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the memory in my cartridge finally failed, lost all my NFL Records. i'm the original owner since '94, this is the first crash for this cart ever. that's a pretty great run I think. the agony. still don't think I'll go back to playing III, don't feel like having to fastforward through 50 seasons to get the Legends onto their teams. I really need to get with the times and get into the new pc versions. they look great.

there is a definite glitch in the seasonal NFL Records section of my game at least....... I've broken my record for fewest rushing yards allowed in a season numerous times.......some of my teams have actually allowed negative yards rushing over the course of a full season. Yet the records section refuses to record these results, sticking with the 49ers' 237 yard total I recorded almost 9 years ago.

This site inspired me to pull out the 'ol SNES and re-live better days in the history of football videogaming......namely TSB 2, as all the posts I'd been reading here about it's difficulty kind of lured me back...... I beat this version of the game to death back in the day, at least for the year or so before TSB III came out. But since getting back to it recently, I've found a way to make it much more challenging & realistic. I've been playing on 3min quarters, 3-season mode, difficulty "hard", using run-oriented teams & can't believe some of the stuff I've encountered; -there is no point in playing with fumbles "on" when playing CPU. I've found that my players fumble 5 or 6 times for every one time my CPU opponent will fumble. -tough to be dynamic in terms of accumilating superior rushing stats. Whereas in all other versions of the game you can rack-up ridiculous yards-per-carry averages, I've been unable to avarage at least 15.0 YPC (which to me, is the Mendoza line of a star tecmo runningback) using Barry or Emmitt. Barry topped out at 3040 yards (on 14.1 ypc) in the 2nd season, the only time I went over 3g. -can't say I ever remember losing to a CPU opponent before playing on 3min quarters......but using the '94 Cowboys, I was beaten in the divisional playoff round 23-17 by Detroit. Deceided to give it another go with the '92 Cowboys(better defense) in an official '92 season. Went 16-0 before suffering a worse playoff fate, 4 lost fumbles in a 35-14 loss to Minnesota!!! Emmitt picked up just 2200 yards on the year, I finished a dreadful 17th in total offense. -I remember playing this game 10 years ago & being able to recover onside kicks most of the time. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it anymore, these days I'm lucky to get it back 1 out of every 12 attempts. What's the secret??? -I think the CPU is alot harder when you play 3min quarters, it seems easier to run the ball when playing 5min quarters. Also "official season mode" seems tougher to run on than 3-season mode. -toughest NFL record to break playing 3min quarters: the interception record of 14. According to my old "tecmo geek log" I've never broke this record playing 5min quarters.