brianski71

You're awesome. Keep up the unbelievable work!

This is what I needed to start my new year off right! Thanks so much for all the hours you guys constantly pour into these things!! Just a couple things I noticed as a hardcore Pens fan and a maniac with just a bit of OCD 🙃...first off, why are the Pens rated so low!? (Kidding!) On a more serious note, it seems like the gold on the home jerseys is more orange than yellow. The colors of the away ones are perfect, but it almost seems off a shade on the black ones, especially on the shoulders. That said, I feel like it really sucks that we're the only team in the league where the real life uniforms don't even come close to what NHL 94 for Genesis offers. Not your issue, I'm just venting! I don't know how much has gone into the actual default lines, but the ROM has Ben Kindel as the 1st line LW. He's played almost exclusively center all season. So (without injuries, obviously) it should be Rakell-Crosby-Rust, Mantha-Malkin-Brazeau, and Kindel is the 3rd line center. Also, as I was setting up a few random games, it seems like Anaheim's away uniforms are at least a couple years behind. They still have the black shoulders and pants that they quit wearing in 2024. And they're wearing black helmets with the home uniforms, instead of the obnoxious orange ones they actually wear. I don't say any of this to be critical in the least! Just trying to bring some stuff to light, since I know you sink so many hours into this thing being modern and up-to-date. And it's impossible for you to have a hardcore spotlight on 32 teams, as we all do with our own teams.

First off, THANK YOU for this!! I kind of come and go from here, and these have somehow slipped through the cracks for me. They're outstanding! One little thing, though. At least for me, when I open the 1911-12 ROM or 1912-13 ROM, they both open as "NHA 1912." It's the same game in both files. Any chance you have the 1913 file lying around and just named something wrong? These are like Pokemon, man...I need to catch them all!!

Sucks to hear about your laptop! I just bought a new (mini) PC and I'm setting it up with all emulation stuff now. LaunchBox is a nice little program to keep everything nice and tidy...just thought it'd be awesome to have box art to make it look like all the other Genesis games on there. An NHL 2K11 update of any kind would be great! I've been playing a little 2K hockey recently and I definitely miss it. Not even as any sort of 2K fanboy, just as a change of pace to EA hockey. Glad to hear this project is alive and well! I love college hockey, but I'm without a dedicated favorite team, as I went to a D3 school and root for Pitt in D1 sports and neither has varsity hockey. I feel like a kid with NHL again, as this project helps connect me to real-life college hockey.

First I've checked in on this project in months, and like everyone else, I'm blown away! A couple questions...I could totally be making this up, but didn't someone create box art for this project awhile back? If so, is there any way we can get it posted? And if not, that sounds like a great project for someone more talented than me! Haha. Also, is there an updated Discord link for that new NHL Legacy project? I'd love to check that out! Keep up the amazing work!

Hey, man! Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Sorry I missed it when you sent it. I kind of pop in and out of here through the season and I missed what you sent back. As most adults, I've always got something going on that keeps me away from old school games way more than I wish! Sparing you my life story, I'm at home recovering from a surgery, so I fired up the NHL 94 ROMs for a few days here. Your ROM still plays awesome. The small graphical changes make a huge difference! As far as the Pens go, I think it's interesting that the "official" EA NHL Rewind game actually has the opposite of what you have. Not that either of you are right or wrong, it's just interesting that it's opposite. I guess it just goes to show how annoying it can be to jam a team with jerseys that don't fit the template at all into said template, even if their home and away jerseys are a simple black/white color swap. To me, the way you have it in the ROM reminds me much more of the new (old) third jerseys with Pittsburgh down the front. Those jerseys are primarily black with just gold and white stripes at the bottom. The home and away jerseys (to me, at least) are a pretty even black or white and gold split. The problem is that the shoulders of the actual jerseys are black or white and the sleeve is gold, where the game makes the sleeve match the jersey body and gives you the option to change the shoulder color. To me, I've always preferred the shoulder patches on the game being gold on both jerseys, since this pretty much splits the color of the jersey evenly between black or white and gold, which is essentially what you get with the real jerseys, even though the striping pattern is impossible to match. At the end of the day, it's your ROM and your awesome project! I'm just adding my two cents. Either way, it's light years better than the original NHL 94 uniforms. In the 93-94 season, the Pens white jerseys actually had gold shoulders and would have fit nearly perfectly into the template. On the game, they left out the gold shoulders on the white jerseys and inexplicably added red(!?), while the black ones had gold shoulders on the game, but in real life the away jerseys were the current alternate jerseys, without any gold on the shoulders at all. Stranger yet, the SNES version, which had a different jersey template, nailed the Pens jerseys with 100% accuracy, even with the different home and away jerseys.

I'm loving this! I have been a loyal player of naples's ROMs for years (and will continue to be!) and this fresh coat of paint, if you will looks awesome! I, too, am a stickler for the visual details. This is the greatest looking ROM I have seen around. I'd honestly love to see the original "remastered" this way, too. As someone who notices small visual details, though, I do wonder one thing. I am a huge Penguins fan. And one thing that puzzles me is why all three of you guys have the Pens wearing different styles of jerseys home and away. The NHL 94 Genesis template doesn't do the current Pens jerseys any favors, and it's impossible to recreate them perfectly. But I wonder why all three of you have the white jerseys having gold shoulders and the black jerseys not having gold shoulders, rather just a thin gold outline. Since the actual jerseys are essentially the same with just the black and white flipped, I'm curious why the same (either way) isn't done for both home and away on the ROMs. Not criticizing...just wondering!

Sounds good! Don't want you to think I was nit picking, just noticed the wrong number right away. Haha

Fair enough...there's a method to your madness and I certainly won't be the one to tell you to change it! Thanks again for all your hard work! This thing is awesome, and I'll be sinking some time into playing it!

This is awesome! Thanks so much for a ROM that puts all of the Winter Classic teams together! One TINY thing I found is that Ryan Whitney wore #19 for the Pens, not 18. Also, is there any way to swap the Pens and Sabres 08 uniforms? I know you already addressed the fact that this was the odd game where the home team wore white, but when you play with the Pens as the home team, it plays the Pittsburgh organ music instead of Buffalo. Thanks again for such an awesome project!

This is fantastic! Thank you so much! However, I can't seem to get into a game with the Pelicans. Even though you have 10 players on their roster, I get an error message that says "Custom teams must have nine or more players in their roster for the team to be used in a game." Any idea how to get around this?

Love it, as always! Thanks so much! I absolutely love the idea of having a version with the reverse retro uniforms! Just a SMALL change I noticed...apparently the Penguins are wearing their white helmets with their reverse retros after all (boo). NHL 21 just recently made this change. Any chance this version sticks around as an alternate version once I'm assuming you switch the jerseys back to the teams' "regular" ones? Also, (a pipe dream, since I'm totally ignorant as to how to do such things) any chance we could see the teams' reverse retro logos on the menu screens to go with such a version? That'd be awesome.

Sorry I’m a month late to the party here, but I’m so glad to see the King back at it! No disrespect to any of the other awesome modders out there, but in my opinion, Naples’s work is the gold standard. Awesome work again this year! Another Pens fan here...the only small “mistake” I could find is that Jack Johnson changed his number from 73 to 3 this year. Simple enough fix in NOSE for me, just something tiny to throw in the next update. Hopefully we get a “Deadline 20” edition ROM this year (hopefully your life has calmed down!!). I live for that ROM every year and have played through the throwback ones with accurate playoff brackets MANY times!

What an awesome idea! I know I have requested (begged, haha) Naples to make an “Outdoor” ROM the years that the Pens have played outdoor games. It would be AWESOME if someone could work up an “outdoor” rink and the ROM(s) could be done with the rosters, rinks, and uniforms from all of the outdoor games that have been played since ‘08!

I'd love to see it! I'm terrible at editing jerseys and have no clue how to update the center ice logos. Not to pressure you at all or try make special requests or anything, but it'd be super cool to have an outdoor version with the different team logos from the Winter Classic and Stadium Series games, too! But my real reason for checking in was...is there a "Deadline 19" ROM on the horizon? I can't wait for it!!