1351: WWF No Mercy N64 \\ Making Giant Baba: appearance & grapples (CAW edit)
3Starting my relatively ignorant attempt to make legendary Japanese professional wrestler Giant Baba in edit mode of WWF No Mercy, dumped with a Sanni Cart Reader V5 and played in the N64 emulator Mupen64Plus! No Mercy is a 30fps game.
Used the command line parameter "--cheats 2" to unlock everything.
And quick hacks I did like a Dude Love visual edit, and replacing the McMahons and young female characters with generic big dudes. : P
I also changed my Hulk Hogan CAW edit from face 75 to face 84. I kinda like the smiling face 87 I went with originally but it's too round for Hogan's rectangular face, and the smile doesn't fit the facial hair (which is also not quite right, but as close as I can seem to get in the game). Oh and Dudleyz 1 pants for a Hulkster!
My AKI N64 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzO9bkIRFHVGDpb8Asy5V8Fy
0:00 - start
1:20 - male replacements for female wrestlers
3:58 - Dude Love visual edit
9:57 - male female replacements
11:51 - Mupen crash = o
13:22 - back!
14:04 - "Grannie" body type
15:33 - "Women" stance
18:36 - Baba - appearance edit
47:46 - Front Weak Grapple
58:47 - Front Strong Grapple
1:19:57 - Back Weak Grapple
1:23:47 - Back Strong Grapple
1:30:41 - Reversals
1:33:53 - Hulk Hogan tweaks
Just about everything I think I know about Baba is from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Baba
https://youtu.be/b0H9rfNL55o - 1969 Baba vs Gorilla Monsoon
https://youtu.be/JGknKAqW4N4 - 1975 Baba vs Jack Brisco
https://youtu.be/fO2-XronACc - 1990 Baba & Andre the Giant vs Masters & Citron
My impression from the videos and what I'm going with for for fleshing out the move list is that Baba isn't super mobile and likes chops, arm locks, and big slow kicks.
Ah he does an underhand kneeling punch from a grapple, and a choke submission, in that Brisco match, I'll have to see if I can fit those in. Oh and a leg-entangling back grapple thing! And a leg lock submission!
Also, you see him in the Move menus, and I think like in the avatar icons and stuff, so the resources for making AKI Man are definitely in the game, I'd kind of like to make him. I seem to remember him having high-flying moves in WCW/nWo Revenge--oh, here's a move list (partial) FAQ for him from that game: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/199288-wcw-nwo-revenge/faqs/3373 ; not sure the move names carry over exactly; not that I'm so concerned about his move list particularly, so he'd be a good candidate for going in as a visual edit over one of those McMahons or young female wrestlers I edited over, one with a lot of mobile moves.
Mupen has crashed on me now and then in No Mercy specifically, this time it was flipping between edited characters. I wonder if this is related to the data wiping glitch people playing on the actual carts (version 1.0 carts, at least, which from the sound of it is just about all of them, since the 1.1 ones supposedly were only issued as replacements for people calling THQ about it) run into--like, would the spot where Mupen hangs be the spot where the data wipe would have occurred? My data hasn't been wiped from the emulated version...I backed up the save data after this session just in case though. = o
3/26/23
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