[HOW TO] "Winnipeg Freeze Bug" Work Arounds
EDIT: @Sauce has shared a solution that was deep within the depths of another thread, also found by Smozoma, just below this post. It's much better, and doesn't double up on the player names. Basically, if you'd like to keep the player records, which already are broken for the most part in 32-team ROMs, use this one. If you'd rather the names only appear once, use his!
Let me just start this off by saying 99.99999% of the credit here goes to @smozoma. All I'm doing is sharing the code!
OK, I might have a solution.
Original @ 0x00F8B2C 4E
Revised @ 0x00F8B2C 20
I have used this in my ROM I posted yesterday, and am awaiting feedback to hear if it works. I don't have any Genesis/Mega Drive hardware to test it on, but it passes muster on both of my emulators, with memory errors and 68k error crashes enabled. What will end up happening is that you will still get the cosmetic error pulling up junk stats, but it won't crash, no names will be doubled, and playoffs will