Tengen Stadium dimensions

[Metal King]

I was playing RBI 3 today,  the dimensions don't look all that different from the first one.  They probably put the LF and RF corners at about 350 ft just to make it more realistic.  It just doesn't look any bigger to me.

Home runs hit to left center and right center just over the wall in RBI 2 and 3 usually go for 385-395 feet.  Straightaway center right at the top over the fence is around 400-410, and where the seats end it is 430.

The ball gets more carry in rbi 2-3 than the first one  BY FAR!  I was using the Tengen Team and getting JAMMED and still hitting 410-420 foot shots.  This was by a guy with a .350 average and 70 home runs though!  I blasted a 488 foot shot without doing the sub-trick,  my high with the trick was 509.

Every one of the Tengen Team pitchers can still throw 105 mph in the 5-6-7th innings, and their curve ability is unreal!  Each hitter can hit it 470-480 feet also, even the guys with less than 30 homers.  Plus they run alot faster than Rickey Henderson on the game, it's a bitch to play against them, but fun as hell to use them!

There's also a little neat thing in the game.  On the '84 Padres roster there's a Peart, as in Neil Peart, and on the '83 Phillies there's a Lifeson (with 30 hr), as in Alex Lifeson.  And on one of the Tengen Teams there's a Lee as in Geddy.  One of the programmers really must like Rush......

I hate to say this but I like RBI 3 better.  Not just 'cause I played it today.  More teams, hr distances, older teams/players, wooden bats (hah), plus you can switch around your lineups before you start.

That won't stop me from playing RBI though, still gotta try for the centerfield screen changing homerun.

[BeefMaster]

I hate to say this but I like RBI 3 better.

I was nearly excommunicated for saying this once.

I agree with your assessment of the distances in RBI 3 - I've always figured about 400 to CF and 350 down the lines.

Mad props to fightonusc and Shooty for their kickin' math skilz.

[fknmclane]

Awesome, awesome thread.  Can't believe I waited a few days to read it.

Can we really trust Shooty's math skills though?  He is after all Canadian and uses that crazy, crazy metric system.

Oh yeah, I have nothing to add as far as numbers or what is or isn't a square.  I suck at all things math.

[Shooty]

Can we really trust Shooty's math skills though?  He is after all Canadian and uses that crazy, crazy metric system.

I thought about that so I even measured in inches to not confuse you dullards Americans.

[Big Hath]

- I'm constantly amazed that Tengen Stadium is completely symetrical except that the poles supporting the lights in right field are each one "light" wider than the poles in left field.

this factoid has blown my mind

[Gantry]

This may be the greatest RBI thread in years, I want more

[Shooty]

The shitty part about my method is that I can't apply it outside the stadium.  The measurements only work on the playing surface.  You can't come come up with measurements for the lights and sky becasue they are elevated items...so you can't say a ball that hits the lights is a 500 foot blast becasue a) I can't even measure it accurately and b) it depends on the trajectory of the ball as where it would really land (and therefore how monterous a shot it is.

[TβG]

can you tell how high the fence is?  and do you agree with my theory that it is the same height all the way around the outfield?

[Shooty]

can you tell how high the fence is?  and do you agree with my theory that it is the same height all the way around the outfield?

I'd have to give it some serious thought on how to measure the fence, but I do not believe it is the same height all the way around the outfield.  I mean, I know its probably meant to be, but not sure if it actually is.

The wall height in CF is less than half an inch, while the height at the foul poles is 0.875 inches.  Not sure if this is a matter of perspective or whether it actually is different.  If ayone wants to offer advice on this, I'm all ears.  I haven't taken a math class in about 14 years.

[fightonusc]

I reran the dimensions using the same formula, and I came up with slightly different numbers than Shooty:

CF: 344 ft.
RF/LF lines: 234 ft.
RCF/LCF: 315 ft.

If you were measuring off of the computer monitor, maybe your resolution is stretching the field a bit?

[Shooty]

Hey fighton...can you do a couple a screen shots of the outfield wall in CF and at the poles (i.e. up close pictures) If we get up close photos, it will remove the distance/perspective variable out of the equation.

And yes, I was measuring off the computer screen with a shitty tape measurer, so my calculations are probably a bit off.

[TβG]

maybe someone has a gaphics program that can measure the picture on the screen, that should be more accurate.  maybe photoshop or quark or whatever has a tool that will do that. 

[fightonusc]

maybe someone has a gaphics program that can measure the picture on the screen, that should be more accurate.  maybe photoshop or quark or whatever has a tool that will do that. 

That's what I was using, so I feel pretty strong about these measurements (plus, I used millimeters as part of the "measurement exchange program" between Shooty and I).

[TβG]

millimeters are good, are they smaller than picas?

[Shooty]

Here's what the field looks like from overhead.  Keep in mind that this in only what the field looks like (the walls and rest of the stadium are inappropriately skewed, but the on field view is good.

[TβG]

...now the infield is a perfect square.

[ultimate7]

From that view it looks like a HR to CF is about twice as far (exaggeration) as a HR down the line

[Shooty]

From that view it looks like a HR to CF is about twice as far (exaggeration) as a HR down the line

9.5 CM down the line, 14 CM to CF...so about a 1.5:1 ratio which is consistant with the distances fighton and I have calculated.

[TβG]

so that's how it really looks?  if we were looking at the entire field from above?  and we'd really be seeing just the top of the wall, right?  not the entire face of the wall?    so now everything's official?

[Shooty]

so that's how it really looks?  if we were looking at the entire field from above?  and we'd really be seeing just the top of the wall, right?  not the entire face of the wall?    so now everything's official?

Yes, just the field is the only good part of that mock up..  As for the walls, yes, we would just be seeing the top (i.e. not how its shown here).