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Alright I said I would start posting these before this year was out and since there is just over 24 hours left, I should probably just do it. Introducing the IIHF Hockey series. The idea was to make each of the NHL(PA) games for Genesis into its contemporary IIHF version. Complete with period correct art style, team assets and players. Ultimately the goal was to make it look like something EA might have released back in the day. Rosters, for the most part, have been taken from each year's World Championships. Some provisions were made in cases where say, some teams only had one goalie, so I borrowed a backup from that year's Olympic roster, or had to improvise some data because apparently no one found it important enough to record what sweater numbers the Estonian National team wore 26 years ago... what the hell eh? I start with IIHF 94. [Full disclosure, this is actually the third version of this game I'd made as the first was a foolish attempt to mod an original NHL94 ROM. Soon after I discovered that 30-team ROMS was a thing and made a second while I was just learning the craft and used an old Blitz league ROM to train on. I found a couple of critical errors, mainly how player cards were set up and some colour palette issues that were in the base ROM. Rather than keep polishing the dorodango, I opted to start over using my improved skills on a clean wboy 30-team ROM. I am much happier with the results] Some features: This game includes the top 30 international teams based on their finishing position after the 1994 World Championships. The Ice surface has been reverted back to its original 1994 goodness. Player ratings were a bit of a contentious issue, I opted to use as many player stats as was available in the original game and basically based everyone else off that. Player cards are almost complete [Who knew that finding 26 year old photos of South Korean hockey players would be almost impossible?] but at least even the "default player" pics are all unique. Many starting line ups were based on who actually had a photo available. No mind was paid to whether teams were in the "A", "B" or "C" pool as far a play offs go. I toyed with the idea of patches like weight bug and helmet sprite, but decided to stick to the default, again for the period correct feel. Might revisit that later. Anyway, here are some previews. Addendum for the series: I'm going to post the "Final Cut" updates here for the entire series as they are reworked. Again, thanks to @EagleXIII for all his help in resolving those nagging anachronisms. IIHF Hockey (91) F4.bin IIHF Hockey 92 F4.bin International Hockey 93 F.bin IIHF 93 F.bin IIHF 94 F.bin IIHF 94 CE F2.bin IIHF 95 F.bin IIHF 95 WCE F.bin IIHF 96 F.bin IIHF 97 F.bin IIHF 98 F.bin IIHF 99.bin OR IIHF 99 - [Widescreen Edition 1.2].bin IIHF 2000 [10AE].bin -

Hello NHL95 Enthusiasts!!! I'm delighted to announce NHL21 (95) has arrived with a bunch of new features and a little early. New Intros splashes. Updated Ice Updated Banners Some Easter Eggs (Can you find the some of these) New Screens to the game Updated Player Cards. Some top prospects with their new teams (Lafrienere, Byfield, etc.) Seattle Kraken consist of the top remaining Free Agents and some of the TAXI players as of January 9th, 4PM EST. Futures are the top prospects for the 2021 Draft and the Legends return as the Hall of Famers. Rosters as of January 9th via Capfriendly.com and puckpedia.com Line Combos as of January 9th via Dailyfaceoff.com and puckpedia.com Hope you enjoy and look forward to your feedback. UltraMagnus NHL '21 (95) 2.2.bin

Try this file instead. Delete what you have in your ini folder and replace with these four files. It's possible that what I posted above is incorrect. If this works, then I delete the previous file in favor of this attachment. Let us know... NOSE Updated ini.zip

After downloading NOSE, you might also need to swap out the ini file (that comes with it)... the old ini file was formatted for 30 teams. I haven't downloaded NOSE in a while so I don't recall if the updated ini file was added to the download.

Glad you like it! I set up Seattle, that way, by design. Next year, when they have actual/real players, I will reconfigure them to have a full roster like the other teams. If you add player, no, it will not break the rom. It will, however, mess up the player cards for the Dmen. The hex pointers, for the Dmen, are numbered, for Seattle, differently then the other teams as there are less players. For most teams, I believe that I have the pointers, for the 2 Dmen cards, as 11 and 12 (if memory serves as I'm not on my home computer now). For Seattle, I think I had them as 7 and 8 (I can't recall at this moment). Anywho, adding more forwards means that one of them will take over the hex pointer location for the Dmen player cards. Now, with Seattle, I don't use player images like other team but rather, just a B&W version of the team logo. So, if you add players, it probably won't matter much as there is no headshot for the player name displaying. So, have at it. Again, this will change next year, after they do the expansion draft, in which case, I will (then) update the rom structure. As an FYI, an updated version of this rom will be posted in a week or so as the season begins. I saw that Corey Crawford is retiring today so I will have to remove him in addition to other updates. Cheers!

Things are going to get a bit interesting for a bit. After discovering slapshot67's 32-team ROM, I realized that I didn't want to scrap the 30-team ROM I had already mostly completed, but it presented an intriguing possibility. So... Presenting IIHF '93! Seeing the immediate popularity of the '93 edition of EA's burgeoning franchise, the IIHF realized that they would be best to maintain their relationship with the publisher. This decision was made early enough that EA could even release a 1.5 edition for that year if they were inclined to double dip. [never!] Some changes were even made to differentiate the two games making it appealing enough to purchase both versions. New game features include: With the list of teams increased to 32, all 32 ranked member nations at the time could be included in the game. So welcome 31st ranked Isreal and 32nd ranked South Africa. For the first time, the World Men's Ice Hockey Championships logo is displayed in game. Showing the logo for the '93 A Pool tournament in Munich, Germany. The center ice logo was standardized for all teams, opting to display the IIHF globe logo, so all games are played in the Olympiahalle in Munich. The IIHF did negotiate to have their branding increased, even adding their primary sponsor to the jumbotron ad. The IIHF was still not a fan of the fighting, but a compromise was made where a fighting penalty would result in a 10 minute misconduct. [since typical match penalties were too hard to manage] The players get to carry around the IIHF championship trophy when they win the playoffs. Lets get to the back of the box previews IIHF 93.bin

Ill be releasing manuals for all the games to help with some other people wanting to put their own spin on it. Plus, Ill included the editors, and images to help start them off. I know that it took me some time to do alot of these, but it would be easier from someone else with them.

That is already in the works. Just trying to find the details before diving in. The logos are the easiest

Already working on a madden 98. The college one is the next one I'm jumping into.

To me if you could update these it would be BEYOND incredible.

UK? Good to have you on board, mate. Manchester in the house over here. And yeah, £10 a drink sounds about right at the moment!