Fight Night Round 2 (GameCube)

Fight Night Round 2
Developer: EA Canada Publisher: EA Sports Platform: GameCube Released in JP: September 1, 2005 Released in US: February 28, 2005 Released in EU: March 18, 2005 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text.

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The GameCube version of Fight Night Round 2 is best known for including Little Mac from Punch-Out!! as a playable character while also including the SNES game, more on that below.

SNESticle

Exclusive to the GameCube version of the game is a fully playable version of Super Punch-Out!!. Much lesser-known is an interesting detail about how the game is emulated.

Starting at offset 0x48F71C in the game's executable, the following strings are present:

SNESticle
NGC
VERIONCPP71
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 Icer Addis
Jan  8 2005 15:11:23

The name "SNESticle" is no coincidence - Icer "Sardu" Addis is probably best known as the author of the NESticle emulator, who later went on to work on several EA Sports titles, including this one.

(Source: Ernie Smith/Motherboard)