Quick online RBI primer

[Gantry]

http://dee-nee.com/rbi/faq.shtml#ONLINE

[Lips]

Online RBI is up and ready for people to play.  Vitb6 and I played two games tonight.  It was pretty solid, sitting back and playing RBI on the PC.

We noticed only about 5% lag, so that was very good.  We played straight pitch, though...so curvers will have to give the online play a try and report back.

So far the only bad thing for Vit and I was getting used to the Gravis pad.  We had more than the average amount of fuck ups...throwing to the incorrect base, retreating poorly, etc.  That'll just take some time getting used...unless we somehow connect our NES controllers (feel free to comment on how to do this).

But all-in-all, very fun and enjoyable.

Oh yeah, the games:

Game 1, Vit beat me 7-6 with a late comeback...Cards over Tigers.
Game 2, I beat Vit, 15-13 with a 7-run 7th inning.  Tigers over Cards.

Jason was lighting it up in the second game with Blank Morris who finished 4/5 with 2 HRs and 2 singles...and 6 RBIs.  Ozzie almost had a frickin' homer...if it wasn't for the run-in technique.

One thing that I caught myself doing was saying "dee-nee" and "dah-nah" a lot to my computer screen.

Ok, let's get some more test tries in.  Post an issues here.

[Gantry]

THe groundwork is laid boys.  Find a friend in chat and play a game...

One silly thing I noticed when testing for Ryno & JoeDirt (who wanted to play first but the server wasn't working) is to make sure you actually load the game in FCEU before connecting to the server.  And make sure you both use the same ROM...

Lips and Vit both had a weird issue where the screen black for about 5 seconds, though sound still worked.  Let us know if anyone else has that issue...

[Lips]

Oh yeah...I'm not sure how online RBI used to be played (connecting at one person's IP)... for substitutions, we did the following:

For pitcher sub, we moved the pitcher around like crazy.
For batter sub, we dropped him into the back of the box.

BUT Gantry and I noticed that you can type back and forth in the network play window.  So...if you don't play RBI full screen, you can type back and forth between at-bats, innings, etc...  Like I said in my above post...I was dee-nee-ing to the my computer screen too much.  Next time...I'll share.

Sharing is caring.

[MIKE]

how do i play im there now

[Gantry]

MIKE:

Lips, nightwulf and I are working on the server right now.  It'll take a day before you can connect and play.  Or try again in the morning.  You have to find an opponent beforehand.  But do us a solid and wait until tomorrow until you try again, your connections are messing things up a bit...

[mike]

Ok ive been connecting when i do i loose control and cant do any thing sorry if i have been screwing up connection. I need to play have not played in a long time!!!

[Gantry]

No prob buddy... You typically just want to connect, don't play the player number.  Once you and a friend connect, player one is the first controller.  Give it a whirl tomorrow...

And register so you can get in chat and find someone to play with!

[mike]

I will reg I found your site a while ago thought it was dead out of chance checked again glad to see its alive. Going to game tomarrow so will try to play.

[Gantry]

Sounds good...

[Vitb6]

I must say it was pretty fun.

I was DEE-NEE'ing and DAH-NAH'ing  to my CPU too.

Lips-  that runs in on Ozzie was perfect, held me to a triple and then Blank actually got out to end the inning.  But how was that Vince Coleman HR?  DEE-NEE!  2 outs.  Pitcher hit.  Then Coleman cracks one 4 rows back to tie the game at that point.  I just started laughing outloud as I could envision you just saying, "ASS".

Good times.

[Gantry]

Online RBI is definitely fun.  Just a whole different experience, you are by yourself against a real opponent.  Works well...

Quick tip - If you are getting lag, make sure you have your screen maximized.  Mine initially ran like crap until I ran the game in full screen mode...

I personally feel the game runs a bit faster and the timing is definitely different with the tiny lag.  But it's close enough to the real thing.  I'm impressed...

[Lips]

I agree.  The game seemed to play faster.

But anyways...are we gonna get two fce ultra junkies to try out a ROM today, and give us some more feedback?

I'm waiting...

[MarquisEXB]

Is it true? Is RBI really working online with little lag? I'm pretty impressed that you guys got this working.

As for the NES joysticks, it can be done, no doubt. I built an SNES -> par port converter. Worked OK for a bit, until the box got some milleage, then it stopped. I probably have to resolder it to get it working again.

It's just so much easier to get a good USB joystick than do that, but it's certainly possible. Of course you could just buy this:

http://www.sealiecomputing.com/retrozone/

[Lips]

Solid, that looks to be my next purchase.  I'll wait a couple days to make an order, though...as it looks like that site isn't shipping anything until the 12th.

[Gantry]

Order two Lips...  

[Lips]

I figured...

[Ryno23]

Joe Dirt and I played a couple of games tonight.  Very little lag time.  There were a couple of instances that got choppy, but it didn't hurt anything.

Game one we did straight pitch Joe was DT and I was CA.  Ruppert hit a pinch Granny to tie the game, Hndrks hit an out of the screen pinch homer, and Wilfong went pinch Dong as well.  Final score 15-11

Next game we go any pitch goes and I got really lucky and hit homers with Hrbek and Gladden as the Twins beat the Giants 2-0.  Joe and I combined for 11 hits and 27 K's.

Once joe gets a controller, he'll probably kill me.

[JoeDirt]

Awesome!  I am really impressed with the game play.  Curve is a lil difficult, but both players have the same issues...

[nightwulf]

Hell of a series. I finished up at "work" and caught half the first game and most of the second.

Nightwulf