FIFA 97 (SNES)

FIFA 97
Developer: Rage Software Publisher: EA Sports Platform: SNES Released in US: June 24, 1996 Released in EU: 1996 This game has hidden development-related text.

FIFA 97 is a soccer (or football) game on the Super Nintendo.

Whoa, it's the Gold Edition. Those black spots on the ball must be onyx.

Debug Text

Many chunks of debug text are left in the ROM. Lotta chunks.

During development, this text was output to an external device for debugging purposes. A function to display this text starts at SNES address A9FF8C, though it is not called at any point. The function itself makes dozens of calls to a printf-like function which was later replaced with a single RTL (return long) instruction, effectively disabling the text output.

Chunk 1 - Players

Starts at 0x14EBBF:

PT_SHOOTOUT PT_GK_DEFEND_PENALTY PT_GK_DROPKICK PT_GK_GOALKICK PT_GK_PUNCH PT_GK_DIVECATCH PT_GK_CATCH PT_GK_POSITION PT_LEAVEGAME PT_SUBOFF PT_GET_CARDED PT_CELEBRATE PT_VICTORY_RUN PT_PENALTY_KICK PT_FREE_KICK PT_CORNER_KICK PT_THROW_IN PT_JUMP PT_DIVING_HEADER PT_STUMBLE PT_FALL_INJURED PT_PUSH PT_ELBOW PT_SLIDE PT_TACKLE PT_KICK_BALL PT_MARK_OPPONENT PT_DRIBBLE PT_CATCH_BALL PT_POSITION PT_RECEIVE_KICKOFF PT_KICKOFF PT_NO_TASK ** player waitTime=%d *SET* NULL p->joypad %s p->prevBallDist=%u p->defaultMaxSpeed=%u p->superpower=%u p->bodyAngle=%d p->destAngle=%d p->notReady=%d p->jumpHeight=%d p->peakTime=%d p->flightTime=%d p->facing=%u p->line=%u p->sprintTime=%u ANIM_seqID(p)=%u p->anim.shapeID & 0x7fff=%u p->anim.time=%u p->anim.frameTime=%u p->anim.note=%u p->anim.memID=%u p->anim.memID2=%u p->anim.flip=%u p->anim.frameIndex=%u p->anim.facing=%u p->anim.doturn=%u p->anim.done=%u p->notReady=%u p->position p->destination p->destDist p->ballDist p->velocity task=%s, taskState=%d

Chunk 2 - Teams

Starts at 0x14F2BC:

team %d: t->playersleft=%u t->setplay=%u t->strategy=%u t->processPlayerID=%u t->ballPlayer = t->zoneBoundary[i][0]=%d t->zoneBoundary[i][1]=%d

Chunk 3 - Game State

Starts at 0x14F49F:

GS_SHOOTOUT GS_CARD GS_GOTO_DEST GS_GOALIE_CAUGHT_BALL GS_LEAVE GS_SUB GS_FOUL GS_GOALIE_KICK GS_GOALKICK GS_FREEKICK GS_PENALTY_KICK GS_SCORE_GOAL GS_CORNERKICK GS_THROWIN GS_PLAY GS_KICKOFF GS_STOP Game: totalTime=%u state=%s score=%d,%d,%d

Chunk 4 - Current Match

Starts at 0x14F5F3:

gCurrentMatch: gCurrentMatch.zone1[i]=%d gCurrentMatch.zone2[i]=%d gCurrentMatch.zone3[i]=%d gCurrentMatch.zone4[i]=%d

Chunk 5 - Referee

Starts at 0x14F72C:

RT_CHECKINJURY RT_SHOOTOUT RT_SHOWOFFSIDE RT_SHOWSCORE RT_PROCESS_SUB RT_CARD_PLAYER RT_CALL_FREEKICK RT_START_GAME RT_NO_TASK Referee: task=%s/%d start=%d timer=%d inextra=%d

Chunk 6 - Ball

Starts at 0x14F860:

Ball: Ball.position Ball.prevposition Ball.startPosition Ball.landingPosition Ball.outPosition Ball.headerPosition Ball.chestPosition Ball.flightDistance Ball.velocity Ball.moveDist Ball.deltaCurveDist=%d Ball.peakHeight=%d Ball.trajectoryTime=%d Ball.startTime=%d Ball.flightTime=%d Ball.elapsedTime=%d Ball.xoffset=%d Ball.zoffset=%d Ball.headertime=%d Ball.headerJumpTime=%d Ball.headerJumpHeight=%d Ball.chesttime=%d Ball.kickjoystate=%d Ball.curveVx=%d Ball.curveVz=%d Ball.bounceRatio=%u Ball.speedRatio=%u Ball.rollRatio=%u Ball.netanim=%u Ball.out=%u Ball.insideNet=%u Ball.hitNet=%u Ball.hold=%u Ball.bounceCount=%d Ball.hide=%u Ball.shotongoal=%u

Chunk 7 - Camera

Starts at 0x14FDA7:

Camera.target Camera.targetPosition Camera.target2Position Camera.destTarget2Position Camera.scrposition Camera.scrcentre Camera.xvel=%d Camera.yvel=%d Camera.maxcamx=%d Camera.maxcamy=%d Camera.panningMode=%u Camera.onTarget=%u

(Source: Original TCRF research)