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[Turd]

I've been messing around with the juice stuff I got, and I figured I'd attach the ROM to see how others stack up against a juiced opponent.

Now, I'm not the greatest RBI player that ever lived, but I consistently crush the CPU on the original ROM.  Playing this one, I lose occasionally, triples and doubles are harder to come by, and I actually have to fight to win the game.  The one caveat is that you have to sort of play slurve.  Otherwise you can inside pitch to back them off and then throw outside for a strike every time.  As long as you avoid that style of play, it's pretty challenging. So I do plenty of curves, but I just avoid pitches where I know I'd be exploiting the dumb batting AI.  I consider it the same sort of thing as not lurching when playing tecmo.  It's just cheap, and it's no fun

I've taken my mostly 2008 (and a little of 2009, but not much) ROM, updated all the uniforms (now that all 30 teams are on one ROM), and applied juice to make the fielders hella fast (but not so fast that the game isn't playable).  The only time they seem super fast is when they are chasing down the runner on the base path. Don't get too greedy, or they'll catch you!

I've also juiced the arm strength to the point where it can't get any more juiced without having the CPU throw so erratically that they cause an error on every play.

Give it a whirl, play a few games, post your thoughts as well as your game results (score, batting average, or better yet, a screen cap of your newspaper screen).

P.S. I know some of the rosters probably are no longer accurate, but this is last year's edit.  I'm doing a complete overhaul after the 2009 season is over.

**update**

New ROM as of 11:50PM CST (I had the Mariners pitchers duplicated onto the Padres)

[Turd]

I should clarify...I'm not looking for feedback on my ROM ratings, just on how a ROM plays with the juice.

[JoeDirt]

I enjoyed it.  Won 10-3...gave up two bombs to Carlos Beltran.  You're right...makes it more interesting if you play slurve.  NYY pretty good...Damon lefty, though! 

[Turd]

Did you win playing slurve? Just curious how you were able to score 10. I did it twice now but it was on huge innings. Usually my scores are below 5. I you play any more games, let me know. I want to make it as difficult as possible, so l owing what you did to win will help us know what needs to be more difficult. 

Thanks for the heads up on Damon, I'll fix that stuff next edit.

[bonny]

Plays great. Gordon saved my ass with a pinch hit bomb late.
Thanks for all the work you're putting in.

[Turd]

Beautiful, bonny, that's what I'm lookin' for.  Bet you never played a 4-2 game vs. the normal CPU

[bonny]

Close one.
Werth with 2 HRs.

[Turd]

Thanks again Bonny. Are you playing slurve? If not, what style of pitching are you using. 

[bonny]

I try to throw strikes. Slurve I guess?

[Turd]

Precisely, thanks.

[Stock]

Try playing straight pitch (or at least try to win a game without striking out any CPU players).
I think it might be close to impssible to win.
I came really close in my 3rd of 3 games (losing 4-3).

[TβG]

did you speed up the CPU defense, but leave the player controlled defense the same? or did you also slow down the player controlled defense?

[JoeDirt]

TBT...I did play slurve...sorry I didn't get you a screen shot.  I'll play again tonight and do so. 

So most people seem to have trouble scoring against the CPU moreso than not being scored upon by the CPU?  Just curious.

Fantastic ROM, TBTer.

[TβG]

haha!  tecmoturd is NOT TBT!!111

[TβG]

here's my result.  i strike out A LOT.

i play straighpitch against the comp, but i stay away from the hitter.  so i typically start on the far side of the pitching rubber and don't curve the pitch at all.

i found it pretty simple to steal second off the comp because most of the time, the pitcher would get in the way of the throw and relay it to 2nd.

also, with the pitcher's enhanced curve, i foresee a lot of walks...

[JoeDirt]

haha!  tecmoturd is NOT TBT!!111

He's not?  Well then who is?

He still does the ol' jug-in-the-freezer routine, though, right?

[RBIKING]

Is the ROM available to download? 

[JoeDirt]

Is the ROM available to download? 

see the bottom of the first  post from not-TBT...

[Turd]

I usually try to throw strikes, although not strictly straight pitch.  I feel it's so boring to throw straight, so even if it doesn't accomplish much more, I like throwing curves and whatnot just to feel like I'm doing something as a pitcher.   Like I said originally, I also don't like abusing the dumb AI of the batter.  When I used to play non-juiced, I had to make myself not take extra bases on missed fielding and now I feel like I don't have to really worry about that...any missed fielding results in at most a double, as I've not hit a triple yet.  Perhaps a speed increase on the baserunners part for people who hit more triples (which I already worked into the equation as it is). Maybe I'll have to step that up, I don't know...

As far as the enhanced pitcher curve, I haven't been walked yet, but that's cause I'm an aggressive batter.  I like the curve cause it feels more like I'm playing a man player (not exactly, but more like it). If this continues to play well, it'll be more inspiration for me to write my season tracker application.  We shall see...

did you speed up the CPU defense, but leave the player controlled defense the same? or did you also slow down the player controlled defense?

I did nothing to the MAN controlled team.  I just sped up the CPU...as I stated earlier too, my base running speed might be on the low end, so I might look at bumping that up in my next edit.

[RBIKING]

Wow completely missed that.. thanks!