Baseball Simulator 2013 (NES)

[keithisgood]

I've finished compiling batter stats for the 18 teams guaranteed to be in this year's release (still haven't gotten the new teams hacked in yet).

The stats spreadsheet can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxrZWl0aGlzZ29vZGZpbGVzfGd4OjYyMDY5YWNhNjBiYjQyNw

 

The projected lineups/stats are current as of 10 AM on Feb 11, 2013. Also, batters who score 0.7 or higher in fangraphs.com's "clutch" metric are given ultra abilities. Some teams, such as the Yankees,  don't have any players scoring above 0.7, so they are without ultra abilities right now. I may change the metric for awarding ultra going forward to give every team at least SOMEONE with an ultra hit/pitch.

[GameplayLoop]

I don't suspect this forum "Other Games" will contain many pinned threads. I'll do my best to pin threads that are of other games being developed by forum members here. Consider this thread pinned! Keep up the good work.

[DrunkenGamer]

Why not dumb down graphics to add ROM space? The lead Title screen gotta take up ROM space... id take substance over appearance. I love me a fat chick with great personality!! Bosox!!

[keithisgood]

Right now its not an issue of rom space for player data. There is actually additional space to add more player data. The issue is that the game calls player data to specific teams using two bits, 00-FF, limiting the number of players to 255. Changing that is beyond my skill at the moment.

[keithisgood]

Batter data for the game is complete, pending any last-minute roster changes. Pitchers next, hope to have a beta rom of the 24-team version sometime this week.

[gamingtrucker1]

Cant' wait for this.

[keithisgood]

I've got the beta for Baseball Simulator 2013 working and have attached it below. This version includes 18 teams. Adding 6 more is simply a matter of using the game's "team edit" function and bundling an emulator save file with the rom. The 6 Edit teams are (in this order) CHI SOX, SEA, TOR, NYM, AZ, PIT

 

I'm yet to update uniform colors, so the yankees are bright pink, among other things. This beta features the old-styled title screen as well.

Also, be warned: Mike Trout is crazy awesome.

 

The rom already has player and team data in the hex for 24 teams. As soon as I figure out how to get the game to recognize the new data, we should be rolling.

Edited June 5, 2013 by keithisgood

[DFM]

1st inning homer with Longo, I'd say this is a great hack!

[gamingtrucker1]

FUN!!Runs fine on my wii NES emulator.Game SKIP screen takes forever still,why is that?Who is the guy in the Game SKIP screen??

[keithisgood]

I haven't done enough debugging to figure out what's up with the skip function. I suspect the computer runs an actual game in real time but puts the sportscenter screen over it. And the announcer on the skip screen is Bob Uekcer, announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers (I believe) and co-star of the 1989 Cinema Classic, "Major League."

 

And as for stats, I pulled everything from fangraphs.com and rotochamp. Not to get overly technical, but I compared the stat lines using pythagorean regression (y=ax^2+bx+c) to make certain the highs, lows and averages of today's MLB stats stayed in line with the stats in the original Baseball Simulator. That's why Aroldis Chapman has a 115mph fastball and some of the batting averages are higher.

Edited March 12, 2013 by keithisgood

[gamingtrucker1]

If yall want 2 see who has ultra plays go umder edit then display

[rmm1976]

Nice work!

 

Hey, I know this isn't the thread for it but has anyone here tried to hack Baseball Stars?  Loved that game as well back in the day.

 

EDIT-- nevermind I see there is a separate thread... Though not much in it.

Edited March 12, 2013 by rmm1976

[keithisgood]

team colors are updated for batters and pitchers, but the fielder sprites share some palettes, so It's going to take a bit while i figure out the pointers to change everything. hopefully not too long, though.

[keithisgood]

New Beta rom with updated team colors and title screen is attached below.

This is how the title screen looks implemented in the rom:

As soon as I find the palette table for the title screen, I'll change the text colors for "Baseball" and "Simulator."

This update also makes it simpler to update the title screen in the future: all sprites are layed out in columns from top to bottom rather than some graphics as columns and some as rows.

 

The only graphical updates left to do are to change the colors on a team's fielders to match their batters and pitchers. 

Edited June 5, 2013 by keithisgood

[DFM]

That looks awesome man!

[buttdouglas]

Mr. Isgood, you always give me reasons to stay entertained on the internet. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[keithisgood]

Thanks, I'm pretty proud of it.

 

Ha! I'm going to start signing all my correspondence "Mr. IsGood."

Edited March 13, 2013 by keithisgood

[keithisgood]

Small update to the title screen, shifted the graphics up a tile to allow for some variations in palette

 

  

Compares favorably to my original artwork. The rest of the team color changes and the 4 edit teams should be ready next week. That should make for a completed rom, folks.

[keithisgood]

I've stripped the BETA tag; so far as I can see, Baseball Simulator 2013 is finished.

The completed rom is attached below; a .sav file which includes Toronto, Seattle, Chi Sox, Pirates, Mets and Diamondbacks can be downloaded here: http://db.tt/pHJo4bHv (I'd attach it, but I get a permission error whenever I try to attach a .sav) 

BASEBALL SIMULATOR 2013.nes

BASEBALL SIMULATOR 2013sav.zip

Edited May 1, 2013 by Knobbe
Added the .sav as a zip

[keithisgood]

The game patch is now hosted at romhacking.net as well: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1263/

[Coconuts]

Pretty sweet! Loved this game back in the day. But one question - Is there any player anomalies in this game? I know that Bret on the "Ultra" Heroes team would hit a HR every time up if you used his Bomb power. Hopefully that is no longer the case with anyone.

[keithisgood]

I haven't played exhaustively with every team so I can't say for certain there are "Brett" type players. Bret had power of 1014 and a Contact Subtractor (when the ball isn't cleanly hit) of Zero. I do know from the data that only one player has Power near Brett's and that no player has a Contact Subtractor lower than 14.

 

Also, not every player has an ultra ability (since it's based on a player's "clutch") so I don't believe any of the serious power hitters have the Bomb ability.

 

If you play it an find anyone with crazy ability like that, let me know. 

[keithisgood]

Quick update; I'm still toying with the rom in my spare time. Looks like hex changing alone won't allow me to include additional teams. While I learn the ASM, I've got a few at the romhacking.net boards looking at Baseball Simulator in hopes of expanding it Tecmo Super Bowl style to include a 30 MLB squads and 2 All Star teams. 

 

Other hoped changes include home/away uniforms (to avoid redundacy when two simalarly-colored teams--think CIN at WAS--play one another) and MLB stadiums (Fenway, New Yankee Stadium, Coors Field--to take the place of Space Stadium--Wrigley, AT&T Park and probably Camden Yards). If I find the time, I'll do all this for a mid-season update. Otherwise, it'll have to wait for Baseball Simulator 2014.

[keithisgood]

A little Bo Jackson-inspired video for Baseball Simulator 2013:

Edited May 2, 2013 by keithisgood

[gamingtrucker1]

Looks like that homerun was in the dome field