i know you all talk about one thing you wish RBI had...i myself with it had the home run distance when you poked one...anyone have any idea how long the dimensions are in RBI...fence length just a guess
I believe RBI2 has a home run distance thingy, so it would most likely be equal to their dimensions...
All I can add is that the foul/fair poles are less than 3 basepath distances. That makes the distance about 230 feet, thus proving- RBI is played on a softball field.
Speaking of which, I highly reccomend hitting batting practice or homerun derby on little league or softball fields. Unless you truly know how to hit or actually have free time to pump iron enough, it's the closest you can get to a real life RBI experience. It makes you respect just how ungodly strong and skilled pro players really are.
Or you could just use golfballs instead of hard/soft balls. hehe
I almost forgot about the golfballs- thanks for the refresher.
The golf balls are awesome- they're like plutonium shrunk baseballs. They obviously go way deep. Usually we can hit in the range of 250-300 feet with dead pitches (like giving fielding practice, or slow pitches), but the golf balls go 400 easy.
The best part is trying to hit a golf ball when it's pitched from the mound. You can't see the damn thing, but even better- the pitcher is scared shitless for the same reason. It's bad enough having a line drive hit at your face. Plus, even a pitching screen won't save your ass since the holes are too big.
Dangerous stuff, it's like basewars. I think I'm going to have to sneak by the local driving range.
I'm an RBI 2/3 nerd, so I can perhaps provide at least a little insight here. Those games do indeed have a HR distance tracker. From what I've seen, I'd guess the fences are around 350 ft. down the lines, and about 400 to dead center (the stadium appears identical in both versions). The longest HRs I've ever seen went 476 ft. - I'm pretty sure that's the maximum distance, as I've seen it several times.
Unfortunately, this doesn't really correlate to the original RBI much at all. Home runs became a lot more rare in the sequels, and the ones that do go out are lucky to get much past 400 ft. If the fences are the same distance, then some of the guys in the original RBI have some serious power.
Also, for what it's worth, I live a block from a Little League field, and Beanball is totally right about how cool it is to take BP there.
Beefmaster, isn't that a kind of cow? I just read about it in Fast Food Nation.
I do agree about BP in a little league field. We used to have homerun derbys in high school at this field. There were office buildings in right field. Every time we'd smack the window--we had employeed cheering us on. (The employees didn't own the building--why should they care if we broke windows.)