Little help here...

[Baines]

OK, I'm usually not that bad with computers but I'm getting nowhere with RBI so far.  I finally got my new computer so I thought I'd get everything set up to try out some of these roms but I'm completely clueless.  I've been trying to go by the FAQ and I have winzip, Nesticle and the original RBI rom but have no idea where to go from here.  I'm stressed now and it's causing me to drink Strohs by myself on a Thursday night which can't be healthy.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[fknmclane]

I have no idea how to help but I'm also drinking on a Thursday night.  High Life is good, especially when the wife is unhappy for some reason.

[Baines]

Nothing wrong with the High Life.  Drinking is helping me avoid feeling like a complete dumbass because this stuff apparently just always works fine for everybody else.

[fknmclane]

I'm gonna try and get it to work next week.  Then I'll beat your ass whenever you want.  

Just out of curiosity, do you even remember how many games we played when you came by?  I have no recollection whatsoever.  Mmmm, beer is good.  Good fucking times.

[Baines]

Not a clue.  I do remember we played alot more than what we posted online but don't remember the results.

A couple days ago I did find the RBI Scoreboard Jason and I kept for the whole trip and I went 10-2 against him.  I had almost forgot about my 10-0 Houston over National against him at your house.  Apparently we also played a 28-17 game that had 13 HR's from each team which I have no recollection of.  

Definitely good times.

[fknmclane]

Well, I just tried to set up FCE and I have zero fucking luck.  Download that fucker (hope it's the right version,) unzip it, double click and nothing happens.  A black, dos-like screen pops up for a sec, but that's it.

I wish I could teleport Gantry or nightwulf to my house so they could make it work.

[Baines]

Yeah really.  Winzip wouldn't even open the FCE Ultra file i downloaded so I went with Nesticle.  I then got the same dos-like black screen that you talked about.  Yeah, I definitely need help.

[TecmoGuy]

Nesticle is the worst emulator made since the existence of emulators.  It fucking sucks.  After I close the program- everything turns purple on my desktop.

[BeefMaster]

Do you know what version you downloaded?  Here's a direct link (hopefully) to 0.98.12, which should work for online play.

Assuming you're using Windows, you should just have to unzip the program somewhere (make sure you extract all the files in the zip file) and double-click FCEU.exe.  It should come up with a little black window with a menu bar, and you can load ROMs from the "File" menu.  alt-enter switches to and from full-screen.

You should put the ROMs in whatever folder you unzipped FCEUltra to.  For example, if you extracted everything in the zip file to C:\NES, put rbi.nes in that same folder.

Hopefully that helps.  If not, let me know where you're running into problems and we'll go from there.

[Baines]

A big DEE-NEE goes out to BeefMaster!  I don't know what I was doing last night but I just followed along with your post and had RBI up and running in probably less than 2 minutes.  Thanks man.

[_13eoWuLF__]

This makes me cry

[Flood]

you make baby jebus cry

[Felonious Gunk]

This makes me cry

Of course, you neglect to mention the fact you cry every time you look into a mirror

[Darky]

Little help here... I thought this was a Viagra thread.

[Baines]

Little more help needed here...


So I picked up this controller from Wal Mart which happens to be the only controller for sale in town with a USB cable because GameStop didn't have shit.  Anyway, the thing looks like a mix between a PS2 and Xbox control and I figured there would be some way to make it work but it doesn't do anything when I bring up RBI.  

So basically I just thought I'd ask on here and see whether there's anything I can do or if I should just take this bitch back to Wal Mart.  I plan on getting a Retropad but just wanted to play right now if possible and I refuse to use the keyboard.  I'd like to believe that those aren't my only 2 options.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[fightonusc]

OK, if you are using FCE Ultra, you can go into the "Config" pulldown menu and select "Input". From there, you should be able to configure the buttons to match the NES controller buttons.

[Baines]

Thanks.  Got it up and going last night.  I've been playing the hell out of the college ROM all day.

[fknmclane]

Holy shit.  I've got it working.  But I have no controller and don't know the keyboard controls.

Time to order that NES controller for the computer.  I"m too lazy to find the link.  Any help, please?

[fknmclane]

Nevermind, found the link and it should be here shortly.

I'll be down for games anytime after 9 pm mountain time.  Bitches.

Still need a little help figuring out the keyboard configuration.  I know alt does a lot, but how does one return to a base? Thank you, gentlemen.

I don't know why I didn't do this sooner.

[fknmclane]

Baines, I'll beat your ass in any ROM.  Actually, you'll kill me me because I'm using a keyboard but hwo gives a shit.  I wanna play!