Click the game once so it picks up your keyboard. Controllers work as soon as you press a button. Press M to mute.
CREATE-A-WRESTLER
Design a wrestler from the boots up, including his entrance, pyro and theme music. Save him and he shows up on the select screen. Share codes let you move wrestlers between devices or send them to friends.
ROSTER
SHARE CODE
CONTROLLER
Move
Left stick or D-pad
Grapple
A tap quick, hold heavy
Strike
X tap light, hold heavy
Low strike / whip
Y
Run
B (back on menus)
Reverse grapple
LB
Reverse strike
RB
Guard
Hold LB+RB
Irish whip
RT in a grapple
Taunt / special
Flick right stick, or LT
PLAYER 1 KEYBOARD
Move
WASD
Grapple (A)
K
Strike (X)
J
Low / whip (Y)
I
Run (B)
L
Reverse grapple (LB)
U
Reverse strike (RB)
O
Guard
Hold U+O
Taunt / special
H
Start
Enter
1-player only: arrows with X grapple, Z strike, V low, C run, N/B reversals, right Shift special.
PLAYER 2 KEYBOARD
Move
Arrow keys
Grapple (A)
. or Num 2
Strike (X)
, or Num 1
Low / whip (Y)
' or Num 5
Run (B)
/ or Num 3
Reverse grapple
; or Num 4
Reverse strike
P or Num 6
Taunt / special
] or Num 0
HOW A MATCH GOES
Game modes. Press Start on the title screen to open the menu. Singles is one on one. Tag Team is two on two: stand in your corner near your partner and taunt to tag him in. Tag in a healthy partner while your man is hurting for a HOT TAG. Partners on the apron break up pins, and heel partners take cheap shots when the ref looks away. Career Mode is a full storyline chasing the MNM World Championship, with choices that make you a babyface or a heel. It saves your progress on this device.
Player or CPU. On the select screen, press up or down to set each side to Player or CPU. Press Taunt there to set the CPU to Easy, Normal or Hard (it remembers your choice). Set both to CPU to sit back and watch a simulated match. The losing wrestler fights harder, so expect comebacks and near-falls.
Heels and babyfaces. Babyfaces get cheered, heels get booed and pelted with trash. Heels fight dirty: when the ref is distracted (watch for the orange warning), a low kick becomes a low blow that doubles him over. Babyfaces get one comeback per match: taunt while under 35% health to get fired up, with extra momentum and harder hits.
Momentum. Landing offense, taunting and pulling off reversals fills the bar under your health. Past the halfway line, your signature is ready. Fill it and you go SPECIAL for 30 seconds.
Signature. With the bar past halfway, grab him and press Special (right stick or H) to hit your signature. It costs half the bar.
Finisher. While SPECIAL, taunt once to arm it, then grab him and press Special. Or climb the ropes while he's down and press Special for your top-rope finisher.
Reversals. LB reverses grapples, RB reverses strikes. Time it right as he goes for it: grab reversals steal the hold, move reversals turn his move back on him, and strike reversals block and fire back. Finishers and signatures can't be reversed. Holding both is a guard, and heavy strikes break it.
Grapples. Tap A for quick, hold A for heavy. Then hold a direction and press A, X or B. The move list shows on screen while you hold him, and he can mash to break free.
Whips. Y (or RT) in a grapple whips him. Left or right sends him into the ropes for a clothesline, big boot, powerslam or back body drop on the way back. Up or down sends him into a corner for a running corner splash.
Strikes. Tap X for punch, punch, kick. Hold X for a haymaker, big boot (toward), uppercut (up) or leg sweep (down). Y is a low kick that trips runners.
Ground and air. Downed opponent: tap X to stomp, hold X to elbow drop, tap A to pin, hold A to pick him up. On the top rope, tap X to splash or hold X for a moonsault.
MOVE LIST
CREDITS
Game. Monday Night Madness, developed by Tom.
Motion capture. Walking, running, climbing, limping and get-up motions come from the Carnegie Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database (mocap.cs.cmu.edu, free for any use) and the Quaternius Universal Animation Library (CC0).
Sound effects. Kenney Impact Sounds, Voiceover Pack, Voiceover Pack: Fighter and Music Jingles (kenney.nl, CC0); The Motion Monkey Retro Arcade Sounds (CC0); the 100 CC0 SFX, 75 CC0 breaking/falling/hit SFX, 25 CC0 bang SFX and 50 CC0 retro synth SFX packs, collected at github.com/lavenderdotpet/CC0-Public-Domain-Sounds.
Crowd. Stadium crowd by FunWithSound and applause by SamuelGremaud on Freesound, from the SoundSafari CC0-1.0-Music collection.
Music. Title theme and 8-bit entrance tracks by Komiku; metal and rock entrance tracks by Loyalty Freak Music. Both released as CC0 on the Free Music Archive.
Font. Press Start 2P by CodeMan38 and Chakra Petch by Cadson Demak (SIL Open Font License).