The Official Firepro R thread.... Wait, not that anyone cares.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

http://www.spike.co.jp/fr/index.html

Go to the link bitches....

Anyway, I don't know who actually cares about the game, but I do, so screw you guys. Also, the 4th link from the left on the top bar (including home) has some clips of moves in the game... Looks like Spike is actually busting their ass after the whole Firepro Z letdown.

[SukkaChump]

dude, that looks fucking awesome, i'd hope for a US release, but i'm never gonna get it, i love that whole series

[What Would Kevin Do?]

That's why I love my Japanese ps2

[mitch_h]

Okay, so I want this game really bad, but I don't really know anything about it. When is the release date? Pardonmy ignorance byt do you need a japanese version of the PS2 to play it, or could I order some sort of import.

[Xero]

Man I wish I could play that. :(

[Fignuts]

I already made a thread on this. Nobody cared.

[OssMan]

En garde... I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style.

[DeadMan90]

Wow, and here I thought that Firepro Z was going to be the last Firepro in the series...

Pardon my ignorance, but I haven't completely looked into all the options for import games on my PS2. The main question I have is that I was wondering if there was a boot disc to play foreign games not unlike the one that I have for my Dreamcast to play Firepro D? I mean, I'd like to have an option like that rather than just out and out modding my PS2 to play one foreign game, even if it's one that I know I'd enjoy.

If anyone could help answer my question, thank you ahead of time.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

I already made a thread on this. Nobody cared.


Whoops... My bad... But hey, I gave a website... Yeah....

It was just pushed back, so it's coming out in November (Japan only, you have to import.)

TO play imports are your PS2, the best option will probably be a fliptop. You can do a search online for info. Basically , it's a different top to the PS2, sort of like the original PS, and you can basically swap the disks once it starts to load....

There is a forced swap method that I wouldn't advise.. It basically consists or pulling open the slide and swapping... It can easily fuck up your shit...

Then there are mod chips.... Do searches

Now if you have one of the new PS2s, I don't know... They already have a flip top on them. That may make it easier, I don't know...

My advice is check out gamefaqs for info, or just do searches online... I have a legit Japanese ps2 that is slightly modded to play burns.... So I really don't know much about what ya need.

Also, the edit mode looks bad ass. Looks like for once you can actually edit the premade faces.. YAY!!! And a legit cage match..

Hmmmm.

[Jonster]

Clicking that link doesn't work.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Huh, WTF?

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Try again.

[Fignuts]

Legit cage match, The usual exploding deathmatch, barbwire deathmatch, and all new land mine match.

[Xero]

I'm not 100% positive on this, but I believe that the Gameshark or the Action Replay or an add on to one of those can be used to play imports.

[DeadMan90]

Excellent, because if that is the case, this game is as good as bought.

[Xero]

Shit, I'm wrong. I could have sworn that it was for games, but it's for DVDs.

[Kane Knight]

Whoops... My bad... But hey, I gave a website... Yeah....

It was just pushed back, so it's coming out in November (Japan only, you have to import.)

TO play imports are your PS2, the best option will probably be a fliptop. You can do a search online for info. Basically , it's a different top to the PS2, sort of like the original PS, and you can basically swap the disks once it starts to load....

There is a forced swap method that I wouldn't advise.. It basically consists or pulling open the slide and swapping... It can easily fuck up your shit...

Then there are mod chips.... Do searches

Now if you have one of the new PS2s, I don't know... They already have a flip top on them. That may make it easier, I don't know...

My advice is check out gamefaqs for info, or just do searches online... I have a legit Japanese ps2 that is slightly modded to play burns.... So I really don't know much about what ya need.

Also, the edit mode looks bad ass. Looks like for once you can actually edit the premade faces.. YAY!!! And a legit cage match..

Hmmmm.

You can use an AR-Max to play imports too.

I think.

[Kane Knight]

I'm not 100% positive on this, but I believe that the Gameshark or the Action Replay or an add on to one of those can be used to play imports.

I really should read threads before I post in them.,

[CYCLOPTERSAURUS]

Delayed? damnit. I was really looking forward to this.

Anyhow, Firepro is the best wrestling game series ever IMO, I STILL play Firepro D on a regular basis. Freaking awesome. I can't wait for R.

As far as modding your PS2, a friend of mine had the top of his PS2 removed and replaced with one with a big Z on the top, that you can open up like you could the PS1 (from the top). Put in a boot up disc, then open it from the top, and put in the game.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Delayed? What? It comes out on the 15th. I just ordered it off play asia.. WHOOO!

[Fignuts]

Gamefaqs boards have a lot of info up already.

4 costumes/ 1 moveset per edit slot. (Possibly the best news to come out so far.)
There is an american fed, but the only new wrestlers from Z are A.J. Styles, Pete Williams, and two as of yet unidentified wrestlers. American Dragon is in New Japan(gee!) and Lo-ki is in Zero-One Max.

A lot of independant wrestlers from Michinoku, Osaka, DDT, Dragon Gate, and Big Japan.

More info to come.

[mitch_h]

Whoooo Bryan Danielson! I need this game!

[Fignuts]

New Japan Pro Wrestling: Main Army
Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Shinsuke Nakamura
Hiroshi Tanahashi
Takashi Iizuka
Yutaka Yoshie
Blue Wolf
Tatsutoshi Goto
Hiro Saito
Koji Kanemoto
Tiger Mask 4
Masahito Kakihara
Masayuki Naruse
El Samurai
Wataru Inoue
Josh Barnett
Curry Man
American Dragon

New Japan Pro Wrestling: Black New Japan
Masahiro Chono
Manabu Nakanishi
Yuji Nagata
Black Strong Machine
Togi Makabe
Mitsuya Nagai
Toru Yano
Scott Norton

New Japan Pro Wrestling: CTU
Jushin Thunder Liger
Jado
Gedo
Minoru Tanaka

New Japan Pro Wrestling: MUGA
Tatsumi Fujinami
Osamu Nishimura
Katsushi Takemura

New Japan Pro Wrestling: Legend
Antonio Inoki
Seiji Sakaguchi
Masa Saito
Animal Hamaguchi
Osamu Kido
Kengo Kimura
Kazuo Yamazaki
Kotetsu Yamamoto
Tiger Mask
Kuniaki Kobayashi
Kantaro Hoshino
Dynamite Kid
Black Tiger

All Japan Pro Wrestling: Main Army
Keiji Muto
Great Muta
Satoshi Kojima
Arashi
Kohei Suwama
Nobutaka Araya
Tomoaki Honma
Masanobu Fuchi
Kaz Hayashi
AKIRA
NOSAWA Rongai
Kazushi Miyamoto

All Japan Pro Wrestling: Free
Toshiaki Kawada

All Japan Pro Wrestling: RO&D
Jamal
Buchanan
D Lo Brown
Taiyo Kea

All Japan Pro Wrestling: Voodoo Murders
TARU
Shuji Kondo
Brother YASSHI
Giant Bernard

All Japan Pro Wrestling: Legend
Giant Baba
Jumbo Tsuruta
Hiroshi Hase
Dory Funk Jr.
Stan Hansen
Bruiser Brody
Gary Albright

Pro Wrestling NOAH: Main Army
Mitsuharu Misawa
Yoshinari Ogawa
Akira Taue
Takuma Sano
Mohammad Yone
Naomichi Marufuji
Kotaro Suzuki

Pro Wrestling NOAH: Burning
Kenta Kobashi
Tamon Honda
Kentaro Shiga
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
KENTA

Pro Wrestling NOAH: Sternness
Jun Akiyama
Jun Izumida
Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Makoto Hashi

Pro Wrestling NOAH: Dark Agents
Akitoshi Saito
Masao Inoue
Takashi Sugiura
The Gladiator
Bison Smith

Pro Wrestling NOAH: Wild II
Takeshi Rikio
Takeshi Morishima

Pro Wrestling NOAH: Free
SUWA
Rick Steiner
Low Ki

Pro Wrestling NOAH: Team Kaos
Scorpio
Donovan Morgan
Michael Modest

Pro Wrestling NOAH: Legend
Rusher Kimura

Zero-One Max: Main Army
Shinjiro Otani
Takao Omori
Masato Tanaka
Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Minoru Fujita
Ikuto Hidaka
Naohiro Hoshikawa

Zero-One Max: Stonehenge
Kohei Sato
Hirotaka Yokoi
Yoshihito Sasaki

Zero-One Max: 01 World
Steve Corino
Leonardo Spanky

Michinoku Pro Wrestling: Main Army
Jinsei Shinzaki
Great Sasuke
GAINA
Shanao
Sato Shu
Sato Kei
Shinjitu Nohashi
Hayato "Jr" Fujita

Michinoku Pro Wrestling: Los Salseros Japonesas
Kesen Numajiro
Takeshi Minamino
Pineapple Hanai
Mango Fukuda

Dragon Gate: Do Fixer
Dragon Fly
Dragon Kid
Genki Horiguchi

Dragon Gate: Blood Generation
CIMA
Don Fujii
Masato Yoshino
Naruki Doi
Shingo Takagi

Dragon Gate: PoS.HEARTS
Magnum Tokyo
Anthony W Mori

Dragon Gate: Final M2K
Masaaki Mochizuki
Kenichiro Arai
Susumu Yokosuka
K-Ness

Dragon Gate: Florida Express (フロリダ・エキスプレス)
Michael Iwasa
Daniel Mishima

Big Japan Pro Wrestling: Main Army
Ryuji Ito
Men's Teioh
Shadow WX
Ryuji Yamakawa
Daisuke Sekimoto

Big Japan Pro Wrestling: Free
Jun Kasai

Big Japan Pro Wrestling: Skin Headers
Abdullah Kobayashi
"Black Angel" Numazawa

Big Japan Pro Wrestling: Idiot Foreigners
Madman Pondo
2 Tuff Tony

Dynamic Dream Team: Main Army
Sanshiro Takagi
MIKAMI
Tomohiko Hashimoto
Shoichi Ichiyama
Seiya Morohashi
Tanomusaku Toba
Danshoku Dino
Darkness HERO!
KUDO
Riki Sensyu

Dynamic Dream Team: Union
Poison Sawada JULIE

Dynamic Dream Team: Legend
Super Uchu Power

Osaka Pro Wrestling: Main Army
Super Dolphin
Tsubasa
Billy Ken Kid
Tigers Mask

Osaka Pro Wrestling: New Delphin Group
Super Delphin
Kuishinbo Kamen

Osaka Pro Wrestling : Mujikan
Magnitude Kishiwada
Daio QUALLT
Black Buffalo

Kaientai Dojo: GET
Taka Michinoku
Ryota Chikuzen
Kengo Mashimo
Ofune

Kaientai Dojo: RAVE
Hi69

Riki Pro: Riki Pro
Riki Choshu
Tomohiro Ishii

Riki Pro: Legend
Yoshiaki Yatsu

Free: Free
Shinya Hashimoto
Naoya Ogawa
Yoshihiro Takayama
Shiro Koshinaka
Commander An Joe
Daisuke Ikeda
Tadao Yasuda
Hayabusa
Ryushi Yanagisawa
Tarzan Goto
Mr. Pogo
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
Alexander Otsuka
Mr. Gannosuke
Mammoth Sasaki
The Tiger 2 (Ultimo Dragon)
Gran Hamada
Kendo Ka Shin
Dick Togo
Masao Orihara
Wataru Sakata
Milano Collection A. T.
Toru Owashi
Kazushi Miyamoto
Takehiro Murahama
GOEMON
Gamma
Onryo
Ebetaro

Free: Tenryu Alliance
Genichiro Tenryu
Ashura Hara

Free: Kensuke Office
Kensuke Sasaki
Katsuhiko Nakajima
Akira Hokuto

Free: Big Mouth Loud
Katsuyori Shibata
Kazunari Murakami

Free: Apache Pro Wrestling Army
Kintaro Kanemura
Tetsuhiro Kuroda
Badboy Hido
Takashi Sasaki
GENTARO

Free: Fujiwara Class
Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Free: Battlarts
Yuki Ishikawa

Free: Dragondoor Project
Taiji Ishimori

Free: Legend
Great Kabuki
Kodo Fuyuki
Atsushi Onita

America: Outlaws
Kevin Nash
Scott Hall

America: Free
Abdullah The Butcher
Tiger Jeet Singh
Animal Warrior
Vader
Steve Williams
Sting
Rikishi
Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow
Jeff Jarret
Predator
Matt Ghaffari
Dan Bobish
Mike Barton
Jim Steele
Tom Howard
Giant Shiva
Sabu
AJ Styles
Petey Williams

America: Legend
Andre The Giant
Terry Funk
Hawk Warrior
Terry Gordy
Bret Hart
Davey Boy Smith
Johnny Smith

Mexico: AAA
Dos Caras
Dos Caras Jr.

Mexico: CMLL
Negro Casas
Doctor Wagner Jr.
Black Tiger 3
Ricky Marvin

Mexico: Legend
Mil Mascaras
El Hijo Del Santo
Juventud Guerrera

Pancrase: Pancrasism
Yuki Kondo
Yoshiki Takahashi

Pancrase: Grabaka
Sanae Kikuta

Pancrase: Pancrase Misson
Minoru Suzuki

Pancrase: Legend
Masakatsu Funaki

Grapplers: PRIDE
Hidehiko Yoshida
Kazushi Sakuraba
Emelianenko Fedor
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Mirko Cro Cop
Don Frye
Mark Coleman
Semmy Schilt
Igor Vovchanchyn
Wanderlei Silva
Kevin Randleman
Giant Silva
Quinton Rampage Jackson

Grapplers: K1
Musashi
Bob Sapp
Ernest Hoost
Peter Aerts
Jerome Le Banner
Mike Bernardo
Gary Goodridge

Grapplers: Gracie Jujitsu
Rickson Gracie
Royce Gracie

Grapplers: Grapplers
Kazuyuki Fujita
Tsuyoshi Kousaka
Kiyoshi Tamura
Hiromitsu Kanehara
Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Ikuhisa Minowa
Katshuhiko Ogasawara
Roland Boch
Ken Shamrock
Volk Han
Bitsadze Tariel

Grapplers: Legend
Akira Maeda
Nobuhiko Takada
Masaaki Satake
Aleksandr Karelin
Andy Hug

Joshi: Neo Joshi Pro Wrestling
Kyoko Inoue

Joshi: LLPW
Shinobu Kandori
Takako Inoue

Joshi: Major Joshi Pro Wrestling A to Z
Yumiko Hotta

Joshi: Free
Aja Kong
Dynamite Kansai
Manami Toyota
Fumiko Hamada
Meiko Satomura
Nae Takahashi
Amazing Kong

Joshi: Legend
Bull Nakano
Lioness Asuka
Chigusa Nagayo
Noumi Nakanishi

Legend: Legend
Karl Gotch
Lou Thesz
Rikidozan

[Fignuts]

Eat it, THQ. Eat it.

[Fignuts]

Bumping this, as I just got it.

Will fill you in on details when I get a chance to really dive in

[What Would Kevin Do?]

DAMN YOU!

I was hoping to get mine today, but I didn't

Mine should probably come monday or Tuesday.

[Fignuts]

This game is amazing. Not only are there 8-man survivor series style cage matches, but you can do them in the cage, and deathmatches as well.

Menus for edit mode have been completly changed.

[Kapoutman]

WHAT THE HELL. That roster is huge. How come we don't get anything like that in America? :mad:

[Vietnamese Crippler]

But you don't live in America :roll:

[Vietnamese Crippler]

And because wrestling isn't as huge here as it is in Japan? :-\

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Oh, and Kapoutman, just to rub it in.

500 slots to make created wrestlers and managers. The ability to make and customize referees. Make and change logos, create feds, and design rings.... Yeah, this game is the shit.

[Loose Cannon]

what system and where do I find this for purchase?

[What Would Kevin Do?]

It's ps2, but you need a ps2 that can play Japanese games (IE, Japanese, fliptop modded, etc.)

I ordered mine off http://www.play-asia.com

[Loose Cannon]

hmmm, my brother has a PS2, but I don't know if it can play Japanese games. Is there like a site in English where I can check this game out?

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Also, I think someone in the WWE needs to start using the John Woo, and the head in tights piledriver :)

[Kapoutman]

But you don't live in America :roll:

I live in America. You live in the United States.

[Loose Cannon]

Holy shit @ all those American guys. I've never played a Firepro before, but it seems to have a cult following from what I've read over the years.

[Loose Cannon]

Andre :cool:

http://www.spike.co.jp/fr/images/img_outline/out3_img_02.gif

[Vietnamese Crippler]

I live in America. You live in the United States.

Quiet, Frenchy :o

[Fignuts]

Some created rings:

WWF
http://members.cox.net/goodreverend/wwf85.jpg

EC-dub
http://members.cox.net/goodreverend/ecw.jpg

TNA
http://members.cox.net/goodreverend/tna2003.jpg

ROH
http://members.cox.net/goodreverend/roh.jpg

[Loose Cannon]

Fignuts pretend you are trying to sell this game to me. Tell me some cool features and stuff it has that makes it different from the other wrestling games. Keep in mind, I've never played a Fire Pro G before.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Eh, I'm not Fig, but I'll start.

Huge Roster, tons of CAW slots for creating wrestlers and managers. Some wrestlers do need to have their move set edited, and you have to use a CAW slot for that, but there are 500 of them, so not a big deal.

Create ring/fed/"factions", referees, titles.

The Canadian Destroyer is in, and looks slick.

Octagon style UFC matches, and from what I hear, striking only matches.

Death matches (Including barbwire ropes, exploding rings, florescent bulbs, etc.)

The ability to do anywhere from 1 on 1 to 4 on 4 in almost all match types. Furthermore, you can set it to elimination for Survivor Series esque matches, and can do handicap matches in any increment.

There's also tournaments, leagues, team battles, and Battle Royals (Can be set to over the top, pin and submission only, endless (defeated people don't leave) and timed, where you can pic at what times people enter. Unfortunately, it's still only 8 people per match, so no Rumble type match.

In depth CAW, including durability of specific body parts, move paramaters (ala, striking, supex, submission, stretch, flying, etc... There's 12 each on offense and defense) Also, exstensive logic editing. Also, if you have one (which I don't, but I'm going to buy one) you can use one of those programs to download saves, and people make huge edit packs. For example, someone is working on an Edit pack of the Raw roster.. He's gotten a few done... Here's what they look like...
http://axisgaming.net/caw/firepro/homecoming.JPG

Then there's Criticals, which are great. Basically, if I recall, there are 5 critical categories that a wrestler can have. It's either Finisher only, submission, technical, suplex, and strike. Basically, once that's assigned, those moves can critical. They aren't totally "random" per say, as someone actually tried to right an explanation of how they happen, but they happen at random times... IE, you can start a match against a shoot fight, get caught with a hard right hook, and be out. Also, if you're someone who has a technical counter, and you counter a powerbomb into a sunset flip, it may critical them, giving you the win.

Some people complain about the sprite based graphics.. I don't mind them, makes CAW easier, and allows for more people. The only other major problem, besides the learning curve, is striking... Striking takes awhile to get down because you have to be a specific distance from them, and on the same level. So if you're to close, you'll miss, etc.

If you're a person who likes simming matches ( I Don't, but some do) FP is pretty damn good for that to.

Also, the ability to interupt moves is nice. It's not as annoying as DOR 2 where you can get knocked down by someone else doing a move to someone else either. You can basically stop moves with strikes and flying attacks and running attacks and holds... GOod shit.... Back in firepro D, a friend of mine and I were playing it, I was a CAW of Rhyno, he was someone, and we were fighting Goldberg and someone... GOldie had him up for the jackhammer, and I gored Goldie mid move, criticaling him...Good shit.

If you haven't already, check out some of the videos on the Firepro website. If ya have questions, feel free to ask, but I don't know what else to cover..

WAIT!

You can make a bear.

Not a crappy looking Bear either, but a real bear, with fur and shit! Come on, you know you want to beat up someone using a bear.

[Loose Cannon]

Thanks a lot bro. Yea, I'm a person that doesn't really care about graphics. I've said to people lots of times, I'd rather have more people in a ring, then have less with better graphics. And this game sports a 4 vs 4 all at once, so that's awesome.

Couple more ?'s

Is there a career mode?

Is there run-ins? Like does your faction help you out?

Is there weapons?

That's pretty cool you can get Angle, Cena and HHH in the game.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Thanks a lot bro. Yea, I'm a person that doesn't really care about graphics. I've said to people lots of times, I'd rather have more people in a ring, then have less with better graphics. And this game sports a 4 vs 4 all at once, so that's awesome.

Couple more ?'s

Is there a career mode?

Is there run-ins? Like does your faction help you out?

Is there weapons?

That's pretty cool you can get Angle, Cena and HHH in the game.

I think they took career mode out of this one.... In retrospect, that's not really a "bad" thing though. Unless you can read Japanese, a career mode is pretty bad as it's mainly still pictures and and writing between matches.

No run-ins unfortunately... The "faction" thing is new, and from what I can tell, it's mainly used to categorize people inside the feds.

There are weapons. I know from Z there was a chair, table piece, sledge hammer, kendo stick, and I think one or two other things... I think there was like a two by four, and a bat wrapped in barbwire.. I THINK. Weapons are different then most games... There are three different strieks ( a jab, a side type swing, and an overhead type swing.) Also, they'll stay on the ground. So while it doesn't do much damage, if you can get like 5 chairs (Weapon limit for onscreen is 7 I believe) You can do moves onto them, even though it doesn't really hurt more, it looks nice.

Yeah, within reason, you can pretty much create anyone. Especially now since you can sort of edit hair, where as before the face models all had set hair as well. The only thing that's difficult to recreate in FP games are tatoos, but hey, no one is perfect.

What else, what else.... I want mine to come today damn it....

Grappling is TOTALLY timing based. You walk into each other to grapple, and you need to hit the buttons at the right time. Button pounding will just screw you over. Grapple attack wise, You have square, then squar with up, down, left/right. Same thing with X and O. Then you also have a square and X move. So that's about 13 front grapples.. If it's the same, then there's only 5 from behind.

Move list is a tad odd. For example, there's no verta-breaker, but there is a top rope hurricuranna to the outside... So yeah, really assorted.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Oh, there's also a fork and a sytch for weapons, but they only show up in actual grapple holds... IE, there's a ground move where you can pull out a sycth and rub it across their face...

And besides Poison mist, there's also a fire spit :)

[Nowhere Man]

God, I wish I had a modded PS2. Still, I can get my Fire Pro fix anyway.

(fires up his trusty SNES Emulator to play some SFPWX-Premium)

[Fignuts]

Just another thing to add to the grappling aspect...

You have to move from weak moves to medium, then to strong. It's not like smackdown, where you can just powerbomb and piledrive your opponent from the outset. You have to actually wear down your opponent first. That's not to say that once in a while you can't pull off a strong move from the start. But 90% of the time it will get reversed. It's this method which gives the matches a much more realistic pace, and makes firepro closer to an actual wrestling sim than anything else out there, with the exception possibly being KOC. Made by the same company, I might add.

However, firepro's biggest draw over the years hasn't been it's stellar gameplay, or deep roster. It's been the Edit mode. It's called edit and not caw, because you can edit or create just about everything in the game, from rings, belts, promotions, factions, wrestlers, managers, and even referees. The caw itself is easily the greatest ever created. Now you're probably thinking how a 2d sprite wrestling game can possibly have the best CAW. Well visually all the other wrestling games are ahead of firepro's caw.(although you can recognize instantly who a caw is in firepro. look at that Angle above.) It's in every other category that Firepro's caw is hundreds of miles ahead of everyone else. First off, the moveset is larger than any american game. By almost 1,000 moves at that. There is no vertebraker, but that's because no one to my knowledge does the move in japan. Besides, there are moves in here that make the Vertebraker about as exciting as an armdrag.

Beyond the incredible moveset, you have the profile page where you adjust the strength of each individual bodypart. For example, for Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit, you would set Neck Strength to low. This little detail adds a whole new level of strategy to the game. Targeting any body part for a submission isn't a good idea. You had better know what your opponents strengths are before going for a sub victory. You can also assign special skills to your wrestler. Such as "guts" which makes your fighter almost impossible to beat by submission, or "one-hit finisher" which is self explanitory.

The other area which puts firepro far and beyond any other game is the CPU logic. While most games just let you choose what style of wrestling the CPU will act around, fire pro lets you determine how often your wrestler will use every move in his/her arsenal via pie graphs. This lets you duplicate EXACTLY what your wrestler would do in ANY situation.

Finally the other great thing about fire pro is the internet community of fans. Go on a Halo message board. Or even Smackdown. Most people there would as soon spit on you as help you. But the FPC is far more helpful and more than willing to lend a hand. Consider this: Upon getting the game, several people decided to throw up translations and answer questions rather than spend a few days playing the game they had waited over 6 months for.

And as far as the language barrier goes, it's really not an issue. There are already translation guides up as I said, and after a while you won't even need them, as navigating the menu's will be second nature.

[Fignuts]

God, I wish I had a modded PS2. Still, I can get my Fire Pro fix anyway.

(fires up his trusty SNES Emulator to play some SFPWX-Premium)

Not to burst your bubble but that's like comparing Super Mario Bros. to Mario 64

[What Would Kevin Do?]

I criticaled someone with the head in the tights piledriver...WHOOOOOO!!!!

[CYCLOPTERSAURUS]

I criticaled someone with the head in the tights piledriver...WHOOOOOO!!!!

I just got criticaled with a slap from Abdulla the Butcher as Giant Baba in the octagon (err...not exactly an octagon this time around, but you get my drift)

[Fignuts]

"Very this it is the professional wrestling game which we has anticipated! And so on with it is something which you exult dances boisterously."--Japanese Gaming Mag

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Whoo! Had a 32 man tourny, including a CAW of Angle and HBK. Angle got taken out by Yugi Nagata... HBK won after a critical when he superkicked Toshiaki Kawada... Good stuff.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I can't play legit imports and no warez group has released this yet.... :(

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Holy shit, check out this guys edits.... This guy is badass.

http://spaces.msn.com/members/yarukizero-fpr/

[Fignuts]

Yeah I saw that. Incredible edits.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

LOL

He made Mega Man :lol:

[#BROKEN Hasney]

YES! Found it. And with a partial translation to boot!

[Nowhere Man]

Not to burst your bubble but that's like comparing Super Mario Bros. to Mario 64

True, but for those of us who don't have a modded PS2, it's a decent (though lacking in terms of options) substitute.

[Fignuts]

You should get yourself a Gameboy Advance. The older models are pretty cheap, now, and it's worth it just for the Fire Pro games alone.

[Nowhere Man]

I totally forgot they had Fire Pro on the GBA. Now I finally have an excuse to get one. :y:

[Xero]

Holy fucking bump Batman. :shifty:

You should get yourself a Gameboy Advance. The older models are pretty cheap, now, and it's worth it just for the Fire Pro games alone.
I just started playing FPWA (1) for GBA yesterday. I've had it since 2001, but fucking hated it because of the system. I didn't know how to counter, attack correctly, etc. Once I read a short FAQ... Holy living shit. Best wrestling game I have ever played. EVER. EEEEVER. So fucking deep.

That said, should I go out and get the second one for GBA? Is it worth the upgrade?

Also, would it be worth my while to get FPWD or this one imported? Neither my Dreamcast or PS2 are modded, but I'd be willing to pay for a boot disk.

Edit: ALSO, how hard is it to do it in Japanese? I suppose there aren't any English translations in-game.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Holy fucking bump Batman. :shifty:


I just started playing FPWA (1) for GBA yesterday. I've had it since 2001, but fucking hated it because of the system. I didn't know how to counter, attack correctly, etc. Once I read a short FAQ... Holy living shit. Best wrestling game I have ever played. EVER. EEEEVER. So fucking deep.

That said, should I go out and get the second one for GBA? Is it worth the upgrade?

Also, would it be worth my while to get FPWD or this one imported? Neither my Dreamcast or PS2 are modded, but I'd be willing to pay for a boot disk.

Edit: ALSO, how hard is it to do it in Japanese? I suppose there aren't any English translations in-game.

I haven't had an issue with the Japanese at all. Granted, I know some. However, they have translations out the ass on gamefaq and fireproclub. As far as buying the new one for PS2, I'd say go for it, but I don't know what your money situation is. If you have some extra cash, I'd recommend it. If you thinkg FPWA was the greatest wrestling game ever, than yeah, I'd say go for it. I won't say it's better than the new Smackdown, but I wll say it's totally different.

[Xero]

Truthfully I have more fun with FPWA than SvR.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Truthfully I have more fun with FPWA than SvR.

I'd say go for it then.

[Fignuts]

Bumping this shit.

There is now an English Translation patch which translates almost all the menus in the game. Only Match make mode is untranslated yet. And I'm sure he'll release an updated patch that covers that too. You can find it on Fire Pro R forums at Fireproclub.com

Very easy to install as all you need are the patch, ppf-o-matic, and dvddecrypter. The last 2 are free software programs that you can find on google, and are less than 1 megabite.

You will also need a blank dvd-r disk.

Seems like a lot, but the whole process takes about 15 minutes, and you're ready to play firepro R in English.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Goddamnit Fignuts, now I have no excuse not to look into getting my PS2 modded :mad:

[Blitz]

:( I want this game.

[thecc]

Last month I got fire Pro D for like $7 and i've been playing nonstop. I realy am considering getting my ps2 modded just so I can play fire pro R.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Mods are fairly chear and easy. I had a Japanese PS2, but I recently modded my American. I bought the fliptop and Swap Magic disc for like under 50 bucks on ebay. Installing it was easy as hell (Unscrew a some screws, take off the otp, unscrew two more screws, swap the lid, rescrew everything.

Also just recently used the English patch. Badass. Although it doesn't have the main menu translated in mine for some reason that's no big deal IMO... Apparently in the next patch he's going to rename all the moves..

Yeesh.

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Also, I'm playing this on an LCD tv now, so I have to readjust my timing... Unbelievably difficult.

[Fignuts]

I KNOW

I was playing on my roomates big screen TV, and then I moved and played on a smaller one, and the timing changed comletely.

My advice would be to use your ears instead of your eyes. There is a sound like the wrestlers feet hitting the mat as they lock up. Immediatly AFTER the sound, press the button. Ideally, you want to time it so the button is pressed just as the sound ends, but thats if you're relearning higher levels. Start on 1, and work your way back up.

[Destor]

I'm gonna look into this.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

YES! Found it. And with a partial translation to boot!


Bumping this shit.

There is now an English Translation patch which translates almost all the menus in the game. Only Match make mode is untranslated yet. And I'm sure he'll release an updated patch that covers that too. You can find it on Fire Pro R forums at Fireproclub.com

Very easy to install as all you need are the patch, ppf-o-matic, and dvddecrypter. The last 2 are free software programs that you can find on google, and are less than 1 megabite.

You will also need a blank dvd-r disk.

Seems like a lot, but the whole process takes about 15 minutes, and you're ready to play firepro R in English.

Sounds the same as what I've already got which was out when I downloaded it. Hoping they make it 100% though!
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