Fire Pro Wrestling Customs

[celerystalker]

My sons are getting old enough that they enjoy watching pro wrestling these days. New, old, whatever they can, especially gimmick matches get them riled up. This got us busting out wrestling games. They enjoyed the N64 Aki games the most to play, but my oldest boy has gotten really into the Fire Pro Wrestling Returns custom editing on PS2.

I showed him all of my customs I made of classic WWF, and ECW guys years ago, and he had me make a Cactus Jack last night. It got me thinking: Did anyone else really get into that scene? I remember a time when there was a pretty big community doing custom belts, feds, and wrestlers everwhere, and I wondered if anyone here was/is a fan of doing that stuff?

[Az]

I bought 6 Man Scramble when it was first released on the Saturn. I think I only did one CAW on it, which required what felt like a ream of paper to print off and reference to during the process. When Fire Pro G came out I made 2 or 3 original CAWs but never did follow a guide someone else made. That was one of the few games my PlayStation DexDrive came in handy for, even if it was just to get a file with all the wrestlers renamed. Same with the Dreamcast.

I made a half dozen original CAWs in the first GBA Fire Pro because it was a perfect portable time killer. I never bothered with Fire Pro Returns for PS2. There's just so many wrestlers available to download with the Action Replay Max that if it's a known guy someone's probably already made them.

[MidnightRider]

Hmm... I got into emulation early on, so I got around to Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium, when others were getting into the AKI games. I do remember people making custom animations(involving cages, ladders, tables, etc.). There was a DOS utility that could do things to an SRAM, like disable the lumberjack thing(automatically getting back in the ring) in the battle royal match, or making one of the edits have a Giant Baba portrait.

Eventually I got into(legit imported) Fire Pro Wrestling D and played the heck out of that. When they officially stopped releasing DLC moves, a fan took stuff from Fire Pro Wrestling Z on the PS2, and made new moves for D. I had a 4 page memory card that I mostly filled with data from this game. It was quite the Dreamcast memory hog.

Lately, if I play the series, I emulate D or Returns. Wouldn't mind finding that kind of stuff myself. I remember there used to be documents about how the in-game wrestlers were built. That could be useful for when they're not in another game.

[MidnightRider]

Sorry to double post. As I'm on a tablet lately, this doesn't care much for my browser, but these are the stats for every wrestler that's ever been in a Fire Pro Wrestling game:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w5SbPF4wgclHIh5k9IeY1eHvND91uMuZpKvB8x8qumQ/edit#gid=0
Major thanks to whoever took the time to do that. Also it may be easier to work with the "New S & P" section.

[fpbrush]

I remember vaguely, there was a GBA game that was from the Fire Pro Wrestling seriesj.

[MidnightRider]

2 on the GBA, but both were a little tough to work with. They decided the 3rd level of attack was A & B simultaneously. Most platforms the series is on usually have at least 4 face buttons, using 3 for the levels of attack and the other for running. I've recently played the Saturn game, which feels great with the 6 face button layout(the Genesis game, which is still good for the older portion of the series, where grapples are won by waiting for a 2nd animation, the arms drop, was before there was a 6 button gamepad).

Looking at what one of those things look, I wonder how the Wonderswan(I think it was pre-color too) handled the game it got.