Coming soon to an emulator near you: a complete overhaul of the weapon system in Showdown 64. This is a project that I have been working on for the last month which improves weapons in the game. The current version adds arena specific weapon probabilities to the game. This means that if you are fighting in the WWE Raw arena, you will only see the weapons currently seen on WWE TV such as the ring bell, chairs, and kendo sticks. However, if you select the ECW arena, there will be a much larger weapon variety such as a barbed wire 2x4, beer bottles, chairs, trash cans, kendo sticks, and many more. In addition to arena specific weapon probabilities, I have also implemented arena specific graphics for a few of the weapons. Now, if you have a ladder match in the WWE Raw arena, the ladder will have the silver coloring similar to what is currently used in WWE. If you select the NXT arena, the ladder will now have the black and yellow design seen in the first NXT ladder match. There are also 3 other different ladder graphics that you can obtain from selecting different arenas. Other than the ladder, the arena specific weapon graphics also work with chairs and championships (WHICH NOW HAVE NON-MIRRORED GRAPHICS). The third thing that I have added is new graphics for almost every weapon in the game. Finally, there are now a few weapons that can perform special actions. For example, you can now retrieve a bag of thumbtacks and drop it on the ground to spread thumbtacks across the mat, trash cans are now able to be dented, and there is now a breakable guitar.
Here are the weapons that are included so far in this project's current version:
- Sting's Black Bat
- Sledgehammer
- Nightstick
- Barbed Wire 2x4
- Guitar (Breakable)
- Kendo Stick
- Pool Cue
- Sickle
- Bag of Thumbtacks (Drop at ring height to turn into Thumbtacks)
- Beer Bottle
- Fluorescent Light Tube (Breakable) - Credit: killacam
- Crutch (Fixed Showdown 64's alignment issue)
- Chair (5 arena specific variations)
- Table Piece (Fixed Showdown 64's alignment issue)
- Cinder Block - Credit: Wolfpac_69
- Trash Can Lid
- Money in the Bank Briefcase
- Jake Roberts's Snake Bag
- Stop Sign
- Trash Can (Dentable)
- Non-mirrored Championships (8 arena specific variations)
- Ring Bell
- Barbed Wire Board
- Ladder (5 arena specific variations)
Here are a few previews: