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When Carse said before the games that he depends on the defence to score for him, he wasn't kidding. Game 1 was a tight one. As I predicted before the season, it didn't take long for a Ranger goalie to get the hook, the Beezer being pulled after a slapshot goal that put FLA up 1-0. The Rangers came back, getting a 3-2 lead, but then James Patrick on the Rangers corralled the loose puck in front of the Rangers net and dumped it in behind a confused and rather irate Mike Richter to give Florida the equalizer. However, with 20 seconds to go, Mark Messier beat the "other" Beezer (Florida and NYR both have John Vanbiesbrouk) with a floater to the far side to seal the game for the Rangers. Game 2 wasn't so tight. The Rangers hopped out to an early 4-0 lead, the NYR one-timers coming from every direction. The FLA Beezer was quickly pulled for Mark Fitzpatrick. Florida got on the board when none other than James Patrick scored on himself AGAIN. I thought Carse meant he depended on HIS defencemen to score for him, but apparently he meant MINE. The game ended in a 6-3 victory for the Rangers, Messier scoring 3 and helping on 2 others. Gord Murphy, star defenceman for the Panthers seemed to be mounting a comeback, but the Rangers held on. Game 3 was the tightest yet! A hard-fought game brought the teams into overtime, where Mike Hough put a "bullet" from the hash marks past Mike Richter to win the game for Florida, 3-2. Game 4 was pretty tight, too. The Rangers walked away from this one with a 2-1 win (Gord Murphy again giving the Rangers a scare by scoring a late goal to bring the Panthers within 1) and 3-1 record to start the season.

One problem I've seen is that I think Gens can play a ROM from within a ZIP file, so some people unzip it and others don't, and they can't play each other.

I have one of these: http://www.saitekusa.com/usa/prod/P880.htm It's ok. Not amazing, but for 30$CA, not a disappointment. They could improve it by having 2 shoulder buttons on each side instead of just one big one on each side, and the analog sticks are poorly positioned, so you can't use them for long without getting uncomfortable. I find the D-pad to be a little too hard/sharp sometimes, too. For just playing NHL94, I don't think I would recommend this one, but if you play other things, too, it's ok. There are 6 thumb buttons. I set them up like this: A O O B C O and the right shoulder button is START. It seems like it would be awkward having A above B, but it's actually easier.

No one I know "in real life" can consistently beat me, but that's not many people. When I started playing online in the oNHL94 league (the one with the stats), I was Anaheim and was beating everyone or losing close ones, but then tk11 came from the other conference and crushed me 6-0 (5-0 after the first period) and I realized I had a thing or two to learn! I think people who haven't played online will be 1-2 steps lower than they think they are. When you play online, you learn so many new ideas: I NEVER used manual goalie until I was online and saw that it could decide a game. I'm still pretty weak at it, but then there a few players (ok, one in particular) who would serve themselves better by leaving the goalie to his goalie-ing and not turning him into an olympic horizontal ice diver The pass-goal was an occasional funny accident to me, not an integral part of the offensive arsenal of slow teams. People online are waaay better dekers than I am. I may be the one-timer king, though!

BEWARE THE RANGERS, MERE MORTALS! Actually, I should probably get a revolving door installed on my bench, for the frequency with which I'll be pulling Vanbiesbrouk and Richter. Prediction: Steve Yzerman will win the scoring championship.

Murphy is pretty incompetent, too. I find Christian Ruuttu doesn't look too bad on the ice with Roenick and Larmer (but really, who's going to look good next to those guys?? Some people even think Larmer sucks, since they can't see his skills when he's placed next to Roenick's domination!)

Terry Yake is awesome. I'm playing a season with a friend of mine, and Yake is 16th in scoring with 20 goals and 6 assists in 13 games. That puts him in a tie for 6th in goals (with Lemieux). Of players averaging more than a shot per game, he is leading the league with a 43.5% shooting percentage (20 goals, 46 shots). He is also a decent sub at centre on Hartford (Cassels never does much for me). I find he's a pretty smart player, finding an open spot in front of the net for one-timers. The worst scorers in our season are Andrei Kovalenko (QUE) and Dale Hawerchuk (BUF), each with 2 goals on 25 shots for 8%. Kovalenko scored one in his last game, so he was around 4-5% before that. He gets to play because of his crazy hitting, but like someone else on these forums said before, he "plays like he doesn't know much about the game" : ).

I've seen this happen if you score on a penalty shot in the Genesis version. Penalty shots don't seem to count as shots.

I find I like being shorthanded, too. The team on the powerplay plays poor defense and you get good breaks. I like the penalties on. They spice things up a bit . But yeah, the refs are totally corrupt! -- edit: oh, i already replied to this ages ago. Losing my mind.. Haven't been playing enough '94 lately, that's gotta be the problem!

I still say it's cheap. Well, maybe it's how some people employ it that's cheap. I rarely get scored on this way, but I hate it when people try it OVER and OVER and OVER again. That's why it's cheap: people do it over and over again because they have nothing better. It really makes the game boring (though it does help bring my bodycheck stat up). If you need the walk-across in order to score.. you need more practice and creativity/spontaneity, and I don't know how you're having much fun playing. I consider it like the trap in the NHL: within the rules, but .. yaaawwnn...

nice, hehe For the Sega, Top Forward lines: Roenick, Selanne, Bure Yzerman, Mogilny, Gartner Gilmour, Fleury, Ciccarelli Lemieux, Gretzky, Robitaille or Sandstrom Top Defencemen pairings: Housley, Sweeney Bourque, Chelios Leetch, Suter Coffey, Lidstrom Top Goalies: Belfour, Roy, Fuhr, hmm.. Essensa, Potvin, Hextall, Terreri.. really, after the top 3, they're all the same!

I've seen guys superman the entire width of the rink : ) Short story here, then a new term! My favourite lobster/superman was after a goal when playing aganist a friend of mine. One of us scored a goal (I forget who), then the other nailed one of the scoring team's players into the end-boards. The player Lobstered all the way out to the blue line, then, as soon as he crossed the blueline, he got up and raised his stick and arms above his head in celebration of the goal. He looked like a gymnast who totally messed up a stunt, but got up and did the arms-up-in-air thing gymnasts do at end of a routine to show off to the judges. Laughed..so.. hard.. -- "Grand Slam Goal" When you score a goal and then check all 5 of your opponent's players to the ice. This is VERY rare, since they guys must be lined up nicely for you, and since your guy is cheering, you don't get much time to dole out the punishment. I've only noticed myself do it once. Checking the same guy twice doesn't count as two checks -- it must be all 5 unique players. Note: They don't all have to be lying on the ice at the same time; it's ok if they get up, as long as you don't hit the same guy again and count it as two checks. I think this name ("grand slam goal") is a bit weak, though, considering the magnitude of the feat. Can anyone think of a better name?

I always thought it made a bit more sense to take a drink each time you scored Evens things out a bit.. and why not celebrate!

I thought it was the NHL itself that wanted the fighting and blood out?

The highlight was the stickhandling at the red line to get around some player at the boards. Four players frantically chasing him to the goal added humour. The goal itself was irrelevant (and a total skate across, though I doubt the CPU's enjoyment of the game was negatively affected). And the goal was scored on the rush (hence the hustle), not a set play. I thought I might get some flak for that goal in the video, but -- Gah! Offsides just add more whistles, since the CPU players are a tad dumb. In the oNHL94 stats league, we use offsides and line changes, and some games you just wish you could check the refs over the boards, as the offsides slow the game down a lot since people have to wait for the guy who went in ahead of them to come back, or someone went in offscreen and got a whistle. I don't think many people find playing with offsides on adds anything to the game, unless you're playing with 3 or 4 players and need it to prevent cherry-picking. I don't care if it's me or my opponent who went offside -- I don't want to waste time on whistled plays. It's hockey, not football

Hey, that play took some hustle not some boring set play. What I object to with the skate-across is that some guys try to set it up play after play and barge through your defense with their most Roenick-esque player. How is that fun? It's repetitive and frustrating. It's the NHL94 equivalent of playing the trap. What I actually liked about that goal was the stick handling near the red line. And that 4 opponent guys are all chasing him frantically, mwaha. If the skate across presents itself to you, then take it (if there's an open net, you'd shoot, right?). If you try to manufacture the skate across.. zzzzzzzz

Yeah, I hadn't found the Gens Movie Maker emulator at that time, and my attempts at using screen capture programs didn't work (the emulator was taking too much CPU power). Also, a lot of those clips are recorded from my actual Sega playing on a TV. The song is "As Far as I Can Spit" by the Rainbow Butt Monkeys (1995). They're called "Finger Eleven" now.

Idea for anyone who wants to try: Record a netplay game using a GYM file in gens2.12 or whatever (i've heard this is possible?). Play the GYM in Gens Movie Maker, and while the GYM is running, record a GMV (the custom movie maker format). The GMV can then be used to record an AVI. (directly recording to AVI while playing will not work! it's too slow)

I checked out the source code to attempt to put netplay in the movie making gens.. and it's already there. You just need to copy over the kaillera dll and I'm pretty sure it'll work!

Hey guys, I finally finished my 2nd nhl94 video! Video 2 It's a little long (6 minutes), but I think the editing is better than on the last one. And of course the video quality is infinitely better this time! Video 1 Highlights from a set of maybe 30 games I played last year, mostly from cup runs by Chicago and Vancouver, plus a few random clips (some from the 2005 update ROM). Sorry about the bad quality!

"Pure Sanderson" If a guy scores a one-timer goal on a pass that he shouldn't have been able to touch due to another player being in the way, this is pure Sanderson. The term comes from the god-like game Sanderson had in a league a friend and I made, scoring 6 goals. Sanderson one-timed a pass for a goal while being covered by THREE guys. He just stuck a stick through the crowd and slapped it in, and from quite a ways away from the net, too. The term can also be used when a player miraculously pulls in a pass despite being covered by a guy between him and the passer. "Lobster" (verb) When you check a guy and he falls on his face and slides to the north or south, he looks like a lobster, so he is "lobstering." His arms/gloves look like a lobster's claws. "Superman" (verb) When you check and guy into the boards and he flies out across the rink in the opposite direction, arms outstretched like Superman, this this is "Supermaning." "Instant Revenge" Sometimes, when you check a guy over, he gets up again almost immediately and can take "instant revenge" on the player who knocked him over.

The SNES version just feels.. wrong. * The frame rate is pretty low, so the animations look off and delayed. * When you hit a guy, he doesn't get knocked down - he just falls over. It doesn't feel solid like a hit on the Sega. Someone said something about how on the SNES you can hit a guy and then fly back to centre ice. Well, in the Sega version, you can hit a guy, and HE flies back to centre ice. And much laughter is had by all as he supermans across the ice and hits another player, upon which event someone quips, "you know.. if yer stupid guy hadn't been in the way, he would have made it to the far boards." You fly back pretty far on the Sega once in a while, too, anyway. * No buzzer when the period ends. I keep wondering who got the damn penalty while I was on a breakaway. * Really obnoxious music. Seriously. Can't stand it. Sega music, much better. * The sound is just weak. Bad graphics in many games can be excused, but sound really adds to the immersion factor, and the SNES version just sounds bad. When you hit the post, it makes a dull THUD rather than the exciting Sega CLINK! The puck sounds like it's made of plastic when you receive a pass or when it's flipped into the air and lands on the ice. (Aside: I wonder if they engineer the nets in the NHL to make the most exciting sound possible when hit by the puck?) * When you crush a guy to put him out for the period or game, in the Sega version, you can really hear the crowd going "OOoooohh.. MAN that had to hurt!" While, on the SNES, it's more like, "Yeah, could I get some ketchup on my hotdog? Oh look, that poor chap fell over. Crumpets." -- On the SNES, I do however like how the players look really mangled after being hit into the boards. Still.. the hitting just doesn't have the same pop as on the Sega. SNES has better passing, too -- it does get annoying on the Sega when your guys fumble 7 passes in a row (I had a game recently where my passing was 2/21(9%) over the first 2 periods with Detroit). Overall, the SNES version gives me a 'plastic' feel, while the Sega version has a much smoother feel.

Finally, cold hard proof! I can now silence the SNES version fans I know.

I'm not sure if this can play .giz files, but it can make AVI movies: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/forum/viewtopic.php?t=316