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Looks like an error with the tool you're using (compilation error). Not installed correctly? Missing a dependency? Run the wrong way? (it errors out on the very first character)

A great resource to point people to when starting a new mod! Is there a 32-team ROM like this?

Thanks! I tested it out juuuust in case, and yeah even if I get the Bruins into the playoffs with 126 points, they play the 2nd seed in the 2nd round. So I guess I'll put together a ROM with the fix, and an IPS patch. And maybe figure out game genie codes...

Thanks! I tested this out and Boston stays in 1st place when they have 128 points, and they make the playoffs. The 1st-rounding seeing is correct, they play the 8th-place team in the conference. However, in the 2nd round they were matched up against the 2nd-place team. Is the 2nd-round re-seeding usually correct? If so, then I need to find the re-seeding code and fix that as well.

Get a Mega Everdrive x5 : https://krikzz.com/our-products/cartridges/mega-everdrive-x5.html You can download ROMs (full games, with the updates already included) from this site and put them on the Everdrive cartridge. The x5 will work for like 99.9% of Genesis games, but not crazy mods like the 40MB Sonic Delta mod.. If you want to play EVERYTHING (CD games?), there's the "PRO" but it's quadruple the cost.

Mullets.. mullets everywhere Love the HNIC theme of this, with Bob Cole, the music, the graphics...

Music is something we're just starting to figure out (see some video examples here: https://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?/topic/19935-editing-musicsounds-in-nhl-94-a-start/) Taking the music out is possible. Sound effects.. probably also possible... But you could solve your problem by playing with manual line changes, too.

Hm so if you got the main retroarch package, the original ROMs are actually in the package, too. You should load RetroArch.exe, then Load Core (pick the Sega one), then Load Content. In Load Content, click "Start Directory" or something like that.. it's the first option. Then click ROMs, Genesis, nhl94. If you pick "CDL" or something like that, that is not the original game, that's a custom league game. So at this point the game runs... And you are saying the Hawks are missing? Can you go team-by-team and see what other teams are missing?

If you go here and filter by 'tournament' there's no NHL tournament. But I don't know how accurate/up-to-date it is... https://east.paxsite.com/en-us/schedule.html But there's NBA Jam: NBA Jam Sat, Mar 25, 2023 • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Location: Console Tourney GoldenEye 007 Sun, Mar 26, 2023 • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Console Tourney Maybe push the NBA Jam organizer to do a '94 next year

Hi, can you tell us what you downloaded? Normally we recommend the package from here: https://nhl94online.com/html/getting-started.php Which includes the original versions of the Sega and SNES NHL'94 games, which include the Blackhawks. If you downloaded a customized ROM from a thread on the forums, it depends on what the creator of that ROM wanted. Another possible issue... Maybe your controller is double-mapped so every time you press right or left the teams change by 2 teams instead of 1, so it always skips every other team, including the Blackhawks... does it look like all the other teams are there?

This program extracts a single track (instrument) from a MIDI. They can't be combined (yet). It likely won't sound good as a main theme. It's for the organ songs (single-instrument songs). So my suggestion is to first try replacing an organ song like the Whalers song like in my video. Don't jump straight to the main theme, it will not be possible.

great, good to know. I didn't realize github made it so difficult to download the project. I'll add a note into the Readme with the zip link.

OK, in case something went weird with copy/paste, use this link to save it: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nhl94dotcom/midi_2_nhl94/main/midi_2_nhl94/midi_2_nhl94.py Or this to get a zip: https://github.com/nhl94dotcom/midi_2_nhl94/zipball/main

It's a grid. if you don't see 040e on the left column, you need to try each byte in the row to find it. 0400, 0401...0409, 040A...040E...

Yeah this isn't on my list of things to work on any time soon. Sean has it right. You can open up the ROM in a hex editor and edit the Ron Barr text directly by Ctrl+F'ing for some of the words he uses ("welcome to"..). No instructions necessary. There are some tricky things like there are placeholders that get replaced by the team names etc, so don't break those (but you can move them..).

Never use the 26 (28) team ROM for anything, the images aren't 'uncompressed' so can't be changed properly. It appears you are using the wrong palette. Maybe hit the big arrows next to it to cycle through the adjacent palettes. Or double-check the instructions and make sure you are entering the correct palette address in the correct number system (hex or dec.. a lot of the old guides use dec offsets which is weird)

We have a couple decomps down to the assembly code somewhere on here (and another on the discord? I should copy that onto the forum if it's not here...). I opened up the ROM in IDA Pro (reverse engineering tool) many years ago, too. It comes down to having people with the expertise and the time, but we don't really have that compared to those bigger and more traditional-gamer games. I don't think we have any games programmers here who know how to rewrite the graphics stuff, controller inputs, etc..so it'd be a lot of work for someone to learn.

So you're saying we can make the Meow Mix commercial, but with guys going "UGH!" and "OOF!"??

Nice! There's an instrument map here: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/mumt306/StandardMIDIfileformat.html#BMA1_4 Assuming it matches MIDI instruments definitions... 0B = Music Box (Chromatic Percussion) 08 = Clavinet (piano) 04 = Honky-tonk Piano I don't suppose you can locate the instrument map used for the on-ice organ songs somewhere..? I don't think it's in the song itself, I think it's set up in common before loading the organ songs.

Here are the changes made. All values in hex. @address| $oldvalue | $newvalue @0690 | $4E9B | 6004 (added.. checksum skip) @91844 | $6E | $62 @91848 | $6D | $65 @9185C | $6F | $63 (removed.. not needed) @9D5AA | $6E | $62 @9D5AE | $6D | $65 @9D5C2 | $6F | $63 (removed.. not needed) There are websites that can turn them into game genie codes. Here is one, but I don't know what the 'compare' entry means https://games.technoplaza.net/ggencoder/js/

Good idea -- but I will leave this as an exercise for the players of 95 Someone please get it up to 126 or 127 points and make a new savestate or srm

version 1.1 released! See the first post for the download. Updates: Likely fixed the issues with the files getting lost, or crashing if you have spaces in your folders or file names. Dithering patterns: Added a few more dithering patterns. I like the Burkes one. Renamed the pattern what was previously called "Atkinson" (atk), since it was actually something I had customized. It's now called Smoz31 (s31). Added the actual Atkinson pattern. Ability to select which patterns to use, and which colour evaluation schemes to use (Linear/Squared/Cubed). So you don't have to do allll the possibilities, you can just do the ones you like. Fixed bug: the files that were marked as "linear" or "squared" in the old version were reversed. So now the files labelled as linear will have the lower error score, which is correct. So be aware that if you used to like, say, the "linear" results, you now should look at the "squared" results. Multicore processing!! Each pattern+mode combination will execute on a CPU core, in parallel. So if you have a 4-core CPU, you might as well choose at least 4 options. You can specify how "thorough" the palette evolution is. Enter a value from 1-5. I recommend 1 or 2 when playing around, but 3 or 4 when you're serious and want to get the best quality palette. The way to enter which pattern(s) you want is a little confusing. If you want to use patterns 1, 3, and 6 from the list, you should enter "136" and hit Enter. "123456" for all the patterns. Let me know if it doesn't run. Might need to install/update the Microsoft C++ "runtimes" package (https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe)

Yeah, the wording needs work. It needs to point out that the game is available for free to the buyer, but the seller has done something wrong. Unfortunately the seller won't care what the message is, unless the buyer disputes the sale and gets a refund. So maybe something like "This is a freely available fan-made mod. If you bought it, request a refund" Then the nhl94.com URL

That's true, it's not like there's zero value. But still they are not giving the ROM creator anything. Everdrive: Yes, whenever people come on the forums and ask for cartridges, I point them to getting an everdrive.

Now that you mention the gloves, I can't unsee them!