ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing

cukcan 2023-06-26 0 point

what TSR stands for? guys I dont understand your language please explain in detail. Thank you so much for help!

cukcan 2023-06-26 0 point

I have several questions:
1)How to get the ring points?
I usually get the punch points after every match. but what about the ring points? What should I do to get them?
2) What is killer instinct for?
3) Somehow my handspeed doesnt improve more than 198. Why? Even I choose the chinese trainer, it doesn't improve it.
3) Which strategy is better for trainers? Should I change every time they offer me different one, or should I keep the one I get benefir the most? My fav trainer is Long Lengley and Power&Killer instinct trainer.
4) Even I purchase some stuff sometimes they dont increase my stats. i.e I buy handspeed karate lessons but my handspeed stats stuck at some point. Why?
5) Is there any difference which type of boxer you choose i.e brawler, boxer, dancer or dodger, or these are just for the lore? These types effect your boxer's stats?
6) Sometimes during the fight boxer's name flashing. What does that mean? As far as I understood you need to make a combo. How to do that?
7) Is there any money trick/cheat? (unlimited money)
8) Is there any cheat for increasing the stats?
9) Could you please explain which kind of punch is jab/straight, hook/cross? I think I know the uppercut. How to perform the other two? In the beginning when you create your boxer, what's the best strategy for these percents? I usually give all to uppercut.
10) I definitely have more questions but these are all for now. If you can help, I will be appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

JK 2023-02-16 0 point DOS version

It seems that the less than greater than symbols are being filtered for security reasons. To change the punch rating factor use the ',' and '.' (comma and period) keys to increase/decrease. Sorry If this seems spammy moderators. I had to clarify this since it filtered out the required keypresses.

JK 2023-02-16 0 point DOS version

@TUCO,

I cannot post cheats or loaders on Steam. I'm aware that nobody really cares if someone cheats in an old DOS game. But it's against their rules and guidelines and they don't care about context. I uploaded a loader and TSR for the Cinemaware version of TV Sports Boxing. I also have them for the ABC version if someone is interested in that. I included the copy protection solutions as well for convenience. I recommend using DOSBox, since its the emulator I tested it on. Download links are below.

https://sabercathost.com/it0x/TVSB.zip
https://sabercathost.com/it0y/ABCWWOSB.zip
https://sabercathost.com/it0z/COPYPROT.TXT

Both do the same thing. Just use the one you prefer the most. The TSR can be removed from memory using the -u command line argument. Keep in mind that it has to be the last TSR in the chain to be able to do that. Both can be run with and without command line argument -c

Running without the command line argument gives you the vanilla game experience with bug fixes. It also enables the copy protection to be able to show a few developer easter eggs and activate the debug mode the developer has put in the game. Will provide more info about that at the end of my post.

Running with the command line argument -c allows you to activate my in game cheats in addition to bug fixes. This also enables you to activate killer instinct permanently during a fight by pressing the 'k' and 'i' keys simultaneously. You can deactivate it if you want by using the same key combination. This only works for boxers that are created by you (Career and Open Exhibition)

You activate the cheats below in game by pressing the 'c' and 'h' keys simultaneously. You can disable them the same way. The cheats activated with the ch key combination are...

- Top NPC career fighters no longer get a punch rating boost.
- Every boxer you create (Career or Open Exhibition) will get a punch rating boost.
- You can lower and raise the punch rating boost factor using the keys (no shift key is needed) These factors are 1.5 (default) / 2 / 3 / 10 / 100 / 1000 (Important! You need to change this before starting a fight. It will not work during the fight. This is because the factor only gets applied once when the fight initializes.) If you lost track of the current value, just use the ch key combination to disable and again to enable cheats again.
- The minimum of having a 20 fights record rule before being allowed to fight the champion is disabled.
- You can buy training camp equipment of the same type just like NPC fighters can.

Finally I'm surprised that I can't find any source on the internet for the hidden debug option in this game. I think the reason for this is that the Cinemaware version has the copy protection disabled since it uses Rob Northen's Copylock solution to protect the game. But they themselves added a crack for it instead of removing it. It works for the ABC version as well. But the most widely spread version is the one with the Razor crack. So you normally would not be able to see the easter eggs or activate the debug mode in both of these versions.

The developers put some easter eggs in it as well about themselves. If you enter KNAUER as a solution to the copy protection you get a message from that developer. If you enter ALBRIGHT you get a message from that developer. If you enter MDEBUGJK you enable the game debug mode. Important! You still need to provide the correct copy protection answer within three tries. This is also why I separated this from my own cheats by offering the -c command line argument. You can however enable the copy protection if you want to have both available. if you used the -c command line argument you can activate/deactivate the copy protection by pressing the 'q' key.

Below is a copy and paste of notes I made when looking into this debug mode. Ignore the hexadecimal part of this and look at the key presses before the //. The part after the // explains what it's supposed to do. Tbh I did not investigate all the possible debug options, since quite a few don't do anything noticeable and I did not bother to investigate further.

// Debugging keys
1F35:3F9F 2D 00 31 00 32 00 33 00 34 00 35 00 36 00 38 00 -.1.2.3.4.5.6.8.
1F35:3FAF 62 00 66 00 67 00 6E 00 6F 00 70 00 72 00 76 00 b.f.g.n.o.p.r.v.

- // Sets byte es:[bx+27] from pointer les bx,[5540] to 4b if zero else 0
1 // Set boxer1 cuts to 1
2 // Set boxer1 cuts to 2
3 // Set boxer1 cuts to 4
4 // Set boxer2 cuts to 1
5 // Set boxer2 cuts to 3
6 // Set boxer2 cuts to 4
8 // Set word @ ds:[5fe2] (_BegRndTime) to 1 and word @ ds:[5fe4] to 0
b // Toggles bool flag word @ ds:[5ed0] (_Debug1)
f // Toggles bool flag word @ ds:[5e0e] (_FrontRope)
g // Toggles bool flag word @ ds:[5fde] (_DisplayX)
n // Toggles bool flag word @ ds:[5ed2] (_Debug2)
o // Toggles bool flag word @ ds:[5ec6] (_DontThrowPunch)
p // Toggles bool flag word @ ds:[5efc] (_LosePointsDebug)
r // Toggles bool flag word @ ds:[5fd0] (_PicDebug)
v // Toggles bool flag word @ ds:[5ed8] (_Debug)

Tuco 2023-02-05 0 point

@JK

I believe you shared your fix/cheat loader with me some 15-20 years ago on an old Cinemaware forum. I saw you appear again and explain the inner workings of the game, the bugs and your loader on the Vogons forum.

Is there any way you can make your loader available to download?

If you're on Steam, there are a couple threads in the 'Cinemaware Anthology: 1986-1991' discussion area. Could you perhaps provide details to access your loader in that discussion page?

JK 2022-12-08 1 point DOS version

@DEMIAN MEGA

There is no age limit. Deterioration of a career boxer is determined by the total fights fought. This is randomly decided when a career boxer is created. This is between 35-60 fights for career boxers you create.

Killer instinct can be triggered by a punch combo of three punches. Two normal punches followed by a power punch can trigger killer instinct. Your killer instinct rating affects if its triggered after the required punch combo. A high killer instinct rating has a high chance to trigger it.

The bug fixes loader I made also has some built in optional cheats in it to boost punch ratings and trigger killer instinct unconditionally for boxers you create.

Demian Mega 2022-12-03 1 point DOS version

Some questions:
- Do the characters have an age limit to continue the game?
- Is there a known method to call the killer instinct?
Note: Dear JK, thank you for explaining the bugs!
(I used to play until a phenomenon 'ZZ' appeared, who was practically invincible)

JK 2022-08-20 1 point DOS version

Actually the game doesn't run out of names. It's a bug with how the NPC boxer index calculation is done. There are actually 250 unique NPC fighters that the game is supposed to rotate through. It's a bug where the index is treated as a signed byte instead of a word. The game converts this signed byte to an int. This causes an issue when the index 127. Resulting in a negative index. Instead of indexing the NPC fighter array it will index whatever is in memory below the array. Resulting in random mangled NPC fighters names. This will 'fix' itself temporarily again when the index hits 250 by wrapping around to 0 again. By a % 250 operation.

Oh and these NPC phenoms someone is talking about can start spawning in after 8 new NPC fighters have cycled in. After that every new NPC fighter has a 1/20 change of becoming overpowered from the start. These fighters all have punch ratings between 900-1000 and ring ratings between 225-250. To make it even more difficult you are punished for not fighting an exhibition match before fighting a NPC career fighter who has punch ratings = 700. When you get to the top 10 pretty much all NPC fighters there have at least one punch rating at 700+. These NPC fighters then get a 50% boost to all their punch ratings. So a NPC chump with 700 power will end up with 1050 power. This boost will make overpowered NPC fighters ridiculously strong. I'm talking about punch ratings up to 1500 for these NPC fighters. So if you ever felt that these top NPC contenders are just steamrolling you, that's why. Play an exhibition match with your career boxer first. You don't need to finish it, just start it and exit out and ten start the actual career fight.

Sound is also bugged. PIT needs to be programmed in a different mode to make it work in emulators. There's also a bug where the game uses the wrong age delta for calculating certain NPC fighter stats. This exhibits itself for stats that are positively and negatively affected by age. Resulting in very high stamina and very weak chin. This gets progressively worse as the months advance in game. For all these issues I made a fix. Either by a loader or hard patch. I can make this fix available to Mobygames if interested. So everyone who likes oldies like these can enjoy them without these bugs.

egghead291009 2022-07-08 0 point Amiga version

i don't know how to play this game