Fire Pro Wrestling D English Translation v1.1 - Fixed Rings and Music

Fire Pro Wrestling D English Patch v1.1

A small fix release for the English translation of Fire Pro Wrestling D. The save format is unchanged, and the patches apply to the same original disc as v1.0.

What's fixed

• Ring setting in match setup: most ring names showed as fragments ("JAPAN", "N", "ToryBIG JAPAN") or wrong entries, in every English patch. All 18 now read correctly, with the real names in the Real Names patches.
• Two other names damaged by the same bug: the country Tonga and the first music title.
• Match Music titles: two ran off the field and are shorter now: "FujiHawkEggplant", and "Musashi Dynamic" ("Inoki Dynamic" in the Real Names patches).

How to patch

Download Fire.Pro.Wrestling.D.English.Patch.v1.1.zip below. It has the same 5 patches as v1.0. Patch your original disc, not a copy that already has v1.0 on it.

Alternative: Fire.Pro.Wrestling.D.English.Patch.v1.1.UDP-Patches.zip has the same 5 patches as .dcp files for Universal Dreamcast Patcher (tested with v2.1.8). It patches a GDI, CUE/BIN or CHD in one step.

How to Patch has the steps for both methods. You need the 50-track BIN/CUE dump of the Japanese disc (T-18805M). Your Fire Pro Wrestling D (Japan) (Track 50).bin must be 112,009,296 bytes, CRC32 c0114432. README.txt in the zip has the checksums of each patched image.

The patches use the same save files as the Japanese game, so your saves should carry over, but that hasn't been tested yet.

Fire Pro Wrestling D (Dreamcast) English Translation v1.0

Fire Pro Wrestling D English Patch v1.0

The first release of a complete English translation of Fire Pro Wrestling D, Spike's 2001 pro wrestling game for the Dreamcast, released only in Japan.

Everything the player needs is in English, and the game has been tested in Flycast over several rounds, including every Victory Road ending. The network mode could only be checked offline, because Sega's servers are gone. If anything looks wrong, please open an issue with a screenshot.

Screenshots · Player's guide (controls, every mode, Edit Mode, all 220 wrestlers and their move lists, secrets)

What's translated

• Every menu and mode: One Night Match, Tournament, League, Elimination, Battle Royal, Title Match, Victory Road Kai, Options and Memory Card, with all help lines, messages and match settings
• The 220-wrestler roster (names, nicknames, profiles), in a real-names and a parody-names version
• All 1,000 move names
• All of Edit Mode: Edit Wrestler (appearance, skills, parameters, moves, CPU logic), promotions, referees and belts
• The network mode's DreamPassport 3 browser: 785 messages, its menus and settings, mail and chat screens, the upload form, and 13 sheets of buttons, titles and keyboard keys redrawn in English
• Text drawn as pictures: the main menu buttons, profile tags, elimination boards and result banners

Which patch?

Download Fire.Pro.Wrestling.D.English.Patch.v1.0.zip below. It contains 5 patches. Pick one:

Patch	What you get
Fire Pro Wrestling D (English) (Real Names)	The English translation, with the real names of the wrestlers the characters stand for.
Fire Pro Wrestling D (English) (Parody Names)	The English translation, with the game's own parody names for the wrestlers.
Fire Pro Wrestling D (English) (Real Names) (All Unlocked)	The Real Names translation with everything unlocked from the start: what L+R+Y at the main menu or winning every Victory Road title opens (Credits, the full edit limit, all elimination teams), plus the 100 downloadable moves and the 50 downloadable wrestlers built in (no memory card needed).
Fire Pro Wrestling D (English) (Parody Names) (All Unlocked)	The Parody Names translation with everything unlocked from the start, the 100 downloadable moves and the downloadable wrestlers built in.
Fire Pro Wrestling D (Japan) (All Unlocked)	The original Japanese game with everything unlocked from the start, the 100 downloadable moves and the downloadable wrestlers built in.

The downloadable moves W00-W56 and the 50 wrestlers are what Spike released for download; moves W57-W99 were backported from Fire Pro Wrestling Z by the Fire Pro community. Thanks to the community for preserving the downloads and for the backports. The wrestlers are in edit group 4 (Ext Data 4), so your own edit wrestlers in groups 1-3 load beside them. The (All Unlocked) patches won't save over a file on your memory card unless that file was loaded from it first ("Can't overwrite: load it first."), so insert your card before switching on.

How to patch

You need your own copy of the original Japanese disc. Disc images are not provided here.

• Game: Fire Pro Wrestling D (Japan), serial T-18805M, a 50-track BIN/CUE dump (Redump).
• The main track must match: Fire Pro Wrestling D (Japan) (Track 50).bin, 112009296 bytes, CRC32 c0114432,
  SHA-1 c6037b763e59b801101b9538cbf3ec406e14490b.

Each patch comes as three files: a .xdelta for track 50, a (Track 03).xdelta for track 3, and
a .cue. The simplest way needs only the two .xdelta files:

1. Make a copy of your disc folder, so the original stays as it is.
2. Apply the main .xdelta to (Track 50).bin and the (Track 03).xdelta to (Track 03).bin
   with an xdelta tool:
   • Rom Patcher JS runs in your web browser.
   • Delta Patcher is a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux.
   • On the command line: xdelta3 -d -s "Fire Pro Wrestling D (Japan) (Track 50).bin" "patch.xdelta" "patched.bin"
3. In the copied folder, replace those two tracks with the patched files, keeping the original
   file names. The other 48 tracks stay as they are.
4. Open the copied folder's original .cue in your emulator. Tested in Flycast.

To keep several versions in one folder, sharing the 48 unchanged tracks, use the patch's .cue
instead. Name the patched files as that .cue does, for example
Fire Pro Wrestling D (English) (Real Names).bin and
Fire Pro Wrestling D (English) (Real Names) (Track 03).bin, and open it.

The patches use the same save files as the Japanese game, so your saves should carry over, but that hasn't been tested yet.

Known issues

• A few wrestler names are cut short in the wrestler list.
• The network mode's online pages came from Sega's servers and can't be reached anymore; only the browser itself, its settings and the offline screens are translated and checked.
• Left in Japanese on purpose: staff credits, decorative art (logos, shirts, signs, ring art), the intro movie's captions, and the kana/kanji keys of the name-entry and browser keyboards (the ABC page covers English names).
• Not tested on real hardware.

AI assisted with the translation.