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Tecmo Bowl
for: Nintendo
US Release: 1989
Designer: Tecmo
Publisher: Nintendo of America
Version 1.00, 06/04/2006
Copyright 2006 kno33x
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Table of Contents
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1. Version History.....................................................(VHIST)
2. Controls............................................................(CTRLS)
3. Modes...............................................................(TBMDS)
4. Teams...............................................................(NFLTM)
i. Indianapolis.................................................(INDPL)
ii. Miami........................................................(FLMIA)
iii. Cleveland....................................................(CLVLN)
iv. Denver.......................................................(DNVER)
v. Seattle......................................................(STTLE)
vi. Los Angeles..................................................(LANGL)
vii. Washington...................................................(WSHNG)
viii. San Francisco................................................(SFRAN)
ix. Dallas.......................................................(DLLAS)
x. New York.....................................................(NYORK)
xi. Chicago......................................................(CHCGO)
xii. Minnesota....................................................(MSOTA)
5. Game Rules..........................................................(GMRLS)
6. Passwords...........................................................(PSSWD)
i. Tecmo Bowl Passwords.........................................(TBPWD)
ii. Specialty Passwords..........................................(SPPWD)
iii. Password Breakdown...........................................(PWDBD)
7. Game Genie Codes....................................................(GGCDE)
8. Credits.............................................................(THNKS)
9. Legal Information...................................................(LGALS)
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Version History (VHIST)
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There are 3 different control sets that correspond to offense, defense, and
choosing a play.
Offense Set
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D-Pad - Move
B - Kick a Punt or Field Goal, Pass
A - Kick a Punt or Field Goal, Snap, Choose Receiver, Break Tackle (press
repeatedly)
Defense Set
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D-Pad - Move
B - Diving Tackle (only when close to a player)
A - Break Block (press repeatedly), Select Player (only works before the snap)
Choosing a Play
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The screen displays 4 plays. Below each play is a picture of the controller
with two buttons that are blinking. Select a play by pressing the two blinking
buttons beneath the play.
Pressing B on this screen will also bring up the field goal/punt kick menu.
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Modes (TBMDS)
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There are 3 menus in Tecmo Bowl: 1Player, 2Players, and Coach.
1Player and 2Players modes are pretty self-explanatory: you either play against
the computer or against a friend (there isn't a 2-player cooperative mode).
The Coach mode puts you up against a friend as a coach of your teams (you need
2 players for this mode). You pick the plays and the computer does the actual
grunt work for you.
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Teams (NFLTM)
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The following is a list of all of the teams available to play as in Tecmo Bowl.
The list also includes a roster of the players on each team, and the plays of
each team.
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Indianapolis (INDPL)
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WR 85 Bouza LG 64 Utt LB 93 Odom
TE 81 Beach LT 75 Hinton LB 55 Krauss
RB 29 Dicker KR 20 Bentley LB 50 Bickett
QB 10 Trudeau RE 78 Hand CB 38 Daniel
WR 80 Brooks NT 76 Sally FS 47 Robinson
RG 66 Solt LE 99 Thompson K 04 Biasucci
C 53 Donald LB 98 Cooks P 03 Stark
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Plays
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Run 1
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|
|
x xxxx /x
x / x
x/
Run 2
-----
|
|
x x\ xxxx
\ x x
\x
Pass 1
------
| ---+
| |
| / |
x xxxxx |
\ x x
----x
WR 84 Nattiel RG 79 Humphrie LB 77 Mecklen
TE 88 Kay RT 70 Studdard LB 98 Hunley
RB 33 Dorsett KR 35 Bell LB 50 Ryan
QB 07 Elway RE 75 Jones CB 31 Harden
WR 80 Jackson NT 71 Kragen SS 49 Smith
LG 54 Bishop LE 90 Gilbert K 03 Karlis
C 62 Freeman LB 73 Fletcher P 02 Horan
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Plays
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Run 1
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|
x | xxxxx
| x x
\___x
Run 2
-----
|
|
x xxxx /x
x / x
x/
Pass 1
------
/ /
| |
| | +--
x xxxxx |
x x
| x
|/
Pass 2
------
+-- \
| \ |
| | | |
x | xxxxx | x
x x
x
WR 80 Largent LG 65 Bailey LB 50 Young
TE 32 Williams LT 70 Mattes LB 55 Bosworth
RB 28 Warner KR 30 Edmonds LB 56 Gaines
QB 17 Krieg RE 77 Bryant SS 45 Easley
WR 81 Turner NT 72 Nash CB 41 Robinson
RG 71 Millard LE 79 Green K 09 Johnson
C 59 Bush LB 57 Woods P 05 Rodrigue
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Plays
*****
Run 1
-----
|
x | xxxxx
| x x
\___x
Run 2
-----
|
|
x xxxx /x
x / x
x/
Pass 1
------
/ /
| |
| | +--
x xxxxx |
x x
| x
|/
Pass 2
------
| /| \
| | \
| | |
x xxxxx |
x x
| x
|/
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Los Angeles (LANGL)
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TE 46 Christen RG 64 Miraldi LB 55 Millen
RB 32 Allen RT 66 Wright LB 57 Robinson
RB 34 Jackson KR 81 Brown LB 53 Martin
QB 13 Schroede RE 99 Jones CB 22 Haynes
WR 81 Brown NT 71 Pickel FS 26 McElroy
LG 73 Hannah LE 75 Long K 10 Bahr
C 72 Mosebar LB 52 King P 05 Talley
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Plays
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Run 1
-----
|
x | xxxxx
| x x
\___x
Run 2
-----
|
|
xxxxx /
x / x
x--x/
Pass 1
------
|
| | --+
| xxxxx |
\ x x
-x | x
|/
Pass 2
------
__
\ |
| |
\ xxxxx |
\ x x
-x | x
|/
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Washington (WSHNG)
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WR 84 Clark RG 69 Thielema RT 77 Grant
TE 86 Didier RT 66 Jacoby LT 65 Butz
RB 36 Smith KR 28 Green LB 55 Kaufman
QB 17 Williams RE 72 Manley CB 45 Wilburn
WR 83 Sanders LB 52 Olkewicz CB 28 Green
LG 68 Grimm LE 71 Mann K 04 Atkinson
C 53 Bostic LB 58 Marshall P 12 Cox
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Plays
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Run 1
-----
|
|
x xxxx /x
x / x
x/
Run 2
-----
|
x| xxxxx
| x x
\____x___/
Pass 1
------
/\ /\ /\
| | |
| | |
x xxxxx |
x x
x
Pass 2
------
| \ \
| \ \
| | |
x xxxxx |
x x
x
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San Francisco (SFRAN)
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WR 85 Wilson RG 69 Collie LB 55 Fahnhors
TE 81 Francis RT 79 Barton LB 99 Walter
RB 33 Craig KR 83 Crawford LB 58 Turner
QB 16 Montana RE 76 Board FS 42 Lott
WR 80 Rice NT 95 Carter CB 22 McKyer
LG 61 Sapolu LE 67 Kugler K 14 Werschin
C 51 Cross LB 53 McColl P 04 Runager
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Plays
*****
Run 1
-----
|
|
x xxxx /x
x / x
x/
Pass 1
------
/ /
| |
| | +--
x xxxxx |
x x
| x
|/
Pass 2
------
|\ \
| \ |
| | |
x xxxxx |
x / x
| x--
|/
Pass 3
------
| \ |
| |\ \ |
| | | |
x | xxxx | x
x x
x
WR 82 Renfro RG 68 Ker RT 54 White
TE 84 Cosbie RT 66 Gogan LT 99 Brooks
RB 34 Walker KR 29 Lavette LB 58 Hegman
QB 11 White RE 77 Jeffcoat CB 38 Francis
WR 81 Edwards LB 56 Lockhart FS 26 Downs
LG 61 Newton LE 72 Jones K 07 Ruzek
C 64 Rafferty LB 50 Rohrer P 04 Saxon
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Plays
*****
Run 1
-----
|
x x| xxxx
| x x
\___x
Run 2
-----
|
x xxxxx /
x / x
x/
Pass 1
------
\ \
> \ --+
| \ |
| | |
x xxxxx |
x x
| x
|/
Pass 2
------
| |
| / /| |
| | | |
x | xxxx | x
x x
x
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New York (NYORK)
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WR 86 Manuel RG 68 Johnson LB 52 Johnson
TE 89 Bavaro RT 66 Roberts LB 53 Carson
RB 20 Morris KR 80 McConkey LB 56 Taylor
QB 11 Simms RE 70 Marshall CB 23 Williams
WR 81 Robinson NT 64 Burt FS 43 Kinard
LG 67 Ard LE 75 Martin K 02 Allegre
C 65 Oates LB 58 Banks P 05 Landeta
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Plays
*****
Run 1
-----
|
x x| xxxx
| x x
\___x
Run 2
-----
|
x xxxxx /
x / x
x/
Pass 1
------
/\ /\ /\
| | |
| | |
x xxxxx |
x x
| x
|/
Pass 2
------
\
> +-- |
| | |
| | |
x xxxxx |
x x
| x
|/
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Chicago (CHCGO)
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WR 83 Gault RG 62 Bortz RT 72 Perry
TE 86 Boso RT 78 Horne LT 76 McMichae
RB 34 Payton KR 29 Gentry LB 55 Wilson
QB 09 McMahon RE 95 Dent FS 22 Duerson
WR 84 Morris LB 50 Singleta SS 25 Bell
LT 74 Covert LE 99 Hampton K 06 Butler
C 63 Hilgen LB 59 Rivera P 15 Wagner
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Plays
*****
Run 1
-----
|
x | xxxxx
| x x
\___x
Run 2
-----
|
x xxxxx /
x / x
x/
Pass 1
------
| \
| \
x xxxxx |
x / x
| x--
|/
Pass 2
------
__
| \ --+
| > |
x xxxxx |
x x
| x
|/
WR 81 Carter RG 68 Koch RT 75 Millard
TE 83 Jordan LT 76 Irwin LT 97 Thomas
RB 20 Nelson KR 81 Carter LB 57 Martin
QB 09 Kramer RE 56 Doleman SS 47 Browner
WR 87 Lewis LB 55 Studwell CB 24 Hender
LG 72 Huffman LE 79 Martin K 01 Nelson
C 63 Lowder LB 54 Solomon P 08 Coleman
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Plays
*****
Run 1
-----
|
x | xxxxx
| x x
\__x
Run 2
-----
|
x xxxxx |
\ x / x
\___x__/
Pass 1
------
| \ \
| | |
| | |
x xxxxx |
x x
x
Pass 2
------
|\ \
| \ |
| | |
x xxxxx |
x / x
x--
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Game Rules (GMRLS)
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Tecmo Bowl follows most of the rules of regular football. However, it also
contains a few of its own rules that make it slightly different.
Time - There are 4 quarters, each lasting a minute and thirty seconds (1:30).
The clock is not continually running, though. The clock stops after every
tackle.
Touchbacks - The only two ways to get a touchback is if a punt goes into the
endzone or if you intercept the ball in the opponent's endzone and immediately
get tackled. Any other time you are tackled in the endzone is considered a
safety, even during kickoffs.
Subs and Audibles - They do not exist in Tecmo Bowl. Whoever is on the team
and whatever plays the team has is what you're stuck with. Once you select a
play, that's the formation the team is going to stick to until the down is
finished.
Stiff Arms and Fumbles - These also do not exist in Tecmo Bowl. The only way
to force a turnover is stopping the other team from getting a first down or
from getting an interception.
The following three sections all deal with the passwords in the game. You can
access the password menu on the team select screen. You should see "PASSWORD"
right beneath "MINNESOTA".
These passwords are for Tecmo Bowl games between the given teams. You will be
the first team listed.
02AFFDA6 Indianapolis vs. Miami
04AFFBA3 Miami vs. Cleveland
08AFF7A0 Cleveland vs. Denver
0C9FEFA9 Denver vs. Seattle
108FDFAA Seattle vs. Los Angeles
146FBFAB Los Angeles vs. Washington
182F7FAC Washington vs. San Francisco
1C9EFFAD San Francisco vs. Dallas
208DFFAE Dallas vs. New York
246BFFAF New York vs. Chicago
2837FFA0 Chicago vs. Minnesota
2DBFFEA1 Minnesota vs. Indianapolis
These passwords allow you to play yourself or play an invisible team.
697BFFA5 Chicago
49AFFBA9 Cleveland
63AEFFA5 Dallas
CFBFF7AO Denver
43AFFEAC Indianapolis
969FDFA5 Los Angeles
46AFFDAB Miami
AC37FFA9 Minnesota
269DFFA1 New York
9C3F7FA5 San Francisco
93AFEFA5 Seattle
5B7FBFA3 Washington
397BFFA5 Invisible Team
This section looks at the technical side of the passwords. Once you fully
understand this section, you'll be able to create a password that will allow
you to place yourself at any point in the season as any team. The team that
you play will be random (unless you go to the Tecmo Bowl), because I did not
take the time to decipher the part of the password that differentiates between
randomness and a select team. You will need some basic math skills to be able
to understand this section.
Each password is constructed of eight characters with each being represented by
one of sixteen possible characters: the numbers 0 through 9 or A, B, C, D, E,
or F. It could look like the following:
1234ABCD
Now, each part of the password can be broken down. The easiest way to think
of it is in three parts: what team you are, what week you're on in the season,
and who you've beaten. It's actually more complicated than this, but this
breakdown essentially tells you everything you need.
To start, you'll need to order the teams as they are in the game, into groups
of four (the numbers will be explained in a bit):
Indianapolis xxx001xx
Miami xxx002xx
Cleveland xxx004xx
Denver xxx008xx
Seattle xxx010xx
Los Angeles xxx020xx
Washington xxx040xx
San Francisco xxx080xx
Dallas xxx100xx
New York xxx200xx
Chicago xxx400xx
Minnesota xxx800xx
To start, we'll look at the first two characters of a password. These help to
tell the game where to start the list of who you've beaten and who you are.
Use the top line to find what team you are or would like to be. Next, think of
who you would like to have already beaten. From the list of teams you want to
have beaten, go down the column until you run into the first team on the list.
IND - MIA - CLV - DNV - SEA - LAN - WAS - SNF - DAL - NWY - CHI - MIN
IND xx 04 08 0C 10 14 18 1C 20 24 28 2C
MIA 01 xx 09 0D 11 15 19 1D 21 25 29 2D
CLV 02 06 xx 0E 12 16 1A 1E 22 26 2A 2E
DNV 03 07 0B xx 13 17 1B 1F 23 27 2B 2F
SEA 40 44 48 4C xx 54 58 5C 60 64 68 6C
LAN 41 45 49 4D 51 xx 59 5D 61 65 69 6D
WAS 42 46 4A 4E 52 56 xx 5E 62 66 6A 6E
SNF 43 47 4B 4F 53 57 5B xx 63 67 6B 6F
DAL 80 84 88 8C 90 94 98 9C xx A4 A8 AC
NWY 81 85 89 8D 91 95 99 9D A1 xx A9 AD
CHI 82 86 8A 8E 92 96 9A 9E A2 A6 xx AE
MIN 83 87 8B 8F 93 97 9B 9F A3 A7 AB xx
For example, let's say you want to be Chicago and you already beat Seattle,
Dallas, and Cleveland. You go over to the Chicago column, and go down to
Cleveland (the first one on the list according to the game's order). So the
first two digits in the password would be "2A".
Next, let's look at the following characters of a password: xxxABCxx. These
work together to tell the game what teams you've beaten. Remember the numbers
in the first list that I said would be explained in a bit? Well, that's what
this part is for. All you do is a add the numbers together. Include your own
team when doing this. Also think of the letters as numbers: A=10, B=11, C=12,
D=13, E=14, and F=15.
Let's look at another example. You're Chicago and you already beat Seattle,
Dallas, Washington, San Francisco, and Cleveland. You'd add up the columns
like so:
0 0 4 (Cleveland)
0 1 0 (Seattle)
0 4 0 (Washington)
0 8 0 (San Francisco)
1 0 0 (Dallas)
+4 0 0 (Chicago)
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5 D 4 (D because the middle column adds up to 13, which corresponds to D. You
don't carry the one or anything. Add up each column individually).
The password for this example so far would be: "8Ax5D4xx".
Now for the last part of the password: xx1xxx23. This part of the password is
by far the most coomplicated. It took hours to figure this out. Like the
chart above, you want to find the team you are on the first line. Then go
down that column until you get to the first team on your list of beaten teams.
The numbers in this chart can be thought of as base sets. Once you find the
base set you need, we'll need to do some adding.
Notice that this chart has an extra column labeled ++. It also has a gap after
Denver. The first four teams affect the 3rd digit in the base. The last eight
teams affect the 1st and 2nd. To find the first number, start with your base
and add the numbers in the ++ column for each team on your "teams beaten" list.
When you add, you have to think of the digits as a cycle. Once you get to F,
the next digit would be 0, then 1 and 2 and 3 and soforth. After 9 is the
letter A. So if your base has a C, and you need to add 6, then you would count
D, E, F, 0, 1, 2. Do NOT use the number in the ++ column that corresponds to
the base set. If you are Indianapolis and Seattle is the base, do not add the
1 for Seattle. You DO, however, need to use the number that corresponds to
your own team.
If you go from F to 0, you need to mark up the 2nd digit in the base.
For example, if the first two are C8 and you have to add 6, the first number
would be 2 and you'd have to mark up the 8 to a 9.
For the 3rd number in the base set, you have to look at the first four teams.
Similar to the 1st number, you find your base, but this time you use the
numbers in the ++ for the first four teams only. Once again, do NOT use the
number in the ++ column that corresponds to the base set, but DO use the number
that corresponds to your own team. If you go from F to 0, you'll have to mark
up the 1st digit in the base.
IND - MIA - CLV - DNV - SEA - LAN - WAS - SNF - DAL - NWY - CHI - MIN - ++
IND xxx B89 B8A B8B B8C B8D B8E B8F C80 C81 C82 C83 1
MIA B8A xxx B8C B8D B8E B8F C80 C81 C82 C83 C84 C85 2
CLV B8D B8E xxx C80 C81 C82 C83 C84 C85 C86 C87 C88 4
DNV C82 C83 C84 xxx C86 C87 C88 C89 C8A C8B C8C C8D 8
Let's look back at the last example with a few changes. This time you are
Indianapolis and you've beaten Dallas, Seattle, Washington, San Francisco, and
Cleveland. Go to the Indianapolis column and go down to Cleveland. Your base
set is B8D. We have Dallas (1), Seattle (1), Washington (4), and San Francisco
(8) from the bottom eight teams: 8+1+1+4=14. So we need to add 14 to the B.
This gives us C, D, E, F, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The new first
digit becomes 9, and since we went from F to 0, the 2nd digit gets marked up to
9. We don't add the 4 for Cleveland since that is the base team, but we do add
the 1 for Indianapolis. So the 3rd digit now go from D to E. Our final
3-digit set is 99E. The incomplete password would look like xx9xxx9E.
To finish the password, use chart one to see first two digits are 02 and the
remaining three add up to be 1D5. This makes the finished password 0291D59E.
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Game Genie Codes (GGCDE)
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GAOATSPA More time in the 1st Quarter
ZAXAYIGA+ZAXOTPGA Only 2 downs allowed
TAXAYIGA+TAXOTPGA 6 downs allowed
The specialty passwords were obtained from the Tecmo Bowl Cheat Codes & Secrets
section on www.gamefaqs.com. They were provided by Dallas.
The Game Genie codes were obtained from www.gamegenie.com.
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