Project Outsider Plus beta .98 - released 12/16/2022 Plus version - released 9/2/2024 by G.M.Spectre (gm.spect@gmail.com) 1. Intro Hey, it's G.M.Spectre. You may know me from my goofy ass fighting games or those two Botchamania endings. Well several years back, I made a mod full of goofy gimmicks, The original Project Outsider. This time around, I was fortunate to beta test Freem's VPW Studio, and learned a lot more about what makes this game engine tick. The biggest things I learned were how to mess with hex editing, and getting stuff into the rom without any cheat codes or external texture replacements. So here it is, and the best part is, it can also be played on real hardware with an Everdrive! So about the mod, I originally wanted to make a mod full of goofy gimmicks (Basically, 10% smart mark with 90% batshit crazy), and pattern the roster so that the characters would fit in with the dialogue used in the various championship modes. Since then I was able to actually edit the in game graphics, so the AKI style graphics I originally used were ready for me to convert so the VPW Studio would plug them into the game, and the championship mode text could also be edited so the Championship story mode is much improved! However there were a lot of limits with the rom, so there may be a little less variety in outfits. Any graphics or codes I make are pretty much open for anyone to use if they want. I intend on releasing a big pack of the resources I have created as soon as they are better organized. Fun fact! I decided to name it after an old newsletter parody that I used to contribute to. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. ADDENDUM FOR 9/2024: With Retro Randy's No Mercy Plus 2.1 update, I decided to take advantage of all that it can do, as well as what I have learned by making my WCW and WWF mods. Roster wise it is not a huge patch, but there are so many tiny changes that build it up to being the complete game that was in my head. 2. Updates from version .98 to Plus Changes that I can make, because of Retro Randy's No Mercy Plus 2.1 rom - Full entrances for the wrestlers - Many more music tracks added with better quality. - Gameboy mode playable (with a new script!) Other changes - Background music added to menu, cutscene, and matches. - Rey Misterio Jr. Added (with another character hidden in the alt) - The greatest finishing move of all time has been added (thanks to Sir Antonic) - Many more costume items added (in preparation for a later release?) 3. To run this patch The patch is provided in xdelta format, and is meant to be patched to an unmodified No Mercy NTSC-U v1.0 (NWXE) in Z64 format. If your ROM is in a different format (e.g. V64 or N64), you will need a tool to convert it. I find that these work well and are pretty easy to use. https://hack64.net/tools/swapper.php (for an online version) http://ucon64.sourceforge.net/ https://www.zophar.net/utilities/n64aud/tool-n64.html To patch the game either - Go to C-Drive's website, which is pretty awesome for supplying everything needed except for the rom. Also check out the other awesome creations by Freem and Ragdas, they're pretty damn good! https://patcher.aki.guide/ - Patch with file withthe xdelta program (which I conviently placed in the zip file) For this game, the save file is required. There were some things I wanted to change in the rom before I wanted to distribute the game w/o the save, mostly dealing with the character order in the select screen, but after thinking about it, I'm okay with including a ".fla" file. IMPORTANT NOTE! There are two ".fla" files included because some everdrive clones wont be able to use to it with out a bit of hacking the file (huge thanks to Platynumx for the work on that!). Try the emulator one first, and if it doesn't work, try the everdrive one. 4. The Groups Characters with a plus (+) are on the aforementioned memory pack Our Heroes: Gods among men! Praise be unto Tenta! - Earthquake - Hacksaw Jim Duggan - Dusty Rhodes - Sid Vicious - The Wall - King Mabel + - Ahmed Johnson + nWo & pals: Hulk Hogan attempts to be relevant with his Clique! - Kevin Nash/Oz/Vinnie Vegas - Hulk Hogan/Rip Thomas - Scott Hall/Diamond Studd - Buff Bagwell - Randy Savage - Scott Steiner - Virgil/Vincent - Eric Bischoff - Syxx/X-Pac + Dungeon of Doom: Kevin Sullivan's satanic deal had given him an army! - Kevin Sullivan - Big Show/Captain Insano - Zodiac/Brutus Beefcake/Booty Butt Man - Meng - Braun the Leprechaun - Barbarian - Zeus/Deebo - Yeti/Reese/Ron Studd - Big Bubba/Big Boss Man WCW Special Forces: Where the Big Boys Play! - Sting - Lex Luger - Robocop/Bork Laser - Johnny Ace - Shane Douglas - P.N.News - Ric Flair + - The WCW Master/Andre the Giant + WWF Universe: A New Generation - Bret Hart - Ultimate Warrior - Undertaker/Candytaker - Iron Sheik - Evil Big Show - Chilly McFreeze/Ringmaster + - Shawn Michaels + - Hunter Hearst Helmsley + - Rocky Maivia + EC Truckin' W: The most violentest wrestlers in the world! - Sabu - New Jack/Old Jack/New Jax - Taz + - D-Von Dudley + - Bubba Ray Dudley + - Big Dick Dudley - Taka Michinoku + - Stevie Richards + - Rey Misterio Jr/Rey Misterio GRANDE! MMA: From the Octagon to the Squared Circle! - Glacier - Mike Tyson/DX Enforcer - Dan Severn - Ryu/Ken - Boxer Guy Dudley - Zangief - Kimbo Slice - Giant Silva - Ken Shamrock + JR's Fakes: Jim Ross's evil revenge against all who wronged him - "Razor Ramon" - "Diesel"/Dr. Issac Yankem - "Undertaker"/Brian Lee" - "Sting" + Women: Girl persons who are wrestlers - Black Widow - Luna Vachon - Katie Vick - Bull Nakano - Sonya Blade - Alundra Blayze Managers, Etc.: All the non-player characters who you can play as! - Booger/"Kiryu Kazuma"/Acclaim Trainer/Mr. Libido - Bill Alfonso/Lee Marshall/Bobby Heenan/Mean Gene Okerlund - Evil Jim Ross/Jimmy Hart/Ralphus/Worzel Gummidge And The Rest: Yeah, pretty much what it says - Brickowski - Freight Train - Chris NOTwinski - Randy "The Ram" Robinson - Terminator - Fred Durst - Kiryu Kazuma - Genchiro Tenryu - Jo Amon 5. The Belts - Best Wrestler Ever Can you overcome Alundra Blayze's mission to throw away all the titles and Dusty Finishes - WCW International What ends will you go to defeat Scott Steiner for the BIG GOLD BELT? - BraaFrAa The worlds best Mixed Martial Artists from around the world have a Brawl. For what? The answer is It All. - ECW Are you ready to get hardcore? - Celebrity Deathmatch The worlds most famous celebrities wrestling movies and DLC guest characters try to make you famous. - GLOW Alundra Blayze threw the title away! Win it back! - GAMEBOY New to Plus! Can you discover the secrets of Gameboy mode? 6. The Arenas - Raw is War Do you like the late 90's Raw arena. If so, that's good because I didn't change this one! - WCW Nitro This is where the big boys play! - Wrestlefest Home of many Superstars and Wrestling Challenge squash matches! - nWo Souled Out The legendary 1996 pay per view hosted by the nWo! - Las Vegas Home to many street fights on the Vegas strip! - Blood Runs Cold The headquarters of Glacier's ninja clan fought in front of the portal that brought him to WCW! - ECW Man, if ECW ever made a video game, it would totally be the best thing ever! - SuperBrawl Saturday: Wrestling Mania to Remember The drunken grandaddy of them all! - Halloween Havoc Brought to you by Silver Shamrock novelties! Remember to watch the magic pumpkin! - Max Moon Base 1138 The 70's sci-fi arena where Max Moon and Lasertron fought Techno Team 2000! 7. Entrance Music * - New themes + - Used as in game music - Ahmed Johnson - WWF theme - Alundra Blayze - WWF theme * - Booty Butt Man - WCW theme - Cult of Paul E Dangerously by Dino Winwood/Toocoolrikishi Mashups - DX - WWF theme (WM 2000 version) - Doink - WWF theme - Du Hast mixup * - Dudleys WWF theme with "Wrestling has more than one royal family" intro * - Dungeon of Doom - WCW theme - Dusty Rhodes - WWF theme - ElFire by ElFire (shoutouts to Hogan vs Flair) - David Flair - WWF theme - C'mon N' Ride It by Quad City DJ's - Glacier - WCW theme * - Silver Shamrock from Halloween III - Hart Foundation - WWF theme - Jim Ross "My Ass" by Imkane - Crack Addict by Limp Bizkit, the WWF's favorite band * - Lex Luger - WCW biddle-biddle-biddle theme * - Macho Man - Be a Man with Pomp and Circumstances intro * - Natural Born Killaz by Ice Cube and Dr. Dre * - No Holds Barred by Michael Lanning - Chris NoTwinski - WWF theme (shoutouts to New Legacy Inc) - NWO B-Team - WCW theme - NWO Rockhouse - WCW theme - NWO Outsiders - WCW Bash at the Beach theme - NWO Voiceover * - P.N.News - WCW theme - Pump, Pump by Snoop Dogg * - Raven - WCW theme * - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy by Revolting Cocks - Robocop movie theme - Rocky Maivia - WWF theme * - Ryu SF2 desperation theme * - America! Fuck Yeah! by Trey Parker - Now You're a Man by Trey Parker - Self Esteem by The Offspring * - Shawn Micheals - WWF theme - Shitlist by L7 - Sid Vicious - WCW theme * - Slam Masters Tokyo theme *+ - Slick - WWF Theme - American Soviets by CCCP - Scott Steiner "Hah" remix by ImKane - Taka Michinoku - MPro theme.....Motherfucker - Terminator movie theme (with WWE 2k16 intro) - Face the Pain by Stemm (UFC theme) - Ultimate Warrior - WWF theme - Undertaker - WWF theme * - Walking Dead TV theme - WCW NES - vs p2 match theme *+ - WCW NES - vs CPU match theme *+ - WWF Superstars - Stage 1 theme *+ - WWF NES - Superstars/Bam Bam/Stand Back/Girls in Cars Medley *+ - Yakuza 0 Brawler Theme *+ - Yakuza 7 Kamurocho Battle Theme *+ - Yakuza 0 "It's Personal" Cutscene * - Yakuza 0 Pocket Circuit theme * - Yakuza 0 Shakedown theme * 8. Assorted notes ReplacedItems.txt has the information of everything that has been modded in the rom. Note that there are more items in preparation for the aforementioned NM Plus v3 Update! Jo Amon is specially edited so he has 5 stats and has access to more powerful strong grapples than if he was created through the game. On the other end, jobbers (Booger, etc) are specially edited so they have all 0 stats and less powerful moves than if they were created through the game. Things I want to do to consider this finished, in order of what I feel is most to least important. - Hack the default spaces in the select screen so a game save file isn't needed (No Mercy Plus v3 will hopefully fix this) - Fix Hogan Legdrop so CPU does it correctly - Replace the audience graphics Characters taken out for various reasons - Steve Austin '96 - Mark Henry - Kurt Angle - Bear - Akuma - Batman/Rat Tights - Robin/Mask Boy - Necro Butcher - David Arquette/Jimmy King - King - Ronda Rousey - Col.Ninotchka/Zoya the Destroya - Tina Ferrari/Ivory - Awesome Kong/Margaret - Dixie Carter/Bubba the DJ/Jenna Morasca - Giant Tiger Music Taken out from .98 various reasons - 24 Hour Cinderella by Goro Majima - Straight Outta Locash by CB4 - Diamond Studd - WCW theme - Earthquake - WWF Theme - Come Out and Play by The Offspring - Indestructible by Exile (Street Fighter IV theme) - Sting - WCW theme (early 90's) - Masters of the Powerbomb - WCW theme 8. Thanks to Most of all, Freem for his very hard work on VPW Studio, I consider myself very fortunate to have the opportunity to beta test this program, and appreciate all he has done. Also, go to Freem's VPW2 stuff and play VPW2 Freem edition now at... https://vpw.ajworld.net/vpw2freem The gang on the "AKI Wrestling Game Hacking" and "AKI Rom Hack Room" discords for their help and patience with all my questions. Thanks to Retro Randy, MelonBread, KWG, Ragdas, AKIFan, Antonic, PablosCorner, DaveSavedTheDay, S.K.Stylez, ChuckiePK, TylerBlack, Krayzie2k99, DylanRulez69, and anyone I forgot to mention here. Sean O Connor and AmitDaybeen for making videos of my No Mercy stuff. DJKM, specifically his old Firepro saves on FPR and FPWW gave me a good idea for character movesets. Triple M, for letting me use his Robocop graphics. The various moveset and CAW info from CAW movelists, CM Punk 3:16, DNewgrounds, Gazwefc, Hogan79, HunterisTheGame, JcSix, Js5600, Keson, LOCO, Orson, Shawnashhhall4life, The_Juice 9. Other inspirations http://w11.zetaboards.com/No_Mercy_Library/index/ The No Mercy Library - A great archive for codes and movelists. Most of the codes I use in this mod come from here. http://cawplace.yuku.com/directory CAWPlace - A great archive for movelists and outfit ideas. http://z3.invisionfree.com/WldFb_Archive_Forum/index.php WildFB's archive - Creator of the Moveset Editor, the utility that made the hardest part of No Mercy Editing very simple. NewLegacyInc - The funniest wrestling based gang out there. Hogan vs Flair - A great comedy CAW wrestling league using Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth and the MDickie Wrestling games. Old School Wrestling review - A great video podcast reviewing old WWF/WCW/ECW pay per views, with a unique perspective and sense of humor. Wrestling Bios - My new favorite channel. He does very detailed videos on the monday night war, and individual bios. How did I discover him? His bio for Glacier popped up when I was searching for it! Dino Winwood, does a billion jillion voices, including the Paul Heyman impression that some one remixed that I stole for the soundtrack.