3 hours ago, AdamCatalyst said:

NICE!!!!!!! It's about fracking time.  I was afraid this wasn't going to happen! Looking forward to giving this a spin this weekend. Also, get choice on the splash image.  

<makes sad face> but thanks.

Yeah I seemed to have trouble adapting the official splash image this year, but I liked how this one looked.

 

3 hours ago, Snowboo said:

Widescreen...?

I had some extremely specific game crashing issues with my widescreen mod that were completely unrelated to the widescreenening, but I was finally able to track down the mistake last night.
Will be transferring over the main graphics at some point this weekend and updating the rest of the player photos to their official 2025 picture day versions when I have time. Patience please.

Haven't decided if I'm going to try to maintain two separate versions though or just have the wide mode supplant the standard version. I never use the standard view anymore, but I know that some people like it. Although, to be fair, I've made enough graphical changes to this mod that it doesn't feel like it fits into that rigid old school purity box.

One of the best splash screens I've ever seen. Did you use the tricks to get extra colours, or is this 16 colours?

Thanks eh.

Some tricks. I was able to use 16 colours for the uniform and background layers and separated the face out to use it's own dedicated palette. 

i recommend players benches with coaches... no one shares a hallway anymore... it looks sooooo 1970s.... =P

 

Edited November 23, 2025Nov 23 by 77

Thanks for making this! I shared it out on social media yesterday. 

Amazing what you've done with the graphics, as usual!

6 hours ago, 77 said:

i recommend players benches with coaches... no one shares a hallway anymore... it looks sooooo 1970s.... =P

 

That's a fair bit of work. 
Luckily I already did that with the wide screen version.
So watch this space I guess.

who had the 2 coaches per bench? that was pretty neat... 

imagine... animated 2 coaches, with color changing tie, and separation in between the benches with someone in it, kinda like real hockey

you know how the players scream obscenities? imagine the coach doing that... or pointing 😃

 

and your animated vince and jesse of course

Edited November 24, 2025Nov 24 by 77

this is amazing work @von Ozbourne  Thanks for keeping 94 in the minds of people in 2025!

Someone on reddit said:

"Quick note: Xcel Center is Grand Casino Arena now."

oh god, might as well put advertising on the boards and glass then...

and on the helmets.... and on the jerseys

Edited November 26, 2025Nov 26 by 77

On 11/25/2025 at 12:19 PM, smozoma said:

Someone on reddit said:

"Quick note: Xcel Center is Grand Casino Arena now."

Not sure what annoys me more. That I missed that. Or that it is that.

Guess I have something for the update list.

On 11/25/2025 at 2:51 PM, 77 said:

oh god, might as well put advertising on the boards and glass then...

This is something I would never bring myself to do, but instead of using crowd animation tiles for coaches and rink-side commentators, it wouldn't be too hard to just repurpose all of those tiles into animated board ads.

Once you get past the urge to throw up anyway.

i tired to start a campaign to have betman assassinated 30 years ago, it failed, so now you have to live with it...

hockey isnt hockey anymore, i cant even watch a game on tv for more than 10 min

Edited November 27, 2025Nov 27 by 77

5 hours ago, 77 said:

i tired to start a campaign to have betman assassinated 30 years ago, it failed, so now you have to live with it...

hockey isnt hockey anymore, i cant even watch a game on tv for more than 10 min

I'm not a fan of the advertising on the Jerseys. At least the leafs milk ad is less intrusive than other teams ads.

itll only get worse, til it looks like the european billboard jerseys

On 11/24/2025 at 7:52 AM, 77 said:

who had the 2 coaches per bench? that was pretty neat... 

I had two coaches and a trainer. Lemme tell you, it's A LOT of work to add in all that space. I'd be thankful we have an updated release for 2025-26.

BLESSINGS

21 hours ago, Drezz said:

I had two coaches and a trainer. Lemme tell you, it's A LOT of work to add in all that space. I'd be thankful we have an updated release for 2025-26.

BLESSINGS

When I added in tunnels to the dressing room, it took me a few days of working on evenings and weekend to do up the initial design. The implementation plan to make it technically possible took me a few months, without any guarantee that I could ever get it to work. And that's a success story. I've had countless other ideas that I failed to ever be able to implement, after weeks or months of work.

There are so many great ideas out there, but part of the reason that all of our ROMs look different is because the implementation within the technical limitations of the game is SO labour intensive.

Edited November 30, 2025Nov 30 by AdamCatalyst

2 hours ago, AdamCatalyst said:

There are so many great ideas out there, but part of the reason that all of our ROMs look different is because the implementation within the technical limitations of the game is SO labour intensive.

I was just thinking the same thing actually. I recalled seeing @Drezz 's three guys behind the bench and marvelled at the technical side of making that happen, even if it didn't really fit with my normal style. I liked what you did with the one coach and two tunnels on either side, and figured that I couldn't straight up lift that for one of my games. I had already gone with a third option [limitations being the mother of creativity] in my WWF ROM with simply dividing the middle tunnel into two with a dividing section in the middle with a simple home-team-coloured stripe painted on the wall so I just adopted that idea to my default widescreen ROM, with the addition of one coach. [one is enough]. Getting the animated head and colour changing tie to work was time consuming enough make me call it there.

I might note that in the failed pile, I was experimenting with making an arena with the tunnels on opposite sides, but then that not only means removing the section between the penalty boxes in the overhead view, but also drawing a tunnel on the pause screen.

Love the new logos you added for this season. (Except for the bottom one of course 😛)

I liked your title screen, but it was missing something. I fixed it. Your welcome. This should have been the original title screen. Go Killer!

I know this is AI - Gilmour has teeth! 😂

And the ‘95 finals were between Detroit and New Jersey.

That image is equally intriguing and disturbing.

And the face is actually giving me more vibes of another former Leaf.

Hello! I thought I read about the possibility of a widescreen version of this mod being released. Is this still planned? Thanks. 

My first reaction was to reenact a common scene in my childhood home any time a certain child made the mistake of saying that a person or thing was coming [along].
Inevitably followed by a certain adult pointing out that "So is Christmas."

But since it works out that Christmas is not far away, I guess I better get cracking.

 

Although I would think that it shouldn't take as long as that.

Just downloaded the latest version. Plays great, found a bug when my team (Montreal @ home) had a man in the penalty box and the away team (Winnipeg) had an extra skater (pulled goalie) and received 2 penalties on the same play. 

Address Error:

00012A42

00000377

@von Ozbourne Sometimes the game can crash immediately before the PowerPlay clock initializes. This happens most often when multiple players receive penalties at the exact same moment, or are released from the penalty box at the exact same moment. This patch prevents this crash from happening.

Original @ 0x12A2E

4240 4243 41EA 009A

 

Revised @ 0x12A2E

4240 4EB9 001F F800

 

Patch @ 0x01FF800

4243 347C C6CE 47EA 0364 0838 0006 C2EE 6602 C54B 41EA 009A 4E75

 

Thanks for that @AdamCatalyst.

I will note that when I play, a lot of penalties are usually handed out like the ref thinks he's Dr. Tran at your local record store.
But I've never experienced any issues except for that one specific scenario where the math of Penalties x 2 + Goalie - 1 is maybe glitching something in the game logic when it needs to figure out how many players are supposed to be on the ice. Given the short window of time for all of those things to happen, I've not really been able to test this all that well.

In light of this fix though, I figure I might as well update Minnesota's arena and put out a mini update in the main post.

Wide screen with new player photos is still on the way. Just not right now.

I spent awhile fixing that bug over the spring/summer. It has to do with the penalty time buffer being corrupted when it is about to be added to the PowerPlay clock. The original game code looks solid, yet every once and awhile it fails, when too many penalty events happen at once. That's why I developed my insane "everything is a penalty" code in order to stress test this issue and fix it. The crash occurs in the original unmodified ROM very rarely, but in the 32-team ROM it occurs much more often, and even more often once in "widescreen." I have no idea why, but I do know that I have definitely fixed it. The game will now crash because you've run out of players before it ever crashes because of too many penalty events at once. I'm excited that someone actually has use for my code!

You can of course locate the patch wherever makes sense to you. PM me if you need help. Will get you my latest WS fix soon too. Slowly dipping my toes back into these waters.

You guys rock. Is there a simple way to update rosters? As you can see I'm a Montreal fan, they've got 4 injuries and called up a few from Laval and signed Texier last week. I'm only asking because I like to play the next scheduled game before they actually play. Something I did as a child whenever I got nhl 95 (i could create new players and sign them) and the nhl 2k series games on the ps2.