WWF inVasion

[marianoryu]

As I had promised, here is the link to my compilation save. Like I said, I put this together from various existing things and with what little abilities I could learn. All credit to their respective creators.

WWF inVasion

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The story is as follows:

During the '90s decade, wrestling boomed in popularity with the Monday Night Wars between Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (which skyrocketed to popularity thanks to Eric Bischoff and the nWo), and in a small corner of Philadelphia, Paul Heyman's Extreme Championship Wrestling, thanks to its hardcore style never before seen.

In April 2001, the WWF purchased its longtime rival, WCW, after having previously bought out ECW. The Monday Night Wars, which had fans talking about crossover matches between both promotions' stars, came to an end. Now that WWF owned WCW, fans hoped that their dreams would come true.

Instead of that, and for various reasons, the inVasion storyline only featured low to midcard wrestlers of both WCW and ECW, and proved a dismal failure.

I stumbled upon this fan fiction article from WrestleCrap, and wanted to make this idea a reality, thus I decided to make this save.

So this save intends to present the inVasion storyline in a new light, with big names of WCW (including the nWo) and ECW in the roster, and spanning all promotion's main venues (RAW, Smackdown!, Nitro, the ECW Arena, etc).

Roster:

WWF

- The Rock
- Stone Cold Steve Austin
- Triple H
- Undertaker
- Kane
- Kurt Angle
- Big Show
- Test (Test was the WWF Intercontinental champion in the inVasion storyline, so I thought it would be alright to keep him).
- X-Pac
- Edge
- Christian
- Bradshaw (A.P.A.)
- Faarooq (A.P.A.)
- Matt Hardy
- Jeff Hardy
- Chris Jericho
- Chris Benoit
- Shawn Michaels

WCW / nWo

- Goldberg
- Sting
- Booker T
- Diamond Dallas Page
- Eddie Guerrero
- Rey Mysterio
- Finley
- Konnan
- Dean Malenko
- Hollywood Hogan
- Randy Savage
- Lex Luger
- Scott Hall
- Kevin Nash
- Bret Hart
- Curt Hennig
- Scott Steiner
- Jeff Jarrett

ECW

- Tommy Dreamer
- The Sandman
- Sabu
- Rob Van Dam
- Bam Bam Bigelow
- Tazz
- Raven
- New Jack
- D-Von Dudley
- Bubba Ray Dudley
- Tajiri
- Shane Douglas
- Lance Storm
- Steven Richards
- Justin Credible
- Rhino
- The Blue Meanie
- Balls Mahoney

Staff

- Vince McMahon (WWF)
- Shane McMahon (WWF)
- William Regal (WWF)
- Ric Flair (WCW)
- Dusty Rhodes (WCW)
- Rowdy Roddy Piper (WCW)
- Eric Bischoff (nWo)
- Ted DiBiase (nWo)
- Paul Heyman (ECW)
- Terry Funk (ECW)
- Mick Foley/Cactus Jack/Dude Love/Mankind (ECW)
- Earl Hebner (WWF)
- Teddy Long (WWF)
- Charles Robinson (WCW)
- Nick Patrick (nWo)
- Bill Alfonso (ECW)

I also added some DLC characters to complete stables or factions:

- Billy Gunn (New Age Outlaws)
- Road Dogg (New Age Outlaws)
- Billy Kidman (For WCW's Cruiserweight division)
- Paul Heyman's client who is the 1 in the '21 and 1', Paul Heyman's client who is the 1 in the '21 and 1', Brock Lesnar (I know he wasn't involved in the Monday Night Wars, but I added him because I imagined the time being 2001 to 2002, when he first arrived).
- Buff Bagwell (To expand the nWo)
- Great Muta (To add a puroresu touch, plus he was also nWo)
- Jerry Lynn (Rob Van Dam's greatest rival)
- Jyushin "Thunder" Liger (Another puroresu touch, also in WCW)
- Juventud Guerrera (lWo)
- La Parka (lWo)
- Mike Awesome (Wrestled in every promotion, plus Japan)
- Nova (bWo with the Blue Meanie and Steven Richards)
- Perry Saturn (Wrestled in every promotion)
- Psychosis (lWo)
- Sid (WCW and WWF main eventer)
- Steve Corino (The "King of Old School" in ECW)
- TAKA Michinoku (WWF Light Heavyweight Champion, puroresu touch)
- Ultimo Dragon (Puroresu and WCW).

I would like you to test it and hopefully enjoy it, though its quality may not be great, it holds a special value to me.

Any criticism is welcome (but please, no vitriol).

Thank you very much!

EDIT: Added screenshots and roster, and expanded the explanation a little bit more.

EDIT 2: Added DLC explanation[/spoiler][/spoiler]

 

[nexus]

I like it, and also you said you put various existing things in this mod which is better than put the game without saying anything

 

[marianoryu]

There are some things that went beyond my ability:

- One is First Blood matches, since not every wrestler has blood textures, so I set none to bleed. But I've tried to make up by adding backstage matches (Boiler Room included).
- Due to conflicting textures issues, I had to do one La Parka attire by mixing white pants with black top and hood.
- I probably should have added Funaki to TAKA Michinoku, but I overlooked that. It's easy to fix though, so I should do it some day.
- I couldn't make the Smoking Skull belt work, I would have liked to add it and the nWo belt for Hogan.

 

[dafamily]

looks pretty sweet man!! Looks like I'll be making vids of this as well

 

[nexus]

do you know how to remove all the logos that apprears in the ring? i prefer the ring white without all the images and logos

 

[marianoryu]

looks pretty sweet man!! Looks like I'll be making vids of this as well

Sorry, wrong quote. Thanks!

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do you know how to remove all the logos that apprears in the ring? i prefer the ring white without all the images and logos

As far as I remember, I believe it's done replacing the ringmat and apron texture files with an empty ringmat and apron.

I liked them as they are though, so that's why I left them that way.

 

[Rain]

Ha the old Raw2 style mods this brought back some modding nostalgia.

 

[Sandman705]

I downloaded this....got the ROM to load....wow is it ever messed up!! What did I do wrong!? All the textures are completely screwed up!

 

[Deleted User]

We can't tell you what you did wrong because we have no effing clue what you did in the first place, all you said was you loaded the rom up and it didn't work.

That's enough info to know about jack shit pertaining to your problem.

 

[Sandman705]

We can't tell you what you did wrong because we have no effing clue what you did in the first place, all you said was you loaded the rom up and it didn't work.

That's enough info to know about jack shit pertaining to your problem.

I downloaded the ROM from this site. I opened the ROM up in Project 64. It did not work correctly.

I don't know how to be more specific....that's exactly what happened

 

[Deleted User]

Then your computer is incompatible with Project 64, I would delete your system 32 folder and refresh it.

We don't host roms on this site so how you downloaded it is a mystery to me.

There are tutorials for setting up mods on the forum, I hope you manage to find them.

 

[Sandman705]

Then your computer is incompatible with Project 64, I would delete your system 32 folder and refresh it.

We don't host roms on this site so how you downloaded it is a mystery to me.

There are tutorials for setting up mods on the forum, I hope you manage to find them.

That's funny. Project 64 works just fine with normal ROMs on my computer. Hell it even runs a patched copy of VPW2. Don't blame my computer.

I followed a link from this site, close enough

Instead of being a smart ass maybe you could point me in the direction of the help for setting up mods? Clearly I am new here, this is all new to me, I posted asking for help, not a smart ass remark. So if you'd like to help me that would be great....if not, I don't need your goddamn snarky attitude and "I'm better than you" complex.

 

[Deleted User]

If you can navigate yourself to the No mercy section, you can find the tutorials, so instead of demanding me to and the board to spoonfeed you information that has been posted and pinned for years, why don't you use the powers of logical deduction to find our turorials?

We didn't post them just to have to copy and paste them for every new person that's too lazy to go looking around for themselves.

We don't host roms here. The download isn't for a rom, so how you loaded it is completely and utterly perplexing. If your brain is too dim to even tell us the settings of your emu, or even where you placed the files contained here you might have had an easy answer, but you lack the ability to even understand the difference between a rom and a file download containing textures and a notepad file.

But okay, we should solve your problem based on all this very detailed information you gave us.

Hey guys... he turned his emulator on and loaded the rom and it doesn't work. What did he do wrong?

Did you even TRY to delete your System 32 folder and let it refresh itself upon restarting? Did you? I bet you didn't. I actually offered a fix and you didn't even try it. Your system 32 folder is located in your windows folder. Try it and tell me if your emu works.

edit: Gee look, all it took me was to go to the texture mod forum and look at the tutorials section, must be MAGIC: http://s4.zetaboards.com/Old_Skool_Reunion?topic=8252844/2/#new

I'm over noobs. It finally happened. One too many lazy people for me to decide I'm not helping noobs anymore.

 

[Sandman705]

Hey Keson - FUCK YOU. I asked for help - you could have provided links or told me where to go on the forums in a nice way. You're another keyboard commando. Go fuck yourself, I don't need or want your help.

 

[Deleted User]

Yes you do. I'm not a keyboard commando, I asked you to provide more detailed information for your problem and you decided to be a smartass.

I then showed you that I'm better at being a smartass, and now you mad.

Deal with it.

 

[marianoryu]

Hey Keson - FUCK YOU. I asked for help - you could have provided links or told me where to go on the forums in a nice way. You're another keyboard commando. Go fuck yourself, I don't need or want your help.

It's clear that since you're new and didn't know how to set up your emulator to run modded saves, you do need help. Or else you wouldn't have asked in the first place.

If you don't want it, though, there is little the rest of us can do.

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Update: Thanks to the saves by the people here, and WldFb's code for accessing mempaks directly, I've done a little experiment. Here are the first characters of my second DLC pack: Too Cool!

And to fix my first DLC pack, now TAKA Michinoku (who previously had the same look in 4 costumes) has transformed into Kai en Tai, and they are EVIL!

 

[Deleted User]

How easy is it to access mpk characters, anyway? I'm very curious how that code works, never tried it.

 

[marianoryu]

(Apologies for messing up the quote)

I found it rather simple:

1 - Enter the code in cheats and activate it
2 - Make sure you have selected the right controller pak (the characters you want) in the controller plugin, and that there are no characters in the last two stables (Superstars 6 and Superstars 7, the ones usually reserved for CAW slots)
3 - Enter SmackDown Mall/Data, and then exit

Once you do that, the .mpk guys will be there once you start a match.

The only inconvenience it generates is that if you have a guy in a Controller Pak (.mpk) and another guy in a different Controller Pak, and you want to pit them against each other, you're going to have to deactivate the cheat and put them together in the game's Game Pak.

 

[The NekoMancer]

Hey, that's my Too Cool and KaiEnTai! Not sure about APA, though.
It's nice to see people appreciate'em.

I don't know if GrandMaster Sexay has the first-release face or the one i made later on.

If I was you I'd change it for the one in the WWF Attitude textures, uploaded by SK Stylez, since it's so much better than mine.

 

[marianoryu]

I find myself having some texture conflicts, and I have no idea how to solve them.

Will post some screenshots later.