u/SSJ_Kratos

Hey everyone! I'm u/SSJ_Kratos, a founding moderator of r/N64WrestlingGameMods.

This is our new home for all things related to Be A Man Prodcutions. Moving forward, nothing will be posted to r/N64WrestlingGames so I encourage all of you that support our work and want to stay in the loop to come check it out here.

To be very brief and explain this move: there is a particular mod on r/N64WrestlingGames who is harrassing our team and I'm done with it. There is a reason literally no other creator in the AKI community will engage with that subreddit. Be A Man Productions were the new kids on the block and we didn't know any better.

Now we know.

On top of being an asshole, he just accused me of contributing nothing to the AKI Community. Fuck him, I will not post another pixel of an image or character of a post in that sub. All of my updates live here now, whether we get 0 subs or a million.

Much love to all the real ones.

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Hi all, this is Ssark, author of WCW/nWo Revenge: Starrcade Edition.

It’s been about two weeks since release, and I wanted to take a moment to address the status of the mod and the much anticipated Redux version with Entrance Music.

As most of you know, RetroRandy released Revenge Redux a few days before Starrcade Edition came out. He immediately went to work integrating Starrcade into Redux and had it finished within a few days.

So first and foremost: thanks Randy. You’re the fucking GOAT.

The Redux version is basically ready to go. But before I release it, there’s another issue I need to address:

The Jank.

As many of you have experienced, there are quite a few gameplay irregularities that can happen during matches. Weird behavior when attempting diving moves. Wrestlers doing things they shouldn’t when attempting apron dives. Wrestlers warping into the ring when doing grapple moves on the outside. Occasional crashes and other irregularities.

A few points about that.

First, I am an amateur.

This is my first ROM hacking project. I am not RetroRandy. I am not GMSpectre. I am not RagDas. I am not Freem. I never claimed to be. Before this project, I had never even opened a hex editor. A year ago, I was just a shmuck here on r/N64WrestlingGames and decided I wanted to dive in, learn, and contribute. The fact that Starrcade Edition exists at all is honestly kind of ridiculous when I stop and think about it. This was a huge project for a first attempt, and there are definitely some rough edges.

Second, moveset editing in Revenge is NOT like No Mercy, VPW2, or WrestleMania 2000. Those games have built in CAW modes. If you want to create a new moveset, you build it in CAW mode, copy some values into hex, and you’re basically done.

Revenge DOES NOT work that way.

Every move has to be manually implemented across multiple files. Every wrestler has roughly 255 move values, 255 damage values, and additional parameter values that all have to work together correctly. Across a 72-man roster, that’s nearly 37,000 individual values that can potentially impact gameplay behavior. If even a handful of them are wrong, you start getting weirdness.

For example, if you give somebody a top rope moonsault, you’d think the game would automatically know to have the wrestler climb the turnbuckle facing the correct direction. Nope. That’s controlled somewhere else. There are dozens of little things like that throughout the game.

All of that is to say: moveset hacking in Revenge is complicated, and a lot of the jank people have reported stems directly from that.

Now that RetroRandy has put so much work into bringing Starrcade Edition into Redux, I feel even more obligated to get this stuff cleaned up before releasing it. Randy’s name carries a lot of weight in this community and I don’t want to slap his name on something that’s still buggy and janky.

The good news is that every issue that’s been identified so far appears to be fixable… The bad news is that fixing them and testing them takes time. A lot of time. And a lot of elbow grease.

So rather than rush Redux out the door, I’m taking the opportunity to clean up as much of this stuff as possible first. My goal is still to have the Redux version released by the end of June.

I need to get this wrapped up so I can work with Wally and the rest of the team on getting Saturday Night’s Main Event and Prime Time across the finish line.

After that, we’ll be moving on to another project that we haven’t announced publicly yet. I won’t spoil it today, but honestly… it might be the project I’m most excited about out of everything we’ve done so far.

Thanks again to everyone who’s downloaded the mod, reported bugs, posted feedback, streamed it, reviewed it, and enjoyed it. If you took your “nWo 4 Life” vows seriously, this one was for you :)

Entrance Themes are coming. But not until the jank is addressed.

— Ssark

Hello all,

Heres a taste of what we’ve been working on. We know several of you have been hungry for updates.

The updates will start flowing after Revenge: Starrcade Edition drops next week :)

More to come!