Today is the day I have been waiting for since last Summer. The All-Time Greatest Players ROM is finally being released!
Some notes about the ROM:
28-team ROM replacing Campbell and Wales All-Star teams with Original Six and Expansion All-Time All-Star teams. I used the 70s Orange/White/Black All-Star jerseys for the Original Six and the 95-96(Purple/Black and Teal/white) All-Star jerseys for the Expansion jerseys.
Used different team/same franchise jerseys including DAL/MIN, QUE/COL, HFD/CAR, WPG/PHX
Home jerseys are light jerseys, regardless if it was ever their home or away jersey
Included some fan favorites over others(i.e. Terry O'Reilly, Bob Probert, Wendel Clark) but did my best with including HOFs. It was really tough for the Original Six teams for sure. Some players were great but didn't make the cut due to others with more Cups, All-Star votes, stats leaders, and/or HOF.
Some players appear on multiple teams but the attributes are different depending on the team(i.e. Gretzky better on EDM than LA).
Players in general would need to have played at least 3+ seasons with the team to be included.
Most players have Endurance of 3. If anyone uses this ROM for line changes let me know. I'll need to edit the Endurance for everyone and that will change their Overall score. I didn't want everyone to have inflated Overall due to Endurance.
I tried to keep some famous lines together which will reflect if line changes are on. Otherwise I just made the best available line based on overall.
Players have abbreviated first name with their full last name(i.e W Gretzky).
I have not updated player cards yet but might do so in the future.
I hope to 'port' this to Gens once I get a handle on NOSE.
Thank You's:
@clockwise - General roster input/PHI roster input/Jersey idea
@CoachMac - Attributes template
@Bob Kudelski - General roster input/OTT roster input
@Sauce - Roster input
@kingraph - Roster input/Overall calculation
@halifax - Roster input/SNES Godfather
@seamor - TB Roster input/ROM input
@smozoma - Roster input/Attributes/ROM Genius
@Jkline3 - Jersey links
@chaos - ROM questions/Roster Tool/Website Genius
@statto - ROM Editor
@Xstioph - ROM Editor/SNES ROM badass
@dangler-HUGE thanks for hex editor navigation/fixing the abbreviations on ANA/FLA by altering the hex code
If I left anyone out please let me know! You guys were all a great help whether it was actively helping me or from forum documentation.
Links used:
CoachMac's Rating Template
My All-Time Greatest Team Forum
KingRaph's Overall Attributes Calculation
Smozoma's Attribute Descriptions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL_All-Star_team#Teams
https://www.hockey-reference.com
https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/837952-nhl-lines-ranking-the-top-15-most-famous-lines-in-nhl-history
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/662187-nhl-ranking-the-top-50-line-combinations-of-the-modern-era
https://thehockeywriters.com/
http://www.sportsforecaster.com
https://www.hhof.com/LegendsOfHockey
https://www.trucolor.net/portfolio/national-hockey-league-franchise-colors-1917-1918-through-present/
http://nhluniforms.com/
Update 3/22/21:
Version 4.0 is attached here with the following adjustments:
@dangler fixed player abbreviations on FLA and ANA to match every other team. Now all teams have first initial, full last name.
Update 1/31/22:
Version 4.2(4.1 had 2 injury player replacement issues that were fixed)
3 names were corrected due to typos
45 players handedness was corrected - The main ones were M. Richard, Cook brothers, Carlyle, and Stamkos. All others were mainly bench players.
Updated 10/5/22:
Version 4.3 is attached here with the following updates:
Team/Player updates:
NYR-Flipped Bill and Bun Cook as they were incorrect in previous versions
QUE/COL-Removed Erik Johnson and replaced him with Cale Makar
TOR-Removed Bob Pulford and replace him with Auston Matthews
EXP(Expansion All-Star team)-Removed Peter Forsberg and replaced him with Brett Hull
Updated through 21-22 season(McDavid, Marchand, Barkov, Huberdeau, Kucherov, Hedman, Vasilesvky, Makar, Bergeron, Matthews all increased)
Fixed weight for the majority of players thanks to @dangler for noticing this
Slightly updated Team Ranking Sheet attached and shown below.
Trimmed down ANH and FLA to 18 players so I didn't have to abbreviate any names. This allows me to continue to use statto's ROM editor for future updates.
Player portraits updated(only if one existed for them in 94). Otherwise, they'll get one of the placeholder portraits.
Updated 10/4/23:
Version 23(4.4) is attached here with the following updates:
Team/Player updates
BOS-Added Oates/Removed O'Reilly
DAL-Added Robertson/Removed Payne
NYI-Added Sorokin/Removed Greiss
PIT-Added Guentzel/Removed Apps Jr.
QUE-Added Rantanen/Removed Duchene
SJ-Added Karlsson/Removed Ragnarsson
VAN: Added Hughes/Removed Kearns, Added Pettersson/Removed Lever, Added Miller/Removed Kurtenbach
WPG: Added Keller/Removed Nagy
Updated attributes through 22-23 season(mainly award winners and top 10 players in various season stat categories)
A handful of legacy players attributes were slightly boosted
Slightly updated Team Ranking Sheet attached and shown below
Added ROM version on intro(flying puck) screen
Updated 2/18/24:
Added additional version with 1-minute penalties thanks to @McMarkis
Team Ranking Sheet(sorted by overall starting lineup):
Jerseys:
Things I want to work on:
Setting penalties to 1 min instead of 2 min
Creating new player cards
Jersey Sheet.pdf
All-Time Greatest Rosters Team Ranking.pdf ATR23.smc
ATR23_1min.smc