TECMO SUPER BOWL: NCAA 2K27 EDITION
Release 09.10.26 -- what is in this download
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THE THREE ROMS
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Same rosters, same ratings, same intro in all three.  The difference is how
much is changed under the hood, and each has its own menu colour so they can
be told apart at a glance.

  TSB NCAA 2K27 Edition [BASE].nes        blue menu
      md5 fc464d90218888801e25426fd8a7805b
  TSB NCAA 2K27 Edition [VANILLA].nes     green menu
      md5 e40991d43860151ba99c64b5ad3de210
  TSB NCAA 2K27 Edition [HARDTYPE].nes    black menu
      md5 359d62cef76204485af95ba86af71437

There is no fourth ROM this year.  Road-team-as-Player-2 is an optional
patch instead -- see below.

THE TWO OPTIONAL PATCHES
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IPS files.  Apply either, both or neither, to whichever of the three ROMs
you play.  The bytes they replace are the same in all three, so one file
each covers every version.

  TSB_NCAA_2K27_OPTION_P2_road_team_as_player_2.ips
      When your team is the road team you play as Player 2, on the right
      side of the screen; at home you stay Player 1.  One two-byte change.

  TSB_NCAA_2K27_OPTION_No_sprite_flicker.ips
      Turns off the game's sprite-priority cycling.  For the AVS and for
      emulators that lift the NES 8-sprites-per-line limit.  On real
      hardware, overlapping players will drop out instead of flickering --
      which is why this is optional rather than built in.

THE SET COMMAND LISTS
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  TSB_NCAA_2K27_SET_COMMANDS.txt
      Every engine, rules and presentation hack in the release, as TSB Tool
      Supreme SET commands, with a note on each saying what it does and
      which addresses do the work.  Organised BASE, then what VANILLA adds,
      then what HARDTYPE adds.

  TSB_NCAA_2K27_ROSTER_SET_COMMANDS.txt
      The data: rosters, ratings, jersey numbers, faces and sim values.
      Long, and nobody is expected to read it end to end -- it is here so
      the ratings can be checked, argued with, or lifted into somebody
      else's build without diffing two ROMs.

Both files carry the old byte each command expects to find.  If a ROM does
not hold that value, the hack is either already applied or the ROM is not
the one the list was written against.  Check before writing.

Before applying a group of them together, run TSB Tool's own
    'Check SET commands setting values in same location'
These hacks overlap each other in places.  That warning is not a formality.

THANKS
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This release stands on other people's work.  Names first, then what they
did, because "thanks to everyone" pays nobody.

  @bruddog          The Tecmo Super Bowl disassembly.  Very little in this
                    build exists without it.  Also the overthrow bug fix and
                    the onside-kick recovery work.
  @cx_rom           The 32-team foundation and the expansion-team template
                    this whole ROM is built on, and two-point conversion work.
  @BAD-AL           TSB Tool, which this project leans on constantly, and the
                    SET command syntax this file is written in.
  @jstout           Find Open Receiver, the PA/PC read, and the colour work
                    that keeps turning up underneath other people's hacks.
  @Knobbe           The hacking documentation directory, without which half
                    of this would have been rediscovered the hard way, and
                    the PA/PC read that matched where this build landed.
  @Suede Wade       The milestone cutscenes and Pro Bowl fix, the two-point
                    conversion patch, and the report that caught the garbled
                    roster title after a championship win.
  @COA Elway        The 18-week schedule, a run of bug reports, and the
                    14-team playoff bracket that turned "is this possible"
                    into "here is the shape of it".
  @buck             The COM juice setter.
  @konForce         Kick-return speed.
  @Ryzzynnwa        Push/Pull, the intro drawing routine, the ball-carrier
                    bounce effect, and a great deal of forum 95's
                    documentation generally.
  @xplozv           Find Open Receiver for SNES TSB I and the defensive
                    quickness table this build's pursuit hack reads from.
  @pambazos88       The intro art -- metatiles and palettes -- and the
                    insight that they are background metatiles, not sprites,
                    which is what unstuck the intro work.  No longer with us;
                    his notes still work, byte for byte.
  @keithisgood      Roster and post-career research, and the 32-team base
                    for the original Tecmo Bowl.
  @lpotter          Updated helmets.

  SheepdogXIX (on X) spotted a schedule error that triggered a full 272-game
  audit.  He was right, and two games were wrong.

  And everyone at TecmoBowl.org who reports a bug rather than shrugging at
  it.  A report that turns out to be right has value even when the file was
  already correct -- it is a check that got run.