PES 2021 Classic Patch: Calcio All Stars (1980-present)

This Quelarion personal project rebuilds the PES 2021 database with legendary players from the 90s and 2000s, covering over 250 clubs and 75 national teams. Inspired by a love for classic football—especially Italy—it includes some unique, nostalgic touches. While still a work in progress, there’s already plenty of content to explore and enjoy for fans of retro football.

Content:

• (COMPLETE) 44 Italian clubs
• (WIP) 150+ UEFA clubs from most UEFA nations (54 completed from BE, DE, EN, ES, GR, NL, RU, TR)
• (PLANNED) 50+ CONMEBOL clubs from all CONMEBOL nations
• (PLANNED) National teams from all confederations (only selected teams from CFA, ACF, OFC, CONCACAF)

List of completed and planned clubs: 

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Features:

• 40 players per club
• Minimalist, no sponsor/no supplier logo kits for all teams. Additional historical kits for selected teams (also no sponsor/supplier logos).
• Custom scoreboards for each nation and for selected competitions
• Removal of adboards
• Real stadiums (WIP removal of adboards)
• Removal of shoulder patches via Badge Server
• Only black boots, no silly socks above the knee.
• Simple referee kits via Referee Kit Server
• Simple menus without player photos
• Menu music based on the intro song of the Italian radio show "Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto".

Compatibility: Tested this with PES 2021 vanilla on Steam. It also seems to work with PES 2021 CPY.

Installation & Extra content:

1) Extract the base archive anywhere. Sider is configured to start the game via steam. Edit sider.ini if needed.

2) Delete/Remove your EDIT file from /user/Documents/KONAMI or it will go in conflict with the db in sider.

3) Launch via sider.exe

4) OPTIONAL: if you downloaded the face pack, extract its contents in the main folder of the patch (the folder CALCIO_faces should be insider /livecpk).

5) OPTIONAL: if you downloaded the stadiums pack, extract its contents in the main folder of the patch (the folder stadium-server should be insider /content).

Uninstall: since everything runs from sider, it will not touch your PES installation. Just delete the folder where you extracted the patch and you are good to go.

How this patch is made:

For each country, clubs are selected based on historical/eternal rankings by games played. Most European countries have at least 4 clubs, with 8 clubs for England, Spain and Germany. Smaller football nations will have only 2. I might add more later, but it's not guaranteed. For Brasil I plan 10 clubs, for Argentina 8. A full list of clubs and their current status is below.

For each club, 40 players are selected based on caps collected with the club and their preferred role, so that all roles have enough depth. This leads to some hard choices in leaving out certain players. In addition, only players born in 1960 and later are included. Sometimes, players born after 2000 are excluded in favour of older players.

Player data for PES 2021 is collected from the original PES 2021 database and many, many patches found on the internet. All credits for player creation go to the original patch creators. I have not created a single player by hand.

Many players, especially less famous ones, couldn't be found in existing patches: in these cases I have used data from transfrmarkt to source the main role and nationality of the player, and have randomly generated player data from the PES database with a skill level comparable to existing players in the club. For example, to generate a CB from Austria for Austria Wien, where existing players have an average skill of 78, I find a random CB with 78 (+/-3) overall stats, and take the skill values from him. Then I find a random Austrian player, and take appearance data from him. Combined together, they should give an Austrian looking CB with 78 overall skills. As I find new patches on the internet, I will try to replace these regens with real players. If a team requires more than 25 regens out of 40 players, I might just drop it for the time being.

All clubs have simple kits based on their historical colours. The simpler the better. I didn't want to see sponsors or supplier logos, so each kit will only have the club crest on them. Some clubs have extra kits, often using retro crests. In some cases I found nice kits on the internet, cleaned them up to remove sponsors and supplier logos, and included them. All kits run through kit-server. Most goalkeeper kits are random, one colour kit sets, and not based on real kits.

When possible, I use crests from the 90s or 2000s.

Since there are too many nations, and one can only have 40 teams per group, clubs are organised in groups based on their confederation and their nation ISO2 code (England = EN, Germnay = DE), with the exception of Italy, since it has 40 clubs. For example, you will find English (EN) teams in the UEFA E-F group, Swiss (CH) teams in the UEFA C-D group, German teams in the UEFA C-D group as well.

I created simple scoreboards with a unified design to go with the mod. In some cases, I've redesigned some logos just because. You can choose the scoreboard from the sider overlay via scoreboard-server. I've commented/removed some code in the original scoreboard-server module to fit the way I use it. If you want the complete functionality, just replace the .lua with the original from the internet.

The best way to enjoy this mod is to start a custom KONAMI league or cup (labelled CALCIO in the menu).

Credits:

All players come from other patches, mostly from pesfutebol.com

Stadiums come for the most part from pessmokepatch.com

G. Leroy (pesmodding.com) / blog writer

If you'd like to support Quelarion's work, you can via PayPal

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