RBI 2014 Project Thread - Beta version 1.1 released!

[Turd]

Hey everyone, just a heads up that I'll be starting the preliminary stuff for the 2014 ROM.  Once I get everything setup and the lineups take shape, I'll be once again asking for people's expert assistance with lineups and rotations.  Baseball.

[VEGAS]

Hells YES!
I'm finishing up finals this week, then I'm free. Let me know if you want help with projected lineups or rotations for AL teams

[Turd]

WIll do.  I'll always need lineup advice, though it might be kind of early, I need to start somewhere.

[BeefMaster]

The Twins are going to be such a terrible RBI team this year.  Brian Dozier led the team in homers last year with 18, Mauer was the only regular with an OPS above .750, and their "speed" guys (Aaron Hicks and Pedro Florimon) didn't get on base enough to steal all that much.

[Turd]

Yeah, and compounding that is the fact that I rate my roms on a per-season basis and not on a 3-year average.  I like my ROM to represent a season in time.   (though admittedly, I have been thinking of changing it to an average, maybe it'd help people have a little more enjoyment when their player has a down year).

[BeefMaster]

I like the way you do it, and the Twins have been so bad lately that three-year averages don't help them.  Willingham would've been better, I guess, but Mauer was about the same as last year and was hurt most of 2011, and a lot of the young guys struggled last year, too (Dozier, in particular, was awful).  They're just not a great baseball team, and they don't even have the token power hitters to put up good RBI numbers.

[Turd]

feel free to start posting projected lineups, though I'll likely ask again to shore them up when it gets closer...

[BeefMaster]

Twins, pending further acquisitions

Presley CF
Dozier 2B
Mauer 1B
Willingham LF
Pinto C
Plouffe 3B
Doumit RF
Florimon SS

Parmelee
Colabello
Escobar
Mastroianni

Nolasco
Hughes
Burton
Perkins

[Turd]

Thanks, beef! My biggest hurdle right now (and every season) is rating their pitch speeds.  It's the only piece of data I have to manually look up for each player.  But, once I get the data, I just convert into RBI speeds and tweak here or there.  I've got the Brewers and the Twins done.

The good news is I'm starting REALLY early this year, so I should be sitting great when things heat up and all I'll really need at that point is to react to trades and free agency.

I'm trying to work out a donor-less cart sale again this year as well as working on a newer, cleaner website...

[Turd]

If I had time, and I don't, I'd rate an "alternate ROM" that had 2 different starting pitchers and two different relievers, and maybe a slightly different lineup.  That way you could have almost a full rotation, and a little difference in your lineup.

Too bad my ol' partner that used to help fell off the face of the earth, or I'd have some help in that area.

[brahmy]

If I had time, and I don't, I'd rate an "alternate ROM" that had 2 different starting pitchers and two different relievers, and maybe a slightly different lineup.  That way you could have almost a full rotation, and a little difference in your lineup.

Too bad my ol' partner that used to help fell off the face of the earth, or I'd have some help in that area.

If you or someone else do happen to keep track of the "alternate ROM" players for RBI1, we could get some good synergy going.... you'd be ready to plug the full roster right into our RBI3 modifier and spit out a complete 2014 preseason with 10 pitchers & 14 batters per team.

[mjvanhekken]

OK, so I play RBI regularly still, primarily with my son--and I play it the same way I've been playing it for the last 20(?) years...on my NES with the original game cartridge.  I have some questions if anybody feels like answering...can you play online?  against other people?  if so, do you actually play on your computer, or can you somehow play on your tv/using a controller?  I have also seen on-line screen-shots of contemporary players...is this only on-line stuff? or can you somehow get games that have more than the original teams that we all know and hate...I have more questions but that's enough to get started...thanks if you have anything to say.--MVH

[Turd]

can you play online

Yes, but only with an emulator on a computer

.is this only on-line stuff? or can you somehow get games that have more than the original teams that we all know and hate

Yes, I put out a 30-Team ROM every year with updated players, that's what the thread you're currently in is for.  You can play it on a computer, or get it put on a cart and play it on an NES.

I hope to be selling cart versions this year again. Any more questions, ask away...

[mjvanhekken]

Sorry, have no idea about anything you said...I'm beyond old school...I don't know what an emulator is or a ROM or a cart or a cart version...all I know is I play RBI original version on an NES...I have wireless internet and a modem (Comcast/xfinity), but wouldn't have a clue as to how to play RBI on a computer...do you use keys? or a mouse?  that sounds like zero fun to do it that way...by the same token, I think I'd enjoy playing others and see who out there has game..

[Turd]

A cart is short for cartridge, what you put in your old-school NES.  A ROM is the data that existed on those old NES carts ripped to your computer so you can play it on your PC.  An emulator is a piece of free software that "emulates" the NES, and it's the thing that plays the "ROM" (or game).  You play it on your computer using NES controllers or gamepads or whatever. I have actual NES/SNES controller adapters that let me plug my real NES controllers into my computer.  You can buy them at retrousb.com.

Otherwise, what we do is we take that ROM, edit all teh new players onto it, and then "burn" it back to a cart to play on our NES.

Make sense?

[mjvanhekken]

That makes some sense, yes--thanks.  How much-ballpark (lol) do those adapters go for to play with a controller to your computer?  Also, how much would it cost me all in to get whatever tech I need to play the way you're describing...also, where or how do you get your hands on the ROM updates?  They're not sold in stores are they?  Lastly, know any good places on-line or real world to get a decent working NES console anymore?  Thanks again for the time...

[Turd]

You're totally hijacking my project thread, brother, but I'll let it slide.

The adapters are like, $27 a piece I think...

The ROM updates are not sold in stores.  They are done by me, for free, and you can get them at rbibaseball.us.  My 2014 ROM is currently in development.

To play the way I'm describing, you need:
Nestopia (emulator)
Rom (the game - get at rbibaseball.us, or there are also some ROMs on dee-nee.com's homepage)
A gamepad or other way to control the players on the PC.
Playing online is another whole monster I won't get into, since by the sound of it, you need to get your feet wet first in just playing the game on your computer.

Lastly, we will possibly be making the 2014 rom into carts and selling them...covers the cost of the circuit boards and whatnot.  We'll see how that goes...

[Shooty]

Blue Jays

SS Reyes
OF Cabrera
OF Bautista
1B Encarnacion
3B Lawrie
OF Rasmus
C  Navarro
2B Goins

BN Gose
BN Lind
BN Izturis
BN Sierra

SP Dickey
SP Buehrle
RP Delabar
RP Janssen

[VEGAS]

Red Sox

OF Victorino
2B Pedroia
1B Ortiz
C Napoli
3B Middlebrooks
OF Gomes
SS Boagerts
OF Bradley Jr.

BN Nava
BN Pierzynski
BN Carp
BN Ross

SP Lester
SP Buchholz
RP Brewslow
RP Uehara

* Yes, I know David Ortiz is the DH with only occasional games at 1B, and that while Napoli was a Catcher for 90% of his career he is now the 1B, but I cannot envision a RS lineup without both of them

[Turd]

Thanks homies