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Is there any way to view the default database file shipped with FM release, e.g., like the file "basic_people_db.dat" in "<fmdir>\Football Manager 2012\data\db\1200".

I mean, either by converting it to a human-readable format like spreadsheet or load it to some database directly...

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I highly doubt it.

If the DAT file is actually a generic "data" file, the program that generated the DAT file is your best bet for opening it

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  • yes, but the what is the "the program that generated the DAT file"? – rayeaster Mar 16 '12 at 01:36
  • Its generated by football manager. DAT file just stores data, the content could be anything. Only FM knows what's in the file. Chances are the file's content is encrypted anyway. – Philip Mar 16 '12 at 01:54
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    i guess your'right. any idea about the decoding method? like what FMRTE did? – rayeaster Mar 16 '12 at 03:01
  • A guy has done such thing once and stored the player dataset in kaggle.com. And how did he do that is very interesting for me too. – Tigran May 02 '19 at 22:42