The Nintendo 64 classic WCW/nWo Revenge continues to surprise gamers to this day.
The running grapple wasn’t implemented into the AKI wrestling games until Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 and WWF No Mercy. But it seems that AKI was tinkering with this feature as early as WCW/nWo Revenge in 1998.
Twitter user MelonBread, the creator of the AKI: Did You Know series, recently uncovered running grapples in WCW/nWo Revenge by hacking wrestler’s parameters in-game, tweeting out:
“After all these years … we discover that they’d hidden Running Grapples in WCW/nWo Revenge (including a Diamond Cutter from @RealDDP) … but I should say … you need to hack the wrestler’s Parameters so that the game ‘knows’ that they have a running grapple. That’s how they hid them: they set everyone’s Parameters in such a way that no-one can perform them,” Melonbread said in a series of posts.
This post caught the attention of Diamond Dallas Page, who took to social media to talk about the discovery, tweeting out:
“So my buddy @Melonbread1979 broke open the code for WCW nWo Revenge and found the rumored fourth Diamond Cutter. A running attack. So wild to see…hidden since 1998. Pretty dope to find something after 25 years. Had to share *bang emoji* *diamond emoji* DDP,” Diamond Dallas Page said in a post.
Ultra Pro Wrestling is coming in 2024
For those who miss the days of wrestling video games with the AKI engine, a spiritual successor to WWF No Mercy is on its way. Ultra Pro Wrestling is scheduled to launch in late 2024. You can check out an interview with head developer Sam Vallely in the embedded video below.
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