First of all, I've alway been an ASB man. Not so much because I feel it is the best baseball game around--but simply because I have felt it has been the best game for me, personally. These feelings go back to ASB02. I played all of this year's releases (except IP) and even own HH2004.
After much tweaking and consultation with other ASB players on the boards back in April and early May, I finally had the game setup to where I really enjoyed what I saw each time I fired up the PS2. I make a conscientious effort to never sim a game and play all 162 and have done so for the past three years. (I have summers off)
Then it happened....
After playing and saving after Game #78 of my Reds Season, I turned the PS2 off. The next day, I go to fire it up again only to find that my saved franchise file has miraculously disappeared? I have no explanation for this at all. From the time it was last saved, no one was within 20 feet of the console.
I know many of you have stories that are even worse than this--cases where you were even farther along in a frnachise than I was. I feel your pain.
Baseball gaming is such a big part of my summer.
After some tears, and consoling from my wife, I decided to try to pick up the pieces....but the pieces were far too numerous to attempt to pick up. I prided myself on having excellent rosters for this game. Thanks to all the hard work pfunk spent in researching a great rating system for CAPs, I felt I had a top notch set of 100% rosters right down to many LM'ers.
I felt that there was just too much work to do to recreate these. I have a sharkport, but to my knowledge there is no sharkport file of rosters as accurate as what I once had. Perhaps, there are season saves, but no roster saves. ASB's roster update is horrible as we all know.
Alas, I decided to regroup and dust off my HH2004 copy. I knew of roster geek's excellent roster update. SO I DL'ed it....spent about 20 minutes making some minor adjustments and was amazed. These rosters are absolutely incredible right down to A level for most teams.
Anyway, to make a long story short.......sorry too late........I have rediscovered my summer past-time by now embarking on a season with HH. I have finally discovered a game that will truly do what I want and this is to allow me to take GM control of any team(s) at any time to make trades that mirror the real league BUT at the same time, deal with my own injuries.
However, I have not abandoned ASB04. The Franshise mode of this game is just too good. Couple that with the Exapnsion feature, I feel that I have truly discovered the best of both worlds now. I use HH for my single seasion Reds league and ASB for my Indiana Tornados Expansion Franchise.
Console baseball gaming is such a wonderful thing when there are options.
After much tweaking and consultation with other ASB players on the boards back in April and early May, I finally had the game setup to where I really enjoyed what I saw each time I fired up the PS2. I make a conscientious effort to never sim a game and play all 162 and have done so for the past three years. (I have summers off)
Then it happened....
After playing and saving after Game #78 of my Reds Season, I turned the PS2 off. The next day, I go to fire it up again only to find that my saved franchise file has miraculously disappeared? I have no explanation for this at all. From the time it was last saved, no one was within 20 feet of the console.
I know many of you have stories that are even worse than this--cases where you were even farther along in a frnachise than I was. I feel your pain.
Baseball gaming is such a big part of my summer.
After some tears, and consoling from my wife, I decided to try to pick up the pieces....but the pieces were far too numerous to attempt to pick up. I prided myself on having excellent rosters for this game. Thanks to all the hard work pfunk spent in researching a great rating system for CAPs, I felt I had a top notch set of 100% rosters right down to many LM'ers.
I felt that there was just too much work to do to recreate these. I have a sharkport, but to my knowledge there is no sharkport file of rosters as accurate as what I once had. Perhaps, there are season saves, but no roster saves. ASB's roster update is horrible as we all know.
Alas, I decided to regroup and dust off my HH2004 copy. I knew of roster geek's excellent roster update. SO I DL'ed it....spent about 20 minutes making some minor adjustments and was amazed. These rosters are absolutely incredible right down to A level for most teams.
Anyway, to make a long story short.......sorry too late........I have rediscovered my summer past-time by now embarking on a season with HH. I have finally discovered a game that will truly do what I want and this is to allow me to take GM control of any team(s) at any time to make trades that mirror the real league BUT at the same time, deal with my own injuries.
However, I have not abandoned ASB04. The Franshise mode of this game is just too good. Couple that with the Exapnsion feature, I feel that I have truly discovered the best of both worlds now. I use HH for my single seasion Reds league and ASB for my Indiana Tornados Expansion Franchise.
Console baseball gaming is such a wonderful thing when there are options.
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