Not to be confused with 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Warnings
- SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).
FIFA Football 2002[Note 1] is a singleplayer and multiplayer sports game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts via their EA Sports brand. It is a licensed FIFA game.
It was first released in North America on October 30, 2001, followed by Europe and Japan on November 2 and November 15 respectively.
It is known that the game will crashed if the PC's CPU clock speed is faster than 2.0 GHz. Those with such CPU clock speed requires the use of Sui's Fix to workaround it.[1][2]
General information
- SoccerGaming fan forum.
Availability
- SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).
Essential improvements
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Installation of Wrapper[1]
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- Download DSound.dll wrapper and extract it.
- Move
dsound.dll and dsound.cfg to the installation folder.
- Start the game.
Notes
- If noticeable issues happen - like flags wave too fast, transitions take too long etc. try modifying the value in
dsound.cfg file (where lower value results in faster sprite animations and transitions).
- Visual C++ 2015 Redist libraries are required for the wrapper to work.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Input
Audio
| Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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| Royalty free audio |
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The main theme is "19/2000 (Soulchild Remix)" by Gorillaz. All other music is licensed (various artists) |
Localizations
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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| Brazilian Portuguese |
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| Czech |
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Fan - 1 |
| Polish |
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Translation by PPWJ; download |
| Slovak |
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Fan - 1 |
| Spanish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
| Type |
Native |
Players |
Notes |
| Local play |
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4 |
Requires separate controllers. |
| LAN play |
| 16 |
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| Online play |
| 8 |
The official multiplayer service has been shut down. |
Issues fixed
2 GHz+ CPU crash
Other information
AI usage
| Rating |
Explanation |
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No intentional AI usage in production. Programs with AI features ok if those features are not used. Note that this is not just generative AI, but ALL AI. You may be surprised what features are supported by AI, such as automatic transcription, automated green screen effects, etc. |
- The game was released before the existence of generative AI.
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| Direct3D |
7 |
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| Glide |
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| Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
| Windows |
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32-bit executables may need the LAA flag applied to work properly on modern machines. |
System requirements
| Windows[5] |
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Minimum | Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
95 | 98, ME, 2000, XP |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz
AMD K6 | 500 MHz - Pentium II / AMD Athlon |
| System memory (RAM) |
32 MB (64 MB for Windows 2000/128 MB for Windows XP) | 128 MB |
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) |
80 MB | 510 MB |
| Video card (GPU) |
PCI or AGP 3D graphics accelerator
4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0a compatible | 16 MB of VRAM |
| Other |
4x speed CD-ROM drive | |
Notes
- â Known as FIFA Soccer 2002: Major League Soccer and FIFA 2002: Road to FIFA World Cup in North America and Japan respectively.
- â This version of SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows 10[3] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[4]
- â Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
- â When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
