BREAKING... (The official RBI '14 Thread)

[RBI Empire]

I haven't. I've tried a few times. I also haven't been able to throw them out on a steal attempt.

[BeefMaster]

I haven't. I've tried a few times. I also haven't been able to throw them out on a steal attempt.

Same on both, although in fairness, I've never picked off the computer in the original RBI series, either.

[RBI Empire]

I just threw my first complete game with a starter on RBI 14. Innings 7-9 he threw around 57 mph the whole time. The cpu only had 3 hits in those last few innings.

[BeefMaster]

200 MB update to the Xbox 360 version today, but there don't appear to be any functional changes - the Twins' roster was the same, unless they just preserved the old rosters for in-progress seasons, and no online play or anything.

[hort22]

hey turd i might have to pick up the game now...look what a little birdie dropped off for me today!

[Turd]

Let us know how you like that crisp, creamy fresh farmhouse ale...

[hort22]

Let us know how you like that crisp, creamy fresh farmhouse ale...

will do...also in the meantime i hacked my wii into playing japanese gamecube games...ordered that famista 2003 game used for $11...its tougher then hell!  but its what i wish rbi 14 would have looked and played like.(sorry off topic here)

[RBI Empire]

200 MB update to the Xbox 360 version today, but there don't appear to be any functional changes - the Twins' roster was the same, unless they just preserved the old rosters for in-progress seasons, and no online play or anything.

This might have been to fix the save bug. I was tweeting with Jamie Leece, who worked on the game, and he helped my bro-in-law with freezing issues. Apparently it only affected a small percent of consoles and it was Microsoft's fault. I'm guessing the update was to fix that.

[RBI Empire]

Let us know how you like that crisp, creamy fresh farmhouse ale...

will do...also in the meantime i hacked my wii into playing japanese gamecube games...ordered that famista 2003 game used for $11...its tougher then hell!  but its what i wish rbi 14 would have looked and played like.(sorry off topic here)

You're brave to hack a console. I could never bring myself to do that with my 360/PS3. I did have a friend hack my psp so I could play cso/iso games straight from the memory stick. That was a great choice. Saved me $$$$

[BeefMaster]

My brother had a hacked original Xbox.  It was pretty spectacular - he threw in a big hard drive, and he could just throw all his games on there and never have to bother with changing discs or anything.

[ichiro]

Let us know how you like that crisp, creamy fresh farmhouse ale...

will do...also in the meantime i hacked my wii into playing japanese gamecube games...ordered that famista 2003 game used for $11...its tougher then hell!  but its what i wish rbi 14 would have looked and played like.(sorry off topic here)

That is one of the only Famista versions I haven't played yet besides the DS versions. What's nice about the Gameboy Advance and DS versions is that you don't need a hack to play them on U.S. systems. If the gameplay is as good as you say I guess I'm gonna have to get me one of them thar hacked Wii's.

[Turd]

brave to hack a console. I could never bring myself to do that with my 360/PS3. I did have a friend hack my psp so I could play cso/iso games straight from the memory stick. That was a great choice. Saved me $$$$

Nah, it's not so bad.  Especially with soft-modding...I did my Wii using the smash stack hack.  Easy as pie...cracking the case is where it gets scary, and even then it aint' so bad.   The other day my buddy bought a dud NES off of craigslist, complete with RBI, Tecmo, Mario 3 and a few others.  It wouldn't work for shit, so we took it apart, took the 72-pin connector off, boiled it in water, stuck a sand paper wrapped credit card in the slots to clean it off, and then bent each of the pins up to their normal zero-day angle.  Threw it back together and the things works like it's brand freakin' new, including Mario 3 which previously wouldn't even boot up.  Funny enough, we used Mario 3 as a "cleaning" cartridge after taking the connector out of the boiling water since we figured it was rattling inside and didn't work anyways.  Looks like it had nothing to do with the game

If I didn't have my powerpak and HTPC running my games, I'd seriously considering getting a raspberry pi and building a retro game console out of that for $40.

[BeefMaster]

I should try that with the spare NES I have lying in the box o' hardware in my office.  I replaced the 72-pin connector on the one hooked up to the TV, but maybe I'll have to see if I can simply fix up the connector on the old one.

[hort22]

Let us know how you like that crisp, creamy fresh farmhouse ale...

will do...also in the meantime i hacked my wii into playing japanese gamecube games...ordered that famista 2003 game used for $11...its tougher then hell!  but its what i wish rbi 14 would have looked and played like.(sorry off topic here)

That is one of the only Famista versions I haven't played yet besides the DS versions. What's nice about the Gameboy Advance and DS versions is that you don't need a hack to play them on U.S. systems. If the gameplay is as good as you say I guess I'm gonna have to get me one of them thar hacked Wii's.

yah it wasnt very tough to do...the next step is to be able to run games from a flash drive...but thats another step...anyway famista 2003 plays pretty well, but its very tough to pitch...got beat 23-3 the first game i played against the cpu...lol

[Turd]

I should try that with the spare NES I have lying in the box o' hardware in my office.  I replaced the 72-pin connector on the one hooked up to the TV, but maybe I'll have to see if I can simply fix up the connector on the old one.

I read tons of stuff on it, and the success rate was about 9/10...I couldn't believe it, but it worked.  It was noticeably cleaner afterwards, and then of course bending the pins up really helped.  It was more difficult to piece it back together than it was actually cleaning it!

[RBI Empire]

Updated stats after 30 games in my 52 game season with the Braves.

My batting average went up a few points. You can see my pitching got better as well. The weirdest thing from games 21-30 is that my errors doubled. I have no idea what I'm doing different either. I'm thinking it's just random. Who knows?

[RBI Empire]

Now through 40 games. My average dropped 3 points, but I've learned how to hit home runs. I more than doubled my home runs from my first 30 games in the last 10 games. I think someone mentioned it earlier, but the retreat does work. I use a modified version of it. I don't start at the top of the box but I do press and hold down just before I swing. Lots of bombs hit like this.

My pitching continues to get better the more I play. My ERA went down and my K/9 went up.

It's still really hard to hit triples on this game.

[BeefMaster]

I've misplayed a couple fly balls into triples, but I don't think I've ever hit one yet.  Still REALLY station-to-station most of the time.

Got my Twins season back to 5-5 today with a win over the Orioles.  Haven't had much time to devote to the game the last week or so, and still struggling with keeping the opponents' hits in the park - I won today's game 10-8.

[VEGAS]

Just hit a triple tonight. Pedroia hit one to right field at Fenway and it rolled around. Stand up triple, my first! (This was on the iPad version for those making the distinction)

[RBI Empire]

I've misplayed a couple fly balls into triples, but I don't think I've ever hit one yet.  Still REALLY station-to-station most of the time.

Got my Twins season back to 5-5 today with a win over the Orioles.  Haven't had much time to devote to the game the last week or so, and still struggling with keeping the opponents' hits in the park - I won today's game 10-8.

Did you see my pitching tips that I posted before? I don't have the best ERA, but if you're scoring 10 runs then you should be doing okay if you can follow those a bit.