Natsume Championship Wrestling

Natsume Championship Wrestling
Also known as: Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling (JP) Developer: Natsume Publishers: Masaya (JP), Natsume (US) Platform: SNES Released in JP: July 16, 1993 Released in US: June 1994 Released in EU: February 18, 2011 (Wii Virtual Console) Released in AU: February 18, 2011 (Wii Virtual Console) This game has unused playable characters. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has regional differences.

Natsume Championship Wrestling is the US release of Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling, an All Japan Pro Wrestling game with an all-original roster (while keeping the AJPW movesets), back in the days when Japanese wrestling was only known to tape-trading, Wrestling Observer-reading smarks.

Hidden Credit

This developer credit is located at x118C9 in Natsume Championship Wrestling and x118D3 in Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling. "T.NOH" is Tsuyoshi Noh.

Osaka Natsume Software T.NOH

The same credit can also be found in the majority of the SNES' Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling games.

Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling Leftovers

Data for four of the wrestlers from Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling remain in the code of Natsume Championship Wrestling and can be accessed with Pro Action Replay (PAR) codes. Enter one of the codes below, where xx is one of the below values.

Player	Pro Action Replay (PAR) Code
Player 1	7E11ACxx
Player 2	7E11AExx
Player 3	7E11B0xx
Player 4	7E11B2xx

Wrestler	Screenshot	Value
Mitsuharu Misawa		03
The Patriot		0A
Giant Baba		0B
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi		0E

(Source: BigBossman at gamehacking.org)

Regional Differences

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Japan	North America