Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2: Oudou Keishou/Leftover Assets

This is a sub-page of Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2: Oudou Keishou.

With Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2: Oudou Keishou being worked on at the same time as WWF WrestleMania 2000, which itself had some leftovers from WCW/nWo Revenge, a lot of files from both projects ended up making their way into the game files, and were forgotten about.

WWF WrestleMania 2000 Leftovers

Revenge-styled The Rock

Early in the development of WrestleMania 2000, the graphics for the wrestlers were all set to be similar in look to the graphics in WCW/nWo Revenge. Some graphics of this era survived and can be found in the files, including three graphics for an early The Rock including his face, neck and back of head graphics.

Smoking Skull Title Belt

The Smoking Skull title belt is present in the game files. Both a left and a right half graphic can be found in the files, but they are both the same with the left graphic being flipped horizontally for the right graphic.

Textures
Extracted Graphic	Mirrored

Surprisingly, the graphic for the belt in WM2000 does have a minor difference to the graphic in VPW2. The two belt snaps on the bottom are moved down by a pixel in WM2000, and there are also some pixel color changes around the top two belt snaps, all of which can be seen by zooming in on this animated GIF:

Dev Self-Portraits

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: I was told these graphics could have been from either Animastar (Dreamcast) or World Fishing (PC), and likely are not actually self portraits. This needs further investigation.

Leftover from WWF WrestleMania 2000, these three unused graphics appear to be self-portraits of devs of the game. These graphics also go unused in this game.

(Source: VPW2 Freem Discord; Images provided by user Saga, tools used to retrieve images created by Freem)

WCW/nWo Revenge Leftovers

Costume Editor Graphics

Many of the menu graphics from the costume editor can be found. These four graphics are used in WCW/nWo Revenge in the Costume Editor...

To do:
Check if these Color label graphics are present in the files of Revenge and World Tour. They likely are not in VPW64.

...However, the final 3 graphics from the Costume Editor, text labels for 3 costume color choosers, are leftovers that have been entirely unused. To explain briefly:

The Costume Editor in WCW/nWo Revenge does not have text labels for its two color pickers.
Virtual Pro-Wrestling 64 has three color picker slots available, but the text in the editor is in Japanese.
WCW vs. nWo: World Tour has a Costume Editor, although it is not accessible without hacking and as such, is a leftover from Virtual Pro-Wrestling 64.
- When accessed, all the text labels are missing from the menu.

Therefore, all three of these graphics were likely created and localized for WCW vs. nWo: World Tour before the Costume Editor was fully cut from the game, and somehow or another they found their way into the Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2: Oudou Keishou (and WWF WrestleMania 2000) game files.