30th Anniversary - Championship Edition by Naples39

naples39 · October 4, 2023

So another hockey season is upon us, and I'm 'out the game' on the yearly roster update treadmill, but a few months ago I had some ROM ideas that I've been picking at. Inspired by the Madden '93 Championship Edition, I decided to make a rom featuring the best season from each franchise between NHL 94's release in the fall of 1993 and up to today. Each team will have their roster, uniform, logo, etc... from the season chosen. I wanted to have a balance of teams from all eras, and decided upon the following team lineup:

-Anaheim 2007, Cup champs, Giguere/Pronger/Niedermayer/Selanne/Getzlaf
-Arizona 2012, Conf finalist, Smith/Yandle/Ekman-Larsson/Whitney
-Boston 2011, Cup champs, Thomas/Chara/Bergeron/Marchand
-Buffalo 2007, Conf finalist, Miller/Campbell/Vanek/Briere/Drury
-Calgary 2004, Cup finalist, Kiprusoff/Iginla
-Carolina 2006, Cup champs, Ward/Cole/Staal/Williams
-Chicago 2013, Cup champs, Crawford/Keith/Hossa/Toews/Kane
-Colorado 2001, Cup champs, Roy/Bourque/Blake/Forsberg/Sakic
-Columbus 2019, Lost in 2nd round, Bobrovsky/Werenski/Panarin/Duchene
-Dallas 1999, Cup champs, Belfour/Zubov/Hatcher/Modano/Hull
-Detroit 1998, Cup champs, Lidstrom/Shanahan/Yzerman/Fedorov
-Edmonton 2023, Lost in 2nd round, Ekholm/McDavid/Draisaitl
-Florida 2023, Cup finalist, Tkachuk/Barkov
-LA 2012, Cup champs, Quick/Doughty/Kopitar/Williams
-Minnesota 2015, Lost in 2nd round, Suter/Parise/Koivu/Vanek
-Montreal 1993, Cup champs, Roy/Desjardins/Muller/Damphousse
-Nashville 2017, Cup finalist, Rinne/Josi/Subban/Forsberg
-NJ 2003, Cup champs, Brodeur/Niedermayer/Stevens/Elias/Gomez
-NYI 2020, Conf finalist, Lee/Barzal/Bailey
-NYR 1994, Cup champs, Richter/Zubov/Leetch/Larmer/Messier/Kovalev
-Ottawa 2007, Cup finalist, Redden/Alfredsson/Spezza/Heatley
-Philly 1997, Cup finalist, Desjardins/Leclair/Lindros/Renberg
-Pittsburgh 2017, Cup champs, Letang/Malkin/Crosby/Kessel
-SJ 2010, Conf finalist, Nabokov/Boyle/Blake/Marleu/Thornton/Heatley
-Seattle 2023, Lost in 2nd round, Dunn/McCann/Beniers
-St Louis 2019, Cup champs, Pietrangelo/Parayko/O'Reilly/Tarasenko
-Tampa Bay 2021, Vasilevskiy/Hedman/Point/Stamkos/Kucherov
-Toronto 2023, lost in 2nd round, Reilly/Tavares/Matthews/Marner
-Vancouver 1994, Cup finalist, Lumme/Brown/Linden/Bure
-Vegas 2023, Cup champs, Pietrangelo/Marchessault/Eichel/Stone
-Washington 2018, Cup champs, Holtby/Carlson/Ovechkin/Backstrom/Kuznetsov
-Winnipeg 2018, Conf finalist, Hellebuyck/Byfuglien/Trouba/Laine/Scheifele/Wheeler

This has not been exhaustively tested, so please feel free to leave suggestions or corrections, particularly regarding team/player ratings for balance!

Otherwise, this has all the features of my other roms; weight bug, uniform sprite enhancement, graphic hacks on benches and ice lines, updated 3-star formula....etc.