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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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Open spots in A will be filled by previous A league caliber players (ones who have played in A and still qualified to stay in A), or I will do a play in of sorts from top B teams to determine replacements (though I doubt we will need this). Open spots in B will more than likely be filled by C league players from S11, with a play in as well. This all depends on who signs up. There may be exceptions to the rule (where someone of B quality returns, they would participate in the play-in as well). Note, the only thing holding up the draft will be A and B signups. Once this is figured out, I will announce the start of the draft (along with the draft order). Draft show TBD. C league signups will be open up to the day of the A/B League Draft, and are open to anyone. Current league cap is 26. C league signups will be limited to the number of A/B league teams. Players who completed their seasons in CDL11 get priority in spots. 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As of right now: Moving up to A - grimmace92 (B Champ) Moving down to B - scribe99 (.250 win PCT) Moving up to B - mastrhiggins (C Champ) Moving down to C - TecmoJon (.273 win Pct) Play-ins (currently, if players return): A League - Stantonator (.271 in A) vs. Chris O (.727 in B ) B League - skills324 (.386 in B ) vs. LeifErikson (.841 in C) Sign-ups C League is more of like a "farm" league, where coaches will choose (via a Team Selection Draft) one of the drafted A/B teams to play a season with, continued with a playoff. The C Champ and the team with the best reg. season record will be promoted to B league the following season, and allowed to partake in the A/B draft. This league is geared more towards the guys who are more novices at the game, especially draft leagues. They can choose a team during the Team Selection Draft that fits their abilities. C is open to any player whose setup has been CONFIRMED to work (they will have a role assigned to them in Discord). Sign-up deadline will be the day of the A/B League Draft, and cannot exceed the total amount of A/B teams (currently 26). League spots are for CDL10 returnees first. Empty spots in A and B will be filled by my choice; see first paragraph. Draft News Once A/B returnees all report, and I fill out the remaining spots, I will post the draft order. The order will be completely randomized again. I thought of doing this differently, but I liked how this turned out. Also, you CANNOT trade your 1st round pick until after the 1st round is over. You must select where you are slotted! There will be a stream again for choosing the draft order. As far as the draft show, we will do a post A/B draft show, analyzing the teams and hopefully giving some insight that can help the C league players before their Team Selection Draft. League Info If you are new to CDL, this is a draft league where coaches in A and B league will choose from the available players from the original NHL 94 rosters. 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If a glitch causes a goal against you, you are free to talk about it with your opponent and decide an outcome, and come to an agreement. But there is no rule stating they have to reciprocate the goal. Double penalty shot? Play to the whistle. Next time blow your opponent out if he does something to piss you off. One rule regarding pulling the goalie - It must be done while having possession, or before a faceoff in the offensive or neutral zone. Let me know if you are returning or not, by posting below, or in this Discord thread - CDL12 Signups and Returnees. If I don't hear from you, I will assume you are not returning. List of returnees:

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.

Thanks again!!! I updated the original post with Version 1.01 that fixes this bug.

Thanks for the feedback!! I got the same crash when I tested right now, I will work on fixing it.

Thank you! Yes, there's a custom version of the patch designed specifically for 30 and 32 team ROM hacks. This version of the ROM posted here is the original 94, the only graphics I added were the title screen (I used the 30 team ROM location for it and updated the pointers in the code). I know of a few ROM developers that will be using the patch in their custom ROMs, so stay tuned!

Thanks for the reminder, I added it to the post.

Whoa, you applied the patch already? Looks good! Let me know if you need any info.

NHL'94: Fight Edition "It's the same old NHL94, now with fighting!" After working on this since mid-March of 2025, I am proud to present NHL94: Fight Edition. The ROM in this post is just that: the original NHL'94 game, with fighting added in. No changes were made to the core game other than some adjustments to a few players' Fight attribute to allow for more bruisers (more on this in a moment), addition of fighting attribute display, new title screen, and changes to the title screen credits. Fighting logic is almost the same as NHLPA93. I made some slight changes to it, which I will go over. For a more detailed post about how fighting works and the differences between NHLPA93 and the NHL94 patch, you can check out this post - Fight Options: With the addition of @McMarkis' Menu Patch, there are 3 choices for fighting on the Main Menu. These can be selected before starting the game: Off - Fighting is disabled. The game will play just like old school NHL'94. On - Fighting is enabled. "Bruisers" are the only ones who can start a fight, though they can fight most players in the game (more in a moment). In most cases, you will only get into a fight if you are looking for one. On - Arcade Mode - Fighting is enabled, but more players can start a fight. You'll usually average around 2 fights a game in this mode, unless you are looking for blood. Players are more likely to get injured for the game if they lose a fight. Fun mode to play against friends with. The chances to get into a fight depend on the number of Total Checks in the game (you can keep tabs on this by looking at the Game Stats screen while playing and adding up the Checks for each team). In most cases, in a 5 minute period game, the Total Checks needs to be around 30 (10 min and longer periods, the number is 40). Checks after the whistle do count towards this total! This Total Checks gets reset during a fight, so you won't get fights back to back. NOTE: Arcade Mode cuts this Total Checks limit in half! "Bruisers" are players who have a 10 or higher Fight attribute rating. These are displayed on the attribute display screens as a Fight attribute of 71 or above. If you play with line changes, I have put at least 1 of these players for each team on their Chk line. There are over 60 "Bruisers" in the game, at least 1 on each team. In Arcade mode, players who can start a fight only need a Fight attribute of 42 or above. Many usual starters in the game fall in this range. In order to "participate" in a fight, the other player involved in the fight needs a Fight attribute of 14 or above. Attribute Display: If you go to the "Edit Lines" screen, or the "Team Roster" screen in the in-game menu, you can view the Fight attributes of your players. This attribute is last on the list, after Checking: As an example, who can fight on this list? Paul Ranheim - He can participate in a fight, but can't start one (14 rating) Brent Ashton - Can participate in a fight, but can only start one if playing in Arcade Mode (42 rating) Chris Lindberg - He can participate in a fight, but can't start one (28 rating) Craig Berube - "Bruiser", he can start a fight in either mode (85 rating) Theo Fleury - Can participate in a fight, but can only start one if playing in Arcade Mode (42 rating) Sergei Makarov - He will always back down from a fight, in both modes (0 rating) Fight: Inputs: A - Grab B - Body Blow C - Head Shot Body blow and Head shot each do 1 point of damage. The Fight attribute of the player and therefore player's current energy level determine their hit points and the power of the hit (how far the opposing player moves from the hit). After the fight is over, both players head to the penalty box to serve a 5 minute major. Occasionally, the team with the player that started the fight will receive a "Fight Instigator" penalty of 2 minutes. A player currently on the ice will serve this penalty in the box and the other team will get a Power Play. Occasionally, a player will be injured for the game from a fight (bonus head bleeding). This is based on the Chk rating of the player who knocked out the other player, and some RNG. Look at Probert kick some ass here (has the highest Fight in the game): When the 5 min major is over, the players will stay in the box until the next whistle. Other Stuff: One of the important goals of this patch was to make it compatible with ANY NHL94 ROM, including ROM hacks. I was able to add code to expand the ROM to 3MB and beyond by modifying the SRAM code. This allows the patch to be compatible with 32-team ROM hacks (space limitation in the 2MB ROM size). It is also compatible with 30-team ROM hacks. I designed a custom version of the patch that will pull the assets needed from the existing ROM hack and apply the patch, thus keeping any palette swaps and other graphical hacks intact. Also, with the extra space in the ROM now, this opens up the path to other types of hacks and adding sprite and frame animations! The custom ROM author will need to make the necessary changes to the H/F values in order for players to be able to fight. That is up to them on making the changes needed to their rosters. Thanks: I would like to say thank you to everyone who helped in making this possible. @McMarkis, @bcrt2000 and I spent a bunch of time reverse engineering the sprite format. Also @McMarkis provided the menu item hack. Plenty of testers helped to iron things out: @swos, @slapshot67, @77, @Len the Lengend, @Drezz, @jer_33, @halifax, @Mr. T, @Sean, Michael, and others. Everyone here has helped make something deemed impossible, possible. My GitHub link with all the code and the custom ROM patch are here - https://github.com/Chaos81/nhl94-patches Please give me feedback on the ROM, I expect to make some tweaks here and there, and to fix any possible bugs we did not come across. Enjoy the ROM! Donations are appreciated!! Here is my link - http://buymeacoffee.com/chaosnhl94 Current Issues/Bugs: - When opening the ROM in NOSE, you will encounter about 8 error messages. These are related to the menu hack, and you won't be able to make changes to the default menu items. Please make the menu changes in NOSE before applying the hack! After clearing the messages, you will be able to edit the ROM any other way like usual. - In the custom ROM hack, if you need to change the text of the menu (like the period times), you will need to do this in one of the .ASM files in the menu hack folders. Once you clone my GitHub, navigate to: 94_custom_patch/scripts/menu_patch/scripts/Menu/submenuitems.asm You can change the text in that file as needed, then apply the hack to your custom ROM. My goal is to get these fixed in the future. Current Version: 1.01 (Jan. 2, 2026) Updates: - Fixed bug where the game would freeze when changing shootout lineup in Shootout Mode. nhl94_fight_v1.01.bin