RBI2=Piece of Shit

[Attezzobal]

JoeDirt, myself, and many others prefer low scoring games to high scoring games.

Greatest game I ever played was a 1-0 affair against Houston that went down to the 18th inning and involved a Willie McGee walk off home run.

Pitching duel's are where it's at.

[crashing bore]

You'll excuse my ignorance I hope. Sorry, I thought the majority of folks here did the straight pitch thing. I concur about the pitching duals and there is nothing better than pitching a no no ('cept maybe a perfect game but my fielders always seemed to fsck me out of them with an ill-timed donk on the noggin').

[Metal King]

Well it's a big change from the original.  Rbi 3 is pretty much the same as 2, but 3 has all the 1990 teams plus the division winning teams from '83-'89, so you can play as the '84 Tigers, '83 White Sox (Fisk),  '84 Padres with Gwynn, it's pretty cool.  And the 1984 Cubs have immense power for their stats.  Billy Hatcher, for example, is on the game,  .111 average, 0 homers.  I've hit 450-foot shots with him before.  Thad Bosley too,  2 homers, 250's avg,  i've hit 460-foot shots with him, it's crazy.

I'll always love the original one best though.  I just wish it had home run distances,  oh well.

I made a list of all the current players from both RBI 2 and 3,  it's quite alot bigger than the original's list.

[BeefMaster]

Glad to hear that someone else doesn't completely hate RBI 3.  Does your player list have their power/speed/contact attributes?  Nightwulf, our resident technical wizard, extracted that data awhile ago... I can't find the thread, but fortunately I have a copy on my hard drive that I'm attaching to this post.

You're right, the '84 Cubbies are ridiculously good, considering their stats; pretty much every other team's ratings are directly based on their stats.

[ultimate7]

All the '84 Cubs Powers are high (even Steve Lake is 831) but all of their contacts are 66.  I guess they didn't get rights to a bunch of names for the older teams?

[BeefMaster]

All the '84 Cubs Powers are high (even Steve Lake is 831) but all of their contacts are 66.  I guess they didn't get rights to a bunch of names for the older teams?

RBI 3 had an MLBPA license, but anyone who wasn't currently active wouldn't have been part of the MLBPA, and Tengen wouldn't have had the rights to use their names in the game.  It's really noticeable with the older teams, as about half of them are just initials and positions.

[Metal King]

I never got the instruction booklets for RBI 2 or 3.  I bought one from FuncoLand and one from K-Mart.  And on the American League All-Stars,  or 1990 Toronto,  Kelly Gruber has 31 homers, but he hits like shit.  There are guys with fewer than 10 homers who can hit it farther.  Must be a programming error.

Do you know that you can play as the Tengen Team?  On the title screen,  press select, start, A, and B together to get the programmers list of names (if you want to).  To play as the Tengen Team,  go to "continue" or "password" (i forget which one is to which game),  and type in TENGEN and then the number 11 or 22 after it,  but #12 and a few others up to 22 also work.  In Rbi 2,  you type in "TENGTOP" and then the numbers.

These guys can hit the ball 5 miles!  There's one guy, Mike Williams (MeMikeMe) who has 70 homers and a .350 average.  He's a lefty too, heh heh.  And most of the players are faster than Rickey Henderson on the bases.

There are actually 2 Tengen Teams on RBI 3,  but the names are just different.  I think there's just one on RBI 2.  I'm sure if anyone's played a season on RBI 2 or 3, you've made it to face the Tengen Team.  It's a whole lot more fun to play AS that team!!!

[BeefMaster]

Thanks for the info - I didn't know it was possible to use the Tengen Team.  I posted a thread earlier about playing against them - the code to play them using the '90 Cubs is 14TRTIF44, if you're up for it.  I usually show some level of mercy against the computer, but I have to pull out all the stops to beat those guys.

If you look through the team data, there are actually four Tengen Teams, all of whom have different names but the same stats.  I have no idea how (if at all) one accesses the other teams.  Also (something I discovered trying to get to the player data before Nightwulf extracted and formatted it nicely), the string "Hitting Editor" shows up in some mysterious areas of the ROM.  This is a thread I started about it, although we never really figured anything out.  The best thing that came from it was that Nightwulf hacked a copy of the RBI 3 ROM to enable the '85 Cardinals, who for some reason aren't selectable.

After rereading that thread, I need to load up my copy of RBI 3 and see if '87 Trammell is screwed up on the original cartridge.

[Metal King]

You're welcome.

To play against the Tengen Team using the American League Allstars,  type in FL685CK74 (this password is locked in my head, lol).

The farthest homer I've ever hit on RBI 3 I THINK is 512 feet by Jannetty of one of the Tengen Teams.  I have pages and pages of home run distances, but I think 512 is my high.

There's a trick to hitting far homers like that.  Go to the substitutes screen and click on a big hr hitter (it works on everyone though),  then un-click it.....geez how the hell did that go......No wait.  Move the cursor to any bench player and make sure his name appears on the top.  Now click on the same player's name to sub the same guy for the same guy.  Try and make good contact and you should be able to hit the ball farther.  I'll have to try this again so it won't sound so confusing to you, lol.

[BeefMaster]

512?  Wow... longest I've ever seen is 476, by Sandberg a few times (I use the '90 Cubs the most often) - I assumed it was the max.  512 makes sense, though,  being a nice round number in binary.

[BeeJay]

512 makes sense, though,  being a nice round number in binary.

That sounds to me like robot talk.  I'm gonna have to notify Gerlost about this.

[ultimate7]

Now click on the same player's name to sub the same guy for the same guy.  Try and make good contact and you should be able to hit the ball farther.  I'll have to try this again so it won't sound so confusing to you, lol.

I wonder if this could actually work, it sounds like it could be a PH bonus glitch, where you trick the CPU into giving your player the bonus power.

[BeefMaster]

I don't know whether RBI 2/3 have the PH bonus... with five bench players on each team, that would change my lineup strategy somewhat (I usually just start the best players and only pinch hit for the pitcher).

[Metal King]

It's definitely a pinch-hitting extra power glitch.  You can tell if you're hitting the ball further.

The farthest homerun I've ever hit WITHOUT using that trick is 496 feet, by the 1990 Darryl Strawberry (I guess the team doesn't matter, it's the same player).

With the Tengen Team,  you don't even need the trick to hammer 470-480-490 foot homers!