i found a hacked nhl 97 rom with teams and players updated to the year of 2012 and i want to update that rom. i have just started to use NOSE and i now know how to update the rosters to present day players and i plan to update all team rosters and share the rom here 😃

the all-star teams and national teams are replaced with the missing nhl-teams from that year.

when loading the rom in NOSE there are 33 teams, including seattle, utah and also quebec but they are not visable when playing the game.

so is it not possible to have those teams playable?

i only know how to edit the rosters and team uniforms but to add teams seems advanced. i downloaded and installed HxD but i have no idea how to make this happen.

would really appreciate some help and maybe we can make this happen together? if someone is good with fixing logos, game backgrounds and all that stuff i can handle the rosters for this game 😁

Probably not going to be helpful, but just because I am interested in this...

I am curious about how you are describing the additional teams in NHL97 because it sounds like you are not able to access some of the International/All-Star teams. Unless, are you referring to a regular single game or trying to use season mode? I know in the default game you have an East, West, Canada, US and Europe All-Star team, [that are obviously not going to appear in season mode] but the hidden EA Sports and "Renegades" developer teams need to be unlocked. Problem is that unlocking them just usurps the spots in the selection order used by the East and West teams.

There is a hack that allows you to unlock them, but this just makes that East/West replacement the default. Obviously it would be nice to have all seven "All-Star" teams be available at the same time, but I haven't figured it out and I don't know if anyone else it on the case.

20 hours ago, von Ozbourne said:

Probably not going to be helpful, but just because I am interested in this...

I am curious about how you are describing the additional teams in NHL97 because it sounds like you are not able to access some of the International/All-Star teams. Unless, are you referring to a regular single game or trying to use season mode? I know in the default game you have an East, West, Canada, US and Europe All-Star team, [that are obviously not going to appear in season mode] but the hidden EA Sports and "Renegades" developer teams need to be unlocked. Problem is that unlocking them just usurps the spots in the selection order used by the East and West teams.

There is a hack that allows you to unlock them, but this just makes that East/West replacement the default. Obviously it would be nice to have all seven "All-Star" teams be available at the same time, but I haven't figured it out and I don't know if anyone else it on the case.

yes it is correct that i cant access the international teams since they are replaced in this rom hack with the newer nhl teams for those spots. nhl 97 all stars is still there. and im only talking about regular game, not season mode. i am aware that only the "old teams" are there in season mode and that its hard to hack that particular thing.

when i load up the rom in NOSE there are 33 team spots. when i play the rom on my mini pc (retroarch in batocera) there are only 31 teams selectable (regular game, not season). in NOSE i can see that 31 out of 32 present nhl teams are created, including seattle and utah (vegas missing) plus quebec and hartford are still there in the list of the created teams. but when i play the rom phoenix is still there instead of utah and nhl 97 all stars is there instead of seattle. hartford and quebec not visable.

so what i would like to achieve is to see all our present 32 NHL teams playable in this game. that is nr1 goal. any extra team/teams are just a bonus and not that important to me. hartford and/or quebec i would happily sacrifice to see vegas in there.

i know that just changing the team name in hxd isnt enough, but that it is also necessary to replace the team logos with programs like tilemolester or tile layer pro to have the new team names and logos visable in the game itself.

so can this be done?