Mia Hamm Soccer 64

Mia Hamm Soccer 64
Also known as: Michael Owen's WLS 2000 (EU), RTL WLS 2000 (DE), Telefoot Soccer 2000 (FR) Developers: Eclipse Entertainment, Neko Entertainment, Silicon Dreams Publishers: SouthPeak Games (US), THQ (EU) Platform: Nintendo 64 Released in US: November 9, 2000 Released in EU: September 24, 1999 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences.

To do: Document European prototype.

Mia Hamm Soccer 64 is an American sportsperson-sponsored soccer game localized from an English sportsperson-sponsored soccer game (which was also localized into two different European sports-channel-sponsored soccer games.)

Build Date

Present at 0x5F8D0 in the ROM is a build date and version number which are the same in all versions.

$Revision: 42 $
$Modtime: 21/04/98 10:05 $

Present at 0x1220 in the ROM is where another build date and version number used to be.

Version 0.nnn : Date nnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Development Text

Present at 0x2D9806 in the ROM is a directory where the sound samples were compiled from. It looks like someone on the dev team wasn't very fond of the Nintendo 64.

C:\WLS_SFX\Nin-shitfuck\front end\samples\99snd.aif

(Source: Shygoo)

Cut Off Credits

After beating the game, the credits are shown in a small screen at the bottom of the screen. However, the text was never scaled to fit the small box, which causes it to get cut off.

Regional Differences

To do: Document changes for the Mia Hamm localization (models, animations, etc.) or otherwise.

European Regional Differences

Europe	Germany	France

Originally released as Michael Owen's WLS 2000, the game received localizations sponsored by the German RTL and French Téléfoot sports channels from within Europe, and was later refashioned as Mia Hamm Soccer 64 in the United States. Only the European and German versions keep the WLS / World League Soccer branding.

Mia Hamm Soccer 64

Europe	USA

Published almost a year after the initial European version, Mia Hamm Soccer 64 converted the original WLS 2000 release into a women's soccer game, including new models and animations in the process.