Leftover Assets

This is a sub-page of WWF WrestleMania 2000 (Nintendo 64).

With WWF WrestleMania 2000 being released a year after WCW/nWo Revenge, and Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2: Oudou Keishou being worked on at the same time as WrestleMania 2000, a lot of files from both projects ended up making their way into the game files, and were forgotten about.

Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2: Oudou Keishou Leftovers#

Some textures from the in-development version of VPW2 that was being worked on alongside WrestleMania 2000 found their way into the game.

HUD Graphics#

Two HUD graphics were left in the files, one for the Stable bar, and the other for the player control bar.

Dev Self-Portraits#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: I was told these graphics could have been from either Animastar (Dreamcast) or World Fishing (PC), and likely are not actually self portraits. This needs further investigation.

These three unused graphics appear to be self-portraits of devs of the game.

WCW/nWo Revenge Leftovers#

The ROM contains numerous leftovers from Revenge.

Microphone Flag Textures#

To start, we have two microphone flag textures.

The following GameShark codes will replace the "RAW is WAR" apron textures with the respective unused microphone flag textures:

8104747E 0789

8104747E 0787

Championship Belts#

The textures for all the championship belts from Revenge are also leftover in the ROM.

Due to how the game handles displaying the belts, by mirroring the texture, the nWo Heavyweight Championship actually ends up reading "nWn".

Weapons#

Several weapon textures from WCW/nWo Revenge are present in the ROM. The steel chair ended up being re-used in Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2.

Weapon data for some of these can also be found internally.

The comments below were added by Freem, the creator of the tool used to view this data.

Environmental#

Some assets used in the arenas are found in the ROM.

The ring turnbuckles from Revenge also make an appearance in the game data.

Credits Screen#

The background and screen static graphics for the Credits screen seen at the end of Revenge's Championship mode are present in the files.

Referee Animation Frame#

A single animation frame from the late cartoon-ified Brian Hildebrand/Mark Curtis, the Revenge referee can be found.

Costume Editor Graphics#

Many of the menu graphics from the costume editor can be found. These four graphics are used in WCW/nWo Revenge in the Costume Editor...

To do: Check if these Color label graphics are present in the files of Revenge and World Tour. They likely are not in VPW64.

...However, the final 3 graphics from the Costume Editor, text labels for 3 costume color choosers, are leftovers that have been entirely unused. To explain briefly:

• The Costume Editor in WCW/nWo Revenge does not have text labels for its two color pickers.
• Virtual Pro-Wrestling 64 has three color picker slots available, but the text in the editor is in Japanese.
• WCW vs. nWo: World Tour has a Costume Editor, although it is not accessible without hacking and as such, is a leftover from Virtual Pro-Wrestling 64.
  • When accessed, all the text labels are missing from the menu.

Therefore, all three of these graphics were likely created and localized for WCW vs. nWo: World Tour before the Costume Editor was fully cut from the game, and somehow or another they found their way into the WrestleMania 2000 (and Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2: Oudou Keishou) game files.

Battle Royal Graphics#

More menu graphics, this time for the Battle Royal mode.

High Match Score Graphic#

The "Rank In!" graphic for when you get a high score on a match is present.

Numbers#

To do: I know where these are used, I just need to boot up the game real quick to double check

Numbers!