NHL Hockey MD: MIAA Setup Edition

[Royameadow]

NHL Hockey MD: MIAA Setup Edition is a series of ROM hacks of NHL Hockey '92 and NHL '95 to NHL '98 that was created by the people of Royameadow and Co., myself doing the primary work, to view what could be modified by basic or regular means in the games at this current time, prior to them obtaining the treatment of easier art editing.

These Mini~Hacks will be using templates for palettes and text sprites, as well as a ruleset for penalties that resemble that of MIAA Women's Hockey 20I5, and you will notice that there are even modernization standards that you probably will notice right away; some will be obvious, while others will require some serious attention to detail.

This series of Mini~Hacks is not to be considered as full~on modifications and/or bugfixes of the original titles that they represent, these hacks were created solely as an experiment to view if I could put the templates that I had originally made for MIAA 20I5 into them in some probable way or form.

If ROM hacks of NHL Hockey '92 and NHL '95 to '98 become a reality for us, then these will be left here for archiving purposes, and future ROM hacks of mine that use these five titles will instead use the superior mods rather than the original titles.

Below be a list of changes that were done for each title.

If nothing is mentioned, then that means that I have yet to work on that particular mod at this time.

NHL Hockey '92:

~ All menus and most screens have had their palettes modified, you will be viewing a lot of Pink and Plum in the game now. Text has also been modified for the menus and four teams.

~ The Zana GX Font has been imported to a decent extent. Not all screens will support it though; a palette swap will be required to do this in full.

~ The Eastern and Western All~Stars are now using their palette from NHL '97 and NHL '98. Their names have been changed in the menus but are still the same in their respective banners.

~The arena entirely matches that of the arena that is used in MIAA Women's Hockey 20I5 ~ Volume 0I: The Mass Tour. You may now play your games in this with Eye Care being present for those Late Night and After Dark sessions.

~ Full Game Mode is now implemented, as well as the harsher penalty system.

Because of the fact that there are no Major Penalties in this title, some penalties have their Major Punishment from MIAA 20I5, if not a more lenient or their Minor counterpart.

NHL '95: Coming Soon!

NHL '96: Coming Soon!

NHL '97: Coming Soon!

NHL '98:

~ All teams and the ice have slightly modified palettes. The arena is a bit more Bluer instead of Turquoise, so wishfully, that allows the ice to shine a little better than it originally had.

~ Certain menu text has been modified, primarily for the Time Settings. Not much had to be changed as everything truly had remained the same, regardless of how much I would modify it.

~ Penalties are either extremely lenient or extremely harsh. The Damaging (Player Injury) and Fighting penalties will glitch up the screen's graphics (although the game does not crash, ironically enough) and it will require you to go to the Pause Menu and out of it to fix that, or else the graphics will remain garbled, that could only be repaired through means of a Bugfix.

~ The Blitz Game and Full Game Time Settings have returned for this Mini~Hack. However, those that wish to play a Blitz Game will still require to trigger the cheat code for enabling it. Periods in Blitz Mode are still a full in~game minute, or 022 seconds in Realtime.

~ Also, please note that this is the first ROM hack of NHL '98 on here, to my knowledge, that was intended for play on the Japanese Megadrive. If you play this set the region on your console or emulator to North America or Europe, then you will be in for a little surprise in the Region Lock Screen.

Screenshots will be viewable below.

If a title does not have any screenshots available, then I will mention that as necessarily required.

NHL Hockey '92:

NHL '95: Coming Soon!

NHL '96: Coming Soon!

NHL '97: Coming Soon!

NHL '98:

Download links are available below.

If a title does not have a link, then the Mini~Hack has not been done at this time; in the event that I am to release a Revision for any of the Mini~Hacks, then do expect me to add extra links accordingly, that be a guarantee at all times.

NHL Hockey '92:

~ Revision 00: http://www.mediafire.com/download/186752a80uucocs/NHL_Hockey_%2792%3B_MIAA_Setup_Edition_%28JUE%29_%5B%21%5D_%28Revision_00%29.rar

NHL '95:

~ Revision 00: Link will become available upon release.

NHL '96:

~ Revision 00: Link will become available upon release.

NHL '97:

~ Revision 00: Link will become available upon release.

NHL '98:

~ Revision 00: http://www.mediafire.com/download/frb6aybdzm17z5e/NHL_%2798%3B_MIAA_Setup_Edition_%28J%29_%5Bc%5D%5B%21%5D_%28Revision_00%29.rar

And that will be all for now, I feel that being able to make these Mini~Hacks be more than enough proof that even the original versions of NHL Hockey '92 and NHL '95 to '98 are easily modifiable by normal means, even if you cannot edit everything at this point in time, or if some things end up becoming glitched if you mess around with them.

Please note that the reason for as to why I am not modifying the original Genesis/Megadrive versions of NHLPA Hockey '93 and NHL Hockey '94 in this regard are because of the existence of the Thirty Team ROMs for both being ever more superior to the originals and expressively far more modifiable by comparison, those two are strictly worked with by yours truly for any major ROM hacks that I am working on until either '98 is capable of becoming dissected and graphically overhauled with little to no requirement of expansive effort or if I could optimize any of the titles with new methods and tactics that are not known to us yet.

Wishfully though, this will keep you satisfied for some time while I continue to work on MIAA Women's Hockey 20i5.

I am not usually one to work on multiple projects at one time outside of art, music, and/or commentary, but hey, these mods are able to be worked on in just a few days for me, they are a cakewalk with what I currently know about these titles so far.

In the event that you enjoy the little minor changes, then do let me know, I truly am very glad to work on these to experiment with the original ROM images until they get their respective dissections and we are able to expand and edit them far easier; if the more expansively editable versions of these titles ever do get to view the light of day, then these ROM images here will simply remain for archiving purposes, to primarily present what could have been done with the games before they were able to become something entirely different than what we had originally known them as.

Enjoy! (:

Edited August 18, 2015 by Royameadow