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Crash the game

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The initial release of Jordan vs Bird (and the Japanese version) does not handle D-pad inputs properly. If the user is able to press more than two directions at once during play, the game will crash, throwing up an "ADDRESS ERROR" message (or a black screen, depending on the combination).

Typically this shouldn't happen, as the D-pad is meant to tilt; in theory it should be impossible to press Left+Right or Up+Down at the same time, but in practise, both electrical pads can make contact between frames (and indeed not all controllers are designed to stop this from happening). It is also a behaviour missing from many emulators.

Publishers EA became aware of this problem and set up a special support phone line[1], before issuing a new revision of the game that fixed the bug. Their advice was to "be more of a Jordan-style finesse player and less of a Barkley-style power player"[1].

Fixed in REV 01.

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