Several people contacted me with a request for an updated TDBView which supports NG databases. You can grab the updated version from TDB Viewer section. It supports native opening of PS3 save games. For Xbox 360, you need to use third-party tools to extract the TDB database from the savegame. As before, this tool is completely unsupported; it is my internal utility when programming NHLView. It digs into low-level details and doesn’t have a great user interface.
Progress Update 2013/09
NHL 14 came out not that long ago, so it’s time for my yearly NHLView update. Over that last few months I’ve been actually able to put significant time into advancing NHLView NG so that it’s ready for this NHL season. And I’m happy to say that it has almost all the basic functions I wanted for the initial release. Keep checking this page in the upcoming weeks for the release information; in the meantime, here are some new screenshots from NHL 14 database:
Happy New Year 2013
- Happy New Year everyone, especially to those who still visit this page. One day it will happen – new NHLView will see the light of day. Today is not that day, but some exciting news does come for PS3 owners. Recent developments in PS3 reverse engineering made it finally possible to decrypt and re-encrypt roster save files for NHL 11, 12 and 13 (previous save games were not encrypted). Now the only real obstacle left is time.
- In the meantime, I created a poll in the forum to help me evaluate how many people play the game on various platforms. Please cast your vote, you do not even need to be registered (although I would appreciate if you do, or at least log-in if you have an account). Thank you.
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StrEdit 3.0 and Other News
- I know there hasn’t been a lot of updates in a while, but there are a couple of good reasons for it. Firstly, I tore my ACL last winter and only now I have a feeling that I recovered well enough from the surgery to resume playing sport and other everyday activities. Now I know first-hand what all those players go through – and it ain’t pretty. Secondly, and more importantly, me and my wife had a son just a month ago. Isn’t he cute.
- As for software updates, I have a somewhat unexpected release. StrEdit 3.0 has been released with an update that was due a long time ago. With this version you can finally modify string hash values which will allow you, among other things, to change team abbreviations in the front-end. Visit the page of StrEdit to see the screenshot of Atlanta Thrashers changing its name to Winnipeg Jets in my installation of NHL 09. The process is not super obvious, but I described it as well as I could in the readme. Maybe eventually it will make its way into NHLView.
- As for NHLView NG progress, I have nothing new to report really. I do not unfortunately have enough time at the moment to keep working on it. One day, one day…