Dynamic Superstar Select Screens

[Blitz64]

This code can create a different wrestler select screen based on the stable you're highlighted in.

If you have 4 stables of RAW wrestlers, and 3 stables of SMACKDOWN wrestlers, then you can essentially have them with their own show's select screen. Also, if you have 12 different stables representing different promotions -- i.e. an Indy Project -- this can give you 12 different wrestler select backgrounds. Each time the color addy is changed, it dumps a complete set of 40 textures for a new background.

Addys / Values :
D00AAAB7 000x - Which stable is currently highlighted.

X =
0 - SUPERSTARS 1
1 - SUPERSTARS 2
2 - SUPERSTARS 3
3 - SUPERSTARS 4
4 - SUPERSTARS 5
5 - LADIES
6 - HIDDEN 1
7 - HIDDEN 2
8 - SUPERSTARS 6
9 - SUPERSTARS 7
A - EDIT 1
B - EDIT 2

802F9C70 - Color background addy for the superstar select screen.

Default value : 00


Example Code - Each stable having it's own Superstar Select background.

D00AAAB7 0000
802F9C70 00FF
D00AAAB7 0001
802F9C70 00EE
D00AAAB7 0002
802F9C70 00DD
D00AAAB7 0003
802F9C70 00CC
D00AAAB7 0004
802F9C70 00BB
D00AAAB7 0005
802F9C70 00AA
D00AAAB7 0006
802F9C70 0099
D00AAAB7 0007
802F9C70 0088
D00AAAB7 0008
802F9C70 0077
D00AAAB7 0009
802F9C70 0066
D00AAAB7 000A
802F9C70 0055
D00AAAB7 000B
802F9C70 0044



D00AAAB7 0000 - When on Superstars 1
802F9C70 00FF - Background changes color
D00AAAB7 0001 - When in Superstars 2
802F9C70 00EE - Background changes color

etc.



Example Code - Split into 4 different stables.

Stable 1 - Superstars 1 -> Superstars 4
D00AAAB7 0000
802F9C70 00FF
D00AAAB7 0001
802F9C70 00FF
D00AAAB7 0002
802F9C70 00FF
D00AAAB7 0003
802F9C70 00FF

Stable 2 - Superstars 5 -> Hidden 2
D00AAAB7 0004
802F9C70 00EE
D00AAAB7 0005
802F9C70 00EE
D00AAAB7 0006
802F9C70 00EE
D00AAAB7 0007
802F9C70 00EE

Stable 3 - Superstars 6 -> Edit 2
D00AAAB7 0008
802F9C70 00DD
D00AAAB7 0009
802F9C70 00DD
D00AAAB7 000A
802F9C70 00DD
D00AAAB7 000B
802F9C70 00DD


[Feel free to share the code at NMZ. Seems each time I take an absence from hacking this game, my password no longer works when I try to sign on.]

 

[WldFb]

Excellent! I was wondering if something like this were possible. Nice find.

 

[NMCM]

This is amazing. Can't wait to see it in use.

 

[AKI Man]

Thats awesome blitz my man.. Im gonna use this for sure. Always a fan of you hacks. Thank you.

 

[Blitz64]

Excellent! I was wondering if something like this were possible. Nice find.

I was thinking the same thing today .

Seems the most I've got out of hacking this game today was this code, and all of the backstage properties (useless).

 

[SLX]

Not that i'm opposed to taking the time to create dozens of different select screens, and then chop up and painfully splice them back together into 40 different pieces, but obviously it is a lot of work.

I truly do not mean to show any lack of appreciation for what you've just posted, because it's going to come in handy, but can this be simplified into a single texture for each background, like the 4-texture main menu background that used the Royal Rumble Textures? Most people have switched over to Mudlord's Rice 6.1.4, so having dozens of textures is now a basically obsolete method.

I know its asking a lot, but if you get the time (and care to bother with it), I'm sure most would agree that the convenience alone would be worth recoding this, but I understand why you wouldn't, as it would end up being basically a whole side project.

In it's current incarnation, this is still a great find, and I appreciate you releasing this information Blitz.

 

[Blitz64]

No one's actually going to use this. Maybe one lurker will have a WCW/nWo/Wolfpack stable separation. But I doubt anyone else will really bother.

 

[SLX]

I'm helping someone with their save, and we discussed the need for something like this last week. The timing is ironic, to say the least. I'm actually going to use it, but a simplified version would be very helpful. If no one is going to use it, it will most likely be due to the complexity of getting it working. A simplified version would probably cause it to end up in everyone's saves, especially those based around multiple rival promotions.

 

[Blitz64]

It is simplified....

40 pieces are not that difficult to splice/load. 480 pieces for 12 stables either. People take No Mercy's easy texture mapping for granted. From characters to arenas. To mod other non THQ-Wrestling games takes a lot more work.

This code was also pieced together in 3 minutes. That I don't really have any use for it, both the way it is, or expanded, I'm not proceeding forward with it.

 

[Deleted User]

This is definitely going to be used for Triple Threat. Thanks, man!