I can't stand jackasses who say Baseball Stars is the best baseball game

[ultimate7]

i can't get this virtual apple stuff to work? help?

I got it to work, but I could figure out what the commands were, so I had to just hit enter every pitch.  Also couldn't use my mouse while it was running, so I couldn't do anything besides play, which won't work at work.

[Gantry]

The the numbers... 

[ultimate7]

Oh, OK, I figured next time at start up I'd try to find the help, but I kept hoping 'B' would be bunt, but it never was.

[Dryden]

Uh oh folks, I'm in a jam... Seaver has a tough no out situation with RBI Legend Rick Burleson at the plate. What would a good MicroLeague manager do here?

Ya gotta go with the "4".  It's the best shot to get a K.

[ultimate7]

Can someone please post the numbers and what they do, I can't figure out how to get the list from the game (if it's possible)

[Dryden]

Microleague baseball commands:

R: toggle running to/from dugouts (speeds up the game)

Offense
Bases empty:
0 or enter: swing away
6: Bunt
7: pinch hit
9: see lineup

Runners on:
0 or enter: swing away
1: swing away, aggressive running
2: swing away, safe running
3: steal
4: hit and run
5: sac bunt
6: bunt
7: pinch hit
8: pinch run
9: see lineup

Defense
0: visit the mound
1 or enter: fastball
2: curve
3: slider
4: changeup
5: pitchout
6: corners in
7: infield in
8: intentional walk
9: see lineup

[ultimate7]

Thanks to all for your help.

Man twice in a row with a guy on 2nd and 2 outs, I swung away with aggressive running hit a single and the guy didn't even try to score WTF?  Aggressive my ass.

[ultimate7]

The CPU manager sucks, down 4-2 in the bottom of the 9th, the '27 Yankees had the bases loaded with 2 outs, and they let the relief pitcher hit for himself.

Haha

[Gantry]

The commodore Microleague CPU would have never pulled off such a stunt..

[BeeJay]

I also had a handheld game called Batter Up World Series or something like that. It was 2 player, meaning it was fkn huge. It also had an uppity robot voice that announced the game. It sucked ass though. I think you could get there were only 4 different spots the ball could land.

I had that game, too - the name was "Talking Baseball" or something like that. The "Batter Up World Series" you remember was from the opening line of the announcer: "Welcome to the Batter Up World Series between the Eagles and the Buffaloes."

I could slaughter the computer in one inning in that game by bunting to third with every batter and taking extra bases on the throws.

Wow, I can't believe someone else had that game, and yea I was remembering that first line.  It continued with "Beep boop, top of the first inning, Eagles at bat, beep boop boop."

I really don't want to be at work right now.

[ben seaver]

I think it only works with IE and Active X enabled.  So if you are trying to get to it from a place of work (where if they are smart they would disable Active X) it won't work.

i can't get this virtual apple stuff to work?  help?

[ben seaver]

Not sure if it was here or not, but I saw a link to a site that no longer exists called Baseball Stars Online.  It was a hacked rom with 2002 MLB Data in it and it wrote over the teams such as the American Dreams (Dusty Rhodes?) and stuff.  I remember some glitches such as it freezing up when going into VS mode instead of the regular season mode.  So you may be right in that it would be a little nasty to debug & stuff.

The gameplay was too slow.  However, I think if a rom editor (to create real teams/players) was around it would greatly improve its playability.

There've been requests for this before, but I've not even glanced at the ROM. My biggest concern is the battery-backed RAM. [nerd]It's mapped into the NES' address space at 0x6000-0x7FFF if I remember correctly and is read/written normally[/nerd] but there's often checksum routines and whatnot that look for invalid saves, and working around them sounds like a bag of no fun.

Nightwulf

[TempoGL]

I think it only works with IE and Active X enabled.  So if you are trying to get to it from a place of work (where if they are smart they would disable Active X) it won't work.

i can't get this virtual apple stuff to work?  help?

trying to get it to work at home, on firefox...which i know that's what gantry and nightwulf use...if it only worked on IE, they both would have made posts complaining about using IE

[nightwulf]

Yeah, it's implemented with an ActiveX control. Big thumbs down. Possible, but not really worth the hassle of getting it running in Firefox, because ...

There are a ton of other Apple emulators available, and they don't require me to open The Browser of Death (tm).

Nightwulf

[Bonny]

Major League Baseball(NES) was garbage.
You could hardy ever throw out runners after a groundball.

[TempoGL]

there were pretty much no groundballs...the ball rarely/never rolled.  if you hit a short liner or popup to shortstop, the ball would just die right there.  the game blows.  one of my friends was trying to tell me it was better than RBI and i dang near strangled him.

[Bonny]

I just played an inning of MLB.
WORST BASEBALL GAME EVER
Also played a game of NES Baseball. Enjoyable. I played that fucker for 2 years until RBI came out.

[JerryD]

I don't think I ever got through an entire game of MLB.

[TempoGL]

I just played an inning of MLB.
WORST BASEBALL GAME EVER
Also played a game of NES Baseball. Enjoyable. I played that fucker for 2 years until RBI came out.

this is where we differ.  Baseball is ASS.  Maybe it's because I played RBI, Major League Baseball (barf), and Bases Loaded before it...but it is just so unplayable.  controls are terrible.

[Bonny]

I just played an inning of MLB.
WORST BASEBALL GAME EVER
Also played a game of NES Baseball. Enjoyable. I played that fucker for 2 years until RBI came out.

this is where we differ.  Baseball is ASS.  Maybe it's because I played RBI, Major League Baseball (barf), and Bases Loaded before it...but it is just so unplayable.  controls are terrible.

It was the only NES Baseball game for years. The Hitting,pitching,baserunning are all good. The fielding AI is another story.
The controls are almost exactly the same as RBI.