Hello all,
I apologize for resurrecting a stale thread, but I was reviewing your findings and was curious about implementing them into the current NHL '22 ROM that @Sauce put together. I'm not expert ROM modifier by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have an Everdrive and a few different Genesis models, so if I can be of assistance testing fixes, I'm happy to do so.
As it stands, I have the modifications from @AdamCatalyst's post above implemented into the vPO ROM. I did make one small adjustment by changing 0xF8B2C from 4E to 20, as that was the value for that offset in the already modified ROM.
I currently have this running on a real Genesis, and everything seems to be rendering properly with player stats turned on. I am not sure how to test further beyond verifying that the player stat messages are formatted correctly with no displayed errors and without doubled names. If there is anything else I can do to test or help the effort to fix this bug, please let me know.