RBI Variations

[ultimate7]

Or if you want to use 2 different teams and not play again with the same teams.  I also often reset the game between each games, even when play 1 SP rule, so that we can choose 2 different teams, that doesn't make it less natural

[BeeJay]

That wasn't even an argument Bly, you just defined a word and jumped to a conlcusion.

[Big Apple RBI Champ]

bly and i discussed this in our 3 gamer last week.  obviously both of us are staunch supporters of 1 sp.  however, here's where we differ.  if it goes into extra innings and both relievers have no gas, then the way i play is that both guys can agree that they can use the other starting pitcher in relief.  i reset the console between games, hence i can use a starter in game 2.

when i asked bly if i could bring in the other starter, bly said yes, but then i wouldn't be able to use him next game because we are not resetting the console.  i decided to pinch hit anyway and take my chances with just the two relievers the next game.  the game had a glich, and left my pitcher out there, even after i pinch hit for him.   i was willing to take him out, but bly said i should leave him in, because we were playing anything goes.  i won the game without having to go to my other starter.  bly is a stand-up guy in that regard.

it was like a rules seminar.

btw, neither bly nor i had ever seen that glitch.  here's a hypothesis- maybe it just glitches with schiraldi.  that would be an amazing discovery by me, and would merit HUGE props on this site's FAQ page, Gantry!

[Gantry]

That glitch used to happen quite a bit for us and isn't limited at all to Calvin, sorry.  On the glitch page in the glossary:

Fucked up substitution - A very common glitch in which you pinch hit for the pitcher, yet he's still pitching the following inning. I get this glitch about half the time I play. A somewhat rarer version of this is where you'll pinch hit for the pitcher, sub the pitcher, and the pinch hitter will still be hitting next time the pitcher is up. This glitch seems to be exclusive with the first player.

Certainly doesn't happen half the time anymore, wonder what is different about the way I used to play and now to make it more uncommon...

[BeeJay]

Speaking of strange glitches, I just had a homer robbed from me in a rom.  I hit a line drive to center field, just right of the black area, clearly over the wall.  Well, the ball hits the stands, falling onto the field.  Then, for some reason, the center fielder threw the ball home, even though this was my leadoff hitter.  I guess it wasn't all that interesting, but unusual nonetheless.

[Flood]

"When you really want to get into the game, get Tengen RBI Baseball."
"The only videogame licensed by the Major League Baseball Player's Association for your Nintendo!"
"It's you and the pros. Throw Roger Clemen's Heater. Flash Vince Coleman the steal sign."
"It's going, going...GONE!"
"RBI Baseball. The one the pros pitch."

Now that's fuckin' natural...

[ultimate7]

In all the years I've played, I don't think I've ever seen the substitution glitch.  BeeJay, I don't fully understand what happened to you, did they call it a HR, but the ball just ended up back in play?  Or did it end up being a Double?

[Big Apple RBI Champ]

Gantry,

No way this happens half the time.  Bly and I have played thousands of games, and neither of us had ever seen it.

Respek

BARC

[Gantry]

It literally used to happen half the time for awhile when we played in college, I'd said at least a 6 month period.  Like I explained in my previous post, that is no longer the case anymore.   In college I played almost exclusively California and was always player one.  I'm trying to remember my pitching order back then, I wonder if that had something to do with it.  Pretty sure I started Donnie Moore everytime and then went to Witt or Corbet.  It was always around inning 8 or 9 when this glitch occurred.  I should do some save states and break out fceud and get to the bottom of it...

But it is weird, for something that used to happen all the time I never see it anymore.  Maybe once every couple of months.  There has to be something with the way I ordered my pitchers or subbed my pinch hitters back then, because it really was a 50% thing...

[Nails]

I have no doubt that it happened so frequently.  Bugs are not random; they are the result of a certain order of events under specific conditions.   

I have never witnessed the substition glitch either.

[fightonusc]

Sometimes, glitches appear to happen when you play the RBI Drinking Game.

"Hey, Partsie??? Whazt Alezadner doin' there? I KNOW I subbed hiz ass out fer Willie. I need another Old Style! Dee-Nee!"

[Big Apple RBI Champ]

Bly No No and I were certainly not in our right minds when we witnessed this glitch, but I doubt we both were hallucinating the glitch.

[BeeJay]

In all the years I've played, I don't think I've ever seen the substitution glitch. BeeJay, I don't fully understand what happened to you, did they call it a HR, but the ball just ended up back in play? Or did it end up being a Double?

I'm having issues explaining myself lately.  The ball came back into play, while I was still on first base (I wasn't running thinking it was a HR).  Then I started running to second, and the cf threw it home for some reason.  I wound up with a triple.

[ultimate7]

That is strange