- Download Backyard Baseball 1997 here, or Backyard Baseball 2001 here. Double click to open the zip file. It should open a folder called Backyard Baseball. Open ScummVM and click “Add Game.” Navigate to find the Backyard Baseball folder and click “Choose.” 6. You should see a screen like the one below.
- Can you disable the pros in Football 2002? I haven't seen or noticed that feature. I love the pro kids in the games, I was disappointed they only had 2 for the original Backyard Basketball game. Although, I never had the original baseball from 97 so that might explain my bias.
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Grab your mitt and a bat and head out to a dusty sandlot for a game of old-fashioned pick-up baseball in Humongous Entertainment's Backyard Baseball. Aimed at the five-to-ten-year-old crowd, this game features 30 kids as players to choose from as you assemble the ultimate neighborhood club and try for the Ultra Grand Championship of the Universe.
Select your team name and colors as well as its mascot, and then choose your starting line-up. Among the colorful cast of characters are ace pitcher Angela Delvecchio and top slugger Marky Dubois. Every kid is rated in running, batting, fielding, and pitching and has personality quirks that may affect the team. For example, Maria Luna is an average player whose skills explode if she's placed on a team whose uniforms are pink, her favorite color.
Backyard Baseball. Backyard Baseball is a free online sports game with charming characters and fun challenges. You pick a team and players to compete against others on the field, like in Pablo's backyard. Try to hit a homerun, don't strike out and score enough points each round to move on to the next level. Backyard Baseball brings the excitement of summer ball games to the Nintendo GameCube system-with all new 3D graphics! Catch all the great baseball excitement with the Backyard Kids and real pro baseball players as kids. Pick your team, position players and choose a field to play on for single games or an entire season.
Once you're done with that, you choose the batting order and the players' spots on the field. To get ready for the season, you can play some batting practice or exhibition contests to get warmed up. There are ten fields to choose from.
Sunny Day and Vinnie 'The Gooch' provide play-by-play commentary for each game as you march through the season and get ready for the playoffs. Power-ups are awarded if you strike out a batter or get a hit off a tough pitcher; they will boost your bats and pitchers' arms and can be used anytime during the game.
On defense, there are 12 pitches to choose from, including the wacky change-up the Big Freeze, which blazes through the air before freezing when it reaches the plate, and the Crazy Ball, which moves in any direction but straight as it barrels toward the batter.
You can track and print statistics during the 14-game season and into the playoffs. Player baseball cards, team photos, schedules, and trophies can also be printed.
Backyard Baseball captures the fun and laughter of summer days spent playing sandlot baseball with the kids from the old neighborhood. Kid announcers Vinnie the Gooch and Sunny Day help your kids get to know each of the 30 girls' and boys' strengths and weaknesses. And just like real little leagues, quirky personalities, contagious clumsiness and hysterical hi-jinks are a big part of the game as your kids laugh their way to the pennant. Backyard Baseball features all of the realism and statistics of adult baseball games, but with simple controls that even the smallest T-ballers can master. Backyard Baseball provides hours of fun that never get rained out!
How to run this game on modern Windows PC?
This game has been set up to work on modern Windows (10/8/7/Vista/XP 64/32-bit) computers without problems. Please choose Download - Easy Setup (300 MB).This game has been set up to work on modern Windows (10/8/7/Vista/XP 64/32-bit) computers without problems. Please choose Download - Easy Setup (388 MB).
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Developer: Humongous Entertainment Publisher: Humongous Entertainment Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic Released in US: 1997 Backyard baseball browser. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. |
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There, you've gotten a good 70% of the Backyard Baseball experience. The rest is 15% pop flies, 10% foul balls, 4.9% strikeouts, and 0.1% Jen Taylor squealing 'Caught in a pickle!' - just like the real thing.
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- 3Unused Dialogue
- 4Unused Text
Unused Graphics
Placeholder Headshots
The game contains a full set of placeholder character headshots for the strategy menu. They're stored in a different format from the final versions, which suggests the menu was overhauled at some point and the old graphics were forgotten about.
For what it's worth, this is probably the earliest available artwork showing the characters hatless.
Character | Early | Final | Character | Early | Final |
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Kimmy Eckman | Ronny Dobbs | ||||
Maria Luna | Achmed Khan | ||||
Angela Delveccio | Amir Khan | ||||
Vicki Kawaguchi | Kenny Kawaguchi | ||||
Gretchen Hasselhoff | Pete Wheeler | ||||
Sally Dobbs | Dmitri Petrovich | ||||
Billy Jean Blackwood | Ricky Johnson | ||||
Ashley Webber | Marky Dubois | ||||
Sidney Webber | Reese Worthington | ||||
Kiesha Phillips | Pablo Sanchez | ||||
Stephanie Morgan | Tony Delveccio | ||||
Luanne Lui | Jorge Garcia | ||||
Annie Frazier | Dante Robinson | ||||
Jocinda Smith | Ernie Steele | ||||
Lisa Crocket | Mikey Thomas |
Room Backgrounds
Several of the game's rooms are used only for storing data and don't need a background, but all of them have one anyway. Some are just blank, but a few are more interesting.
Rooms 16 and 19 store the background chatter for the female and male characters, respectively. Their background consists of the handwritten message 'Stupid talkies' against a very eye-displeasing background.
Room 22 contains the batting animations and this quirky message.
Room 25 holds most of the baseball logic, and a similar message to room 22.
Humongous Vision
A few placeholder graphics for the Humongous Vision display are still in the game.
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This seems to be how the board looked early in development. Assuming it had the same placement at that point, the green bit at the bottom is the center point of the home run fence.
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A placeholder version of the infield fly rule screen.
It's not clear what this is, but it's obviously meant to fit into the same 'slot' as the early Humongous Vision graphics. Possibly it was meant to simulate fields without the display for testing. Most likely, the brown thing on the right connected to some other placeholder graphic, now lost.
Collision Maps
There are several graphics in the game data which, when assembled and overlaid onto the baseball fields, seem to mark parts of the collision data for each area. They're incomplete, though every field except Tin Can Alley has at least one.
Cement Gardens
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Dirt Yards
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Eckman Acres
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Playground Commons
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The odd streak on the second base line is actually part of the tree graphic overlay in the bottom-right corner, so it's definitely in the right place. Who knows what it's doing there.
Sandy Flats
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For some reason, a Steele Stadium component is stored with the Sandy Flats pieces.
Steele Stadium
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Parks Department Field No. 2
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Big City Stadium
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Super Colossal Dome
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Miscellaneous
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A 'TEMP' version of the tournament bracket menu icon snuck into the final game.
This save/load preview placeholder is present in several other Humongous games. This game displays the teams and score instead of a graphical preview, so presumably this is just left over from whichever game this was built off of.
Camera Debugger
This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: See if there's some way to make this do whatever it's supposed to. |
Room 6 seems to be the remnants of a camera debugging system, probably related to the pseudo-3D gameplay in the overhead field view. The buttons on the control panel are apparently programmed to adjust the specified parameters and print relevant debug text like 'camera X angle is %d', and there are several scripts in the room that are obviously meant to do something, but it's not clear how this is supposed to be loaded or whether it still works.
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Unused Dialogue
To do: There's likely lots more. |
System Messages
Apparently Sunny Day was supposed to read out the text for the game's menus, which are silent in the finished game. These files appear at the very beginning of the dialogue file along with several other unused lines below, suggesting they were moved there when this feature was cut, then forgotten about.
File | Subtitles |
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Anyways.. | |
All right, then. | |
Okay, then.. | |
Are you sure you want to quit the game? | |
Are you sure you want to delete this team? | |
Are you sure you want to do that? | |
Are you sure? | |
Are you sure you want to stop? | |
Do you want to save the game? | |
..nothing. | |
You pick first | |
You pick second | |
You are the home team. | |
That means you pitch first. | |
You are the away team. | |
That means you bat first |
Players at Bat
The only thing Sunny Day says when generic players are up at bat in Baseball '97 is 'steps up to bat', but she has unused variations that would eventually go used in the Major League licensed editions that add pros.
File | Subtitles |
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steps up. | |
comes to the plate. |
Color Commentary
A few of Vinnie's lines go unused. Like Sunny's lines above, these are at the very beginning of the dialogue file.
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The force is off, so the best play is at first. | |
I think this pitcher should mix up the pitches a bit, because the batter's going to figure it out if you keep throwing the same pitch. | |
Gotta keep an eye on that juice meter. When the juice is low, so is the pitcher's accuracy. | |
Might want to try changing up the batting stance.. |
Wrong-Way Baserunning
There are several clips of Sunny and Vinnie reacting to players running around the bases the wrong way. Although this is occasionally alluded to in the game, it can never actually happen.
Sunny
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What's this? Where's she going? | |
Hey! He's going the wrong way! | |
Wait a minute.. what's happening here? | |
What's going on here? |
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Vinnie
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Can you believe that? She's heading backwards! | |
Maybe he has to go to the bathroom. | |
Well, Sunny, we've got one confused kid out there! | |
My, oh my! She's running in the wrong direction! | |
You gotta wonder what's going on in his head. |
'And a Miss'
Sunny has a few lines related to receiving a strike by 'missing'. It's possible there was originally some element of aiming the swing rather than just timing it, or these were just generic variations on the regular messages that were cut because they could be misinterpreted as implying this feature existed.
File | Subtitles |
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and a miss! | |
and a miss.. Strike 1 | |
and a miss.. Strike 2 | |
and a miss.. Strike 3 |
Other
A clip of Sunny saying 'Tags her!', but for some reason it's incorrectly sampled to play at half-speed (and also with some very bad audio feedback).
Here's what it should sound like normally.
Unused Text
Subtitles
Most Humongous games have inaccessible subtitles, and this one is no exception. Unlike most games, adding 'TextOn=1' to the game's configuration file does not turn them on, making ScummVM the most practical way to see them.
Debug Output
To do: Document. |
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Also like most Humongous games, this one contains a slew of console debug output. The easiest way to view it is to run the game in ScummVM and set the debug level to 0 or higher.
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