the cutting room mirror

Tecmo Super Bowl (NES)

To do:
Unused stat screen. There might also be some other stuff buried in here.

It's Tecmo Bowl, but Super.

Crash Handler#

Not the first league lockout to happen this year...

Like Tecmo Bowl, Tecmo Super Bowl has an unused crash handler. The entry point to this routine is hiding in bank 1A at offset 0x1A000 and the CPU address is 0x9A00.

Sound Test#

Tecmo_Super_Bowl_Soundtest.png

At the title screen, hold B and press Left.

Unused Animation#

To do:

An unused referee animation for a planned False Start penalty.

Everything but the sprite in the video is added in as a mockup.

Developer Text#

The game has a small credit at 0x3C139 for AKIHIKO, which is used as the game's SRAM signature. Akihiko Shimoji is credited as the game's programmer (as "A.SHIMOJI").