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I told my English teacher wife about the semi-colonoscopy. She is going to include that in her grammar arsenal.

Have to thank @AdamCatalyst for following this one since the activity notification brought it to my attention. And despite being too busy to be carrying out experiments, I started carrying out experiments. Looking at NHL'94, I went to that offset and noticed that the preceding hex code "looks like that marks something", so I copied a few bits "6700 0032 0478 0AAA" and tried a search in NHL Hockey, EA Hockey and NHLPA '93. Turns out there is only one instance of this sequence in the other games and it also controls the game clock. So for anyone interested, the offsets to edit the clock speed are as follows. NHL Hockey: C3E4 EA Hockey: C008 NHLPA'93: 011858 [Note that the default ROM didn't seem to start when editing this, but the 30 and 32-team versions were fair game. Didn't find that sequence in NHL'95, which made sense with the vastly different game engine, but I figured rather than throw it in so quickly, I'd try a wider search for just the "0478 0AAA" part. That came up with two sequences near each other and the first one was similar but for the "0032" part being a "0034". Changed this first one and it turns out that it changed the clock speed as well. Emboldened by this knowledge, I tried searching NHL96-98 and they followed the same pattern of two close sequences and the first one being "6700 00XX 0478 0AAA" [In their case the "XX" was a "68". 34x2 eh?] So the final for games for those interested. NHL 95: 07A384 NHL 96: 02022E NHL 97: 0253DA NHL 98: 02580A I should note that I tried messing with the second "0478 0AAA" sequence in '95, but didn't notice any differences. Didn't try 96-98. I should also note that by changing icing to a 5-min penalty, it was easy to check the penalty clock and they indeed follow the beat of their own drum. I'm willing to guess that checking the offsets in '94 as established with the fine collaborative work above, would possibly yield a hex sequence that might be similar to the other games, but, I'll have to hand off on this one for now. Hmm... Now if only there was some way to edit the code to have the clock read 20 minutes every time, but speed up the passage of time for it to equal 2, 5, 10 or 20 actual minutes depending on what option you select.