Hey Sharpedo,

Not a problem hahaha. The work I'm doing applies to both NFL Blitz and NFL Blitz 200 for the PC. Sounds good! I'll keep you in the loop on progress.

hi Jaker3, I'm guessing it's your repo I saw on GitHub.

I'd like to help you somehow.  I am a developer and work with C# so I can contribute if you're willing to give him some instructions on what's needed to get up and running and accessing the files and the location on any information you've gathered about the files on the drive.

Hey dmgambone,

Its a work in-progress. The player names in the arcade version are stored in sprite sheets. I've found the location of the sprite sheets and the data it uses to draw off them. Working on figuring out what the values mean so I can create a sprite generator for players.

Hey jaker,

Good to see you again. Thanks for responding. The forum seems kinda dead these days but maybe we can change that. I don't blame you for not knowing about Arena Football Unleashed either, it's a pretty obscure Midway game. I actually found it by accident a few years ago while watching Blitz videos on YouTube.

As far as I can tell its built off of Blitz 2000 for PS1. It doesn't have the mini games 2001 had but it does have the features 2000 added like the play editor, electricity mode in place of on-fire mode and 4 player multiplayer. Not sure if you're familiar with modifying data for the PS1 versions of Blitz or not but I bet that would be a good place to start since the data is probably laid out the same way in those games as it is in AFU.

Also, for automating rosters one thing you could try is to pull data from a website and import it into the roster editor you made. Maybe you could have an extra button in the GUI for that in a later update. I figure the NFL's got a website for player stats and info somewhere but I haven't seen it myself. You could have the editor search in a website like that for player data and convert it to values to insert into the roster of the rom that's loaded in the editor. Not sure how much work that would be to do or how feasible it is but it might be one way to go about automating the process.

Would it be possible to do roster editing for the PS1 versions of Blitz? I'd love to have custom rosters for Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed which used the same engine as the other Blitz games on PS1 if that's ever possible to make an editor for. There's very few arena football video games out there which is why I'd love to be able to edit the rosters and update that one with modern teams.

Also, did you guys have plans to do an updated rom for this year/next year? If so I could help out with textures. I'll have to take some time to refresh myself on things but I don't think it'll be too hard to relearn what I did before. I was here a few years ago under my old account TAPFS, but I'm back for good now. I'm sorry for ghosting you guys, it definitely won't happen again. The main reason I left was because I lost interest in football, but ever since the Super Bowl this year I've quickly gotten back into it.