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NHL Pond Hockey v1.0.bin v1.0 posted 12/7/20 Features Outdoor hockey! Most things have been snow-ified (is that a word?), and the rink itself has an outdoor design to it. The gameplay is 4 on 4, just to give it more of a spacious, pond hockey feel. There are no locked positions, so feel free to load your line-up with defensemen or forwards. Every NHL team has 12 skaters, 1 goalie, and retro style graphics. Players were picked on mostly skill basis, but some fan favorites snuck in. Sudden Death is back again. 32nd team is the "Durham Bombers". It's just myself, family, and friends, along with a few Actua Ice Hockey 2 style knockoffs of active NHLers. They're almost entirely a sub-50 overall team, so they exist to provide a bit more of a challenge in solo play. This was originally a companion ROM to another I was planning on doing where you play with them through various tournaments and upgrade the line-up over time, I just don't have the time or energy to really do that justice right now. Probably in a few weeks. Thank you to... @TheTome's Ball Hockey ROM served as the inspiration and a working reference for this, I don't know if he's around anymore, but it was helpful nonetheless! @slapshot67 and @smozoma answered a lot of my dumb questions along the way. @Sauce's 32-team ROM was again my working base for ratings here. A few changes for arcadey-ness, team balancing, and players I thought deserved (or didn't deserve) a bump. Known Bugs Player cards will not open on account of Winnipeg Freeze Bug fix that was used to set up the game. The kid who bangs on the glass is still in the game. I cannot find his sprite for the life of me. One of the referee pop-ups looks like the abominable snowman. Don't play with penalties on. I just didn't set up PP and PK lines, since I really don't like them that much (and who the hell calls penalties in pond hockey?). Plans Moving Forward Fix any issues that people point out to me moving forward. Try to create a solo campaign ROM by January. Make a roller hockey version of both ROMs when spring/summer comes around (perhaps 3 on 3 just to differentiate). Yearly updates could be fun (especially once Seattle comes around).

May I be the first to thank dantml and King of 94 for their recent "Classic League," uploads, on YouTube! As someone who doesn't really do Twitch, and I find discord too busy and confusing, it's fantastic to be able to watch the classic league matches, on a comfortable platform. With the exception of Smash64 and GoldenEye Speedrunning, '94 is the only gameplay I watch. Largely due to reasons of boredom, (also, non interest), so, it's great for a non-competitive player, like myself, to be able to still keep up with the league games. Thank You, dantml and King of 94. (Both of whom are ahead of Jay, who hasn't uploaded s**t in months - jus' sayin' -, and don't get me started on Smo... Who I had to resubscribe to, a second ago, just to make this potshot more moral.) Cheers, from the UK, to organizers, uploaders and all of the players of this fantastic game... If you're ever in town, I'll lend you £10 and you can buy me a drink.

Here's a quick gameplay video for those who are just browsing and don't want to play.

Time for a quick update, as these are the things remaining. The rom should be ready by Thursday this week. Team Logos (Menu Select): 11 of 34 Player Cards: 14 of 34 Schedule: Modified to be a reduced calendar and games (Potentially 48-56 games)

This is some pretty great stuff, especially from a game preservation standpoint! Thanks for sharing!

I don't think threaded video works with netplay.