abdulahmad / EA-NHL-Tools

Tools for various EA NHL games

EA-NHL-Tools 0.5 ALPHA

Tools for various EA NHL games

Recommend checking out Releases for latest stable release: https://github.com/abdulahmad/EA-NHL-Tools/releases

Tools included

95-Team-Swap-Mod - Very WIP Mod for NHL95PC that allows you to use teams/rosters/jerseys/logos from the '22-'23 season

DIG-To-WAV - Converts NHL94/95 PC .DIG files to .WAV (in-game sounds)

HOCKEY32 - Documentation on potentially expanding NHL95 PC to 32 teams

IFF-To-WAV - Converts NHL95 PC .IFF files to .WAV (out of game music files)

PAL-To-ACT - Convert NHL95 PC !<palname> & <HOME/AWAY>PALS.bin files to .ACT. For use with sprites extracted from PPV files & centre ice logos extracted

PPV-To-BMP - Extracts NHL95 PC .PPV files (in-game sprites), WIP: with ability to pass in .ACT palette

QFS-To-BMP - Convert NHL95 PC .QFS files to .BMP using defined mapping to ensure correct palette is used

Roster-Generator - Pulls Teams, Players & Stats from public NHL APIs & scrapes nhlratings.net for NHL23 ratings to create a base for a modern roster for NHL 94/95

SPIT-To-BMP - Converts NHL95 PC SPIT format files to .RAW & .BMP, with ability to pass in .ACT palette

TIL-To-BMP - WIP Converts NHL95 PC TIL/MAP format to .BMP (centre ice logos)

VIV-To-WAV - Converts NHL95 PC .VIV files to .WAV (menu & rink announcer sound)

Release Notes

0.1

• First release of PPV-SPIT-Tools

0.2

• First release of IFF-To-WAV and DIG-To-WAV

0.3

• First release of VIV-To-WAV
• Moved gfxpak to common 3rd party tools folder

0.4

• 95 Team Swap Mod added (WIP), included prototype jerseys for NSH, CBJ, WPG, MIN, SEA, VGK, All-Star Teams
• Documentation on expanding NHL95 PC to 32 teams added
• First release of PAL-To-ACT
• First release of QFS-To-BMP
• First release of Roster-Generator
• Split out SPIT-To-BMP from PPV-To-BMP
• Documentation on Centre Ice logos in TIL-To-BMP
• Added palette support to SPIT-To-BMP

0.5 ALPHA

• move source files to central ./NHL94INST and ./NHL95CD) folder
• WIP: Create batch to extract homepals & awaypals
• WIP: Create rinkpal-03-ingame
• WIP: Create rinkpal-01-jersey

Future version plans (May not be in this order)

• Create structure to compile 95 Team swap mod
• Template to create in-game team specific assets (PALs/CRESTS/TIL) -- all share same palette
• Build tools to create in-game team specific assets (PALs/CRESTS/TIL) -- all share same palette
• TIL-To-BMP / BMP-To-TIL (include MAP/centre ice logo config)
• Tool to import/export rosters from NHL95PC
• Tool to import into QFS files
• Figure out how to rebuild CALLOGO Palette for new teams
• Tool to import IFF
• Tool to Export unknown viv format
• Tool to import unknown viv format
• .ACT to !PAL
• Reorg to use central NHL95CD folder
• Set up assets for Team Swap Mod
• Make similar functionality in PPV-To-BMP to extract with palette