NHL 95 PC – Hi-Res Mod / Programmer Help Wanted

Hi everyone,

I've been experimenting with HOCKEY.EXE from NHL 95 PC and we've made some good progress with a high-resolution gameplay mod.

So far we have managed to:

• Run the game in 640×400 instead of 320×200

• Increase the visible gameplay area

• Display the entire 384px rink width

• Disable horizontal camera scrolling while keeping vertical scrolling

• Fix player rendering and the puck off-screen indicator for the larger viewport

• Get approximately 384×392 of working gameplay

The main things still missing are:

• Fixing the HUD in 640×400 – score/time currently don't render correctly

• Ideally making the HUD transparent over the rink

• Finding a way to zoom/scale the gameplay, because the rink is only 384px wide and leaves unused space in a 640px framebuffer

We have the working modified EXEs and know many of the relevant offsets in HOCKEY.EXE.

If anyone has experience with DOS/x86 reverse engineering, framebuffer/blitting code, or NHL95PC internals, I'd love some help finishing this. I can share all our test builds and findings.

Look at the video enclosed.

Edited September 28Sep 28 by Hovnik