After working on it the past few weeks I'm finally releasing an NHL 26 ROM (which is an updated version of my previous NHL 25 ROM).

Some notes about the ROM:

• 28-team ROM replacing Campbell and Wales All Star teams with Minnesota Wild and Vegas Golden Knights
• Quebec becomes Colorado while Hartford becomes Carolina
• Columbus, Nashville, and Seattle, and Utah are all excluded as they were further down the standings. I hope to rotate the two All Star teams with the best of this bunch(including MIN/VGK)
• Jerseys have been updated to match their current home/away colors
• Rosters are current through 10/30/25. I may have missed some add/drops but will look again as the season goes on
• Advantages for Home/Away/PP/PK/Offense/Defense have been set up based on each team's 24-25 performance
• Player portrait tool was run so everyone should have stock images
• Line 1/Best were set as close to real life top lines as I could get. Other lines are next best based on overall.
• @McMarkis hacks applied:
  • No intro hack applied to skip the long intro screens
  • 1-minute penalties
  • Defense Control is enabled by default
  • Pull goalie with L + R
• New hacks for this ROM:
  • Enabled Body Checks for/against. They will show in the Player Stats page
  • Custom splash screen applied by McMarkis
  • Show real attribute values in Edit Lines (instead of seeing who's hot/cold based on 'feel')
• I've attached a CSV containing the rosters (I will add the lines and team rankings next week)
• 99min OT version also attached

Thanks to McMarkis for his various ROM hacks(1min penalties, no intro hack, etc.) as always.

I may create a Hot/Cold Bug Fix ROM in the near future.

 

NHL26v2.smc SNES NHL 26 IMPORT.csv NHL26v2_99minOT.smc

Edited November 17, 2025Nov 17 by kidswasted
Fixed some attributes for skaters that were previously too high or too low

I liked this Rom (as I do many various ones on this site) despite always preferring the Sega Genesis versions of all the NHL games. Lately I found a Good or abit better and more stable SNES Emulator compared to what I had in the past. Hope to see more updates for this ROM this year, and will also welcome from the more Sega Genesis oriented creators too pretty much any ROM  project and including if they are also  new Nhl2026 based season  ROMs. But willl likely though still play the SNES ROMs on occasion.

4 hours ago, RT1977 said:

I liked this Rom (as I do many various ones on this site) despite always preferring the Sega Genesis versions of all the NHL games. Lately I found a Good or abit better and more stable SNES Emulator compared to what I had in the past. Hope to see more updates for this ROM this year, and will also welcome from the more Sega Genesis oriented creators too pretty much any ROM  project and including if they are also  new Nhl2026 based season  ROMs. But willl likely though still play the SNES ROMs on occasion.

Thanks for the kind words. I'll be releasing version 2 hopefully this week. I noticed after the release some attributes were too high or too low for some guys.

Sounds Good!

hey it doesn’t work on Delta, when it goes into the snes part but when I click on it it brings me into the game but it’s just a black screen. I tried it on a different emulator and it loaded in, but that emulator isn’t good and I want to play it on delta. 

21 minutes ago, Star cecil said:

hey it doesn’t work on Delta, when it goes into the snes part but when I click on it it brings me into the game but it’s just a black screen. I tried it on a different emulator and it loaded in, but that emulator isn’t good and I want to play it on delta. 

Hi I'm on Android not PC but it seemingly works fine on my Emulator called Snes9x EX+. I have No idea what Delta is.

I really dislike the SNES emulator made by Pentawire, but their Genesis one I use and it's been okay for me. They recently added the missing  Save States option to that one at least.

Edited November 13, 2025Nov 13 by RT1977

25 minutes ago, Star cecil said:

hey it doesn’t work on Delta, when it goes into the snes part but when I click on it it brings me into the game but it’s just a black screen. I tried it on a different emulator and it loaded in, but that emulator isn’t good and I want to play it on delta. 

Try the attached. I got it to work on my Delta emulator on an iPhone.

NHL26v1.sfc

6 minutes ago, kidswasted said:

Try the attached. I got it to work on my Delta emulator on an iPhone.

NHL26v1.sfc 1 MB · 1 download

The new file uploaded worked, however it only loaded the main menu right away , No intro. I Did get into the game but it was slowly alittle delayed with a "somewhat brief" black screen until in the next menu appeared  to then play. Pressed start and I could play. That's all I know about it. I used Snes9x EX+ emulator  to try it. 

The intro was removed because its' super annoying

> No intro hack applied to skip the long intro screens

I assume now that was a file intended completely separately just to work on Delta (testing for only Delta?) Maybe that's why it worked without a intro screen (skipped intro) on a different emulator? 

1 minute ago, smozoma said:

The intro was removed because its' super annoying

> No intro hack applied to skip the long intro screens

Oh, that's nice to now have for it. 😁

Thank you

On 11/13/2025 at 12:23 PM, RT1977 said:

I assume now that was a file intended completely separately just to work on Delta (testing for only Delta?) Maybe that's why it worked without an intro screen (skipped intro) on a different emulator? 

No it’s just a headerless ROM. It should work with any emulator. 

13 minutes ago, kidswasted said:

No it’s just a headerless ROM. It should work with any emulator. 

Ok Thanks. I will be awaiting with anticipation the next V2 version when its ready. 

Version 2 has been added to the original post. The only differences here are some attributes changing for about 20 skaters over various teams where they were previously either too high or too low.

Any chance at a version with the Seattle Kraken?

19 hours ago, Withpaine said:

Any chance at a version with the Seattle Kraken?

Columbus, Nashville, and Seattle, and Utah are all excluded as they were further down the standings last season. I hope to rotate the two All Star teams with the best of this bunch(including MIN/VGK). The other 26 franchises will remain in the ROM annually. The main reason is because we don’t yet know how to change logos and graphics for teams. 

@kidswasted you plan on putting out a trade deadline roster update at all?

On 3/10/2026 at 6:49 PM, PenguinFan1985 said:

@kidswasted you plan on putting out a trade deadline roster update at all?

Eventually, yes. Just been too busy lately.

On 3/10/2026 at 6:49 PM, PenguinFan1985 said:

@kidswasted you plan on putting out a trade deadline roster update at all?

I imported the new rosters into the ROM. I'm hoping to set the lines tomorrow and release the updated ROM if I'm able to. Just to be quick I'll probably just assign forwards C-LW-RW in that order based on overall regardless of real-life position.

Attached is the trade deadline rom as well as the player list with attributes. I updated attributes for top players for each team based on how their current 25-26 season is going statistically.

NHL26v3_trade_deadline.smc

On 3/10/2026 at 6:49 PM, PenguinFan1985 said:

@kidswasted you plan on putting out a trade deadline roster update at all?

Here is a link to the starting lineups:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HbuqiJGzeF1x3oL7yLflaZttmGZVKCnOlBZ-BmgdWGY/edit?usp=sharingSNES NHL 26 IMPORT-V3.csv

Edited March 30Mar 30 by kidswasted
added link to rosters

On 3/30/2026 at 2:18 PM, kidswasted said:

Attached is the trade deadline rom as well as the player list with attributes. I updated attributes for top players for each team based on how their current 25-26 season is going statistically.

NHL26v3_trade_deadline.smc 1.09 MB · 26 downloads

Here is a link to the starting lineups:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HbuqiJGzeF1x3oL7yLflaZttmGZVKCnOlBZ-BmgdWGY/edit?usp=sharing SNES NHL 26 IMPORT-V3.csv 30.04 kB · 7 downloads

Can’t get trade deadline update to work on Delta app just like previous one!

14 hours ago, Rcool6 said:

Can’t get trade deadline update to work on Delta app just like previous one!

Try this one (updated 4/7)

NHL26v3.sfc

 

Edited April 7Apr 7 by kidswasted
updated version

2 hours ago, kidswasted said:

Try this one

NHL26v3.sfc 1.09 MB · 2 downloads

Not able to get that one in delta either it just sits black. Appreciate the fast answer! I’m still playing the first one fine but would just like the roster update! Thanks 

10 hours ago, Rcool6 said:

Not able to get that one in delta either it just sits black. Appreciate the fast answer! I’m still playing the first one fine but would just like the roster update! Thanks 

Try now. I got it working on Delta on my iPhone just now. I just replaced it with an updated version. I mistakenly added an additional header when I should have removed it. Delta seems to only work with header-less ROMs. There are tools like the Advanced SNES Utility tool that can remove (or add) headers to a ROM at the click of a button. You can also use a Hex Editor like Hexed.it where you load the ROM and just delete all those 00s in the beginning (that's the header). You would just highlight everything as shown in blue below and hit the delete key on your keyboard. Then you would save the file as a new file and you're all set.

Edited April 7Apr 7 by kidswasted

On 4/7/2026 at 9:50 AM, kidswasted said:

Try now. I got it working on Delta on my iPhone just now. I just replaced it with an updated version. I mistakenly added an additional header when I should have removed it. Delta seems to only work with header-less ROMs. There are tools like the Advanced SNES Utility tool that can remove (or add) headers to a ROM at the click of a button. You can also use a Hex Editor like Hexed.it where you load the ROM and just delete all those 00s in the beginning (that's the header). You would just highlight everything as shown in blue below and hit the delete key on your keyboard. Then you would save the file as a new file and you're all set.

Thank you! That one worked. Are you planning any more roster updates? I noticed a couple guys missing from my fav team! Love the game!

6 hours ago, Rcool6 said:

Thank you! That one worked. Are you planning any more roster updates? I noticed a couple guys missing from my fav team! Love the game!

No planned additional roster updates this season. What players are missing and do what team?

2 hours ago, kidswasted said:

No planned additional roster updates this season. What players are missing and do what team?

Carl Grundstrom and Nikita Grebenkin for Flyers instead of Tomasino. Tomasino been in AHL all season. The others have been on NHL roster

How difficult would it be to replace the Whalers logo with the actually Hurricanes one? If it's something easily taught, I'd love to learn and give it a go!

2 hours ago, Rcool6 said:

Carl Grundstrom and Nikita Grebenkin for Flyers instead of Tomasino. Tomasino been in AHL all season. The others have been on NHL roster

I'll take note of this for next season. When I originally made the ROM back in the Fall I grabbed what EA Sports had as their predicted rosters. For the trade deadline ROM I didn't really make changes to guys on lines 3 and 4 (and further down the rosters) as it was too much work for guys that most people wouldn't ever use.

 

1 hour ago, corruptedjosh said:

How difficult would it be to replace the Whalers logo with the actually Hurricanes one? If it's something easily taught, I'd love to learn and give it a go!

We haven't yet figured out how to edit logos in SNES. I know @McMarkis had a breakthrough in the last few weeks, but nothing yet on changing them.