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NHL '94: Wide Display Mode (“widescreen”) Hack v2.0 Status: Stuck at ~93% ~96% ~98% ~99% 100%? completion The existing Wide Display Mode patches change the game to use the 320 pixel wide video mode instead of the 256 pixel wide video mode in most gameplay screens. This causes many cosmetic bugs, and I've been on a quest to try to fix every single last issue myself, for both the original and 32-team ROMS. Alas, I could't quite get it to 100%. You can see my progress my downloading my latest ROM, and using the included Wide Mode patch. It's almost perfect, but there are a few issues I need your help with. If you can help me finish this, I can write up an easy to use tutorial that will work on every '94 ROM, as well as output new patches. Everything I have done I've taken this thing as far as I could on my own. Here are all my notes and research. I'm hopeful that some folks who're better at this stuff can help me get this project over the finish line! There are three sections separated into three different posts. 1. Patch v1.2 Analysis & Recommendations 2. Wide Mode Patch v1.2 Issues & Fixes 3. tldr; What do you need to get this to 100%? 1. Patch v1.2 Analysis & Recommendations I tested the existing patch v1.2 by paul294met, and tried to identify every single thing that it was doing. This is what I found. 1. Remove Checksum @ 0x300 4E B9 00 0F FA C0 v1.2 4E 71 4E 71 4E 71 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 2. Unknown: ??? @ 0x7D9F 00 v1.2 02 32-Team Recommendation Do not use, or use with caution. (Currently unused) 3. Fixes Pause Screen to be 256 wide @ 0x7DD3 0031 7C91 0000 0431 7C92 1C00 04 v1.2 0430 BC91 0030 BC92 1C30 BC8C 00 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 4. Unknown: ??? @ 0x7E82 58 78 B0 28 v1.2 4E 71 4E 71 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 5. Change Address of Referenced Code, to point to new code. @ 0xA012 / 0xA5C6 00 00 A4 48 v1.2 00 0F FA C0 32-Team Recommendation 00 1F FA C0 6. Unknown: ??? @ 0x0A456 02 v1.2 03 32-Team Recommendation Do not use, or use with caution. (Currently unused) 7. Unknown: ??? @ 0x0A494 02 v1.2 03 32-Team Recommendation Do not use, or use with caution. (Currently unused) 8. Unknown: ??? @ 0x0A4B4 00 v1.2 03 32-Team Recommendation Do not use, or use with caution. (Currently unused) 9. Unknown: ??? @ 0x0A4E2 02 v1.2 03 32-Team Recommendation Do not use, or use with caution. (Currently unused) 10. Unknown: Affects Rink width (Rightmost 4 block columns) @ 0x0A641 3C v1.2 20 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 11. Unknown: Affects Rink width (Rightmost 4 block columns) @ 0x0649 3C v1.2 20 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 12. Unknown: Affects Rink width (Leftmost 4 block columns) @ 0x064D C4 v1.2 E0 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 13. Unknown: Affects Rink width (Leftmost 4 block columns) @ 0x0655 C4 v1.2 E0 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 14. Unknown: Affects Rink width (Leftmost 4 block columns) @ 0x0B0AB C4 v1.2 E0 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 15. Unknown: Affects Rink width (Leftmost 4 block columns) @ 0x0B0B3 C4 v1.2 E0 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 16. Unknown: Affects Rink width (Rightmost 4 block columns) @ 0x0B0C9 3C v1.2 20 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 17. Unknown: Affects Rink width (Rightmost 4 block columns) @ 0x0BOD1 3C v1.2 20 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 18. Unknown: Affects top two block rows @ 0x0115C4 3F v1.2 3B 32-Team Recommendation Do not use, or use with caution. (Currently unused) 19. Change Address of Referenced Code, to point to new code. This is the main code that changes the gameplay view to 320 pixels wide. @ 0x012B5C 00 01 17 38 v1.2 00 0F FA DA 32-Team Recommendation 00 1F FA DA 20. Cosmetic: Score Clock Score Clock position @ 0x012C7B 17 v1.2 1F 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. Home Team Name / Visitor Team Name @ 0x012C8D / @ 0x012C9F 18 v1.2 20 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. Score position @ 0x012D1F 1C v1.2 24 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 21. Rink Background X-position @ 0x015F3F C0 v1.2 E0 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 22. Crowd Animation X-position? @ 0x0161F7 C0 v1.2 E0 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 23. Cosmetic: Crowd Animation position @ 0x016287 90 v1.2 B0 Do NOT make the alteration above. Instead change to: D0 24. Unknown @ 0x016941 90 v1.2 B0 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 25. Unknown @ 0x016949 70 v1.2 50 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 26. Rink Background position? @ 0x016951 00 v1.2 20 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 27. Unknown @ 0x01695B 90 v1.2 B0 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 28. Unknown @ 0x016963 70 v1.2 50 32-Team Recommendation Use as-is. 29. Patch Code @ 0x0FFAC0 700091C8223C0003FEB0B0FC018C660458486002D09853816EF00C808AB9F12166024E75287C00C0000438BC8F0238BC800438BC870038BC814438BCC000323C003F33FC000E00C0000051C9FFF660FE v1.2 33FC920E00C0000433FC8C8100C000045278B00E4EF90000A44833FC920200C0000433FC8C8100C000044EF900011738FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 32-Team Recommendation Do NOT make the alteration listed above. Instead use the revised code included at the end of the next section. Continued in the next post…

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