Sparking Rivals

GTA V story mode, with Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO's fighting. Los Santos becomes your arena: fly over the city, throw ki blasts, and transform into a real Sparking! ZERO fighter when your meter fills.

What you do

• Z toggles flight. You go where the camera points; space rises and left shift drops.
• Left-click fires a ki blast down your crosshair - a real in-game projectile, not a picture.
• Fight and the ki meter fills, from blasts fired and from enemies going down. It drains when you are out of the fight.
• X transforms you for 12 seconds once the meter is full: more health, more armour, faster on foot, stronger blasts, and an in-game call-out naming the fighter.
• The game's own peds around you turn hostile and attack, so there is always something to fight.

Every key binding and number lives in %LOCALAPPDATA%\SparkingRivals\SparkingRivals.ini, written on first run: flight speed, blast damage, meter rates, transformation length, enemy radius. Melty never rewrites the file, so your settings stay.

What each game brings

• Grand Theft Auto V (required, host): the world, the peds, the weapons, the projectile. This is an .asi installed into your GTA V folder and started in story mode.
• DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO (read from your own install): the transformation uses a real fighter name taken from your Sparking! ZERO install. The mod finds your Steam copy and reads asset names out of the game's own container index, read-only - it never launches, patches, copies or ships anything from that game. Without Sparking! ZERO installed everything still works, and the game says so on screen instead of showing a name.

Important

Story mode only. GTA V runs story mode and GTA Online from one executable, and an ASI in the game folder is loaded in both. Melty starts the game with BattlEye off so Online cannot start; modding GTA Online is not something this mod supports. Never play Online with it installed.

Credits and licence

Made by the author with Buffy, an AI coding agent, and we would rather say it plainly: this was built with AI. Every native hash comes from the public GTA V NativeDB, cross-checked between two dumps, and the engine route follows the universal-modder toolkit. The mod's own code is MIT and may be remixed. GTA V and DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO belong to their owners; this is a free, non-commercial, single-player mod.

If something goes wrong

%LOCALAPPDATA%\SparkingRivals\logs\latest.log records what happened, including every file read from your Sparking! ZERO install. 0.1.0 is the first public build, and that log is what makes a fix possible.