Tecmo Super Bowl FAQ For the Super Nintendo System. Written by peach freak or peachfreak90@hotmail.com Copyright 2005 Tim Brastow. All Rights Reserved. Version 1.30 Welcome! This FAQ is for Tecmo Super Bowl on the Super Nintendo, which is an extremely fun and awesome football game this old. If you have any questions, comments, or if I make a mistake, email me at peachfreak90@hotmail.com. Once (good) questions are asked, I will make an Asked Questions section. Also, this FAQ is protected by copyright. You cannot sell this, put this on your site without my permission, or any other violation of copyright law. You can, however, save this onto something like My Documents and print it out for offline and LEGAL use. 1. Update History 2. Controls 3. Options 4. Playing the Game 5. The Teams 6. Secrets 7. Credits ================== 1. Update History ================== Version 1.00, August 5, 2005: First version of this FAQ. Everything is now done and I am uploading it. Version 1.15, August 18, 2005: Added a secrets section to this FAQ for which I forgot to do earlier when it was accepted. Version 1.20, September 7, 2005: In my playing the game section, I put a "SELECTING A PLAY" section for where tips are for playing on offense. Version 1.30, December 14, 2005: Fixed up the team facts in my teams section, thanks to Darrick Boord. It now has more info about teams that were missing in 1993. ============ 2. Controls ============ ------------- Off the Game ------------- D-Pad: Move Up or Down on a menu. A: Once you find where you want to go to, press A to select the option. B: If you pick the wrong team, option, or something, press the B button to go back to the previous screen. X and Y: No effect ---------------- During the Game ---------------- Selecting a Play: There are 8 plays you can choose from, which is 4 running plays and 4 passing plays. The top 4 will always be the running plays and the bottom 4 will always be the passing game. This is what you press to select that play. For example, the top left play will always be Up+A to select it. /---------------------------------------------------------------------------- || | | | | R| | | | | U| | | | | N| | | | | || Up+A | Left+A | Right+A | Down+A | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | | P | | | | A | | | | S | | | | S | | | | || Up+B | Left+B | Right+B | Down+B | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Those are the button combinations that you need to press to select the play that you want, and then your players will do that play. Here are the combinations top to bottom: RUNNING: 1. Hold Up and press A 2. Hold Left and press A 3. Hold Right and press A 4. Hold Down and press A PASSING: 1. Hold Up and press B 2. Hold Left and press B 3. Hold Right and press B 4. Hold Down and press B --------------- During Offense --------------- SELECTING A PLAY: Before you select a play, you can also have some other options as well. You can press Y to open the list of options, and then use the D-Pad and A to select the option you want. I will cover these in my Playing the Game section. TOUCHBACK: Once the ball has been kicked to you, there is a chance you can catch it on the end zone. If this happens, you can press B for a touchback. This will advance you to the 20 yard line. Use this when you need to, as it's useful for when many players are around you. RUNNING PLAY: A: Start the Play D-Pad: Move around player with the ball B: Once you are grabbed, keep tapping B for a chance to break free instead of being tackled. Sometimes if you don't tap B, you may have a chance of fumbling the ball. PASSING PLAY: A: Start the Play, throw the ball after play starts B: Kneel Down D-Pad: Run and move to avoid being sacked/tackled and such X: Once your Quarterback has the ball, you have a number of players to throw the ball to. If someone you want to throw to is being guarded by a different player, you can press X to switch the player you want to throw to, and you can press X to switch to different players as well. This is useful for getting to a receiver that's open. Now, if the person who catches the ball has it, you will now be able to take control of that player. All you can do is use the D-Pad to run around the field to go for the end zone to get a touchdown. If a player on the other team tries to come and tackle you, you can keep tapping B for a chance to break lose. SCORING THE TOUCHDOWN: Once you score a touchdown for 6 points at your end zone, you can a chance for an extra point, which is to kick the ball over the field goal. To do this, press A to start the play and then press A again to kick the ball. If it goes over the field goal, it's good for a point. This also means it can bounce off the side over the field goal. If the ball doesn't make it or if it goes around the field goal, it will be ruled as "No Good" and you will not get the extra point. --------------- During Defense --------------- After you get the touchdown or a turnover, you will go on defense and try to stop the opposing team from scoring a touchdown. Here are the controls for when you are being on defense. CHANGING PLAYERS: Before the quarterback on the opposing team starts the play, you have the chance to change the player you want to control. To do this, keep pressing A until the arrow is on top of the player you want to control. Note that the quarterback cannot start the play while you are changing your defensive player, and once the play starts, you cannot change the player you want to control. DIVING: Once the play starts, your object is to obviously stop the player from scoring the touchdown or gaining yards for a first down. To have a better chance, press A to dive when you are near the player to the ball. This has a better chance at tackling him and taking him down. Sometimes, the player may fumble the ball as well, giving you the chance to recover it. TACKLING THE PLAYER: With the person you are controlling, you can run up to any player on the other team to tackle him down and such. Keep tapping A to have a better chance at taking him down without you falling down either. But you want to at least get the player with the ball. You can also use a strategy to get around all of the players and go for the quarterback and tackle him for a sack. =========== 3. Options =========== Outside of playing the game, there are plenty of options you can select from. MAIN MENU: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preseason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you select preseason, a list of options will come down. Here they are: Preseason: This allows you to change the amount of time there is in a quarter. The default is 5 minutes, but the time goes by really fast no matter what you set it to. MAN VS COM: You vs. The computer. Simple as that. MAN VS MAN: You vs. Player 2. Gets more fun with a human player. MAN VS COA: You vs. coach. The coach selects the play and the team does it by themselves. COA VS COM: The Coach vs. the computer. A coach selects the play (which is you) and then the team does it by them selves. COA VS COA: Coach vs. Coach COM VS COM: The computer vs. the Computer. Select any of these and then you pick the teams afterwards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season Game ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allows you to start a season, but you need to configure some options so the game doesn't simulate yours by itself. Team Control: Allows which teams will be simulated and which teams you control. Press the A button to switch them between "skp" and "MAN". Schedule: This is the schedule for all the weeks in football. Press the "Y" button to bring up more options. Schedule select brings up the season you can play (1991, 1992, or 1993). Auto-skip makes it so you can play your season game by yourself. Just set auto-skip to the week you are currently on. Playoffs allows you to start at the playoffs. Game Start: Starts your season, simulates the rest of the games at the end. NFL Standings: Shows the standings for all divisions in both leagues. NFL Leaders: Shows the leaders for stats during the season (Passing, receiving, rushing, scoring, punting, interceptions, sacks, punt returns, kickoff returns). They update after every game. Team Data: Shows the players in each team and information about them, such as their condition and position. They are listed in alphabetical order. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pro Bowl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a team with all-stars on them. Once you select this option, you will get the same options as selecting a pre-season game, such as MAN VS COM. This is the AFC vs. the NFC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Data ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shows the players in each team and information about them, such as their condition and position. They are listed in alphabetical order. ==================== 4. Playing the Game ==================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting the Game ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before starting a game, you'll get to pick the 2 teams. After that, you can select the weather you want to play the game in. The weather has no impact on the game, but it's just there for designs. You can choose between sunny, rain, and snow. Once you pick the teams for the game, there will be a coin toss. The winner will ALWAYS get heads, not tails. Now, that seems weird because you can't guess for heads or tails. The winner of the coin toss gets to choose how the game starts. RETURN: The opposing team will kick the ball to you to start the game. KICKOFF: You start the game by kicking the ball off to the opposing team. Now, if you return the ball, the team will kick it to you. If you catch the ball in the end zone (where you score the touchdowns), you have the option for a touchback. Press B on the end zone for a touchback. A touchback will allow you to advance to the 20 yard line. This will be useful for when many of the players are around. After this, you will be starting the game on offense. If the opposing team chooses RETURN or you choose KICKOFF, then you kick the ball to the opposing team. But before you kick, you'll see a meter at the bottom of the screen that will fill up and then empty. This determines how hard the ball is kicked. If you kick it while the meter is blue, then it will be an onside kick. This is when the ball is kicked towards the ground at the 50 yard line or so. Doing this gives you a chance to recover the ball when you kick it, but you also risk having the opponent recovering the ball and getting closer to the end zone. If you kick it while the meter is red, then it will go into the air near your end zone. Once they catch it, go out and try to tackle them, or they may get a touchback if they're on the end zone. Now you will start the game on defense once you tackle the player with the game. I will divide this into two more sections, covering offense and defense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Being on Offense ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While you are on offense, the point is to get to the end zone for a touchdown. Before doing that, you must get past everybody and such. You can start the game with 4 running plays and 4 passing plays. Use the bottom combos in the controls section to know which plays are which. But before selecting a play, notice all of the red arrows and such on the plays. These are where all of the players go. If you want to be good with a play, practice it over and over again. Other things to note on the plays for passing/running are these arrow colors: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SELECTING A PLAY: - A red line is where your runningbacks/receivers go. - A blue line is where your quarterback goes, either if it's running or starting a throwing play. - A purple line is where the quarterback is during a play. If you see white dots leading to the purple dot, it means it is a shotgun play. - A white line is a fake play. The player will go in that direction and fake it, then giving the ball to someone else. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Before selecting a play, study each play carefully before you select it so that you know what you're doing. Another thing is if you don't like any of the plays, you can change that play by going to the play book and replacing it with another one. Note that there are different plays for each category (top right play, top left, etc). Being on offense, you will need to get to the end zone (which is the end of the field), for a touchdown. But, you must get 10 yards for a first down (you'll see red markers outside the field to show where you need to get for a first down). If you can't get it in 3 plays, an option list will drop down. Here are the list of options you get: TIMEOUT: Calls a timeout to stop the clock. You can have 3 timeouts in every quarter. PUNT KICK: This allows you to kick the ball to the other team. Press A to start the play and then to punt, press A again. The red meter shows how hard the ball will be kicked. If you want to kick it long, kick it when the red meter is full. FIELD GOAL: It is a 4th down and you're near your end zone. You aren't sure if you're going to make the 1st down, so you can go for a field goal. Press A to start the play and A to kick the ball. If it goes past the field goal, it's good for 3 points. If it goes around or doesn't make it, it's a NO GOOD. Once you get that NO GOOD, the Referee will have an evil laugh on his face if you look really closely. CHANGE: You can swap out one player for another to play the game, if there is a better person on the bench. PLAY BOOK: You can use this to swap out one play for a better play, either passing or running for if you don't like a certain play. This shows that there are more than 8 plays in the game. OTHER THINGS TO NOTE ON OFFNESE: If you are near the red marker for the first down, the referee will measure 10 yards to see if you got the first down or not. If the chain gets past the ball, it's a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th down. If the chain doesn't get past the football, you'll get the first down. Another thing I can note are the positives and negatives of running and throwing plays: RUNNING PLAYS: Positives: Easy to use without a problem if you know the path to run (the red arrows on the play). Can be turned to easy first downs and for short gains as well. If you are great with running plays, you can run long for the touchdown. Negatives: If you're not sure how to do the play, you may get tackled and lose yards, pushing you back farther from the first down line. Also easy to get blitzed on, and you may risk the chance for a fumble, in which the other team can recover the ball if you drop it. PASSING PLAYS: Positives: A play like a Hail Mary (where all of your receivers go long) can be turned into an easy touchdown if at least one of your receivers is wide open and no one on defense is around. Once the ball is thrown and caught, it can be an easy first down or if no one is around you, you can run to the end zone. Negatives: Your quarterback can be sacked big if the blitz is on for the defense or if you back up and do not throw the ball at all. If you throw the ball at a receiver who is surrounded by players on defense, you risk the ball being intercepted, which the other team takes the ball when it is thrown. GETTING THE TOUCHDOWN: Once you have the touchdown, you will get 6 nice points. If you scored on a running play, your running back will get a big hug. If you scored on a throwing play, you'll get a high five. After the touchdown, you'll get the chance for an extra point, where you need to kick the ball past the field goal. Press A to start the play and A to kick it. If it gets past the field goal, you'll get your 1 extra point. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Being on Defense ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you win the coin toss at the beginning of the game, you can choose to be on defense if you select "kickoff". This kicks the ball to the other team. The point of defense is now to let the offense get the touchdown. Even though there aren't any plays for defense, you'll still need to pick one. If you chose the same play the offense did, the blitz will be activated for that play. This means that all your players will rush to the quarterback and sack him in now time, causing a yard loss. Before the play starts, you can switch the player you want to control on defense. The player you are controlling is the one with a "1" above his head. If you want to use a different player, keep pressing A until the 1 switches to the player you want to control. Now, if the player with the ball is on the end zone (not theirs), then you can tackle him for a safety. On the safety, the player who tackled the person with the ball will get 2 points and then they will kick the ball to you. And being on defense, you can intercept the ball when they throw it, meaning you catch it instead of one of their players. Or the player with the football may fumble it when tackled, giving you the chance to pick it up and return it for a touchdown. TIPS FOR BEING ON DEFENSE: 1. If the player is going on a long running play, switch to one of your defensive players in the back before the play starts. So when the passing play starts, you'll have a better chance of getting to the receiver the quarterback is going to throw to. 2. In any play, you'll notice there is a small gap between 2 players on the offense sometimes. Switch to the person near or in front of the "gap". Once the play starts, you can run through the gap and easily get past the quarterback and tackle him for a sack. You can also get near him and block his pass. 3. When selecting plays, try to select a different play each time. This gives you more of a chance of getting the blitz. ============= 5. The Teams ============= Here are a list of the teams from the AFC and the NFC. AFC: Buffalo Bills Indianapolis Colts Miami Dolphins New England Patriots New York Jets Cincinnati Bengals Cleveland Browns Houston Oilers Pittsburgh Steelers Denver Broncos Kansas City Cheifs Los Angeles Raiders Seattle Seahawks NFC: Dallas Cowboys New York Giants Philadelphia Eagles Phoenix Cardinals Washington Redskins Chicago Bears Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Minnesota Vikings Tampa Bay Buccaneers Atlanta Falcons St. Louis Rams New Orleans Saints San Francisco 49ers Facts: Teams missing from this game are: Tennessee Titans Houston Texans Carolina Panthers Jacksonville Jaguars Baltimore Ravens In 1997, the Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee and became the Tennessee Titans in 1999. The Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars came into the NFL in the same year, which was in 1995. Also, the Baltimore Ravens used to be the Cleveland Browns, but were moved to Baltimore and renamed in 1996. After being absent for three years, the Browns returned to Cleveland. In 2002, the Texans became the new football team in Houston. Thanks to Darrick Boord on the information for this. =========== 6. Secrets =========== Sound Test: At the Tecmo Super Bowl title screen, keep pressing L and R at the same time until a sound test pops up. With this sound test, you can listen to all of the music and sound effects of this game. Defensive Blitz: This is not really a secret, but when the offense is picking a play, the defense must pick the same play in order to blitz, but you will not know which play the offense selects. The blitz is when all your players rush right at the quarterback when the play starts, resulting in an easy sack. So pick the same play and you'll have a blitz for the play. It can also mess up the quarterback's timing for when he is throwing the ball. =========== 7. Credits =========== Nintendo = They made the Super Nintendo. Tecmo = They made this awesome Football game known as Tecmo Super Bowl. Me = I wrote this guide. You = You read this guide, and liked it (hopefully) CJayC = The administrator of the best site in the world (GameFAQs) posted this FAQ. My cousin = He introduced me to this game and let me use it for a long time now. Darrick Boord = A person who emailed me about this FAQ. He gave me the real information about the teams that were not around in 1993, such as the Baltimore Ravens and I did know about most of this information. Thanks man.