.:: Soccer Cards Current version - v1.42
(~700Kb) ::.
.:: Eurocards 2004 Current version - v1.01
(~470Kb) ::.
(Note this game requires VB6 runtime files. If the game fails to run download them here)
.:: Arsenal cardset by David Board - Download (~100Kb) ::.
(Extract the zip file to your cards folder in soccercards or eurocards)
v1.42 (Save games from 1.40 are compatible)
- Golden goal penalties bug fixed
- Schedule viewable from career
- Back button on fixtures screen
- Injury card now penalises 2-5 points instead of 1
- Red cards penalise a team 4-8 points instead of 10
- Can no longer cheat at penalties by pressing space bar
- Team size increases/decreases more quickly
- English team skills and sizes updated to reflect current club situations and league tables
- Top English clubs skills lowered slightly, computer controlled teams reach 100 skill points less often
- Readme updated, should be less confusing for new players
- Top English teams pay even higher fees for transfer cards making it harder to maintain
- Teams have to pay manager points each match as 'wages' in career mode
v1.41 (Save games from 1.40 are compatible)
- UEFA cup holder does
not play qualifying rounds
- Manager points from 2 leg games corrected (slightly off before)
- Manager points goal bonuses corrected
- European competitions are now seeded
- Champions league group stage fixtures corrected
- AI will try to defend a draw when they are considerably less skilled
- Computer will attack when losing on away goals and vice versa
- Big leads will mean it’s harder to score chances (Fewer huge scorelines)
- Final champions league group standings are now viewable
- Team stats refined further
v1.40 (Save games are NOT compatible)
- Season updated to 2003/2004
stats (obviously, most ratings predicted)
- European competitions now have more qualifying rounds
- New cardset and cardset selection form
- Readme links open in a new window
- Readme no longer tries to access the web
- Penalty shootouts stop early when the result is decided
- New minimum human team skill. Each league has a minimum team skill for human
players
- Possible to see which strategies the computer player has left
- 2 Teams in UEFA cup bug (hopefully) fixed
- History not saving cup wins bug (hopefully) fixed
- Stringing passes together adds to the possibility of a chance being scored
- Career screen tells the player what game is next
- Option to skip the fixtures screen for games you aren’t involved in
- Penalty save speed increased (too easy before!)
- Very slightly less goal cards around
- Amplified the chances of big teams scoring against smaller teams on chance
cards
- Computer now uses subs, all out attack, break offside trap in 1st half (but
not too often)
v1.31 (Save games since v1.2 are still compatible)
- Out of memory (runtime
error 7) bug finally fixed
- Crash when pressing continue on fixtures is fixed (occurred when you whizzed
through the weeks too fast on slow comps)
- Readme viewable in-game
- Keyboard shortcuts (See readme)
- Minor team rating changes
- Cosmetic tournament mode fixes
v1.30 (Save games since v1.2 are compatible, but history is incomplete)
- Tournament mode added.
Can play World Cup, European championship, Champions League and others outside
of career mode
- New match strategy, breaking the offside trap. Details on its use included
in the readme
- New history screen detailing your league record each year and number of
trophies/championships you have won
- AI teams are a bit tougher, more dynamic at getting back into matches
- New strategy button graphics (again) which use your team colours
- Slightly more difficult to get sacked
- Holland added to international team line-up, apologies for forgetting them!
(surprised no one moaned at me)
- Team values updated to final 2002/2003 standings
- Top premier league teams tuned down slightly (anyone other than Arsenal/Man
U will struggle to do well in europe at the start)
- Readme updated (hopefully the career mode is explained much better now)
- ToolTipTexts added to strategy buttons
- Game 72 career mode fixture clash (FA Trophy/Conference) fixed
- Golden goal rule enabled in Champions League, UEFA Cup and Vans Trophy
- Human/CPU icons added to match screen
- Reputation limited somewhat by the league you are in (e.g. can’t get
world class from playing in the conference each season)
- Computer controlled teams less likely to go straight back down upon promotion
and vice versa
- Freak event of a Div 1 team winning the UEFA cup and getting promoted no
longer crashes the game
- More job offers available, over a wider variety of leagues
- Another end of season crash fixed for players relegated from the conference
- Fixed blank board statement message (occurred when relegated and board didn’t
sack you)
- May have fixed runtime error 7 (out of memory) error, needs testing (I’ve
never had the error)
v1.22 (Save games since v1.2 are compatible)
- Board objective calculations
are now fixed (dodgy things came up before for promoted teams)
- 4 English teams in UEFA cup if an English team wins it and isn’t qualified
for the champions league
- International teams added, you can play friendlies with them
v1.21 (v1.2 save games compatible)
- Graphics overhaul
- New backdrop
- New card back
- Stripy backgrounds on the old school card set
- Pressing the X in a match will take you back to the title screen (saves
me adding a quit button)
- Coloured the card total boxes
- Buttons have new images
- New penalty backdrop
- Penalty screen format changed
- Fixtures screen format changed
- Career screen format changed
- Player 1 will not longer kick off each half due to popular demand, instead
away teams get 4 less skill points
- Team which kicks off first is randomly assigned in games where there is
no extra time or no home team (otherwise home team starts)
- Command button disappearance bug when 2 or more players play, is fixed
- Offside card added
- Penalties & Red Cards slightly rarer
v1.2 (Old save games are incompatible)
- Intertoto cup replaces
the conference cup
- Home team will always kick off (bit more advantage for the home team) unless
played at a neutral venue
- Skill values tweaked to be more diverse in the lower divisions, fluctuations
of skill in AI teams are more pronounced
- Away goals fixed (surprised no one mentioned this wasn’t working half
the time)
- Bug-fixes from last version including promotion team skill bug, penalty
save bug, etc
- General game balancing, including a variable manager points bonus upon promotion
- Transfer cards become less lucrative the higher your team skill gets (relative
to your current league)
- Fewer points scoring transfer cards available when your team is much better
than it should be (e.g small teams in the premier league)
- Fixed the playoff bug (another one)
- Fixed occasional board statement error
- Penalties sped up again (I found it too easy before)
- Computer saves more penalties
- More manager point balancing
v1.1 (Incompatible with old versions)
- Leagues can be exported
to text file
- Bigger teams beat smaller teams more easily
- Penalties are slower
- Skill levels for some teams changed
- Away goals work!
- No longer receive manager points for 1st leg games, only 2nd leg
- Transfer card prices and manager points awarded are scaled to the league
you are in. E.g. 1000 points per card in the premier league, 50 points per
card in the Unibond league
- Bonus points for winning cup games (more points for more prestigious cups
and later rounds)
- Promotion gives you points worth 6 transfer cards to improve the team
- Support for multiple skins, choose a button/backdrop skin and cards skin
- Colourful pixel stickmen card skin
- League results should be more realistic
- FA Cup winner and League Cup winner reach the UEFA cup
- Champions cup winner and UEFA cup winner defend their title in the next
season
- Top 16 conference teams enter the vans trophy
- League cup round 1 and round 2 are now 1 leg ties
- Match results between computer teams tweaked
- Many un-noticed bugfixes
- Readme updated for new rules
v1.05
- Multiplayer should work
properly now
- Can no longer save penalties in a miss slot
v1.04
- More pictures, representing
more of what’s going on
- Fixed a bug where if you quit before leaving the fixtures screen it wouldn’t
advance the game week
- Dead continue button in playoffs fixed (Nasty bug! Sorry guys)
v1.03
- Penalties are now more of a reflex challenge
- Interface tidied up
- Attacking/Defending effects tweaked
- Passes more likely to be good and not dodgy, good passes are successful
more
- Stricter sackings in the higher leagues (particularly top end teams)
- “Player 4” bug fixed
- Teams now play tactically according to their skill (e.g. Man U will use
their strategies well, Colwyn Bay will ‘forget’ them)
- 2 team name corrections (added a united, and split Northend into 2 words)
- Couple of very small cosmetic error fixes
- Doubled the commentary lines
- Transfer cards now randomised fully, ignore which line the cards are on.
There 21 of them with 20 points available
- Good chances slightly more likely to score for better teams, slightly less
likely to go in for worse teams
v1.02
- Spelling correction on substitution
- New manager points calculator
- Enhanced history screen with player history, points scores, team skills
and now playoff winners
- Everton no longer in the champions league in season 1 (oops!)
- Hyde United are back. Rejoice!
- Penalties and red cards are now rarer, red cards do more damage
- No longer says you remain in charge after a sacking
- About screen changed (I’ll change it to something more interesting
later)
v1.01
- Fixed icon for save game form
- Tweaked board expectation
- Dagenham spelling corrected
- Blyth spelling corrected
- Schedule editor crashed, this is fixed
- Conference playoffs now keep the correct scores
- Sackings now work properly
- No longer says you’ve been promoted when you haven’t
- 2 more board statements
v1.0:
- First release!
v1.01
- Team form added
- Editor added
- Readme updated
- Other small miscellaneous changes
v1.00
- First release!
