AdamCatalyst

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Your choice… a) do you want me to lie to you? or b) do you want me to tell you that it is as easy as editing the INI in notepad, and creating a revised BMP, and that if you download my add-on pack and search the two INI files for "AC 2022," you will see all the code that you need to know? p.s. If I had the knowledge to get into NOSE's guts, oh the places I would go! But unfortunately, I don't think I know enough.

Actually, just download this. Review the INIs and search for "AC 2022" in to see the entries with changes I made. Let me know if you have any questions!

It's part of the care package I'm putting together. Will be SUPER easy when you see how its done.

If you were willing to PM over your work in progress ROM, I’d greatly appreciate it! It sounds perfect for my purposes. I’ve got a workflow where I dump large tiles from TileM into Photoshop, then use tools there to isolate just the elements I need. I just needed a version where the leg strip and shoulder no longer matched, can diff. It out from there. Let me know if I can provide anything to make your job easier. I’m so curious to see what your final ROM looks like! p.s. I recently added my own Strip mod to NOSE, so there can more easily edit. Could do the same for you if that helps?

@Drezz I am trying to isolate the should stripe right now in 94, and thought I should go digging here before I put in a bazillion hours. Do you by any chance have a 94 ROM where the shoulder colour has already been isolated?

Yup! You need to use the correct corresponding rom.ini with NOSE, in order for it to work correctly. I can't recall where I got it, I think from @smozoma, but regardless, I've provided it here for you, and customized it for you. Edit: Original file removed. Updated files available at the linked post below.

Thanks! Can I ask you a favour? Ask me the same question in my "How-to" thread, and I will make you an extra tweak to NOSE to make editing my ROM easier, and post it with my answer.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you are saying about Askarov, BUT, I do know that I accidentally got his catching / shooting hand wrong. Will be fixed in the next release. After I release 1.0, I did some major refactoring of my bloated spreadsheet, and finally introduced a method to get player Hands & Weight from NHL.com, and then EliteProspects as a backup. When I did that, it corrected about a hundred players weights, and two players hands, including Askaraov.

Hah! Must be something in the air. Someone on Twitter suggested this to me, and sent me a bunch of resources on the matter. I just don't have time right now, and I question my technical ability to do this, but I'm not saying no. Will give it a look when I find time. In truth, I would love to port my mod to the Sega CD version, but I don't know how to do that either.

Thanks again for all this! Very helpful. I’ll get digging ASAP. If you would be interested in testing a beta as soon as it is ready, please send me a PM.

Thanks for this! Was the previous game also with line changes on? And in your screen-cap… where is the puck? I'm keen to get on this tonight, but it will likely take days to fix, as I will need to adjust ratings for all skaters.

Thanks Tabs! Glad to see you too!

OH! Yes, that sounds perfectly logical, the exact combination of players on the ice, their awarenesses, the puck position etc. could all lead to an AI stalemate. Thanks for the insight! I assume this is caused by everyone's awareness being too low to see eachother, is that right? In any case, can you tell me any more, or point me to a relevant forum thread? EDIT Just reviewed the original ROM ratings distributions for Offence & Defence, and compared them to my distributions of the same. My distributions were done purposely very similar, with one major exception: the median and mode of my Forwards Defensive Awareness is significantly lower. If my understanding of what you are saying is correct, nudging this curve back to conform to the original should reduce the problem. Assuming of course this issue better, not worse, in the original.

Thanks for letting me know! I've run hundreds of simulation games, and I've seen emulators bug out and ROM crashes, but never anything like that. (The known list of bugs for this game is epic and hilarious: https://www.nhl94.com/html/bugs.php ) It makes me think something unintended is happening. Can you give me any other details at all, such as the teams you used, and literally everything you can remember about the settings used for the demo? I want to try and see if I can load up a whole mess of identical demo games, and get it to happen myself. Will probably be the most informative to get to the bottom of it.

Good to see you too George!

The colour palettes have now been updated for 2023.

@von OzbourmeOh, I thought you had discovered how to change the rebound rate for when the puck colides with the boards! That's the one that is just vexing me. I want to dampen the boards a it.

@von Ozbourme I am so psyched to go try playing with this. THANK-YOU SO MUCH!!!

Thanks man! I trust that you'll keep a watchful eye on Seattle, and let me know if you see room for improvement, just like before.

Thanks! In truth, they were adapted from NHL Rewind, which was a suggestion from @kingraph. Some were just retouched, some were heavily modified, some were re-drawn form scratch, etc.

Wait, what!?! I’ve been trying to figure out how to affect the puck collision physics, but so far I’ve not been able to develop the skills to figure this out. Can you share what you found, or point me in the right direction?

Thanks man. You make me smile.

Change-Log 2023 05 14 - Version 4.4 “Final” Edition. Should be the last planned update of this (post) season. Rosters - Player Names: Some long names (less than 1%) of players contracted to be shorter. This fixes some cosmetic glitches that were occurring. Lines & Ratings, etc - TOR: Minor updates. Major grieving. 2023 04 30 - Version 4.3 “Be-Leaf” Edition… Rosters, Ratings, Lines, etc - TOR: Matthew Knies added, TOR Lines & Ratings updated. In-Play - Sprites: Goalies had minor graphics error fixed. Rink Graphics: Audience design & animation refined. Graphics: Instant Replay Controller graphic revised. 2023 04 19 - Version 4.2 There's Something about New York… Miscellaneous - Pre-Game: NYR was accidentally given home ice-advantage over NJD in v4.0 & v4.1. This has been fixed. Rosters, Ratings, Lines, etc - Lines: Non-playoff bound teams lines finalized. 2023 04 17 - Version 4.1 Apologies to Carolina… NYI was accidentally given home ice-advantage over CAR in v4.0. This has been fixed. 2023 04 16 - Version 4.0 Opening Night of the Playoffs Edition… The roster, lineups and matchups are ready for the play-offs, and the remastering of the rink graphics are almost done now, with an updated colour palette, a new net design, refined audience animations, and more. Under the Hood ROM Header: Updated to indicate support for Japan region, 6-Button Controller, and both domestic & foreign ROM names. Title Screens, Menus, & Pre-Game Title Screen: Opening Logo screens display time reduced by 30%. Graphics: EA logo screen refined. Graphics: Banners typesetting refined. Graphics: Banners for MIN & SEA colouring revised. Graphics: Main Menu selection frame minor tweak. Pre-Game: Playoff matchups updated for the 2023 seeding. Rosters, Ratings, Lines, etc Rosters: Every team has had their rosters finalized. Ratings: Final ratings for team attributes, and minor ratings changes to some players. Graphics: Player Photos updated to support roster moves, with additional improvements to MTL. Lines: Play-off bound teams had their lines finalized (non-playoff teams lines to be finalized in next update). Rink Graphics: Colour Palette has been altered to improve the audience affect with more uniform tonal contrast, to improve the accuracy of the team banner colours, and to give the nets more realistic colouring. Graphics: Numerous refinements to the sideboard view. Graphics: Audience & animation further refined. Graphics: Net re-drawn to the most recent (2013) NHL proportions. Graphics: Crease revised. Sprites: Players Snow Spray animation restored to original. 2023 03 13 - Version 3.0 Trade Deadline Day is now a Week Long Edition… Beyond the requisite trade deadline updates, the work on refinements to the area has continue with hundreds of minor little refinements, with particular focus on the sideboards and the audience. Title Screens Graphics: Custom EA logo screen, combining a revised version of the EA logo from the original, and iconography from “Rewind.” Playoffs, Sideboards, & On-Ice Teams Graphics: DET & MTL banner text centred. Graphics: SJS banner reversion to include the black stripe. Graphics: WPG banner colours changed to Blue on Blue. Graphics: DAL uniform and centre ice logo colours adjusted slightly. Rosters, Ratings, Lines, etc Rosters, Lines, & Ratings: Every team has had their rosters, ratings, and lines updated for the trade deadline (March 3, 2023.) Graphics: Player Photos updated to support roster moves, with some minor improvements. Rink Graphics: Sideboards Bench, Boards, Glass, Ice, Logo, Stanchions, etc. revised. Graphics: Sideboards missing audience animation frame restored. Graphics: Sideboards Player in Penalty Box revised. Graphics: Rink & Sideboards Audience and animation revised. Graphics: Rink & Sideboards Time-Keepers revised. Graphics: Trapezoid area lines re-drawn to NHL scale. Graphics: Nets revised. Graphics: Glass behind bottom net revised. Graphics: Glass & stanchions behind bottom net revised to be parallel to glass & stanchions behind top net. Graphics: Coach slightly revised. Graphics: Goal light animation revised. Gameplay Gameplay: Goalie lateral movement range without the puck reverted to default. Misc: Stars of the Game formula revised to increase value of Assists by 10%. 2023 02 10 - Version 2.0 Remastered Colours Edition Team uniform colouring has been restructured (thank-you @Drezz!) and all team banners, logos, and uniforms have been reviewed and adjusted for greater consistency & authenticity. This was a major undertaking, building a global colour palette for the game, that holistically considers each real-world colour being depicted. Furthermore, lots of little rink revisions… Rosters, Lines, & Ratings Rosters, Lines, & Ratings: Up-to-date as of Feb 10, 2023. Teams Pre-Game: Playoffs & Sideboards Banner colours adjusted. Sprites: Almost all team uniforms updated for greater accuracy. Graphics: Many centre ice logos have been adjusted to accommodate the revised uniforms. Graphics: Player in Penalty Box revised. Miscellaneous: VGK Home Uniforms changed to Gold. Rink Graphics: Bench has new custom Coach sprite. If it looks like Sheldon Keefe, well, that’s because it was based on Sheldon Keefe. Graphics: Bench & Penalty Box area Stanchions modified to be consistent with the Sideboards view. Graphics: Timekeepers centre Stanchion misalignment fixed. Graphics: On-ice reflections of Stanchions fixed. Graphics: Goal Light & animation revised. Graphics: Instant Replay Reverse view inconsistencies fixed. Miscellaneous Title Screen: Original Credits tweaked for clarity. 2023 01 17 - Version 1.1 Weight Watchers Edition Player weights and catching/shooting hand are now using an automated database lookup (NHL.com with EliteProspects as a fallback) to significantly reduce human error and more easily keep up-to-date. Hundreds of other minor updates were made, mainly to player ratings. Title Screen Graphics: Splash image minor refinement. Graphics: Masthead refined for better visual balance. Credits: Credits copyright year updated. Rosters & Lines, & Ratings Rosters: BUF, CGY & EDM updated. Lines: COL & DET updated. Lines: COL line order fixed. Rosters: Names updated for Chris Tanev & Nicholas Paul as per NHL media guide. Rosters: Jersey Numbers corrected for 12 players. Ratings: Catching/Shooting hand corrected for 2 players. Ratings: Weight updated for ~250 players. Ratings: Miscellaneous minor updates to hundreds of players. 2023 01 10 - Version 1.0 Initial Public Release This first version for 2023 is built on top of the final released 2022 ROM (2022 06 12 - Version 6.0). All changes in that version are intact, with the following updates: Title Screens Graphics: New Splash Image. Graphics: Masthead updated. Credit sequence updated. Main Menu Graphic: EDM & SJS banner & logos updated. Graphics: Player Photos added for new players, and some old photos have had minor improvements. Pre-Game Graphics: Playoff banner colours adjusted for SJS. Arena Names: Arizona has been updated. In-Play Graphics: CAR Home uniforms, and on-ice logo updated. Graphics: EDM Home & Away uniforms, and on-ice logo updated. Graphics: SJS Home & Away uniforms, and on-ice logo updated. Gameplay: Goalies given very slightly more lateral room to move without the puck. Rosters & Lines, & Rating Team Ratings: Team attribute & overall ratings updated as per January 1 2023 season data. Rosters & Lines: Every team is up-to-date as of January 8, 2023. Ratings: All skater ratings reviewed, and most, if not all players have been revised. Rating: New statistical model for goaltender ratings. Ratings: New statistical model to set CPU behaviour for shot attempts, body checks, and penalized infractions. Extras Matching box art was made.