RBI Baseball ROM Study - Filling in the gaps

[Turd]

Here's a new thread I'm starting to share new things I've learned digging through the game.

First new find, at least to me, fielders throwing the ball get penalized on a gradual basis.  It's not binary fast/regular throw.

The direction and A are pressed quickly together, and the game measures the gap between them.

Same frame: +128 power, so the throw is 640 instead of 512.
1 frame apart: +96.
2 frames apart: +64.
3 frames apart: +32.
4 or more frames apart, or direction held first: no bonus, so it's the plain throw.

You really do have to tap both almost at once. A slower press gives the normal throw.

[BeefMaster]

Just played a game of RBI 3 '26 on Ninja's site. Some things that I thought of (some specific to RBI 3) that I don't know ever got figured out...

How do fielding positions for the lineup in RBI 3 work? Does it just count that you have 3OF, 4IF, 1C, and penalize error rate or something if not?

Is the "throw from left field to third is offline and rolls to the fence" actually by design or essentially a glitch, and if by design, is it affected by error rate? Not sure if it happens in arcade, which of course doesn't have BOPs.

Anyone managed to find whether the HITTING EDITOR we found in the RBI 3 ROM is connected to any code? We were never able to connect it to anything playable, not sure if there was executable code there or just leftover strings.

[Turd]

I don't know enough about RBI3.  I'm actually testing out the code for balls being hit or thrown that don't land where they need to right now, and I'm investigating the Wallzie. 

[BeefMaster]

Yeah, I mostly just figured I'd throw the RBI3 questions out there just in case (particularly given that I played a pretty thoroughly roster-hacked version last night).

I'm investigating the Wallzie. 

hell yeah

20 years ago this work would have had the possibility of starting a religious schism like you're Copernicus.

[Beastmode]

So glad you are back and doing this stuff, you were a huge inspiration to me for getting into RBI hacks and stuff like that, let me know if you ever need some testing help!

[BeefMaster]

While I'm posting here I'm also curious if we know the math behind hook/slice on fly balls - a wallzie tends to go straight down the line, but a lot of fouls start fair and curve on their way out.

[Gantry]

Did you also investigate the "quick throw BOP" theory when doing the throw stuff? I recall nightwulf disproved it many moons ago but my memory is no longer reliable.