Official MLB Power Pros 2008 thread!

[XiaNaphryz]

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Batting with Lock on is easy, you will eventually start scoring a ton of runs like you did in that game. It means that the batting cursor will actually lock on to the ball if you are close to it, 5 is the highest and easiest and 1 is the lowest and hardest of lock on. But, I suggest you turn that setting to normal, it won't lock on to the ball or anything and will be challenging.

There should also be an option to choose between analog and digital hitting. If you still find batting too easy with no lockon, try switching from analog to digital. You may actually find that there's a sweet spot for you using digitial and a tiny bit of lockon, you'll need to experiment and figure what feels just right while giving sufficient challenge.

[Kane182]

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My issues with normal hitting are:

1) It's extremely difficult to get enough hits other than maybe a few weak seeing eye singles.

2) HRs are pretty much non-existent. I went into batting practice mode with David Wright and could not get a HR on normal batting. I was hitting them over 300 feet, but none of them went out which would basically translate to not hitting any user HRs in a regular game.

On the flipside, hitting with the batting locks can become quite easy. I'm trying lock - 1 for now and we'll see how that goes. If that becomes too easy I'm not sure what else I can try to make it more challenging and still see my fair share of HRs.

[matthewk]

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For anyone interestred, I've begun my project of creating a set of all-time rosters for Power Pros 2008 on the PS2. Since you can have multiple saves using memory cards, I can still keep these rosters AND current ones.

I'm dragging out my alltimers rosters from the High Heat 2002 PC days to give me a start. I already had career averages in there for stats, as well as lineups and uniform numbers. This will make my job a lot easier.

I've also started coming up with a method to figure out the PP ratings based on the players MLB stats. Here is what I have so far:

Trajectory (1-4) – Based on Home Runs per 600 AB
4 – 31 and up
3 – 18 to 30
2 – 11 to 17
1 – 10 and lower

Contact (range 1-15) – Based on BA
15 – not used
14 - .320 and up
13 - .310 to .320
12 - .300 to .309
11 - .290
10 - .282
09 - .275
08 - .267
07 - .260
06 - .252
05 - .245
04 - .240 and lower

Power (range 1-255) – Based on Slugging Pct.
Slugging Pct. / 3.5 = Power This will yield ratings between 210 and 80

Run Speed (range 1-15) – Based on Run Rating
15 – not used
14 – 10
13 - 9
12 - 8
11 –7
10 - 6
09 - 5
08 - 4
07 - 3
06 - 2
05 – 0 - 1

If anyone has any suggestions on how to make these more accurate, let me know. I'm sure this is going to take a while to complete, but I think it will be worth it.

[duke776]

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My issues with normal hitting are:

1) It's extremely difficult to get enough hits other than maybe a few weak seeing eye singles.

2) HRs are pretty much non-existent. I went into batting practice mode with David Wright and could not get a HR on normal batting. I was hitting them over 300 feet, but none of them went out which would basically translate to not hitting any user HRs in a regular game.

On the flipside, hitting with the batting locks can become quite easy. I'm trying lock - 1 for now and we'll see how that goes. If that becomes too easy I'm not sure what else I can try to make it more challenging and still see my fair share of HRs.

What difficulty are you playing on? I remember when I started a season last year with normal batting and playing on expert it was hard at first but then I just absolutely dominated, I went 85-15 with Aramis Ramirez hitting 60 homeruns before simming the rest of the season. I think you'll get better as you go, I'll probably start on all star with normal(the batting setting not the difficulty setting) hitting and move up to Powerful difficulty if it gets too easy.

[fsquid]

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Can anyone hit a homer without switching to "power swing"?

[duke776]

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Can anyone hit a homer without switching to "power swing"?

I don't think it's possible, we just crush the ball but fly out on contact swing if we hit it right on the button...so we practically have to choose when we want to try to hit a home run.

[sportyguyfl31]

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I scored only 1 run on normal going agisnt wang with the Mets my 1st game.

My question is, what is the best seting to make the CPU batters a little more dangerous, but not unrealistic.

Throughout the game, I never felt like I was in danger of giving up a long ball.

[duke776]

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I scored only 1 run on normal going agisnt wang with the Mets my 1st game.

My question is, what is the best seting to make the CPU batters a little more dangerous, but not unrealistic.

Throughout the game, I never felt like I was in danger of giving up a long ball.

I have both mine and the CPU batting options to Normal hitting(not lock on), and I play on All-Star difficulty(because I've played over 250 games in 2007). I felt that when I played on expert I was in danger of giving up the long ball, and I did. If I were you I would change the difficulty of the CPU batting to expert if you have set to normal. And if that feels too easy up it one more level.

Also, if you have trouble scoring runs you might want to be a little more patient and take more pitches, because when I get very impatient and I was lucky to score 1 or 2 runs, but if I'm patient I can score more runs. I'm not sure if that's your problem or not but just going by personal experience.

[JoeMimic]

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Did they have hard sinkers in the game last year? Wang has one this year and I know he didnt have one on the game last year to start with.

[duke776]

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Did they have hard sinkers in the game last year? Wang has one this year and I know he didnt have one on the game last year to start with.

Yes, they did have Hard Sinkers in last years game.

[Kane182]

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What difficulty are you playing on? I remember when I started a season last year with normal batting and playing on expert it was hard at first but then I just absolutely dominated, I went 85-15 with Aramis Ramirez hitting 60 homeruns before simming the rest of the season. I think you'll get better as you go, I'll probably start on all star with normal(the batting setting not the difficulty setting) hitting and move up to Powerful difficulty if it gets too easy.

Hmmm...That could be it. I start the game on powerful difficulty and I tried putting the CPU pitching down to all-star and then to expert and still had trouble getting the long ball.

So does starting the game on normal difficulty and then changing all the CPU batting/baserunning/etc. to powerful make a difference or am I doing the same thing?

[statnut]

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How does one load and transfer PS2 saves for this game? Is it possible to transfer rosters?

[Kane182]

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How does one load and transfer PS2 saves for this game? Is it possible to transfer rosters?

It's possible, but you need a Datel X-port or Action Replay (I think that's what it is called) transfer kit.

Or, if you know someone reliable you could always mail your memory card to them. Don't pay for rosters though. It's not worth it.

[statnut]

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It's possible, but you need a Datel X-port or Action Replay (I think that's what it is called) transfer kit.

Or, if you know someone reliable you could always mail your memory card to them. Don't pay for rosters though. It's not worth it.

Couldnt you do it with a memory stick and USB adapter? I should have mentioned I was referring to the PS3.

[duke776]

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Hmmm...That could be it. I start the game on powerful difficulty and I tried putting the CPU pitching down to all-star and then to expert and still had trouble getting the long ball.

So does starting the game on normal difficulty and then changing all the CPU batting/baserunning/etc. to powerful make a difference or am I doing the same thing?

I think it's the same thing, I haven't had enough games to judge how good the CPU is on all star or powerful though. But, you should definitely get better as you go because I rememer I sucked when I first played without lock on on normal difficulty but as I played more games it got easier. So, I'm not sure how good you are, but you could start on normal and once you think it's too easy raise the difficulty of some things, if hitting is too easy raise the CPU's pitcher difficulty, if pitching is too easy, raise the CPU's batting difficulty, if the CPU is too dumb in the field or on the basepaths raise those options. I would highly suggest against having the CPU pitching on powerful until you get really good ecause if you have the ball cursor on they trick you by moving it around and it's much harder to hit.