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Hey everybody, I've been messing around with PC Engine (Turbografx 16) emulation over the past few weeks, and I discovered a familiar little game called Pro Yakyuu World Stadium.


I know we've found the Famicom version of RBI Baseball already, but has anyone here played through the Japanese 16-bit version? It plays exactly the same with slightly "better" graphics and sound, WAY more bops, and Japanese teams. Like regular RBI Baseball, it has a hidden message screen, but with a little graphic.


I can read Katakana well enough to surmise that it says: "Pikkari [picture?] of the dome groundskeepers" which is kind of disappointingly on-the-nose. The Hiragana text below it seems to names as far as I can tell.

There's also a sequel, Pro Yakyuu World Stadium '91, which I will try out tomorrow.

Certainly didn't know about the Turbo Graphx/PC engine good find.  How close is it to Super Batter Up for the SNES?  That was an updated version of RBI IIRC, but don't remember the details of the game itself...

Super Batter Up plays more like RBI 3.

Haven't played Super Batter Up, but this PC Engine game came out four years before the SNES version, so it makes sense that this one would have more in common with RBI Baseball than Super Batter Up.

Here's an inning of gameplay I just uploaded:


By the way, World Stadium does the same thing as RBI Baseball where it doesn't actually include every team. There were twelve teams in Nippon Professional Baseball at the time, and the game includes ten, and I'm pretty sure the N team stands for Namco. I assume the Famicom one did the same thing, but I can't remember. Anyway, let's go through them all:

L = Lions
G = Giants
R = Probably the second-place Braves, not using a B to avoid confusion with the last-place Buffaloes.
D = Dragons
F = Fighters
C = Carp
S = Swallows
W = Whales
T = Tigers
N = Namco?

If that's right, then the Orions, Hawks, and Buffaloes are left out, and those were the three worst teams in the Pacific League in 1987, the season before this game came out. (http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1987_in_Japanese_Baseball)

I now see from the FAQ that Famista combined a few teams, that works, too.

I was wondering why the PC Engine version doesn't have a Major Leaguers team, but in fact, it does. There are five hidden teams accessed in Versus or Watch Mode by pressing left or right a certain number of times in certain places (http://www.gamefaqs.com/tg16/589171-world-stadium-baseball/cheats).

I don't remember if Family Stadium does this, but the PC Engine version plays the opening bit of the Star-Spangled Banner every time an M team player comes to bat, somewhat annoyingly:


Also, I played a bit of the '91 version today. It has all the Japanese teams plus Namco plus Major Leaguers. It adds 4-player support, the choice between 5 and 9 inning games, and an ability to turn off bops. Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't figure out what "Called: 10 or 5" means among the options, there. Then it adds some home run animation stuff, here's a video:

I love the graphics on there.  Damn, I still wish that XBOX 360 version got released...

I need to fire up MAME (an arcade emulator) to see how well this matches up with the arcade World Stadium games - per the ROM sites I downloaded from, they had three or four annual releases, then renamed the game "Super World Stadium" in the early '90s, and I'd found ROMs of that through '99 or so.  World Stadium and Super World Stadium are basically identical, just a rename for the Super NES era, with steadily improving 16-bit quality graphics in the same style, until the '98 or '99 edition, in which they went 3D and totally revamped the hitting interface.  As of a few years ago, that ROM ran terribly in the emulator, but I haven't tried it out for quite a while.

This is mostly unrelated, but in case anyone's curious, these are the rosters for the American all-star teams in every Famicom version of RBI Baseball that had one. Testin' out my Katakana skills from rosters posted on a Japanese site.

You may notice that all the stats come directly out of some Namco programmer's ass.

Family Stadium '87

1. Kirby Puckett - R - .358 - 40 HR
2. Ryne Sandberg - R - .314 - 18 HR
3. Darryl Strawberry - L - .290 - 36 HR
4. Gary Carter - R - .286 - 32 HR
5. Mark McGwire - R - .300 - 61 HR
6. Mike Schmidt - R - .320 - 48 HR
7. Jesse Barfield - R - .320 - 52 HR
8. Ozzie Smith - L - .310 - 2 HR
9. Pitcher

Bench
Jose Canseco - R - .270 - 42 HR
Cal Ripken, Jr. - R - .312 - 32 HR
Tony Gwynn - L - .360 - 18 HR
Don Mattingly - L - .382 - 40 HR

Pitchers
Nolan Ryan - R - 1.76
Mike Scott - R - 1.08
Fernando Valenzuela - L - 1.64
Dave Righetti - L - 1.20

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Family Stadium '88

1. Ricky Henderson - R - .346 - 20 HR
2. Ryne Sandberg - R - .294 - 30 HR
3. Wade Boggs - L - .376 - 22 HR
4. Darryl Strawberry - L - .328 - 56 HR
5. Jose Canseco - L - .328 - 56 HR
6. Mark McGwire - R - .288 - 46 HR
7. Gary Carter - R - .280 - 26 HR
8. Ozzie Smith - L - .300 - 14 HR
9. Pitcher

Bench
Kirby Puckett - R - .372 - 40 HR
Dave Winfield - R - .374 - 50 HR
Will Clark - L - .298 - 56 HR
Andre Dawson - R - .336 - 48 HR

Pitchers
Nolan Ryan - R - 1.70
Frank Viola - L - 1.90
Roger Clemens - R - 2.00
Dwight Gooden - R - 2.20

Relievers
Dennis Eckersley - RU - 2.05
Dave Righetti - L - 1.20

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Famista '89

1. Ozzie Smith - L - .300 - 24 HR
2. Paul Molitor - R - .343 - 34 HR
3. Wade Boggs - L - .396 - 26 HR
4. Darryl Strawberry - L - .300 - 60 HR
5. Jose Canseco - R - .338 - 62 HR
6. Kirby Puckett - R - .386 - 54 HR
7. Will Clark - L - .312 - 50 HR
8. Benito Santiago - R - .278 - 30 HR
9. Pitcher

Bench
Kirk Gibson - L - .352 - 40 HR
Dave Winfield - R - .320 - 50 HR
Mark McGwire - R - .290 - 52 HR
Bobby Bonilla - L - .304 - 44 HR

Pitchers
Orel Hershiser - R - 1.25
Frank Viola - L - 1.65
Roger Clemens - R - 1.95
Nolan Ryan - R - 2.50

Relievers
John Franco - L - 0.55
Dennis Eckersley - RU - 1.25

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Famista '90

1. Bo Jackson - R - .298 - 54 HR
2. Wade Boggs - L - .396 - 26 HR
3. Will Clark - L - .332 - 46 HR
4. Jose Canseco - R - .300 - 62 HR
5. Kirby Puckett - R - .356 - 42 HR
6. Cal Ripken, Jr. - R - .320 - 33 HR
7. Ryne Sandberg - R - .314 - 36 HR
8. Benito Santiago - R - .286 - 22 HR
9. Pitcher

Bench
Kevin Mitchell - R - .298 - 48 HR
Howard Johnson - B - .322 - 46 HR
Mark McGwire - R - .282 - 44 HR
Vince Coleman - R - .300 - 10 HR

Pitchers
1. Nolan Ryan - R - 2.20
2. Dave Stewart - R - 2.75
3. Orel Hershiser - R - 2.45
4. Frank Viola - L - 2.65

Relievers
1. Mitch Williams - L - 1.80
2. Dennis Eckersley - RS - 1.25

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Famista '91

1. Rickey Henderson - .318 - 34 HR
2. Ryne Sandberg - .334 - 48 HR
3. Will Clark - .326 - 46 HR
4. Jose Canseco - .310 - 60 HR
5. Kevin Mitchell - .308 - 46 HR
6. Cal Ripken, Jr. - .308 - 32 HR
7. Wade Boggs - .370 - 24 HR
8. Benito Santiago - .288 - 24 HR
9. Pitcher

Bench
Cecil Fielder - .298 - 54 HR
Kirby Puckett - .324 - 32 HR
Andre Dawson - .312 - 44 HR
Ken Griffey, Jr. - 336 - 36 HR

Pitchers
Nolan Ryan - R - 1.80
Frank Viola - L - 2.00
Roger Clemens - R - 2.10
Bob Welch - R - 2.30

Relievers
Bobby Thigpen - R - 2.20
Dennis Eckersley - RS - 2.00

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Famista '92

1. Rickey Henderson - R -  .312 - 26 HR - LF
2. Wade Boggs - L - .362 - 22 HR - 3B
3. Cal Ripken, Jr. - R - .342 - 38 HR - SS
4. Jose Canseco - R - .306 - 58 HR - RF
5. Cecil Fielder - R - .300 - 54 HR - 1B
6. Ken Griffey, Jr. - L - .322 - 32 HR - CF
7. Ryne Sandberg - R - .334 - 42 HR - 2B
8. Benito Santiago - R - .282 - 26 HR - C
9. Pitcher

Bench
Will Clark - L - .330 - 44 HR - 1B
Chris Sabo - L - .296 - 32 HR - 3B
Andre Dawson - R - .310 - 42 HR - RF
Dave Henderson - R - .318 - 38 HR - CF
Ozzie Smith - B - .328 - 16 HR - CF

Pitchers
Nolan Ryan - R - 1.60
Frank Viola - L - 2.00
Bill Gullickson - R - 2.00

Relievers
Rob Dibble - R - 2.00
Dennis Eckersley - RS - 1.60

Cecil Fielder would be the perfect player for a version of RBI, thanks for the info sportsplosion.  Almost makes me want to start he wiki again....

He was scary in RBI 3, but RBI 3 had the skinny players, so it wasn't really the same effect as you're going for.