.

College Football Playoff

The game now has a 4-team playoff at the end of the season. The semi-finals will occur after championship week, and before bowl games. The National Championship game will fall in the last week of the Bowl season.

For new saves, this works out of the box.

If you would like to convert a V12 (NEXT 23) save, please follow the guide below.

Save Conversion Process

First off, you will need to complete your current season in your save, including the national championship game, BUT DO NOT START THE OFFSEASON, prior to using the new V13 ISO Mod. If you do not, the game will probably crash or do weird things, as it has playoff logic in it and your save won't have the right configuration in it.

  • Once you are past the NC game, but have not entered the off-season, SAVE your dynasty.
  • Open your Dynasty save file in Madden Xtreme DB Editor.
  • Open the BOWL database table in the Editor.
  • Find the BOWL_DB.ZIP file that is in the V13 Download Page, and unzip the contents.
  • Inside should be a BOWL.CSV file. Extract that to somewhere you can find quickly.
  • In DB Editor, click CSV, Import, and choose the BOWL.CSV file.
  • It should now import the new bowl config for the playoff.
  • Save the dynasty save file and put the file back into your memory card if required.

Installation

For full installation, including tutorial video, please visit https://wiki.ncaanext.com/

For PCSX2 users, please use v1.7.4033 or older only! A copy of it is attached.

  1. NCAA Textures:

Before installing textures, make sure to clear out old installations first to avoid conflicting files.

There are Two Options here:

a) Download Source Code Zip below for the full texture pack. This includes all required textures and all alternate replacement textures for add-ons.

b) Download the required textures only. If you are having issues you can download the V13-Textures.zip file which includes only the main texture pack. Download V13-Alternate_Textures.zip for the optional add-on packs. These are broken up for easier downloading.

V13.1 Update: There is a small V13.1 texture pack. This is an add-on to the V13 textures. You will need both files.

  1. Game ISO Mod Installation Files: Download V13.3-ISO-Installer.zip below.

These are the patched files for the NCAA 06 Game Image. Please follow the Wiki instructions on how to generate the NCAA NEXT 23 game mod image to play. You will need a legal copy of NCAA 06 Football in an ISO game image format to patch the game.

New for V13 - the Install.bat process will guide you through installing mod options, which isn't covered in the original tutorials on our site.

If this does not work, you can manually move the files from the MOD folder and replace the original ISO files like previously.

Choose one of the "League" file sets, and then move the DATA folder over and replace the DATA folder files in your ISO folder.
Then choose either SLUS-Default or SLUS-Coach-Mod file and replace the "SLUS_212.14" file in your ISO folder.

  1. Dynasty Save Compatibility : https://www.ncaanext.com/p/dynasty-save-compatibility-upgrading.html

Known Bugs & Work Arounds (VERY IMPORTANT READ)

https://www.ncaanext.com/p/known-bugs.html

Dynasty Guide to Avoid Bugs
https://www.ncaanext.com/p/ncaa-next-dynasty-game-guide.html

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