Fire Pro Wrestling (Game Boy Advance)

Fire Pro Wrestling for GBA is the series' debut in the west.

Coincidentally, the Japanese version released just two days before WWE (then WWF) announced they bought WCW, humorously making the roster completely dated once reaching the US 3 months later.

Unused Text#

The game has text related to some sort of test menu and sound test.

Regional Differences#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Name changes such as wrestlers/moves/etc. There's likely too much to list them all.

Title Screen#

The English version zoomed out the background, now colored pink instead of blue. The copyright info is larger and removed the VAiLL credit. Finally, the title dropped the "A" from the title, likely because this was the first Fire Pro Wrestling game commercially released internationally. The abbreviation FPA still appears in the background of the menus of both regions.

Japan	US/Europe

Roster#

• American wrestlers' costumes and skin tones have been changed to avoid potential legal issues. Some move names with potential trademark conflicts were also changed, such as the Stone Cold Stunner (which was abbreviated even in the original Japanese version) being rechristened "Deep Freeze".
• The WFW and WWC are renamed APW and AWG.
• The number of wrestlers per column in the menu is reduced from five to four.
• Many of the names are changed between regions. In the two pictured below, "Steel Gold" Steam Audeen is changed to "The Bionic Man" Steve Majors, and "Shin Jinrui (New Humanity)" Will Goldback is changed to "Neo Human" Diefinger.

Japan	US/Europe

Graphics#

The kanji icons became simple circles.

Japan	US/Europe

Other#

Promotions are listed in a different order, emphasizing wrestlers more familiar to western audiences. The Japanese version's select screen starts on the NJPW analog View Japan, while the English version defaults to the WWF equivalent APW instead.