Getting the Cell
into Fire Pro World.

First: what actually works?

We installed two custom arenas—WWE HELL IN A CELL and WWE HELL IN A CELL (CAGE)—on Fire Pro Wrestling World’s Big Garden Arena (AR00). The supplied Cell is a modern red structure. Our video gives it a silver tint and uses a custom director to stage the 1998 moments.

The installation record shows 38 unique asset files with all texture references resolved. Our two ring entries took the local total from 200 to 202; all 731 wrestler edits remained. Those are our verification counts, not requirements for your save.

Get the pieces together.

This walkthrough covers the Windows Steam setup we used. Menu labels and compatibility can vary between releases; follow the instructions supplied with your particular ModPack and patcher.

• Fire Pro Wrestling World on PC. Launch your existing game once and check your roster before changing anything. Wrestler edits may need their own Workshop parts, moves or DLC.
• Carlzilla’s ModPack + Mike DG’s PWGR Patcher. Use the ModPack community release channel linked by Pugs and the patcher author’s instructions. Obtain versions compatible with your game; an old tutorial’s download is not a compatibility guarantee.
• The WWE HIAC arena archives. Our supplied files were two separate three-volume RAR sets: standard and CAGE. Keep all three volumes of each set together and extract from its first volume. We have not verified a public download for these exact two sets. Ask the person who supplied your pack or its creator for the complete files. The Pugs arena collection is a source for his arenas, not a confirmed link to this exact Cell.
• An archive extractor and text editor. Use an extractor that supports multipart RAR archives. A plain-text editor is enough for a careful path repair; do not let a spreadsheet silently change CSV values.

Our broader setup also included Selective Component Disable and Lord2nz’s OctagonMod. Follow your arena’s requirements for hiding arena components. Neither is a magic switch for the roof-collapse sequence.

Install it by hand.

1. Find your game. Back up your work.

   In Steam, right-click the game → Manage → Browse local files. This folder contains FireProWrestlingW.exe. We call it <GAME> below. Close the game and patcher.

   Copy your active save/profile, ModPackData, existing custom asset folders and FireProWrestlingW_Data/Managed to a dated folder outside the game directory. Keep the patcher configuration too. The usual Windows save location is under %USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/spikechunsoft/FireProWrestlingWorld; verify the active profile if you use a save selector. Record your ring and wrestler totals.

2. Install and test the mod foundation.

   Extract the compatible ModPack and PWGR Patcher packages into <GAME>, preserving their folder layout. Follow their release instructions. In PWGR Patcher select ModPack and the framework dependencies, including the ring/arena texture support (our setup used ModPackFramework and RingMat). Preserve features already in use; don’t tick every optional mod.

   Patch with the game closed, check the result for errors, then launch Fire Pro. Confirm the ModPack window appears and an ordinary match loads. Close the game again before installing the arena files.

3. Extract the Cell into a staging folder.

   Extract the standard and CAGE sets separately. If an archive reports a missing volume or CRC error, stop and replace the incomplete download. Open through the repeated wrapper folders until you see RingMats, ModPackData and Decal. Those are the folders to merge into the game—not the outer “WWE HIAC” folder.

   Inspect duplicate filenames before overwriting. Our two sets shared assets; the combined installation contained 38 unique files. Keep any existing conflicting file in your backup.

4. Correct the folder layout.

   The supplied archives needed these changes. If your release already uses the destination layout, leave it as it is.

   Paths relative to <GAME>

   Archive layout	Working layout
   ModPackData/Arena Edit/	ModPackData/ArenaEdit/ (no space)
   RingMats/ArenaMats/AR00_WWE HELL IN A CELL (CAGE).png	RingMats/ArenaMats/AR00/WWE HELL IN A CELL (CAGE).png
   AR00_ images with _Floor, _Lights, _Parts and _Stage suffixes	Move into the same AR00/ folder, removing only the leading AR00_.
   Arena Edit object textures	ModPackData/ArenaEdit/Textures/

   Apply the AR00 image correction to both variants. Keep RingMats/WWE HIAC.png in RingMats. Preserve the pack’s Decal, Trons, TVLogos and TitleScreens subfolders. Compare your files with our 38-file installed manifest.

5. Repair the CSV texture paths.

   Open the two arena CSV files in ModPackData/ArenaEdit/. A texture field may point to the creator’s drive or old folder names. Replace that path with the real location of the referenced image on your PC. Repair renamed AR00 paths as well. Do not change object positions, scale, rotation or other columns.

   Example only — use your own Steam folder:
   D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fire Prowrestling World\
     ModPackData\ArenaEdit\Textures\HIAC Ceiling Red.png

   The displayed path wraps for readability; a CSV field must contain one continuous path. Check every nonempty texture reference against an actual file. Keep CSV quotes, separators and headers intact. Merely copying the PNGs does not repair a reference to someone else’s drive.

6. Connect the arena to a custom ring.

   Launch the game. In Ring Edit, create or use custom rings with these exact names:

   WWE HELL IN A CELL
   WWE HELL IN A CELL (CAGE)

   In ModPack’s Arena Texture Database, create or select a matching entry for each ring. Set the ring mat to WWE HIAC.png. For the Big Garden / AR00 ringside texture, select WWE HELL IN A CELL.png or WWE HELL IN A CELL (CAGE).png respectively. Save the database and ring edits.

   Keep the arena definitions named AR00 - WWE HELL IN A CELL.csv and AR00 - WWE HELL IN A CELL (CAGE).csv, with their companion TXT files, in ArenaEdit. The arena number and ring name are how this setup finds the correct definition. Our installation created these ring/database entries with a local importer; this is the equivalent manual configuration, not a claim that our private importer ships with ModPack.

7. Load a match and check persistence.

   Select Big Garden Arena and the WWE HELL IN A CELL (CAGE) custom ring. Choose your normal match rules. Verify the Cell, mat, floor and stage actually render. Check both the entrance and match view if you use entrances.

   Return to the menu, quit normally, relaunch and load it again. Confirm your existing wrestlers are still present and the ring entries were not duplicated. The standard variant should be tested separately. This proves your arena setup; it does not prove playable roof interactions.

Give your AI a precise job.

An assistant with local file access can inspect archives, map folders and validate CSV references. A chat-only assistant can guide you through the manual steps using your file listings and screenshots. Both still need the actual mod packages and arena files.

Copy this prompt, then provide your downloaded archive locations. It includes the boundaries that kept our existing roster intact.

Help me install a Hell in a Cell arena in Fire Pro Wrestling World on Windows PC. Read https://wrestling.rocks/hiac/ first. The goal is the arena and normal match setup, not a playable roof-collapse mode.

Start with a read-only inventory. Locate my real Steam game folder and active save/profile; do not assume a drive letter or username. Record game and installed mod versions, existing patch selections, wrestler/ring counts, and the supplied archive filenames. I will obtain ModPack, PWGR Patcher and the arena files through the creators' release channels. Do not invent download links or bypass access requirements.

Close the game before installation. Make a dated backup outside the game folder of the active saves, ModPackData, modified asset folders, patcher configuration and Managed assemblies. Verify the backup exists. Extract every volume of each archive to a separate staging folder first; report missing volumes and conflicting files before overwriting anything.

Use the release's installation instructions and compatible mod versions. Preserve existing mod selections. For the supplied WWE HIAC pack, check Arena Edit versus ArenaEdit, normalize AR00_ arena images into RingMats/ArenaMats/AR00/ as described in the guide, and use a CSV parser to repair texture fields to my actual paths. Preserve CSV columns, quoting and all non-path values. Check every texture reference resolves. Do not rename unrelated assets.

Create or match the exact custom ring names WWE HELL IN A CELL and WWE HELL IN A CELL (CAGE), associate their Arena Texture Database entries and select Big Garden Arena (AR00). Do not replace my save or MatData.dat with someone else's. If the installed UI or API differs, inspect it or ask for a screenshot rather than guessing. Do not install the private HiacDirectorHost or staging payloads.

Validate a loaded match visually, confirm the intended cage geometry and textures, return to the menu, restart the game and confirm persistence. Compare wrestler/ring counts to the baseline and report exactly what changed, what was tested, what remains unverified, and how to restore the backup. An existing file or successful patch log alone is not proof of a working arena.

What a useful completion report looks like

• Your real installation path and detected versions.
• A verified backup location and a list of changed files.
• Zero unresolved texture references; no accidental duplicate rings.
• A screenshot of a loaded match, then a successful restart check.
• Before/after roster counts, with anything untested clearly identified.

If it doesn’t look right.

How we made the 1998 moments.

The arena was the set. A local C# director was the choreography. It placed the wrestler edits, triggered paired native Fire Pro animations, changed roof pieces and staged the table collapse. The first fall targeted the arena’s actual commentary desk, Arena00_Commentary_L.

Our Undertaker and Mankind edits had local IDs 10330 and 10336. Those IDs belong to this save, so copying them into somebody else’s script would not reliably select the same wrestlers.

For the thumbtack scene we added 540 flat tack silhouettes with silver heads and adjusted their rendering so wrestler sprites remained above the pile. The mat shots used the game’s native layered camera passes to fix horizontal clipping. These were capture-specific visual changes.

Credit the people who built the tools.

Pugs — arena texture work and the collection used in our broader setup. Carlzilla — ModPack. Mike DG — PWGR framework and patcher. Lord2nz — OctagonMod.

These credits describe our installed toolchain; they do not assign authorship of the separately supplied HIAC archive to all four creators. Original game: Spike Chunsoft. Our recreation references WWE Vault’s Undertaker vs. Mankind footage.

Guide based on our September 6–7, 2026 local installation manifest, arena import source and capture notes. The manual UI route above describes the equivalent configuration; a fresh installation on another PC has not been tested. Exact HIAC archive availability remains unverified.