WCW Saturday Night Original release - 8/15/2023 SK edition - 6/22/2025 by G.M.Spectre and S.K. Stylez INTRO ----- So here it is, my total comversion of Wrestlemania 2000 N64 to "What if there was a WCW AKI game released in the early 90's"! After modding No Mercy, I decided to take a look at WM2K and see what I could do with it. Turns out, some stuff was easier (like porting VPW2 graphics) and some stuff was more difficult (finding the stage graphics). All in all, I'm very happy with the result. Any graphics or codes I make are pretty much open for anyone to use if they want. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. TO PATCH THE GAME ----------------- 1. Go to this 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/ 2. Patch with file with the xdelta program (which I conviently placed in the zip file) For this game, the no other files are is required! So you can play it on emulator or on real hardware! ORIGINAL CHANGES FROM WM2000 ---------------------------- - All characters moves, stats, appearances changed - All music changed - All Arenas changed - Intro animation changed - All Tag Team entries changed - Spotlights, Fireworks, Fire on all entrances taken out - Menu graphics changed - Entrance music plays on title and in match instead of midi music - Moves imported - Story mode text changed - Introduction cutscene edited. - Title belt graphics and info changed - Hints added to title screen - Select backgrounds for wrestlers match - Power bar graphics changed to VPW2 style - Font changed to VPW2 font For more details, I put them in "updatelist.txt" SOME CHANGES ADDED BY USING THE SK IMPROVEMENT HACK --------------------------------------------------- - Addressed CAW issue where Wrestlers with the "Novice" Submission Skill changing to "Expert" - Tag Teams no longer need specific Music and Video combinations to enter as a Tag Team - Added Computer Intelligence (a HUGE timesaver for me!) - Added the following Move Categories to the Moves menu - Countering Counters (Striking - Counter Attack) - Front Super Special Move (Grappling - Front Grapple) - Move Exchange (Grappling - Front Grapple) - Back Super Special Move (Grappling - Back Grapple) - Test Of Strength (Grappling) - Pin Save (Ground Grappling - Ground Attack) - Running Pin Save (Ground Grappling - Ground Attack) - Double Team Flying Attack (High Flying - From Turnbuckle 1) - Double Team Flying Attack To Outside (High Flying - From Turnbuckle 1) - Double Team Flying Attack From Apron To Ring Standing Opponent (High Flying - Flying Body Attack) - Added the following options to the Fighting Style menu - Irish Whip - Irish Whip Evasion - Added 2 new options to Fighting Style - Stance - Classic - Giant - Added 2 new options to Fighting Style - Counter/Reversals - Heavy Special - Light-Heavy Special - Super Finishers are available, but none are given to the default characters. CHANGES SINCE ORIGINAL RELEASE ------------------------------ - Ported the conversion to SK Styles 1.1 Wrestlemania 2000 improvement hack - All ring ropes are yellow - Fixed default names (THANKS SK!) - Slightly tweaked movesets with the SK Styles 1.1 hack additions - Some "WWF Branded" clothes in CAW taken out and replaced with more generic alternatives - Music reordered and ordered by artist names - Adjusted the rivals to some wrestlers - Replaced Attitude microphone with WCW microphone - Changed pause menu graphics - Several Faces Redone Lex Luger Nikita Koloff Sid Vicious Ric Flair Arn Anderson Rick Rude Ron Simmons Michael Hayes Rick Steiner Scott Steiner Booker T Stevie Ray Steve Austin Johnny B Badd Marcus Bagwell Diamond Dallas Page Dusty Rhodes - Many more outfits fixed and parts added - New Managers/Uneditable Wrestlers Paul Ellering (manages Hawk and Animal) Teddy Long (manages Ron Simmons, Butch Reed, and Johnny B Badd) Gary Hart (manages Terry Funk and Great Muta) Missy Hyatt (manages Eddie Gilbert) J.J.Dillon (manages Tully Blanchard) Jim Cornette (manages Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton) Paul E Dangerously - All characters in original version that was set to an uneditable female slot placed to an edit slot. - Ted Dibiase costumes reordered and set as manager for Bam Bam Bigelow, I.R.S., and King Kong Bundy - Replace WWF Referee with Wallywood graphics - Goldust outfit altered with Wallywood graphics - Replaced Attitude microphone with New Generation microphone - More "WWF Branded" clothes replaced with generic alternatives - Fix most disappearing characters in the intro - Fixed ending credit animations - Entrance glass changed to bat - Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart given retro Hart Foundation tops THE ROSTER ---------- I decided to make a roster based on the rosters for WCW NES, Superbrawl SNES, and Main event GB, as well as the UWC prototype for NES releases a few years back. In the case of managers, because of the limited character slots, I decided to go for ones that had careers as wrestlers. So for example, I didn't add characters like Paul E Dangerously or Jim Cornette, but I did add characters like Harley Race and Madusa. For a cutoff date, I used Slamboree '94, the last pre-Hogan WCW PPV. As for the unlockables. If you press Start on the title screen, you will see several hints to unlock them. These are based on the ones from WM2K if that helps. Just fight the correct way, or use the correct characters, and you'll have 7 more characters... ...or you could use a Game Shark code (8109ED5A FFFF), I won't judge ya. 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 (which I also used as a base for several movesets) at... https://vpw.ajworld.net/vpw2freem S.K.Styles made some great spreadsheets that I used to convert various moves and taunts from the other games with their properties intact. The gang on the "AKI Wrestling Game Hacking" and "AKI Rom Hack Room" discords helped a lot with their patience with all my questions. Thanks to Retro Randy, MelonBread, KWG, Ragdas, Barskio, AKIFan, PablosCorner, DaveSavedTheDay, ChuckiePK, TylerBlack, Krayzie2k99, DylanRulez69, NamiyoVT and anyone I forgot to mention here. Sir Antonic, Rag Das, and Orson helped out big time with some of the imported moves. I especially appreciate Sir Antonic for making an awesome "Divorce Court" for me. Sean O Connor, Bean O Mac, AmitDaybeen and Krangledangle have been showcasing my projects and that played a huge part in inspiring me to continue with this. https://www.youtube.com/@Seanomaniacwrestlingreviews https://www.youtube.com/@AmitDabydeen https://www.youtube.com/@beanomac3126 https://www.twitch.tv/krangledangle C-Drive for hosting my other projects at https://aki.guide/ DJKM's old Firepro saves on FPR and FPWW gave me a good idea for character movesets. There were also various moveset and CAW info references from CAW movelists, DNewgrounds, Gazwefc The No Mercy Library - A great archive for codes and movelists. Most of the codes I use in this mod come from here. http://w11.zetaboards.com/No_Mercy_Library/index/ CAWPlace - A great archive for movelists and outfit ideas. http://cawplace.yuku.com/directory WildFB's archive - Creator of the Moveset Editor, the utility that made the hardest part of No Mercy Editing very simple. http://z3.invisionfree.com/WldFb_Archive_Forum/index.php OTHER INSPIRATIONS ------------------ WCW Worldwide - An amazing site dedicated to all eras of WCW, with a ton of info and magazine scans. Always fun to look through. Gave me a lot of help when brainstorming. https://wcwworldwide.com/ Wrestling Bios - 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 while researching for Project Outsider! The channel is great for learning missing details about wrestling with a little humor mixed in. https://www.youtube.com/@WrestlingBios NotThatTomGreen - One of my recent favorite youtube channels. He's been posting some fun videos and streams of older WCW shows as well as overlooked indies. Has a good positive way of looking at the fast, and may or may not have inspired me to add Jimmy Garvin's super finisher. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpRKaoI0-3aVmQi62PeKUjw