Nintendo World Cup (NES)

Nintendo World Cup is a fighting game where your job is to knock out all the opponents, despite what the soccer theme and the ball makes you believe. It is especially popular in Europe due to being on a bundle cartridge together with Tetris and Super Mario Bros.

Debug features
There is a common debug feature in a couple of Technos games. Usually all debug code is controlled by a memory flag, hardwritten at the end of the ROM at address in M6502 CPU address space. Various bits of this variable enable or disable various debug features.

Sample version


Bit 7 of the debug variable (to set it, use the Game Genie code ) switches between normal and "SAMPLE VERSION", which enables some debug features. The code also works on the US and European releases, despite the game not showing the "SAMPLE VERSION" text on the title screen. The above code doesn't work with the version included with Super Spike V'Ball. During the game, hold the Select button on Controller 1, then press one of the following buttons: Additionally, by pressing A on controller 2 you can select the game stage at the level number screen, or select any enemy team at the time out screen.
 * On controller 1
 * A: Win the current match immediately.
 * B : Go to half time. This works even if you're on the second half of a match.
 * Up: Instantly lose the match.
 * On controller 2
 * A / B / Right / Left: takes the control of the goalkeeper when the ball is near the goal.

Script debug
Bit 5 of the debug variable (to set it, use the Game Genie code ) enables script debugging mode. You can pause any text sequence in the game by pressing B on controller 2 at any animation sequence.

B/W mode


Bit 0 of the debug variable (to set it, use the Game Genie code ) enables B/W screen mode in the Japanese version.

Leftover Japanese version graphics
Foreign releases of the game still have a few leftover graphics from the Japanese original:



Some Kanji are still present, as is some of Technos Japan's logo.



And both of these CHR banks contain tiles from the cutscenes and the ending of the original game.