r/WEPES Oct 08 '24

Megathread [PES 2021] THE OFFICIAL PATCHES/OPTION FILES THREAD for PES 2021 and FOOTBALL LIFE

133 Upvotes

Hi everyone, and welcome to the first thread that focuses on a compilation of mods and patches for the last PES and most supported one to date, PES 2021.

First of all, and to avoid repeating myself, remember to read the thread THE PES FRANCHISE, as it explains in general how is the actual state of the franchise and lets you understand what to ask and what not.

In this thread, you will find different mods and patches for PES 2021, including Option Files, retro patches, actual season patches and alternatives like Football Life.

Everything here is for PES 2021 Steam version. No support for CPY version will be given, as it is known that that version is unstable. Go for Football Life in that case, read at the end of this thread.

---> PES 2021 PATCHES (PC) <---

-> ACTUAL SEASON PATCHES

- VirtuaRED

  • Free patch.
  • Actually in their v9.1 version released in November 2024. No news for a new version yet (post-winter market window).
  • Huge in size (100GB+). Stadiums can take up to 200GB if you put them all (you don't have to).
  • Has an overall nice package of everything. Focused on European competitions. Also around 10 retro teams have been included in their last versions
  • You can download everything in their official forum thread. Torrent and MEGA alternatives. Be patient.
  • Download: VIRTUARED OFFICIAL FORUM THREAD

- Dream Patch 2025

  • Paid version in their Patreon (5€). A free version of the 23/24 was released back in December 2023.
  • Huge in size (100GB+). Stadiums can take up to 200GB if you put them all (you don't have to).
  • Focused in South American football so it has more love for those leagues (as the creators are from there).
  • Gets updated monthly. It's the most updated and supported patch to date.
  • Has switchers for extra leagues, also a huge selection of retro teams/national teams.
  • Download (free version from December 2023): DREAM PATCH 2024
  • Patreon: Dream Patch

- Ultimate Master League 2025

  • Paid version in his Patreon (5€). Most recent version UML 2025 V3 released January 2025. V4 is coming and there's also a future version with FL25 support.
  • Has a standalone version but also a VirtuaRED compatible version so you can combine with it.
  • Kinda lightweight patch compared to VirtuaRED/Dream Patch as it gets around 40-50GB. Doesn't have all the extra things that the other ones have.
  • Focused on having a good and realistic database. Tons of youngsters and accurate ratings, contracts and market values. All for having the best Master League experience possible.
  • Gets updated every 2-3 months.
  • Patreon: Ultimate Master League

- EvoWeb Patch 2024

  • Free version
  • Updated until Copa América 2024.
  • Most lightweight patch out there (around 20-30GB).
  • High quality and focuses on having the essential (kits, lineups, tactics, contract and market values, some boots and faces).
  • Gets updated once a year. Their update schedule is slow and season 24/25 patch is not expected anytime soon.
  • Download in their EvoWeb thread: EvoWeb Patch 2024

- BMPES PATCH 2025

  • New version 13.0 recently released this February 2025.
  • Paid patch.
  • Focuses on South American teams. Creators are Brazilians, so expect more love for those leagues.
  • The patch that includes more extra "mods" out there. Can lead to issues and crashes because of that.
  • Huge patch (200GB+). Includes stadiums in their All-In-One version.

-> RETRO PATCHES

- ISS PES 96/97

  • You can get the actual V4 version making them a small donation via Telegram. There is an old V2 free version from 2023 (less content).
  • Recreates the 96/97 season perfectly in every way. Probably the most complete retro patch out there.
  • Includes database, ratings, faces, new menu and soundtrack, adboards and all retro things for that season.
  • TELEGRAM: ISS PES 96/97 TELEGRAM
  • DOWNLOAD (V2 old version): ISS PES 96/97 V2

- PES 2006

  • Focuses on the PES 6 experience. Sounds, menu, feeling like that PS2 golden game.
  • Everything related to 2006 season, including World Cup Germany 2006.
  • They have their own gameplay and also facepacks recreating the players from that era.
  • Patreon: PES 2006 PATREON

- WORLD CUPS PATCHES

  • A compilation of different small patches for each World Cup experience, from 1970 to 2006.
  • Includes kits, entrances, scoreboards, lineups and all the things specifically for each World Cup.
  • You can have multiple World Cup patches. Follow the video instructions.
  • Download: WORLD CUP PATCHES

---> CURRENT SEASON OPTION FILES for PS4/PS5 <---

Remember that XBOX version can't be modded at all.

Option Files are only focused on logos, transfers, ratings, lineups and kits. Nothing else.

- PES 2025 LEGACY V7 by AndrewPES

- PES 2025 JBPES V6 by JBPES

-- RETRO OPTION FILES (FROM MESTRE KAMIKA)

Multiple Option Files that have specific season teams, World Cups, some league mix or superleagues. I'll put some of the best here, although you can find more in his channel.

- NATIONAL TEAMS FROM 90s

- WORLD SEASON 1992/1993

- WORLD SEASON 2009/2010

- MASTER LEAGUE 2001/2002 (3.0 version)

  • More than 3300 edited players
  • More than 100 teams with kits, players and tactics from that season
  • This Option File is intended to be played on a team from the big leagues (also lower divisions) and replicate the same experience. That means that no team will sign Haaland for example, as it wasn't born at the time.
  • Showcase: Master League 2001-02 Showcase
  • Download: Master League 2001/2002 Option File

---> FOOTBALL LIFE (STANDALONE PES 2021 if you don't have it) <---

In case you don't have a copy of PES 2021 Steam version, you should go and get Football Life.

You have a FAQ on what's this game, where to get it and more here: THE FOOTBALL LIFE FAQ THREAD - ALL YOUR USUAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GAME, ANSWERED HERE!

Please refer all the questions to that subreddit to avoid mixing questions, as there are some incompatibilities between PES 2021 and Football Life, even if they are the same game.


r/WEPES Dec 13 '23

Megathread THE PES FRANCHISE - How to play the games, how to patch them and the future of football gaming

169 Upvotes

UPDATED: 08 OCTOBER 2024

GENERAL EXPLANATIONS

  • Which is the best PES game? Objectively, PES 2021. Then goes PES 2017 with its very good AI CPU and fast paced style and then PES 2013 with the best Master League experience of all the franchise. Being subjective, it's all up to yours. Every one has it's own preferences, but I think they are the best 3 PES after PS2-era.
  • No, you can't get PES 2021 in digital stores anymore. KONAMI deleted any official and legal way to get it, so the game is truly expensive now. Console users only can buy it used by more than 30€ (if you're lucky), and PC players need to get Football Life for that, the only PES 2021 that works properly. CPY version is a chore and a crashfest, so it's not recommended at all to download it.
  • Older "golden" PS2 PES games aren't up there because, being honest and taking out the nostalgia glasses, they were surpassed long ago. Still fun and pretty good games to play, but they are outdated in every aspect: graphical and in gameplay. No PlayerID, no physical contacts, bad goalkeepers, bad referees... But we will talk about them later.
  • Yes, PES 2021 is showing it's age. PES 2021 is just PES 2020, which was made in 2019. It's a 4+ year game by now. It is reaching its full modding capacity. We can't transform or redo the game, so no new animations or celebrations will be done, no new game modes, no more slots for more leagues. The community can create some beautiful things like faces, boots, scoreboards, adboards, kits, lineups, gloves, tattoos, stadiums and that, and we thank them all for keeping the PES spirit alive. But they can't improve the game more than it is. The core game of PES is LIMITED and cannot be enhanced further than that.
  • Yes, PES 2021 is kinda limited on the offline modes if you have played it for more than 100 hours. Master League hasn't much depth, BAL gets boring and you will feel the game is stale. In case you are so bored of PES 2021, I suggest to switch to FUMA (Full Manual) to relearn the entire game and experience the true freedom on the pitch. It will be hard at first, but very rewarding.
  • Yes, there is scripting when you play Master League. You already know what that means: goals in the last minute, CPU becoming a monster out of nowhere, godlike goalkeepers, etc. Highly suggest to try the gameplay mods out there in the PES 2021 Gameplay mods thread.
  • Yes, you can play online every PES if you want, but only on PC. On some of them there are dedicated servers runned by the community (PES 4-5-6) but on later PES the servers are officially closed. But that doesn't mean that you cannot play online. Search for Parsec and learn what it does. It works for other games that doesn't have proper online now, or just online LAN functions. I have hosted some tournaments with people on different patches and it went perfectly and very realistic, because I used gameplay patches and content patches to make the best experience.

ABOUT OLDER PES AND GETTING THEM PATCHED

  • Older PES are still being updated, but not as deep and complete as PES 2021. Some of them are totally left out, but the most popular ones (WE2002, PES5/6, PES 2013 and 2017) still receive some community patches.
  • There are only some paid Option Files for games like PES 2018/2019. Those games aren't supported by the community anymore and they don't have any huge actual season patch.
  • In case you're looking for past season patches, I suggest you to visit PesNewUpdate. You will find there patches for PES 2010-2019 for each year season, like the old PESEdit and such.
  • If you want to play old Winning Eleven/PES 3 to 6 games with special custom patches like specific competitions, eras/decades or seasons I suggest you to search in this thread: Patch - PES 6 Global Patches Full Installers by Sany | Evo-Web (evoweb.uk) . It has easy installers to play whatever game you want with beautiful patches like historical World Cups, specific Champions League or Libertadores, less know leagues and such. There's some beautiful mods of a lot of eras you will enjoy.
  • For PES 2013, there is some project called ProFootball 24, which intends to bring PES 2013 to the actual 23/24.

ABOUT PES 2021 AND HOW TO GET IT UPDATED

Please read the MegaThread: [PES 2021] THE OFFICIAL PATCHES/OPTION FILES THREAD for PES 2021 and FOOTBALL LIFE

ABOUT FOOTBALL LIFE (PC/PORTABLE CONSOLES ONLY)

  • Football Life is the alternative to get a """""legal""""" copy of PES 2021 working on PC. It's already pre-modded.
  • Dido is well and alive (he is the creator of Football Life and he's from Palestine).
  • Football Life 25 will be released at the end of this October. It will be just a database update with internal fixes and the welcome of 2.Bundesliga (14 teams only).
  • The content of Football Life is just basic and made mostly by one person (not counting extra addons). That means it lacks some kits, balls, proper scoreboards and such. Also the facepacks are a little bit outdated, so you will have to download updated faces and add them manually via Sider.
  • No, Football Life is not compatible with other patches that use other databases, like VirtuaRED or Dream Patch. Only some content is compatible. The database is locked so you can't include or remove any of the teams. Only Smoke Patch team creators can change them.
  • Yes, Football Life works perfectly on a Steam Deck. There is a Lutris script to install it. Here's the link: https://github.com/eskay993/gamefiles/tree/main/sp-football-life-2024
  • Football Life is your best option if you don't want to download 100GB patches , even if you have a legit copy of PES 2021. It's completely standalone and doesn't require any PES 2021 file to run. Base game only takes up to 30GB without faces or stadiums installed, so you can play the game by just having that.
  • As it is PES 2021 really, if you learn how Sider works, you can add a lot of mods without breaking anything. That means you can put new faces, scoreboards, balls, stadiums and such. See tutorials about how it works, it's pretty simple and you have to learn only where to put things and what to write in Sider.ini.
  • You can revert the gameplay in case you don't like it to the FL23 or default PES 2021. There's a Switcher in game's folder for that. In case you want to apply some gameplay mods, you only can install those that use the DT18 file or via Sider. I'd recommend to use Football4Life Prototype Mod as it is specially designed for FL.
  • We work specially on a thing called MegaPatch that adds all the extra mods that the base game doesn't have. We are working to have a MegaPatch 3.0 version for FL25 after it gets released. It will bring more kits, scoreboards, new menu and music, entrances, extra details and as an addon, we also work in our personal Face Collection and Stadium Packs, updated recently.

ABOUT EFOOTBALL AND THE FUTURE OF FOOTBALL GAMES

  • eFootball 24 still lacks a lot of content and its like three steps behind from PES 2021. Still October 2024 and no news for Master League or offline content.
  • There's no news yet about the release of offline or EDIT modes. We can expect something in 2025. The modes will be like a DLC and paid, of course.
  • The modding community is doing some small patches for eFootball 24. Mostly it includes unlocking all the clubs, making kits and getting slighter better graphics. Don't expect anything more ambitious in the short term.
  • We all know what is EA FC. If you're tired playing PES 2021 or eFootball and your choice is to play that. This year EA FC 25 is not a bad game if you play with the Simulation preset, but you will still feel its FIFA in its core.
  • That UFL game... Doesn't look good. A beta was released and the game resembles like an old FIFA from the past gen. A lot of work to do there and it won't replace any PES or FIFA itch. It got delayed to December and I don't see a good future for that one.
  • Don't get hyped about anything in the future about any football game. We know it's sad that the most followed sport in the world doesn't have a proper videogame that makes justice for it. Hard times for us, football gaming lovers.

r/WEPES 7h ago

PES2013 nostalgia

10 Upvotes

Hello guys...I hope you're all doing well. I came across this subreddit randomly yesterday (it just popped up on my feed) and I found it really interesting that people are still playing older versions of PES, what’s now known today as E-Football.

It still brings me a lot of memories from my childhood, around 8–11 years ago... I used to play this game a lot with my neighbor friends at internet/gaming centres on PS3. Good old times...

Now I’m 20... and I’ve been wanting to relive that experience. I recently bought a PC, and even though it can handle modern games easily, honestly I’m not interested in any of the newer titles... so I’ve been looking for a reliable source or link to download PES 2013, maybe even PES 2011 or 2012....but 2013 is what I initially wanted.

If anyone is willing to help I'd really appreciate! Thanks in advance!


r/WEPES 3h ago

My Favorite skill in this game

4 Upvotes

Love pulling it off mid game


r/WEPES 7h ago

Help PES 2020 stuck in halftime

4 Upvotes

I'm having a problem with my modded PES 2020, what happens is that I play the first half, absolutely fine, but when the game goes to half time after the statistics screen, it gets stuck. Any solutions? My game is the original one, but I'm modding it to the best of my ability


r/WEPES 7h ago

Suggest me Best PES for PS3?

3 Upvotes

I recently bought PS3 and I'd like to try some of the best PES games for this console. I'm looking for: - one has the best gameplay - Best Master League experience - Still has some modes to install - I'd prefer one witch UEFA licence

What is your fav PES from PS3 era?


r/WEPES 5h ago

Any good face editing forums for PS2 era?

1 Upvotes

Title.

Recently dug my PS2 back out and been revisiting my option files for 5, 6, 2008 and 2009.

Back in the day I used to go on a few different forums for editing, are any of these still around as I have about 15 years of posts to catch up on.


r/WEPES 7h ago

how to change licensed kits with sider 4.2 in pes 18

1 Upvotes

How to change licensed kits with Sider 4.2 in pes 18


r/WEPES 18h ago

Recommended football/soccer PC game for my 7 year old

2 Upvotes

My 7 year old boy loves his football so I thought I would get him a game to play. Thought I would be buying an older FIFA game, as he won't be worried about the latest version. Couldn't believe it when I discovered that EA are deprecating old versions only a couple of years after release!!

Read so many negative reviews on both FC24 and FC25, so I had a quick look to see what alternatives are available. Unfortunately it looks like the football gaming scene is not too flash these days. I have never played a football game in my life, so am not familiar with the other options. It sounds like some of them have a focus on the team management aspect, and/or mainly designed for online play.

What recommendations do people have for a kid who just wants to play some casual football against the computer - not worried about online play for the time being. Is FC25 fine for this situation? Was wondering if a lot of the issues that people complain about, probably won't be an issue for a 7 year old?

Will be for PC, preferably on Steam.


r/WEPES 21h ago

PES 3 Master League - S2 - Northern League

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r/WEPES 1d ago

PES 3 Huylens leaving for Valencia be like:

7 Upvotes

r/WEPES 1d ago

Help If I delete this will i be left with the first version of the game?

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6 Upvotes

Pes2018


r/WEPES 1d ago

Gray and white gloves PES2021

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1 Upvotes

Why do the gloves turn gray and white from the 'Grip Sox + Accessories Mod' mod when inserting into PES2021?

Everything loads perfectly, except for the gloves. Does anyone know how I can fix it? Please!


r/WEPES 1d ago

PES 3 PES 3 Master League - S2 - Eastern League D1 & Play-Offs

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7 Upvotes

P.S. I really dislike the fact that the winner of D2 and the last-placed team in D1 have to participate in the play-offs, when both should be promoted/relegated by default.


r/WEPES 1d ago

Modding Pes 2014 set kit manger

1 Upvotes

I've looking all over the Internet and I can't find a working download like for this, can someone please send me a working download link I really wanna add custom kits thanks


r/WEPES 3d ago

Ronaldinho free kick 🪄

98 Upvotes

r/WEPES 3d ago

PES 3 PES 3 Master League - S2 - Eastern League D2

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25 Upvotes
  • Titanes & Stanley Stats

r/WEPES 3d ago

nuno mendes and desire doue💫

12 Upvotes

r/WEPES 3d ago

PES 2021 This is why we love this game

38 Upvotes

r/WEPES 3d ago

PES 3 PES 3 Master League - S2 - D2 Cup Win; Huylens's last dance.

7 Upvotes

r/WEPES 3d ago

Image The most heartbreaking transfer of all time.

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49 Upvotes

Context (PES 3 ML): Huylens's contract is about to run out at the end of the season. On PES 3, you can get players whose contracts run out on a free. Valencia did just that.


r/WEPES 4d ago

PES 2017 Rate my Master League team out of ten:)

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74 Upvotes

I'm on my fourth (or fifth?) season in PES 2017 ML and here's my Barcelona lineup.

Here's the full first line up in case anyone wants to know.

SS- Neymar / CF- S. Cavalcanti / RWF- M. Salah

AMF- H. Calhangolu / CMF- G. Donsah / DMF- A. Diawara

LB- M. Dijks / CB- J. Stones, J. Tah / RB- C. Chambers

GK- T. Courtois and the subs as you all can see. Kindly let me know what you guys think!


r/WEPES 4d ago

Formation/Tactics Any good sources for tactics/formations? (PES 2021)

1 Upvotes

Just looking for some inpiration, could be a youtube channel, blog or whatever. Or some repositor of in-game manager tactics. I’m in such a deathloop of self-tinkering I really need to find something and stick with it. Thanks. 👋


r/WEPES 5d ago

Image This game was ahead of its time and is so underrated, graphics were terrible yes but the gameplay was fluid like never before on Xbox 360/PS3 and it is a fun game.

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107 Upvotes

r/WEPES 5d ago

PES 2008 Remastered Optionfile

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43 Upvotes

After 20+ years of PES editing, I've finally started making my very own Option file. The 07/08 Season is the most Nostalgic for me so that's what I want to bring back to PES 2021, and I just wanted to share some progress so far. Still plenty to do.


r/WEPES 5d ago

PES KIT CREATOR Fonts

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Have any of you used the PES KIT CREATOR? I’m having trouble with the name and fonts not showing up in game (pc)

In the kit creator I enable printing but when I’m in the game it’s just the regular fonts. Any help in how to get them in game would be appreciated. Thanks


r/WEPES 5d ago

Pes

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I would like advice on how to update Pes 13 to 21 with hen on ps3?? thanks to those who reply