Triumph

hey - you should probably make a new post whenever you do anything, otherwise i have no idea. nice line about kessel - he's way better in nhl95 than he is in real life. cool cool - i'd be willing to do the rest if you don't think you have time, or whatever. i kind of want to get cracking on the latest things (tarnasky out, o'donnell traded, richardson signed)

wow that took way less time than i thought it would - just updated all the team stats. unfortunately, i can't figure out how to fix the playoff tree, as it still shows the rangers winning the stanley cup. are you updating playoff stats as well? just curious. i might be willing to do that, seeing as how the team stats only took around an hour, and there's only 14 playoff teams. anyway i posted the latest update.

ah awesome. okay i just updated a lot of numbers today, and booted schneider off the ducks into free agency, added selanne, etc. so what if i upload a new roster update when you're finished creating this text file, and then you update the stats with that - will that work out? (if it doesn't it's no big deal, i haven't done that much work on it).

hey, nhl95.com was up about a year ago. the guy had an nhl95 for PC league that had like a salary cap and everything. he was so committed to the league he got a stars jersey with evgeny davydov's name on it. and if you don't know who davydov is, well you're doing it wrong.

yeah it is kudelski: http://tinyurl.com/44s9gc - click on the link that says 'Telecharger', and follow the instructions. I also recently bought a copy of it on ebay. and yes, there was a ref you could run into. 3 hits on him and your guy got tossed for abuse of official. pretty classic, i lost peter bondra in a game 7 'cause of that. anyway as for case, that youtube link looks like it's computer vs. computer or moron vs. computer. the game is generally faster than that, and even so, the slowness of the game allows for more subtlety, angling your man away from oncoming checks, avoiding stick checks, finding passing lanes. i wish i played nhl94 at the level you guys do so i could truly compare, but nhl94 seems to be a game more about pushing buttons and reflexes than it does setting up these longer and more complex plays that high level nhl95 for PC requires.

http://www.abandonware-paradise.org/godown...-Nhl95.zip.html if that doesn't work, google it, click on first link, and just keep following instructions. some of them are in french. works best on DOSBox with 10000 cycles (hit ctrl-f12 6 or 7 times before playing) there's also a roster update in the nhl95 forum but it lacks the magic of evgeny davydov.

NHL94 has lots of problems - we just forget about them because the game's so damn fun. Having played NHL95 for PC first for years before playing 94, I did not play with manual goalie - in 94, the goals that are let in are arbitrary and easy to score (one-timers are hard for the goalies to stop from almost anywhere in the offensive zone), especially when you consider that defense is a totally random event - sometimes the player will be checked down, sometimes he will bounce right off. There's too many breakaways and too many penalty shots. The wrist shot, against the computer/automatic goalie, is a difficult scoring play (which I haven't mastered). Now I'm pretty sure that the NHL94 you guys play is totally different than what I'm playing, you're better at defense, you don't play with line changes (from what I can tell), and with the manual goalie, obviously the backhand-across-the-crease play doesn't work. If NHL95 for PC had manual goalie (and internet play, I suppose) it would be by far the superior game - trades, player creation, 4 lines, 5 minute majors, the expansion teams with full rosters, checking that works, digitized speech, less annoying music (goddamn how annoying is it when one player is the sabres or whalers and keeps scoring in 94).

first off, i fixed some problems above. everything should run smoothly now. threestars, i also edited the pittsburgh lines to how you said they were, and made a few minor changes to player ratings around the league. yeah, even so, smozoma, i think even a generalized rating system will come up with better results than a formula for translating NHL09 ratings. there's no world in which paul martin's slapshot is equal in velocity to jamie langenbrunner's, mike mottau was in the minors for 8 years because he is slow and NHL09 doesn't make him so, hal gill isn't a better bodychecker than matt cooke (he's too slow to hit anyone consistently), and so on. I mean it's an interesting conundrum - do you fit the ratings to the player, or the player to the ratings? Do you ensure that player X performs as well as he does in the NHL, or merely list his attributes, as they are? nor do i think nhl95 would be much fun with a direct translation, as you said. it's fun learning to score with guys who have 65 shot power, or knowing who on your team has a wicked wrist shot because of his passing ability.

I should be done with player editing by the start of the season. Once the season starts I don't want to be adjusting ratings of already rated players - otherwise I'll just get all confused. As I said, lots of signings are coming, and salary cap moves, so I expect the final version of the ratings to come out when the opening day rosters come out. Thanks for the help on the stats - I guess one of us would have to do the whole thing, otherwise I'd offer to do half. I knew if I re-did the stats at the same time as the ratings, I'd never finish the project. I wonder if just redoing the team stats would work, I was going to do that on my own. I simulated a season yesterday and Ottawa was terrible. I looked over the NHL09 ratings - lot of problems in there. I honestly think, just from looking at New Jersey, that my ratings are better and more accurate. There's also some 'fun' ratings - much as it was fun to discover that Tommy Sjodin had a 90 shot power or Sheldon Kennedy could skate like the wind, there's some guys who are much better in this game than they are in real life - and vice versa.

I watched at least 10 Islander games last season, Miroslav Satan was either disinterested or terrible, so that's how he gets rated. I was perhaps a bit harsh, not taking into account 2006-07 enough, so I might bump him a bit. Regardless, I don't think he's a 'sniper' anymore and I think Pittsburgh isn't going to get what they got from Sykora out of him - Satan's best attributes were his skating and stickhandling, both of which appeared to desert him last season - his shots per game were down almost a full shot from 2005-06, and his accuracy was well off his career average as well. I rated him in line with other players who scored 16 goals and had 25 assists. Sykora's lost a step but he can still shoot, which means Crosby and Malkin can just set him up all day. I did decide, after writing this, to bump his agility and offensive awareness by 5 points. Anyway, glad you went through the attributes. Cool jerseys - when would the third jerseys be used, at home, I guess?

bump because i fixed some s**t.

oh and for goalies i just tried to rate them based on sv%, what i thought of their team's defense, and GAA. i have no idea what martin biron's 'glove left' is like.

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Hey, Hopefully there's still some people lurking around here, if so, you're in luck. I've finished a roster update for NHL95 that should be valid for the 2008-09 season. A few things: 1: You may notice some players from the old game lurking around - the Kings have 3 for example. Since the Kings are such a disaster of a team, I have no clue who's going to make their club this season. Rather than guess, I just scratched those players and will edit them when rosters are finalized in a few days. 2: I haven't updated the schedules. I don't intend to do this. 3: The best players from the expansion teams not included in the game are Free Agents. Also Free Agents are Jaromir Jagr and Alexander Radulov, our Russian defectors, as well as Peter Forsberg, Brendan Shanahan, Mats Sundin, and Bret Hedican. One of these doesn't belong... Full disclosure: I am a Devils fan, and I don't get to see the Western Conference that much. 9/29 UPDATE: Mathieu Schneider's a free agent, Ken Klee and Brad Larsen are unmercifully added to the game, I've made some number changes, and all the team statistics are updated for 2007-08. I intend to finish the final update when rosters are finalized, then make a trade deadline edition (with mostly minor re-rates for the 08-09 season), then one again in September 2009. Hopefully - who knows. Anyway, this is mostly for ThreeStars to update the player statistics - hopefully i can avoid the temptation to tinker with these until that happens. UPDATE929.rar

I'm not adapting the All-Star Teams into NHL teams. I have 'finished' - I'll start a new thread for it. Awesome - can't wait to see the icons/jerseys.

I'm doing one from the original NHL95 rosters, they should be complete in a week or so. I have stayed true to the mechanics of the original game - any re-rate I've ever seen has always been absurdly inflated in all respects. Ovechkin's the only one with 100 Shot Power, Niedermayer the only one with 100 Speed, etc. About the expansion teams - since none of them are particularly good this year (or so it appears), my plan was simply to have the best players from their teams available in Free Agency, so if you wanted to imagine a world where they didn't exist, you could. If someone else could do the jerseys/icons, that would be tremendous, as I have absolutely no skill in that area.