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Hi everybody,
I was experimenting with another USFL hack and I feel like I've gotten the hang of Sim Data, but I have playing around with a new hack I made and it seems like the only guys recording any stats are my safeties--they get all the sacks and safeties.
I've attached the file. Is this sim data issues, or a team sim data issue?
Thanks!
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USFL '86: Shadow Market
A continuation of my hypothetical USFL series.
Features:
-7 minute quarters
-Stats after every quarter
-Wedge Returns
-Directional Punting
-Formation Experimentations
-Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones
-Stat Tweaks-Sim Data Tweaks
-Offensive Formation Tweaks
-3 team, 3 Division Structure
-12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams)
-18 game, locked, '85 schedule
-All Pro: '86 All-NFL Vs. '86 All-USFL (I had to make modifications: Dennis Gentry, Bobby Joe Edmonds, and Tim McGee all made ALL-NFL as Special Teams Players; some other modifications based on ALL-AFC or ALL-NFC)-Custom Schedule
Player allocation was based on a mix of the 1986 territorial and Open Drafts, narrative flourishes, and '85 NFL final cuts. In terms of NFL player cuts: I placed players based on their USFL draft status or regional proximity of their college or through research.
'86 territorial rights/Open Draft
Arizona
Phil Freeman
Greg Baty (rights trade w/Oakland)
Paul Godbey*
Max Zandejas
Baltimore
Rich Badanjack
Todd Bowles
Tim Cofield
Stan Gelbaugh
J.D. Maarveld
John Taylor
Birmingham
Auburn
Alabama
Jesse Bendross (‘84 territorial pick)
Carl Byrum
Harold Hallman
Willie Totten ('87 Bills Strike QB)
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Cap Boso
Keith Byars
Jim Everett
Bobby Howard
Devon Mitchell*
Denver
Colorado
Colorado State
Nebraska
Utah
Utah State
Mike Busch ('87 Giants)
Rick Donnelly
Dwayne Jiles
Glen Kozlowski ('87 Bears)
Vai Sikahema
Eric Yarber
Houston
Baylor
Houston
SMU
Texas
Floyd Dixon
Rory Graves (rights acquired in Weddington "liquidation" trade w/New Jersey)
Brett Maxie*
John Teltshick
Reyna Thompson
Jacksonville
Florida
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Eddie Anderson*
Kent Austin (rights trade w/Birmingham)
Ray Criswell
Alonzo Johnson (rights trade w/Tampa Bay for Alonzo Mitz)
Pat Swilling ('86 or '87 Saints)
LA
UCLA
USC
Joe Cormier
John Lee
Erik Howard (completes '85 trade w/Oakland for rights to Damon Allen)
Robert Jenkins*
Allen Pitts
James Pruitt
Memphis
Tennessee
Tennessee State
Tony Baker
Brian Blankenship ('86 open draft pick, '87 Steelers)
Ravin Caldwell
Don Griffin*
Enis Jackson*
Tim Harris
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan State
Brad Cochran
John Offerdahl
Butch Rolle
John Wojciechowski
New Jersey
Boston College
Colgate
Rutgers
Syracuse
Gill Fenerty (3rd round open draft selection, pick acquired in Sam Bowers trade)
Tim Green
Mark Jackson (2nd round open draft pick)
John Tagliaferri
New Orleans
LSU
La Tech
Tulane
Willie Gillus (15th round open draft pick)
Dalton Hilliard
Tank Landry
Ronald Scott*
Jackie Walker
Oakland
Stanford
Washington
Washington State
Joe Kelly
Rueben Mayes
Junior Tautalatasi
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Tulsa
Tony Casillas
Charles Crawford
Rusty Hilger
Kevin Murphy
Willie Pless
Pittsburgh
Pitt
Penn State
West Virginia
Chuck Banks
Doug Marrone (4th round open draft pick)
Mike Zordich*
San Antonio
Texas A&M
Domingo Bryant
Matt Darwin
Seth Joyner
Larry Linne*
Walter Murray (2nd round Open Draft)
Anthony Toney
Tampa Bay
Jamie Dukes*
Joe Dudek
Percy Griffin*
Hassan Jones
Alonzo Mitz (Jacksonville territorial pick, signed after cut)
Orson Mobely
Ricky Moore (rights acquired in trade w/Birmingham)
Jesse Solomon
Washington
Clemson
North Carolina
East Carolina
Dino Hackett
Mike Haight (1st round Open Draft)
Napoleon McCallum (rights acquired in trade w/Baltimore for Curtis Bledsoe)
Henry Walls*
*Will appear in future USFL Hack
Transactions
Arizona
Andre Francis (‘83 territorial pick)
Al Harris ('84 Bears)
Jim Kovach ('83 or '84 Saints)
Odis McKinney (‘81 Raiders)
Art Still ('86 Chiefs)
Eric Truvillion ('87 Lions)
Baltimore
Curtis Bledsoe (trade w/Washington for rights to Mark Kelso and Napoleon McCallum)
James Burroughs
Clarence Collins
Dave Dreschler ('83 territorial pick)
Major Everett
Cornell Gowdy
Birmingham
Robert Brazile
Jeremiah Castille ('83 territorial pick)
Bob Harris (‘83 territorial pick)
Mike Landrum ('84 Falcons)
Malcolm Scott ('83 Giants or '87 Saints)
Chicago
Tron Armstrong ('84 3rd round open draft selection)
Todd Bell
Tom Cousineau
Ted Petersen
Gerald Small
Bob Thomas
Denver
Hasson Arbubakrr
Wendell Cason ('85 22nd round open draft pick via Jacksonville, acquired in Hemphill/Turner trade)
Chris Kołodziejski (‘84 territorial pick)
Larry Mason (trade w/Jacksonville for Daryl Hemphill, Calvin Turner, incul. cash, draft picks)
Todd Shell
Byron Williams
Houston
Danny Knight
Bobby Micho ('84 territorial pick)
Allen Rice ('84 territorial pick)
Jimmy Teal ('85 territorial pick)
Mike Weddington (trade w/New Jersey for Kiki DeAyala, Ricky Sanders, and Hosea Taylor)
Mike Whitwell
Jacksonville
Carl Aikens (part of Evans trade)
Vince Evans (trade w/Chicago for '88 and '89 1st round open draft picks and Carl Aikens)
Daryl Hemphill (trade w/Denver for Larry Mason, 2nd and 14th open round picks)
Ken Jenkins ('85 Skins, check '82 Lions)
Frank Middleton ('83 territorial pick by Tampa Bay, rights acquired in trade)
Mike Pruitt
Larry Swider
Calvin Turner (part of Hemphill trade)
LA
Mark Bortz ('83 6th round open draft pick)
Michael Harper ('84 territorial pick)
John Hendy ('85 territorial pick)
Bernard Quarles ('83 22nd round open draft pick)
Kelly Thomas (‘83 territorial pick)
Memphis
Sam Bowers (trade w/New Jersey for '86 3rd round open pick (Gill Fenerty), '87 5th round open pick)
Earnest Gray
Eddie Hill
Gary Hogeboom
Michigan
Ross Browner
Bill Elko (rights acquired in trade w/Tampa Bay)
Ron Springs
Lawrence Ricks ('83 Territorial pick)
New Jersey
Kiki DeAyala
Chas Fox ('85 6th round open draft pick)
Russell Erxleben
Kris Haines
Beasley Reece
Tommy Robison
Jay Saldi
Ricky Sanders
Hosea Taylor (trade w/Houston for Mike Weddington, Danny Knight, rights to Rory Graves, and '87 territorial pick)
Richard Todd
Reggie Wilkes
New Orleans
Perry Brooks
Hokie Gajan
Gary Kowalski
Todd Leibenstein
Herkie Walls
Oakland
Cliff Benson ('85 1st round open draft pick)
Greg Braclin
Henry Ellard
Neil Elshire
Emilie Harry ('85 territorial pick)
Jackie Flowers
Mike Lush (trade w/Baltimore for 2nd and 3rd round open draft picks '87)
Mike Moroski
Vince Newsome
Dwaine Wilson
Oklahoma
Theotis Brown
Duane Galloway
Louis Oubre
Stump Mitchell
Drew Pearson
Willie Tullis
Uwe Von Schumann
Pittsburgh
Less Browne
Julius Dawkins
Scott Fitzkee
Guy Fraizer
Tom Orosz
Don Smith
Leo Wisniewski
Dirt Winston
San Antonio
Greg Bingham
Bruce Davis ('85 territorial pick)
Doug Dawson ('84 territorial pick)
George Farmer
Paul Johns
Ronnie Paggett (trade w/Birmingham for 9th and 14th round '87 open picks)
Tampa Bay
Ray Alexander
Warren Bryant
Alphonso Carraker ("trade" w/Green Bay for Mike Butler)
Putt Choate
Speedy Neal
Marcus Quinn (trade w/Oakland)
Washington
K.D. Dunn ('85 territorial pick)
Kelvin Edwards*
Bubba Green
Homer Jordan ('83 territorial pick)
Mark Kelso ('85 6th round open pick by Baltimore, rights trade as part of Bledsoe deal)
William Perry ('85 territorial pick)
R.C. Thielemann
Tommy Vigorito
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Submitted10/08/2021
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Is there a way to change the color of the football itself? I know it likely isn't a sprite in the same sense of the other graphics. I saw an article on Twitter about Charles O'Finnley's bid to start another spring league post-USFL and he had what looked like an orange and red football in the photo. Thought it might be a cool experiment...
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USFL '85: Nasty War
'USFL '85: Nasty War
A continuation of my USFL Project, this is a "hypothetical" season that features all 18 clubs from '84, with some modifications to rosters.
Features:
-7 minute quarters
-Stats after every quarter
-Wedge Returns
-Directional Punting
-Formation Experimentations
-Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones (watching USFL games I came to admire how bad the end zones often looked)
-Stat Tweaks-Sim Data Tweaks
-Offensive Formation Tweaks
-3 team, 3 Division Structure
-12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams)
-18 game, locked, '85 schedule
-All Pro: '85 All-NFL Vs. '85 All-USFL in Vanilla (Gerald Riggs replaces Eric Dickerson on NFL All-Pros)Notes:
-As the four clubs that folded/merged are returning, '85 territorial lists returned to their general '84 designations, and new players were redistributed. The imagined '85 rosters of the Blitz, Maulers, Outlaws, and Panthers generally resemble their '84 assemblies, though I did take liberties and retained players. This meant the surviving clubs had to be reworked. I tried to keep these "realistic" by filling gaps with actual territorial selections or by doing research into near-miss signings. Dickerson, for instance, did consider an offer from the Wranglers in '83 and used the league as leverage for negotiations in '85.
-These rosters are continued from my reimagined '84 roster. If you want accuracy, an NFL and USFL '85 hack by Buck on TBorg has real-life rosters and some cool graphics.
The schedule is an adaptation of the original '84--I flipped interdivisional and conference hosts, but they are the same "pattern"; I did shuffle the weeks around to avoid the same schedule. If I can get to an '86, maybe I can make one that swaps inter-conference and inter-divisional matchups.
Territorial and Open Draft Picks
*Year denotes their territorial selection; unmarked players were territorial or Open Draft selections in ‘85 unless noted.
Arizona
Ron Brown ('84)
Randall Cunningham
Rickey Hunley ('84)
Vernon Maxwell ('83)
Rick Mallory ('84)
Pete Mandley (‘84)
Rich Moran
Vance Johnson
Lionel VitalBaltimore
Troy Benson ('85 Maulers territorial pick, traded for Mike Johnson, imagined)Birmingham
Al Del Greco
Kevin Greene
Paul Ott Carruth
Emmanuel King
Freddie Joe Nunn
Jerry RiceChicago
Carl Aikens ('84)
Dwight Beverly ('84)
Bobby Bell Jr. ('84)
Mitchell Brookins ('84)
Mike Burgereau (‘84)
Jeff Dellenbach
Babe Laufenberg ('83)
Alex Moyer
Ken Stills
Stacey Toran ('84)
Al Toon
Dan Turk
Denver
Joe Walter
Rich MianoJacksonville
Frank Bush
Robert Lavette
Gary WilkinsHouston
Ray Childress
Jeff Fuller (‘84)
Raphel CherryLos Angeles
Duane BickettMemphis
Tiger Greene
Herman Hunter
Fuad Reviz
Chris Scott ('84)
Gizmo Williams
Carl ZanderMichigan
Carl Banks ('84)
Mike Green ('83)
Ali Haji-Sheikh (‘83)
Paul Skansi ('83)
Steve Smith ('84)
Daryl Turner ('84)
Lonnie YoungNew Jersey
Steve DeOssie
Lionel Emmanuel ('84 LA territorial pick, imagined trade w/LA)
Herman Fontenot
Doug Flutie
Eugene RobinsonNew Orleans
Bud BrownDino Hall
Calvin Magee*
Eric Martin
Lance Smith
Elton Veals ('84)
Oakland
Damon Allen (imagined rights trade w/LA)
Bo Eason ('84)
Damone Johnson
Reggie Langhorne
Tom Neville
Ron Rivera (‘84)
Tom Toth
Dokie Williams (‘83)Oklahoma
Tom Benson ('84)
Scott Case ('84)
John Goode ('84)
Jamie Harris
Rodney Harding
Shawn Jones
Kevin Murphy
Terry Orr (imagined rights trade w/San Antonio)Pittsburgh
Dwight Collins ('84)
Chris Doleman
Willie Drewery
Tom Flynn ('84)
Bill Fralic
John Frank ('84)
Mike Johnson ('84 territorial pick, signed w/Baltimore, imagined trade w/Baltimore for rights to Troy Benson)
Tony Paige ('84)
Doug Strang
Ron WolfleySan Antonio
Danny Bradley (imagined rights trade w/Oklahoma for Terry Orr, though an actual territorial selection in ‘85)
Alan VeingradTampa Bay
Eddie Brown
Steve Calabria (NJ territorial pick, imagined traded to Bandits though Jim Bassett claimed to sign him in '85)Washington
George Adams
Louis Cooper
Mike Golic
Willie Joyner ('84)
Lester Lyles
Bob Olderman
Andre Reed
Chris Washington ('84)Free Agency/Veteran Transactions/Returning from ‘84 What-If Hack
Arizona
Eric Dickerson
Ronnie Lott (1-year deal offered during hold-out)Chicago
Irving Fryar
Walter PaytonDenver
John Grimsley
Prince McJunkinsHouston
Billy SimsJacksonville
Deron Cherry (imagined)
Brian Sipe (trade w/New Jersey for draft pick)LA
Reggie Brown (played '83, appeared in one game in '84, stays w/LA for '85, imagined)Michigan
Anthony Allen (trade w/LA before club folded)New Jersey
Mark May (imagined but offered)
Randy White (imagined but offered)New Orleans
EJ Junior
Johnny Meads
Alan Risher (trade w/Arizona, imagined)Oklahoma
Greg Kragen
Darrol Ray (nearly signed for '85 back in '83)
J.C. Watts (expressed interest, rights held by NJ)Pittsburgh
Jeff Hostetler (offered in '84)
Russ Grimm (offered in '84)San Antonio
Earl Campbell (offered in '83)Tampa Bay
Cris Collinsworth (signed to start playing in '85)
Wilber MarshallWashington
Boomer Esaison*Will appear in a future USFL Hack
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Submitted07/09/2021
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Yeah, I felt like this would be too complex. I have been tooling around with Sim Data as best as I can, and have gotten some balance.
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I got two questions; if anyone knows of an older thread to direct me, that'd be great too.
1) Is there a way, either in sim or when playing the COM, you can get the COM to substitute players? Sometimes in a regular season game it gets a little ugly when the opposing quarterback falls into a bad condition. I remember the COM would swap out players in TECMO NBA Basketball on occasion.
2) Is there a way to prevent your entire roster from being "reset" when a player returns from injury? There has been a few times where I got some backups in "excellent" condition and a guy is out, but then when I sim the result and the guy returns, the entire roster resets.
There questions are probably more source code questions. I was just curious.
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Because there are fewer than 28 teams (there are 18 in the USFL mod), I am able to sort of "stack" a couple matchups within a single week: with 18 teams, there are 9 a week, so around Week 13 and Week 14, I double-up the schedule in order to fit the whole schedule. And since there were even fewer WFL clubs, I think I could work the schedule in order to make a 20 games work.
Thanks Kamphuna! I will try to reach out. Work has been a little crazy.
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I kind of got some notes for an '85 hack--it would likely be completely "reimagined," with all 18 teams--but I was wondering if the current ESPN (it was updated in '85) or ABC logo ever appeared in any NES games? Just so I can have maybe a baseline.
Are there any good programs out there to import and digitize graphics in Tile Layer Pro?
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I think the work on USFL '84 has given me a framework to do a WFL one pretty smoothly--like I know I can fit the original 20 game schedule, and the 18 total clubs; it's just the graphics stuff would definitely hang me up--helmets, small helmets, and on field logos. Probably would be a dynasty rom.
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone attempted a WFL mod? I don't know much about the league, but some of the helmets are pretty cool; I am not great with graphics.
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USFL '84: Kings of Spring
USFL '84: Kings of Spring
Features:
-7 minute quarters
-Stats after every quarter
-Wedge Returns
-Directional Punting
-Run and Shoot formation for Houston
-What If Players
-'84 Rosters as close as possible (there were a lot of midseason trades, so I tried to place players on rosters where they made more appearances)
-New Orleans Breakers
-Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones (watching USFL games I came to admire how bad the end zones often looked)
-Stat Tweaks
-3 team, 3 Division Structure
-12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams)
-18 game, locked, '84 schedule
-All Pro: '84 All-NFL Vs. '84 All-USFL in Vanilla (slightly modified in What If--All-AFC Freeman McNeil replaces Payton)
Built off the legendary USFL-WLAF hack by jstout and Denny, this rom features the '84 USFL teams, schedule, and rosters, along with a few wrinkles.
This rom was tricky as I am still new to this. I looked to TheRaja's TFO rom for some structure. Clubs are split into three, 3-team divisions. The schedule is '84's, so clubs still have the same division matchups. I tried to order games as close as possible to their original times and distributions, as USFL clubs played Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday every week. This still got a little murky in the middle, but all schedules are as accurate as possible.
This rom maintains TSB's playoff structure as well--six get in from each conference as opposed to the original 4, but, honestly, I wondered why the league didn't go with 6 just from a marketing standpoint. You got a new league with new teams, why not show them all off, a la the NHL? Once I get better at this stuff, I will edit down to a 4 team playoff.
Jstout's and Denny's hack was invaluable--they did the art and logos. I did make some light edits to the helmets and logos--several clubs had "triple stripe" helmets, so I shifted them to the "40" code designation, with the exception of the Maulers, whose logo is placed in the Rams making that too difficult. I changed the Feds' big helmet to reflect the switch to silver in '84 and I edited the Blitz's and Star's logos just a little bit. I also took a crack at the midfield and end zone graphics.
Special thanks to USFLFan (@VUSFL2018 on Twitter) for providing invaluable knowledge on the what-if roster changes. Reading about some of the league's near-miss signings inspired me to take this on; @VUSFL2018's Virtual USFL project provided a great guide and framework.
There are two versions of this rom:
Vanilla--the more I experimented with rosters, the more I realized I needed some balance. Vanilla has more accurate rosters.
What If Edit--this is the counterfactual version, a little harder (not super juiced, but all clubs start 2-0 in terms of difficulty). This includes the "What If" Rosters.
Note non-TSB players: as this is an edit, and if you are playing TSB for the first time, this rom lacks the 2-point conversion implemented in USFL. Also, no touchbacks on kick-offs.
The Read Me includes a partial narrative and explains roster placements.
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Submitted04/05/2021
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I was just wondering if there is a thread that has discussed editing text on the black event screens ahead of playoff games or regular season games. Screens like below:
I have managed to edit some text on menu and playoff screens by tooling around with translhextion, finding spots where I can read the text to the right of my location, but this has been sort of tedious. I am nearly done with my USFL '84 hack and I just wanted to change "World Bowl," as it is displayed in the USFL-WLAF hack, to "USFL Championship" or something like that. I have seen thread discussions on how to edit the title screen and "Super Pro Football," but can't seem to find discussions on how to do this here. Buck's 1985 USFL-NFL hack does something similar, as do other historic hacks.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I have been using Carther's excellent end zone guide to experiment; and I figured out that the mid-field logo and the right end zone are controlled by palate 55, at least in Jstout and Denny's original WLAF rom, which I am using as a basis for mine. I changed "11 25 30" to "11 25 1A." The white background on the the USFL logo below swtiched to green:
This, of course, did this to the end zone:
I have tried to manipulate it in TLP: I hoped to edit the "USFL" to look blue (as green is 01 in the tile layer pro palate, I assumed it would register within palate 55 as "blue"), but it isn't registering onscreen--it is still green. I thought this would be a shortcut, but I guess not. I have been debating just "blanking out" the endzones and making them a generic green. I was wondering also, I guess, how do these end zone tiles interact with the palatte?
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I am using FCEUX, but I made the change in Transhexlion; I have been working with Jstout's and Denny's WLAF rom to create an 18-team USFL Rom based on the 1984 season.
I have attached what I got so far--I've been having problems with the end zones, in particular the left-side. I thought about trying to make them completely green or work off of Carther's work on end zones.
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I figure it out after poking around--it is located at x2c423. The color also controls the the 20 and 50 yard lines of the original WLAF-USFL. Now I will have to figure out the end zones...
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So I am pretty close with this USFL '84 hack, but I have been having some difficulty with the field and some of the menu graphics. Jstout's and Denny's original rom placed a USFL Logo and the World League logo together on the menu screen--I edited the WLAF logo to look like the old ESPN logo from the era and made that the a joining graphic on the stats screen.
I have read the docs on how to edit the logo on the field and it seems to be working color wise, but I also know that it is working a different set of palattes. My question is, where exactly is the palatte for the Tecmo logo? I have tried to poke around and play with different palaettes, but nothing seems to work. The ESPN logo is sharing the same colors as the original Tecmo logo and the WLAF logo.
Any help would be appreciated. I did have further questions on how to change menu-screen text, but I will try to dig around in the forums first. I have found how to change the scrolling text in the title screen, but I have yet to find any precise discussion on the text in the menu. I basically just want to replace "WLAF-USFL" with "USFL '84."
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I have been building an 18-team USFL '84 rom the last few weeks--after a bunch of stops and starts, I adapted The Raja's TFO Rom (3 team divisions, 18 teams total) and it seems to be finally working--I retained a 6 team playoff just because I was having headaches trying to get 5 and 6 teams to properly sort (this hasn't been ideal, but at the very least I have managed to keep teams out that I deleted). I managed to maintain some "realism" by using the 18 game original schedule. I've also sprinkled in some What-If players on some of the rosters and I am also playing with some graphic edits.
The TFO rom has been extremely useful, but I do have some questions--or possible guidance--on editing the team data, team control, and preseason select screens. I am still a neophyte to code and my rom diverges from TFO in that I removed a different set of 10 clubs (the AFC and NFC East, the WLAF clubs in Jstout's and Denny's rom, which was the basis of this rom).
Currently my screens look like below--modifying Oakland on the team control screen, for instance, actually affects Denver, Michigan changes Chicago. I am not sure what club is assigned to each man/skip/coa/com. And because TFO "zeroes" out a different set of NFC clubs--I am dumping 0e-04--I am not sure how this lays out just yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I did have two other side questions: Where can we edit text on the Standings menu? I just had an idea to rename the divisions to at least reflect some of the old USFL's names. I think the '86 season was originally going to have divisions named "Independence" and "Liberty."
The only other question is--has anyone made a bigger USFL logo for the field or menu?
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Tecmo Grey Cup 2020: Lost Season
I updated the 2020 rosters as best as possible back in the fall, in order to play the 2020 CFL season even though we lost it. Updated rosters as best I could, changed the Esks name to "Empire."
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Submitted02/21/2021
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I have corrected the schedule and did a couple things--editing conferences at x2397c, etc., etc., and while I still got the Fire problem, I think it helped at least "crossover" the next best record to the NFC side. Still getting crashes on the Leader board. I just don't know how to get this thing to drop the AFC East winner, even when I exclude the first five in x22c36.
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I also just want to quickly note that the schedule is a mess--my eyes have been bleeding from arranging it; I also keep getting errors in TBT due to the arrangement. I am going to double-check it again and try to correct it--I hope it isn't a reason for these problems.
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I have attached the file here.
I tried the playoff calculation option--switching 0B to 07--and it wrecked the AFC: it only considered the Central Division for Wild Card spots. I restored to 0B and now it is working a little better. The thing though is, it really isn't a Wild Card issue, but a division issue, I think? I am trying to exclude a division champion on the AFC side.
The NFC side started working when I placed "B5 9A 95" at x2323C, where the 3rd AFC Division Winner goes. That code came from the 2019 CFL Roster.
I know the CFL Rom has "crossover" standings, which is a problem I already had and finally just showed up after dozens of sims: the Denver Gold won the AFC Central with a 10-8 record, but because that record was better than what would've been the fourth wild card--the Feds--they are now placed on both the AFC bracket and the NFC bracket. This actually isn't a big problem to me as long as it doesn't repeat the same team.
The crash is still there under individual records.
The game itself plays.
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1 hour ago, adscl84 said:
I made a thread about 5-6 years ago documenting my journey through trying to figure out this part of the code. I eventually figured it out, but I'm not sure I posted everything I learned. I've long since forgotten what I did, but you can probably find that thread and reference it with the others to get an idea of what needs to be done. I think jstout made a bracket that shows the hex codes at each position a team can occupy in one of them, which helped me big time. I was specifically trying to make a simple 8 team playoff, which I ended up doing.
That was helpful I think I can experiment a little bit.
I managed an 18 team USFL hack based on the WLAF-USFL rom. I removed the AFC East and NFC East (where the WLAF teams were) and used snippets of code from the playoff setup from the Grey Cup 2019 hack; I got the NFC to work--it sorts the Central and West (the USFL divisions) division champs and four wild card teams; it awards the NFC East title to a seemingly random WLAF club, but they don't make the playoffs. This worked because I used the CFL code for different wild card spots, though I am still not sure how it worked. I used the CFL code because I noticed it sorts two division winners and four wild cards.
My current issue is on the AFC side--it sorts the two division winners (Central and West) and three Wild Cards, but the awarded AFC East champ (always the Fire) always gets in as a third Wild Card. It is frustrating, because I have gotten pretty far--the schedule maintains 18 games and excludes the WLAF clubs, so the Fire slip in even though their record is "-- - --."
I might check the Conferences and how the playoff teams are calculated.
I also got another issue, though I am not sure it is related. When looking at individual leaders on the stat screen, the whole game crashes. Stats are retained and accessed on the Team Data screens, but everytime I go and look at individual leaders, the rom freaks out. I did do some weird edits to sorting team rankings--I have read and now understand that it is much harder to cut teams from the middle than at the top and bottom.
I am away from my computer with the file, but I will upload it here tomorrow if anyone is interested. It is an '84 hack, with mostly accurate rosters and some what-ifs (Boomer on the Feds, Billy Sims with the Gamblers, Campbell with the Gun Slingers, Payton and Fryar with the Blitz). I still got some graphic edits to do, but I feel more confident about those than this bracket situation.
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I am not sure where to ask this question, but I am curious about editing how playoff teams are determined.
I have been tooling around with an 18 team USFL hack, and everything works--even the 18 gane schedule--until I get to the playoffs. I used the USFL-WLAF hack as my basis and at the end of the season the WLAF teams all play one game to determine the AFC East and NFC East champions.
Is there a way to exclude the WLAF division champs? The XFL and CFL hacks seem to work in determining two division champs and four wild cards.
Sim Data Question--Strong Safeties getting all the sacks and picks
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Yeah it isn't working still after a fifth sim/tweak. Here the league's sack leaders, all safeties.
I have noticed stats come out more interesting when I tweak sim stats on the offense but leave defensive players alone...maybe I will try that and see where it is going. I am not sure what this is happening...