I didn’t find anything either, at least not with a Tile Viewer, but using Reality Boy’s debug functions (thanks again, Dan ;-)), I found even more interesting stuff in the BG memory on the settings screen (right after the title):
– 2 player graphics!
– “Special” mode? Might that be the 2 player mode?
– A 5 set game?
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EDIT: Sorry, they have the same link as KR155E.
This is from 2007:
http://spacepope4u.blogspot.com/2007/05/birdos-original-tennis-debut.html
I was looking though the rom and figured out how the players are loaded. I eventually managed to load every character by manipulating the ram. Sadly, loading anything else then the existing players leads to a buggy mess.
If you want to you can say I managed to load MissingNo’s ugly brother.
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Benjamin Stevens wrote:
thunderstruck wrote:
I was looking though the rom and figured out how the players are loaded. I eventually managed to load every character by manipulating the ram. Sadly, loading anything else then the existing players leads to a buggy mess.If you want to you can say I managed to load MissingNo’s ugly brother.
Wait… so can you actually successfully play a round of tennis using the buggy mess character? If so, that is cool enough for me!
Nice of you to ask. Yes, you can. It’s a bit tricky as you can not see your bat but it is possible.
And… after playing one round against the opponent in spot 7 (one more then possible) it actually shows Cassarin as the opponent name on the result screen. Missed that before. Every other illegal spot would only generate a buggy screen which is not that surprising.
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Has there been any speculation on why Birdo got cut? Perhaps it would have driven the size of the cart up to 8 MB and Nintendo didn’t want all that extra wasted space?
I don’t think it was a space was a problem. As e5frog pointed out 4 years ago there is plenty left. Most likely they just needed to get it done.
Benjamin Stevens wrote:
thunderstruck wrote:
Nice of you to ask. Yes, you can. It’s a bit tricky as you can not see your bat but it is possible.Cool! I figured such.
So… have you been thinking of creating your own character sprite and filling in the missing 8th character?
The idea came to my mind but I don’t think I will do it. Seems to be allot of work for putting him back.
Another funny thing I noticed is that when you go to tournament mode the game actually displays a question mark as the player image. This is because it is at that position on the bgmap. I didn’t see the question mark being used anywhere else but I didn’t pay attention either. If you progress, and the game shows the the happy/sad animation of your character the box will be empty as those spots on the map are empty as well.
I attached a modded rom. You can pick any character and it will always be Glitcho. Just in case someone wants to have a look.
