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

[BeefMaster]

Two tips, RBIEmp:

1.) Consider selecting the alt jersey and then taking the snapshot to get rid of that little checkbox in the corner

2.) Consider making the images single images instead of one large image so that you can link them to the team pages.  It's always a nice UX to have anywhere you see something involving a team that you can click it and drill into the team details.

Love both of those ideas.  One more for you - it might be a nice touch to make the picture (and maybe the text) in your "Remember the original" space on the front page link to Dee-Nee.

[RBI Empire]

You guys are really going to make me learn actual web design! 

Right now I'm limited by the website builder on godaddy.com, but I should be able to link all of that stuff.

Keep the ideas flowing!

[BeefMaster]

Tough but fair RBI '14 review by Grant Brisbee on SBNation.  I completely agree with is last two paragraphs:

Now picture this: The original game, gameplay completely intact, warts and all. The original game with updated rosters. The original game with 100s of all-time rosters, from the Big Red Machine to the '27 Yankees. The original game with the capability of 30-team online leagues and seasons, with trades and updated stats. I wouldn't be writing this. I'd be calling in sick to play the game. I'm no video game marketing whiz, but there's no way that wouldn't be a sensation. Keep the familiar fun whole, then build around it with 2014-level memory capabilities.

Instead, this is a game that might as well be named Baseball Superstars or Baseball Game 2: The Baseballing. The only reason we're interested is because it has R.B.I. Baseball in the title. If only they nailed the reason why that interested us so much in the first place.

I commented with a link to rbibaseball.us.

[Turd]

Tough but fair RBI '14 review by Grant Brisbee on SBNation.  I completely agree with is last two paragraphs:

Now picture this: The original game, gameplay completely intact, warts and all. The original game with updated rosters. The original game with 100s of all-time rosters, from the Big Red Machine to the '27 Yankees. The original game with the capability of 30-team online leagues and seasons, with trades and updated stats. I wouldn't be writing this. I'd be calling in sick to play the game. I'm no video game marketing whiz, but there's no way that wouldn't be a sensation. Keep the familiar fun whole, then build around it with 2014-level memory capabilities.

Instead, this is a game that might as well be named Baseball Superstars or Baseball Game 2: The Baseballing. The only reason we're interested is because it has R.B.I. Baseball in the title. If only they nailed the reason why that interested us so much in the first place.

Nice, thanks Beef!
I commented with a link to rbibaseball.us.

[Turd]

There is a green monster at the Fenway park on this game. I doubled off of it.

[Gantry]

I played a three inning game last night on the ipad.  I've never played any sort of game on the ipad before so it was certainly a different experience.  Still fun.  My timing on hitting was shit but did hit a game winner in the bottom of the third.  Will definitely be playing more, and chubbs is getting it for the xbox.  We're planning an RBI night in the next couple weeks.

I expect a new thread when said meetup happens, I'll do the same when Lips gets his PS4 one.

Really wasn't enough time at the Good Brother's to get it on his iPad so I guess I'm waiting until the next gen versions come up.  Great discussion all around here boys, most activity this board has gotten in ages!

[Gantry]

Tough but fair RBI '14 review by Grant Brisbee on SBNation.  I completely agree with is last two paragraphs:

Now picture this: The original game, gameplay completely intact, warts and all. The original game with updated rosters. The original game with 100s of all-time rosters, from the Big Red Machine to the '27 Yankees. The original game with the capability of 30-team online leagues and seasons, with trades and updated stats. I wouldn't be writing this. I'd be calling in sick to play the game. I'm no video game marketing whiz, but there's no way that wouldn't be a sensation. Keep the familiar fun whole, then build around it with 2014-level memory capabilities.

Instead, this is a game that might as well be named Baseball Superstars or Baseball Game 2: The Baseballing. The only reason we're interested is because it has R.B.I. Baseball in the title. If only they nailed the reason why that interested us so much in the first place.

I commented with a link to rbibaseball.us.

Making a physical "all-time" NES cart would rule, maybe via a Dee-Nee selection process.  Perhaps the 20 best all-time teams, the 5 best original teams and 5 new teams? 

[Turd]

If you guys want to get in another project, I could easily manage that.  In fact, I have a spreadsheet that people could use to help with the editing...kind of like we did with the 1987 ROM.  If none of us had jobs, it would be fun to try and get as many years worth of ROMs as we could, but that'll never happen.

[Gantry]

It would definitely need to be a group effort - some people deciding on teams and the math geeks to work out the proper formulas most people agree upon - especially with figuring out a way to accurately give the proper # to teams across generations.  Would be a project for sure...

[Turd]

I have a lot of great base formulas and could probably generate a base ROM for almost any season.  The only tweaks to the formulas would have to be for generational or "era" differences.  Honestly with all the automation I have, the only difficult part about rating a ROM now is getting lineups correct and pitching speeds.  I've even automated this for modern years to some degree with pitchfx data, but it's still a manual process.

Once you get a base ROM, it's just going through and tweaking low power high average guys, making sure bench guys fit their role e.g., low AB guys provide a great pop off the bench with their +64, and then afterwards are kind of useless, making them only good for pitcher replacement vs. high power guys to replace some gibroni int he starting lineup.

I'd really like to redo the 1987 ROM with what I know now...

[Gantry]

Well shit, that's handy.  We'd mostly have to work out deciding teams and tweaking the details then. 

[BeefMaster]

Are we talking "all-time teams" as in "Best year of a franchise" (e.g. 1927 Yankees), or "Best players who played for that team" (Ruth, Gehrig, Jeter, Mantle)?

[hort22]

anyone buy this thing on a ps3 yet?

still on the fence here...plus with no spotted cow, i mean really whats the point?

[Turd]

Hort, where are you located?

I'm actually quite curious to hear if any of the bluetooth controllers for the iphone work with it...

[RBI Empire]

I noticed last night while playing against my son that when NL plays at an AL park, the team has a different line-up. Doumit is usually the first guy off the bench and against AL teams he hits 6th. That's kind of a cool thing. Much better than just putting him 9th.

[Turd]

Wow, that's great! I thought it was just first bench guy.  I wish I could get that hack into my ROM.

[VEGAS]

sorry for the delay on checking the blutooth. Got busy at work yesterday and today. I'll test it out on the icade (via blutooth) tonight and a NESstyle blutooth controller too. Alas, from al that I've read on the settings and on the web, it doesn't look promising.

Hort, where are you located?

I'm actually quite curious to hear if any of the bluetooth controllers for the iphone work with it...

[Turd]

Drinking this at my desk. Thinking of all the sad folks who've never had the  Cow. 

[Turd]

Is anyone here close to target Field? I am going to be on a training next week Sunday through Thursday and I plan on hitting a game up some evening maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.

[VEGAS]

Sad news,  I tried the Bluetooth controller and the icade (via blutooth) it's a no go at least on the iPad/iPhone. Maybe in the 2015 version or in some updated patch they'll figure out how to do that because it would be awesome!