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Madden NFL 2004 cheats, hints, guides

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Earn Madden Cards With EA Bio

Unlock Madden Cards in Mini-Camp
Get Gold in Mini-Camp challenges to unlock Madden Cards. Cards directly relate to the challenges you complete. For instance, getting a Gold in the Ground Attack challenge will yield a Priest Holmes Card. Be sure to get Golds on all of the difficulty levels to collect all of the cards!
Submitted by: CoolM

Avoid The Cap
The salary cap is pretty easy to manipulate. If you don't like a player for whatever reason, than re-negotiate his contract so that he doesn't get a signing bonus. Than work out a trade with another team and you won't take a hit against the salary cap for trading him.

Earn Madden Cards With EA Bio
Gain levels in your EA Bio by completing specific challenges and playing other EA Sports title to unlock Madden Cards. Unlockable Cards include:
Level 2: #204 Bingo! Cheat
Level 4: #246 1990 Eagles Classic Team
Level 6: #186 Steve Spurrier Coach

Play Football 101 to Earn Easy Tokens
One place to garner quick Tokens is Football 101. Run through all of the plays in your playbook to get a substantial helping of Tokens, which you can use to purchase Madden Cards.

Unlock Cheerleader/Pump Up Crowd Madden Cards
To unlock the Cheerleader/Pump Up Crowd Madden Cards, beat the Game Situation in Mini-Camp. The team who you complete the challenge with is the Cheerleader/Pump Up Card you will unlock.
Submitted by: CoolM

Change music
Hold [X] and press [L] or [R] to change the menu song.

Bingo cheat
Reach level 2 in your EA Sports Bio.

Ray Lewis
Reach level 3 in your EA Sports Bio.

1990 Eagles team
Reach level 4 in your EA Sports Bio.

Steve Spurrier coach
Reach level 6 in your EA Sports Bio.

Preist Holmes
Reach level 9 in your EA Sports Bio.

Super Bowl 38 card
Reach level 12 in your EA Sports Bio.

Super Bowl 38 stadium
Reach level 19 in your EA Sports Bio.

Tiburon Complex stadium
Reach level 29 in your EA Sports Bio.

Ricky Williams
Reach level 27 in your EA sports Bio.

1988 San Francisco 49ers
Reach level 35 in your EA Sports Bio.

EA Sports Stadium
Reach level 50 in your EA Sports Bio.

Players become coaches
Great players that retire in franchise mode can return to be coaches. Wait a couple of years after your favorite star retires, and he will show up in the coaching free agent list to be signed as an assistant or head coach.

In owner mode, go through a couple seasons, then in the off-season select "Staff". Select "Hire Coach". You can select old players as head, offensive, defensive, and special teams coaches.

Free advertising
Just before a home game, put all advertising up and play your game. After the game, do not sim week. Go out and set the advertising to zero. Sim week and you will get 100% attendance, but pay nothing.
Submitted by: CoolM

Thanksgiving commentary
Set the system date to the third Thursday in November.

Christmas commentary
Set the system date to December 25.

New Year's commentary
Set the system date to January 1.

Extremely bored crowd
Get the highest amount of points you can in the game. After this, if you get an interception, touchdown, etc., the fans will not have any reaction and seen extremely bored.

Madden Cards and game cheats
Get a gold rank in any event on the All Pro, Pro and Rookie levels in mini-camp mode.

Add stats to Bio
Every time you simulate a season, if your team makes the playoffs it raises the stats on your EA Bio. You only have to save the Bio, and not the season.
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Determine if defense is playing man to man coverage
Send a player in motion. If a defensive player follows him, then the corners are playing man to man coverage. Remember that the safeties may have zone and a LB could cover a WR (should be an easy completion).

Easy interceptions
While in defense, choose the play Nickel-Normal, go to cover 2. Now that you chose the play move your line in, your LB to the left, and your coverage in. Note: This only work about 85% of the time in rookie mode, sometimes in pro, if you are lucky on all-pro, and almost never in all-Madden settings.

Madden NFL 2004

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More Tokens

Use Football 101 and run through all the plays in your playbook to tack on alot of tokens which are used for madden cards

EA Bio

Build up your EA Bio by playing other EA Sports games or completing specific challenges to unlock Madden Cards like these

Level 2: #204 Bingo! Cheat

Level 4: #246 1990 Eagles Classic Team

Level 6: #186 Steve Spurrier Coach

Retired Great Players as Coaches

Great players that retire in franchise mode can come back to be coaches. Wait a couple of years after your favorite star retires, and he will show up in the coaching free agent list to be signed as an assistant or head coach.

Get Cheerleader/Pump up the crowd card

Go to mini camp and beat the game situation.  You will get a cheerleader card equal to the team you beat the challenge with

Change EA Trax Song

If you want to change the song that is being played, Hold X and press the left trigger or the right trigger to choose different songs.

Game Strategy Players Become Coaches

Great players that retire in franchise mode can come back to be coaches. Wait a couple of years after your favorite star retires, and he will show up in the coaching free agent list to be signed as an assistant or head coach.

Get more fans in stadium

On create a stadium make everything except for one or two luxury boxes and press boxes to get more money in owner mode

Mini Camp Cards

Get a gold on the different difficulty levels in all the mini camp challenges to unlock cards

No Cap in Started Franchise

To turn off the cap in a franchise you already have started get your team extremely close to the salary cap (100k to 0k works for me) but you have to be missing a player you need (ex. have only 4 WR) then try to go to a regular or pre-season game it will say something to the effect of "You need a WR" then give you a choice to sign one or have the CPU sign it, choose CPU. Then it will pause for a second and say "no cap room choose cancel to sign player yourself or choose ok to turn off salary cap permanently. "Its that simple warning though this will turn off owner mode for good

Help Lower Salary Cap (in franchise mode)

To help lower the salary cap, when you sign people sign them for 7 years and raise the signing bonus, it will raise your cap until a certain point then will lower it, raise it to the point when it gives you the most cap and there ya go as Madden himself would say BOOM

Two-Minute Drill points

Accomplishment Points
Go out of bounds on a play with positive yards 50 pts
Special bonus for every 5 yards past 21 on a 30+ yard completion 100 pts
4-yard run (or more) 100 pts
First Down 100 pts
10-yard completion (or more) 100 pts
Extra Point 150 pts
Special bonus for every 5 yards past 16 on a 25+ yard run 200 pts
Special bonus for every Field Goal 3 yards past 41 yards 250 pts
15-yard run (or more) 300 pts
21-yard completion (or more) 350 pts
Two-point conversion 375 pts
Fumble recovery 375 pts
Field Goal 525 pts
Field Goal 31 yards or longer 675 pts
Field Goal 41 yards or longer 850 pts
Score 15 or more points +15%
Score 22 or more points +30%
Play at Pro Skill Level +50%
Play at All-Pro Skill Level +100%
Play at All-Madden Skill Level +200%

Super Bowl 38 stadium

Reach level 19 in your EA Sports Bio.

Do you have a low salary?

If you have a low salary and need to sign in new players don't turn your salary cap off. Because if you do you won't get Owner Mode.One thing you can do is that the computer automatically puts what the player want's in other mode how much money he wants lower it put the signing bones up. Somtimes the player will reject but keep on putting it up bye 10k and soon enough he will accept lower that what he was asking for.(while you put salary up little bye little put signing bones to it's max they like signing bones to it's max)

Bargain Basement Superstars (Franchise Mode)

Create a player without increasing any of his attributes.  You can even lower them a little more to make his price as low as possible.  Sign him for 7 years for next to nothing, then go back into ‘create a player’ and increase his attributes to whatever you want them to be without raising salary.  You can even max them out, but how much fun would that be?

Various Hints-n-Tips

In Owner Mode, when you get to the Playoffs you should raise your ticket prices, food, merchandise, and parking over the expected prise.  The Fans may complain, but they will pay up to see your team play in the Playoffs (You need to have the homefield advantage to do this).

Also in Owner Mode (will be referred to as OM from now on) at the end of your season SAVE YOUR GAME, before advancing to the off-season.  Take a look at your retired players, not restart your system and trade them off for some draft picks, or whatever you can get.
NOTE--This will only work if you turn OFF the trade deadline option.

In OM your advisors may mislead you.  When I raised prices they told me that fans were grumbling about high prices (Don't make them too ridiculous!).  If you only raise them a few over the expected, fans will still continue to come.  However, if you notice a considerable drop (over 5%) of people not attending you should hold a fan appreciation day.  The best ones are the ones like tame atographs, team movies, etc.  Anything that has to do with the team will be big.  If you happen to see nothing that has anything to do with the team, just go back to the OM menu, and go back to the fan appreciation day menu.  Each time you go back and forth you get new options.

You may not think that this matters, but it DOES.  Each time you play a game look at the teams roster you are playing.  Take a look at their weaknesses and strengths.  Now go under coach options and see you gameplain to the opposite of the opponents teams strengths (ex. if the team you're facing has a strong running back, set your team to worry about the run more, if the opponent has a weak secondary, set you O gameplain to be passing).  Now that you've done that go to management and tell all of your players exactly how they are to play.  If you want to pass rush set you D-line to the pass-rush side of the bar, if you want them to stop the run, slide the bar to the other side.  Do this to all of your players, and you will be a LOT more successful in your game. 

In OM if a star player is starting to get old do not hesitate to trade him for draft picks.  I suggest you do this.  While in the short term you lose a star player, in the long term your rookies will be developed into stars when your opponents start to worry about getting new players.  You will be one-step ahead of the CPU.  For example, if you play as the Rams (go RAMS) you see that Bulger is much younger than Warner and will be as good with a couple more years of playing time under his belt.  You should trade Warner for a butt-load of draft picks at the end of the year to the team that gets to pick first.  I got all of the Cardinals picks for Warner, and 5 out of those 7 are starters in my second season, 2 out of those 7 are on the road to the pro-bowl, and my rookie CB, is nominated for the rookie-of-the-year award.  Trust me, you need to do this.
WARNING-Don't trade all of your star players, your rookies play better with a veteran to look up to.