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NBA Jam Tournament Edition
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This is an attempt to get the NBA Jam Tournament Edition source code into
a buildable state.

The original code is available from:
https://github.com/historicalsource/nba-jam-tournament-edition

Currently, the original, non-Tournament Edition NBA Jam is not accounted for.

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The Future of VPW2 freem Edition
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VPW2 freem Edition has reached the "sunset" phase. What that means is the
next release will be the last one for an indefinite period of time.

There are a few reasons that make this course of action the "right" one
in my mind.

1) I am not particularly enjoying the process anymore.
Back in 2018, when I started the project, it was exciting to work on, as it

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the wrestletopia control scheme
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wrestletopia's controls are heavily inspired by the AKI Corporation
pro-wrestling games on the N64, but expanded.

MAJOR TODO: list everything possible. there are a LOT of controls.

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movement is d-pad or left stick, both work
taunting is right stick

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wrestletopia "new submission" system
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todo:
- don't reward button mashing, you need to be deliberate
- some submissions can result in pinfalls (e.g. figure 4 leglock)
- transitions/reversals
- striking during some submissions (if limbs are free)
- manual rope escape for matches where rope escape deducts points
- double team submissions (e.g. one person does boston crab, other does camel clutch)
- body part damage is tied to "effectiveness"

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sources:

• http://www.pantalytron.com/blog7.php/an-evening-with-sim-city
• http://pantalytron.com/blog7.php/a-morning-with-sim-city
• http://pantalytron.com/blog7.php/some-more-sim-city-snes

r.i.p. to these files:

• http://pantalytron.com/media/blogs/blog/Disassembles/sim%20city%20v01.zip
• http://pantalytron.com/media/blogs/blog/Disassembles/sim%20city%20v02.zip

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Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2 freem Edition | Changelog
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2024/yy/zz, a.k.a. post-2023/07/30 (next version progress; not yet available)
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I'm on semi-break, as I need to work on other things that will eventually
benefit this hack. Thanks for your patience.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

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if i had infinite time and money, here are some unrealistic things i'd like to do

- Mesen, but for PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16
- port MUCOM88 for Neo-Geo
 - https://www.ancient.co.jp/~mucom88/
 - https://onitama.tv/mucom88/
- write Neo-Geo sound driver for BambooTracker
 - https://github.com/rerrahkr/BambooTracker
- actually finish up various retrogame dev projects
 - NES corelib

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AKI polygon format
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by S.K. Styles and jordyad (doc by freem)

general file format:
* header
* point/vertex data
* face data
this format is mad simple

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WM2K/VPW2 <-> No Mercy Face Conversion
Obviously this will not be the BEST process, but here we go...

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[WM2K/VPW2 to No Mercy]
1) resize existing 32x64 face to 32x53
2) resize canvas to 32x64
3) Move face so that the chin bottom is one pixel from the bottom of the image.
4) Perform manual corrections

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vpw2 default costume data
* located in "default sram" (VPW2 File ID 0x006B)
* each costume is 49 (0x31) bytes?
  therefore each wrestler's full costume set is 49*4 (196, 0xC4) bytes.

00 - Body Type
01 - Skin Color
02 - Ring Attire Item
03 - Ring Attire Color 1
04 - Ring Attire Color 2