Tools for various EA NHL games

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

Note that this suite of tools have only been tested on a windows machine. Some of the tools (the ones designed for NHL94/95 PC) use gfxpak, which is a windows only application.

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

ANIM-To-BMP - Extracts NHL92 Genesis .ANIM Sprite Animation files to .BMP

ANIM94-To-BMP - Extracts NHL93/94 Genesis .ANIM Sprite Animation files (directly from the ROM) to .BMP

ANIM94SNES-To-BMP - Extracts NHL94 SNES .ANIM Sprite Animation files (directly from the ROM) to .BMP

ANIM95-To-BMP - Extracts NHL95/96/97 Genesis .ANIM Sprite Animation files (directly from the ROM) to .BMP

Asset-Extractor - Extracts assets from the various EA NHL Genesis rom files. WIP.

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

Docs - Documentation on various aspects of the NHL games.

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

JIM-Tools - Tools to import/export images from/to NHL 92 Genesis

MID94-Tools - Experiment in extracting music from NHL 94 Genesis

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)

• First release of PPV-SPIT-Tools

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

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

• 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

• 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

• First release of ANIM-To-BMP

• First release of ANIM94-To-BMP
• First release of JIM-Tools
• clean up on documentation for various tools
• added command line usage info to all of the tools
• tools (outside of the ones that use gfxpak) are now mac/linux compatible
• support for batch export of NHL 95 PC sprites with specific team palette

• First release of ANIM95-To-BMP
• First release of Asset-Extractor

• Refactor ANIM tools to be able to extract .anim files directly from rom, and dynamically parse .anim file.
• Add hotspot support to .anim tools
• Update ANIM-To-BMP & ANIM94-To-BMP & ANIM95-To-BMP to extract sprite components from .ANIM files
• Create tool to build .ANIM file from frame/sprite metadata/components
• SND extractor/builder

• 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
• Make similar functionality in PPV-To-BMP to extract with palette