Winter Gold
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Developer: Funcom Oslo
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Winter Gold is a Winter Olympics-themed game notable for being one of the few SNES titles to use the Super FX 2 chip (alongside Doom and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island; Star Fox 2, which also uses the chip, wasn't officially released until 2017).
Build Date
Present at 0x53DD, alongside an early title:
FX SKIING NINTENDO 96 29/1-1996 18:49
This early name is also seen during the intro/attract loop, which flashes up various phrases one letter at a time:
WINTER SPORTS SPEED RECORDS CROWDS COMPETITION CHAMPIONS FX SKIING GET READY SNOWBOARD BOBSLED SKI JUMP FX SKIING LUGE DOWNHILL AERIAL NINTENDO CRASH AND BURN WIPEOUT SUPERB STYLE ELEGANCE FUNCOM USA FRANCE NORWAY PRESS START TO PLAY
The logo "FX" is also used on the ski jump level.
Cheat Mode
The button combination Up, A, X, Down, B, Up, Down is in the game's data at 0x8BED and lets you "Compete against Stuart". Enter it at the "Press Start" menu and you will hear a chime.
Development-Related Text
Various snippets of development-related text, found scattered all over the ROM.
! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! ! ! L A N D I N G ! ! F:%d #:%d TAR: %d VEL: %d POS: %d POWER:%d Charge Landing No landing WOOOW !!! AIR:%d [%d] (+%d) MODE:%d [%d/%d] DBG4 (%d) DBG3 (%d) DBG2 (%d) DBG1 (%d) PRIO:%d TRICK:%d HACK POS: %d [%d/%d] IF:%d POS: %i HACK DELTA: %d TILT: %d ------->DEV:%d POWER:%d ------->DEV:%d ERROR: J0001! TapCombo ---- %d TELEMARK LANDING CRASH! X:%d Y:%d (<PZdn PRIO:%d TRCK:%d No errors Error: Current item is no item Error: Current item without pointer Error: Unlocking screen without a pointer Error: Tryed to jump to a Screen without a pointer Info: Same screen. Info: Other screen. Error: Cant move to prev item Error: Cant move to next item Event: Right Event: Left Event: Up Event: Down Event: Next state Event: Prev state Event: Next screen Event: Prev screen Event: Select Error: Screen without pointer Error: Item in ring without pointer Error: Counted over 100 items Assert(%s) failed at line %u in file %s. No such file or directory Arg list too long Bad file descriptor Not enough memory File exists Invalid argument File table overflow Too many open files Not a console Permission denied I/O error No space left on device Result too large Argument out of domain Exec format error Read-only file system Cross-device rename Nothing to read Unknown error Cannot apply packed chunk to SpriteMatrix No VRAM for SpriteMatrix SpriteMatrix tried to free NULL_VRAM TextSprites_Free: Invalid struct TextSprites_Free: NULL Pointer Pointer to Anim was NULL Pointer to TextSprites was NULL No VRAM for SpriteChars Anim pointer was NULL for SpriteChars Frame pointer was NULL for SpriteChars Pointer to PropList was NULL Pointer to TextSprites was NULL Cannot use packed chunk for TextSprites Cannot use packed chunk for TextSprites FlexiFrame tried to free NULL_VRAM Cannot apply packed chunk to FlexiFrame No VRAM for FlexiFrame Unable to allocate memory for IFF at %08x
Region Error
Attempting to run the game on an North American or Japanese console will display the above message.
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