Fire Pro Returns coming

[Cosmic Crippler]

I read they have Rampage and Fedor in there. Have you used them yet?

[JamieOD]

I used Rampage and he has Power Bombs!

Also, I just had a great match between Cima (myself) and Kenta. I had everything in control but couldn't put Kenta away with the Schwein. Kenta fought back and used the kicks combos and Busaiku Knee Kick several times. He knocked me out with the Go 2 Sleep. Still it was awesome to play through.

[Scott Fire]

Is there an official release date for the US version?

[gamemaster]

December 11

[Scott Fire]

gamemaster said:

December 11

Cool, thanks. I'm definetly going to give this game a go.

[pikemojo]

I will definitely be picking it up as well. Or asking for it for Christmas.

[JamieOD]

If I ever fully understand the edit mode before the English translation is out I'll try my best to do a CotG edit.

[Shon Maxx]

I saw this on Wikipedia:

Edit Slots: On top of the game's roster of 327 pre-made wrestlers from real-life wrestling promotions, players are allowed to build and store up to 500 highly-customizable wrestler edits at a time. That's compared to the 216 edit slots made available in Fire Pro Wrestling D and Fire Pro Wrestling Z. So, in Returns, you can have up to 827 wrestlers to choose from.

This may be a stupid question, but I don't like to assume. Does that mean we can create 500 wrestlers? If so, wow! We LOW (and GWF) fans will definitely need to exchange notes so we can create our favorite LOW wrestlers that won't appear in the game (I'm guessing we won't see Gotch or Lewis, but I'm hoping to be wrong).



Take care,

Jay

[JamieOD]

Yes, you can create 500 wrestlers. You can also create 10 refs, 10 championships, 6 rings and 6 logos. You can also add in your own feds and factions to place the roster. So if you are a puro fan who wants to keep the game roster up to date you can do it (an example I did was rearranging the Dragon Gate roster with my edits to have the current factions).

I think both Gotch's are in the game.

[Scott Fire]

Is there a place to see the entire roster for the game?

[BDS]

scottilious said:

Is there a place to see the entire roster for the game?

GameFAQs is BDS' friend.

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
Ryo Saito
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 Brothers
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
HERO! (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 (Big Boss MA-G-MA)
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
Yoji Anjoh (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
Gran Naniwa
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 Rodrigo 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

[Knapik]

holy crap, that's incredible.

[Scott Fire]

That is friggin amazing!

I can't wait till this game comes out. Thanks for posting.

[BDS]

One catch with this - most of these guys don't have the correct name because of copyright issues, so you'll have to go through and rename them all if you want to know who's who. The list I posted is the rename guide, so everyone should match up in game exactly like this, but you'll have to change them yourself.

[Darth Turkish]

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

"I think I just filled the cup" Jay, Jay and Slient Bonb Strike Back

[Knapik]

Ive been playing Fire Pro on the GBA today and it's a blast. The MMA mode is really fun!

[JamieOD]

As a Dragon Gate fan I had a big markout moment in FPR recently. During the Match Maker mode I booked a low card tag team match between the Florida Brothers against Ebessan (aka Kikutaro) and Kushinbou Kamen. Before the match starts I get a message. Apparrently the Flordia Brothers got a last minute addition and it is now a handicap match. Who was the Florida Brothers' new partner. Kensuke Sasaki! Talk about art imitating life*. I couldn't stop laughing as he was even wearing his shorts had the American flag design. Sasaki then went on to clear house when he was tagged in.

*For those who don't know, Kensuke Sasaki was brought into Dragon Gate/Toryumon for a small run as the Florida Brothers' third member. There's a video on Youtube of their match together.

[Knapik]

jamieod said:

As a Dragon Gate fan I had a big markout moment in the game recently. During the Match Maker mode I booked a low card tag team match between the Florida Brothers against Ebessan (aka Kikutaro) and Kushinbou Kamen. Before the match starts I get a message. Apparrently the Flordia Brothers got a last minute addition and it is now a handicap match. Who was the Florida Brothers' new partner. Kensuke Sasaki! Talk about art imitating life*. I couldn't stop laughing as he was even wearing his shorts had the American flag design. Sasaki then went on to clear house when he was tagged in.

*For those who don't know, Kensuke Sasaki was brought into Dragon Gate/Toryumon for a small run as the Florida Brothers' third member. There's a video on Youtube of their match together.

This kind of stuff happens?!?!?! Can you tell us some of the differences between the Game Boy Advance (2001) version and the most recent one? Is there a place I can download this?!

[JamieOD]

I'm talking about Fire Pro Returns, the PS2 one that's getting released over here. I have it on import. Obviously there's a huge upgrade from GBA to PS2. I'm not sure how much the events in Match Maker mode happens. But sometimes someone could get injured or they turn gold for some reason, signalling something. The Sasaki thing just came out of nowhere though. I haven't heard anyone else get it (then again I don't know who else uses the Florida Brothers in FPR)

[Shon Maxx]

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

Was that The Crusher and Bigelow or is that Bam Bam's name in the game?

I see several LOW favorites there (Baba, Anoki, Rikidozan, Brody, Corino, Williams), as well as some future wishes (Karelin, Shamrock, Norton, Bigelow). The name changing doesn't bother me. I did that in the GBA version, and it was pretty easy.

I guess I'll be creating Frank Gotch, Kowalski, Lewis, Severn, and Ox as they are some of my favorites in LOW.



Take care,

Jay