i know that you need a program called tilemolester to do this. i have tried but i have no idea how to locate the logo and team name that i want to replace. if i understand this correctly i somehow need to locate those pictures inside all that mess of blurry pictures right and then replace them?

i googled this but i cant find a good simple guide how to do this. google tells me its and advanced hacking process but im open to learn if someone is willing to teach me in a pedagogical way

If someone is connected, reply anyone. Thanks.

the all-star teams and national teams are replaced with the missing nhl-teams from that year.

when loading the rom in NOSE there are 33 teams, including seattle, utah and also quebec but they are not visable when playing the game.

so is it not possible to have those teams playable?

i only know how to edit the rosters and team uniforms but to add teams seems advanced. i downloaded and installed HxD but i have no idea how to make this happen.

would really appreciate some help and maybe we can make this happen together? if someone is good with fixing logos, game backgrounds and all that stuff i can handle the rosters for this game 😁

*when goalies get penalties, I would like them to not serve their own penalties. To either be served by a skater, or at least have them replaced by a backup goalie while they are in the box if replacing them with a skater isn't really an option.

*I've got 'line brawls' working (IE, when a fight is happening, it's possible for more fights to break out.) However, once the initial fight is over the screen cuts to all players skating to the box. I'd like to either allow ALL fights to finish before they skate to the box, or if that's too difficult, at least EXTEND the timer so that once the first fight is over, a few more seconds pass before they all go to the box.

*Also during fights, all players tend to crowd around the fight, even goalies, we've all seen this. I would like the goalies to seek out the other goalie as they tend to do during brawls. This way they will sort of pair off, and it's possible they'll end up in a fight if they bump into each other.

*Do we know where player animations are for big hits? Specifically when they get hit into the bench or penalty box, into the boards, or flattened with a check that injures them. I'd like for those hits to have a higher chance of fights happening just after, but I need to find where they are in the code to make that happen.

Thanks for any help!

And also, i've found the information to how to run the NOSE Editor with Windows XP MiniOS with Gemini, but i'm use a virtual machine (Virtual PC 2007), and recently i've make my own Editing & Hacking Workstation to the Tools and other files to Gemini.

I've installed the Virtual Machine Additions, Visual Basic 6 Runtime Plus and DirectX (June 2010) to my new Workstation, and also i choice the GENS Emulator for Testing.

If you have a tool, software, information or file to found, say something. Greetings.

Planned:
- viewer for title screens graphics
- viewer for main menu graphic
- viewer for background tile & Ron Barr
- viewer for scoreboard/ other misc graphics
- support for player sprite hacks (SWOS, JKline, AC, Drezz etc)
- editing the menu options
- the ability to add an entire team(s)
- a visual facelift and making it PURTY

and the big one, hopefully - basic editing for graphics so we don't have to go running to tile molester every single time you want to fix a pixel.

SO - I'm looking for some beta testers to give this thing a whirl. Put it through it's paces, break it, bend it, kick it, do whatever. I've never managed something like this before so it would be great to get everyone's input and try and make this thing better and better.

I will say this - please do not save OVER your rom. I can't guarantee that there won't be bugs and problems messing with these functions.

Shoot me a msg if you're interested.

so I have 2 questions…would it be feasible to create the sprites/animations for a goalie fight, where he’s still got his pads on but his stick and mask hit the ice?

And second, I can see in Nose that there are several blank attributes for goalies. Could these be used as aggression and h/f (handedness/fighting) so we could make goalies like Burke, Hextall, and Billy Smith more likely to fight than more goalies?,

As you can see while scrolling through the team list, the Eastern and Western Allstar teams were added - and after a month of messing with this, it's alive.

I used chaos' Fight patched version of NHL 94. Stock graphics, stock rosters etc. The only thing that was changed was the title screen and the fly in logos as well as the expanded ROM to 3MB.

Now - this is still VERY much a WIP. I haven't gone through the playoffs or had any save data used yet. I also haven't looked to deeply into Freeze bugs etc. I just did a few basic things that AdamCatalyst had pointed out a while back. As you can see, I just did some quick and dirty graphics to make this like a conversion to NHL26, but I haven't done proper rosters, photos, arena tweaks etc. This is just barebones stuff cobbled from a number of ROMS in order to fill space for testing. There's stuff from the Fight ROM, wboy's OG 30-team NHL 94, vonOz and JKline's 32 team NHL 26 mod inside it.

Once I get it to a playable state, I'll throw it up here for funzies, along with my documented notes, that will give you an idea how to go about the long laborious process of adding teams.

One interesting thing - I had to go back to the OLD school method of tiling the images and reusing tiles, using a tilemap etc in order to conserve space. 32 teams seemed to be the maximum for the reconstructed decompressed banners, but going back to the reused banner formats, you can add a few more teams that way. I am currently going to look into how far you can go with it - I have two versions of banners with reduced width fonts.

Anyway - this is coming along and it's working so far - just need to put it through it's paces.

FYI, unrelated, for those interested in AI, I came across some work using NHL 94 for training algorithms: https://github.com/MatPoliquin/nhl94-ai

Its cool stuff, but I'd rather not need a bank of Nvidia RTX cards to play NHL 94

Thanks!

I was starting to work on a project, my first NHL 94 hack. I was wondering if this sounds like a reasonable workflow plan to get the basic guts/structure of the project up and running:

1. Take the INDIO Classic30 v2 30 team ROM (this is a 21 team project)
2. Use smozROM Hack Applicator to apply weight bug fix, 0-15 ratings, Base weight modification (Is it okay to just apply those, and then potentially return to the tool to apply any others I might want?)
3. Use NOSE to change team names, player ratings, lines for the 21 teams I am going to use. (I can come back to NOSE repeatedly to continue to make tweaks, correct?)
4. Use EARE to change team ratings, number of selectable teams to 21
5. Use Image Updater to change team colors, logos, banners. 

Thank you for all the help!

This is mostly to capture my thinking, as I do hope to come back to this another day, but I cannot spend any more time listening to my computer play version of "Go fight win!"... And in case anyone else has started the work or has an interest, here's some information for you!

Objective:
Determine where/what the note pitches are in the NHL '94 code

Background: To be able to edit or add new music, somehow those bytes need to be translated out of code into music- then new pieces can be translated from music into code.
I'll start with "Go, Fight, Win!" (The song at offset 00184052 in DEC) Why?  It's first, and it's a simple song in '94 with only a couple of chords. 
Some background (trying not to get too music geek here)- Go Fight win is quarter notes for the first 3 notes, and the first measure's tones are 1-3-4-4#-5 on a scale.  In half steps from the root, they are 0-4-5-6-7 (So the last three notes are chromatic).  It's tempo in NHL '94 is around 90 BPM.
Process: So I'll copy the code from this song in small parts to the start of song 02 (Start of game when Boston is the home team, so it's easy to access in the game) to see if I can ID the first measure's code.  The first 64 bytes are close (the last note of the measure is cut short, but it's enough to work with)
Two patterns stick out to me in those bytes- 27-2B-2C-2D and 33-37-38-39.  27-2B might be too far of a jump, but it might be that what I'm hearing as a single note might be two notes together.  

For notes- I'm looking at decimal 184996 onward. So these are the chunks I'm looking at:  (underlined the sets of 90 for clarity)

90 27 23 00 
90 33 23 14 
80 27 37 03 
80 33 41 0E 
90 37 23 00 
90 2B 23 14 
80 2B 48 03 
80 37 47 10 
90 38 23 00 
90 2C 23 13 
80 2C 16 01 
80 38 2E 06 
90 39 23 00 
90 2D 23 1A 
80 2D 50 02
80 39 50 01

From my experiments I believe:

80/90 have to do with the instrument. Changing all the 90's to 80 met me with silence.  I think you can think of 90 as an on switch and 80 as an off swtich.   But I can't see why you'd have values after a 'off' instrument (3703, 410E for example) so I'm not sure here.  I didn't experiment with changing the 90's to different values, as my goal today was simply the pitch.

I'm certain the second set of bytes are pitches.  If you change the on and off pitches together, you can move around the pitch of the notes.  (SUCCESS!)

I can't figure out the third set, and any attempts to change them ended inconclusively.  It might be a note style?

I thought the 4th set was note length, but I'm struggling with the 00 values.  Changing the 14's up and down made the notes longer and shorter.  Maybe it loads all the notes then plays them for that length?  Again, I can't figure out the off notes bytes there.

Conclusion: I believe I found the pitches, which was my goal for today.  When I get a better grasp on note length, I can probably make the note long enough to calibrate the pitches with a tuner, which means note length will be the next project.

A bit of a specific one this - I'm a sound engineer, and I'm currently working on a PAL preservation project to rip music from Mega Drive Model 1 PAL hardware using an external sound recorder connected to my Mega Drive 3.5mm audio jack. I plan to use industrial mastering tools to make the game audio sound much more listenable.

The results on games that have a sound test have been astonishing for me, but it's games like this, where there isn't a sound test, that are a little trickier. I've been able to record the main theme, and the theme from the playoff brackets with no problem whatsoever - both themes naturally play long enough to get to the end/loop points.

It's the music that plays at the end of a period/game that's frustrating me. No matter what I do, even if there are no "game highlights" from other matches to ruin the flow, the theme only plays for around a minute or so before the screen goes off on it's own.

Is there a way, perhaps through hacking, that can force the game to stay on that screen for longer so that the music can play to its loop point (which is around 2:10 from a very low quality version I've heard)? Or is there a way to change the main title screen theme to that one instead?

Thanks

The A-button hold-down timing has a very small window for which you have to hold down the A button in order to do a Clear Puck without it bringing up the Edit Lines Menu. It is a narrow 8frames-15frames window to do a (Long) A button Clearance without it bringing up the Edit Lines menu.

As I'm sure many of you have, I've gotten "OK" with this timing, I've learned how to do it but it's not natural. It's way too small of a window of needing to have that button held down, especially with aiming involved. Lets face it Buds, however skilled you might be at it, there's a lot going on with the A button and a solution is needed. I don't think anyone would deny how difficult it is to consistently aim clear pucks and get them off without the Edit Lines screen coming up. I'd imagine many NHL 94 players probably don't even bother with the timing since it's too tough they just let the Edit Lines screen come up every time and press the line it's on cause you aren't ready to do a line change. This happens over and over again and it's just become a quirk of NHL 94.

For me, the Edit Lines screen shouldn't be coming up unless you want to change Lines, which often is not when the need to do an angled A button (Long) clearance arises. Doing an A button Flip pass is just a quick tap of A, that's not an issue like the longer version. When I hold down A too long by mistake, and it brings up the Edit Lines screen it takes me out of my NHL 94 rhythm. Not only seeing the Menu but also is releasing when it reaches that 16th frame instead of when I command it to. I'm often forced to think about Lines when I'm trying to focus on chasing the puck. Edit Lines should not be tied to the Clear puck like this in such a manner, we really need more freedom to aim our Clear pucks "freely" with precise timing.

How skilled are you at aiming Long A button clearances and getting them off within the narrow 8frames-15frames window before the Edit Lines screen comes up? In that quarter second, are you able to do that easily / consistently, or do you mess up sometimes trying, have you become frustrated with it and do you some times "give up" on trying to hit that window because it's too hard and you just end up holding A until the Edit Screen comes up, which you didn't ask for but you got anyway, and now you need to pick the line that's already on the ice because you're ready ready to do a line change, and in that time you stop playing, but you just really needed to clear it. We all go through this over and over again. There's an everlasting struggle of trying to Clear the Puck, with a Long A button hold, and to aim it properly within this super narrow window and to do it before the Edit Lines screen comes up. You must hold down A, then with it briefly held down, quick aim your d-pad and have that d-pad position held, then release A before it automatically releases the puck and brings up the Edit Lines screen.

I have been exploring the possibility of having a button dedicated to clear pucks (which can be combined with D-pad input) to distinguish it from a standard A button tap flip pass. The short A button tapped flip passes are easier to pull off on the A button than clearances without bringing up the Edit Lines menu. It would be helpful to do not have to wait, even for between a eighth of a second to quarter second to actually do the Clear Puck. Your player might be gliding so waiting a moment longer would affect the placement. We've really never experienced natural aiming of clearing pucks in NHL 94 because of how multiple functions were tied to the A button. A button clearances are not as popular for this reason, we're so rushed and distracted by the timing of the A button involved and its relation to the Edit Lines menu. So better A-button timing is needed, but short of being able to edit the A button timings, what I propose is a dedicated Clear puck button separate from the A button which would allow free aiming and instant engagement. Think about the kind of moves you could pull off if you didn't have to wait that eighth to a quarter second before launching it? It would be a huge improvement to the control scheme and would help us discover a new way of aiming and making puck clearances. It would also be interesting to see if we could design a mid-range length, halfway between flip pass and a clearance.

If a dedicated Puck Clearance separate button appeals to you. If you struggle with pulling off A button clearances and aiming it properly all without bringing up the Edit Lines, and have been dreaming about a better A button, you are in the right place. I would like to develop a solution that results in greater response and freedom when doing Long Puck Clearances.

That's McDavid's player card for the Oilers. Maybe I am misremembering, but I could have sworn a few years back I saw a thread on this forum where this issue was resolved and fixed? Yet I am still seeing it now on all the rom hacks. As someone with OCD this drives me crazy. I really hate this glitch. From what I've read it has something to do with when the player cards loads, it takes a second to "find" the location and then this ugly image appears briefly. Is there any way to correct this issue? Or perhaps someone has some leads that I can look into?

EDIT: So it looks like the player card palette is shared briefly with whatever the opposing team's logo colors are. Here's another screenshot of Oilers vs. Canadiens (McDavid):

One solution could possibly be to change some of the colors on the team logo palette's, but then you'd only have 8 colors to work with the logo instead of 16. Hmm...any ideas?

Luckily, all the conditionals for fighting have been left in the 94 code, and just the sub routines have been removed.

I have added all the logic code. It works! (check the video below)

The sprites have not been added yet, and this will be a work in progress. Right now, it's just a stick fight.

Also, the fighting banner has not been added, but will be in the future.

Currently, I am trying to figure out how to port the 93 fighting sprites over into 94.

You can follow my updates on Discord, and I will also post here.

 

I've come across a few; "close but no cigars". Namely a font called "Joystix", and a commodore 64 one that had some similar characters, but neither are really the genuine thing.

So I decided to rip the characters from the game and make my own. Now, some characters are absent beacuse I could only use the ones that were in the game, still I managed to get the "necessities" if you will. All the #'s, uppercase and owercase are present. Most of the other ones too.

Here's some styles.

The the diff color EA backgrounds are in the zip as well at 1024 by 768

94_font.zip

1. For folks that use Gens. Do you know of any any settings that I might be missing, that improves it's accuracy?
    
2. For folks that recommend Gens, have you compared it against Exodus? Would you still recommend Gens?
    
3. For folks that recommend Gens, which build? In the past I've seen @smozoma suggest Gens_ReRecording_r352.zip, @kingraph suggest Gens r57shell Mod, and off-site I've been encouraged to try Gens Kmod. I've found the latter the most helpful, followed by r57shell mod, but have had accuracy problems with both.
    
4. For folks who DON’T recommend Gens, what emulator do you recommend for debugging & hacking?
    
5. For everyone: do you know of a Mac native build of Exodus?
    
6. For everyone: do you know of a build of Genesis Plus GX with debugging / hacking tools?

Any and all advice appreciated!

cheers,

-a

Here goes:

IDEA 1: Multi-track music files

So most of you know I managed to stick in a new title theme into HNIC 90-91, complete with 4 instruments. I'm wondering if there's a way where we can isolate and reinsert each individual instrument so that they play their own part of the main track. Right now, I just made a faux harmony thing, where a specific instrument plays a certain pitch range. That's far from perfect though. Using smoz' python script, I had to fake the theme by breaking it. And it was a slow agonizing process. One that I wouldn't inflict on my worst enemy - so I'm loath to explain how I did it to all my good buds here. It's a torture I don't want to inflict on people I like.

If smoz script could be adapted to read more than one instrument off of a midi file, that would be absolutely grand.

IDEA 2: Visors

We've done a variety of little hacks here and there. Adding tape, players on the bench, coaches, adjusting stripes on player jerseys, referees and timekeepers, goalie equipment and so on. Here's my random thought... has anyone considered a visor on the player helmet instead of those dead little eyes they have?

IDEA 3: Fighting

Okay, before you start throwing tomatoes, hear me out. We always get someone waltzing in here asking if we can put fighting back into NHL 94 - we all know logistically it's not plausible. But have we considered looking at it a bit differently... what if there was a way to figure out how to implement a one-timer in NHLPA93? All of the animations are there for a slap shot and bullet pass... it's now trying to figure out how to trigger it. Just a thought, of course... but I couldn't just let that one evaporate into the ether without asking at least.

*SIDE NOTE*

I am still alive and kicking. Just doing some updates to HNIC 90-91 (Colour portraits? Coach's corner theme?) before I unleash the final version of the opening day rosters and the long awaited playoff roster version... before moving on to HNIC 91-92. 

It's good to be back.

i opened 94 in NOSE

first team i see, stu grimson is on 2 teams, dennis vial never played for ANA, todd ewen is missing...

https://www.nhl.com/ducks/team/inaugural-team

i understand these games were made before the season started, but dont you think we should do the game proper and correct the teams to the opening night / permanent rosters?

dear EA,

who ever did the rosters for this game should have been fired, they know nothing about hockey and i hate them...

love

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and dont even get me started on the toughguys fighting ratings, those are totally fucked!

McSorely lead the league with 399 PIMS (the previous year) hes got a 57 fighting, Grant Ledyard has a 85, he had 45 PIMS...

that right there, says it all...

* mic drop *

Genesis 30-team base ROM - (Mar 20, 2023) - INDIO

Game Options and Team/Player Attributes:

playoff matchups- (May 21 2005) - wboy
Number of forwards and defense on a team - (May 29 2005) - wboy
Team Order in startup menu - (May 30 2005) - McRae, wboy
main menu default values (teams, period length, etc) - (May 31 2005) - wboy
Team Overall Ratings - (Apr 20 2006) - wboy, smozoma (more by Evan)
Team Home/Away/PP/PK (dis)advantages - (May 28 2006) - soccer1, wboy
- a bit more about team attributes - home/away/PP/PK (dis)advantages - (May 5 2007) - wboy
- and even more about home/away/pp/pk - (Oct 7, 2008) - metzgerism
show 30 (or fewer) teams in game select screen - (Jan 14 2007) - wboy
How to Edit the Player Overall Rating Formula - (April 16, 2009) - smozoma
How to Change Team Selection Order - (March 1, 2012) - smozoma
How to allow all players for every position (F play D, D play F..) - (Jan 25 2013) - TheTome

Game Behaviour and Bug Fixes:

Interesting AI behaviour hacks (really need more exploring!) - (Jul 13 2005) - McRae
Reading controller inputs - (Feb 21 2007) - Scribe99 - trying to make "A" button on defense select goalie
player energy (line changes fatigue/recovery rates) - (May 19 2007) - wboy
speed boost (C button) - (May 19 2007) - wboy
stopping and turning rates - (May 19 2007) - wboy
fewer players on the ice (1on1 roms etc) - (Oct 22, 2007) - clockwise
Weight Bug Fix - (Jul 19 2008) - smozoma
Missing Second Assist Bug Fix - (Sept 19 2008) - smozoma
Disable or lengthen the Goalie play stoppage whistle - (Feb 6 2010) - clockwise, smozoma
Let the goalie roam farther with and without the puck - (Feb 7 2010) - smozoma
Prevent game from crashing when Editing Lines in 2-on-2 ROMs - (Mar 19 2010) - smozoma
Make the edit lines ratings match the actual on-ice ratings - (July 19 2010) - smozoma
Fix the C-B check bug that made it possible to check anyone - (July 6 2014) - smozoma
Real-Time Clock - (Jan 11, 2017) - Brodeur30

Graphics:

Edit Player Sprites - Nov 1 2005 - wboy
Player Card Tutorial - (Nov 25 2005) - wboy - (direct ZIP file download)
Tile Molester graphics offset bookmarks - (Nov 25 2005) - wboy
Add another centre ice logo - (Mar 11 2006) - wboy
Make Gretzky's head bleed - (Aug 8 2006) - BurnXTC
Tile Molester graphics offsets reference - (Jan 21 2007) - wboy
Edit the Scoreboard (switch home/away) - (Jan 27 2007) - wboy
Edit Ron Barr text - (Apr 27 2007) - mack
Stick Tape Patch - (May 30 2007) - clockwise - also some info about no helmets!
NHL94 Rink Tile Layout reference - (Feb 9 2009) - wboy
Modern rink style (new faceoff dots, trapezoid behind net..) + stick tape patch - (Apr 30 2008) - clockwise
Altering The Net Tiles And Palette (proper red goal posts + team coloured puck dots) - (Mar 29 2010) - clockwise
Add Sponsor Logo to Scoreboard & 3 Stars (Pro Set from NHLPA'93) - (Dec 30 2016) - kingraph

Audio and Music:
Change and View NHL '94 Sound Effects and Music - (Jan 7 2010) - swos


Game Genie codes:
By TonyH
http://forum.nhl94.c...?showtopic=3428
http://www.angelfire...games2/codehut/

Learn How to Hack:

TonyH's NHL94 ROM Hacking School - (May 29 2007) - TonyH
Another "Hacking School" thread, but by smozoma

General Hacking Info:
Kaneda's site - very knowledgeable Genesis hacker (also creator of the goalie button hack)
SpritesMind forums - Kaneda's forum..
"Awesome Megadrive" - References, Tools, etc lists
IDA Pro tutorials (not Genesis-specific)

Assembly Code Manuals
Google "68000 manual" results (www.freescale.com result is the official manual)
Google "68000 tutorial" results

This screenshot of the NHL 94 font on Fontforge says that characters like the quotation mark and comma are present.

However, Photoshop tells a different story, as Photoshop thinks the glyph is missing completely.

Does anyone know what might have happened here? The comma should be between the plus and minus signs, and the apostrophe should be between the ampersand (replaced with an arrow) and the curvy bracket.

Not sure how many of you have seen this, but it pretty much lays the groundwork for communities like ours to figure out how to get games running in as wide of an aspect ratio as we so choose.

There's been some pretty great results so far in other games, and I have no doubt that we could all get things running smoothly if we wanted to over here.

I tested the feature myself, and it looks pretty good when it is working correctly, but the main problem is that it's not exactly reliable.

Here's what the rink looks like. It's pretty beautiful if I do say so myself.

Shows up normally, and in 16:9

- EA Sports and High Score Productions Splash Screen

Shows up , but has issues

- Rink (fan assets on top of ice)

- Pause Menu (similar to rink)

- Title Screen (off-center, missing pieces)

Doesn't show up, may cause other issues

- Main Menu

- Ron Barr

- Edit Lines and other in-game menus (causes some on-screen shifting after the fact as well)

- Playoff Bracket

Glitch list updated 7/2/21