User manual GAMES PS2 NBA LIVE 2004

[. . . ] WARNING: READ BEFORE USING YOUR PLAYSTATION®2 COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM. A very small percentage of individuals may experience epileptic seizures when exposed to certain light patterns or flashing lights. Exposure to certain patterns or backgrounds on a television screen or while playing video games, including games played on the PlayStation 2 console, may induce an epileptic seizure in these individuals. Certain conditions may induce previously undetected epileptic symptoms even in persons who have no history of prior seizures or epilepsy. If you, or anyone in your family, has an epileptic condition, consult your physician prior to playing. [. . . ] Whenever you bring up the onscreen keyboard in the Chat Lobby, or when chatting with an individual player, you can use a USB keyboard to type in messages. PLAYER OPTIONS Press the D-button to highlight the name of another player, and press the S button to bring up the player options. From here you can challenge another player to a game, send/read a private message, add/remove a player to/from EA SPORTS Messenger, block/unblock a player, or report abuse if you are in a chat room. Press the D-button ô to highlight the option you want, and then press the S button to accept. PLAYER CONNECTIONS In the upper-left portion of the screen, you see a list of players along with a bar next to each player's name. A longer bar indicates a better connection between you and the player. PLAYER OVERVIEW In the upper-right portion of the screen are general player stats. This includes the player's User Name along with the info listed below. RECORD DISCONNECTION % How many wins and losses a player has. How often a player loses connection or quits. 18 ONLINE TOURNAMENTS Get together with some friends and create your own Online Tournaments for some unique action. Important: both you and your opponent have to be in the tournament room in order to play your tournament game. If one player is not in the room by the end of the round, then that player forfeits the game. If both players fail to show up at the end of the round, then both forfeit. Ü To create a tournament, choose EA TOURNAMENTS. NAME RANKED GAMES SKILL LEVEL QUARTER LENGTH TEAMS ROUND LENGTH UNIQUE TEAMS FAIR PLAY SETTINGS YOUR TEAM PASSWORD Enter a name for your tourney. Decide whether you want the tourney games to count towards players' overall stats. Choose the difficulty level for each game. Select the length of each quarter: 2--12 minutes. Choose the number of teams in your tournament: 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64. All games must be played in three days or less per round. Decide whether two players can use the same NBA team. Set to YES to ensure fair online play for everyone in the tournament. As the host, you get to pick the first team. To close your tournament to the public, enter a password and distribute it to all of your friends. Ü To search for a tournament, choose EA TOURNAMENTS. In the search screen, enter the parameters of your desired tournament. [. . . ] From the Edit Player screen, select the team of the player to edit. Highlight the player category you wish to edit, and press the S button. v For real NBA players, you can only edit Info, Ratings, and Gear options. 3. When finished, highlight DONE and press the S button. CREATED PLAYERS LIST View the entire list of created players. You can have up to 25 created players at any time. RESET ROSTERS Cancel all trades, signings, and other transactions and reset all team rosters back to their defaults. STATS CENTRAL View Player Stats, Team Stats, or User Stats. TASK LIST Complete any listed task in a game and earn NBA Store points. [. . . ]