NHL 97 - Guide/ US Version
For the Super Nintendo
Version Final (August 28, 2010)
Guide by Myke - mykeownz (at) yahoo (dot) com
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Table of Contents
1..............................................................Version History
2.....................................................................Controls
3...................................................................Main Menus
4.......................................................................Season
5......................................................................Rosters
6.......................................................................Extras
7....................................................................Copyright
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Version History
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Aug. 28th, 2010: First and complete version of this guide.
Menu Controls---------------|---------------------------------------------|
| -D Button Up/Down | Highlight menu items |
| -D Button Left/Right -|- Cycle choices |
| -START | Accept/Go to next screen |
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Face Off--------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| -Directional pad | Aim puck to teammate |
| -B Button -|- Take draw |
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Offense---------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| -Directional pad | Control skater |
| -Y Button -|- Dump the puck |
| -B Button + D-pad | Pass to desired player/spot |
| -B then Y -|- Give and Go |
| -B then Y + D-pad | One-Timer Pass |
| -A (tap) -|- Wrist shot |
| -A (hold) | Slap shot |
| -B then A + D-pad -|- One-Timer Shot |
| -D-pad + R | Spin-o-Rama |
| -L -|- Sudden Stop |
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| -Y (on Attack Zone) -|- Fake Shot |
| -X + D-pad (Atk Zone) | Drop Pass behind you |
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Defense---------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| -Directional pad | Control skater |
| -Y Button -|- Hold/hook |
| -B Button | Control player close to puck |
| -B Button -|- Poke Check/Trip when closest to puck |
| -A Button | Speed burst/body check |
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Goaltending-----------------|---------------------------------------------|
| -X Button (hold) | Take control of goalie |
| -Directional pad -|- Position goalie |
| -Y or X + D-pad | Dive |
| -B Button -|- Poke check (close to puck) |
| -A Button | Save Attempt |
| | |
| -Y + D-pad (with puck) | Flip puck out of zone |
| -B + D-pad (with puck) | Pass/Clear along boards |
| -No button -|- Cover up to draw faceoff |
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Instant Replay--------------|---------------------------------------------|
| -X Button | Slow motion |
| -Y Button -|- Rewind |
| -A Button | Fast Forward |
| -B Button -|- Pause/Play |
| -Directional Pad | Control camera manually |
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Fighting--------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| -No button | Avoid brawl (if opponent challenge) |
| -A/B/Y Button -|- Drop gloves |
| | |
| -Y Button -|- Punch to head |
| -B Button | Uppercut to body |
| -A Button -|- Grab opponent's jersey |
| -Directional pad | Control player forward or backward |
| -D-pad away from opp. | Block |
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Main Menus
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[EXHIBITION]
A one-game battle. You can play with your friends or test your ice hockey
skills against the CPU.
[SEASON]
Select this to play a 82-game season and complete it with best-of-7
playoff series and post-season awards ceremony.
[PRACTICE]
Improve your skills or draw up plays to run. You can also work on your
penalty shot skills here.
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/___/ GAME MODE OPTIONS--------------------------
Skill Level: Novice (CPUs skate slow/react slowly
Intermediate (CPUs are average)
Expert (CPUs are NHL-level)
Period Length: 5/10/20 Minutes (set the length of minutes in each period
and there are 3 periods in a game). If the game goes to
overtime, it is always an extra 5 minutes period.
Goalies: Toggle to manual or automatic.
User Records: Toggle on or off. If you turn it on, your personal NHL 97
performance will go on an ongoing record.
Penalties: Turn penalties on/off or on with no offsides. Having the
penalties off will put you in a fast-paced game.
Line Changes: Turn on/off or automatic. Having it on automatic will have
your team change lines automatically before each faceoff in
a game. Having it off and your best line will be on the ice
for the whole game and never tire.
Rosters: Default or With Trades. If you have it on With Trades, team
rosters will reflect your transactions in the game.
Fighting: The option to get in some fisticuffs or not.
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/___/ PLAYING THE GAME---------------------------
Select Team: In Exhibition mode, you can select and choose from the 26
NHL teams plus two All-Star teams.
Controller Setup: Move the controller icon under the team you want to play
as in the game.
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/___/ SCOREBOARD MENU----------------------------
Instant Replay: This lets you replay an action and slow it down and focus
on a play or specific areas. You might have made the most
fantastic of plays and you want to replay this and be in
awe of it or you want to see a penalty that you don't agree
with.
Edit Lines: You can edit your team's lines here and give it a new look
on the ice. If you have Line Changes toggled OFF, you can
only edit your team's top line.
Change Goalies: You have the option to replace your starting goalie or play
with no goalie and put in an extra skater.
Goalie Control: There is this option at the main menu but it's also on the
scoreboard menu. You can play as a goalie manually or let
the computer do it.
Timeout: Each team is allowed to call one timeout per game. It has
very little use in a game and all it does is restore the
energy levels of skaters on both teams and that's only
if Line Changes is toggled ON.
Team Rosters: Not much to do here but to view and browse the ratings of
the players and goalies.
Coaching: A neat little feature here. You can assign different
strategies to different lines to affect the style of
gameplay.
Score Summary: Take a gander at who scored and who assisted on the goal
and the time of the goal and if it was on full strength,
power play or shorthanded.
Penalties: To view the penalties that were called during the game.
Record Holders: At the main menu, if you have User Records turned ON, you
can put in a little challenge here and break the All Time
Records.
Other Scores: This is in SEASON MODE and during the season you can view
the score of the other contests.
At the main menu, you have the option to play a regular exhibition game,
practice and full 82-game season. Select SEASON and this section will educate
you on how to get around it.
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\___\ LEAGUE MENU
Games Today
When you are ready to start your season, this is where you need to go.
Take a gander at the entire season and select the games you want to play.
You can go through the games on a date (Control Pad Up/Down) or go to a
different date (Control Pad Left/Right). To select a matchup, pick a
game and press B to mark it (press B again to unmark). When you have
decided the match-ups you want, press START to proceed to the Controller
Setup screen and select your team.
NHL Standings
In here, you can check the records (win/loss/tie) and total points for
every team in the league.
Game Options
You can toggle options to your desired gameplay. You can mess around with
the skill level, the length of period, the severity of penalties, line
changes and fighting. You also have the option to toggle PLAYOFFS to
a one-game elimination (SINGLE) or Best-of-7 series (MULTI).
Team Roster
Not much to say here but you can see and compare your players to others
and cycle through all NHL teams.
Player Stats
Check and see who's leading in stats throughout the season.
League Leaders
See how your players and goalies are against the competition. There are
only six categories to view from (goals, assists, points, shots,
saves and save percentage.
Transactions
In here you can trade, release, sign and create players.
*You are able to trade up to 3 players per team.
-To trade players, highlight the desired player(s) and press B to select.
To get to the team on the bottom of the screen, press Y and pick the
players you want to trade for and then press START to evaluate it (or
press X to cancel).
*You can create up to 20 new players and throw them in Free Agent
-To create a player, pick a slot and press A to get a PLAYER EDIT text.
Highlight the first letter and press B to enter and do this until you
put in the full name. Press START to accept the name and then find your
created player and press B to continue to edit the player's physical
attributes.
-Free Agents
In here you will find created players and those players that you released
from their teams. Each team's carry a maximum of 27 players and no more
than 3 goalies.
-Release Players
You can release player from your team to make room for improvement. Each
team's roster carry a minimum of 17 players and no less than 2 goalies.
-Reset Rosters
Restore to the original rosters.
Play Until A Day
Simulate the season to a certain date to speed up the season process.
End Season Today
I don't need to say anything here but you can advance to the playoffs
once you select this option.
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\ WASHINGTON CAPITALS
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| Even-Strength - 10th | Power-Play - 22nd |
| Penalty Killing - 12th | Goaltending - 3rd |
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Pos | # | Players | Overall |
C | 11 | Jeff Nelson | 66 |
C | 14 | Pat Peake | 70 |
C | 20 | Michal Pivonka | 81 |
C | 23 | Kevin Kaminski | 61 |
C | 32 | Dale Hunter | 83 |
C | 36 | Mike Eagles | 67 |
C | 41 | Jason Allison | 66 |
C | 90 | Joe Juneau | 80 |
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RW | 12 | Peter Bondra | 87 |
RW | 16 | Stefan Ustorf | 71 |
RW | 26 | Keith Jones | 74 |
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LW | 10 | Kelly Miller | 72 |
LW | 21 | Todd Krygier | 66 |
LW | 22 | Steve Konowalchuk | 73 |
LW | 27 | Craig Berube | 64 |
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RD | 3 | Sylvain Cote | 72 |
RD | 4 | Jim Johnson | 68 |
RD | 55 | Sergei Gonchar | 78 |
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LD | 2 | Ken Klee | 69 |
LD | 6 | Calle Johansson | 74 |
LD | 24 | Mark Tinordi | 72 |
LD | 29 | Joe Reekie | 66 |
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G | 30 | Jim Carey | 79 |
G | 37 | Olaf Kolzig | 75 |
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All-Star Team Rosters
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\ ALL-STAR EAST
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| Even-Strength - 1st | Power-Play - 1st |
| Penalty Killing - 1st | Goaltending - 1st |
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Pos | # | Players | Overall |
C | | Eric Lindros | 100 |
C | | Mario Lemieux | 100 |
C | | Mark Messier | 68 |
C | | Craig MacTavish | 73 |
C | | Pierre Turgeon | 76 |
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RW | | Cam Neely | 93 |
RW | | Peter Bondra | 89 |
RW | | Scott Mellanby | 69 |
RW | | Pat Verbeek | 75 |
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LW | | Jaromir Jagr | 100 |
LW | | John LeClair | 81 |
LW | | Brendan Shanahan | 86 |
LW | | Daniel Alfredsson | 79 |
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RD | | Brian Leetch | 83 |
RD | | Scott Stevens | 83 |
RD | | Roman Hamrlik | 80 |
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LD | | Ray Bourque | 99 |
LD | | Eric Desjardins | 76 |
LD | | Mathieu Schneider | 83 |
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G | | John Vanbiesbrouck | 81 |
G | | Martin Brodeur | 87 |
G | | Dominik Hasek | 92 |
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\ ALL-STAR WEST
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| Even-Strength - 1st | Power-Play - 1st |
| Penalty Killing - 1st | Goaltending - 1st |
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Pos | # | Players | Overall |
C | | Joe Sakic | 94 |
C | | Peter Forsberg | 95 |
C | | Mats Sundin | 91 |
C | | Wayne Gretzky | 89 |
C | | Sergei Fedorov | 100 |
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RW | | Teemu Selanne | 90 |
RW | | Brett Hull | 82 |
RW | | Mike Gartner | 80 |
RW | | Alexander Mogilny | 93 |
RW | | Owen Nolan | 85 |
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LW | | Paul Kariya | 81 |
LW | | Doug Weight | 79 |
LW | | Theoren Fleury | 94 |
LW | | Pavel Bure | 92 |
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RD | | Chris Chelios | 91 |
RD | | Al MacInnis | 74 |
RD | | Nicklas Lidstrom | 72 |
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LD | | Paul Coffey | 84 |
LD | | Gary Suter | 78 |
LD | | Kevin Hatcher | 75 |
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G | | Ed Belfour | 96 |
G | | Felix Potvin | 95 |
G | | Chris Osgood | 78 |
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Season
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OFFSIDE
A play is offside when an offensive skater who is not in possession of
the puck precedes the puck across the blue line into the Attack zone.
This violation commonly occurs when 1) A pass is completed to a player
"camping" in the Attack zone, or 2) The puck handler skates into the
zone before his teammates have cleared out.
If you're in danger of committing an Offside violation, the ref appears
on the screen with a hand raised as a warning. Wait for your teammates to
circle out of the Attack zone, then move the puck across.
*Two-line pass offside violations are not called in this game.
ICING
An Icing violation is called when an attacking player on his team's side
of the center line sends the puck across the opposing team's goal line,
but not in the net, and a defensive skater is the first to touch the puck.
Icing is not called when 1) The opposing team's netminder is the first
player to touch the puck, 2) Any attacking skater is the first player to
reach the puck, or 3) The attacking team is skating short-handed due to a
penalty killing situation.
BREAKAWAY
A breakaway is recognized when the offensive player with the puck skates
past the defenders on the Attack zone creating a one-on-one situation with
the opposing goalie.
A single tone sounds to let you know when a breakaway occurs. A last ditch
effort by the defense to "take down" the puck handler from behind results
in a penalty shot.
PENALTIES
-Charging (2 minutes)
Applying a body check after you have taken more than two deliberate
strides toward your opponent.
-Cross Check (2 minutes)
Hitting your opponent with both hands on your stick and no part of
the stick on the ice.
-Fighting (5 minutes)
A fight is initiated the moment you drop your gloves.
-High Sticking (2 minutes)
Carrying your stick above shoulder level when skating toward an
opponent.
-Holding (2 minutes)
Using your hands to grab either your opponent or his stick.
-Hooking (2 minutes)
Using the blade of your stick to restrain an opponent.
-Interference (2 minutes)
Any contact with your opponent's goalie while he is in possession of
the puck and within the crease.
-Roughing (2 minutes)
A particularly ruthless Charging infraction.
-Slashing (2 minutes)
Using your stick to hit, or attempt to ht, an opposing player.
-Tripping (2 minutes)
Toppling tour opponent by means of either your stick, knee, foot, arm,
hand, or elbow.
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