1349: WWF No Mercy N64 \\ Cheat-unlocked Andre the Giant vs my new CAW Hulk Hogan!
4Trying Exhibition and Edit modes in WWF No Mercy, dumped with a Sanni Cart Reader V5 and played in the N64 emulator Mupen64Plus, at the default Easy difficulty. Also a bit of AKI's N64 "WCW/nWo Revenge" from two years earlier for comparison! Both are 30 fps games.
Used the command line parameter "--cheats 2" for No Mercy and "--cheats 1" for Revenge to unlock everything.
My AKI N64 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzO9bkIRFHVGDpb8Asy5V8Fy
Huge thanks to SBurk's Create-A-Wrestler FAQ on GameFAQs for the basis of my Hulk Hogan CAW's move list! https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/914112-wwf-no-mercy/faqs/9824
(REAL AMERICAN is copyrighted of course, so that was a foolish song to assign to my Hogan edit as far as YouTube copyright permitting is concerned; I cut out three chunks of the video that had it with my usual crude freeware cuts. : P)
0:00 - start
4:35 - mode types
19:01 - Andre vs Ken Shamrock
24:10 - making Hulk Hogan
1:28:37 - moves
2:11:51 - Hulkster vs Andre the Giant
2:36:54 - Hogan tweaks & variants
3:12:38 - Christian vs Eddie Guerrero
3:28:47 - Revenge: Hogan vs Guerrero
3:40:02 - No Mercy: Hogan vs Guerrero
3:45:55 - more Hogan tweaks
Ah, the Critical! wrestling history podcast already covered No Mercy in the episodes I've caught up listening to, in their 2nd episode--they mentioned the slowdown in 4-character matches and the bug causing intermittent wipes of save data as the knocks against it vs WCW/nWo Revenge, but the slowdown thing doesn't seem to happen when playing it in an emulator, and MAYBE emulators have solved the data wipe, too? (Also I think Mupen saves automatically--at any rate, I don't seem to have to do the manual "Data" save to memory Pak thing for it to keep my edits etc.) And they seem to prefer the Revenge roster and the Revenge art style to those of No Mercy.
Don't know many wrestlers but I may like the Revenge roster better as well, although I'm feeling strange urges to flesh out No Mercy's with weirdos like Superman and uh I dunno others through the edit mode. (OH and I can edit the McMahons & awkward female models to diff names & models--not moves though--HEY.) (Haha but they keep their exaggerated "female" poses. ; D) No Mercy's music is definitely better and I think I prefer its more modulated arena lighting, but I go back and forth on the character model styles between the two--the brighter, blockier Revenge characters or the darker, sleeker No Mercy models. I definitely prefer NOT having "Drag opponent" as Button A Long Press like it is in Revenge, where I keep doing it accidentally; in No Mercy, it's on C Up. (C-stick always confuses me but that's more of a personal problem maybe. : P) And No Mercy's name tags on Spirit meters!
Oh, also thanks to Critical! episode 2 for pointing out that the Real American track comes assigned to unlockable wrestler Jim Ross costume swaps Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco; edited it out of them as well as my CAW Hogan so hopefully no more crude video edits will be needed to avoid YouTube copyright tags.
Speaking of edits, after recording I found sunglasses--they're under the Masks section; slapping some gold sunglasses over the CAW Hulkster's not-Hogan face helps. ^ _^ There's a bandanna in Masks/Accessories that goes under the hair, like Hogan wore his sometimes, but it's only available in black; could work with the black shorts look I used for one of his costumes, but he didn't have a bandanna on in the photo I found of that.
I should stop worrying about Hogan & make Superman/Batman/Spider-Man etc. : D This editor is much less intimidating than Fire Pro's, esp since there's no AI editing..which I guess means you can't give it funky personality exactly but ferinstance my Hogan as a CPU just goes to town with the moves assigned, so it works all right. (Swapped out the eye-poke counter he used on me--too 3 Stooges.)
Now I've tried all the wrestling games I think I'll have for a while. No Mercy, Revenge, Fire Pro Wrestling World, and Wrestling Empire are in the mix. Which ones will I end up sticking with? = o I think I like the AKI games for 4-character action, Fire Pro for 2 and 8-character action, and Wrestling Empire for career weirdness--but I gotta play all of them more to be sure. ^ )^
3/24/23
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