User Profiles

Site hosted by Angelfire.com: Build your free website today!

Going Airborne: Iowa State's #1 Mike Brantley (WR) grabs one from the clutches of TCU defenders #36 Nathan Roach and #18 Curtis Fuller. The Horned Frogs won the season opener 31-21.

User Profiles

Ah yes, our beloved User Profiles. How did we live without them before NCAA Football '99? In older titles, all information (audible settings, roster changes, etc.) had to be reinserted into the game with every switch of the "on/off" button on the Playstation. Now, setting up a User Profile can save all this information (including custom plays, playbooks, extended audibles, and substitutions) to your memory card for a quicker setup any time you feel making a presence on the television gridiron. The fine folks at EA have heard our voices, and responded with the additon of this new feature. Anyone who has fulling implemented User Profiles knows exactly what I am referring to. But if you have not, or if you are wondering about the extended capabilities of this new feature -- look no further than this sections below.

As A Strategy

Setting up a User Profile can be one of the best tips I could ever recommend in playing NCAA Football '99. The fact that all your information and "tweeking" of your game style being saved on one simple memory block is almost priceless. Never again, will you have to fumble (no pun) through your memory of "how" you setup up your team last week when you want to "fire one up" with your buddies today. It can now be all saved as a "evolving strategy" -- so to speak. One User Profile, one ticket to a better game.

The How To

Minimal Requirements

There some minimal requirements to setting up a User Profile. I list them as follows:

A Playstation compatible Memory Card.
At least one block of available memory.

Creating A New User Profile

To access User Profiles, select the USER PROFILES from the Main menu. A pop-up menu gives you the choice to create a new User Profile, select a User Profile for editing, or load a User Profile. The directions are as follows:

Select NEW USER PROFILE from the User Profile pop-up menu. The Create User Profile screen appears.
Press (SELECT) and enter a name for your User Profile, then press (X) to enter. Then choose the team for your profile, then press (X) to enter. The User Profiles Option menu appears.

The User Profile Option Menu

This is where all the true "tweeking" of your already created User Profile begins. You may choose one, none, or all of the following to modify. Descriptions are as follows:

CUSTOM PLAYBOOKS - Select the play formation and sets you want for your user profile team.
PLAY EDITOR - Design custom plays for your team.
SET AUDIBLES Set offensive and defensive audibles for your user profile team.
SUBSTITUTIONS - Set the substitutions you want to be made each time your User Profile is loaded.
EDIT PROFILE - Change the name, or team for you User Profile

Saving A User Profile

Whenever you create a new User Profile or make any minute change within, you must SAVE that User Profile. This is so over-looked by many folks out there playing the game. REMEMBER, save your User Profile whenever making any change that you want to keep, other wise any changes will be lost (which may be desireable). The method of saving is as follows:

Press (Triangle) when done creating / modifying a User Profile.
Answer "YES" to save User Profiles by pressing (X).
NOTE: This takes you to the Memory Card's SAVE USER PROFILES screen. This can also be done through BACKUP OPTIONS from the MEMORY CARD sub menu.
Now you may simply SAVE as a NEW User Profile "file", which can contain up to 14 profiles, or you can "overwrite" a existing "file" which will simply add your NEW User Profile to the list within.

Extended Uses Of User Profiles

Ok, Ok, Ok, you want to "fire one up" with your buddies. You own a memory card with your own User Profile tweeked to the MAX. Your buddy has the same. Typically one of you forfeits your User Profile being entered into the game because you've encountered problems getting them both within the game. User Profiles not being so "user friendly". You are not alone. It can be tricky. It can be done though. Follow the procedure below, and you both will soon be up and running...two memory cards...User Profile vs. User Profile.

Two Memory Cards, Two User Profiles

Follow the procedure below step by step. It may be a good idea to either print this out or copy it by hand, and insert it into your game's direction booklet for easy future access.

1.   Turn Playstation "off".
2.   Make sure two controllers are plugged into the system.
3.   Plug in memory cards #1 and #2 in appropriate slots.
4.   Turn Playstation "on" with game disc inserted.
5.   Select USER PROFILES from the Main Menu.
6.   Select LOAD USER PROFILES from the sub-menu.
7.   From CARD #1, select LOAD USER PROFILES.
8.   Choose CONTINUE at the WARNING screen.
9.   Select OK.
10. Press (Triangle) to back up one screen.
11. Use D button to switch to CARD #2.
12. Select LOAD USER PROFILES, repeat steps 8 - 10.

Two Memory Cards, Two User Profiles - Saved to One Memory Card

Ok...now let's assume either you or your buddy is tired of bringing that memory card over every time you two want to "fire one up" on NCAA Football '99. You want to use your User Profile you created on your card and put it on his memory card, or vise versa. This way you do not have to "have" that memory card evey time you two play. Two memory cards, two User Profiles, saved to one memory card. The procedure is as follows:

1.   Turn Playstation "off".
2.   Make sure two controllers are plugged into the system.
3.   Plug in memory cards #1 and #2 in appropriate slots.
4.   Turn Playstation "on" with game disc inserted.
5.   Select USER PROFILES from the Main Menu.
6.   Select LOAD USER PROFILES from the sub-menu.
7.   Select MEMORY CARD containing User Profile you wish to "copy".
8.   Select LOAD USER PROFILES, to LOAD that profile.
9.   Select CONTINUE, if you get a WARNING.
10. Press OK.
11. Press (Triangle) twice, backing up two screens.
12. Select USER PROFILES from the Main Menu.
13. Select SELECT USER PROFILE from the sub menu.
NOTE: Your copied User Profile should appear on the list.
14. Press (Triangle) twice, backing up two screens.
15. Select MEMORY CARD, then select BACKUP OPTIONS.
16. SAVE YOUR USER PROFILES (Select YES to overwrite).

This is the procedure to copy profiles from card to card. Once you do it a couple of times, it becomes a bit easier...and logical.

Important Reminder

NOTE: Any time you change "anything" with a User Profile, you have to SAVE USER PROFILES from the BACKUP OPTIONS. Otherwise you will lose those changes when you shut the game off.