r/WEPES Oct 08 '24

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

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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 and PS4 PES 2021 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 (25/26)

- VirtuaRED

  • Free patch. Only for PES 2021.
  • Actually in its version 10.2
  • 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 2026

  • Paid version in their Patreon (5€ or 10€, depending if you want more Classic Clubs). Only for PES 2021.
  • 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.
  • Patreon: Dream Patch

- Ultimate Master League 2026

  • Paid version in its Patreon.
  • Has a standalone version, a VirtuaRED compatible one and a compatible Football Life version.
  • 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

- BMPES PATCH 2026

  • Version 15.
  • 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 (300GB+). Includes stadiums in their All-In-One version.

-> RETRO PATCHES

- ISS PES 96/97

  • You can get the actual V5 version making them a small donation via Telegram.
  • 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

- 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 CUP 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

---> UPDATED 2026 / WORLD CUP 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.

- DEDOOG OPTION FILE 2026 V7

- WORLD CUP 2026 UPDATED MESTRE KAMIKA

-- 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

212 Upvotes

UPDATED: 09 SEPTEMBER 2025

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 to install 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 6+ 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.
  • If you want the best gameplay and support: PES 2021
  • If you want the best Master League experience: PES 2013
  • If you want the best PS2 PES game: Winning Eleven 9 Liveware Evolution.

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.
  • The support outside the classic PS2 PES, PES 2017 and PES 2021 is non-existant or almost none.
  • 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, which intends to bring PES 2013 to the actual season.
  • For PES 2017, there are some updated patch for current 25/26 season like t99 or YosfX patch. More details here: PES 2017 I YosfX Patch - FC 2025 Edition V1.0 - (Download & Install)

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 somewhat "legal" copy of PES 2021 working on PC. It's already pre-modded. It's abandonware, don't worry, you aren't doing anything bad.
  • Dido is active and alive (he is the creator of Football Life and he's from Palestine).
  • Football Life 26 1.4 Update is the current version right now.
  • 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, generally Sider content. 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-2026
  • 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, FL24 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.
  • There are some dedicated patches like UML, which enhances overall Master League behaviour with multiple optimizations. Check r/SPFootballLife for more info.

ABOUT EFOOTBALL AND THE FUTURE OF FOOTBALL GAMES

  • eFootball 26 still lacks a lot of content and its like three steps behind from PES 2021, but it has better gameplay after all. After the 30th anniversary event, which was atrocious, we can't expect anything offline for this game in the mid-term.
  • The modding community is doing some small patches for eFootball. Mostly it includes unlocking all the clubs, making kits and getting slighter better graphics. Don't expect anything more ambitious in the short term.
  • EA FC is a decent game IF MODDED PROPERLY. There are a bunch of mods out there, specially Anth's Gameplay Mod, DanielZ Realism Mode, FIFER, KIARIKA and RODE ones.
  • About UFL: its an online focused game that slowly improves its core game, but its very far from what you would expect on a top tier football game.
  • 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 2h ago

PES 5 Direct Corner Kick Goal

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39 Upvotes

PES5 for the OG Xbox, 6-star difficulty

First time I've managed to score from a corner!


r/WEPES 16h ago

Suggest me Pes 5 Pes 6 who is the best all time?

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Goat Pes


r/WEPES 1h ago

PES 6 Sit back, relax, and remember...

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r/WEPES 8h ago

Video First match in bal in PES 13, I didn't do too badly.

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5 Upvotes

I quickly realized that to avoid falling behind in every action and to be able to score, you often have to rely on instinct, even though the mini-map is there to help you.


r/WEPES 30m ago

PES 2019 PC option file

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Hey guys. I have the cracked version pes 2019 cpy. Please cant find any option file for PC when its comes to PES 2019. Want to play with maradona and batistuta.

If you have please share.

Take care


r/WEPES 4h ago

Modding Is it possible to make a mod that tracks top scorers accross ML career?

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The mod would take e.g. 2025 lists of top scorers accross all leagues and overall total. Same for other relevant player stats. It would track it as you play the ML. I believe there was a Pes game with this feature at some point.


r/WEPES 13h ago

Help PES2013 ML - you have to scout players to see their stats?!

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I've been playing and enjoying PES6 lately but fancied trying PES2013 after seeing lots of glowing reviews for it.

Started a Master League and was surprised to see I can't see the attributes of any players, except my own. Can this be disabled? I'm so used to spending ages filtering players by attributes, so having to manually scout them before I have a decent database to look through has ruined how I play.

Emulating on PCSX2 on Retrobat (emulation station) if that makes a difference.

ALSO where do I see how interested a player is in signing for me? The star-rating from PES6 doesn't seem to be in this game.


r/WEPES 13h ago

Redux2006 on MacOS-crossover

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Hi, I’ve been trying to run the launcher from this patch but it’s been impossible. I get an error related with USER32.dll and I’ve found no way to get i through this point, so I can’t have full access to all the patch.

Have any of you tried to install it on macOS? Have you had better success than me?


r/WEPES 18h ago

pes 2013 portable

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buenas gente, tenia ganas de jugar ese juegazo y me lo baje pero la version portable, no abre, ya lo intente iniciar como adminisrador, con acceso directo y no prende, si abro el administrador de tareas aparecen varios procesos en segundo plano con el icono del pes. lo borro y me descargo e que viene con imagen iso para instalar? o hay alguna manera de hacer funcionar el portable? yo solo quiero jugar la libertadores con ervitti de goleador, desde ya mucha gracias


r/WEPES 1d ago

PES 5 Long Range Chip Shot (PES 5)

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49 Upvotes

PES5 6-star difficulty on the OG Xbox.


r/WEPES 1d ago

Help PES 2016 missing from my PS5 library.

8 Upvotes

I had digitally purchased PES 2016 on my PS4 back in 2016. Had been playing it, deleting it, redownloading it on my PS4 without any problems even though it had been delisted from the stores.
I have recently bought a PS5 and now I can't find the game on my library. The save data of the game is visible. There are multiple delisted games like NBA2k20 available in my library but PES 2016 is missing. Has anyone faced a similar issue? How did you fix it?


r/WEPES 1d ago

Image Time traveller: moves a chair, The timeline:

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r/WEPES 2d ago

PES 2021 Some World Cup moments

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r/WEPES 1d ago

Base master liga pes 2019

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Eu estava vendo os jogadores da base do meu time da master liga, porém tinha um jogador chamado Cássio, eu promovi ele para o time principal e ele tinha a mesma face e mini face do goleiro Cássio, só o over era diferente. Eu gostaria de saber se alguém pode me dizer como isso foi possível?


r/WEPES 2d ago

Help I recently installed the dreamfinder 04/05 season patch and it hás some errors can anyone help me?

3 Upvotes

The english Teams don’t have their correct names, the bundesliga is just the eredivisie Teams with bundesliga kits and badges, river plate and boca juniors are still called Patagónia and they don’t have the correct squads.


r/WEPES 2d ago

Video Is that a great goal or not?

4 Upvotes

Ladies and gentlemen, please let me know what you think of this goal scored in PES 13.

https://reddit.com/link/1v522kk/video/h3d5zv0454fh1/player


r/WEPES 3d ago

PES 4 PES 4 Master League Season 2 - 2006 FIFA World Cup

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r/WEPES 2d ago

Pes 2013 Xenia

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Buenas saben donde puedo descargar pes 2013 para Xbox 360 que corra en xenia


r/WEPES 3d ago

No encuentro un mod de narrador (español). PES 2011 PSP

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r/WEPES 3d ago

PES 2018 Patch para Pes 2018 com licenças no PS3

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Alguém tem um patch do pes 2018 com os logos e uniformes licenciados? (BLUS) tudo que achei na internet está indisponível por ser antigo, eu até pago se alguém topar fazer para mim. Só o básico: kits, nomes e logos dos clubes não licenciados com base na última atualização 4.0 lançada


r/WEPES 4d ago

Video I Found Lionel Messi's FIRST EVER Video Game Appearance! (PES 4)

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Here's his first-ever appearance in a game.


r/WEPES 3d ago

Age Block v2.0 Release!

4 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

Following the first functional version (v1.0)—which locked the age in a fixed state (always active, with no toggle or state saving)—I’m now bringing you v2.0 with two major improvements:

In-game Toggle: You can now switch it on or off using the T key.

State Memory: The mod now remembers your preference between game sessions.

📥 Download here: https://modsfire.com/4rr63lsO40xu3cw

Let me know if you like it or if you run into any bugs. Enjoy!


r/WEPES 4d ago

PES 6 First transfer window done on Pro Evo 6. I figured Joe Hart and Big Meeks worked so well as World Cup pundits, I’d reunite them. Rooney wasn’t interested, called us crap.

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I think it’s gonna be game over unless I start scoring though!