NBA Jam Tournament Edition (PlayStation)

NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Developer: Iguana Entertainment Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: 1995 Released in US: 1996 Released in EU: 1996 This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused graphics.

Hello! Welcome to NBA Jam! The first basketball game released for the system.

Unused Secret Players

To do: Find out who Kita and Sprite Boy are. The latter might be the late graphic artist Matt Stubbington (hence the Sprite Boy nickname), but there's not enough evidence due to no public photos of him existing.

An interesting bunch not seen in the other versions. They lack secret codes to be used. These GameShark codes will load said player after entering the 'Catling' code.

Catling: While holding L1+R1, enter the following initials and date: CAT January 2.

Andy Wright

Andy Wright is credited in this game as a graphic artist.

US
D01EE324 AE38
801EE324 AE6C

Kita

US
D01EE324 AE38
801EE324 B248

Sprite Boy

US
D01EE324 AE38
801EE324 B318

(Source: Hacc)

Unused Player Graphics

The head sprites of four removed NBA players--B.J. Armstrong, Gerald Wilkins, Monty Williams, and James Worthy--can be found at 50000, 68000, 10C000, and 12C000 respectively in the file PIN.BIN. Additionally, Rob Northen-compressed portraits of the same players can be found at 28266, 2B6D9, 41B11, and 461CC in PRESQUAT.GFX.

• Armstrong was replaced by Ron Harper due to the former being drafted by the Toronto Raptors in the 1995 NBA expansion draft (The Raptors and Grizzlies do not exist in this game).
• Wilkins was injured for the duration of the 1994-95 season, then drafted by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the expansion draft.
• The New York Knicks have a full 5-player roster without Williams, and he only existed in the Rookies team in some versions.
• Worthy retired from the league on November 10, 1994, well before the release of this version of the game.

(Source: Mattrizzle)