Standing on shoulders
New Blitz 2027 is a Blitz Recomp project. It builds on years of other people's work, and it's open source for the same reason.
Credits
| Who | What |
|---|---|
| Midway Games | NFL Blitz 2000 (1999). New Blitz contains none of the game's assets; you supply your own cartridge dump. |
| Wiseguy (Mr-Wiseguy) and contributors | N64Recomp (MIT), N64ModernRuntime (GPL-3.0), and the Zelda64Recomp interface that RecompFrontend grew from |
| The RT64 contributors | RT64, the renderer (MIT) |
| Zoinkity | The Team Extension, whose research showed a 32-team Blitz was possible |
| The NFL Blitz Resurrection team | ScallyCap, UltraMagnus, Avery, vaycant and DJSteve067: years of community updates that kept Blitz current |
| jaker3 and nflblitzfans.com | Keeping the Blitz hacking community going |
| Libraries | SDL, FreeType, RmlUi, lunasvg, miniz, nlohmann/json, qrcodegen and more (below) |
The New Blitz 2027 logo, the app's interface design and the credits page are the Blitz Recomp team's. The 2026 Season pak's team art and uniforms were drawn for the project; the pak is a separate, optional download.
Licence
New Blitz is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPL-3.0). It combines GPL-3.0 code (N64ModernRuntime, RecompFrontend and this project), so the whole app is under the GPL-3.0. The complete source for any build is the repository at the commit shown in Settings → General → About, with the library versions it pins and our changes to them. Source on GitHub; the full licence texts are in the repository's LICENSE and NOTICES.md.
Third-party components
| Component | Copyright and licence |
|---|---|
| N64Recomp | Copyright (c) 2024 Wiseguy. MIT |
| N64ModernRuntime | The N64Recomp contributors. GPL-3.0 |
| RecompFrontend | The N64Recomp contributors (grown from the Zelda64Recomp UI). GPL-3.0 |
| RT64 | Copyright (c) 2024 RT64 Contributors. MIT |
| n64sym (build tooling) | Copyright (c) 2017-2020 shygoo. MIT |
| QR Code generator | Copyright (c) Project Nayuki. MIT |
| BanjoRecomp | GPL-3.0 (the app's entry point and build structure started from it) |
| Zelda64Recomp patch headers | GPL-3.0 |
| SDL2 | zlib licence |
| FreeType | The FreeType Project. FreeType License |
| SDL_GameControllerDB | gabomdq and contributors. zlib licence |
Those bring their own libraries, each under its own licence, listed in NOTICES.md: RmlUi, lunasvg, GamepadMotionHelpers and SlotMap; rabbitizer, ELFIO, fmt, tomlplusplus and sljit; xxHash, miniz, o1heap, concurrentqueue, nlohmann/json and sse2neon; Dear ImGui, implot, im3d, hlslpp, stb, ddspp, utf8conv, plainargs, re-spirv, SPIRV-Cross, nativefiledialog-extended, plume, zstd and API headers from mupen64plus. Android builds also carry LLVM's libc++ (Apache-2.0 with the LLVM exception).
Fonts (SIL Open Font License 1.1)
| Font | Copyright |
|---|---|
| Barlow Condensed | Copyright 2017 The Barlow Project Authors (also used on this site: licence) |
| Inter | Copyright 2016 The Inter Project Authors (also used on this site: licence) |
| Noto Emoji | Copyright 2013 Google Inc. |
| PromptFont | Copyright 2018-2023 Yukari Hafner; 2011-2016 Severin Meyer |
Trademarks
New Blitz 2027 is a free, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the NFL, the NFL Players Association, any NFL club, Midway Games or its successors, Warner Bros., Nintendo, Sony or Apple. NFL Blitz is a trademark of its owner. All names, logos and trademarks belong to their owners.
No game assets are included. You supply your own dump of the NFL Blitz 2000 cartridge; New Blitz does not include, link to or provide ROMs.
The optional 2026 Season pak is unofficial and for personal use. If you hold rights in something you think shouldn't be here, please tell us on Discord or through GitHub, and we'll look at it promptly.