RBI Online Championship Series #1 - Official Thread

[Turd]

The tournament begins now, and runs until all games are played.  When you finish your series, post the results here with a screenshot of the newspaper screen (I believe "ctrl e" takes a screenshot in nestopia, or you can get to it from the file menu).  I'll be tracking tourney progress at the following website:

http://challonge.com/ROCS1

- Round Robin - Every team plays every opponent once in a best of 3 series
- Top two teams play a 7 game series for the championship (tie-breakers will be head-to-head history, runs scored, runs allowed)
- Original ROM with 2P pause hack (if we do future tourneys, we can change this up)
- No All-Star teams
- Must use SP first
- Only one SP per game, so alternate between your games
- Anything goes style
- If you pinch hit and it doesn't require the pitcher to come out next inning, you must perform this substitution manually.
- No player can pinch hit for a pitcher unless there is at least one playable pitcher in said player's bullpen
- The "ball in the stands" glitch is allowed to result in a homerun, as there's nothing you can do about it
- For team selection, one player picks the matchup, the other picks which team he wants to be (decide on your own who does what)
- use same teams for the whole series for that round
- It's the first tourney I've ever run. Cut me some slack.

Let me know if you have connection issues or anything else...good luck!

Competitors:
Turd
SuckerPunch
Duane
Attezz
Re-Peat
Clambutt

[TbT]

Turd,

I'll be interested if you hold another season or whatever down the road. 

Something about pushing snow in a truck at all fkn hours of the day, 3-4 times week(for the last 2 months) thats got me in a funk.   

Also i remember absolutely nothing about getting it set up on the computer.  have to figure that all out again.

[Attezz]

I'll be around tonight to start getting games in.

Tecmoturd, any chance you can attach the 2p pause rom in the original post?

[Turd]

TBT, of course you're welcome to be in the next one...hit me up and I'll help you get setup.

Attezz...you can get that ROM from http://rbibaseball.us/netplay.php

If you still need it attached, I'll do it tonight...

[Turd]

I may have the nickname Turd, but you two super turds (re-poop and Attezz) were posting in the ATG forum, but I didn't see you in chat to play our games...it's late and I'm going to bed.  I might have time tomorrow, but Wednesday night is fam night, so if not tomorrow, then Thursday.

[Attezz]

I suck, I've  been trying to go to sleep for over an hour now, but can't seem to.

So, sorry.

[Turd]

It's fine, we're just doing it for fun anyways. l just would have gone to bed had I known noone was gonna be arond. My sleep is at a premium these days.

See ya tomorrow or thurs. 

[Suckerpunch]

I will be available after 10MT tonight and after 8MT the rest of the week.  Also, I can play during school hours before my daughter gets home.

[Suckerpunch]

Tecmoturd-Where do I download the Kaillera client from for version1.39?
Thanks!

[Attezz]

If you download straight from http://rbibaseball.us/netplay.php it already has the Kaillera agent in it

[Suckerpunch]

That's what I thought, but I watched that tutorial and it made seem like I had to change something.  I guess I have it right then.  Thanks!

[Turd]

Turd - Bo
Attezz - Ca

Game 1
Game was tied 1-1 for a while, but then Attezz pulled ahead 3-1.  I was able to tie it up late, but he pulled ahead in the 10th to win 5-3.

Game 2
Got my ass kicked. Not much else to say.

Game 3
Had a 2-0 lead until Wildong hit a 3-run jack, and after that, I fell apart. 

Summary: I suck at RBI, but had a blast playing, Attezz is a good shit...

[Turd]

Taking a break tomorrow night for family time, so I'll see you cats on Thursday or Friday...Att, I found some information on that issue...we'll hook up some evening and see what we can see...I had fun with our game, even though I lost by playing like a moron at the end of the game.

[Attezz]

...Att, I found some information on that issue...we'll hook up some evening and see what we can see...

Is it a cream? Because I've already tried almost every single one of the creams and the only one that worked even a little was Zovirax, but even that seemed mostly temporary.

[Suckerpunch]

I'm online tonight if anyone wants to play.

[Turd]

SuckerPunch: St. Louis
Turd: NY

Game was pretty tight, with a poor fielding play letting in some speedy St. Louis runners. He ends up finishing the game 2-0, as NY couldn't get any balls out of the infield.  Near the end of the game, Strawberry almost knocked in the tying run with a 2-run shot, but it just missed going out, and that sealed it for the SuckerPunchers.

On a sidenote, hamachi was being a total bitch, so we scrapped it for tonight and connected directly (cause I had my firewall forwarded already, so we technically didn't need hamachi).  The connection was as pristine as you could ask for.  Nary a hiccup or slow-down, it was like we were playing on a console.  What a sigh of relief after hitting a brick wall with Attezz' connection.

Tournament bracket will be updated shortly...

[Attezz]

Did you guys have any luck with Hamachi?

Do you think directly connecting is the way to go? (If so...can you teach me how that works?).

[Turd]

When hamachi isn't doing it's stupid "relayed tunnel" blue dot thing, it's the way to go cause you don't have to configure your router.  I read on the forums though that when it does that, it slows the connection way the fuck down, which is why we had such a shitty connection last time.  When you and I played the first time, we did it without Hamachi and that's why it was smooth as hell.

I was hoping hamachi would be a viable solution because I fear that noone on this board is gonna want to configure their routers when they are already averse to setting up their online connection the way it is.

I can teach you how to set it up though, it's not terrible, it's just not as easy as loading up hamachi and just playing. At least the first time...after it's setup, there's nothing to it and it's actually better cause then you don't need that step of loading up hamachi.

We'll try again tomorrow and see if Hamachi has corrected itself, otherwise, we'll readdress.

We need to get this going, cause this last game we played was a perfect connection.

[Turd]

Also, Attezz, i found two more hamachi alternatives that people on several forums claimed are better, free, and open source, which is cool.

See ya online tomorrow night for some testing if you have the time...

Edit...some of the tecmo guys have had the same problem. I found some alternatives that are thought to be better.

[Suckerpunch]

Nice game Turd!  If it wasn't for a few baserunning blunders and your screen saver you might have tied it up.  I couldn't believe that crucial error by Oz late in the game negating an easy double play.  I should have gone to Worrell late in the game cause Dayley sucked!
Once again the game was lag free and it was just like playing on the console.

I was thinking maybe Hamachi is being overloaded by all the Tecmo players that are starting to use it.  I do remember seeing a message when I was uploading it that said they were experiencing a high volume of traffic.  Maybe we should try it out during the day when there might be fewer users.

Thanks much Turd for all your help getting this going!