Madden
2002
Houston Texans:
After the first season in franchise mode, do the expansion draft for the
Houston Texans.
Hint: Unlimited creation points:
Create a player, then go to "Edit Player" at the roster screen.
Press Up or Down to choose the player you want to edit. Press Right to get
to the speed category. Press X, then press X again.
Hint: Thanksgiving commentary:
Set the system date to the third Thursday in November.
Hint: Christmas commentary:
Set the system date to December 25 to hear Pat Summerall will say ''Season's
Greetings''.
Hint: New Year's commentary:
Set the system date to January 1 to hear James Brown (JB) say "Happy
New Year".
Hint: Winning the coin toss:
Repeatedly press L1 + R1 + Start before the coin toss screen appears.
To win the coin toss, remember what you or the CPU chose last
time. 95% of the time the result is the opposite of the last coin toss.
For example, if the CPU chose heads the last time and won, next time choose
tails.
Hint: Easy tokens:
For easy tokens, go to the two minute drill screen. Choose two to four accounts,
and the Admirals for defense. Choose your team and make sure you choose
a profile to save to, then start playing. Keep throwing to WR2 and you should
get many touchdowns. It is possible to get a score over 33,000 with this
trick.
Have the Dragons on defense and the Titans as offense. You
can score well over 55,000 points by selecting HB Off Tackle as a play.
It takes about eleven seconds to run and you receive 5,150 points per touchdown
and 375 points for running the same play as a two point conversion. If you
can successfully score 11 touchdowns, you will have a score over 55000.
Edit the speed of every player on the Raven's defense to 15.
Edit all of the halfbacks', fullbacks', tight ends', and wide receivers'
ratings down to 0. Edit you offensive lineman's pass block rating to 99.
Edit your quarterback in the following manner: 0 Passing Power, Accuracy;
99 Speed, Accel, Carrying, Awareness, Stamina, and Agility. Save your roster
as "Cheat", load it before doing the following trick. Start a
Two Minute Drill. Choose All-Madden, and then the Ravens' defense. Choose
whatever team you modified offensively, and make them your offense. Next,
you will need a passing play. Choose Single Back Formation, and then Hot
Route your second wide receiver, looking left to right. Also Hot Route your
tight end. For the Hot Routes, make them do a buttonhook (Left on the D-pad).
Now instead of passing the ball, run a "Quarterback Sweep" by
sending the quarterback to the right side of the field. Run towards the
endzone, using speed bursts as needed. Make sure you get to the endzone.
If you do not, call timeout if the clock keeps ticking. If a penalty is
called, do not waste the time running down the field. Just head out of bounds,
and do it over. You should be able to score about ten touchdowns. Your score
will be very odd, and you will get millions of tokens. Go the Madden Cards
menu to see your tokens -- they may not appear on the Two Minute Drill menu.
Create a profile with M. Martz's playbook. Run the two-minute
drill under rookie with Galaxy as the defense. Use the Rams. Run single
back 5 wide, Hail Mary. Faulk or Hakim will be open every time. You can
score 100 points and get about 220 tokens. It takes nine seconds to score.
Hint: Dance going into the endzone:
Press L1, L2, R1, or R2 while running into the endzone and your player may
do a dance.
Hint: Better catches:
To do a better catch than the generic one, where the player throws his hands
in the air at the last second and most of the time misses, simply press
Catch a second or a half a second before you reach the target of the ball,
or before the ball reaches the receiver. The player will do a better looking
and more effective catch, such a one handed catch, a jump catch, a spin
catch, an over the shoulder catch (good for lobs), or a better diving one
if the ball is out of reach.
Hint: Change player appearance:
Under the options screen select "Rosters", go to "Edit Player",
and finally go to "Player Appearance". You can make anyone in
the NFL look different than they really do.
Hint: Get by the offense:
Select your fastest player and put him in the front line. Press Circle +
R2 + L1 and your player should do a spin move to get past the offensive
lineman faster.
Hint: Easy touchdowns in Two Minute Drill:
For Two Minute Drill, select the Admirals Defense and play as the 2000 All-Madden
Team. Use the HB Counter play and you can usually run all the way for a
touchdown on your first try.
Hint: Ultimate draft:
Use the following trick to draft all first round draft picks up to the league
maximum per draft. Start the season in franchise mode, then go to the rosters
screen. Buy all free agents that your team can afford, with stats 63 or
higher, preferably SS, FS, OLB, MLB, LOB, CB, or DE as they have a higher
trade value. Go to "Trades" and trade any three of your same defensive
players to any team willing to give a draft pick at least fourth round or
lower. Next, trade one bad player along with all fifth and sixth round picks
for a fourth pick. You may end up with second to fourth rounders. Next,
trade only picks for lower picks. For example, three fourth round picks
equals one third round pick; three third round picks equals one second round
pick; three second round pick equals one first round pick. This takes some
time, but you can create a super team all from draft picks with a team average
of 99.
Hint: Getting good players:
In franchise mode, create a new coach and assign him to one of the teams
that are available, but not your team. The game only lets you choose from
the worst teams. Then go to "Roster", then "Trade".
You can now trade away the better players on that team to your team without
having to send a ridiculous amount of good players for just one (even bad
teams have some good players). Also, because the teams you can choose are
the worst teams, they have the best draft picks. This allows you to trade
away the draft picks. In other words, if you do this with several of the
bad teams, you can actually end up with, for example, four first round draft
picks. Its a good way to keep your team on top, and not have to suffer because
your team wins so much.
Use the following trick to get a lot of first round draft
picks during the first year of your franchise. Keep signing the free agents
that are good (77 and above) and trade them away before week 6 to the worst
teams, standings wise to that point. You will get their draft picks for
like three players in the mid-to-high 70s. They can all be people off of
the free agents list.
Hint: Realistic franchise mode:
Use the following trick to affect the ratings/attributes/salaries of players
that will carry over into franchise mode. On the main menu, select "Options",
then "Rosters". You can do a lot of things here to make the players/ratings/attributes/salaries
more accurate. The game was rushed out to market after the draft, and there
are a lot of inaccuracies on which players are on which teams, the ratings/attributes
of players (especially rookies), and player salaries. In the Rosters screen,
you can sign, cut and/or trade players to any team you want. This will allow
you to account for the roster changes made after the game was created. Also,
you can create players to account for any rookies or players not in the
system, though in doing so they will automatically be salaried at what the
game thinks is fair market value. For example, the Packers roster does not
have David Martin (TE) or Gbaja-Biamila. Note that by simply selecting a
player to edit, you can change appearance, name, attributes, etc. You can
make players better or worse to make their attributes more accurate. Even
better, as soon as you select "attributes" to edit, the players
salary changes to what the game thinks is fair market value. This works
against you when editing rookies and young players, who typically have low
salaries. But fair market value is never too outrageous and it is more fun
to use players who you really see on the field and that have accurate ratings.
For those overpaid players in the game, by simply hitting edit attributes
you will knock their salaries down to fair market value. For example, the
Packers' Santana Dotson, Levens, Reynolds all have grossly inaccurate salaries
in the game, and this fixes them. It leaves the contract lengths the same,
it only changes the dollar value. After making all the desired changes,
save the Roster to a memory card. Then begin a new franchise mode and all
the roster changes you made will be reflected in the rosters. Of course,
the roster changes are in every playing mode as well. Most franchising involves
trading overpaid players and signing free agents who do not really play
for your team, or cutting players and suffering the cap penalty. This will
also allow you to have signed free agents you wanted for your team to sign
but did not (i.e. Charlie Garner, Simeon Rice), or to adjust who your team
drafted this past spring.
Hint: Easy Madden points:
Choose your favorite and least favorite teams. Enter the rosters screen
and select the "Edit Player" option. Make everyone on your favorite
team a perfect 99 points for everything, then go to you least favorite team's
roster and make everyone on their team the minimum 15 for everything. Save
your roster changes. Repeatedly play in exhibition mode and do your best;
run kickoffs and punts for touchdowns, let yourself get tackled, and run
for 96 yards for a touchdown, etc. This can result in over 1000 points in
a game.
Hint: Money plays:
Select any team (Buccaneers recommended). On defense, choose 4-3: Whip Man.
Before the snap of the ball, tap R2 and L1 to move your defensive line to
the far right and your linebackers to the far left. Take control of one
of the safeties and the ROLB should either sack the QB or make him act quickly.
For easy sacks or tackles for a loss, do the
following. Select a Man To Man coverage play. Man Lock, on 4-3 defense works
best. This is the play where the ROLB is blitzing. Do not move your defensive
end. Move your ROLB over to the right (your left on the screen) outside
of the right tackle. With offsides off just keep running at the QB. The
QB will either scramble forward and be hit by one of your defensive line
fronts or he will scramble into you. He will do this every time. If the
other team moves a tight end over to block you, just move slightly to the
outside of him and it will still work. This will work every time with any
team and can be used to get over twenty sacks per game.
For the best defense, create a team.Go to the Create A Playbook section. Make a defensive play from the 4-3 formation. Have your cornerbacks lock inside front, the safeties do not matter, but make sure that there are six men that are covering a man. Have the defensive end on your left blitz left, and vice versa. Have the DLs stunt towards the middle, and the middle LB blitz middle. Save it to a memory card.