La Fin Du Tour: Virtual Pro Wrestling Alpha

La Fin Du Tour is the first ROM hack attempted for WCW/nWo World Tour. There is no specific concept to this hack, although some might construe this as a WWF New Generation hack, but that’s probably a misnomer. This serves as a showcase of the research that went into World Tour after the release of SUMMIT, achieving the following:

* Backporting of animations (just one — Austin’s taunt)

* Creation of new movesets

* Changing of bio information (e.g. names, weights, heights)

* Resurrection of body types that are currently locked away, which would later become available in VPW64 (e.g. Rickson Gracie’s MMA body type)

* Resurrection of characters that are currently buried in World Tour that would later appear in VPW64

*Movement of characters between stables, which has a knock-on effect on the League Challenge mode

* Creation of new costumes via manipulation of costume data and importing of new textures and polygons

* New portraits drawn for new roster members in the style of the original game

The following is the list of character replacements:

* Shawn Michaels replaces Eric Bischoff

* Stone Cold replaces Buff Bagwell

* Undertaker replaces Scott Norton

* Bret Hart replaces Tiger Jeet Singh

* Ken Shamrock replaces Chris Benoit

* Andre the Giant replaces Fake Sting

* Rickson Gracie replaces Shunji Takano

* Dr. Death ‘replaces’ Koji Kitao (this is a reskin; Kitao already used Dr. Death’s moveset)