Fire Pro Wrestling | |
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Genre(s) | Fighting |
Developer(s) | Human Entertainment, Spike, Spike Chunsoft |
Publisher(s) | Human Entertainment, Spike, BAM! Entertainment, Agetec, 505 Games, Microsoft Studios, Spike Chunsoft |
Creator(s) | Masato Masuda[1] |
Platform(s) | Various (see table) |
First release | Fire Pro Wrestling Combination Tag June 22, 1989[2] |
Latest release | Fire Pro Wrestling World December 18, 2017 |
Fire Pro Wrestling (ファイヤープロレスリング, Faiyā Puro Resuringu) is a professional wrestlingvideo game series originating from Japan, starting in 1989 by Human Entertainment, and developed and owned by Spike Chunsoft. The series is distinguished by its grappling system, which is primarily based on timed button presses and strategy. Another signature feature of the series is its Edit mode, a character creation feature with many options to customize appearances, wrestling moves and character A.I. behavior.
Re-title the save: card1.mcd and put it in this directory on your USB drive: SONY D: Games!SaveStates Fire Pro Wrestling G (Japan) memcards Obviously 'World' blows 'G' away. However, it is fun to look back and play this classic from the PS1 era. Final Fire Pro Wrestling was announced the “Final” game in the series (One of the many it would turn out to be over the years). The reason Final Fire Pro Wrestling has maintained such a following over the last 17 years is the Management of the Ring mode. MotR combines the appeal of the series with at watered-down but enjoyable EWR.
- Fire Pro Wrestling 2 GBA Final Fire ProWrestling Harvest Time Hop and Fly NDS Miss Spider 39 s Sunny Patch Friends English Training. Windows Sandbox There is a new Windows Sandbox feature with this latest update, which focuses on the fear of running an unknown.exe on your PC.
- A: MMA-style shootfighting, which involves ground techniques such as mount grapples, was first introduced in Fire Pro D. It can be very challenging to learn at first. If you're completely new to Fire Pro, I seriously suggest sticking to pro wrestling basics until you have that aspect of the game mastered, then move on to shootfighting.
Unlike many other pro wrestling games, most Fire Pro games are not licensed by any major professional wrestling promotion, but feature likenesses of real-life wrestlers under different names. Games in the series generally utilize 2-D sprite-based graphics, with some later games incorporating 3D graphical elements. The spin-off King of Colosseum series features polygonal 3D graphics. Most of the titles in the Fire Pro Wrestling series have been released in Japan, although some of the games have seen releases in North America.
Series features[edit]
Unlike many other pro wrestling games, most games in the Fire Pro Wrestling series are not licensed by any major professional wrestling promotion, but feature likenesses of real-life wrestlers under different names. Games in the series generally utilize 2-D sprite-based graphics, with some later games incorporating 3-D graphical elements. The spin-off series King of Colosseum features polygonal 3-D graphics.
The Fire Pro Wrestling series of games distinguish themselves from other wrestling games by combining several unique features. One feature is the focus on a timing-based grappling control system. The grappling control system encourages the use of complex strategy, built on working up to using increasingly powerful moves on your opponent. The timing-based system also stands in contrast to the button-mashing tactics with which most 2-D wrestling gamers are familiar.
Another feature of Fire Pro Wrestling games is the inclusion of a large roster of playable wrestlers and fighters from different promotions located around the world. The wrestlers and promotions are renamed from their real-life counterparts to avoid copyright, and represent many different styles of professional wrestling: North American WWE style sports-entertainment, Mexican lucha-libre, various styles of Japanese puroresu: athletic junior-heavyweight style, realistic strong-style, women's joshi wrestling, and violent hardcore wrestling, as well as different styles of mixed martial arts.
A variety of match types are available in the Fire Pro Wrestling series of games, with flexible settings for the rules within each match. This complements the variety of wrestlers available as playable characters. Different match types include conventional singles and tag-team wrestling matches, extreme hardcore matches such as the 'Landmine Death Match' or 'Electric Barbed Wire Cage Match', and various types of mixed-martial-arts matches.
Another distinguishing feature of the Fire Pro Wrestling series of games, particularly the later games in the series, is the inclusion of an extensive and highly detailed wrestler creation and edit mode. The edit mode of Fire Pro Wrestling games allows players to build game characters with a high level of attention to detail. Appearance characteristics, such as clothing and ring attire, and physical build, head and facial features, can be customized for a created wrestler. A detailed set of wrestling and fighting moves, drawn from the large pool of moves built into each game, can also be assigned to a created wrestler. The edit mode of Fire Pro Wrestling games also allows players to make detailed changes to the CPU logic of an edited wrestler, making it possible for a skilled creator to create a wrestler that behaves very much like his real-life counterpart, even when controlled by the computer.
Later titles in the series allowed for customization of other aspects of professional wrestling, including changing the design of the ring mat, creating customized championship belts, and creation and editing of referees. The detailed character creation and edit mode of the Fire Pro Wrestling games became an influential feature that was eventually added to other wrestling and sports games.
The combination of features included in Fire Pro Wrestling games allows players to create 'dream matchups' between wrestlers from different promotions, or different eras in the history of professional wrestling, as well as matches between real-life wrestlers and fighters, fictional characters and non-wrestling celebrities.
Overview[edit]
Beginning with the first title in the series from Human Entertainment, Fire Pro Wrestling Combination Tag for PC Engine in 1989, the Fire Pro Wrestling series eventually produced editions of games for many systems, notably the Super Famicom, Sega Saturn, Game Boy Advance, Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2. Human also released a wrestling game outside the Fire Pro Wrestling series in 1989 for Game Boy. Titled Pro Wrestling in its native Japan, it was released internationally as HAL Wrestling. Most of the titles in the Fire Pro Wrestling series have been released exclusively in Japan, although some of the games have seen releases in North America.
The series became popular in Japan, but did not see an international release until after Spike took over the franchise in 2000. Early games in the Fire Pro Wrestling series were popular outside Japan with import gamers, and at least one game, Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium for Super Famicom, received an unofficial fan translation through video game console emulators. Fire Pro Wrestling A for the Game Boy Advance was released internationally as Fire Pro Wrestling in 2001, and was one of the titles initially available when the Game Boy Advance was launched in Japan and North America. Four editions of the game have received official English translations: Fire Pro Wrestling (2001) and Fire Pro Wrestling 2 (2002) for the GBA, Fire Pro Wrestling Returns for PS2 (2007), and Fire Pro Wrestling World for the Steam PC platform and PS4 (2017/2018) .
At the 2010 Tokyo Game Show, it was announced that a 3-D avatar-based version of Fire Pro Wrestling would be released for the Xbox 360 in 2011. It was not released until September 21, 2012. In hopes of appealing to a more casual audience, the developers decided on debuting a new gameplay engine that would use a button-mashing minigame system to perform moves, and not using the well-reviewed timing elements from previous versions of the game.
On February 24, 2017, Spike Chunsoft debuted a website featuring a teaser video of the series making a possible return.[3] Less than a week later, on March 3, Fire Pro Wrestling World would be officially announced, returning the series to its roots, in terms of graphical presentation and gameplay mechanics. Also, the new game would be the first in the series to incorporate online multiplayer gameplay on the PC via Steam and the PlayStation 4 console.[4] Fire Pro Wrestling World was released to Early Access on Steam for the PC platform on July 10, 2017,[5] and left Early Access, to a full release, on December 18, 2017.[6]
On June 30, 2018, Spike Chunsoft would debut a commercial featuring wrestlers Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi, announcing that the game would be released in North America for PS4 on August 28, 2018. Spike Chunsoft also announced that they had come to terms on official licensing with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, making Fire Pro Wrestling World the first title in the series to be licensed by the 'King of Sports',[7] and the first game to be licensed by the wrestling organization in over eleven years.
Titles[edit]
Final Fire Pro Wrestling English Patch
Human Entertainment[edit]
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: PC Engine Virtual Console |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Super Famicom |
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Fire Pro Wrestling 3: Legend Bout Original release date(s): | Release years by system: PC Engine Virtual Console |
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Super Fire Pro Wrestling 2 Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Super Famicom |
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Fire Pro Women: All Star Dream Slam Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Super Famicom |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Arcade |
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Wrestling Universe: Fire Pro Women: Dome Super Female Big Battle: All Japan Women VS J.W.P. Original release date(s): | Release years by system: PC Engine (ARCADE CD-ROM²) |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Super Famicom |
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Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Super Famicom |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: PlayStation |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Super Famicom |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Sega Saturn |
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Fire Pro Wrestling G Original release date(s): | Release years by system: PlayStation PlayStation Network |
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Spike / Spike Chunsoft[edit]
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Fire Pro Wrestling for WonderSwan Original release date(s): | Release years by system: WonderSwan |
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Fire Pro Wrestling i Original release date(s): | Release years by system: i-mode |
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Fire Pro Wrestling D Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Dreamcast |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Game Boy Advance |
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Fire Pro Wrestling J Original release date(s): | Release years by system: J-PHONE |
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Original release date(s): | Release years by system: Game Boy Advance |
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Fire Pro Wrestling Z Original release date(s): | Release years by system: PlayStation 2 |
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Original release date(s): Steam:
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Spin-offs[edit]
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King of Colosseum (Red) New Japan x All Japan x Pancrase Disc Original release date(s): | Release years by system: PlayStation 2 |
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King of Colosseum (Green) ~NOAH x Zero-One Disc~ Original release date(s): | Release years by system: PlayStation 2 |
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Yin-Poole, Wesley (4 April 2014). 'Fire Pro Wrestling creator Masato Masuda dies'. Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
- ^'Fire Pro Wrestling Combination Tag for Windows (1989)'. MobyGames. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^'Spike Chunsoft launches 'Pro Wrestling' teaser website'. gematsu.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^'Fire Pro Wrestling Returns to PS4 and PC With Fire Pro Wrestling World'. dualshockers.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^'Fire Pro Wrestling World Available Now on Steam Early Access'. gamasutra.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^'Fire Pro Wrestling World leaves Steam Early Access'. destructoid.com. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
- ^'Fire Pro Wrestling World PS4 Release Date Announced With NJPW Roster'. forbes.com. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
- ^http://battle-news.com/news/2011/11/000831.php
- ^http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/086/086584.html
External links[edit]
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived July 24, 2012)
Final Fire Pro Wrestling English Patch Notes
Final Fire Prowrestling Hacks
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FFPW Recolor Patch | This is my take on the Final Fire Pro Wrestling recolor patch, this one is more accurate to how would Spike would have done it if they weren’t forced to censored all the WWE, WCW and ECW wrestlers and some of the MMA fighters because of legal issues they had with WWE and UFC back then. I also gave Big Show his “Giant†head for his third attire and gave Eddie Guerrero his “Black Tiger†head for his third attire as well. I used the 0xED Hex Editor to make this hack. Apply this patch to the Final Fire Pro Wrestling - Yume no Dantai Unei! (J) rom. |
Final Fire Pro Wrestling - FINAL BURNING | Full and complete FINAL BURNING patch for Final Fire Pro Wrestling. It includes: -100% game translation -Complete update to roster including costumes, skills, parameters, move sets and logic. -Tweaks to Management of the Ring data (Wrestler stats, promotion stats, default champions) The cheat code has also been translated. To unlock the roster, create a new edit and name them: Nickname: UNLOCK First name: MY Second name: GAME |
Final Fire Pro Wrestling English Patch 9.16
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