The Japanese version of Super Dodge Ball was able to support four player games by plugging an extra pair of controllers into the Famicom expansion port. When this game was transalated for release in countries like the United States, Nintendo did not yet have a four player adapter for the NES. To make up for this, Technos Japan re-coded one of the menus of the bean-ball game, limiting it as a two-player game. This Game Genie code provides removes this limitation.
GEUOLZZA
After select bean ball mode, simply press down 2 or 3 times to use the hidden menu items for "3 Player Game" and "4 Player Game".
In order to play these games on an NES, you must re-wire your NES Four Score first. I will post an article on doing this some time in the future.
Apparently, Technos Japan originally planned to include female teams in "Super Spike V'Ball", but for reasons that I am not aware of, they were unfinished and not included as playable characters in the final product.
I created theses game genie codes to "unlock" these teams in the character selection screens. The first four teams are male teams, and the second set of teams are female teams. You can only play as female teams on the left side of the net, because it looks like the game uses different sets of teams for different sides of the net. I do not believe there is a practical way to work around this.
Whenever any of the women do a dive, their sprites look badly jumbled, which is a sure sign that these characters were never quite finished before this game was released. I'm not sure what their stats look like, but aside from those issues, they play just fine.
| Version | Tournament Modes | Versus Modes |
|---|---|---|
| "Super Spike V'Ball" or "US Championship V'Ball" | AEXGXYGE | AEUSLAGE |
| "Super Spike V'Ball / Nintendo World Cup" | AAKGNTGE | AAVGEYGE |
Play as Team Thornley
OXSUGVSX + GESUITAZ + XVSUTTLE
The player selection screen and shopping screens will appear scrambled... these problems happen when you request the 5th set of menu graphics out of a maximum of 4. As far as I know, however, this will not interfere with gameplay the rest of the game.