Joe Nickolls, Line Producer for UEFA EURO 2004 gave an interview to the PALgaming webzine. If you're interested in latest EURO 2004 news, features and other information then click here to read the entire interview.
The Italian site FifaMania.it released two new FIFA 2004 stadiums by Giorgio Lunardon. First of them is Dall'Ara stadium in Bologna (available as Stadium Installer STI package), the second one is St. Denis Stadium in Paris, the stadium of World Cup 1998 gold medal match.
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EA SPORTS are keeping their Euro 2004 site up to date. They have just added a list of the 51 teams that will feature in Euro 2004. Most of them are licensed, with just a few having to use false names due to licensing issues. You can see the full list for yourself here.
In other Euro news... for those of you in Australia, EB now has the game for the PS2 and Xbox on shelf. If it isn't out around the rest of the world, it should be sometime next week.
We will be opening a dedicated Euro 2004 website in a couple of weeks.
Daniel from FIFA4Fans has uploaded 45 new downloads to the FIFA 2004 section of the Downloads Centre. They range from Kit Packs to Flags, to Roster Updates and Faces. Take a look through the FIFA 2004 section to download some very high quality downloads. Keep checking back as Daniel is planning some more download updates very soon.
Ariel Santarelli from SoccerAccess released new version of his Cinematics Manager utility. The new Cinematic Manager solves problems of the previous version (some cinematics get corrupted when changing from EA Cinematics to Socceraccess Cinematics) but most important is that CM allows you to choose any cinematic sequence and launch it like you do with Kit Raptor and Dressing Room Cinema.
Another three FIFA 2004 stadiums are available from FIFA ECP. You can enjoy two totally new stadiums: Lokomotiv Moscow and Manchester City, and also the EURO 2004 Demo stadium - Estádio Algarve (Faro), all in the today's stadard format for FIFA 2004 stadiums: STI.
The EURO 2004 Demo is out for a few days, many websites have released their utilities to customize and enable some hidden features in the demo. Here you can find the listing of all these EURO 2004 Demo utilities I have found. If you think that some utility is missing in the list, please mail me.
More downloads than ever before will now be added to the Downloads Centre. Thanks to the co-operation of Xavier of SoccerAccess and Daniel of FIFA4Fans you will now not only be able to download the files we get sent, but also the downloads added by these guys.
So keep an eye on the Latest 10 Downloads list and expect to see plenty of FIFA 2004, Euro 2004 and PES files added in the coming day and weeks.
In conjuction with Mania Software we have opened a new section of FIFA 2004 Online. Our FIFA Tools section will be regularly updated with the latest high quality FIFA utilities from the guys at Mania Software.
There are already a few handy FIFA 2004 tools in there for you to choose from, with their first Euro 2004 utility being added today.
Check out the FIFA Tools section to grab the Euro 2004 Demo Customizer. Along with all the usual features of a demo expander there is also a cool "1 on 1" mode you can enable for the demo.
EA have let us know that from the end of today the Euro 2004 Demo will be available for download. Best news is, there will be 3 seperate demos for you to choose from.
You will be able to take your pick from England v France; Germany v Italy or Spain v Portugal. Each of the three demos are localised into the six languages.
The demos will be available from the official Euro 2004 website and of course be immediately mirrored here and on all of the major FIFA community websites.
St. James Park, the famous stadium of Newcastle United has been released at FIFA ECP. The European Clubs Patches website now includes unbelievable amount of thirteen new high quality stadiums for FIFA 2004, more to come soon. Here is a full listing of FIFA ECP stadiums released so far:
Aln!ck and Rapidfan have released their new stadiums at FIFA ECP. Aln!ck created Estádio Dragăo, the home of FC Porto and Rapidfan's very first FIFA 2004 is Wals-Siezenheim Stadium of SV Wüstenrot Salzburg. Both stadiums are available as STI packages for ECP Stadium Installer 1.0b.
In an attempt to get more feedback and comments posted on the Latest News we post at www.fifa04.com, all news posts will now also appear in this forum.
Over at SoccerGameZ they have released their Holland Casino Eredivisie Soundpatch (HCE Soundpatch). This patch contains all intro sounds and goal sounds for all 18 Holland Casino Eredivise (Dutch league) teams.
This soundpatch is compatible with the original FIFA 2004 and their own Low Countries Patch 2004.
The download weighs in at about 25 MB and can be downloaded direct from Sweetpatch's Patches Database under the Low Countries Patch 2004.
FIFA ECP is breaking all records in FIFA 2004 stadium building. Today they have released another new stadium, created by RealPete: Reebok Stadium, the home of Bolton Wanderers. The stadium is available as an STI package and requires ECP Stadium Installer 1.0b for installation.
The SFTLA Ladder League is a new concept for the new people who have heard about the Academy and would like to take part in the leagues when there is available spacing via a drop out or starting a new season.
The idea of this ladder is to keep the new players active while waiting for their place and keep them in touch with the Academy, which has a great forum to boot.
At the moment this is open to UK players only but if we get enough oversea's interest we can also start a separate Oversea's Ladder League.
A Russian site GameWallpapers released a set of five beautiful UEFA EURO 2004 wallpapers. You can enjoy England, Czech Republic, France, Italy and Spain in a high resolution of 1024x768 pixels. All the new wallpapers can be found here.