NFL Blitz 2018 Rom Hack Download (Updated 10/29/17)

[blitzmaster5000]

Luke: Here's another thing you may want to think about. The Texans in Zoinkity's patch only have the home (dark blue) jerseys, which can be annoying because they will sometimes have almost the same color jersey as the opposing team and make it hard to discern. TAPFS had made some alternate jerseys that you can import using the graphical editor tool (see the graphic editor tool thread). Here are the jersey files:
https://puu.sh/w2gao/ed3e75352d.zip

I seem to remember that I had to fiddle w/ the files that were imported to make it look correct, but can't remember it was so long ago. Here's a pic of them that TAPFS showed:

[jaker3]

@lukeman,
Looks like there might be something wrong with the roster file, wasn't able to get it to save to the ROM. The issue might be because some last names are over the 16 character limit (i'm adding some restrictions to prevent names longer than 16 characters to prevent this). Is the application actually crashing? Or is it just "Not Responding" The ROM is not open in any other program is it? I'll try and add some checks this week to prevent a few possible issues that could be giving you issues.

@Blitzmaster,
Thanks for the reminder haha, I'll get those uniforms added.

[lukeman]

Thanks for all the info!  I didn't realize there was a 16 char limit on the names.  I updated my roster file and think I took care of all of those issues.  Also went through each team and fully updated the rosters based off the depth charts here: http://www.ourlads.com/nfldepthcharts/depthcharts.aspx

Question - Is the ' ' that would occur between first and last name count towards the 16 char limit?

[jaker3]

Awesome, got it working... I had a bad check which was causing some issues. If you redownload the roster editor it should work now. Let me know!

[lukeman]

u da man jaker3!  I am finally am able to update the rosters and play as Houston.  I've uploaded an AllTime roster which contains the best players from each franchises' history if anyone is interested.  Thank you so much for sharing the tools to make this possible.

-Luke

[jaker3]

Anyone want to help out making an NFL Blitz 2019 roster for the upcoming season? Looking to put another room hack out for this season.

[lukeman]

Here is an updated roster for this year.  Thanks for all your work!

[jaker3]

Here is an updated roster for this year.  Thanks for all your work!

Thanks lukeman! I'll start working on the patch with 2019 graphics this week.

[shampu19]

Is there any work still being done on this?

[jaker3]

I still actively develop the tooling. I just actually published the source for the roster editor to git a few weeks ago. Currently I'm working on rewrites of the existing tooling as well as roster editing that should work with the PC and arcade version.

[Lugia]

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.

[jaker3]

Hey Lugia,

This is the first time I've ever heard of  Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed  to be honest haha. I'm a huge blitz fan obviously so I'm surprised . I can take a look at it and see what I can come up with. Kind of interested to poke around with it anyways now. Yeah I plan to have something for the upcoming 2020-2021 season. I'm looking into a why to partially automated it ATM. But yeah helping with updated textures would be awesome.

Also, NP at all haha, peoples interest change and people get busy; its all good haha.

[Lugia]

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.

[jaker3]

Hey Lugia,

Yeah Thats what I pretty much planned to do. Scrape the depth charts off the an internet and auto fill everything from it. The only thing I don't think I'll be able to automate is player skin color. I haven't looked much into hacking the PS1 version, but I'll take a look. Most of the work I'm completing for the PC version right now should be partially reusable for the other systems.

[Sharpedo]

Hey jaker,

It's me, Lugia. I wanted to change my username but found out I couldn't so I decided to create a new account. Apologies for any confusion. If you need someone to test stuff you're developing for PC Blitz I can do that. I bought a copy of it off eBay today and it should be here by late next week. If you make any breakthroughs on hacking PS1 Blitz I can help with testing that too.

I have an ISO backup of PC Blitz as well that I downloaded from ISOZone a few years ago before that got shut down so if you want anything tested before my physical copy arrives I can test stuff with that. Are you working on PC Blitz or 2000? I think some cracked versions of 2000 are floating around online but I haven't tried those. PC Blitz works fine on my laptop but I remember having trouble getting 2000 to run on Windows 10 in the past.