how bout Bonus B in Top Gear 3000 does it work?

[kurrono]

Any plans to make that work guys .,.i been trying to contact you on your facebook page,,
that bonus is a totall mystery.

[kurrono]

it seems nobody cant answer my question... too bad!!

[Valhawk]

Bonus B has been a mystery for years and sadly will probably stay that way forever. Some time back, the code was looked into and all programming to operate the bonuses were found except for B. So the code was either programmed incorrectly or was never programmed at all and was released this way.

[kurrono]

what i found the triggers sta $1a for bonus b is used for 3rd payerr and 4th playerr when u hit obstacle on the left side of the road trigger value 2..that is B... on the right side value is 3
that will be A B together. so if u hack that.. on B.. using sta $7c on sta $1a.. is like crashing a tree on the road when turning right )u get that bonus B but ppl dont like the idea... so it will remain without bonus B.

[kurrono]

what is mostly weird is if u get B..u dont get bonus C D and E

[Duke Magus]

https://www.mobygames.com/game/17132/top-gear-3000/credits/snes/

Your best bet is to contact Ashley Bennett (he works at Sumo Digital) or Matthew Donkin (he works at Nequinox)

Both were the original programmers and are still active in the games industry (linkedin profile and all). If anyone has the source code to comb through, it has to be them.

Give me a shoutout if you solve the mystery.

[kurrono]

do u know some hacker years ago called AEtherknight found the cheat of the bonuses on 7e27c for 1st player and 7e032f for 2nd player... ujsing 1f for all bonuses...
but if u use
00=no bonus
01= is A 83f9ef
02=is B ?? 83fe68?
04=is C 81f3b0
08=is D 83fe1a
and 10=is E 83f0a0

i foung the trigger for A,C,D and E as opcodes..
now B dont trigger.. i had to dig deeper using 4 player mode ..there
it triggers 02 amd 03 hitting obstacles with 3rd player and 4th player..bonus B and bonus A,B 83fe68 and 83fe88..
1st player and 2nd ..trigger 83fe1a.. bonus D

if u get B ..it kills bonus c,d and e..
you just can get A or B..
but if we can contact Ashley will be the best bet.. i think he removed bonus B on the re-release of top gear 3000 in 1997..
cause my 1995 copy had bonus b i got it couple times.. and the copies u find now doesnt give bonus b at all sta $1a it got to be 7c to work...

[kurrono]

look at this
Video link
https://youtu.be/TvM5UFJ9XRU

[kurrono]

i dont think Ashley Bennett will care bout this game my mail goin to be ignored forever and probably the other programmer forgot all about it too..... this game are past..not on their vision no more....

[kurrono]

I talked to Mathew Donkin,he doesnt know nothing about gettin B bonus..only Ashley knows the secret....

[kurrono]

it's over Bonus B is found is on 83fe68
LDA #$02,STa $1A
i got it hack working without messing up the spin....
adding a sta $7c to the code ..that triggers Bonus B.


"Car spin on the left side of the road"

..is Bonus B... acquiring this bonus removes
C,D and E,
or u get A,C,D and E
or A and B only.
u decide... i find it gettin bonus b is fun

[kurrono]

Originally posted by Duke Magus:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/17132/top-gear-3000/credits/snes/

Your best bet is to contact Ashley Bennett (he works at Sumo Digital) or Matthew Donkin (he works at Nequinox)

Both were the original programmers and are still active in the games industry (linkedin profile and all). If anyone has the source code to comb through, it has to be them.

Give me a shoutout if you solve the mystery.

[kurrono]

can u add bonus B to the game? the top gear 3000 state fil;e need to be updated

[kurrono]

im done with bonus B for now... until Ashley repley me back soon....

[Master Mind]

I'll tell you what I got as a reply a few years back on a Nintendo forum.
They prob forgot about bonus B, and this trigger you find is again... prob a placeholder they made until they decided where to put it.

You need to think that one... they are all related to driving skills, and naturally meant to be colleted together.
Finshing the race with a boost, not hitting cars, no hitting stuff other than cars and no driving off road. As you can see all of them can be collected together. And due to it's prize, it's supposed to be less harder than not hitting any other cars.

One thing we could do is try to modify the rom itself to change it's trigger to make it something that makes sense... even tho is not the original dev vision, it could work alltogether.

[kurrono]

I did hack almost every condition..... car get hit by the back, taking the red stripe to fill gas,taking the blue stripe to recharge... pushing car to the side or trees... starting race s a hard one to hack cause when u do penalty ..it has a timer..is harder to hack there...

but Bonus B in reality is the "car spin' i got that value for the 4 player mode
value 2 its on the left side and value 3 is on the right side....

in 4 player mode is hitting obstacles.. in championship mode trigger is not there.. cause ashley bennet the programmer removed 2 Branches that connects nothing.. he removed to code on the re-release of the game on 1997..the game from 1994 or 95 are the ones that you can get bonus B in the cartridge soem body need to dump that early copy of the game
i bet the trigger for bonus B its there......

here BRA $FEDB;;;;;> SBC $FFFFFF,x
here BRA $FEFB;;;;;> SBC $FFFFFF,x
makes no sense......

look this one ====BRA $FE6A====>LDA #$00 it connects...

so i suggest Ashley Bennet remove the code that was connecting
LDA #$02
STA $1A to BRA $FEDB;;;;;> SBC $FFFFFF,x tihs one needs a STA $7C
to trigger the bonus B

LDA #$03
STA $1A to BRA $FEFB;;;;;> SBC $FFFFFF,x
this trigger will hit BONus A and B together makes no sense,,...