June 2000

128 Colour Brazil Kit

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Five Quality Downloads

News in the world of FIFA 2000 is becoming scarse. On top of this myself, Lior, Andrew, Simon and Rich are all working our arses off on these few huge projects we have planned for the near future. However, Lior has been able to scrape together some quality Downloads for you today. I'm also sure that Simon will have a bit of news for you later on. Anyway, today's Downloads are as follows:

• A Spartak Moscow jersey
  
• Juventus and PSV goalkeeper jerseys
  
• Shai Ziv's new collection of balls (see screen shot)
  
• An ITV Logo patch (see screen shot)
  

Keep those files coming into Lior.

Posted by Matt

Friday, June 16, 2000

Pitch 2000 Finished!

Henrique Meyer Has finished working on Pitch 2000, the FIFA 2000 grass textuure

To get the utility head over to http://www.nitrosoft.net

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Start Your Downloads Engines

Two files from the UK are featured in our Downloads section today. They are:

• A Man Utd training jersey
  
• A Sky Sports Patch
  

On the another note, keep an eye out here and at Soccer Gaming. We have three HUGE projects under development. One of which will be going live in the next few days.

Posted by Matt

Thursday, June 15, 2000

FIFANet is Back at Soccer Gaming

Jordan Staridis' FIFANet is back up and running at Soccer Gaming. The already well-known site covers all the latest news from FIFA 2000 to Euro 2000. Be sure to check it out today.

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New Design For Feyenoord FIFA

This in from Feyenoord FIFA:

"We, Feyenoord FIFA (feyenoord.cyber-soccer.net), have designed a new design for our FEYENOORD EURO 2000 (feyenoord.cyber-soccer.net/euro2000) site. On this site can you find the latest news about the Euro 2000 tournament, the game Euro 2000 and a lot more, so it is really worth a visit it!"

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More Kits at DKG

DKG Kitstore @ http://fifalivesite.tripod.com/dkg has some new kits available for you to downlaod: Germany, Man Utd 2000-01, Liverpool 2000-01 & Italy 1.1

DKG Webmaster Daniele wants to apologise for a lack of updates recently, but he had to format his cpu.

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D/E 2000 Patch: Almost There

The Huge "Anything You Can See" D/E 2000 Patch will be released on 19/6/2000 and not 15/6/2000, this is due to problems with the stadiums. The patch will be 65mb but with compression only 15mb to download! Visit the official site @ http://www.go.to/de2000p which has all the latest news on the patch.

This is shaping up to be a truly fantastic patch, more news soon.

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Some More New Files

Four great new files are awaiting you in our Downloads section today. They are:

• FA Premier League ad boards
  
• Spain, Slovenia and Holland jerseys
  

Start downloading! :-)

Posted by Matt

Wednesday, June 14, 2000

Today's Downloads List

Today we have another great collection of files for you in our Downloads section. We have:

• The 64 Colour kit maker
  
• A FC Basel jersey
  
• A Swiss updated roster
  

Be sure to check them out. Come back tomorrow for more Downloads.

Posted by Matt

Tuesday, June 13, 2000

FIFA Gaming Awards 2000 - Vote now!

If you didn't already hear from Drinky, Voting has finally begun in the first ever FIFA Gaming Awards, in association with Soccer Gaming. Voting is open until the 30th June, after which we'll count the votes and crown the award winners. We'll also be bringing you some exclusive interviews with nominees about the awards and what they plan to bring us next. Hot-foot it over to the official site to register your vote and take part in the fan awards everyones trying to get their hands on!

This is a very exciting first time for the awards, and you should all make sure you get your say in. So head over to the site and submit your votes right away on who you think deserves top spot!

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New Downloads

Two new files feature today in our Downloads update. They are:

• The new S-29 ad boards by Shai Ziv
  
• A new Nottingham Forest jersey
  

News has just been posted over at Soccer Gaming about what we have planned for you all over the next couple of months. Included in our big development plans is a huge, fully user-friendly "Downloads Centre" and the grand opening of FIFA 2001 Online at fifa2001.com.

Posted by Matt

Monday, June 12, 2000

Kit Maker

Well if your an englishman like myself your probably too busy sulking to care about the FIFA scene at the moment, but here is some good news for the rest of you from Mathew Martinez:

"I have just released the beta version of KitMaker 2000 to the beta testers as known, but i have personally tested it myself and there are bugs in the editor that must be fixed... I just released this early beta version to get suggestions from the testers and as and experimental editor... also the shadow viewer and editor in this beta version are not active and do not work, I have disabled them... more work will be going into KitMaker 2000 so watch out for it..."

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MLS 2000 Patch

"From the makers of the MLS2000 Patch, which was nominated for best add-on patch for the upcoming FIFA Gaming Awards, they now bring you their next version of this great patch, MLS2000 North America!!! If you enjoyed playing with the only patch that inserts the MLS into season mode and with all the new graphics, well then, prepare to be amazed!!! MLS2000NA is twice the size of their first work. Here is a list of new features in this patch:

New Leagues: Mexico, Costa Rica, and A-League as well as the MLS. The Concacaf Champions Cup. Nike U.S. Cup featuring the USA, Mexico, Ireland, and South Africa national squads
U.S. Open Cup: includes all the 32 participating clubs for the year 2000.
New Kits: Updated 128 color kits for the MLS with sponsors, MLS shorts and socks, plus Mexican club kits and other selected clubs.
New Stadiums: A total of 18 new stadiums
New Menu Graphics: MLS Menu screens
ESPN Graphics Patch II
Graphics updated: All other graphics are updated (adboards, logos, ect...)
New Goal keeper kits- 10 Funky Keeper kits
MLS Referee Jersey
Official MLS Mitre Soccer ball
New FIFA Grass textures

FIFACS MLS guarentees you this patch is far better than their first MLS patch, and the first one was nominated for best patch add-on!! Can they live up to their expectations? See for yourself by clicking this link http://www.fifacentrespot.de/mls

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Sunday, June 11, 2000

Finally... More Downloads

The amount of Downloads Lior is receiving has certainly dropped. Make sure you all send in your edited files to Lior as we'd like to keep the very popular Downloads page going strong. With over 5000 unique visotrs hitting this page daily, we need fresh Downloads. The good news today is that the following files are now available in the Downloads section:

• A Galatasaray menu
  
• Real Madrid Jerseys
  
• Newcastle jerseys
  
• The World Roster update 4.0
  

Be sure to check them out and come back for more.

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Start Voting Now in the FIFA Gaming Awards.

Soccer Gaming has announced that the voting for the Soccer Gaming FIFA Awards 2000 has officially begun. Andrew Drinkwater and Joey Jones have been working hard to bring you the official voting page that lets you choose from a large list of nominees in a variety of different categories. Be sure to vote today for these very prestigeous awards.

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Saturday, June 10, 2000

Dutch FIFA 2000 Online Opens

The latest news from Mark Honsbeek is that Dutch FIFA 2000 Online has reopened its cyber doors. Be sure to check out the site if you're from the Netherlands or speak Dutch.

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Friday, June 9, 2000

FIFA LA News

News from FIFA Series (www.fifala.com/english.html).
News from sites hosted by the soon to be launched Soccer Access Network. Powered by euro-dream.com

Here is the main news:

The Virtual Faces Add-On has been published. I received an email saying that there were errors with the files. I've tested the file again and it works. The realistic faces, you can find good realistic faces in sites like (fifaitalia.com, fifamania.it, and fifauk.com)
The Virtual Faces plug-in 1 will come with the Latin Leagues beta
version (with 128 color kits, 64 kits, 64 hex stadiums, faces, new uniforms, and over 120 new teams from over 11 new leagues plus the international updated leagues).
To install the Virutal Faces Plug-In
a) Use the CHICO ( http://chico.euro-ball.com )easy to use interface. There you can just open this ZIP, click on faces and install it!
b)Open this ZIp file uncompress the faces.fsh file to this folder:
\data\player\textures\ (these folders are in the fifa2000 folder).
Back up your old faces in case you don't like them.

The new hexedited stadium from the patch. Diego has the FIFA Millennium (www.fifamillennium.com) page, were he constantly uploads many international G2 stadiums. The Latin Leagues patch will be released in a special version (during july - august) with 64 hexedited stadiums by fifamillennium!.

You can also visit www.fifacolombia.com for the graphic menus. David has let us use all of his wonderfull menus in the patch so you can expect all of your favorite team menu in the "Favorite Team Program".

Also, we've teamed up with the latest and better graphic patches:
Fox Sports (LatinAmerica), SportTV (International), ESPN graphic patch 2 (MLS patch), Sky Sports (England), Globo TV (Brazil), ESPN Brazil, Fox Chile, TVN (Chile), Sky (Chile), TyC Sports graphic patch 2 (Argentina), PSN (LatinAmerica), ITV (Israel)..
Expect all of those graphic patches in the Latin Leagues patch as well.

Please go to to http://www.fifala.com/english.html for more info.

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New Jersey Creator News

From R.Sudharsan:

"The utility will be available this week-end(Hopefully!). It may or may not have the fsh file export.
There has been a minor delay in the release of the utility for I am trying to eradicate any sort of error message that the user might come across. I am currently busy with my studies but that should not stop the utility being released this week-end."

Keep your fingers crossed :-) more news on this util soon...

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K-J Super Patch 2 News

Hello!
I'm FIFA KOREA Webmaster, Tae Sung Park.
We have released the amazing K-J Super Patch 2!(Korean/Japanese League Super Patch 2)

Here is a K-J Super Patch 2 description.

• A Macedonian TV logo patch
  
• A PSV stadium
  
• A Player sleeves patch for long sleeves
  
• A striped black and white ball
  
• A Polish national goalkeeper jersey
  
• Celtic and Rangers 00/01 home and away jerseys
  
• Treebeard's 2.0 update
  
• A Euro 2000 roster update
  
• An English roster update
  

Wednesday, June 7, 2000

BBC Match Of The Day Pop Ups

The update will be out in August - please bear in mind that these popups are barely started and are undertsandably rough around the edges :)

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Wicked Backgrounds From Fifa Colombia

Fifa Colombia has been publishing backgrounds from the best teams from around the world. The cool thing about these backgrounds is that they can be used as Fifa 2000 start screens or just as PC wallpapers, because the files are also in 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions.
2 new backgrounds are published every 2 days.
The teams that have been published so far are:
America de Cali
America de Mexico
Atlas
Atletico Nacional
Barcelona
Bayern Munchen
Boca Juniors
Colombia´s national team
Corinthians
Deportivo Cali
Inter
Atletico Junior
Juventus
Lazio
Manchester
Necaxa
Olimpia
Peru´s national team
Real Madrid
River Plate
Tigres de Mexico
Valencia
Vasco da Gama
Palmeiras
Argentina´s national team
England´s national team (shown below)
Sporting Cristal
Monterrey
and a comemorative background of Real Madrid´s 8th European Champions League title.

Still there are plenty to come, like national teams from Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and clubs like Monaco, Marseille, Borusia Dortmund, Roda JC, Feyenord, etc.
Pay them a visit to download your background at http://www.fifacolombia.com

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Tuesday, June 6, 2000

FIFA LA News

"FIFA LA international (http://www.fifala.com/enlgish.html) - temporal international version of fifala has published the Virtual Faces Plug in. This page is the temporal page for www.fifaseries.com (fifala international). It also shows you the URLs of the soccer news and soccer games pages that will be launching soon, all of this part of the soon to be launched www.socceraccess.com network.

I have published this part of the patch due to problems with the POTD. people that blamed me for the patch delayed. Here are the faces (I didn't wanted to publish this file before but if the POTD is already configured for this faces, then its ok).
This face patch was made for the Latin Leagues 2000 patch. In the picture you can see images of the patch and all the edited graphic stuff thats in it. The patch will feature many many graphical changes and over 15 of the best graphic channels!!
It will also include Virtual Faces 2 with corrected faces for all the colors of skin. This Virtual Faces will be published separately (with the animated public, in game edited indicators, fifala turfs, new types of skin..) in the Latin Graphic patch.
Stay tuned and keep visitng the site for more info.
There is also a brief information of the South America Road to World Cup matches, a full review can be found in www.latinfootball.com
This is the international page of the soon to come Latin Soccer Network"

Thanks, Xavier Báez C.

You can check out a cool screenie of the Virtual Faces here

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FIFA WSC on PS2 Preview

Today SportPlanet brings you an exclusive look at FIFA Soccer World Championship (FIFA 2001: Major League Soccer in the US) complete with its initial impressions, four kickass in-game movies, and a bunch of screenshots to wet your footy appetite. It's hard to question the power of the Playstation 2 after seeing these movies.

http://www.sportplanet.com/features/firstlooks/fifaps2/

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Monday, June 5, 2000

64 Colour kit maker

Very soon (hopefully) R.Sudharsan will release a utility which enables users to create 64 colour Fifa 2000 kits with ease. The only feature lacking is direct export to .fsh file due to unavailability of the format.

So this is where you come in, if you know your stuff and can help our friend out drop him a line at rhari@eth.net

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Turf Editor

Henrique Meyer is making a FIFA 2000 grass editor called Pitch 2000, for more info on this great looking utility click here

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More Euro 2000 Stadiums Converted

From Rimo over at Fifamania:

"We have finished all the Euro 2000 official stadiums converted from Euro 2000 to Fifa 2000. I think it's the beginning of a great Euro 2000 patch for Fifa 2000."

Every stadium is at this link: http://www.fifamania.it/ita/stadistranieri.html

Go check 'em out right away...these are fantastic!

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Sky Sports Patch fix

A fix for the Sky Sports graphics patch which fixes the subs and shadows problems highlighted in the Sky Sports patch forum has been released. Download it from http://netville.future.easyspace.com

Thanks, Ste Cooper

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Sunday, June 4, 2000

Patch Of The Day Single File Link

I know there are some of you who get annoyed at having to download multiple files for things, so I've made a single ZIP file containing all the Patch of the Day goodness. Its a not-unreasonable 20.4Mb, and you can grab it here, or, if you still prefer single files, they have moved to here.

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Today in the Downloads

We're still able to provide you with a more than adequate supply of Downloads each day. Today's list includes:

• A Spalding ball
  
• A new Welsh home jersey
  
• A new version of the World Update
  

Be sure to return tomorrow for some more.

Posted by Matt

Poll

I have updated the poll to a different question now instead of the old question which was:

Would You Buy FIFA 2001 Online Or Offline?

The majority of you voted offline and so now the new question is:

Do you feel that you are getting bored with the FIFA series?

Vote now guys!

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Saturday, June 3, 2000

The Jersey Land

I received this message from Robert Marney:
" Over at the www.thejerseyland.com some huge changes are starting to take place. We are planning to make a patch which contains over 300 Jerseys from throughout the world. But we want to know how you feel about its release so can you head over to the www.thejerseyland.com and vote now!"

Again a reminder, Jerseyland, now holds 255+ Kits, which is more than anyother Jersey database.

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FIFA Gaming Awards 2000 - Nominations @ Soccer Gaming

Soccer Gaming, sponsors of the inaugural FIFA Gaming awards, have the nominations for this years voting, which will begin on June 10th. This very site, FIFA 2000 Online, has been nominated in the Best Web Site category. View the full list of nominations here.

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Juventus stadium G2 ver. 3.0

Rimo from Fifamania has let me know about the new Juventus stadium G2 with photo texture!
head over to http://www.fifamania.it and get this fantastic looking stadium right away, It almost looks the same as the real one!

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Lazio Patch

Note From Sami:

"Hi it is me again, sami, remember when I told you guys that I will be making a lazio patch, the patch is not complete yet but I have allot of work done. So, what I need is people who can help with the patch any way they like.
Thanks and please help me lazio fans!"

Check out these screenshots aswell 1 & 2.

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D/E 2000 Patch

We Have The Latest News on the D/E 2000 Patch...the release date is 15/6/2000 .The patch will be about 30mb with the music and 15 without music...It will include a lot of things and best of all....IT WILL REPLACE EVERYTHING IN FIFA 2000...Backgrounds, Ingame Graphics, Kits, Music and maybe the intro VIDEO CLIP! The only thing they want from the fans of EURO 2000 is some one who can create the EURO 2000 flag....if you would like to, just send an email to pageorge@cytanet.com.cy Also visit their site at http://go.to/de2000p

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Downloads and More Downloads

Great news for all you guys who love to update their FIFA 2000 games with the latest Downloads. We've got nine new files in the Downloads ready for you to enjoy. Take a look at these:

• Euro 2000 popups
  
• Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, and two Newcastle United jerseys
  
• An Irish stadium
  
• A Panama jersey combo
  
• An Adidas Euro 2000 ball
  
• A Nottingham Forest goalkeeper jersey
  

Lior has been busy with exams, but still managed a great update. If you want to see your files listed in our ever popular Downloads section, be sure to send them in.

Oh, and don't forget to come back later when Drinky will announce the Nominees for the first ever Soccer Gaming FIFA Awards. We'll also have some more news on exactly what the new POTD: End Of An Era patch (that was released yesterday) has to offer.

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Friday, June 2, 2000

Patch Of The Day - The Saga Is Over (Almost)

The Patch Of The Day is out at last. We found a problem with rosters - it has been decided that we will fix these with a patch as soon as possible. You'll need to download and unzip all the files into a temporary directory before running potdeoae.exe. Grab the files here, and thank Tyrone Marshall of the UK Sports Network for making his server available when we ran into some upload problems.

We're also hoping to announce the list of nominees for the inaugural FIFA Awards, in association with Soccer Gaming, later tonight, with some very tight categories in which voting should be close.

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Music for the MRA Mega Patch Announced

Pop over to the MRA site where they have exciting news regarding the music to be included in the Mega Patch plus the latest on the D/E 2000 Super Patch.

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News from the DKG Kitstore plus Link

The link is now available!

Check out some great screenshots from the DKG Kitstore. Daniele "Kanchelskis" Giannarini has new kits for:

• Man City


• Man Utd


• England (the most requested)


• Spain

Daniele will do all the Euro 2000 kits in 128 colours and he is also making Liverpool 2K-01, IK Frej and Olympiakos kits.

Pay him a visit at DKG Kitstore as this raised a lot of interest before.

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The Sky Sports Patch has been released!

After a few problems with a version released for a few hours on Saturday this new version is now out. The delay of the release has allowed Ste to include a software version so it doesnt matter if you dont have a 3D card, you can still enjoy this wonderful patch.

To download it go to http://netville.future.easyspace.com/ This site also has a forum so if you are having problems with the patch just post a message and you will get a reply within 24 hours.

Also at the Sky Sports patch site will be news of the Sky Sports music patch so keep checking for that!

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Thursday, June 1, 2000

Soccer Gaming FIFA Awards 2000

Be sure to check back here today for some very exciting news. Our own Andrew 'Drinky' Drinkwater has arranged a very special event. The first annual Soccer Gaming FIFA Awards ceremony will be launched today. We'll be announcing the five nominees for a variety of different categories including, "Best English-lanuage FIFA Website", "Best Add-On Patch", "Best Stadia" plus many, many more. Once the nominees have been named, the voting will be carried out by you, the fans. We'll be encouraging all the top FIFA sites to support this event. Stay tuned for more info on the Soccer Gaming FIFA Awards 2000.

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Soccer Gaming Technical Problems

I must apoligise for the fact that Soccer Gaming and a number of our hosted sites are currently down. We are in the process of moving to our own new dedicated server. Not only will this move mean much faster downloads for you all, but also far less down-time.

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Get Well Soon Joey

Today I received some very bad news about one of the guys here at FIFA 2000 Online. Joey Jones, who recently joined Soccer Gaming, is currently in hospital. According to one of his mates, he was involved in a nasty brawl last night and came out in a pretty bad state. Everyone here at FIFA 2000 Online and Soccer Gaming wish Joey a quick recovery. Please send any well wishes you may have for Joey by emailing him here.

Joey had recently been involved in moving the FEd2000 site to FIFA 2000 Online. For some strange reason, that dir has completely disappeared. As soon as I can recover the files we'll have the FEd2000 page back up and running.

On other news, for those of you have are still awaiting the POTD, do not worry. Chris Davies is working overtime to get the file up and we'll have a dirext link to the patch as soon as it is completely uploaded.

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News From FIFA LA

This in from Xavier Báez C. of Fifa La:

"I have very interesting news for you all. I will soon post the link to my fifa2001 preview. Also our fantasy leagues and modem leagues will have EA SPORTS prizes!. Ahh, and EA will hear our support!. I will soon translate a poll in which you can vote for the things that you want in fifa2001!. Soon in FIFA LA we'll have much more content for you guys. I am starting a new network called (http://www.socceraccess.com) which will have news, articles, links,
pictures, stats.. of the most important soccer news sites (such
as www.calcio-italiano.com, www.futbol-latino.com and many soccer
games sites (like fifala, fifaseries.com, fifamag.com, uefa-euro2000.com..)

We'll also soon have our new design (made by my friend Sahar). We will also launch the Latin Leagues 2000 webpage, http://latin2000.fifala.com in which we'll soon launch the beta version of our patch (with rosters, uniforms, faces, stadia and kits).

More news at http://www.fifala.com/english.html
There you can also soon download the Sky Sports graphic patch and later donwload the improved version (with a modified EXE that introduces never before seen popups in the game)
Thank you

Xavier Báez C.
xbaez@fifala.com"

Phew...well there you go folks. Lots happening over at FIFA LA. Be sure to check it out

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Official MRA Theme Tune is Released

It has arrived, the much anticipated theme tune for the MRA entitled 'Floodlit Arena - 4-4-2 Piano Mix' - and it is a beauty. It coincides with the release of RedKola's own CD and you can get it by visiting the MRA site.

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MRA now available in Norwegian

The lads over at the MRA site now have the Norwegian translation for the MRA. Get your copy of this language file from the Language Downloads page and operate your MRA in Norwegian. That makes the available languages for the MRA now at 17.

They will also soon be receiving the Swedish and Dutch translations - so check back there later for them.

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