NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 (PlayStation)

How many video games involve a marriage proposal? at least one! Plug in a second controller and use it to enter this sequence in the main menu NCAA Basketball Final Four 97,

Select, Start, Triangle, Up, 
X, Square, Up, X, 
Left, Up, X

New one puzzle The item will appear:

If you select this, you will get a question:

Melissa, will you marry me? Love, Scott

if you answer yes i willYou will get this message:

And they lived happily ever after...

And if you answer no i won’tYou will get this:

Error, please try again

Heart touching!

After looking into this I found out puzzle , Items in the list of strings for the main menu:

80068944 "?? PUZZLE ??"
80068954 "SECRET"
8006895c "EXHIBITION GAME"
8006896c "CONTINUE SEASON / TOURNAMENT"
8006898c "START NEW SEASON"
800689a0 "START NEW TOURNAMENT"
800689b8 "TEAM INFORMATION"
800689cc "OPTIONS"

then i did my normal thing memory snapshot diff trick To find out which memory addresses hold controller inputs. he took me to the ceremony 80076398Which reads the button press from controller 2. It compares your button presses in sequence 8009add4It uses the standard PlayStation mapping for the buttons:

8009add4 0001 0000  # Select
8009add8 0008 0000  # Start
8009addc 1000 0000  # Triangle
8009ade0 0010 0000  # Up

8009ade4 4000 0000  # X
8009ade8 8000 0000  # Square
8009adec 0010 0000  # Up
8009adf0 4000 0000  # X

8009adf4 0080 0000  # Left
8009adf8 0010 0000  # Up
8009adfc 4000 0000  # X

If you match it, on the counter 800d2000 Increases. If that counter reaches 11, the new menu item becomes active.

Hmm, but what about this? Secret string just below puzzle , One? The same function checks the pressing of controller 2’s button against another sequence:

Select, Start, Square, Circle, 
Triangle, Triangle, Circle, Right, 
Left, X

If you enter that, a separate new item pops up:

it Secret The menu has:

I’m not sure what Sick , Aan It happens, but big head mode Definitely does what you expect:

as does roll creditThe Scott with the marriage proposal above appears to be lead programmer Scott Corley:

I hope it works out for Scott and Melissa!

I said above that there is a marriage proposal in “at least one” video game. I should have said “at least two”, because that’s exactly what another game from the same development studio has NCAA Basketball Final Four 97,

world league basketball Uses the same button code as above. Enter them to make the same puzzle , And Secret Options appear.

The marriage proposal screen has the same options and text as the secret menu screen. This is how Big Head Mode works:

Credits are different. Scott Corley is not listed on the staff roll, but is listed on the rear team NCAA Final Four ’97 Special thanks go to:

I sent Scott Corley a note about these Easter eggs. He said he recently pulled out of the game to show his son his marriage proposal. But he forgot the code and couldn’t work! He and Melissa were truly happy forever.

I found some more video game marriage proposals: mortal kombat 1, marvel’s spider man, clacksAre there other people besides me whom I am missing?

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