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Every emblem except the Whalers is there.
No Ron Barr, but otherwise almost every screen looks the same.Hartford is called the Hartford Canes in the game.
The NHL now has the TM for Whalers and the logo, but at the time (2006) they did not.Ratings are the exact same for all the players just with phony names and numbers.
Arena names are also missing.Whalers still have Brass Bonanza as the music.
All the other music is accurate as well.Really cool.
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How much can I LOVE this!
Handwritten notes!!!
Super Cool, Thanks for posting.
Offensive Awareness is based on Season Point Totals.
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On 4/21/2019 at 1:00 PM, halifax said:
Posted this on social media “Prefer to use your own nhl’94 team? Manual goalie not your strong suit? Then the Duke of 94 tournament is for you! September 21 (Sega) and 22nd (SNES) @waves egaming.”
Duke of 94 seems awesome to me, but will anyone else enter???
Love the Auto Goalie!
Sadly, I am also almost 100% going to miss my first King of 94.
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So well done!
Thanks @kingraph @Evan @MikeGartner22 @chaos for running a great tourney and being all around awesome guys.
Always love seeing @IAmFleury'sHipCheck and enjoyed making him sweat in Game 1 of our Playoff Series 9vs24.
@superfan99 was great to meet and I was impressed with how he improved through the day.
@The Sauce was fun to meet and talk editing roms and rating players. Also enjoyed playing some exis with him of my Original 6 roms and the classic rom.
@Lupz27 was excellent to meet in person and further demonstrates why the internet sucks. Really good guy!
@corbettkb HOW COULD I EVER THANK YOU ENOUGH! Putting me up in your awesome place in Brooklyn (I felt like I was in an episode of Seinfeld), Showing me the town on bicycle, by Subway, and walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. Playing exis, and best of all the Yankees White Sox game on Sunday.
Very Fun!
As usual I played poorly and seemed destined to be career minor leaguer when it comes to NHL 94.
But open invite to all my NYC and Chi-town buds mentioned above to come out and ski, run, bike, hike, kayak, raft, you name it in my mountain paradise home!
The X marks my
On 4/16/2019 at 1:09 PM, kingraph said:LOVED
* Random starting order vs pre-ranking
* Modified swiss style round robin format, followed by elimination game. The swiss style led to some amazing round 3,4,5 games!CONSIDERATIONS
* Handling of no-shows. Expected 1-2, did not expect 4. Also expected more guests.
Best run tourney and format, that I have been to since King of 94 #1 in Toronto.
The no shows and the 1-0 forfeit victories would be my only complaint, but it was as well done and thought out as anyone could hope for.
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3 hours ago, kingraph said:
Good news/bad news
The bad news first -- unfortunately @IceStorm70 now has a work conflict and will not be able to attend the tournament. Gotta pay the bills first!
The good news -- @IAmFleury'sHipCheck a.k.a EA WILL be attending the tournament as his paying job will conveniently place him in NYC next week! Yay!
We are coming closer to the actual tournament day, can't wait, I'm excited. This week I'll post a more about the structure, prizes and such.
Also, if you're in the NYC area and enjoy doing broadcast commentary, feel free to join us! I'll be participating in the tournament and our resident celebrity broadcaster Arda Ocal (Emmy nominated!) will be in Milwaukee for another retro event. Soooooo, open mic!
Awesome that EA @IAmFleury'sHipCheck is going to be there!
Thanks for putting this on @kingraph
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53 minutes ago, tinpanalley said:
It says Leave Off only. I haven't tried to change that because, well, it says Leave Off
This is funny and a good insight into Human Behavior and differences between people.
But, trust me your tongue will not stick to the pole.
1 hour ago, tinpanalley said:Sorry, I don't mean to be a smartass but I'll just repost my initial question:
" The thing is that I've been playing this on Retroarch on my Android phone and having made it to the Stanley Cup, I was hoping to be able to take the save state and switch to Retroarch on my PC so I could finish this properly (if I win of course) on my TV, something I never once did on the cartridge. I'm being told by Retroarch people that an in-game save works across platforms but not save states. "I have ONLY been playing until now with Save States not having seen any user records option in the V3 of the "tourney" ROM
Also, I have that SRM file. Retroarch won't acknowledge it on my PC. Gens on Android would be great, but as far as I can tell that doesn't exist.
Based on what you have said and experienced, it sounds like you can not make that change over.
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56 minutes ago, kingraph said:
Nobody has since looked into that issue or updated for a fix.
All good and true points by @kingraph except this I can tell you that it works just fine.
I do keep a back up of the roms I am using it on just in case as @wboy said it does corrupt something, but I have never had any issues.
I also thought that you meant it was not keeping your progress through the playoffs, which should work just fine.
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11 minutes ago, tinpanalley said:
No no, I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying. The game, as originally released, permitted you to save your progress through a playoff. You entered in a username and it would track your playoff for you. I'm not talking about adding teams. That way you were able to resume your playoff on another day. What I'm asking is why isn't that in the modded ROMs? Obviously someone from the community at some point took that feature out. Why, is what I'm asking?
That does work typically anyway with roms played on GENS or KEGA.
I am not sure why it isn't working for you or with this rom.
It works with all my Historic roms.Best of all get an Everdrive and an Original Genesis play all these roms just like its 1994!
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Cool and Fun!
How did Dino lose to Chelios is the only opening round shocker.
Yzerman looks to have the easiest road to the Final 4 coming out of the Adams.
I can't see him not making it.Roy/Bure winner in the Sweet 16 should come out of the Patrick.
Theo/Belfour in the Sweet 16 and Gilmour in the Elite 8 makes the Norris the toughest Division.
Mogilny/Roenick is a colossal Elite 8 Match-up with the winner taking it all.
Yzerman/Bure/Belfour/Roenick are my Final 4
Roenick over Yzerman in the Final.
How do you vote in this?
Another piece of awesomeness brought to you by @kingraph
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4 hours ago, smozoma said:
What if we just gave team numeric ratings (like your old ratings post),and said within 5 pts is pretty fair?
So you'd take the ratings of the two team, add the relevant home or away value (although away value has less of an effect than home), and then you'd get a decent idea of the relative skills of the two teams.
(The team ratings in the image are the mathematically derived values from your old post. we'd need to agree on new values)
"Skillcap" is a bonus to deal with cases where a good player can get more out of a team.
-2, -1, or 0 is a poor way to think about away rating.
There really is no away rating just a Home Ice advantage that can range from a low of zero to high of 5.This is being way over thought in my opinion.
Raphs first post was perfect. It is just a guide. We are all going to have some preferences, what I loved in the Original post was #1 how cool it looked gotta keep the logos, #2 The wealth of info, players Home away, #3 The simplicity.
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I really also like what you did with the Home and Away.
Including the numbers makes it easy to see for example that EDM vs PHI Match Home Ice will be huge +3 for the Oil at Home and +4 for Philly at Home.
While a Dallas Vs Calgary match Home Ice will essentially mean nothing as it turns out as zero in either building.
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The freeze bug should have been at 21 teams
Or maybe 6.
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6 hours ago, kingraph said:
There have been many rankings done for tournaments where we group teams into tiers, but something always felt off. It was either too many tiers, not enough tiers, or the personal preferences around which teams on the fringe make it or not into a particular tier. I am trying an updated method that doesn't group teams into tiers so rigidly, but rather offers a scale based on team. Here's my first pass:
The idea is that you find a team and then a reasonable matchup will be any other team that shares the color tier. So for example, a team like Quebec can play anyone from Boston (purple band) down to New York Rangers (brownish band). Meanwhile, Chicago is just the top 4 teams. This lends to more flexibility as all you have to do is add/drop a team from a band to adjust any unfair matchups instead of fencing them into a tier.
You can also assume the top teams in a band are stronger than the bottom. So St. Louis vs New York Islanders, STL would be stronger, but that is still a reasonable matchup. However, STL vs TOR, TOR would be the stronger matchup, but still reasonable. TOR can't play NYI though.
I found this to be a pretty good exercise in that it will also give you a general team ranking. Some teams are interchangeable that are only in one band (NYI/NJ/HFD/WSH), but it's really the fringe teams that make you think.
I included the rosters of main players, bolded the top 50ish, and added home/away advantages. I think this can be printed as a good reference.
Having said all that, I've messed around with this enough and came to the point where my mind started turning into mush. So I'm sharing it now with the group to get your input, see if it makes sense, see if I'm missing something, etc. Thanks for taking the time to review.
How much can I love this post and chart!
I tried to make something like this for Vegas that did get passed out and used, but this is a major upgrade.
Incredibly well done!
6 hours ago, kingraph said:Sorry for the large picture - I have to make a smaller version without logos.
NOOOOOO!
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20 minutes ago, bushhockeyfan said:
no need to have your winter cap strings crossed in a knot.
Funny...No bees in my bonnet or burrs in my saddle.
Just pointing out what I did was simple.
@kingraph and you both have my full support.
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I easily did both teams in primary colors using NOSE.
I have also done it in some Original 6 Roms. It does look cool, but what I did was simple.
What you are asking for is much more work and complex.
All I did was change the uniforms in NOSE and make sure that I had no conflicts. Red vs Red for example.
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Thanks for the responses and yes I could see where what you are saying is true, but I am basically using the same guys in either rom.
To me there seems to be something else and unknown element.
Anyway no big deal, as a side note the Historic/Retro players benefit from the Wt. Bug!
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I saw some stuff like this for Tecmo Bowl teams in a Video game Store.
So I thought I'd make some for '94.
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I have been playing a ton of 94 on the Original Equipment.
Both against the computer and against Live competition.
I have found Classic roms to be far better/crazier/I am not sure of the word than WBF roms.
Anybody else feel that difference? Agree?
Also as @Matt55 pointed out when playing the computer "big" guys will level you so the WBF is actually in effect.
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On 3/25/2017 at 4:23 PM, CoachMac said:
Improved Classic Versions!
NHL'94classic.bin
Stick Tape and Eye Patch Applied.
Player cards for all starters.
PRO SET Scoreboard and 3-Stars Sponsor.
Music matched to appropriate teams.
All Sim/Team Data set to reflect Actual Regular Season Points and Statistics.
All player data reflects Actual Year Statistics.
Classic plus the Greatest Teams from the Original 6 Era!
NHLclassic+6.bin
1953 Bruins (Lost Final to Montreal.) ( Milt Schmidt, Jim Henry, Fleming MacKell)
1961 Blackhawks (Won Stanley Cup.) (Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, Glenn Hall, Pierre Pilote)
1952 Red Wings (Won Stanley Cup. 100 Points. 8-0 in Playoffs.) (Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Red Kelly, Terry Sawchuk)
1956 Canadiens (Won Stanley Cup. 100 Points. First of 5 straight Cups.) (Rocket Richard, Jean Beliveau, Doug Harvey, Jacques Plante)
1958 Rangers (Finished 2nd in Regular Season.) (Andy Bathgate, Gump Worsley, Bill Gadsby)
1962 Maple Leafs (Won Stanley Cup. First of 3 straight Cups.) (Dave Keon, Tim Horton, Frank Mahovlich, Johnny Bower)Classic plus the Greatest Teams from the 1970's!
Montreal 1977 (Won Stanley Cup, Most Wins and Points in Regular Season/ Lafleur, Robinson, Lemaire, Savard, Dryden, Shutt)
Boston 1972 (Won Stanley Cup/Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Johnny Bucyk)
Philadelphia 1975 (Won Stanley Cup/ Bobby Clarke and Bernie Parent plus the Broad Street Bullies)
Chicago 1971 (Lost to Montreal in the Final/Mikita, Bobby and Dennis Hull, Keith Magnuson, and Tony Esposito)
New York Rangers 1972 (Lost to Boston in the Final/GAG Line Ratelle, Hadfield, and Gilbert plus Brad Park)
Buffalo Sabres 1975 (Lost to Philly in the Final/The French Connection Perrault, Martin, and Robert)Classic plus the Greatest Teams of the 1980's!
1984 Edmonton Oilers (Won Stanley Cup Gretzky, Messier, Kurri, Coffey, Fuhr)
1982 New York Islanders (Won Stanley Cup Bossy, Billy Smith, Trottier, Potvin, and Gillies)
1989 Calgary Flames (Won Stanley Cup Mullen, MacInnis, Loob, Nieuwendyk, Suter, Vernon, Gilmour)
1986 Montreal Canadiens (Won Stanley Cup Patrick Roy, Robinson, Chelios, Bobby Smith, Mats Naslund)
1987 Philadelphia Flyers (Lost to Edmonton in the Finals Hextall, Mark Howe, and Tim Kerr)
1988 Boston Bruins (Lost to Edmonton in the Final Neely, Janney, Bourque)Classic plus the 1980 Miracle Teams from Lake Placid and the 1972 Summit Series Teams!
1980 USA (Won the Gold Medal highlighted by a 4-3 victory over the USSR)
1980 USSR (Silver Medal)
1972 Canada (Won the Summit Series 4-3-1 by winning the last 3 games all on the road in Russia)
1972 USSR (Lost Summit Series 3-4-1)
Classic 2v2 Rom
All Advantages equal.
Bonus Disabled.
20 minute Overtime.Charlestown Chiefs (Hanson Brothers and Dennis Lemieux)
Syracuse Bulldogs (Ogie Oglethorpe, Tim McCracken, Clarence Swamptown, Tommy Hanrahan)
All-Stars '94 (Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Ray Bourque, Patrick Roy)
Enforcers '94 (Bob Probert, Marty McSorley, Tie Domi, Ron Hextall)Gene Carr is the Host.
Old Fashioned Root Beer is the Sponsor. (Hanson Brothers Favorite!)
Brass Bonanza is Intro Music and All Teams Face off Music.
Stick tape and Eye Patch applied.Tons of updates on the first page.
New Banners for Historic Teams. (shows the year)
New Team Selection logos for Historic Teams. (shows the year)
Some new Splash screens.All of these new roms are Classic.
Instead of making a huge Historic Rom with lots of teams and players I am not interested in I just put 6 teams from different eras on each rom with the 24 Original teams (removed the All-Stars, Ducks, and Panthers)
I find Classic roms just play better, or seem more fun, or just seem more frantic.Here are the 6 Splash screens. Credit to @smozoma for the Bure/Vernon screen.
And here is a sample of the Banners and team select Logos.
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Here is a challenging fun way to play.
Best of 7 Playoffs
Play with Line Changes Off, BUT.....
Game 1 Use SC1 for your team. #1 Goalie
Game 2 Use SC2 for your team. #2 Goalie
Game 3 Use CHK for your team. #1 Goalie
Game 4 Use whatever you want to create for a 4th line with what is left. #2 Goalie.If you lose a game, you must use the line that lost in Game 5, etc... until you win.
Every Line must win to advance.Players not on one of the 4 Lines (Scratches) are waiting for an injury.
If a player is injured in any way they are OUT! and go to the back of this line.
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13 minutes ago, kingraph said:
This is great work! I appreciate you posting your tests and results in such a clear and well written post.
The weight makes total sense, and remember, the weight bug only applies to human-controlled players. So when the CPU controls the checking player, the heavier weight will be more effective. It's a win-win for what you're looking for.
I like the notes on Aggression. I would love to see a classic like league where we put everyone's aggression down to zero. Then we can see over a many games if there are fewer penalties called overall.
I agree.
It is along the lines of a project I am working on (making the computer more challenging) and I appreciate this greatly.
When playing the computer WBF roms are not really the best.
This and the zero goalie speed, etc... are great.
Way to go @Matt55
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Good job to all!
Sad that I missed this.
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NHL'94 from Playstation2 NHL'06
in Genesis Roms
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In the Intro it says "Welcome to _____ (whatever city is the Home team).
Except for Anaheim it says Welcome to Park and Philadelphia says welcome to PF Arena.