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  The Real NHL '94
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By: Xstioph


This rom is based on the actual 1993-94 season, while NHL '94 is roughly based on the rosters from the 92-93 season, with a pretty much fictional Florida Panters and a very inaccurate San Jose Sharks.


There are three main reasons that I made this rom hack:

1. There are plenty of players that never even played in the teams they are in , in NHL '94 (especially on the expansion teams).

2. Anaheim and Florida lack extra players, there should be at least one extra on each position, in case someone gets injured.

3. And also, especially Florida was way too poor in the game compared to how they performed that season. And San Jose should have had Igor Larionov and Ulf Dahln for example. New Jersey lack rookie Martin Brodeaur and instead of beeing 3rd goaile, Hasek actually won the Vezina Trophy that year.




Team jerseys have been overhauled, even for the All-Star teams.

All teams has at least one extra player on both offense and defense! I.e. Florida was stuck with 6 defenders and 9 forwards, which equals 5 per line, no extra players, there are now 7 defenders and 10 forwards. And they all teams has two goalies in this rom.

Scott Mellanby doesn't have the lowest rating possible on speed anymore (about time he could get out of the face off circle before the end of the period).

Team overall is based on the best line / SC1+SC2+CHK's average.

The All Star teams are fictional, didn't find any roster info for the 94 teams, so they are simply put together from the BEST players in the rom, and they are even, down to a decimal. That wasn't even intentional.

Player stats are mainly based of NHL '95 although some alterations have been made. I've roughly polished the stats depending on how well players did that season scoring wise. Calculated from goals/assist per game (although a minimum of 20 games were required to aquire these stats). Also, in 95 most players had very high "stick handling", which I also transfered over, thus enhancing passing (puck recieving) a lot!

This will also hopefully help to encurrage to use line changes. Sure, the 2nd and 3rd line are slower, but that's about the worst thing about them, they aren't terrible anymore, they can atleast recieve passes.

Although it may not seem as much, this is without a doubt the hack I've put most time into.



Thanks to wboy and mack for all the help

Visit http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?showtopic=4213 for more of my NHL '94 hacks.