Okay folks... please don't kill me here, but I find myself longing for something a bit above and beyond RBI Baseball. I don't really care about fancy graphics or sound so much, but I find that I can beat the CPU about 99.5% of the time these days. Sure, RBI is still fun, but the competition just isn't there for me right now. I don't have anyone I know who has a NES, so the only way I can play it is via my PocketPC emulator which means no playing agianst other hoomans... :-[
Now, RBI Baseball will always be an important part of my life, and I'm sure I'll still play it off and on, but I really want something more challanging right now. What I'd love to find is something more updated...say for the SNES or GBA that has a following like RBI Baseball does...and particularly that has updated ROMs with current rosters. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
They need RBI online is what they need
I would give Baseball Stars a whirl since it has a season mode and you can upgrade your players. Makes the experience much more enjoyable in 1-player mode...
If you want to stick with the NES, Bases Loaded 3 always gave me a good challenge. There's no season mode - to "beat the game", you have to play a "perfect game" (start with 100 points, lose points for Ks, Es, and getting picked off; gain points for great plays; finish at or over 100 and win the game) against a team on the hardest difficulty. I've only done it a couple of times. The gameplay is radically different from RBI - the batting/pitching interface is from the pitcher's POV (you can throw high or low pitches and control where in the zone you swing), and fielding keeps the same perspective, so it seems upside-down at first.
The other game I can think of to recommend for a challenge is Ken Griffey Baseball on the SNES. It plays like RBI at a high level - same batting interface, and baserunning and fielding are quite similar. The big changes are in the field - you only control one player at a time, and you have to use radar to do so, because the view is much closer to the field The biggest thing about the game that annoys me is that many fielders have cannon arms, so you often end up with a lot of station-to-station singles hitting, and double plays are extremely common. The computer opponent isn't perfect (very predictable on the bases), but it fields very well, so I usually only beat it 60-70% of the time.
Appreciate the ideas guys... and I'll look into them. However, what I'd really like to find is a more challanging game that also has rom editors or someone out there who creates updated roms for the game. That would rock.
I recently have been playing Baseball Advance on a GBA, and it's really a very nice game, but it's 2000 or 2001 rosters. I'd love to find a game like that that has a community of support like RBI Baseball does... quite possible such a thing doesn't exist, but I figured if it did, someone here would likely know about it.
I don't know of any older games other than RBI that have much for ROM editing capability. The only game I can think of that allows many teams to be edited in-game is Baseball Simulator 1.000, and the computer opponent is just as bad as, if not worse than, the one in RBI. I think there may be updated rosters available online for the MVP series on the PC, which are quality games (I have MVP 2003, although I've never looked for new rosters).
Where you from RedRamage? How 'bout trying a tournament for more competition?
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