Baseball Stars

[Oilers9911]

So I was playing Baseball Stars on an emulator and remembering how damn much I loved this game. So my questions is, if a new and updated version of Baseball Stars came out would you buy it? I know for sure I would with a few updates to the game such as a franchise mode but I think it would be a must buy for me.

[DanGarion]

I have this on my modded Xbox with an emulator. The best baseball game ever.

[Lathum]

Still by far the most enjoyment I ever got from a video game.

[MJ4H]

Baseball Stars rulez

[muns]

Ya i would. I used to spend hours and hours with that game.

[Radii]

Still by far the most enjoyment I ever got from a video game.

Its way up there on the list for me as well.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

Off a message board I frequent.

http://knobbe.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5682&highlight=baseball+stars&sid=471076129dac0a8fce007ba5477e5437

Also, if you search on there, I am not sure which Rom has it, but one of them has the logos for the team which is pretty cool.

Perhaps we can do a group project and rate all the new players for an updated rom.

I've figured out some more information, so I'm making a new topic under hacking documentation covering everything.

To update the names/attributes, do a search for the player's name, immediatly after the name is the attributes. We'll use the American Dreams and Pete (Rose) as an example:
after his name is 81E8CE4803240A
81 is his batting hand/stance. The 8 means he is LH, change to 0 for RH. The 1 means he has a croutching stance, change to 0 for a normal stance, or change to 2 for a tall stance.
E8CE48 is his attributes
E=hitting
8=batting
C=running
E=defense
4=luck
8=prestige
(remember hexadecial: A=10, B=11, C=12, etc)
0324 is his average
0A (ten) is his homeruns

The pitchers' attributes are after the last batter on the said team. For example, the american dreams' pitchers are at x11504.
00FFC8OC0155 is Sandie
80EFAA080143 is Cy
For Sandie: 00 is his hand/delivery. The first 0 makes him RH, change to 8 for LH. The second 0 means he holds the ball behind his back on the mound, change to 1 to make him hold the ball at his side, change to 2 for side arm.
FFC80C is his attributes. There is no prestige attribute for pitchers, they all have a 0. Whatever you give them for prestige on batting will be the same for pitching.
0155 is his era.

the positions start at 1310A with the american dreams, then ninja blacksox, brave warriors, etc
they're arranged in order of the batting order.
using american dreams as example:
04 is pete 2B
02 is babe CA
08 is joe CF
07 is hank LF
09 is lefty RF
03 is willie 1B
05 is jay 3B
06 is jacks SS
01 is the pitcher
after the ninth batter is 05,06,07,08,09,0A,0B,0C. This is the players spot in the batting order. (Notice there are 8 hexadecimals) So 05 is the leadoff man and 0C is the 8th batter.
If you only change the positions for the first eight spots (04,02,08,07,09,03,05,06) the cpu will switch the catcher back to his original spot. So the best thing to do is leave the catcher in his original spot when you're editing the players... For example, say your making the american dreams into the yankees and you want Posada to bat 6th. Edit Babe to be Posada. Then when you go to edit the positions, put the first 8 players the way you want the batting order, with the 6th batter being the catcher (02). When you get to 05,06,07,08,09,0A,0B,0C switch 06 and 0A. (the 2nd and the 6th guys in the batting order). Now Posada will be the catcher batting 6th and the cpu will not change his position.
This is useful because the game will freeze if you try to simulate a cpu-cpu tournament game with the catcher in the wrong spot.
If you only play man vs. man games, it's not a big deal.

uniforms for the field and running the bases start at 1FD72
16 12 is the american dreams where 16 is the uniform and 12 is the hat
skip 2 spaces to 3F 3F which is the ninja blacksox.
skip another 2 spaces to 13 04 which is the brave warriors
skip another 2 spaces for the next team, etc

uniforms for the batter's box start at 1FDCE with the american dreams
16 06 3F 0F 36 12 3F 0F 16 12
16 is the uniform color and 06 is the outline
skip to the 12 which is the hat color
skip to 16 12 which is the colors for the pitcher

skip 7 spaces to 3F 3F 3F 0F 36 3F 3F 0F 3F 3F which is the ninja black sox
same pattern as above

skip another 7 spaces for the brave warriors, etc

[Riggins44]

I always loved the Baseball Simulator 1.000 (or was it 1000?). It had a full season mode and kept stats. I remember being blown away by that at the time. Matter of fact, I still have it for the SNES.

[Lathum]

I always loved the Baseball Simulator 1.000 (or was it 1000?). It had a full season mode and kept stats. I remember being blown away by that at the time. Matter of fact, I still have it for the SNES.
IF I recall correctly didn't it take an ungodly amount of time for Baseball Simulator 1000 to sim the computers games.

[Oilers9911]

Yes you are right. You could go away and make a snack, come back and then wait some more. Was a cool little game however. It didn't top Baseball Stars but I enjoyed it.

[korme]

Reminds me of that fizzled out idea of someone making a computer game out of a Tecmo Super Bowl rom which allows you to play a career mode. Even if it was basic career mode stuff, it'd be sweet.

[DanGarion]

Ah yes I forgot about the updated Roms for Tecmo. Now i can make sure my best friend and I can play an updated game when he comes here for my wedding!

[stevew]

Doesn't that japanese Jikkyou series play a lot like baseball stars. The arcade version anyways.

[JeeberD]

Baseball Stars rocked. The sequal was nice, but not the same...

[Riggins44]

IF I recall correctly didn't it take an ungodly amount of time for Baseball Simulator 1000 to sim the computers games.

Yes, I think you're correct. I think there was only 6 or 8 teams... so it wasn't like waiting for an offseason of Puresim to finish or anything.