Hack SNES / Super Famicom

Jimmy Connors Real Pro Tennis Tour

Replaces the made-up names in the SNES Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour with the real early-1990s players they stood for, fixes wrong flags and redraws all sixteen portraits.

What's changed

Only Connors was licensed, so the game's other fifteen players went by invented names such as MUELLER or WURZL even though their portraits, ratings and nationalities were modelled on real pros. pest218's hack gives them back their real identities: Becker, McEnroe, Edberg, Agassi, Stich, Krajicek and the rest. Both the short surname in the menus and the full name shown elsewhere are restored, and the coaching tip that mentioned "Mueller" now names Becker.

Nationality flags that were wrong are corrected. The sixteenth slot, which held a developer cameo rather than a disguised player, becomes Michael Chang with a USA flag.

All sixteen portraits are new, each built from photographs of the real player and squeezed into the game's 32x32 frame and skin-tone palette. Ratings, playing styles, physics and coaches are untouched.

Playing it

The patch is made for the American cartridge; apply it to your own copy following the instructions on the creator's page, which also has a detailed technical write-up. All credit goes to pest218.

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