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While working on some mods I got a little sidetracked with this project and was curious to see if I could increase the number of teams from 32 to a full 34 teams using wboy's notes from way back. The short answer - I did it. NHL 34.webm As you can see while scrolling through the team list, the Eastern and Western Allstar teams were added - and after a month of messing with this, it's alive. I used chaos' Fight patched version of NHL 94. Stock graphics, stock rosters etc. The only thing that was changed was the title screen and the fly in logos as well as the expanded ROM to 3MB. Now - this is still VERY much a WIP. I haven't gone through the playoffs or had any save data used yet. I also haven't looked to deeply into Freeze bugs etc. I just did a few basic things that AdamCatalyst had pointed out a while back. As you can see, I just did some quick and dirty graphics to make this like a conversion to NHL26, but I haven't done proper rosters, photos, arena tweaks etc. This is just barebones stuff cobbled from a number of ROMS in order to fill space for testing. There's stuff from the Fight ROM, wboy's OG 30-team NHL 94, vonOz and JKline's 32 team NHL 26 mod inside it. Once I get it to a playable state, I'll throw it up here for funzies, along with my documented notes, that will give you an idea how to go about the long laborious process of adding teams. One interesting thing - I had to go back to the OLD school method of tiling the images and reusing tiles, using a tilemap etc in order to conserve space. 32 teams seemed to be the maximum for the reconstructed decompressed banners, but going back to the reused banner formats, you can add a few more teams that way. I am currently going to look into how far you can go with it - I have two versions of banners with reduced width fonts. Anyway - this is coming along and it's working so far - just need to put it through it's paces.

NHL '26 - '95 Edition Better LATE THAN NEVER FOLKS. To some clamor and fanfare, NHL 95 fans rejoice! We have an updated NHL '95 ROM for the 2025/2026 season! Obligatory thanks and acknowledgements: Expanded 34-Team ROM: Thanks to @kingraph. Built on the expanded architecture to include all modern franchises. Updated ice logo for nearly all of the 32 NHL Teams I’ve looked to modernize much of the gameplay icons, including some modernized UI fonts, assets, banners, and scoreboards (A lot of thanks to @UltraMagnus for laying the foundation for a ton of assets with his brilliant work.) Playoff / Season schedule bug fixes applied so brackets and standings don't crash deep into the post-season, thanks to @smozoma for the 128+ point bug fix! Full Widescreen mode, with a huge shout-out to Paul_met for his work in expanding the game resolution. (Standard Definition) (Widescreen) Season Mode Limitations: Please Note! Due to the hardcoded limits of the '95 Season Mode, the teams are not in alphabetical order (for divisional alignments). The game can process only 26 teams for a Season playthrough. Therefore, only the first 26 teams in the ROM are playable in Season Mode. Unplayable in Season Mode (Teams 27-32): Utah, Carolina, Columbus, Ottawa, Anaheim, and Seattle. (We're currently looking into whether it's possible to hack the engine to include all 32 teams in the future! I’m not sure, but I will take a hard look this year.) New ice is white, and the rink colors are updated. Player icons, etc. Features for 1.05 (Released: March 8th 2026) 34-Team ROM Architecture implemented. Uniform and player card updates to native 3bpp format. Updated center ice logos and decompressed UI elements. Playoff bracket bug fix applied in season mode, where teams with 128+ would be kicked out of the playoffs. Teams 1-26were mapped for Playable Season Mode, with the divisions as close to accurate as I could get. Note (Again): Utah, Carolina, Columbus, Ottawa, Anaheim, and Seattle are playable in Exhibition/Playoffs but not currently supported in full Season Mode. NHL 95 - 2026 Edition v1.05.bin

Lol, I just finished my 34 team 2mb ROM. was going to release this weekend.