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NBA Live '96 (SNES) FAQ v0.1
Created November 7, 1995
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The latest version of the FAQ can always be found through the WWW at:
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~sstackho/nbaliv96.faq
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Copyright information:
Feel free to distribute this FAQ in its entirety. Hell, you can even
print this stuff in a magazine, but at least have the common courtesy to
credit the FAQ.
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New in this version of the FAQ:
Everything. This is the first version of the FAQ. It's a beta version!
I just wanted to get this out since a lot of people were asking about the
hidden characters. I've only been playing the game for about a week, and
I'm in the middle of midterms, so it'll be a while before I get to play
the game extensively. :(
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Contents:
Introduction
What's New in Live '96?
"Hidden" characters
Bugs
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Introduction:
Welcome to the NBA Live '96 Frequently Asked Questions List. With this
list I hope to point out the special undocumented features of the game,
as well as answer any other important relevant information. I don't want
to pad the FAQ with a lot of junk, so I'll try to include only relevant
information, and keep it short.
However, the FAQ can only be as good as its users. I monitor r.g.v.n
regularly, and will look for important information on the game. Please
send me any additions or modifications to the FAQ as you see fit (at
sstackhouse@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca), as you will improve the FAQ and
people's enjoyment of the game. I will include credits of all those who
contribute.
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What's New in Live '96?
Well, NBA Live '95 was the most complete basketball game that I have ever
palyed, and it would be hard to improve it too much. Fortunately (or
unfortunately, depending on how you look at it), EA decided not to screw
around with NBA Live '96 too much, so it is quite similar to NBA Live '95.
The gameplay and graphics are rather similar.
Major Changes:
- Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies included (with draft mode)
- Create and Edit Player functions included
- "Hidden" players included
- New dunks and lay-ups
- Much harder to block dunks and lay-ups
- Can call plays on the fly
- Fouls occur differently
- Foul shooting changed (nice touch!)
- More injuries!
- Players' mug shots have been removed
- Cartridge size remains unchanged at 12Mbits
If you own NBA Live '95, I might suggest renting before you buy '96
since '95 might keep you satisfied as it is.
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"Hidden" characters:
In the spirit of NBA JAM, NBA Live '96 has many hidden players that are
not regularly playable. These players include some new rookies for the
95-96 season, some of the best to ever play the game, some players not
regularly in the game and some of the programmers.
You can access these players by selecting the Edit Player choice from the
Set Rosters menu. You select the hidden players by editing the current
name (from "Roster PG" or whatever) to one of the names from the list below.
When you enter the name correctly, the stats for the player will
automatically change, and the player has been "created". Your changes
will be saved to the battery.
This should be all of the hidden characters you can use. I will add
detail (and maybe the correct teams for the players) later on.
J. Smith
McDyess
Stackhouse (no relation to the maintainer of the FAQ :( )
Wallace
Garnett
B. Reeves
Stoudamire
Respert
O'Bannon
K. Thomas
Trent
Parks
Williamson
E. Williams
B. Barry
Henderson
Sura
Ratliff
Childress
Caffey
Finley
Zidek
Best
Meyer
Vaughn
Ford
Bennett
Ostertag
C. Alexander
Roe
Tarlac
Rencher
Burrough
DeClercq
J. King
Moten
F. King
Griffith
D. Marshall
Whitfield
Meek
Boyce
Snow
Pelle
T. Brown
Banks
Edney
Davis
Allen
Lewis
Bodiroga
Hoiberg
Popa
Ilgauskas
McDonald
C. Carr
Martin
A. Reid
Barkley
Jordan
Bird
Johnson
Erving
Jabbar
Thompson
Laimbeer
Chamberlain
B. Russell
Hayes
Robertson
R. Barry
Gervin
Baylor
West
I. Thomas
Maravich
Worthy
Walton
Archibald
Frazier
Havlicek
McHale
Cousy
Mikan
Thurmond
Murphy
Cowens
Ted M.
Rammer
Norvell
Ice
Daniel Ng
Andy R.
Allan J.
Reddekopp
Thursty
Sab
Daddy-O
Enzo
Air Dyck
Traz
Ranata
Nelson
McKibbin
Willard
Ivan A.
Gary L.
Chow
Bass
Whew! That should be all of them. Not all of these have been tested,
but many have. Please report any corrections to this list to me.
If you're like me, then you may be asking "Barkley?" Barkley being in
there *really* surprised me. I believe Acclaim has his video game
rights, and that's why he isn't in there regularly. This could be
lawsuit potential. However, they only use his name, number, school and
physical statistics, so maybe it could be a different guy named Barkley
who just has those same stats. :)
I do not know why Jordan is not in the game regularly. Maybe at the time
of programming, he hadn't returned to the NBA.
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Bugs:
I think I started this section just so I can point out one of my pet
peeves. (so much for keeping irrelevant stuff out of the FAQ, eh?)
Alley-oops are not tracked correctly in your User Stats. This problem
was also in Live '95. I was getting sick and tired about my team stats
showing me shooting 70%, but then my stats showing me (as a user) shooting
55%. So I think I finally got to the bottom of it, and it's because I
love to do alley-oops. After playing a quarter on Live '96 and doing one
alley-oop, my team was shooting 10/11. However, my user stats showed me
shooting 9/11. So although my team had only missed one shot, it claims
that I as a user had missed two shots. Hmmmm.... So that's my excuse
why my roommates' field goal percentage is always higher than mine. :)
So, alley-oops will actually HURT your stats, rather then helping them.
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Enjoy the game!
Thanks,
Shawn
Shawn Stackhouse | "Having a smoking and non-smoking
3B Actuarial Science | section in a restaurant is like
University of Waterloo | having a urinating and
sstackho@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca | non-urinating section in a pool."
