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Alright guys. It's time for another of dalstarsfan's world famous NHL 02 guides. Today we will focus on making arenas.

Let's first, assuming you have the arenapc.viv file (It is found in the gamedata folder) open in EA Graphics Editor

Scroll down and you will see icex_xx (replace xx with number from the following list):

00: Anaheim

01: Atlanta

02: Boston

03: Buffalo

04: Calgary

05: Carolina (The focus of this tut)

06: Chicago

07: Colorado

08: Columbus

09: Dallas

10: Detroit

11: Edmonton

12: Florida

13: Los Angeles

14: Minnesota

15: Montreal

16: Nashville

17: New Jersey

18: NY Islanders

19: NY Rangers

20: Ottawa (10th Aniversary Ice)

21: Philadelphia

22: P***nix

23: Pittsburgh

24: St. Louis

25: San Jose

26: Tampa Bay

27: Toronto

28: Vancouver

29: Washington

30-34: All Star Teams.

Now, the first part of this is obviously center ice logos.

Step 1 is to extract L256, which is center ice. Save as hfdice.jpeg (Since we are changing it to Hartford's logo, which you can google for).

Next, take the logo into photoshop and copy the background layer. After you do this, take the Quick Select tool (If your on CS3) and click everyhwhere theres black. Press delete. Presto. Background gone.

Next, cut the rest of the LOGO. Leave the red lines around the logo.

After that, put the ice logo on. The key here is to put it in game, and keep stretching/skewing until it shows up facing north to south in game. Best way to do this is avoid adding any text.

My result:

Now is the optional part. You can edit ad1 and ad2, as I have.

My result:

As you notice, the NHL 2002 and NHLPA logos were replaced by "Hartford Civic Center" which I hand typed and an old New England Whalers logo that I found on google.

Alright. That's it for now. My next tut will cover scoreboard editing.

Hope it helped and enjoy your new ingame mods!!