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If you make the changes to the goal frame data before applying the fighting patch on a custom ROM, it would maintain the changes. All of the associated data with sprites and frames is organized like so in the regular ROM: $5B1C-$76B2 - SPAList - Sprite Animation List: A table for each animation listing frames and the time to display the frame. $5DE7A - Offset List: 1st long word (4 bytes long) - Offset to default sprite tile palette (128 bytes long) before frame data (default ROM has this offset as $4082A) 2nd long word (4 bytes long) - Offset to frame data (default ROM has this offset as $408AA) $5DE82 (2 byes long) - # of Sprite Tiles (default set to $2041 tiles, which means the Sprite Tiles data is $40820 in size, since $2041 * 32 bytes/tile) Sprite Tiles ($5DE84-$9E724): Exactly what it says. Sprites can be 1x1 tiles up to 4x4 (only 4x4 sprite is the glass breaking if I remember correctly). Also included in these are the goal tiles, the arrows, the stars. Frame Sprite Data Offsets ($9E724-$9EDC2): This is a table of offsets. Each frame has an offset to its frame data. For example, frame 1, which is "Skating with the puck" frame, has an offset of $69E. $9E724+$69E = $9EDC2, which would be the where the frame data starts for frame 1. We can tell how many sprites each frame has by subtracting this offset from the next one in the list. In this example, the next offset is $6A6. $696-$69E = 8 bytes, which means there is 1 sprite in the frame (see next section). There are 845 frames in NHL94. Sprite Data ($9EDC2-A44C9): $5708 long (There are 2,785 total sprites) This is the data you are editing as it will point to the sprite tiles and position them in the frame. Offset 0-1: X Global. The X position of the upper left corner of the sprite in the frame. This is offset from the 0,0 point of the frame. Offset 2-3: Y Global. Same as above, in Y. Offset 4-5: Tile offset. Confusing, see link. Offset 6 : Palette stuff and default H/V flip. Offset 7 : Sizetab byte (# of tiles in the sprite) Hotlist table ($A44CA-$A4B54): 2 bytes for each frame, 1 for X and 1 for Y. Offset from the 0,0 point of the frame, it is used for collision purposes (like the player's stick which is a separate collision point from their body). There are 16 bytes missing from the end of this table. These are because the last 8 frames are direction arrows and stars for the 3rd and 4th player when 4-way is used. They don't have collision, so they were omitted (there's only data for 837 frames). Since this data is so tightly packed and one after another, the SPAList, Frame Sprite Data offsets, Sprite Data, and Hotlist table get moved to new free space, since data needs to be added to all those tables for the fight frames. The sprite tiles stay put (for now), and I just add the fight sprite tiles to the end of it, overwriting some of the frame sprite data offset table. I was going to just pad the rest of it with FF, probably should. I also update the Offset List and the # of Sprite Tiles. So even though the data you are looking for is still there, it is not being used. Check out my post where I dissect a frame and reassemble it for more info - https://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?/topic/37002-sprites-frames-and-animations/ I challenge you to follow the procedure to find the new location of the sprite data for the goal! The top goal is frame # 405, bottom goal is frame # 406. Frame Sprite Data Offset table starts at $202830.

The fighting code has to move the frame data to new space since it is adding new frames. The tile locations are not changed. What you are editing here is the offset of the sprite tile in the frame, relative to the position the code labels as the center of that frame. For example, the player's frame uses their feet as the frame center, and uses this location for collision purposes. The offsets you are editing are in the frame data that is getting moved. If you use the 94_custom_patch route, these changes you made in the frame data should be copied over (I had updated it a few months ago to get this working, previously it was just copying over data from the vanilla ROM). When you run the python program, you should see it saving the files needed. I should write up a way to make your own frames. This way, you can just make your own sprite tiles, form them into a frame, add the data, and reassign the nets current frame to your new one.

Agr is used to determine if player gets a penalty after a hit.

ChksF = Checks For, meaning the # of Checks the player made in the game so far

NOSE is hard coded for the number of menu items that appear based on the game title (92, 93, 94, etc). Since the menu hack to allow the Fight option changes the location of where the menu items are in the ROM, NOSE spits some some errors. NOSE has to be changed to allow the Fight option. This is going to happen in the future (hopefully soon). The suggestion here is to take a vanilla 94 ROM (or custom ROM) with the fight patch not applied, edit the stuff in NOSE you need to edit, then run the patch program to patch the ROM with fighting. You can edit the fight_patch.asm (vanilla 94 ROM) or fight_patchc.asm (for custom ROMs) to set the default Fight option or any other settings before applying the patch.

Thanks!! Yes, there's a problem loading the ROM in NOSE because of the menu hack. Unfortunately the menus are hard coded in NOSE, so I need to add the functionality to get it to work. I'll work on that soon.

I haven't set it to save the mode like the others get saved (it's more work, future stuff). You edit the .asm file and set it to a default value in there before you assemble (scripts/fight_patchc.asm). The default is On. I don't remember it switching back to Off though. I hacked the function that loads the default menu positions.

Oh ok, the one in my post was newest version I grabbed from the forum thread. I ran it through the patch a few minutes ago.

AC_2025_fight1.01.bin Here it is. Note, none of his players have H/F values set to fight. You will have to modify the ROM in NOSE. They are all 0 and 1, need to be 6 or above to start a fight in Arcade mode, 10 or above in normal fight mode.

I would look at the time it was modified. I just used the custom patch script on his ROM and it worked no problem.

did you look at the build.log file in the output folder?

Can you tell me the steps you are using to apply the patch?

Problem here is you are requiring people to play with a 6 button controller. Many prefer the 3 button feel. The fake shot was done with 3 buttons. The game will do a long clear on the flip when your team is on the PK. You can remove that check and make it do it all the time, or make it so if the button is pressed longer, it will flip it farther. You should look at the source code for 92 to see how to implement how to check which buttons are being held and pressed, etc

I dont think theres a need to disable them, you can just opt not to use them. It would require special button presses to activate them during gameplay.

Weight and agility affect your acceleration, speed is just the players top speed. a lighter player with 4 Agl will get to top speed quicker that a heavier player with 4 Agl.

Yeah, it's now possible to add animations in. Code could be adjusted to use them. Maybe in the future.

Close, in On mode 71+ start a fight, players 14 and above can participate. Also, they have to have a few Chks For, and the total game checks need to be around 30, so yes, checking after the whistle will bump these numbers up

93 was the same. There's a way to adjust the time (in the penalty data, there is a delay for after the whistle), but I haven't messed with it.

Good to hear from you Skip!! Thank you for the kind words. Hope you are doing well!

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Another solution, if you don't want to use the menu hack, you can comment the line out of the fight_patchc.asm file (it's at the end). Then, just change the DefFight variable to the one you want to use (Off, On, On-Arcade mode = 0, 1, 2). I expect some updates to the menu patch in the future, where it can pull the data from the ROM and move it to the new location, just like I am doing with the sprite tile data.

Thanks bud! No, injuries for the game will still work the same. The H/F will also affect who fights as well.

It is designed to work on custom ROMs as well, but the ROM developer will need to do the extra work modifying player attributes to make them fight. Also, there's a lot of custom graphics hacks that I'm not accounting for, so they will have to most likely reapply them. I would wait until the developer releases a version of their ROM with the fighting.