
and Throwback Entertainment (the current Acclaim IP holders).

In all revisions, all references to TitanSports, LJN, and Sculptured Software are removed, replaced with WWE Inc. This works on both revisions.įinally, as the Plug & Play unit omits the NES' Select button, there's now no way for the player to gain a "Second Wind" (regaining your entire health back) even though the AI opponents still can. Like the other MSI Entertainment Plug & Plays, a basic controller test exists playing Nice Code music, accessed by holding A + B while turning a console on. CPU selection menu and jumping straight to the mode select. Two-player mode is disabled by dummying out the Player vs. However, there are a number of changes to in-game text that cause corruption to the graphics at times. This contains a 1MB ROM and has the theme music for the new characters.

This contains a 2MB ROM, with the unused 1MB containing a copy of the MSI Ms. Revision 1 has a 2017 copyright date, and a code of 092018 on the box (Randy Savage is wearing purple on the box).Unless otherwise specified, any changes here are common to both revisions. In both cases, the character portraits are redone (with Warrior’s actually coming from his wrestler select portrait in WWF WrestleMania Challenge), but the actual sprites are just palette swaps.Īs well as the changes from the original NES cartridge, there are two known revisions of the plug & play. The Mountie's removal appears to be because of an agreement between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the WWF/E not to use the Mountie character in Canada as it was considered defamatory to actual mounties. Hulk's removal is a combination of not wanting the licensing issues regarding "Hulk" and Marvel, as well as him being on the outs with the WWE at the time. As well as changing all WWF logos to resemble the "Old School" WWE logo used in branding for vintage-themed merch, both Hulk Hogan and The Mountie were removed, and were replaced with The Ultimate Warrior and Razor Ramon respectively.
