2026 RBI Baseball

[Not Gantry]

I thnk it plays pretty well. I didn't check lineups or rotations carefully.

All 30 MLB clubs with real 2026 rosters: 10-man lineups with the DH and 6-man pitching staffs

Every hitter has his own eye: patient hitters take close pitches and draw walks, while free swingers chase, based on real walk and strikeout rates

Every pitcher is different: velocity, movement, stamina, control and stuff all come from his real 2026 numbers

Every fielder is different: each one runs and throws according to his own real range and arm rating, so a gold glover gets to balls a weak fielder can't

Franchise season: pick any club and play its real 2026 schedule while every other game is simulated play by play

CPU-only season: no team needed, just sim a day, a week or all 2,430 games in about two minutes
Stats Center: standings, league leaders in 20 categories, team leaders, box scores, and player cards that show real 2026 stats next to your season

Smarter CPU pitchers: they work the count, change speeds, throw double curves, and manage the bullpen with setup men and closers

Smarter CPU fielders: they take the straight line to cut off ground balls instead of chasing them

Smarter CPU hitters: they lay off bad pitches, protect the plate with two strikes, and take on 3-0

Starters who go deep: aces can work into the late innings, and relievers close it out
One-pitch mode: every at-bat starts with a full count

Your choice of CPU: switch CPU pitching, fielding and batting between smart and classic in Options

1 or 2 players, plus Watch mode for CPU vs. CPU

Battery save: stats and your season are kept on the cartridge

[Gantry]

WOW

I need to fire this bad boy up

[Turd]

What in the ever loving hell is this? Wow.  I'm firing this up now.  I'm making a remake, but it looks like I can abandon the part of my project that tries to fit some of it in the NES cartridge.  Sweet!

[Turd]

Pretty incredible!!  one thing I'm putting in mine that I think makes it that much better is a home/away uniform.  No more having to try and find 30 different combinations of colors to make every team fit.

[Turd]

What does this mean:
Your choice of CPU: switch CPU pitching, fielding and batting between smart and classic in Options

Lastly, I'm gonna send you a DM.

[BeefMaster]

Are you guys using any AI tooling for this new development? I have read that the newer models (especially Claude ones) are exceedingly good at decompilation, which has led to a ton of stuff like browser ports of all kinds of games, and apparently thrown some retro/modding communities into chaos. Personally I think this is one of the really cool use cases for this kind of stuff, and while I do think it's awesome how much we (and by "we" I mean "mostly nightwulf") managed to figure out the old fashioned way 20+ years ago, the idea of being able to make fresh ROM hacks and add some really ambitious new stuff that was out of our league back then.

[Turd]

It certainly helps that I had all of this stuff decoded way back when, but there were some things I couldn't figure out.  AI helped me get past those humps and then opened a new world of things for me that I had deemed impossible.  "Not Gantry"'s post here is proof of this.  Some crazy things are possible now instead of relying on a small handful of hard-to-find resources for hacking 6502 assembly, creative, driven, programmer-minded people can take these things to new levels.

[Not Gantry]

I used my new BFF Claude to code this. I am on the pro plan. Very rarely did I hit the usage rate limit which leads to that 5 hour wait to keep working.

Good question: What does this mean:
Your choice of CPU: switch CPU pitching, fielding and batting between smart and classic in Options

Basically, you have the option of playing in original RBI mode or smart pitching mode where pitchers will be more aggressive and crafty, smart fielding mode where defenders will take more direct route to balls and smart batting where the better batters will be more selective.

None of this is tested extensively. If there is something that doesnt work right or you want different ratings or lineups, let me know and I can update the rom. Turd also has my blessing to built on what I have done. You all do. It's not like I created the actual damn game.

 My goal was to get this done before my international flight tomorrow. Travelling for a job interview. Nothing to calm the nerves like 25 straight hours of RBI. Inject it into my veins.

Have fun, kiddos!

[arshak]

Absolutely terrifying