[BETA RELEASE] It All Begins Again... (April 2004)

[IDOL]

 "It All Begins Again"... April 2004 Real World Mod by iDOL

 

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Ever had the itch to book WWE following the 2004 WWE Draft? I recently have, which is why I've decided to embark on my latest project entitled "It All Begins... Again!" This mod will be based on my "Ruthless Aggression" TEW 2016 BETA and pick up in April of 2004. A lot has changed in WWE following WrestleMania XX. Brock Lesnar and Goldberg, two of the biggest draws in the company have both left. Lesnar's departure specifically has created a huge hole at the top of Smackdown. In real life WWE addressed this by taking the recently renamed John Bradshaw Layfield and pushing him as the top heel on the blue brand, eventually beating the beloved Eddie Guerrero to embark on a lengthy reign as WWE Champion. Oh, you weren't a fan of that? Well, lucky for you, JBL has only just been repackaged and how much (or little) you decide to push him is up to you!

 

The 2004 draft split up a number of tag teams including La Resistance, as Rene Dupree's move to Smackdown hinted at the start of a singles career for the "French Phenom." The World's Greatest Tag Team also bit the dust, with Shelton Benjamin having recently shocked the world when he defeated Triple H on RAW. In addition to new blood making their way to the top of WWE, within this state of flux there is also a plethora of veterans like Booker T, Rob Van Dam, Test, Billy Gunn, A-Train, and plenty of others just waiting for a shot to mix it up in the main event.

 

And that's just a start for WWE. There are 40 plus promotions to be active at the start of the game world!

 

Starting Promotions: All Japan Pro-Wrestling, All Pro Wrestling, All Star Wrestling, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, Border City Wrestling, Canadian Wrestling Alliance, Championship Wrestling From Florida, Chaotic Wrestling, CHIKARA Pro, Combat Zone Wrestling, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Cyberspace Wrestling Federation, Dramatic Dream Team, East Coast Wrestling Association, Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling, Frontier Wrestling Alliance, Full Impact Pro, International Wrestling Association: Puerto Rico, Internet Wrestling Syndicate, IWA Mid-South, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, Juggalo Championship Wrestling, Kaientai Dojo, New Japan Pro Wrestling, NWA No Limits Wrestling, NWA Upstate, NWA Wildside, Ohio Valley Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Pro Wrestling IRON, Pro Wrestling Zero-One, Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling, Pro-Wrestling NOAH, Ring of Honor, STAMPEDE Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Ultimate Pro Wrestling, World League Wrestling, World Wrestling Council, World Wrestling Entertainment

 

NOTE: Japan and Mexico will be updated to the best of my ability. I do not watch Puro or Lucha Libre, so if anyone knows the time period and would like to help in those areas - feel free to message me.

 

 

What's new in this mod?

• This mod will be using the graphic style of the Real World Sticker/Trading Card Pack Thread. Over the past month I've been pain-stakingly crawling the web and using the Wayback Machine to find time period specific worker images and cutting them as gifs. Though I still have a lot of work to do, I'm close to hitting 2,000 worker images cut (including some agers) and the results have been very appealing in my opinion. The .gif image overlays really bring a new life to the game. (See screenshots below)
• In addition to the worker gif images, I've also created a number of new promotion logos in the same style, and have also decided to overhaul the belt graphics (and possibly the rest of the graphics such as TV Shows and Events)
• All title histories are being converted from real world dates to the dating system TEW uses (for example: Wk 1, January 2004 - Wk 2, January 2004)
• Workers are being gone through and reviewed for any missing or inaccurate body types, home locations, etc... Attributes are also being added for each worker as it is an extremely important part of the game in order to get the locker rooms to function correctly.
• All workers will be given organic bios
• Now that I have Microsoft Access, I will be exporting the mdb file and sorting by stat to see where workers may be over/under ranked and make the changes to better balance the game.
• I plan to add a large number of future workers to account for debuts that have been missed in the previous version of the data, or made in the time since passed.

 

Progress:

 

COMPLETED PROMOTIONS: 36 | YET TO BE COMPLETED: 2 | TOTAL: 38

*Removed from the list to speed up BETA release, may be added in a future update*

 

USA

All Pro Wrestling

Chaotic Wrestling

CHIKARA Pro

Combat Zone Wrestling

Cyberspace Wrestling Federation

East Coast Wrestling Association

Full Impact Pro

International Wrestling Association: Puerto Rico 

IWA Mid-South

Jersey All Pro Wrestling

Juggalo Championshit Wrestling

Lucha Xtreme Wrestling

NWA Florida

NWA No Limits Wrestling

NWA Upstate

NWA Wildside

Ohio Valley Wrestling

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla

Pro Wrestling IRON

Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling

Ring of Honor

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Ultimate Pro Wrestling

World League Wrestling

World Wrestling Council

World Wrestling Entertainment

 

CANADA

Border City Wrestling

Canadian Wrestling Alliance

Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling

Internet Wrestling Syndicate

STAMPEDE Wrestling

 

JAPAN

All Japan Pro-Wrestling

Dramatic Dream Team

Kaientai Dojo

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Pro Wrestling Zero-One

Pro-Wrestling NOAH

 

UK

All Star Wrestling

Frontier Wrestling Alliance

 

MEXICO

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

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PUBLIC BETA RELEASE (BETA 1.1)

"It All Begins Again" (April 2004)
TEW 2020 Mod by iDOL

BETA Release 1.1
Date: March 27, 2024

Change Log:

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- Changed Harley Race's WLW contract from Written/Monthly to Handshake/Per Show
- Changed Ultimate University from Company: APW to Company: UPW
- Added Fox Sports Net to Broadcasters
- Changed Dean Allmark's TNA contract to "On Loan"
- Made Dean Allmark inactive in USA and Europe
- Changed Frankie Sloan's TNA contract to "On Loan"
- Made Frankie Sloan inactive in USA
- Changed Robbie Dynamite's TNA contract to "On Loan"
- Made Robbie Dynamite inactive in USA
- Added loyalty relationship between Dean Allmark and Brian Dixon
- Added (Good) Tag Team chemistry for Kid Kash and Lance Hoyt
- Added (Good) Tag Team chemistry for The Naturals
- Made various edits to Pro Wrestling NOAH's company profile and settings
- Set Face/Heel Divide in NOAH to "loosely enforced" to allow for more heel/heel matches
- Fully edited Tsuoyoshi Kikuchi
- Fully edited Tamon Honda
- Edited NOAH contract of Trevor Rhodes
- Fully edited Takuma Sano
- Fully edited Takeshi Rikio
- Edited NOAH contract of Takeshi Morishima
- Fully edited Takashi Sugiura
- Edited NOAH contract of Superstar Steve
- Edited NOAH contract of Shiro Koshinaka
- Fully edited Shinji Nanba
- Fully edited Ryu Nakata
- Created new .gif image for Ricky Marvin
- Fully edited Ricky Marvin
- Added blood relative relationship between Richard Slinger and Ray Gordy
- Fully edited Richard Slinger
- Fully edited Referee Shuichi Nishinaga
- Fully edited Referee Norihiro Yamamoto
- Fully edited Referee Mighty Inoue
- Increased respect for Julio Dinero
- Decreased power for Balls Mahoney
- Created new .gif image for Naomichi Marufuji
- Fully edited Naomichi Marufuji
- Fully edited Mohammed Yone
- Added "blood relative" relationship between Mitsuo Momota & Rikidozan
- Fully edited Mitsuo Momota
- Edited NOAH contract of Michael Modest
- Fully edited Masashi Aoyagi
- Fully edited Masao Inoue
- Fully edited Makoto Hashi
- Edited NOAH contract of Kotaro Suzuki
- Fully edited Kishin Kawabata
- Fully edited Kentaro Hirakawa
- Fully edited Kenta Kobashi
- Created new .gif image for KENTA
- Fully edited KENTA
- Edited NOAH contract of Jushin Thunder Liger
- Created new .gif image for Jun Izumida
- Fully edited Jun Izumida
- Created new .gif image for Haruka Eigen
- Fully edited Haraku Eigen
- Edited NOAH contract of Donovan Morgan
- Created new .gif image for Daisuke Ikeda
- Fully edited Daisuke Ikeda
- Edited NOAH contract of Bison Smith
- Fully edited Akitoshi Saito
- Created new .gif image for Akira Taue
- Fully edited Akira Taue
- Fully edited 2 Cold Scorpio
- Added Michael Modest to KAOS stable in NOAH
- Imported Kentaro Shiga from MAmmoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for Kentaro Shiga
- Fully edited Kentaro Shiga
- Added starting injury for Kentaro Shiga (Broken Neck)
- Added Kentaro Shiga to BURNING stable in NOAH
- Removed Jun Izumida from STERNNESS stable in NOAH
- Edited STERNNESS members to Babyface
- Set WAVE stable to "Inactive" in NOAH
- Changed Rikio and Morishima's tag team name to "WildII" in NOAH
- Added NOAH contract for Doug Williams
- Added Doug Williams to KAOS stable in NOAH
- Edited NOAH events and created event images
- Decreased Mituharu Misawa's roster size preference to "small"
- Created new logo and banner images for Pro Wrestling NOAH
- Created new .gif image for Referee Miura Kodo
- Fully edited Referee Miura Kodo
- Edited DDT contract of Tomohiko Hashimoto
- Edited DDT contract of Yusuke Inokuma
- Fully edited Yoshihiro Sakai
- Fully edited Tanomusaku Toba
- Fully edited Taku Joetsu
- Fully edited Shuji Ishikawa
- Edited DDT contract of Shoichi Ichimiya
- Fully edited Seiya Morohashi
- Fully edited Sanshiro Takagi
- Fully edited Riki Sensyu
- Edited DDT contract of Poison Sawada
- Removed "Road Agent" role of Poison Sawada
- Edited DDT contract of Onryo
- Removed "Road Agent" role of Onryo
- Edited DDT contract of Masa Takanashi
- Edited DDT contract of KUDO
- Edited DDT contract of Koichiro Kimura
- Fully edited Ken Ohka
- Changed default profile name of Issei Fujisawa to "KENSHIN" and added "Issei Fujisawa" as an alter ego
- Fully edited KENSHIN
- Fully edited HARASHIMA
- Fully edited Futoshi Miwa
- Fully Edited Danshoku Dino
- Fully edited GENTARO
- Added AJPW contract for GENTARO
- Fully Edited Daichi Kakimoto
- Fully edited Bambi
- Fully edited Akira Miwa
- Created .gif image for Mineo Fujita
- Imported Mineo Fujita from Fleisch's Chronicles 92 Data
- Fully edited Mineo Fujita
- Added DDT contract for Mineo Fujita
- Imported Mammoth Sasaki from Mammoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for Mammoth Sasaki
- Added DDT contract for Mammoth Sasaki
- Imported Gorgeous Matsuno from Mammoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for Gorgeous Matsuno
- Added DDT contract for Gorgeous Matsuno
- Imported GAMI from Mammoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for GAMI
- Fully edited GAMI
- Added DDT contract for GAMI
- Imported Etsuko Mita from Mammoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for Etsuko Mita
- Fully edited Etsuko Mita
- Added DDT contract for Etsuko Mita
- Created Erika Watanabe .gif image
- Added Erika Watanabe to the data
- Added DDT contract for Erika Watanabe
- Created MAX Miyazawa
- Created .gif image for MAX Miyazawa
- Added DDT contract for MAX Miyazawa
- Imported Osamu Tachihikari from Fleisch's Chronicle's 92 Data
- Created .gif image for Osamu Tachihikari
- Added DDT contract for Osamu Tachikari (Super Sumo Machine)
- Adjusted Japanese company's popularity and backstage rules
- Fixed end date on DDT Ironman lineage "DDT_IronMan_143"
- Set DDT Champions and title lineages
- Created King of DDT Tournament Belt Image
- Created King of DDT Tournament Title
- Created King of DDT Event
- Created DDT Max Bump Event and .gif image
- Created DDT Judgement Event and .gif image
- Created DDT First Dream of the New Year Event and .gif image

Release Notes: 

Welcome to the SECOND public BETA release of "It All Begins Again" (IABA 04), an April 2004 Real World Historical Mod for TEW 2020. This mod was originally based on the "2004 - A Data" mod by Anderz (TEW 2010), and was built using a conversion of the TEW 2016 version of my "Ruthless Aggression" January 2004 Database which has been thoroughly edited and expanded upon. It is not to be confused with the "Ruthless Aggression" mod converted and released by Mr. Villain for TEW 2020. It has been in development in some shape or form since 2020, and will likely always be being worked on and improved.

A few items to note for this BETA release:
- DDT and NOAH have now been finished in line with the rest of the promotions in the game world.
- Mexico is set as inactive. CMLL and AAA are not in any shape to be playable at this time but will hopefully be edited and fleshed out in a later update. None of the Mexican workers have really been touched yet, so for best results this game area should be left inactive.
- There are still about 100 US free agents that haven't been edited yet, and a handful of free agents in Japan that have to be edited.
- The future workers still need to be edited and balanced as well as expanded upon.

Special thanks to the following:

• gazwefc83 for his awesome Trading Card/Sticker .Gif Pack that has been used and expanded upon for this version of the mod and for his continued help and support.
• Anyone who has contributed to the  Trading Card/Sticker .Gif Pack with their art.
• gazfewc83, TheWho87, Questlove, NoLegsGaming, Bigpapa42, Fleisch and Mammoth for allowing me to import and edit workers to my needs from their amazing databases.
• cagematch.net, wrestlingdata.com, prowrestling.fandom.com, profightdb.com and The Wayback Machine which have been invaluable resources for creating this mod.
• Some hard to find title images utilize Hellfire_Designs (u/HexHellfire) amazing title belt renders found online. 
• The following people who made the past versions of the (January 2004) Ruthless Aggression Mods possible by offering their data for imports, personally helping out with the editing process, or giving their insight on various topics: Genadi, Hive, Mr. Perfekt, LUKIE, XxFutureLegend112xX, Oyaji, Bigpapa42, cpt. charisma, Matt Shannon, Fleisch, OGPistolPete, OLLIE, TheWho87, sock puppet, Slim Jim, Mr. Canada, and anyone I’ve accidentally missed!

Additional Notes: 

• Those of you that played Extreme Warfare Revenge for hours on end will appreciate the EWR inspired easter eggs that have been added into this mod. For instance, the angle pack that is included makes use of more than 300 basic angles similar to those included in EWR 4.2 and organized the very same way that they were in the game. In addition, everyone's favorite booking duo of Adam Ryland and Sophie have been included as user avatars to choose at the start of each game - - and that's not all. Remember how if you were lucky enough, that iconic pair of albino rodents would pop up in game? Pinky's Narf! Poit! Wrestling? and The Brain's World Domination Wrestling have been included as future promotions in the mod. If you want to open up the possibility of either mouse showing up in the game, just leave them both in as active characters in the game world at the start of your game. (Due to the way that TEW's game engine works, Pinky and The Brain could potentially become the bookers of existing promotions and cause even more mayhem!) 
• In the interest of keeping "realism" and not wanting to see Sting immediately signed up by the WWE AI, a Simmering Tension relationship has been added between Sting and Vince McMahon. Since Brock Lesnar and Bill Goldberg left WWE on bad terms, a Simmering Tension relationship was added for each of them with Vince McMahon as well. This usually prevents the AI from signing them at the start of the game, and in a number of test plays both men eventually made it to NJPW or AJPW. Scott Steiner was also sitting out the remainder of his WWE contract at this point and has both a starting absence and a Simmering Tension relationship with Vince McMahon to simulate this. Simply delete these relationships in the editor if you disagree with these decisions.
• All deceased workers that appear in the database are there for cosmetic reasons only (HOF, HOI, Title Histories, Etc) as such, their skills, attributes, health and popularity have all been set to zero as I couldn't see the point in spending hours balancing the stats, pop and attributes for a bunch of workers who will never actually be active in the game.
• There are custom promotions in the game set to debut, or potentially debut at various points in the future. If this bothers you, or breaks your immersion for a ultra-realistic playing experience, you can delete them in the editor. They are: 3 Lions Wrestling, Canadian Wrestling Coalition, DOKU Puroresu, FOX Wrestling, HULKAMANIA Wrestling Federation, Narf! Poit! Wrestling? (Pinky's company), Paradise Pro Wrestling, Ric Flair Promotions, United States Pro Wrestling and World Domination Wrestling (The Brain's Company).
• A note about JCW: at this time, Juggalo Championshit Wrestling was only running shows around their yearly Gathering of the Juggalos festival and wouldn't actually run a full time promotion until a couple of years later when they started the Slam TV web series. Their starting roster is based on those that were used for the infamous JCW VHS tapes. In the interest of giving workers more places to work and develop their skills, I've given JCW a monthly event called "Oddball Wrestling" in homage to one of their recurring events that would debut in real life around 2009. If you want the scenario to strictly reflect the time period true to life, you can delete Oddball Wrestling, or delete JCW completely. I recommend leaving them in though, because their roster tends to be pretty fun and the results can get pretty entertaining.

 

DOWNLOAD LINKS

Data: BETA 1.1 (March 27, 2024)

Picture Pack: IABA 04 Pics and GFX (March 27, 2024)

 

BONUS CONTENT:

Website Screens: 2000s Website Mod

This pack of Graphics transforms your webpage into the look and feel of Pro Wrestling Torch, PW Insider, Rajah, Wrestling Nation and more. Simply backup your skin's Website_90s.jpeg file from the Backgrounds folder, rename the screen from this pack you wish to use to Website_90s.jpg and you are all set!

Preview:

Suggested Skin: Dark Arber

IABA 04 Mod GFX Resources: Download Pack

This pack includes the PSD templates to create your own worker gifs, events, tv shows and belts in the same style as those included in the mod

JOIN THE IABA 04 DISCORD FOR THE MOST DIRECT FEEDBACK, EARLY UPDATES AND EXTRA MOD ASSETS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE:

[SirEdger]

I'll definitely give it a try ASAP!

[Mick]

10 hours ago, IDOL said:

All deceased workers that appear in the database are there for cosmetic reasons only (HOF, HOI, Title Histories, Etc) as such, their skills, attributes, health and popularity have all been set to zero as I couldn't see the point in spending hours balancing the stats, pop and attributes for a bunch of workers who will never actually be active in the game.

0/10 not letting use Zombie Lou Thesz 😠 

 

Actually, it looks great, I'm gonna explore this. 

[Krabby]

I will definitely check this out!

[TheGrandAvatar]

Will definitely be checking this out.

Remember you working on this last year. So quite excited to see the development of it that you've worked on. Will give it a go when I get chance. 

[Krabby]

Oh gosh, just noticed that World League Wrestling is up and running - that was my first ever EWR game!

[Krabby]

@IDOL

A minor suggestion - edit Harley Race's WLW contract down to something minimal - otherwise, he's pulling 30+ grand a month out of a company maybe making 4ish thousand

[IDOL]

On 23/02/2024 at 12:49, Krabby said:

@IDOL

A minor suggestion - edit Harley Race's WLW contract down to something minimal - otherwise, he's pulling 30+ grand a month out of a company maybe making 4ish thousand

Thanks, it shouldnt have been a written contract. Changing it to handshake will solve the issue

[Mick]

Me remembering how WWE's product was at the time:

 

[apsham]

I'm not going to lie, this might tempt me to finally dive back into TEW. Thank you for the work you've put into this.

[LittleDaniel]

This looks great! I've only been playing around with it for a few days now so I might have more in-depth feedback later, but yeah looks really good. One small nitpick is that the short names for wrestlers seems to often just be their full name, so anywhere the short name is used is a little wonky. For example, the auto-generated Segment Name runs out of characters if there's more than a couple people in the segment.

[IDOL]

PUBLIC BETA RELEASE (BETA 1.1)

"It All Begins Again" (April 2004)
Mod by iDOL

BETA Release 1.1
Date: March 27, 2024

Change Log:
- Changed Harley Race's WLW contract from Written/Monthly to Handshake/Per Show
- Changed Ultimate University from Company: APW to Company: UPW
- Added Fox Sports Net to Broadcasters
- Changed Dean Allmark's TNA contract to "On Loan"
- Made Dean Allmark inactive in USA and Europe
- Changed Frankie Sloan's TNA contract to "On Loan"
- Made Frankie Sloan inactive in USA
- Changed Robbie Dynamite's TNA contract to "On Loan"
- Made Robbie Dynamite inactive in USA
- Added loyalty relationship between Dean Allmark and Brian Dixon
- Added (Good) Tag Team chemistry for Kid Kash and Lance Hoyt
- Added (Good) Tag Team chemistry for The Naturals
- Made various edits to Pro Wrestling NOAH's company profile and settings
- Set Face/Heel Divide in NOAH to "loosely enforced" to allow for more heel/heel matches
- Fully edited Tsuoyoshi Kikuchi
- Fully edited Tamon Honda
- Edited NOAH contract of Trevor Rhodes
- Fully edited Takuma Sano
- Fully edited Takeshi Rikio
- Edited NOAH contract of Takeshi Morishima
- Fully edited Takashi Sugiura
- Edited NOAH contract of Superstar Steve
- Edited NOAH contract of Shiro Koshinaka
- Fully edited Shinji Nanba
- Fully edited Ryu Nakata
- Created new .gif image for Ricky Marvin
- Fully edited Ricky Marvin
- Added blood relative relationship between Richard Slinger and Ray Gordy
- Fully edited Richard Slinger
- Fully edited Referee Shuichi Nishinaga
- Fully edited Referee Norihiro Yamamoto
- Fully edited Referee Mighty Inoue
- Increased respect for Julio Dinero
- Decreased power for Balls Mahoney
- Created new .gif image for Naomichi Marufuji
- Fully edited Naomichi Marufuji
- Fully edited Mohammed Yone
- Added "blood relative" relationship between Mitsuo Momota & Rikidozan
- Fully edited Mitsuo Momota
- Edited NOAH contract of Michael Modest
- Fully edited Masashi Aoyagi
- Fully edited Masao Inoue
- Fully edited Makoto Hashi
- Edited NOAH contract of Kotaro Suzuki
- Fully edited Kishin Kawabata
- Fully edited Kentaro Hirakawa
- Fully edited Kenta Kobashi
- Created new .gif image for KENTA
- Fully edited KENTA
- Edited NOAH contract of Jushin Thunder Liger
- Created new .gif image for Jun Izumida
- Fully edited Jun Izumida
- Created new .gif image for Haruka Eigen
- Fully edited Haraku Eigen
- Edited NOAH contract of Donovan Morgan
- Created new .gif image for Daisuke Ikeda
- Fully edited Daisuke Ikeda
- Edited NOAH contract of Bison Smith
- Fully edited Akitoshi Saito
- Created new .gif image for Akira Taue
- Fully edited Akira Taue
- Fully edited 2 Cold Scorpio
- Added Michael Modest to KAOS stable in NOAH
- Imported Kentaro Shiga from MAmmoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for Kentaro Shiga
- Fully edited Kentaro Shiga
- Added starting injury for Kentaro Shiga (Broken Neck)
- Added Kentaro Shiga to BURNING stable in NOAH
- Removed Jun Izumida from STERNNESS stable in NOAH
- Edited STERNNESS members to Babyface
- Set WAVE stable to "Inactive" in NOAH
- Changed Rikio and Morishima's tag team name to "WildII" in NOAH
- Added NOAH contract for Doug Williams
- Added Doug Williams to KAOS stable in NOAH
- Edited NOAH events and created event images
- Decreased Mituharu Misawa's roster size preference to "small"
- Created new logo and banner images for Pro Wrestling NOAH
- Created new .gif image for Referee Miura Kodo
- Fully edited Referee Miura Kodo
- Edited DDT contract of Tomohiko Hashimoto
- Edited DDT contract of Yusuke Inokuma
- Fully edited Yoshihiro Sakai
- Fully edited Tanomusaku Toba
- Fully edited Taku Joetsu
- Fully edited Shuji Ishikawa
- Edited DDT contract of Shoichi Ichimiya
- Fully edited Seiya Morohashi
- Fully edited Sanshiro Takagi
- Fully edited Riki Sensyu
- Edited DDT contract of Poison Sawada
- Removed "Road Agent" role of Poison Sawada
- Edited DDT contract of Onryo
- Removed "Road Agent" role of Onryo
- Edited DDT contract of Masa Takanashi
- Edited DDT contract of KUDO
- Edited DDT contract of Koichiro Kimura
- Fully edited Ken Ohka
- Changed default profile name of Issei Fujisawa to "KENSHIN" and added "Issei Fujisawa" as an alter ego
- Fully edited KENSHIN
- Fully edited HARASHIMA
- Fully edited Futoshi Miwa
- Fully Edited Danshoku Dino
- Fully edited GENTARO
- Added AJPW contract for GENTARO
- Fully Edited Daichi Kakimoto
- Fully edited Bambi
- Fully edited Akira Miwa
- Created .gif image for Mineo Fujita
- Imported Mineo Fujita from Fleisch's Chronicles 92 Data
- Fully edited Mineo Fujita
- Added DDT contract for Mineo Fujita
- Imported Mammoth Sasaki from Mammoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for Mammoth Sasaki
- Added DDT contract for Mammoth Sasaki
- Imported Gorgeous Matsuno from Mammoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for Gorgeous Matsuno
- Added DDT contract for Gorgeous Matsuno
- Imported GAMI from Mammoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for GAMI
- Fully edited GAMI
- Added DDT contract for GAMI
- Imported Etsuko Mita from Mammoth's Shifting Sands
- Created new .gif image for Etsuko Mita
- Fully edited Etsuko Mita
- Added DDT contract for Etsuko Mita
- Created Erika Watanabe .gif image
- Added Erika Watanabe to the data
- Added DDT contract for Erika Watanabe
- Created MAX Miyazawa
- Created .gif image for MAX Miyazawa
- Added DDT contract for MAX Miyazawa
- Imported Osamu Tachihikari from Fleisch's Chronicle's 92 Data
- Created .gif image for Osamu Tachihikari
- Added DDT contract for Osamu Tachikari (Super Sumo Machine)
- Adjusted Japanese company's popularity and backstage rules
- Fixed end date on DDT Ironman lineage "DDT_IronMan_143"
- Set DDT Champions and title lineages
- Created King of DDT Tournament Belt Image
- Created King of DDT Tournament Title
- Created King of DDT Event
- Created DDT Max Bump Event and .gif image
- Created DDT Judgement Event and .gif image
- Created DDT First Dream of the New Year Event and .gif image

Release Notes: 

Welcome to the SECOND public BETA release of "It All Begins Again" (IABA 04), an April 2004 Real World Historical Mod for TEW 2020. This mod was originally based on the "2004 - A Data" mod by Anderz (TEW 2010), and was built using a conversion of the TEW 2016 version of my "Ruthless Aggression" January 2004 Database which has been thoroughly edited and expanded upon. It is not to be confused with the "Ruthless Aggression" mod converted and released by Mr. Villain for TEW 2020. It has been in development in some shape or form since 2020, and will likely always be being worked on and improved.

A few items to note for this BETA release:
- DDT and NOAH have now been finished in line with the rest of the promotions in the game world.
- Mexico is set as inactive. CMLL and AAA are not in any shape to be playable at this time but will hopefully be edited and fleshed out in a later update. None of the Mexican workers have really been touched yet, so for best results this game area should be left inactive.
- There are still about 100 US free agents that haven't been edited yet, and a handful of free agents in Japan that have to be edited.
- The future workers still need to be edited and balanced as well as expanded upon.

DOWNLOAD LINKS

Data: BETA 1.1 (March 27, 2024)

Picture Pack: IABA 04 Pics and GFX (March 27, 2024)

[apsham]

Am I off/wrong about something regarding the angles? When I look at what's included in both my default branch and the one for this it seems to be the same 453 or so items.

[IDOL]

On 01/04/2024 at 18:31, apsham said:

Am I off/wrong about something regarding the angles? When I look at what's included in both my default branch and the one for this it seems to be the same 453 or so items.

Because it was set to be a small pack of EWR angles, they’re all set as default and meant to be available and sorted with the naming structure (hype, 1v1, etc). I believe you can mass edit them and then set the ones you want as default though.

[LittleDaniel]

I just noticed in a longer-term game that PWG seems to stop running shows after 2005. All the events are set to go dormant after 2005, and in my early 2008 save they haven't run a show since despite having plenty of money. I'm thinking the AI won't add new events if company has some already, and whether the events are active doesn't seem to matter?