The 2026 Season
One click in the app brings Blitz up to date: today's teams, rosters and uniforms, on the 1999 game. It's yours to add, update or take back out.
What it adds
- 32 teams in today's cities, with 2026 rosters.
- Current uniforms and team art, and the announcer's team calls.
- Advanced Season: the real 2026 schedule and 7-team playoffs.
- Uniform Picker: home, away and alternates at team select.
- Pick Your Crew and Pro Bowl: choose who plays, or build an all-star crew.
- Roster Room: set every team's crew in your browser.
- Weekly lineups, if you want them (below).
ScreenshotThe 2026 Season: today's teams at team select
One click, in the app
The first time you open New Blitz, it asks Add the 2026 season? Add It downloads and installs it. Said no? Add-Ons → Get the 2026 Season any time. The pak only comes through the app, never as a separate download.
Optional and removable
Add-Ons shows the season with a Remove button, and Update 2026 Season when a newer one's out. Remove it and the app plays Original 1999, with every other feature intact.
Original 1999, always
With or without the season, the cartridge's own game is right there: NFL Blitz 2000 exactly as it shipped, with widescreen, save states and the rest around it. With the season in, switch between the two in Settings → Teams → Game.
Live roster updates
New lineups (injuries, signings, depth charts) can download when the app starts, so this week's game has this week's starters. It's opt-in: the app asks once, after the season goes in, and does nothing until you say yes. Change it any time in Settings → Teams → Roster Updates.
In an Advanced season, each week plays that week's lineup. Prefer a fixed roster? Settings → Teams → Lineups can keep everyone at full strength, or hold on to a given week.
Your devices get the season too: the Builder sends it along with your ROM when it sets up a phone, handheld or PS5, and exported ROMs carry your rosters.
What the season download and roster updates connect to is on the privacy page. If the season server ever goes away, the app keeps working, and an installed season keeps playing.
Paks in general
A pak is an add-on the app installs: a season's rosters, uniform sets, team art, announcer calls, rules. The 2026 Season is one; anyone can make more.
- Add-Ons → Add… installs a pak file (
.nbpak). The app checks every file in it before it goes in, and a pak can never reach outside its own folders. - Community paks, as people make them, are shared in the Discord's #paks channel.
- Making one? Roster packs, uniform sets, art and announcer calls: the contributor guide shows how, and #dev on Discord is where to ask.
The 2026 Season pak is unofficial and for personal use. Team names, rosters and likenesses belong to their owners; New Blitz isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. See credits and legal.