George

I guess I should rephrase that. The animation is ok actually, I think it's just that where the player ends up sitting in that view compared to where he entered the penalty box is different. The player enters the box, animation runs, but then he magically appears to the side. It would be better if the player enters the box the same place he will sit. penalty box.mov

It's not that hard to score. You can still use the across the crease technique to score. It's more like across the front of the goalie not the crease. One timers also work decently enough. Dekeing is quite harder now but better for it. Adam, when a player gets a penalty it goes to the scoreboard view and you see a player skate to the penalty box. You can clearly see in the animation of the player getting into the penalty box that the legs won't align with the top part of their body. It's especially evident if the player goes to the left side penalty box.

So the only thing I noticed in 2.5 is when a player gets a penalty and they walk up to the penalty box, their legs don't align with the placement of their bodies once they enter the box. That issue is still there from the original game. Maybe the left box, the players can align from right to left and the right box from left to right.

you're the best Adam. Thanks. A couple of things you forgot. In your wishlist: Make a Sega CD version. Or get the sega CD music to work on the genesis version. Isn't the SCD version the exact same game as nhl94 with added videos and better music, etc?

I dunno, I mean players skate pretty fast. How long does it take for the average player to skate length of the rink? Is it similar in '94 2024? I also like big hits, I kind of miss them. But at the same time, the game now is kinda light on hits.

sega cd msuic when? 😛

Take your time adam. On another note, I just noticed the genesis wide mode patch for the NHL games. You know what I'm gonna ask It would be sweeter than sweet.

ROR is a leaf!

I had an idea. It's kind of ridiculous but as an added feature maybe add support for CD audio, whatever the equivalent is on genesis for MSU-1 support (MSU-MD?) so the CD audio tracks from NHL 94 on Sega CD can be used.

Amazing to see that you're back! Your rom hack is the new Gold standard! Incredible stuff.

Are you serious? Sure it sucks that people are doing it but that doesn't mean you should stop posting. It's not like you get paid to do it. Let it go. People in the community will generally know who the ripoffs are. A lot of people enjoy your rom every year and look forward to it. You're gonna take that away because of 1 person? That's ridiculous.

Sorry but that box cover looks horrible. The image is too thin. It's common sense to preserve aspect ratio of image.

Why are you calling it NHL '23? It should be called NHL 95 2023. It's still NHL 95 just updated.

Re: the regular version. I like that it's harder to score. At the same time it's very difficult to score off a deke now. 95% of my goals are from "across the crease". The AI can still be cheesed that way albiet to a lesser extent. I don't know if it's possible to do anything about that but if not, no worries. Never mind. I just played some more, it was just me. I got the hang of it now. All good.

Just tried the regular version and I think you got it. The penalties are much better now I think. It feels like the AI is improved vs 5.4, maybe it's just me. All in all it feels pretty good. Nice. Trying to patch the arcade and rookie modes don't work. checksum mismatch.