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View File USFL '86: Shadow Market A continuation of my hypothetical USFL series. Features: -7 minute quarters -Stats after every quarter -Wedge Returns -Directional Punting -Formation Experimentations -Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones -Stat Tweaks -Sim Data Tweaks -Offensive Formation Tweaks -3 team, 3 Division Structure -12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams) -18 game, locked, '85 schedule -All Pro: '86 All-NFL Vs. '86 All-USFL (I had to make modifications: Dennis Gentry, Bobby Joe Edmonds, and Tim McGee all made ALL-NFL as Special Teams Players; some other modifications based on ALL-AFC or ALL-NFC) -Custom Schedule Player allocation was based on a mix of the 1986 territorial and Open Drafts, narrative flourishes, and '85 NFL final cuts. In terms of NFL player cuts: I placed players based on their USFL draft status or regional proximity of their college or through research. '86 territorial rights/Open Draft Arizona Phil Freeman Greg Baty (rights trade w/Oakland) Paul Godbey* Max Zandejas Baltimore Rich Badanjack Todd Bowles Tim Cofield Stan Gelbaugh J.D. Maarveld John Taylor Birmingham Auburn Alabama Jesse Bendross (‘84 territorial pick) Carl Byrum Harold Hallman Willie Totten ('87 Bills Strike QB) Chicago Illinois Indiana Northwestern Wisconsin Cap Boso Keith Byars Jim Everett Bobby Howard Devon Mitchell* Denver Colorado Colorado State Nebraska Utah Utah State Mike Busch ('87 Giants) Rick Donnelly Dwayne Jiles Glen Kozlowski ('87 Bears) Vai Sikahema Eric Yarber Houston Baylor Houston SMU Texas Floyd Dixon Rory Graves (rights acquired in Weddington "liquidation" trade w/New Jersey) Brett Maxie* John Teltshick Reyna Thompson Jacksonville Florida Georgia Georgia Tech Eddie Anderson* Kent Austin (rights trade w/Birmingham) Ray Criswell Alonzo Johnson (rights trade w/Tampa Bay for Alonzo Mitz) Pat Swilling ('86 or '87 Saints) LA UCLA USC Joe Cormier John Lee Erik Howard (completes '85 trade w/Oakland for rights to Damon Allen) Robert Jenkins* Allen Pitts James Pruitt Memphis Tennessee Tennessee State Tony Baker Brian Blankenship ('86 open draft pick, '87 Steelers) Ravin Caldwell Don Griffin* Enis Jackson* Tim Harris Michigan Michigan Michigan State Brad Cochran John Offerdahl Butch Rolle John Wojciechowski New Jersey Boston College Colgate Rutgers Syracuse Gill Fenerty (3rd round open draft selection, pick acquired in Sam Bowers trade) Tim Green Mark Jackson (2nd round open draft pick) John Tagliaferri New Orleans LSU La Tech Tulane Willie Gillus (15th round open draft pick) Dalton Hilliard Tank Landry Ronald Scott* Jackie Walker Oakland Stanford Washington Washington State Joe Kelly Rueben Mayes Junior Tautalatasi Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma State Tulsa Tony Casillas Charles Crawford Rusty Hilger Kevin Murphy Willie Pless Pittsburgh Pitt Penn State West Virginia Chuck Banks Doug Marrone (4th round open draft pick) Mike Zordich* San Antonio Texas A&M Domingo Bryant Matt Darwin Seth Joyner Larry Linne* Walter Murray (2nd round Open Draft) Anthony Toney Tampa Bay Jamie Dukes* Joe Dudek Percy Griffin* Hassan Jones Alonzo Mitz (Jacksonville territorial pick, signed after cut) Orson Mobely Ricky Moore (rights acquired in trade w/Birmingham) Jesse Solomon Washington Clemson North Carolina East Carolina Dino Hackett Mike Haight (1st round Open Draft) Napoleon McCallum (rights acquired in trade w/Baltimore for Curtis Bledsoe) Henry Walls* *Will appear in future USFL Hack Transactions Arizona Andre Francis (‘83 territorial pick) Al Harris ('84 Bears) Jim Kovach ('83 or '84 Saints) Odis McKinney (‘81 Raiders) Art Still ('86 Chiefs) Eric Truvillion ('87 Lions) Baltimore Curtis Bledsoe (trade w/Washington for rights to Mark Kelso and Napoleon McCallum) James Burroughs Clarence Collins Dave Dreschler ('83 territorial pick) Major Everett Cornell Gowdy Birmingham Robert Brazile Jeremiah Castille ('83 territorial pick) Bob Harris (‘83 territorial pick) Mike Landrum ('84 Falcons) Malcolm Scott ('83 Giants or '87 Saints) Chicago Tron Armstrong ('84 3rd round open draft selection) Todd Bell Tom Cousineau Ted Petersen Gerald Small Bob Thomas Denver Hasson Arbubakrr Wendell Cason ('85 22nd round open draft pick via Jacksonville, acquired in Hemphill/Turner trade) Chris Kołodziejski (‘84 territorial pick) Larry Mason (trade w/Jacksonville for Daryl Hemphill, Calvin Turner, incul. cash, draft picks) Todd Shell Byron Williams Houston Danny Knight Bobby Micho ('84 territorial pick) Allen Rice ('84 territorial pick) Jimmy Teal ('85 territorial pick) Mike Weddington (trade w/New Jersey for Kiki DeAyala, Ricky Sanders, and Hosea Taylor) Mike Whitwell Jacksonville Carl Aikens (part of Evans trade) Vince Evans (trade w/Chicago for '88 and '89 1st round open draft picks and Carl Aikens) Daryl Hemphill (trade w/Denver for Larry Mason, 2nd and 14th open round picks) Ken Jenkins ('85 Skins, check '82 Lions) Frank Middleton ('83 territorial pick by Tampa Bay, rights acquired in trade) Mike Pruitt Larry Swider Calvin Turner (part of Hemphill trade) LA Mark Bortz ('83 6th round open draft pick) Michael Harper ('84 territorial pick) John Hendy ('85 territorial pick) Bernard Quarles ('83 22nd round open draft pick) Kelly Thomas (‘83 territorial pick) Memphis Sam Bowers (trade w/New Jersey for '86 3rd round open pick (Gill Fenerty), '87 5th round open pick) Earnest Gray Eddie Hill Gary Hogeboom Michigan Ross Browner Bill Elko (rights acquired in trade w/Tampa Bay) Ron Springs Lawrence Ricks ('83 Territorial pick) New Jersey Kiki DeAyala Chas Fox ('85 6th round open draft pick) Russell Erxleben Kris Haines Beasley Reece Tommy Robison Jay Saldi Ricky Sanders Hosea Taylor (trade w/Houston for Mike Weddington, Danny Knight, rights to Rory Graves, and '87 territorial pick) Richard Todd Reggie Wilkes New Orleans Perry Brooks Hokie Gajan Gary Kowalski Todd Leibenstein Herkie Walls Oakland Cliff Benson ('85 1st round open draft pick) Greg Braclin Henry Ellard Neil Elshire Emilie Harry ('85 territorial pick) Jackie Flowers Mike Lush (trade w/Baltimore for 2nd and 3rd round open draft picks '87) Mike Moroski Vince Newsome Dwaine Wilson Oklahoma Theotis Brown Duane Galloway Louis Oubre Stump Mitchell Drew Pearson Willie Tullis Uwe Von Schumann Pittsburgh Less Browne Julius Dawkins Scott Fitzkee Guy Fraizer Tom Orosz Don Smith Leo Wisniewski Dirt Winston San Antonio Greg Bingham Bruce Davis ('85 territorial pick) Doug Dawson ('84 territorial pick) George Farmer Paul Johns Ronnie Paggett (trade w/Birmingham for 9th and 14th round '87 open picks) Tampa Bay Ray Alexander Warren Bryant Alphonso Carraker ("trade" w/Green Bay for Mike Butler) Putt Choate Speedy Neal Marcus Quinn (trade w/Oakland) Washington K.D. Dunn ('85 territorial pick) Kelvin Edwards* Bubba Green Homer Jordan ('83 territorial pick) Mark Kelso ('85 6th round open pick by Baltimore, rights trade as part of Bledsoe deal) William Perry ('85 territorial pick) R.C. Thielemann Tommy Vigorito Submitter Tombor Submitted 10/08/2021 Category Misc ROMs  

Is there a way to change the color of the football itself? I know it likely isn't a sprite in the same sense of the other graphics. I saw an article on Twitter about Charles O'Finnley's bid to start another spring league post-USFL and he had what looked like an orange and red football in the photo. Thought it might be a cool experiment...

View File USFL '85: Nasty War 'USFL '85: Nasty War A continuation of my USFL Project, this is a "hypothetical" season that features all 18 clubs from '84, with some modifications to rosters. Features: -7 minute quarters -Stats after every quarter -Wedge Returns -Directional Punting -Formation Experimentations -Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones (watching USFL games I came to admire how bad the end zones often looked) -Stat Tweaks -Sim Data Tweaks -Offensive Formation Tweaks -3 team, 3 Division Structure -12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams) -18 game, locked, '85 schedule -All Pro: '85 All-NFL Vs. '85 All-USFL in Vanilla (Gerald Riggs replaces Eric Dickerson on NFL All-Pros) Notes: -As the four clubs that folded/merged are returning, '85 territorial lists returned to their general '84 designations, and new players were redistributed. The imagined '85 rosters of the Blitz, Maulers, Outlaws, and Panthers generally resemble their '84 assemblies, though I did take liberties and retained players. This meant the surviving clubs had to be reworked. I tried to keep these "realistic" by filling gaps with actual territorial selections or by doing research into near-miss signings. Dickerson, for instance, did consider an offer from the Wranglers in '83 and used the league as leverage for negotiations in '85. -These rosters are continued from my reimagined '84 roster. If you want accuracy, an NFL and USFL '85 hack by Buck on TBorg has real-life rosters and some cool graphics. The schedule is an adaptation of the original '84--I flipped interdivisional and conference hosts, but they are the same "pattern"; I did shuffle the weeks around to avoid the same schedule. If I can get to an '86, maybe I can make one that swaps inter-conference and inter-divisional matchups. Territorial and Open Draft Picks *Year denotes their territorial selection; unmarked players were territorial or Open Draft selections in ‘85 unless noted. Arizona Ron Brown ('84) Randall Cunningham Rickey Hunley ('84) Vernon Maxwell ('83) Rick Mallory ('84) Pete Mandley (‘84) Rich Moran Vance Johnson Lionel Vital Baltimore Troy Benson ('85 Maulers territorial pick, traded for Mike Johnson, imagined) Birmingham Al Del Greco Kevin Greene Paul Ott Carruth Emmanuel King Freddie Joe Nunn Jerry Rice Chicago Carl Aikens ('84) Dwight Beverly ('84) Bobby Bell Jr. ('84) Mitchell Brookins ('84) Mike Burgereau (‘84) Jeff Dellenbach Babe Laufenberg ('83) Alex Moyer Ken Stills Stacey Toran ('84) Al Toon Dan Turk Denver Joe Walter Rich Miano Jacksonville Frank Bush Robert Lavette Gary Wilkins Houston Ray Childress Jeff Fuller (‘84) Raphel Cherry Los Angeles Duane Bickett Memphis Tiger Greene Herman Hunter Fuad Reviz Chris Scott ('84) Gizmo Williams Carl Zander Michigan Carl Banks ('84) Mike Green ('83) Ali Haji-Sheikh (‘83) Paul Skansi ('83) Steve Smith ('84) Daryl Turner ('84) Lonnie Young New Jersey Steve DeOssie Lionel Emmanuel ('84 LA territorial pick, imagined trade w/LA) Herman Fontenot Doug Flutie Eugene Robinson New Orleans Bud Brown Dino Hall Calvin Magee* Eric Martin Lance Smith Elton Veals ('84) Oakland Damon Allen (imagined rights trade w/LA) Bo Eason ('84) Damone Johnson Reggie Langhorne Tom Neville Ron Rivera (‘84) Tom Toth Dokie Williams (‘83) Oklahoma Tom Benson ('84) Scott Case ('84) John Goode ('84) Jamie Harris Rodney Harding Shawn Jones Kevin Murphy Terry Orr (imagined rights trade w/San Antonio) Pittsburgh Dwight Collins ('84) Chris Doleman Willie Drewery Tom Flynn ('84) Bill Fralic John Frank ('84) Mike Johnson ('84 territorial pick, signed w/Baltimore, imagined trade w/Baltimore for rights to Troy Benson) Tony Paige ('84) Doug Strang Ron Wolfley San Antonio Danny Bradley (imagined rights trade w/Oklahoma for Terry Orr, though an actual territorial selection in ‘85) Alan Veingrad Tampa Bay Eddie Brown Steve Calabria (NJ territorial pick, imagined traded to Bandits though Jim Bassett claimed to sign him in '85) Washington George Adams Louis Cooper Mike Golic Willie Joyner ('84) Lester Lyles Bob Olderman Andre Reed Chris Washington ('84) Free Agency/Veteran Transactions/Returning from ‘84 What-If Hack Arizona Eric Dickerson Ronnie Lott (1-year deal offered during hold-out) Chicago Irving Fryar Walter Payton Denver John Grimsley Prince McJunkins Houston Billy Sims Jacksonville Deron Cherry (imagined) Brian Sipe (trade w/New Jersey for draft pick) LA Reggie Brown (played '83, appeared in one game in '84, stays w/LA for '85, imagined) Michigan Anthony Allen (trade w/LA before club folded) New Jersey Mark May (imagined but offered) Randy White (imagined but offered) New Orleans EJ Junior Johnny Meads Alan Risher (trade w/Arizona, imagined) Oklahoma Greg Kragen Darrol Ray (nearly signed for '85 back in '83) J.C. Watts (expressed interest, rights held by NJ) Pittsburgh Jeff Hostetler (offered in '84) Russ Grimm (offered in '84) San Antonio Earl Campbell (offered in '83) Tampa Bay Cris Collinsworth (signed to start playing in '85) Wilber Marshall Washington Boomer Esaison *Will appear in a future USFL Hack Submitter Tombor Submitted 07/09/2021 Category Misc ROMs  

Yeah, I felt like this would be too complex. I have been tooling around with Sim Data as best as I can, and have gotten some balance.

I got two questions; if anyone knows of an older thread to direct me, that'd be great too. 1) Is there a way, either in sim or when playing the COM, you can get the COM to substitute players? Sometimes in a regular season game it gets a little ugly when the opposing quarterback falls into a bad condition. I remember the COM would swap out players in TECMO NBA Basketball on occasion. 2) Is there a way to prevent your entire roster from being "reset" when a player returns from injury? There has been a few times where I got some backups in "excellent" condition and a guy is out, but then when I sim the result and the guy returns, the entire roster resets. There questions are probably more source code questions. I was just curious.

Because there are fewer than 28 teams (there are 18 in the USFL mod), I am able to sort of "stack" a couple matchups within a single week: with 18 teams, there are 9 a week, so around Week 13 and Week 14, I double-up the schedule in order to fit the whole schedule. And since there were even fewer WFL clubs, I think I could work the schedule in order to make a 20 games work. Thanks Kamphuna! I will try to reach out. Work has been a little crazy.

I kind of got some notes for an '85 hack--it would likely be completely "reimagined," with all 18 teams--but I was wondering if the current ESPN (it was updated in '85) or ABC logo ever appeared in any NES games? Just so I can have maybe a baseline. Are there any good programs out there to import and digitize graphics in Tile Layer Pro?

I think the work on USFL '84 has given me a framework to do a WFL one pretty smoothly--like I know I can fit the original 20 game schedule, and the 18 total clubs; it's just the graphics stuff would definitely hang me up--helmets, small helmets, and on field logos. Probably would be a dynasty rom.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone attempted a WFL mod? I don't know much about the league, but some of the helmets are pretty cool; I am not great with graphics.

View File USFL '84: Kings of Spring USFL '84: Kings of Spring Features: -7 minute quarters -Stats after every quarter -Wedge Returns -Directional Punting -Run and Shoot formation for Houston -What If Players -'84 Rosters as close as possible (there were a lot of midseason trades, so I tried to place players on rosters where they made more appearances) -New Orleans Breakers -Graphic Tweaks, including funky end zones (watching USFL games I came to admire how bad the end zones often looked) -Stat Tweaks -3 team, 3 Division Structure -12 teams make playoffs (as opposed to original 8 teams) -18 game, locked, '84 schedule -All Pro: '84 All-NFL Vs. '84 All-USFL in Vanilla (slightly modified in What If--All-AFC Freeman McNeil replaces Payton) Built off the legendary USFL-WLAF hack by jstout and Denny, this rom features the '84 USFL teams, schedule, and rosters, along with a few wrinkles. This rom was tricky as I am still new to this. I looked to TheRaja's TFO rom for some structure. Clubs are split into three, 3-team divisions. The schedule is '84's, so clubs still have the same division matchups. I tried to order games as close as possible to their original times and distributions, as USFL clubs played Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday every week. This still got a little murky in the middle, but all schedules are as accurate as possible. This rom maintains TSB's playoff structure as well--six get in from each conference as opposed to the original 4, but, honestly, I wondered why the league didn't go with 6 just from a marketing standpoint. You got a new league with new teams, why not show them all off, a la the NHL? Once I get better at this stuff, I will edit down to a 4 team playoff. Jstout's and Denny's hack was invaluable--they did the art and logos. I did make some light edits to the helmets and logos--several clubs had "triple stripe" helmets, so I shifted them to the "40" code designation, with the exception of the Maulers, whose logo is placed in the Rams making that too difficult. I changed the Feds' big helmet to reflect the switch to silver in '84 and I edited the Blitz's and Star's logos just a little bit. I also took a crack at the midfield and end zone graphics. Special thanks to USFLFan (@VUSFL2018 on Twitter) for providing invaluable knowledge on the what-if roster changes. Reading about some of the league's near-miss signings inspired me to take this on; @VUSFL2018's Virtual USFL project provided a great guide and framework. There are two versions of this rom: Vanilla--the more I experimented with rosters, the more I realized I needed some balance. Vanilla has more accurate rosters. What If Edit--this is the counterfactual version, a little harder (not super juiced, but all clubs start 2-0 in terms of difficulty). This includes the "What If" Rosters. Note non-TSB players: as this is an edit, and if you are playing TSB for the first time, this rom lacks the 2-point conversion implemented in USFL. Also, no touchbacks on kick-offs. The Read Me includes a partial narrative and explains roster placements. Submitter Tombor Submitted 04/05/2021 Category Misc ROMs  

I was just wondering if there is a thread that has discussed editing text on the black event screens ahead of playoff games or regular season games. Screens like below: I have managed to edit some text on menu and playoff screens by tooling around with translhextion, finding spots where I can read the text to the right of my location, but this has been sort of tedious. I am nearly done with my USFL '84 hack and I just wanted to change "World Bowl," as it is displayed in the USFL-WLAF hack, to "USFL Championship" or something like that. I have seen thread discussions on how to edit the title screen and "Super Pro Football," but can't seem to find discussions on how to do this here. Buck's 1985 USFL-NFL hack does something similar, as do other historic hacks. Any help would be appreciated.

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