Sean Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 (edited) THIS. IS. MARCH! Hi everyone! I have FINALLY finished the complete overhaul of the music, logos, presentation, and rinks of this ROM and I am excited to share the results. I haven't merged the regions for the superset yet, but in the spirit of the conference playoffs, here are the east and west ROMs in a .zip. The branding on the ROMs has changed from ESPN+ College Hockey Gameday to NCAA Hockey 23: Road to Tampa Bay. Only the ECAC and Hockey East are on ESPN+, so the fictional NCAAtv covering games felt like a much more natural fit. Integrating Unique College Assets Team branding has also been shifted to embrace two unique aspects of college sports - rankings and mascots. When possible, a mascot was either emphasized or replaced a team's current logo. NCAAtv Presentation The pre-game experience has been updated with new background graphics (thank you @Drezz) and new background music (thank you @smozoma, Stompin' Tom Connors, and The Alan Parsons Project). Colby Cohen replaces Barry Melrose, because the imaginary NCAAtv network wanted a college hockey alumni doing pre-game. In-Game Experience The in-game experience has been changed somewhat radically - stats have been entirely recalibrated, the crowd wears team colors, center-ice logos have been turned, and organ music has been redone to have more modern songs or college arena/band classics. Lines are as accurate as possible. Line charts were taken from CHN Now app. The most noticeable change will be stats - I did a preliminary round of ratings based on season and per-game numbers and then followed that up with a sweep through each team to ensure greats felt like greats and no one who will be an accountant in two years time plays like a future NHL legend. ________________________________ Download here! NCAA Hockey 23 - Road to Tampa v1.0.zip ________________________________ Dev Notes - There will be no outdoor patch or "expansion pods" for the foreseeable future - I cannot watch 62 teams and make notes on 20 players. If a player you like has bad ratings, it is because he has bad counting stats. Stats were generated using counting stats put on a percentile scale and then placed in a custom range of overalls for each stat that was different across positions. A manual sweep was conducted to accommodate for injured players or D3 games. Goalies were rated manually. Edited April 24 by Sean 4 3 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I got the puck Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Your set is f****N BRILLANT!!! Thank you so much for these roms!!! Cheers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkline3 Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 16 hours ago, seamor said: If someone knows an effective way to get rid of the Stanley Cup on the bracket screen, I have the location & palette, just am not the brightest. Do you mean like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 6 minutes ago, Jkline3 said: Do you mean like this? Yes, ideally. Cool if I use the tiles from your stuff as a reference for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 11 minutes ago, I got the puck said: Your set is f****N BRILLANT!!! Thank you so much for these roms!!! Cheers!! Thanks! I appreciate your support through the years with all my weird little projects 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkline3 Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Be my guest. Artwork is in the Frozen Four rom I did. After all the hours I put into that series it's nice to see some of that work live to fight another day! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Version 1.1 is live, with JKline's NCAA trophy mod added in. Also, some developer's notes: I enjoy playing with either 5 or 10 minute periods and line changes on - the game was tested and rated that way as well, so if you want to feel the biggest difference between a powerhouse like Michigan and an upstart like Stonehill, then take that route. Penalty box player sprites could be better - I will see where I missed something before v2 Replacing the cup on the bracket screen does not mean that the cup is completely out - they lift it at the end of a tourney. I will also check that out and see what I'd be working with to change it. I believe it's the rink palette, which may be a challenge Thanks for trying this out everyone - 21 downloads on V1! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkline3 Posted November 5, 2022 Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 4 hours ago, seamor said: Replacing the cup on the bracket screen does not mean that the cup is completely out - they lift it at the end of a tourney. I will also check that out and see what I'd be working with to change it. I believe it's the rink palette, which may be a challenge Sprites for the Cup are at 6E944. They are indeed the rink palette. It's not something that I've tinkered with before since you have to get to the end just to test. Appears to be 6 groups of tiles that make up the image, 4 side views and 2 end views. If you were going to change it you would need something roughly the same shape to get it to match up with the "player lifting the Cup" pose. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Ozbourne Posted November 5, 2022 Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 Looks like Jkline beat me by 5 minutes. If you're interested, I have tinkered with it for my IIHF Roms, sadly I have not found how to change the colour palette so you're kind of stuck with silver But the only thing I can add is that save states and two player head-to-head are your friends. Unless of course you want to play four games in a row every time you make a tweak... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkline3 Posted November 5, 2022 Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 Penalty box fix: A4CDE 1x3 tiles A4E3E 1x2 tiles A595E 1x6 tiles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 @Jkline3 @von Ozbourme Thanks for the tips - we have the best community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GannErik Posted November 5, 2022 Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 Thank you for the release! Fantastic job! Just played a game on my new console received from Ali Express. The console supports BIN files. Thanks again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halifax Posted November 5, 2022 Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 Thanks for doing this @seamor I'll post on social media for maximum download count. Boom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, halifax said: I'll post on social media for maximum download count. Boom! Thanks! If it gets enjoy traction, maybe at some point there can be a short tournament like some of us Discord folks did in 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmastert Posted November 6, 2022 Report Share Posted November 6, 2022 You have always made my dreams come true, thanks for that.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2022 54 minutes ago, jmastert said: You have always made my dreams come true, thanks for that.. And you've always checked out my projects Hope you're doing well! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmastert Posted November 6, 2022 Report Share Posted November 6, 2022 9 minutes ago, seamor said: And you've always checked out my projects Hope you're doing well! i am doing good and even more fantastic since i got ducks and now college hockey in my life. I would love to commission a project from you one day.. love supporting your work.. you have brought joy to my life lol .. but doing good bud, hope all is good with you and hope you finish that hockey book i believe you were working on.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) 13 minutes ago, jmastert said: I would love to commission a project from you one day.. love supporting your work.. you have brought joy to my life lol .. but doing good bud, hope all is good with you and hope you finish that hockey book i believe you were working on.. Your high praise really means a lot - but I do this simply for fun and also would never want to get paid, since I think it puts us in tricky copyright territory and if you're paying the other hackers here who are much more talented deserve it! I ended up transitioning that book project into something else and it was pretty neat - got to talk to some NHL and media guys and practice some digital design/content stuff. If you ever have any ROM ideas or notes on how projects like this one could be better, shoot me a PM and I can add it to the list. Have a good one Edited November 6, 2022 by seamor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBa78 Posted November 7, 2022 Report Share Posted November 7, 2022 Great work, you did a really nice Job. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamCatalyst Posted November 10, 2022 Report Share Posted November 10, 2022 Awesome man!!! I know next to nothing about NCAA hockey (except Matthew Knies, since I'm a Leafs fan), but I know that I like your ROM. Love all the little touches with the fans in particular. The "YOU SUCK" sign made me laugh. Seriously great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 10, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2022 12 hours ago, AdamCatalyst said: Awesome man!!! I know next to nothing about NCAA hockey (except Matthew Knies, since I'm a Leafs fan), but I know that I like your ROM. Love all the little touches with the fans in particular. The "YOU SUCK" sign made me laugh. Seriously great job! Thanks! So much of it was because I was able to build off of your work and JKline's, I really appreciate the foundation you guys laid! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segathon Posted November 11, 2022 Report Share Posted November 11, 2022 awesome work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segathon Posted November 11, 2022 Report Share Posted November 11, 2022 love this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2022 1 hour ago, segathon said: love this Thanks! Maybe at some point I’ll do special editions for a few teams (Michigan gets a “GO BLUE”, Penn St. gets a “WE ARE”, BC gets “SUCKS TO BU”), since it’s my favorite part of the ROM too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2022 (edited) Hey all, 2.0 is out now! There is now a folder in the download with all six ROMs redone with neutral rinks The advantage is set to 1/1, which in my opinion, creates good balance The dasher is now yellow to look more like an NHL rink, and the ice logos is this stock logo the NCAA uses for hockey so you can make whatever tournament you want (if you want to edit it, it's in the first logo slot and uses the arena palette) Hopefully can get the outdoor ROM done before December. Edit: finding some bugs that came with the change. Marking here so I know: benches, and color of boards on ref screen. Edited November 12, 2022 by seamor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2022 (edited) Hello (again). 3.0 is live now. Outdoor Rink is set up, with lots of details I enjoy. There have been a few outdoor rink templates (including my own), but this is in my opinion the truest look. The glass is "transparent" and the lighting is ever so slightly tinted yellow to give a sunshine/stadium lighting effect. The scoreboard is snowy, the splash screen is Soldier Field, and teams that I have seen wear alternate uniforms outside receive updates to wear those jerseys. A few football inspired uniforms too. Bugs have been tracked and fixed. Edited November 13, 2022 by seamor 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Ozbourne Posted November 13, 2022 Report Share Posted November 13, 2022 Have to say, I like the look of that rink. I've been sketching ideas for my own outdor rink, but in leaning for a much older style without glass means I can't borrow that awesome transparent look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2022 Just now, von Ozbourme said: Have to say, I like the look of that rink. I've been sketching ideas for my own outdor rink, but in leaning for a much older style without glass means I can't borrow that awesome transparent look. Thanks! Let me know if you need anything from me that might help with whichever path you choose. Excited to see what you do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2022 (edited) Found a bigger bug in the Pool B/D version - will patch soon. Apologies to any Michigan State fans who cannot play outdoor games in this specific ROM. Edited November 13, 2022 by seamor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted November 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2022 (edited) Bugs patched - sorry to those who downloaded! Typically playtest as BC vs BU, didn't expect there to be an issue with a team pointer table. This is also the final patch for the next few weeks. Hope you enjoy! Edited November 14, 2022 by seamor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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