A JavaScript-based F-Zero: Maximum Velocity Rankings passwords decoder.
Note: these steps won't work for save files where no record in any track has been set.
- Open the desired save file.
- Select Rankings and select the desired cup (works with Championship too).
- Select the player's name (won't work with Mixed Rankings).
- Select the desired track.
- Press in sequence Up, Right, Right, B, Left, B, Right, A while holding L.
- If done correctly the track's subtitle will be replaced by a password.
- Write down the displayed password.
- Open https://waluigibsod.github.io/fzmv-password-decoder/.
- Enter the password (e.g.
-+045Q=R=HFLX6Q9HNRC). - Read the decoded info.
It's basically a fork of Version 1.5.2 of Dr. Mario 64 Password Decoder, another tool I wrote. Obviously the decoding algorithm is not the same.
Both this program and F-Zero: Maximum Velocity Password Generator were written using the original source code of the game that leaked in July 2020 as reference.
The original implementations of the password generation and decoding algorithms inside the source code of the game can be found at netcard.7z\iqgba.tar\iQue-GBA\cvsroot\FZERO_for_GBA\rasheen\src\main\ras_codec.c.
An additional file that was used as reference is netcard.7z\iqgba.tar\iQue-GBA\cvsroot\FZERO_for_GBA\rasheen\src\p1\ras_game_dat.c, for converting vehicle IDs to names.
The source code is released under the GNU General Public License v 3.0 (see LICENSE in the root of the repository for a copy of the license and for more information).
This program may contain copyrighted material, the use of which may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This material is available in an effort to research on the password system of the videogame "F-Zero: Maximum Velocity", to provide a tool to decode Rankings passwords generated by the game.
This should constitute a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material (referenced and provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law).
If you wish to use any copyrighted material from this program for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain expressed permission from the copyright owner.