NHL ’94

Game: NHL '94 (Mega Drive / Genesis, 1993)

A hand-written C rewrite of NHL ’94 (Mega Drive/Genesis) for Linux, Windows, and macOS. According to its README, the game’s roughly 1,500 routines, with one C file per assembly module of the community’s byte-exact rebuild, have been checked against the original frame by frame; it emulates neither the 68000 nor the Z80 and uses the pulseman submodule for the VDP, PSG, and YM2612, with SDL2. It runs at 60 frames per second without the cartridge’s slowdown and adds rollback online play for two to four players, save states with rewind, custom rules, custom rosters of up to 32 teams, and the import of rosters from ROM hacks made on the 32-team template, which are exported as CSV and PNG. Version 0.3.6 is from October 22. All of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of the NHL ’94 cartridge for Mega Drive/Genesis (US or Europe), 1 MB (SHA-1 7b1489ab501258133bf03e5f0892b77d04312580). You pick it the first time in the game’s file browser, or with --rom. For online play, every machine needs the same release.

How it gets to PC

Port of a decompilation

Console

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis

Original studio

Electronic Arts

Year

1993

Author

1nputs

Stars

5

Last activity

2026-10-22 · 9 days ago

Latest version

v0.3.6 · 2026-10-22

License

MIT

Language

C