Here’s a quick and easy way to find out which names are in the announcer (John Miller) data base, as some names he says and some he, well, doesn’t.
Save a roster as RosterNames or whatever and use that. The only player you will need to use is your #1 starting pitcher, so I just edited this roster and assigned the first pitcher at the top of the list (it’s alphabetical) as my #1 starter. Save this file so you can use it whenever you have a name to test.
Now: change his last name (obviously). Don’t bother saving, just go start a Situation Mode game with your team as the visitors. Set the “Outs” to 2. When the game starts, take three lame swings with your batter and the side will be retired.
Now don’t touch those buttons. The between-inning cut scenes will start, showing your renamed pitcher warming up on the mound. As he’s getting ready, John will ALWAYS either say his name or, if the name is not in the data base, his number. This whole process takes less than a minute.
And I keep a file on the CPU with the names he says and doesn’t say. Example: he says Abernathy, Cable, D’aimco, Easley, Fair, Gagne and Ha, but not Baerga, Gibson, Jackson… etc. Makes it a lot easier to only have to do all that once.
Save a roster as RosterNames or whatever and use that. The only player you will need to use is your #1 starting pitcher, so I just edited this roster and assigned the first pitcher at the top of the list (it’s alphabetical) as my #1 starter. Save this file so you can use it whenever you have a name to test.
Now: change his last name (obviously). Don’t bother saving, just go start a Situation Mode game with your team as the visitors. Set the “Outs” to 2. When the game starts, take three lame swings with your batter and the side will be retired.
Now don’t touch those buttons. The between-inning cut scenes will start, showing your renamed pitcher warming up on the mound. As he’s getting ready, John will ALWAYS either say his name or, if the name is not in the data base, his number. This whole process takes less than a minute.
And I keep a file on the CPU with the names he says and doesn’t say. Example: he says Abernathy, Cable, D’aimco, Easley, Fair, Gagne and Ha, but not Baerga, Gibson, Jackson… etc. Makes it a lot easier to only have to do all that once.
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