John Madden Code Wheel

madden1 John Madden Football from Electronic Arts in 1989.

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The game used a codewheel for it copy protection. Electronics Art used many different copy protection forms in the 1980s for it’s Commodore 64 games from Error checking to FAT Tracks on 34/35, to Pirateslayer and then to Codewheels and manual look ups.

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After the boot screen and you select

Start Game you get this screen that

ask for your Madden Season Ticket

 

There was already a print out of the codewheel, BUT it’s pretty confusing look at this:  John Madden Football

SO I found a code wheel on Ebay and bought it to scan for my blog, here it is in PDF and PNG. Hope this helps someone. MaddenScan.PDF and MaddenScanPNG.zip

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8 thoughts on “John Madden Code Wheel

  1. It’s ALREADY online here. On the right side menu, click Code Wheels & Sheets you will find all of my code wheels that I am sharing here. Thank you

  2. My brother had a madden game for our computer and it had a code wheel. I can’t find any pictures of that wheel online. I remember it having pictures of stadiums on it, like a birds-eye-view schematic type drawing. It was one of the fields used to line up the wheel. Anyone have a picture of that wheel anywhere?

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