How to: Add New Menu Items to Game Setup - GENS

[McMarkis]

How to: Add Custom Menu Items to the Game Setup Screen

v1.0 (2025 04 29)

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Info:

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I've put together a GitHub repo showing how to add custom menu items to the game setup screen in NHL '94. Using this method, I’ve created five example patches, all included in the repo.

• Fake Shot (New functionality)
• Weight Bug (Chaos 120 decimal patch)
• 5 Minutes, 99 Min OT to Period Lengths
• Fighting - (Coming Soon)
• Multi Menu, with everything combined

You’ll also find a master "multi menu" example that demonstrates how to combine multiple patches into a single ROM. This approach works with custom ROMs too—you'll just need to update the insertion RAM address to match your rom.

This is more of an advanced level patch geared towards ROM modders. It allows you to edit the source code of these patches to change the behavior as well. Any questions please drop in the forum and we will keep this updated and make improvements over time. We can probably wrap a User Interface tool around these patches in the future, but I wanted to get it out now so people could start using it, and provide feedback.

Patch:

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I recommend visiting the GitHub repository and checking out the README. It provides details on all the patches I've created using this method.

Here is the direct link to download the zip package containing all the examples. Each folder in the zip package has a README.md file with instructions.
 

Version Notes

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• v1.0 Initial Release.

Known Issues

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• In Demo Mode, Goalie Control + User Record options are editable, but should not be.

Edited April 29 by McMarkis
Added some links

[Sauce]

Nice work @McMarkis!

[77]

have you guys already done a shootout overtime like real NHL?

i dont watch hockey anymore... is that still a thing?

[slapshot67]

This game keeps getting better, excellent work😀

[Mr. T]

Amazing ! This is wonderful. 

[AdamCatalyst]

oh man, @McMarkis! I SO wanted to try this myself this summer. THANK-YOU!