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Editing Tecmo Bowl with something other than Tecmo Bowl Manager


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Hi guys,


I've been wanting to edit Tecmo Bowl and in the past I used Tecmo Bowl Manager with great results.  However, since I started editing with TBM again lately, I keep getting an error message stating the "file is already open" when I attempt to save or save as. This has been frustrating because I keep losing a lot of work and end up having to do something over since it is not saving correctly.  Is there another program I can edit Tecmo with other than TBM and has anyone else encountered this issue?  What I am wanting to do is add some of the other teams that did not make the original cut and also make a college themed Tecmo Bowl. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 


 


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After some testing I have found that I can successfully make changes and save them until I try to change the intro name for Miami.  If I attempt to change the name to anything else, then it starts giving me error messages.  So is a bug in the rom file or is it in TBM and would using a hex editor allow to get around this?


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After some testing I have found that I can successfully make changes and save them until I try to change the intro name for Miami. If I attempt to change the name to anything else, then it starts giving me error messages. So is a bug in the rom file or is it in TBM and would using a hex editor allow to get around this?

I can't remember, but I think if you manually change the Miami name in a Hex Editor (I use FCEUX) you can get around this. Just be careful to stay within the allotted space (i.e don't start the team name too far to the left or right) or you will have graphical issues when the title screen starts to scroll up. Or don't change the Miami name until you've completed everything else.

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Thanks, I'll give that a try with my hex editor once I'm done with editing everything else. :razz:    I did have a couple of other questions though.  I have found that I can assign the color of my choice to the end zones for each team but it defaults to gray after I saved and exited TBM is there a way around that?  The other thing would be the logos for the teams in the intro.  Is there a good graphics editor to edit those or is it possible to arrange it where only the team names and player rosters display? 


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Thanks, I'll give that a try with my hex editor once I'm done with editing everything else. :razz:    I did have a couple of other questions though.  I have found that I can assign the color of my choice to the end zones for each team but it defaults to gray after I saved and exited TBM is there a way around that?  The other thing would be the logos for the teams in the intro.  Is there a good graphics editor to edit those or is it possible to arrange it where only the team names and player rosters display? 

 

That would be bad ass to edit in the actual NFL logos instead of the Cleveland komodo dragons, or the Chicago penguin kings.

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Yeah, that would be pretty sweet.  I'm only about halfway through editing the teams but the end zones are not the color I assigned when I tested it out.  They are all grey and they still have the original team abbreviations assigned to them.  I haven't tried the Tecmo Endzone Editor yet but hopefully that will do the trick.  


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I ran into same issues with Endzones. The thread below shows a patch that puts "NFL" in every endzone instead of Team Abbreviation.  Someone also included the HEX fix for the Black Square for the LA endzone after the patch. Tecmo Turd's 32 team ROM has "TB" in every endzone.


 


I guess the problem is that Teams that have the same Letter (i.e the "N" in IND and the "N" in MIN, are shared code so if you change one you change the other.The "NFL" Patch is cool, I used it in my TB 1989 ROM.


 


http://tecmobowl.org/topic/56452-original-tecmo-bowl-end-zones/


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I used the end zone patch and it worked like a charm.   :razz:  I'll still have to get Houston's name in the introduction.  Currently, all I have there is an H, and I will probably have to change it back to Miami to make it easier to locate it with my hex editor.  I'm going to do a second edit with the 4 remaining teams that I could get on this rom and I will probably just leave Miami on there as one of the teams so this won't be an issue. Once I get those finished I'll upload them.  I still would like to do a college themed rom but it looks the end zones would be the biggest hurdle, inserting different text in place of the nfl.  Thanks Fes!


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