Okay, so today I decided to mess around with WWF Sable. I’d heard about it before, it’s like, a way to extract and view the resources from those old WWF games, like WrestleFest and stuff. Nostalgia trip, right?
Getting Started
First, I had to, you know, actually find the thing. It’s not exactly on Steam or anything. I did some digging around, found a version that seemed legit. Fingers crossed, I downloaded it and hoped for the best. No viruses, please!
Diving In
After I ran it, I was greeted with, well, a pretty basic-looking window. No fancy graphics here, just straight to business. I figured out I had to point it to the ROM files for the games. I happened to have those backed up from way back when, so I loaded up WrestleFest.
Boom! Suddenly, I’m seeing all the sprites, the backgrounds, even the sound effects. It’s like peeking behind the curtain of my childhood. I spent a good hour just clicking through all the wrestlers, looking at their animations frame-by-frame. The Ultimate Warrior’s ridiculous run, Mr. Perfect’s, uh, perfect sell…it was all there.
Playing Around
I’m not gonna lie, I got a little sidetracked. I started trying to figure out how to extract specific sprites. I wanted to grab Jake “The Snake” Roberts’ DDT animation. There’s a certain… something about that move, and I wanted to see it up close.
After poking around in the menus (which, honestly, were a little confusing at first), I found the export options. It lets you save sprites as individual images, or even as animated GIFs. Pretty neat!
The Result
I managed to get that DDT animation! It’s not super high-res, obviously, since these are old games. But it’s amazing to see the individual frames and how much detail they put into it back then. I even managed to grab some of the background tiles from the arenas. Might use those for something later, who knows?
So, that’s my adventure with WWF Sable today. It was a fun little project, definitely scratched that retro gaming itch. If you’re into old-school WWF and have some ROMs lying around, you should check it out. Just be prepared for a bit of a learning curve figuring out the interface. But once you get the hang of it, it’s pretty cool!
