This is simply the largest and the best Football Manager 2009 facepack, with almost 50000 players and staff pictures from around the world. The pack is continuously updated and I promise I’ll give you the new updates as soon as they are released by the authors. Take a look at how the pictures are displayed in my game:
You might want to download the goodies now, right? OK, here we go.
— Football Manager 2009 FacePack MegaPack, with updates from 1.1 to 1.8 included! — download —
I split the 2.11 GB file into 22 smaller files. You can download the files and double click the .exe file, that will join the pieces together so you’ll have a big .zip archive file. Unpack that into your game directory and that’s it. This file contains all the updates from 1.1 to 1.8 already installed.
Download the updates in the correct order and paste the files into the MegaPack folder, overwriting the old files.
How to install
These need to be added to a folder within the user data folder called ‘graphics’. The folder may already be there or it may need to be created do so if you need to
Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2009/Graphic/Players
Launch Football Manager 2009. When loaded go straight into game preferences from the intro screen.
Click on ‘Display and Sound’ on the tree menu.
Make sure that you tick the check box on the page called ‘Always Reload Skin on Confirm’ and un-tick then box saying ‘Use Skin Cache’.
Now press confirm on the tree menu.
There should be a box that pops up saying ‘loading image data for the new skin’.
Once this is done your graphics should be working within the game.
You may want to quit the game and reload it — just to be sure.
This Megapack has been compiled by RowRow78 at www.sortitoutsi.net and the pictures were made by these kind people (in alphabetical order):