A player photographed a green tag under every consumable card. It is not a status label at all: external/ion_fut/artAssets/.../notfound.swf is the client's placeholder for an art asset it could not resolve, so the card was drawing 'no such artwork'. The cause is two id columns that look interchangeable and are not. In the game's own fcc_ tables a consumable row carries BOTH carddbid (5003001) and cardassetid (3), and the art is keyed on the small one. fut_store._item copies resourceId into cardassetid, which is correct for players and wrong for every other family, so the client looked up art id 5003001, found nothing, and fell back. Now mapped from data/tables/fcc_*.json, dumped read-only from the client's own database, so these are the game's ids rather than a guess: training 3, contract 7, healing 10, misc 45. The same table also gives balls 37, kits 35, stadium 36, badges 39, league logos 40, which is what the club-item family will need. Two earlier guesses at this badge were wrong and are recorded as such: it is not the untradeable flag (changing it left the tag untouched, and the record showed the flag had flipped) and not a loc-string failure. 439 + 414 checks green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VUT92pz6RWKih9dSr8ZpxW
OpenFUT
Offline Ultimate Team — like SPT, but for FIFA 23.
OpenFUT replaces EA's retired FUT servers with a fully offline, single-player backend. You own FIFA 23 legitimately. You just want to keep playing after EA shut down the servers.
Repositories
| Repo | Purpose |
|---|---|
openfut-core |
Game-independent offline FUT backend |
openfut-bridge |
FIFA 23 integration layer + reverse-engineering proxy |
Architecture
FIFA 23 client
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┌─────────────────┐
│ openfut-bridge │ ← intercepts FUT traffic, maps routes, logs unknown
└────────┬────────┘
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┌─────────────────┐
│ openfut-core │ ← offline FUT backend: profiles, packs, squads, SBCs
└─────────────────┘
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SQLite database
Core is game-independent. It speaks a clean REST API and knows nothing about FIFA 23 internals.
Bridge is FIFA-specific. It speaks FIFA 23's wire protocol and translates it into Core API calls. Bridge is where all reverse engineering work happens.
Current Status
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| Local profiles + clubs | ✅ Working |
| Coin system | ✅ Working |
| Pack generator | ✅ Working |
| Card collection | ✅ Working |
| Squad builder | ✅ Working |
| Objectives engine | ✅ Working |
| SBC engine | ✅ Working |
| Match rewards | ✅ Working |
| NPC transfer market | ✅ Working |
| Statistics | ✅ Working |
| FIFA 23 integration | 🔴 Reverse engineering in progress |
| Chemistry calculation | 🟡 In progress |
| Full Draft mode | 🟡 In progress |
| Squad Battles AI generator | 🟡 In progress |
| Objectives claim flow | 🟡 In progress |
Running
# Start the offline backend
cd openfut-core
cargo run
# Start the proxy (for traffic capture / FIFA integration)
cd openfut-bridge
cargo run
Core listens on http://127.0.0.1:8080 by default.
Bridge listens on http://127.0.0.1:8443 by default.
Design Principles
- Offline-first. No EA account required. No internet connection needed.
- Single-player only. This is not a multiplayer server emulator.
- Data-driven. All cards, packs, SBCs, and objectives are JSON files. Everything is moddable.
- Clean architecture. Core has zero knowledge of FIFA 23. Bridge has zero game logic.
- No copyrighted assets. No real player images, no EA trademarks in data files.
Disclaimer
This project is not affiliated with EA Sports. You must own FIFA 23 legitimately to use this software. This project does not bypass any ownership verification and is intended only to restore offline playability of a game whose online services have been retired.