super batter up

[briscoejr]

I just recently started playing my old SNES and my favorite game, Super Batter Up.

Is this a version of RBI Baseball?? There are many simularities, crying runners when out, view, pitching, etc.

[ultimate7]

I had never heard of this game, I'm fairly certain it's not a version of RBI, it doesn't look like it was made by Tengen

[nightwulf]

Wow. I'd never heard of this game, so I grabbed a copy. This game is, without a doubt, RBI Baseball's bastard child.

True the game wasn't made by Tengen, but it was by Namco, who was the original publisher (developer?) of the game.

Edit: Attached about 33 seconds of proof. Listen if you dare. Not for the faint of heart.

Nightwulf

[Dryden]

It's so...  peppy and upbeat.  Like a real ballpark organist got wasted and decided to play the RBI theme.

Which kind of makes we wonder- has anyone ever been to a ballgame where the ballpark organist DID play the RBI theme?

[Dryden]

How does the gameplay differ from RBI?  Exactly the same?

[briscoejr]

Gameplay is basically the same.  The players are a little less "cartoonish".

All of the MLB teams are there with the appropriate colored uniforms.  All of the stats are from the 1991 MLB season.  There are 5 pitchers per team and 4 pinch hitters/pinch fielders.

[JoeDirt]

anybody have a rom of this game that fceu can play?

[nightwulf]

Found it at vimm.net, but it's an SNES game ...

Nightwulf

[BeefMaster]

ZSNES works well for me - download it from this page (it's toward the bottom).

[Dryden]

Is there a setting for ZSNES to get Super Batter Up to run?  When I load the ROM, all I'm getting is a black screen with some words on the bottom, and then it just sits there...

[nightwulf]

I couldn't get it to run out-of-the-box with ZSNES either. Being lazy, I decided not to mess with it. Ran fine in snes9x though.

Nightwulf

[Gantry]

Wow, that mp3 has me convinced that it's a clear upgrade from the old Family Stadium series.  This is definitely FAQ material, well done Briscoe Jr!

[Vitb6]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3079566503&category=11044

[Gantry]

Sounds like a good purchase, though I don't have a SNES anymore.  Had one for a couple month, but Crystal picked it up recently.  Super Bomberman is the best 4-player game ever...

At least on a console, before that the original NBA Jam, where Jason (Reggie Lewis) and I (Kevin McHale) never lost a match in about 20 games....

[BeefMaster]

Aargh, I hadn't actually tried playing before I posted the link to ZSNES - it gave me a black screen, too.  I guess I need to grab SNES9x, then, because I need to try out this game.

[BeefMaster]

Okay, I just tried it.  I also quick tried Super RBI and the Genesis version of RBI 3, and then I played a half-inning of NES RBI 3 to regain my bearings.  Super Batter Up is a lot like RBI - the fielding didn't seem as smooth, and I didn't like the batting graphics (they threw in a bit more eye candy, but it's more distracting than anything), but it played similarly.  I even managed to give up a homer to Matt Nokes in the couple innings I played.

Super RBI and the Genesis RBI 3, though, were disasters.  The batting is basically like Super Batter Up, but they changed the fielding a whole bunch.  The view is closer to the field, so you have no idea where your players are.  There's a radar in the bottom-right corner, a la Griffey, but it's really inexact, so it's easy to miss balls even when you think you're lined up with them.  Also, it took me forever to figure out that L and R were used for controlling baserunners; the least they could've done was assign multiple buttons for that.  Those of you who hate the NES version of RBI 3 would find it to be a treasure compared to these pieces of crap - I can't believe they made 3 more versions for the Genesis.

[Dryden]

I gave super batter up an extended tryout last night.  Aside from the music and the (relative) graphical improvements, the game sucks.  It's freaking impossible to throw it over the plate and catch a corner.  It's either "here's my big fat meatball, hit it", or a ball.

Sticking with the first and the best, thank ya very much.

[Gantry]

I finally downloaded and played Super Batter Up.  Obviously this game was based off of RBI and doesn't do too bad a job.  The controls are the same and the look/feel has been updated.  Pretty fair update, but definitely not the same game as the original.  The music is the closest match...

I'm too lazy to look, but does anyone have a non vimm.net ROM I can put on my ROMs page?  The vimm one has an advertisement, so I'd prefer not to use that one...

[BeefMaster]

I got mine from planetemu.net.  The ZIP just has the ROM, and I didn't see any overt advertising anywhere...