This is my personal mod for WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role.
Unlike most other mods for wrestling games, it doesn't have a common theme and isn't based on any particular year in WWE's history. Rather it's mostly the standard SD2 roster (1999-2000) with a few changes that I personally want to have in my game and with various gameplay hacks.
Note that entrances are intentionally disabled in this patch as I never use them and I'm not interested in adding those for new and edited wrestlers at the moment.
The recommended way to play this mod is to use the Duckstation emulator on Windows or Android. Playing on the original PS1 hardware is not supported at the moment.
The making and continuous development of this patch is possible thanks to the tutorials, tools and other resources as well as general support from the following members of the SmackDown 2 and broader wrestling game modding community: 80las, DannySpeedcore, eatrawmeat391, ERI619, Grix, JNMM, karlos4live, KendrickSD2, Lawzy, NMCM, RagDas, Ranjay, Sean O Connor, Taz1096 and yumboy11. Huge thanks to all you guys, especially to Taz1096 who pretty much became a co-author of the patch and contributed to it almost as much as I did prior to the release of the version 1.0!
If you want to support the development of the mod and get early access to updates and exclusive features, check out my Patreon. See here for the full list of content that is currently available on Patreon.
Main features
- Full Roster
- New Wrestlers (including Bret Hart, British Bulldog, Jeff Jarret, Owen Hart, Raven, Vader, William Regal and others)
- New CAW Parts (including Goldberg, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Rob Van Dam, Scott Hall, Sid Vicious and others)
- New Moves
- Inverted Moves
- New Move Names
- Big Show and Ken Shamrock are fully playable
- All wrestlers, standard CAW parts, moves and entrance themes are unlocked from the beginning of the game
- Finisher system upgrade: all wrestlers (including CAWs) have 2 finishers and you can use running and turnbuckle grapples as finishers
- Instant match skip in the Season mode
- Superstar select hack: at any time during any match, any player who does not already control a character can take control of any computer-controlled character
- Match rule restrictions removed: you can enable and disable any rule for any match without limitations (e.g. enabling KO and Give Up in Cage or Special Referee matches, disabling Ring Out and enabling Weapons in Singles matches, having matches that can be won by KO or Give Up only, etc.). Keep in mind that some options might not work and others might cause the game to crash
- Manager restrictions removed: you can have one manager manage multiple wrestlers and enter managers into Rankings
- The Women's Championship is replaced with the Southern Championship to account for the fact that most of the female wrestlers in the game have been replaced with male ones. The Southern Championship is a real title that was defended in Memphis Championship Wrestling, a WWF developmental territory, back in 2000-2001. Its purpose was similar to the modern NXT Championship. Among the Southern champions were Jerry Lawler, "K-Kwik" Ron Killings, William Regal and Joey Abs
More info and full changelogs by versions are here.
