FFPW - 2016 - 1.0 release

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It's only been a few months since my last past but I've been slowly chipping away at an update for a while. For a full detailed release history, check out my previous posts.

FFPW - 2016 - 1.0
- Translated all previous text in a clean ROM
- Transferred translated images
- Costume updates for some wrestlers
- Couple of graphical fixes (Darkside Hayabusa head loads correctly now)

Pre-2016
- MOR Translated
- Menus and interfaces translated for various modes
- Original colours given to all costumes
- New costumes added for almost every wrestler

Future Updates
- Fix images - I did them in Paint years ago with the plan to do a decent job at some point.
- Costumes and updating - New costumes and rearranging the costume order for the defaults
- Improve MOR translations - There was a bit of poetic licence used with parts of the translation that I would like to smarten up
- I'm adding the finishing touches to the 1989 - 1996 save file. Hopefully news soon!
- Training mode translation - It's been on the list for years. I'll do it eventually

Any feedback, advice, suggested fixes/translations, new costumes or absolutely anything would be very much appreciated!

Thank you

FFP Complete: An update?

I've been fixing and changing bits for the latest patch and I've got a fair amount of work to do before I release anything useful. I'm currently also working on the FFP Complete saves again, this time I'm being more efficient. Each save will have 42 wrestlers and there won't be the same wrestler twice in different packs. So far I'm looking to have:

1989 - 1996 (Covers SNES, PCE, Saturn) 40% Complete

• Ultimate Warrior
• The Destroyer
• Ted DiBiase
• Rick Rude
• Hercules
• Goldust
• Fritz Von Erich
• Earthquake
• Arashi
• Bad News Brown
• Black Tiger I
• Dan Severn
• Danny Kroffat
• Dick Vrij
• Hans Nyman
• Headhunter A
• Headhunter B
• Konnan
• MEN's Teioh
• Norio Honaga
• Shunji Takano
• Billy Gasper
• Barry Gasper
• Ashura Hara
• Kaz Hayashi
• Manabu Yamada
• Psicosis
• Shoichi Funaki
• Ryuma Go
• The Patriot
• Tony Halme
• Seiji Sakaguchi
• Maurice Smith
• Kuniaki Kobayashi
• Kenichi Yamamoto
• Big Titan
• Chris Dolman
• Yuko Miyato
• Super Tiger
• Yokozuna*
• Haruka Eigen*

*Based on head models in FPA

1996 - 2002 (FPG to FPW2) 30% complete

• Andy Hug
• Animal Hamaguchi
• Batmna
• Billy Gunn
• Brian Johnston
• Brock Lesnar
• Chyna
• Dean Malenko
• Dusty Rhodes
• Edge
• Enson Inoue
• Guy Mezger (Fire Pro WonderSwan)
• Harley Race
• Ikuto Hidaka
• Jeff Hardy
• Jeff Jarrett
• Jimmy Snuka
• Katsumi Usuda
• Kimo Leopoldo (Fire Pro WonderSwan)
• Lita
• Masaake Satake
• Masato Yakushiji
• Matt Hardy
• Mike Bernardo
• Minoru Fujita
• Naohiro Hoshikawa
• Rikishi
• Road Dogg
• Robin
• Rocky Balboa
• Rumina Sato
• Ryuji Yamakawa
• Sandman
• Shadow WX
• Sid Vicious
• Takeshi Ono
• Tazz
• Terrible Ted
• Togi Makabe
• Tommy Dreamer
• Tomoaki Honma
• Balls Mahoney*

*Based on FFPW model

2003 (FPZ & Official Spike Edits) 20%

• Akira Shoji
• Ayako Hamada
• Blue Wolf
• Bob Sapp
• Caol Uno
• Gamma
• Grand Master Sexay
• Jimmy Yang
• Kantaro Hoshino
• Kazuhiko Ogasawara
• Kazushi Miyamoto
• KENTA
• Low-Ki
• Makoto Hashi
• Musashimaru Koyo
• Onryo
• Randy Couture
• Ryushi Yanagisawa
• Sanshiro Takagi
• Satoru Asako
• Scorpio
• Scott 2 Hotty
• Shinsuke Nakamura
• Steve Corino
• Susumu Yokosuka
• The Predator
• Valentijin Overeem
• Wataru Sakata
• Yasushi Kanda

I'm also planning 3 saves to cover the FPR rosters, a Joshi covering Dream Slam, Fire Pro Women, Queen's Special and the other female wrestlers in other games, as well as a Blazing Tornado save with the 9 wrestlers plus a cast of 31 Marvel VS Capcom.

It's a big task but I have a surprising amount on my HDD already, hopefully something will come of all this!

Fire Pro Wrestling for WonderSwan - Entire Roster List

With the help of ZeiramX, I believe this is now a complete list of the wrestlers in Fire Pro Wrestling for WS. I found the legend roster in the ROM file,

NJPWFIGHTER YAMATO - Tatsumi FujinamiCRUSHER SHOGUN - Shinya HashimotoVIOLENCE KONO - Masahiro ChonoSHUNFUJI SWORD - Keiji MutoSTORM KEISUKE - Kensuke SasakiSAMURAI GIRAUD - Shiro KoshinakaINAZUMA KENSATORU - Kengo KimuraYAMAMOTO KAZUKI - Kazou YamazakiBUFFALO AMAMOTO F - Hiroyoshi TenzanKIJIMA SATORU - Satoshi KojimaSAKATA YUJIRO - Yuji NagataTAKAHASHI MAMORU - Manabu TakahashiMASATO - AKIRA/Akira NogamiULTRA EMPOEROR SUPER KAISER - Jushin LigerE. KAMIKAZE - El SamuraiSICKLE BOOK SURUDO TSUKASA - Koji KanemotoDAIKARI SHINICHIRO - Shinjiro OtaniBUSHIDO-YA SINGH - Kendo Ka-ShinHAWK DRAGON ROCK PEOPLE - Tstsuhito TakaiwaMITA COURAGE - Osamu KidoD. SILVER JR. - Dr Silver Jr.

AJPWHIKAWA - Mitsuhari MisawaTOGASHI - Kenta KobashiFUMA TOSHIIE - Toshiaki KawadaSAGAMI AKIRA - Akira TaueAKISAWA SHUN - Jun AkitamaD UKUSU' OBAYASHI TSUYOSHITAKESHI - Takao OmoriKOZAN YOSHIHIRO - Yoshihiro TakayamaSTAR BISON - Stan HansenSABER - VaderJOHN PEACE - Johnny AceMARK DAINON - Mike BartonNOKAWA KAORUTADASHI - Yoshinari OgawaMAKIHARA TAKEHIKO - Masahito KakiharaAKECHI KIYOSHI - Tsuyoshi KikuchiDATE HIROKI - Hiroshi HaseOBUCHI SWAMP MASANORI - Masanobu Fuchi

FMWSAXON HARUKI - Hiromichi FuyukiAGE - HHATANAKA MASAHIKO - Masato TanakaMR. ASHIYA - Mr. GannosukeHERESY - JadpMUROTA TETSUHIKO - Tetsuhiro KurodaROCKY TSUJI - Ricky FujiKIDO - GedoTATTOO - SabuTONY SWEEPER - Tommy Dreamer

MICHINOKUTHE BLADE HAYATE - Great SasukeGRAN MARIPOSA - Gran HamadaKAMISAKI JIN-SUI - Jinsei ShinzakiTSUTOMURAN-OTOWA - Gran NaniwaMASK DE PANTHER IV - Tiger Mask IVMASCARA CONDOR - Mil MascarasMASCARA EAGLE - Dos Caras

WCWWILL COLDPACKS - Bill GoldbergAXE DOUGAN - Hulk HoganTHE SPIKE - StingBIG STEINER - Rick SteinerSMALL STEINER - Scott SteinerFLASH BARTON - Scott NortonDETSUIKU SLENDER - Ric FlairLEVIN GASH - Kevin NashPOUNDING GIGAS - Bam Bam BigelowBRAD BEAT - Bret HartSTEEL JAMES - Dr Death Steve WilliamsWILD PHANTOM - Chris Benoit

WWFSTEAM ODIN - Steve AustinDI UNDER GROUND - The UndertakerRACK RAPIER - The RockNIGHT BLASTER - Road Warrior HawkIRON BLASTER - Road Warrior AnimalCAIN HURLOCK - Ken ShamrockDINK COLORCON - Vince McMahonCALL PART-TIME JOB - Big ShowDON HOUND - MankindWAKA MICHINOKU - Taka Michinoku

RINGSMINEMURA TAKASHI - Tamura KiyoshiKAWAMOTO NOBUHIRO - Yoshihisa YamamotoRICARDO GABRIEL - Tariel BitsadzeWOLFF BURN - Volk HanRICK GRAY - Dick Vrij

PANCRASEHIGAKI TRUTH - Masakatsu FunakiMOON VIEWING MITSURU - Minoru Suzuki BOSS DOKKEN - Bas RuttenJAY SETZER - Guy MezgerSHINDO MASAAKI - Yuki Kondo

DRAGONGATEAZTEC KID - Kid DragonMAGAZINE TOSHO - Magnum TOKYOTHETA - CIMAAZTEC DRAGON - Ultimo Dragon

PRIDEISHIHARA FUYUI - Yuki IshikawaHERCULES OTSUKI - Alexander OtsukaHIKATA EPIC - Daisuke Ikeda

FREETHUNDER A DRAGON - Genichiro TenryuOKITA KATSUSHI - Atsushi OnitaKAJIWARA LENGTH - Yoshiaki FujiwaraS. DOLPHIN - Super DelphinRICK XICHENG - Dick TogoHORUKA MASATO - Masao OriharaHUNTER GOJO - Tarzan GotoMASTER TOGO - Mr. PogoKELLY TEXAN - Terry FunkHARRY TEXAN JR. - Dory Funk Jr.MAD TIGER - Tiger Jeet SinghABDUL THE DANGER - Abdullah the Butcher

MMABRAID SHINHISA - Nobuhiko Takada (?)NOGAWA KOSAI - Naoya OgawaIKARIYA ATSUSHI - Kazushi SakurabaYESTERYEAR KINOSHITA - Enson InoueFOUNDER PANTHER - Super TigerANDO DISABLED TWO - Yoji AnjoNIXON STACY - Rickson GracieMICROPHONE FEAR - Mark KerrBONE CRY - Don FryeNEMO - Rumina Sato

LOCKED (LEGEND?)CHIKARASUMERAGIKI - Rikidozan GREAT SIMA - Giant BabaVICTORY MUSASHI - Antonio InokiTOMMY BOMBER - Jumbo TsurutaHURRICANE RIKIMARU - Riki ChoshuSAEHA MING - Akira MaedaZOMBIE MASA - Masa SaitoGOLDARM YAJIMA - Hiroshi WajimaMASK DE PANTHER - Tiger MaskCARLOS CROWTHER - Karl GotchR.J. PHASE - Lou TheszBIG THE GREAT BULL - Bruiser BrodyGIANT ROSHIMOFU - Andre the GiantBLITZ VON ELRIC - Fritz Von EricGARLAND BOSCH - Roland BockDYNAMIC KID - Dynamite KidG.O. BRIGHT - Gary Albright

FFPW - Music

I'm currently finishing off a tidy up of edit mode for the patch and spent some time on the music section. Here's what I have (Please feel free to message if you think I have something wrong).

1. No Fear theme
2. Steve Austin 'Glass Shatters' theme
3. Fort Battle from the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack (Rickson Gracie) but it could just as easily be Goldberg's theme.
4. Hiroshi Tanahashi's 'Strange' theme
5. Akira Taue's 'Eclipse' theme.
6. Inoki 'Bom-Ba-Ye' theme
7. Hiroyoshi Tenzan's theme
8. Genichiro Tenryu's 'Thunder Storm' theme
9. Masahiro Chono's 'Hard Crush' or 'Main Eventer' theme
10. Mitsuharu Misawa's 'Spartan X' theme
11. Riki Choshu's 'Power Hall' theme
12. Great Sasuke's 'Integral Hard' theme
13. Akitoshi Saito's 'Kenkon Ichigeki' theme
14. Great Muta's 'Kyosokyoku' theme
15. Kensuke Sasaki's 'Power' theme
16. Ikari no Jushin Liger theme
17. I Love it Loud by KISS (Dr. Death)
18. Kenta Kobashi's 'Grand Sword' theme
19. Mr. Gannosuke's 'Kishindo' theme
20. Hiroshi Hase's 'Two Hearts' theme
21. Osamu Nishimura's 'Heaven Knows' theme
22. Keiji Mutoh's 'Triumph' theme
23. Tatsumi Fujinami's 'Cho-Hiryu' theme
24. Haruka Eigen's 'Finisher' theme
25. Hiromichi Fuyuki's 'Shoot it' theme
26. Jumbo Tsuruta's 'J' theme
27. El Samurai's 'Terrible Gift' theme
28. Ultimo Dragon's 'El Dorado' theme
29. Super Delfin's 'Senor Perfecto' theme
30. Giant Baba's 'Oja no Tamashii' theme
31. Night on Bald Mountain (The Sheik)

As an added bonus, the Rolling Up match music is also Dory Funk's 'Spinning Toe Hold' theme. Don't worry, I've edited Dory so this plays as his theme now!

WIP - An update!

After re-reading my post I'm a little sad to realise my Tamagotchi-style app never made it past concept art, pseudo-code and flowcharts. I might visit that idea again one day but for now I'm focusing on Final Fire Pro Wrestling. Although I'd pretty much drawn a line under it, there is room for improvement, which is the theme of the next few posts on here.

I've been working through the roster and am currently read every move name in edit mode to give better translations or more accurate names. I'd been trying to get names as close to the FPW2 translation as possible but I realised that was a mistake as BAM! were calling a suplex and brainbuster, although this is a more direct translation of what the Japanese game says, it's a localisation thing. I'm also renaming trademark moves here and there to fit in better with their real-life counter parts. 

Support from others on the project has always been very important to me and I know without Cactus I never would have attempted half of the things I did, probably giving up a lot sooner. So my next ask is, I'm looking for people to help out. Proof-readers are great, otherwise I'll have to spend hours playing FFPW myself (Oh no!). Due to the random probability of MOR mode, multiple people playing will be a greater help than me playing over and over.

I'm also looking for edit makers that are able to help me refresh and improve the exisiting roster. I did give the original roster a big update using stats, logic, move sets and appearances from FPR, however I know there are far more refined versions of these guys out there. All you'd need to do is create the edit in the game and send me a copy of the .SAV file, I'll do the rather tedious copying and pasting. There is one rule with appearances, you must use the default colours (Push A on the Color set menu), and include the colour set numbers with whatever you send me. 

If anyone wants to help with the appearances, my only real rule with the costumes I use:
If active: Costume 1 - Current, Costume 2 and 3 - No longer used, Costume 4 - Something odd
If inactive: Costume 1 - Iconic/recognisable look, Costumer 2 and 3 - Alternative looks and gimmicks, Costume 4 - Something odd. 
Costume 4 use to be, costume 1 with a shirt on which I felt was a bit lame. So that's why you might find more masked gimmicks or odd looks. Costume 1 is outdated for most guys that were active between 2009 and present day, but the retired and deceased costumes won't need changing.

I'm not going to set a release date for anything but I'm aiming on focusing on the non-MOR text first and then wrestler updating. I'll also be updating MOR with play-throughs as well as a bit of save making. No promises on what saves, I'll make what I make but am open to requests for save packs (All though I make no guarantee I'll make them).

I'll be checking FPWArena, this blog and my e-mails far more frequently if you want to get in touch. So please drop me a line even if it's just to let me know what you think.

Cheers!

TM

New project and stuff...

Hello all (All one person reading this... Am I right?). I've just started out a new project following along the lines of my passion for wrestling, I'm hoping to have more details to share soon but there's not much at the moment. I'm working in Stencyl and I'm not sure whether this will see light of day on Newgrounds or maybe Android. It's not your typical wrestling game, you'll mostly be in a management position in a similar strain to Management of the Ring from FFPW. The game is going to focus on how you manage your wrestler and what choices you make impact on their career.

Speaking of MOR, I've finally rooted my PSP and have Final Fire Pro on it. I'm not planning anything other than a bit of fun but if anything interesting comes of it, I'll be sure to share. I've also setup a rather extensive Doom compendium cover Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, No Rest for the Living, Final Doom and Master Levels of Doom 2 all on my PSP, chuck in Final Fantasy 7 and the 14 year old me would totally lose his shit!

I'm still playing my 3DS almost religiously. My top picks for the moment?

Monster Hunter Ultimate 3
Luckily I hadn't registered my 3DS on Club Nintendo and NoE just so happened to be running the "Hunt with a Friend" promotion, so I bought a code online. almost a year later and I've made a start on it. It's really good fun and I'm a bit shocked it's not pushing the 3DS sales. Huge environments and an excellent level of depth to it. I would give this a total recommendation making owning a 3DS worthwhile on it's own.

Tomodachi Life
Go back to 2009 and I was on holiday in Tokyo. Around this time there were adverts aplenty for Tomodachi Collection. Fast-forward to present and I've now got the UK version for 3DS. I've made quite a community featuring my favourite wrestlers, actors, the cast of my name is earl and the odd comedian.
High Points

• Randy from My Name is Earl singing "Time After Time"
• Patrick Stewart doing a freaky dance after drinking protein shake
• Walter White in a rap battle with Anthony Hopkins

Low Points

• I've got a prison cell for Anthony Hopkins but no prison clothes or Dr Lecter mask
• Thor won't pair off with Lady Sif. It just wasn't meant to be

3DS eShop - Putty Squad

I'd been busting to play this game since I first read about it almost two years ago and now it's here!

To give you a bit of background, Putty was originally released on the Amiga but ported to the CD32 and, more importantly for me, the SNES as Super Putty. Super Putty was a bit of an oddly charming game; it has a weird sense of humour with abstract enemies and a plot I'm not sure I entirely understood when I was 7. I distinctly remember we picked up a copy from the local shopping centre after doing the weekly food shop. I had french stick bread and watched Diff'rent Strokes, playing Super Putty afterwards. I played round-robin with my brother (You play until you lose a life and then pass the controller over), which worked to my advantage as he was 3 years younger and not particularly good at video games. Now 21 years later, I get to try the sequel on 3DS.

The game starts you off with a 'Training Level', which is much needed as there are quite a few abilities and power-ups to get to grips with including stretching, inflating, absorbing, jumping and throwing bombs at enemies. The button layout is pretty simple, using L and R to punch left and right respectively, with X, Y, A and B used for the various other commands. There is some use of the touch screen too, primarily as a head's-up display but also allowing you to choose between your power-ups. Subsequent levels require you to save all of the red putties before you can exit the level.

The graphics are quite nice, simple and quirky. This is definitely a throw-back to when game featured some bizarre collectibles and enemies, thinking back to games like Manic Miner and Dizzy. This game makes use of the 3D feature, however I'm still on the fence as to whether or not it adds much to the experience.

Sound and music fit in with the off-the-wall look and feel of this game. There aren't any tracks that immediately jump to mind but they seem natural and work well to enhance the experience. The sound effects retain a lot of the idiosyncratic appeal of the previous Putty outings.

Game-play wise, the first few levels are simple enough but it does get progressively tougher and there is plenty of replay value with each level having three goals, secret levels and achievements. There are over a handful of worlds with each having 7 or 8 individual levels. There's also the addition of challenge mode, where you can replay the same levels again with additional goals (e.g. Don't lose a life, kill all enemies) which earn extra stickers.

It's unfortunate that the majority of the reviews this game received are based on the PS4 release of it. Understandably it is panned as not being worth the money by people who've just spent about £450 on a brand new console with precious few games. It harks back to a simpler time of gaming where you could have your protagonist throwing up down a toilet as cover art (Seriously! Google the cover for Jet Set Willy!), freaky characters and odd concepts were developed and fostered. It is a throw back to when indie developers weren't trendy or cool, but hardcore gaming fans working out of a garage or bedroom, creating games they enjoyed. At £17.99 it is a little steep in comparison to similar games like Mutant Mudds, but if you're a retro gamer looking for something that seems vaguely familiar, I'd suggest checking this out.

Farewell to Fire Pro

Well I'm afraid it's getting to the point where I'm posting annual updates. Between this post and my previous post I think I've booted Final Fire Pro up once! So I think rather than keeping people holding out for an update, fix, patch or little bit of news, I will state that I'll almost certainly not be creating any new content for any current Fire Pro Wrestling games. 

It was a really fun project for me and created many great memories. It allowed me to escape from some of the stress of life (Mainly my dissertation!) but I've moved on. I'm still passionate about portable gaming, and I'm hoping to continue running this blog as a 3DS reviews/ranting place so feel free to unsubscribe.

Thank you to everyone that has helped me with the patch, particularly cactusj00, who (Being the only patch user to my knowledge!) motivated me to keep doing stuff with it. I might have a FFPW play-through at some point and I will be sure to share my progress with you all on here. Until then, please enjoy my play-through of whatever the hell I decide to play next.

By the way, if you're just looking for a download link, Ewzzy has almost everything I've ever done on his site. 

Much love,

TM

FFPW - ECW Returns

I've been a roll tonight so I'm going to keep going.

This scenario is aptly named ECW Returns. It does the following:

• Replaces FMW with ECW
• Puts FMW roster into the Japanese freelance pool
• Add Terry Funk, Sabu, RVD, Mike Awesome, Masato Tanaka, Chris Benoit and the Dudley Boys to the ECW roster (Dudley Boys must be unlocked by scouting or cheat code)
• Terry Funk is the heavyweight champion
• Dudley Boys are tag champions
• New logo and start location for ECW and changed a few popularity parameters to fit

Download it here!

FFPW - Death of Misawa

I started work on this in December last year and have finally finished it. Granted I have done nothing with this between December and today, but I think it's pretty complete. MOR is updated with a new scenario that follows from the death of Mitsuharu Misawa and how the Fire Pro-verse has gone from there. NJPW, WWE and UFC are the only promotions doing well, the rest are declining with small rosters. I've not included a save for this scenario. There are more details on FPWArena  and you can download the IPS here.

Final Fire Pro Complete - Mixed Martial Arts

I've just completed the MMA save and it is available to download here.

The new MMA save includes:


New Japan Pro Wrestling
Brian Johnston

Fighting Network RINGS
Dick Vrij
Chirs Dolman
Randy Couture
Valentijn Overeem
Katsumi Usuda
Hans Nyman
Kenichi Yamamoto
Tony Halme
Willie Williams

Pancrase Hybrid Fighting
Manabu Yamada
Guy Mezger
Ryushi Yanagisawa

PRIDE Fighting Championship
Akira Shoji
Enson Inoue
Wataru Sakata
Hidehiko Yoshida
Fedor Emelianenko
Kevin Randleman
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson

Mixed Martial Arts
Maurice Smith
Caol Uno
Dan Severn
Rumina Sato
Brock Lesnar (MMA Style)
Matt Ghaffari
Dan Bobish
Kazuhiko Ogasawara

Legend
Rocky Balboa
Batman
Robin
Terrible Ted

Universal Wrestling Federation
Super Tiger
Yuko Miyato
Tatsuo Nakano

K-1
Masaaki Satake
Andy Hug
Mike Bernardo
Bob Sapp
Katsuyori Shibata
Musashi

BattlArts
Takeshi Ono

The original saves (Portable, SNES and Official) are still available without the MMA wrestlers from this save. Everyone is complete with stats, moves, logic etc. Any inaccuracies, please let me know. I'm off work for another two weeks, who knows how many edits I'll finish. I'm guess not many.

Download here.

Final Fire Pro Complete - Change of direction

I've spent the last few days thinking about this project. I make a save for every game/group of games and I have Super Tiger crop up in most of them I've put together. Why? So I'm consistent? So I have every wrestler from that group on one save? 


Well my change in direction is having a save per style or promotion. The reasons:

• Fewer save packs if I stick multiple style/promotions together
• No repetitiveness in saves e.g. Super Tiger, Enson Inoue cropping up in every save
• More freedom for extras.

Today I've been reorgnaising the MMA/Worked MMA save. I've completed most of them from the PCe games right through to 6MS and G. I've also thrown in a few extras from various places:

1. Super Tiger
2. Dick Vrij
3. Chris Dolman
4. Yuko Miyato
5. Masaaki Satake
6. Andy Hug
7. Maurice Smith
8. Manabu Yamada
9. Randy Couture
10. Valentijn Overeem
11. Akira Shoji
12. Caol Uno
13. Katsumi Usuda
14. Dan Severn
15. Enson Inoue
16. Rumina Sato
17. Brian Johnston
18. Hans Nymnas
19. Guy Mezger
20. Kenichi Yamamoto
21. Tony Halme
22. Mike Bernardo
23. Takeshi Ono
24. Brock Lesnar (MMA)
25. Wataru Sakata
26. Hidehiko Yoshida
27. Bob Sapp
28. Ryushi Yanagisawa*
29. Katsuyori Shibata*
30. Matt Ghaffari
31. Dan Bobbish*
32. Fedor Emelienen*
33. Kevin Randleman*
34. Quinton Jackson*
35. Musashi*
36. Katsuhiko Ogasawara*
37. Willie Williams
38. Tatsuo Nakano
39. Rocky Balboa
40. Batman
41. Robin
42. Terrible Ted

* To Complete

So that is MMA-style fighters from PCe, SNES, FPG, 6MS, FPD, Official Edit, FPZ and FPR, plus some of the default wrestlers from SFPWS&X giving a total of 42. I've also added in Brock Lesnar from a previous save I created. I'm off work for the next few weeks now, so I'm hoping to have this save finished soon and some others up ASAP.


Thank you too for the congratulatory comment last post :)

FFP Complete: Fire Pro G and 6 Man Scramble

I've spent a little time over this weekend completing the FPG and 6MS save. So far I've completed:

These do include logic and move sets on their most recent appearance in the Fire Proverse. I'm still working on Funaki, MEN'S Teioh, Kenichi Yamamoto, Tony Halme, Psicosis, Konnan, Animal Hamaguchi, Big Titan, Headhunter A, Headhunter B, Mike Bernado and Takeshi Ono as well as copying others from the SNES, Portable and Official Edits packs.

Another thought that jumped in to my head the other day was "Why are there so many edit slot empty at the end?". My plan with creating these saves was that it would be impossible to fit every edit in to one save, but now I have lots of saves with 20+ edits. So I've also decided I will add extra edits from each collection of games through the presets. It may add a little time on to creating each pack but I think it'll make the whole project more worthwhile. 

In other news, I'm still playing Heroes of Ruin on 3DS. I've finally got around to maxing my main characters level so I'm just grinding away on the daily and weekly challenges. If anyone wants to join me, now the game is out in the states, my 3DS friend code is 0087-2886-9002 and my name is "Sam". Just send me your friend code and name via a PM, e-mail or comment so I can add you.

I can't remember announcing it but I've also completed my PGCE (Professional Graduates Certificate in Education) so after graduation I will be a fully qualified lecturer.

Project FFP Complete - SNES/PCe and Official Spike

Well I've finished three saves in total; Portable, Official and SNES/PCe. Portable has been posted previously.


Download all three saves here!


SNES & PCe

New Japan Pro Wrestling
Bad News Allen
Billy Gasper
Barry Gasper
Hercules Hernandez
Kuniaki Kobayashi
Norio Honaga
Seiji Sakaguchi


All Japan Pro Wrestling
The Destroyer
Ted DiBiase
Ahura Hara
Arashi


World Wrestling Entertainment
Ultimate Warrior
Rick Rude
Earthquake


Fighting Network RINGS
Dick Vrij
Chris Dolman


Pancrase
Manabu Yamada


MMA
Masaaki Satake
Andy Hug
Maurice Smith


Free Agents
Yuko Miyato


Legends
Super Tiger
Dusty Rhodes
Fritz Von Erich



Official Spike Edits

New Japan Pro Wrestling
Seiji Sakaguchi
Norio Honaga


All Japan Pro Wrestling
Ashura Hara


Pro Wrestling NOAH
2 Cold Scorpio


Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Onryo


DragonGate
Susumu Yokosuka


World Wrestling Entertainment
Jeff Hardy
Matt Hardy
Scotty 2 Hotty
Grand Master Sexay


Fighting Network RINGS
Randy Couture
Valentijin Overeem
Katsumi Usuda


Free Agents
Black Buffalo
Ted DiBiase
Naohiro Hoshikawa
Candy Okutsi (As Tiger Dream)


Legends
Bad News Allen


Osaka Pro Wrestling
Gamma
Daio Qualtt
Tsubasa
Yasushi Kanda

Final Fire Pro Wrestling - SNES & Turbo Grafix

I've slowly been making progress. I'm part way through the collection of FP1 - 3 and SNES games. So far the roster stands at:


Bad New Allen
Billy GAsper
Barry Gasper
Ultimate Warrior
Super Tiger
The Destroyer
Dick Vrij
Hercules Hernandez
Kuniaki Kobayashi
Ted DiBiase
Ashura Hara
Rick Rude
Chris Dolman
Yuko Miyato
Dusty Rhodes
Masaaki Satake
Andy Hug
Fritz Von Erich
Norio Honaga
Maurice Smith


There are more to come of course but the progress has been a little slow of late. I will hopefully have this one finished pretty soon, which will mean the portable, official edits and pre-6MS will be done.

Final Fire Pro Complete - A small update

I spent a good few hours this morning sorting through some old saves and game hacks to find a hefty chunk of edits I need for the SNES Fire Pro games so I'm hoping to have another pack out soon. I've finished what work I wanted to do on the Official Spike edits pack but I'm so close to completing the SNES one I'll save it until then. 

My next plan is to start working on Fire Pro G and 6MS. I want to whole collection to be finished by the end of August but I think I said that last August :P

Random Postings

I'm in the mood for an update so here we go!


I usually get quite involved in Fire Pro this time of the year. It's usually because work starts to drop off a bit and I can get away with doing Fire Pro stuff in the office. Mid-week I did complete designing a list of edits and saves for the Fire Pro Complete project I'm working on, however my flash drive died and I have lost EVERYTHING. Well the massive long list of wrestlers anyway. A bit of a pain.


I'm currently working on the Fire Pro D and Spike Edit saves. I've already got most of the edit completed, I just have to do some checks. I won't confirm a release date but it's high on the list of priorities.

Project FFP Complete - Portable

Well I've talked about this previously and have released parts of it, but I've decided this will be one of my main focuses in terms of Fire Pro over the next few months/years. To bring your all to speed:


I want to create every single wrestler ever to appear in a Fire Pro Wrestling game.


The first download is available here!


This will be quite a big task and the project will be made of several saves, each representing a certain game or platform of Fire Pro. I'm still in the planning stages but I do have quite a few hundred edits completed so far, I just need to organise them. Here's an outline of what I want to do and I'll post roster lists as I start working on the save:


PS2 - NJPW & MMA
Missing wrestling from FPR&Z that were in the NJPW, Team 2000, Zero-One, Pancrase and MMA rosters.


PS2 - AJPW, NOAH & Osaka Pro
Missing wrestling from FPR&Z that were in the AJPW, NOAH and Osaka Pro rosters.


PS2 - Michinoku, DragonGate & Joshi
Missing wrestling from FPR&Z that were in the Michinoku, DragonGate, AAA and Joshi rosters.


PS2 - Free
Missing wrestling from FPR&Z that were in the America, Free, BJPW and FMW rosters.


Portable
Missing wrestling from Fire Pro 1/A, 2 and WonderSwan


FPD
Missing wrestling from Fire Pro D


FPD - Official Edits
The official edits for Fire Pro D


FPG&6MS
Missing wrestlers from FPG and 6MS


FPQS
Missing wrestlers from Queens Special


SFPWXP
Missing wrestlers from SNES FP games.


So quite a task ahead but something I've wanted to do for ages.


Anyway, I feel I have a reputation of promising things that never appear so I'm also giving out the first complete save today too; Fire Pro Portable. This contains:



New Japan Pro Wrestling
Brian Johnston
Kuniaki Kobayashi


Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
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Kyoko Inoue


Michinoku Pro Wrestling
Minoru Fujita


World Wrestling Entertainment
Brock Lesnar
Edge
Goldust
Jeff Hardy
Lita
Matt Hardy
Tommy Dreamer


World Championship Wrestling
Kaz Hayashi


Fighting Network RINGS
Hans Nyman
Katsumi Usuda


Pancrase Hybrid Fighting
Guy Mezger


Mixed Martial Arts
Andy Hug
Dan Severn
Enson Inoue
Masaaki Satake
Rumina Saito


Free Agents
Chyna
Dusty Rhodes
Sandman
Ted Dibiase
Ultimate Warrior


Legends
Batman
Fritz Von Erich
Harley Race
Jimmy Snuka
Rick Rude
Robin
Rocky Balboa
Super Tiger
Terrible Ted


You can download the first save here!