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- Front Page Sports: Baseball '94 v 1.03 Release Notes
-
- Rather than marketing and selling a disk with the 1995 MLBPA rosters
- for $20 or $30, as is the usual practice, the Front Page Sports:
- Baseball '96 development team would like for you to have the teams
- and players from last season for free, as our way of saying "Thank
- You" for using Baseball '94.
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- 1. PREREQUISITES
-
- The BBTHANX package is designed to upgrade users of Baseball '94
- version 1.02. If you have not yet installed the 1.02 patch, please
- do so before installing the BBTHANX package.
-
- If you are unsure of which version of Baseball '94 you have installed,
- you may find out by either starting the game and noting the version
- number in the lower left corner of the credits screen or by typing out
- the contents of the BB94.VER file in the Baseball game directory.
-
- To do this using MS-DOS, change to the game directory and type:
-
- TYPE BB94.VER [enter]
-
- The game version will be displayed on the next line of the screen.
- Valid Baseball '94 versions include 1.00WC, 1.00WF, 1.01C, 1.01F,
- 1.02C, 1.02F, 1.02CX, and 1.02FX. Any of the four 1.02 versions
- can safely accept BBTHANX.
-
- If you do not yet have the 1.02 patch, please refer to page 119 of
- your Baseball '94 game manual for information on how to obtain the
- patch disk to upgrade you to version 1.02.
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- 2. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
-
- To install BBTHANX:
- 1. Copy all files for the update to the \SIERRA\BASEBALL directory.
- 2. Change to the \SIERRA\BASEBALL directory, type UPDATE <Enter>.
- 3. When the program is finished, your game will be updated to v1.03
- and you can type PLAYBALL <Enter> to play Baseball '94.
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- 3. BUG FIXES
-
- In addition to the free player rosters, the team has taken the time
- to port some of the bug fixes that have been developed for BB96 into the
- older BB94 code. These new executables address the following problems:
-
- 1. Reduced the chance of sacrifice bunt attempts in all situations,
- particularly for non-pitchers in non-late-game situations.
-
- 2. Made changes to the base velocities and velocity ranges of the
- Fastball (FB), Sinker (SI), Slider (SL), and Change-up (CU) pitches.
-
- The sinker (SI), also known as the two-seam fastball, is now properly
- classified as a fastball class pitch and has a base velocity about 5
- mph below that of the standard four-seam fastball (FB). Several
- players in the BBTHANX association, such as Greg Maddux and Orel
- Hershiser, do not have FB ratings because they throw sinkers as their
- primary fastball pitch. Others, such as Eric Plunk and Mark Wohlers,
- throw the standard four-seam, "straight" fastball as their primary
- pitch.
-
- 3. A pitcher's base fastball velocity is now determined by his Arm
- Strength (AS) rating rather than the fastball rating. This change
- allows the FB rating to be used exclusively as a pitch quality rating,
- which allows for players with blazing velocity but poor command and
- liveliness on their fastball pitches.
-
- Unfortunately this change will require that you modify the AS ratings
- for pitchers in existing associations. The AS rating is designed to
- a range of 66-99 mph with a rating of 40 being approximately equal
- to a fastball velocity of 80 mph.
-
- We have provided a command-line utility that will change the AS
- ratings for all pitchers in existing associations to be equal to
- their FB ratings (with a minimum AS rating of 40). To update the AS
- ratings of the pitchers in all associations, from the Baseball game
- directory, type:
-
- UPTHANX [enter]
-
- 4. Made adjustments to the chance of making contact with the pitched
- ball based on the pitch velocity and location within the strike zone.
-
- 5. Fixed asserts relating to improperly tracked player substitutions
- during games, the most common of which were the GAMEINC.CPP:266 and
- the EARNEDR.C:308 asserts. The removal of these asserts has proven to
- cause errors in game box score compilation, such as the involved
- players being displayed as a substitute for the wrong slot in the
- batting order. We feel that having a substitute being displayed in
- the wrong slot is much less of a problem than lost games.
-
- 6. Fixed the "cheap save" bug. Pitchers are now properly considered
- to be in a save situation when they pitch the last inning of a game
- with a three run lead.
-
- 7. Fixed a bug which prevented players with career ending injuries
- from retiring off of their team's rosters. Players with existing CEIs
- will retire during the next day's association processing.
-
- 8. Fixed the September roster call-ups bug which resulted in the
- GAMESET.C:360 assert when starting games.
-
- 9. Fixed a bug in the player valuing system which was causing players
- with no career games played to be considered as not qualified at all
- positions. The resulting lowered player values caused players to be
- used at non-qualified positions (such as Barry Bonds starting at the
- catcher position) and caused them to be undervalued in trades with
- other teams. Players with no career games played are now properly
- considered as qualified at their primary position.
-
- 10. Made adjustments to the overall offensive, defensive, and speed
- considerations for each position in the player valuing process.
-
- 11. Removed all copy protection from the game. You may now play games
- without having the CD in the drive or looking up an answer in the game
- manual.
-
- If you continue to experience any problems, or if you have any questions
- concerning any of the above steps, our Technical Support Team will be
- more than happy to assist you. Please call (206) 644-4343 between 8:15 a.m.
- and 4:45 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Friday. We can be
- reached by Fax at (206) 644-7697, or by mail at the following address:
-
- Sierra On-Line
- P.O. BOX 85006
- Bellevue, WA 98015-8506
- Attention: Technical Support
-
- You can also reach our Technical Support Team on one of the following
- services:
-
- Sierra BBS (206) 644-0112 or telnet bbs.sierra.com
- Compuserve GO SIERRA
- America Online Keyword: Sierra
- Internet support@sierra.com or http://www.sierra.com
-
- Please outline the problems along with the specific information about your
- computer system, and we will gladly respond to your letter, fax, or BBS
- message as soon as possible. When contacting us by fax or BBS please
- allow 24-48 hours for turnaround. During weekends or holidays, there may
- be some delays.
-
- To better serve our European customers with technical problems and disk
- replacements, Sierra U.K Customer Support or Coktel Customer Support can
- be reached at the following address:
-
- Sierra On-Line Limited Coktel Vision
- Unit 2, Theale Technology Centre, Parc Tertiaire de Meudon
- Station Road Immeuble "Le Newton"
- Theale, Berkshire RG7 4AA 25 rue Jeanne Braconnier
- United Kingdom 92366 Meudon La ForΩt Cedex
- Main: (44) 1-734-303171 France
- Fax : (44) 1-734-303201 Main: (33) 1-46-01-4650
- BBS : (44) 1-734-304227 Fax : (33) 1-46-31-7172
-
- Sierra Technical Support provides this documentation as a reference to
- Sierra customers using Sierra software products. Sierra Technical
- Support makes reasonable efforts to ensure that the information
- contained in this documentation is accurate. However, Sierra makes no
- warranty, either express or implied, as to the accuracy,
- effectiveness, or completeness of the information contained in this
- documentation.
-
- SIERRA ON-LINE, INC. DOES NOT WARRANTY OR PROMISE THAT THE INFORMATION
- HEREIN WILL WORK WITH ANY OR ALL COMPUTER SYSTEMS. SIERRA DOES NOT
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- ANY NEW WARRANTIES. IN NO CASE SHALL SIERRA'S LIABILITY EXCEED THE
- PURCHASE PRICE OF THE SIERRA SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
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- Once again, the Baseball '96 development team thanks you for using and
- supporting Front Page Sports: Baseball '94. Be sure and look for Baseball
- '96 in your local retailers at the All-Star break!
-