Luke: Here's another thing you may want to think about. The Texans in Zoinkity's patch only have the home (dark blue) jerseys, which can be annoying because they will sometimes have almost the same color jersey as the opposing team and make it hard to discern. TAPFS had made some alternate jerseys that you can import using the graphical editor tool (see the graphic editor tool thread). Here are the jersey files:
https://puu.sh/w2gao/ed3e75352d.zip

I seem to remember that I had to fiddle w/ the files that were imported to make it look correct, but can't remember it was so long ago. Here's a pic of them that TAPFS showed:

good to hear! I have not been able to create a patch with the version with extra plays. They might need to be added one by one. Really focused on making all the hacks compatibility with real hardware. Hope to check into that once all the uniforms are up to date.

Sounds good. I'm curious if the expanded playbook/extra cheats works on real hardware. Have you tried it?

Hey Jake it has been a while! I was looking to download the patch, but didn't see it in your top post. Is it missing?

I think I figured out some more details about how the game pulls in the custom plays. I noticed the play data in RAM for the first custom play is actually the exact same as before I imported some new graphics. I think this will make things much easier - i.e. I don't think the absolute address matters for the custom plays as long as they don't move relative to where they are in the file table. On the other hand, it seems that the 2,3,4 playbooks aren't looking correctly. I'm wondering if something got moved slightly when I used the editor as I had left some space between plays. I think that this could possibly shift all of the addresses if so. I'll look into it and let you know. I think that we may actually get away with not even having to edit the code based on what I've seen so far.

The custom playbook on the ROM hasn't been released yet, but I have found a glitch that I'm not sure I can fix so I will post it here. It's pretty minor though.

If you let the timer expire on a custom play (this is with the 20 second timer), the game will freeze. Pretty small glitch, but it's there.

Just tested it out. I'm super impressed Jake, works for the extra team as well as I see you added the objects to be edited (end zone, helmet at loading etc). Great stuff!!

Very cool Jake! I'll test it out today. I fixed a few of the bugs so far in the latest unreleased version w/ custom plays on it. Still trying to figure out the AI one..

I think there's a simple way to make the file editor update where the custom play data is: If you insert a file, it will shift all of the addresses in the file table + the custom play data down. It will then add the new table entries after the custom data. this isn't a problem at all as far as I can tell so far, because your tool allows one to map out which files correlate to which team, so the location of the file table entry is not important.

What this means then is that as long as we know how many bytes are added to the ROM when inserting a file, we can calculate the new address position. For instance, the original location of the start of the custom plays was at 0xFDDFF0. Now after inserting the custom Texans jerseys that TAP made, the start of the first playbook is at 0xFDF024. So we can calculate this offset 0xFDF024 - 0xFDDFF0 = 0x1034, and then add this value to all of the necessary bits of code.

Some examples would be:

LUI S4, $800B
ADDIU S4, S4, $E330 //these two lines will load the address 800AE330 into reg S4, which is the address where much of the custom data starts
will simply change to:
LUI S4, $800B
ADDIU S4, S4, $F364 //which is 800AE330 + 0x1034.

I will have to find all of the commands that set addresses and then I can send them to you. We can then us your graphics editor to write the hexidecimal representation to the ROM. Does this sound feasible?

One last thing. Jake: Does your tool allow for modifying any added new teams? I currently have a copy of the redskins that I want to convert into the Oilers, but I don't see it in the list of teams. I found the code at the end of the team and was wondering if it links to the image table?

This is what I'm referring to:
57415300 //WAS short hand for displaying scoreboard
056E056F //can I modify this or the two lines below to link to image table?
0570077B
073C073C