Sider for PES 2021 Season Update
Many mods from 2020 seem to work fine, including BallServer, StadiumServer, Kitserver, various camera modules. ScoreboardServer does not, however. This version of the sider needs a lot of testing, so please report if you notice something wrong.
INTRODUCTION
Sider is a companion program for PES 2021 and PES 2021 Lite. It allows for small tweaks - such as "free side-select" (which is where sider gets its name from), and time expander for the demo version. It also facilitates game mods, created by the modding community. The two main features are LiveCPK and the scripting engine, where you can write your own mods in Lua programming language.
LiveCPK makes it possible to replace game content at run-time with content from files stored on disk, instead of having to pack everything into CPK-archives. (This feature is similar to Kitserver's AFS2FS and to FileLoader for earlier versions of PES). Depending on how and when exactly the game reads the replaced files, you can even live-edit some things, like textures or 3D models, without exiting the game.
If you know a little bit about how to program, you can write your own game logic using Sider's scripting engine. This requires some reading and understanding of how the game works, but it's really not that hard ;-) See scripting.html - for detailed documentation on that.
HOW TO INSTALL
Move the folder that you just unpacked from the ZIP archive into a place, where your Windows user account has full permissions. I very strongly recommend using one of these standard locations: Desktop, Documents, or your home directory.
Starting with version 6.3, the sider has no external dependencies, meaning that everything that sider requires is included in its folder. You do not need to install any additional software to be able to run a sider. You must have at least Windows 7 64-bit or newer (Sider will not work on XP/Vista).
People sometimes take sider files and stuff them into Steam's directory for PES 2021. I am not entirely sure where that idea originated. One possibilty is a "carry-over knowledge" of how Kitserver worked for old-gen PES games. However, in the case of sider, this is not a good way to organize things. In fact, it is a pretty bad idea, because:
you mix sider files with game files, and it can be tricky to remember which files belong to sider and which ones - to the game. Uninstalling sider then becomes more difficult.
sider needs to create sider.log file and create and update various *.cache and *.ini files. If it has trouble doing so, due to folder permissions, it can lead to errors and crashes.
Steam may need/choose to "verify" game files, which can result in some of the sider files being deleted or corrupted in some way.
So, in other words, don't do it. There is absolutely no need for it.
HOW TO UNINSTALL
Before uninstalling, remember that you can always run the game without sider, for whatever reason. To do that, simply start the game via Steam or Steam desktop shortcut. (Like you normally would, if you didn't have sider)
If you want to completely remove sider from your computer, simply delete its folder, and that is it - uninstallation complete.
HOW TO USE
Sider itself does not require Administrator privileges, you should run it under your regular account - the same one as you would use to start the game without Sider.
The new method (preferred)
The new one-click way is enabled by default now and it is super easy: just run sider.exe, it will open a small window, then it will automatically launch the game itself, then Sider application will exit, but the game will continue running with the sider.dll loaded into it.
CREDITS
Game research: nesa24, juce, digitalfoxx, zlac
Programming: juce
Testing: zlac, nesa24, Chuny, Hawke, sonofsam69, Cesc Fabregas, Paul LFC, mota10, predator002
Blue Champions League ball: Hawke, digitalfoxx
Trophies: MJTS-140914, juce
Sider license is a BSD-style license: license.txt
Sider uses the following 3rd-party software:
LuaJIT by Mike Pall (license-luajit.txt)
Knuth-Morris-Pratt string matcher from Project Nayuki (license-kmp.txt)
FW1FontWrapper library by Erik Rufelt
zlib by Jean-loup Gailly (compression) and Mark Adler (decompression) (license-zlib.txt)
miniaudio by David Reid (license-ma.txt)
Download link
Sider 7.0.0
https://mapote.com/pes/sider-7.0.0.zip
Online documentation here:
https://mapote.com/doc/sider/
Refference:
https://mapote.com/doc/sider/sider7/readme.html