General Manager for Tecmo Super Bowl

Features

Most of what you'd expect from a Tecmo Super Bowl editor. This list starts with the more unusual features that GM for TSB offers and then moves on to the standard ones.

Works for Windows, Linux, and Mac
Drag and drop to move players and teams
Ability to save more players and teams than fit in the ROM without requiring a special "export" phase
Automatic calculation of simulation codes
Rearranging players doesn't break Pro Bowl teams or returners
All a team's receivers grouped together, even for 3‐WR and 4‐WR formations (and similarly for running backs and tight ends)
A 2‐TE pseudo‐formation that allows you to group TE's together while presenting one as a WR in a 3‐WR formation to the game
Team player‐data background color
Ability to attach notes to any player or team
Automatic abbreviation of first names when necessary
Team run‐pass ratio
Uniform editing, including which uniform to wear against each team
Sortable lists of all players at a position
Formation and playbook editing
Pro Bowl players
Return men
Team names
Player names, numbers, faces, and attributes

Missing

In an ideal world, I would add all of these, but I wouldn't recommend that you wait around for it.

Editing of the 32‐team ROM (Use TSBToolSupreme)
Import from text files (Use TSBToolSupreme)
Schedule editing (Use Tecmo Super Bowl Manager)
Play editing (You might try TSB Playermaker or TSB Play Editor, though I have little knowledge this)
Editing of year, league name, conference names, or division names (Use a hex editor or Tecmo Super Bowl Manager)
Championship‐screen uniform colors (Use Tecmo Super Bowl Manager)
Helmet editing (You might try Helment Editor for TSB)
Assorted other tweaks (Use a hex editor to follow the instructions at bruddog's Links for most common hacking requests)

Download and Run

Install Java if you do not already have version 5.0 or newer.
Download GM for TSB.
Double‐click the downloaded file to run.

Please make frequent backups of your ROM. I have been using GM for TSB for my editing for about the last two years of its development without incident, but there can never be a guarantee that this program won't trash all your work. This is even more true when you take into consideration the different computers and different usage patterns that new users bring.

Source and Dependencies

Unless you want to compile the program yourself, you can ignore this section. All required libraries are included in the download above.

Thanks

I primarily would like to thank Emuware for its Tecmo Super Bowl editors and bruddog for his documentation of the file format. While I created this editor to address some shortcomings of existing editors, I could not have created this program without learning from them. See Help | About in the program for additional acknowledgements.

Legal

General Manager for Tecmo Super Bowl is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

General Manager for Tecmo Super Bowl is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.