

If a greater challenge is desired, go to the Starting Lineups screen and set the Player Advantage to -1 (click the slider one direction to the left).Ĩ. Set the Difficulty to Medium, Period Length to 6, Penalties to 4, Fighting to 3. Then go to Play Now, Game Setup, and Rules. Once in-game, go to the Options AI screen and click the 04 Rebuilt AI button at the bottom.
NHL REBUILT WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS 10
If Windows 10 users are having issues with the game starting, they may need to disable antialiasing and anisotropic filtering, or open up the launcher.ini file the program creates and add the line Windowed = 1Īdditionally, try setting the compatibility mode for "nhl2004.exe" and/or "launcher.exe" to run for Windows 8, and check the box to Run as Administrator.ħ. Start the game using launcher.exe found in your root C:\NHL 2004 directory.
NHL REBUILT WINDOWS 10 INSTALL
DO NOT INSTALL ADD-ONS FROM OUTSIDE THIS FORUM. Ditties go to ∼:\Users\username\Documents\NHL 2004\USER\ditties while menu music goes to your root ∼:\NHL 2004 directory. Download and extract any desired add-ons from below, such as ditty packs and menu music. Download and extract the rest of the files to your root C:\NHL 2004 directory. The files db.viv and tuning.viv go to C:\NHL 2004\db.

This folder should now be automatically created. If this folder does not exist, either create it yourself in your My Documents directory, or launch the game once so it goes to the main menu, then immediately exit. The files NHL 2004 Exh.exh, NHL 2004 , and NHL 2004 OLExh.exh, go to C:\Users\username\Documents\NHL 2004\db\. Run the interface.exe and extract to your C:\NHL 2004 folder. The recommended location is to make the install folder in C:\, such as ∼:\NHL 2004.Ģ.

(1337.36 MB) and then change the install directory. Choose ∿ull All files copied to system.

I'm hoping there's some underground network of NHL PC gamers who are still lurking out there.When prompted, choose the ∺dvanced User Select performance settings and directory option. If you guys ever had the chance to enjoy the NHL 2K games and appreciated the classic rosters, that was my work You may notice a slight slant in teams that covered the NHL '94 era of teams, and that wasn't any coincidence!
NHL REBUILT WINDOWS 10 ARCHIVE
Luckily we had an awesome forum member archive a ton of great NHL '95 PC files, so I was hoping that maybe someone out there archived and saved some of the great add-on files that were available to us back in the glory days of hockey gaming on the PC.įunny enough, I actually used to do very detailed NHL rosters dating back to NHL '95 and I eventually wound up with a job in the industry thanks to my attention to detail. I got both NHL '96 and NHL 2002 running on Windows 10, and now I'm in search of any add-ons that may be available for any of the NHL PC games from 1996-2002. Seeing how I've grown to become disinterested with the recent NHL outings from EA Sports ("It's Still the Same!"), I had the itch to go back to what I perceive to be the second funnest hockey gaming experience I had next to NHL '94 (on the Sega Genesis of course).
