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Madden 2001

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Madden Cards
There are three different value levels of the cards: Gold (4), Silver (2), and Bronze (1). The cards each serve one use, besides the stadium cards, team cards, and historical players, which are always active. The other cards are for cheat codes and raising player attributes. Gold Cards last for half of a game. Sliver Cards last for one quarter. Bronze cards last for a single play. You earn Madden Cards by buying them with Madden Tokens. Madden Tokens are earned by accomplishing certain feats while playing. There are five levels of feats to complete, and you get more tokens for the higher difficulty level. To obtain Madden Cards you must make sure that Madden Cards are enabled, either on the profile select screen prior to the game, or on the options menu.

Gather all 296 cards and the 297th will be John Madden. The card's value is 2500 points. Sell the card and purchase a new pack. You will get a John Madden card once again. Repeat this until you have as many points as you desire. 2500 points is worth 25 packs. John Madden unlocks the Madden Millennium Team, featuring Mike Ditka as the tight end.

Madden Card effects

Jamal Anderson (Card #3): Jamal will receive a 25% ratings boost for one play.
Jesse Armstead (Card #4): Jesse will receive a 25% ratings boost until the end of the current half.
Stephen Boyd (Card #15): Stephen will receive a 25% ratings boost until the end of the current quarter.
Ray Buchanan (Card #24): Ray will receive a 25% ratings boost until the end of the current half.
Eddie George (Card #50): Eddie will receive a 25% ratings boost until the end of the current half.
Raghib Ismail (Card #63): Raghib will receive a 25% ratings boost until the end of the current half.
Andy Kitzenmoyer (Card #68): Andy will receive a 25% ratings boost for one play.
Peyton Manning (Card #78): Peyton will receive a 25% ratings boost until the end of the current quarter.
Shannon Sharpe (Card #119): Shannon will receive a 25% ratings boost until the end of the current quarter.
Fred Taylor (Card #133): Fred will receive a 25% ratings boost for one play.
Charles Woodson (Card #148): Charles will receive a 25% ratings boost until the end of the current quarter.
John Elway (Card #160): John Elway appears in the Free Agent bin.
5th Down (Card #203): You receive an extra down.
3rd Down (Card #204): The CPU only gets three downs.
Tight Fit (Card #208): The uprights are very narrow, creating an impossible kicking situation.
Da Bomb (Card #209): Pumps your quarterback's arm up, granting unlimited pass range.
Mistake Free (Card #211): You cannot fumble or toss an interception.
Extra Credit (Card #216): For every interception you receive three points and every sack is an extra two points.
Bad Spot (Card #218): Ref spots opponent's ball 1 or 2 yards short.
Toast (Card # 219): Boosts your ability to burn DBs.
Jam (Card #220): Your ability to jam a WR will be raised by 50% for the whole game.
Couch Potato (Card #228): Opponents will swiftly fatigue for the whole game.
Ouch! (Card #230): Your opponent's injuries will be raised by 50% for the whole game.
Super Bowl XXXVII Stadium (Card #235): Self-explanatory.
Monsters (Card #293): Self-explanatory.

Extra Madden Tokens
By perfoming higher skill levels, you will multiply the number of tokens for a task by 1, 2, 3, or 4.
 

Easy Madden points
Choose your favorite and least favorite teams. Enter the rosters screen and select the "Edit Player" option. Make everyone on your favorite team a perfect 99 points for all things, then go to you least favorite team's roster and make everyone on their team the minimum 15 for everything. Save your roster changes. Continually play in exhibition mode and do your best run kickoffs and punts for touchdowns, let yourself get tackled, and run for 96 yards for a touchdown, etc. This can result in above 1000 points in a game.

Getting Madden Cards easily
You can acquire all the cards without playing more than two or three games. Create two user accounts one you plan on keeping and another just for use. Play one or two games with each created account giving them at least 100 Madden points a piece. Save each one and reset the PlayStation2. When you restart, open your Madden Cards screen, and purchase at least a pack of cards for each account. Trade all the cards you want from your dummy account to your permanent account. Exit and the game will prompt you to save what you have done. Answer "OK", and the save screen will appear. Only save the permanent account. Reset the PlayStation2, buy a pack with the dummy account and trade once again. Once again, only save the permanent account with the cards. Reset the PlayStation2 and redo as many times as you desire. You should get at least 14 cards each time, and you will be forced to leave one with the dummy account. Only leave Bronze cards, as these will not stay in the dummy account and will be lost.

Always win coin toss
Press Start before anything appears on the coin toss screen.

Block punts
Select "Punt Block", then move three men over to the left. starting with the first man to the right of the center until the end man is not lined up on the safety any more. If done properly, the three men moved should be blocked on the left end, and the SS and the RB/FB should run in unblocked to stop the punter before he can kick the ball. Select the SS and run at the punter as swiftly as possible when the ball is snapped. Substitute a fast SS on defensive subs on the punt block play.

Take your right end to the left and your safety to the right. The running back will pick up the safety and the end will block the punt.

Knock down people on sidelines
At the start of a play, run towards one of the sidelines and go slightly out of bounds. When the play starts, run up and down the sideline. After the play has finished, go to "Instant Replay". Go to the appropriate sideline and watch the player you controlled. Sometimes you will knock over the coaches and the people carrying the fist down markers.

Unlimited creation points
Create a player, then go to "Edit Player" at the roster screen. Then press Up or Down to choose the player you want to modify. Press Right to obtain to the speed category. Press X, then press X again.

Cheap 99 ranked players
Proceed to the edit player screen, highlight "Speed" and press X(2x's). Rank all of your players as low as they can go. That way their salary will be roughly $350,000, depending on position. Then highlight whatever category you want to modify and press X, but do not press X a second time. After you raise the stats to 99, press Triangle to leave that category. Then, move to a new category and do it once again. If you hit X a second time, your player's salary will raise back up. You should raise the "Stamina", "Toughness", and "Injury" categories to 99 when you are in the screen where you lower the salary. Otherwise, your players will only be able to be in one play before they are substituted, or will get bad injuries with just about every play. If everything works out, you should have about $45 million dollars left over with a full 55 person roster. Although this does take some time, it is well worth it.

For example, use Keyshawn John. He takes up a lot of cap room with a $7.00 million salary. To lower that and raiupse his ratings, go to the roster section at the main screen. Then go to "Edit Player" then go to their team and scroll down to the player. Then press Right to highlight the "Speed" column. Press X and the editing rating sections will now appear. Once you do one change to his ratings, his salary will be at what he is really worth and his ratings will be higher.

Lambeau Leap
Play as the Green Bay Packers at home and run a touchdown. The players will eventually do the Lambeau Leap.

All-Madden difficulty setting
On the All-Madden difficulty, the CPU intercepts passes very easily. To avoid getting your passes tipped or picked off, throw short passes and pop passes (passes that are thrown almost the instant after the ball is hiked). Long (Da Bomb) passes will only work sometimes, but will usually get picked off.

Easy sacks
Move your right end to the left side between your left end and left D. Move your right DT in front of the center. Almost every time a pass is thrown, the end will break through and produce a sack.

This fairly easy trick works 99% of the time. At the play selection screen, scroll to the goal line plays. Select the category, then select Blitz B (no other blitz play will work). Wait for the snap keep pressing Down + Circle.

Use this trick to average roughly three to six sacks per game. Take your middle linebacker or your swiftest DB and put them in the hole of DT and END. Make sure you are not on the line of scrimmage or the tackle and tight end will block you. Hold Circle and move to the quarterback. This normally only works on singleback or the shotgun plays.

Easy two-point conversion
After scoring a touchdown choose "Fake FG - Run" as your next play. After hiking the ball, run the receiver right and progressively upwards make sure you keep wide of the players on the opposing team. You should be able to make the two-point conversion every time.

This trick works roughly 95% of the time. It will not work if your receiver does not catch the ball. Put your best receiver as Receiver 3 instead of Receiver 1. Make sure that the play calling screen is on the player's faces. Go to the Receiver 3 category, then go down until you find the Screen Pass. Once you snap the ball, press X to throw it swiftly. Make sure you do not let your play go out of bounds.  

Always get the onside kick during kickoff
Turn off the penalty for kicks not over 10 yards. Hold Left and constantly press X. Your players will recover the ball, because it will only travel about 6 yards with your opponent not near you.

When onside kicking, always get the ball by moving the arrow all the way left and down. Your team will recover it always. By doing this you can keep the ball the whole game as long as you do not fumble or throw an interception or a safety.

When kicking, select the normal kickoff, which is X where everybody runs straight downfield. When the red arrow appears, hold Up until it stops, then press Right until it stops. Kick the ball full power and the spot you kick it to is played by a back-up offensive tackle. He will drop it (usually). Instantly after kicking the ball, press X to turn into the outermost man on the kickoff and hold down Circle until you get to the ball. You will pick it up and it is all yours.

Challenging a play
You cannot challenge a play on your own. On very rare occasions you will be asked after a play if you would like to challenge a questionable call. It is usually due to a player going out of bounds.