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I've noticed that all of the NHL games have some art and code assets left over from previous games in the series, [using the previous year's Playoffs logo, having unused Ron Barr Hot/Cold commentary in non-Ron games, build note comments, etc.] but this one was a surprise. Took me a bit to realize what I was looking at, but getting near the end of the ROM data, it appears that while THQ was compiling the Genesis version of NHL 98 they pulled in some Madden assets. And just below that. Almost as interesting, [at least it's the same sport] but the entire title graphic from NHL 97 was left intact. Not the most egregious thing I've heard of getting compiled into a ROM, but it's fun coming across this stuff nonetheless.

I have never played the SNES version, and don't know the sound that you are referencing, so I can't say for certain. There are differences between the SNES and Gen versions. This may be one of them.

As posted above - the awards are literally the name of the award...

I would be most interested in a mod of NBA Jam TE that adds missing players back in. Specifically, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal.

It really helped that I decided to make an all star team. I sifted eliteprospects data to find the players who have at least 2 EIHL seasons and sorted by goals, assists and PIM. I built that team first, with player ratings overall between 82 (Corcoran, assist machine) and 72 (Schiestel). When building teams, I used any "all star" players to help calibrate ratings - so, say for Cardiff, Martin is 2nd line centre for the all stars at 80, so our top line of him, Haddad (also an all star at 76 thanks to his shooting) and Riley (72) kinda felt accurate. Steelers top 2 lines are similar - they scored way more goals than anyone else last year, though leaked many the other end so I needed to nerf D men like Brocklehurst. Building the rest kinda flowed from there, and worked - Herr leading the Panthers, Pelech a wrecking ball for the Giants - they already fitted, and it made scaling players easy if teams had a player who made it through my filtering. It also helped shape teams - the Flames provide some speedy players to the all stars, so Guildfords roster and lines are dominated by rapid wing play, which is kinda realistic based on what I saw from them last year in some free flowing matches. When I built the GB team from players in the EIHL teams scaled against the all star players, I was pleased to see the ratings based on EP records kind of worked, especially when I added Kirk as an 83 overall rating. Ginn gets 76, and is the highest rated tendie outside of the 2 legends teams, though all time GB has 2 90+ netties in a 2 time Venezia winner from the early 30's, and the '36 gold medal winner (oh, and Stevie Lyle as 3rd choice). Tony Hand clocks in at 89 as the best non goalie player as top line centre for All time GB. Cole Shudra (unused D sub for leaky steelers) scores lowest at 46, though when further calibrating Fife or Dundee that might change.

This is no substitute for the physical edition, but this might be worth a look nonetheless: https://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?/topic/20375-nhl-94-game-card-set-full-set-1200-dpi.

I personally use a Xbox360 pad, but you can use what you want I presume.

@Europia79I might just do a switch to college slam. Allows me to expand the league. But having the original first will be a great start.

Yeah, the two NBA Jams were 1994 and 1995... Hang Time and College Slam were 1996. The original NBA Jams have 28 teams while Hang Time has 29 teams and College Slam has over 40 teams. Like I told Magnus, I don't keep up with the NBA, but it looks like they have 30 teams. ...But the 32x version does have an extra MB to work with... but i guess you could just expand the BIN also from 3 MB to 4 MB (the max before you have to start using page tricks i think) ? Not Sure

Amazing work! For those who use programs like RetroPie to play these NHL94 games, here is a quick custom cover art I made for Naples39's mod.

College Slam is the one. Eskayelle does really good roster update/mods to NBA Jam TE on the SNES, maybe some resources from those could be useful.

Here's talk about the Genesis bug. Sounds like SNES version is superior for this reason below https://discord.com/channels/738501750046326824/738509062844710974

Hi! Just re-posted V2 of this rom. I didn't name it V3 as there wasn't any major transactions made since I, originally, posted it back on 1/24. I added a few players and updated some player headshots. I also removed Tony DeAngelo as he will not be playing for the Rangers, again, and they seem to be taking their time with, possibly, trading him. I have edited several player ratings to give a bump up or down, here and there. I didn't edit the team rankings, yet, as it is still too early and many of the teams haven't played a quarter of the season yet (COVID delays and all). If anyone catches any mistakes (player numbers, hand (L vs R), weight, etc.), please let me know. Enjoy...cheers!