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For Baseball Stars on the NES, GameFAQs has 3 FAQs (game guides and walkthroughs), 5 cheat codes and secrets, 10 reviews, and 23 user screenshots. Jul 31, 1989 For Baseball Stars on the NES, GameFAQs has 3 FAQs (game guides and walkthroughs).
The 2019 MLB season so close now. Spring Training has begun. Players are taking the field. So it's time to rank the best of the best.MLB Network recently concluded its annual countdown of the Top 100 players in MLB. How is the list compiled? MLB Network's research team, in conjunction with the show's producers, use statistical analysis to rank the Top 100 players in MLB for the 2019 season.
(It's different from the Shredder, which is used to determine the network's annual ranking lists for the Top 10 players at each position.)Here's the full list - MLB Network's Top 100 players in MLB for the 2019 season. And it starts with.1. Mike Trout, OF, Angels (2018 rank: 1)Trout's marching along the path to Cooperstown. And, somehow, he looks like he might be getting better.
He's now either been the American League Most Valuable Player or runner-up in six of his seven full seasons - winning the award twice and finishing second four times. Nolan Arenado, 3B, Rockies (2018 rank: 7)Arenado is a superstar offensively and defensively at third base. He's become a perennial National League MVP candidate with three straight top-five finishes, and he's also on a run of four straight All-Star nods, four straight Silver Sluggers and six straight NL Gold Gloves.4. Francisco Lindor, SS, Indians (2018 rank: 17)One of the game's brightest young stars, Lindor has finished in the top 10 of AL MVP voting in all three of his full seasons. He's made three straight All-Star teams, won back-to-back Silver Sluggers and is an AL Gold Glove-caliber shortstop, too. And the fun he has playing the game is contagious.
Alex Bregman, 3B, Astros (2018 rank: 57)Bregman, Altuve's teammate in Houston, made the leap to AL MVP Award candidate himself in 2018. His breakout year - 31 homers, 103 RBIs, 105 runs scored and a Major League-leading 51 doubles - earned him a fifth-place AL MVP Award finish and his first career All-Star nod.8. Christian Yelich, OF, Brewers (2018 rank: 46)Yelich put it all together in a sensational first year in Milwaukee, winning the NL MVP Award and batting title, leading the Brewers to the NL Championship Series and nearly winning a Triple Crown. Yelich was a first-time All-Star and second-time Silver Slugger, and he's won an NL Gold Glove Award once before. 9., 3B, Indians (2018 rank: 22)J-Ram forms a dynamic duo with Lindor in the Cleveland infield. Ramirez was an AL MVP Award finalist for a second straight year in 2018 after crushing a career-high 39 homers, and he's a back-to-back All-Star and Silver Slugger, too.10. Shining tears x wind wallpaper 2017.
Jacob deGrom, SP, Mets (2018 rank: 52)deGrom had an all-time-great pitching season in 2018 - an MLB-best 1.70 ERA, plus 269 strikeouts - rivaling Dwight Gooden's iconic 1985 season for the best in Mets history. The New York ace added an NL Cy Young Award to the NL Rookie of the Year Award already in his trophy case, and he finished in the top five of NL MVP voting and earned his second All-Star nod.
In the next tier of players come the megastars who signed record-setting free-agent contracts during Spring Training: Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. There's also Betts' partner in crime in the Red Sox's lineup, J.D.
Martinez, and the biggest bats from the rival Bronx Bombers, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. A pair of dominant AL aces in Chris Sale and Justin Verlander, and a deep crop of NL first basemen in Goldschmidt, Freeman and Votto round out the MLB Network Top 20. This group includes four former MVP Award winners: Stanton (2017 NL), Harper (2015 NL), Votto (2010 NL) and Verlander (2011 AL). 31) Carlos Correa, SS, Astros (2018 rank: 10)32) Kris Bryant, 3B, Cubs (2018 rank: 8)33) Matt Carpenter, 3B, Cardinals (2018 rank: 62)34) Anthony Rizzo, 1B, Cubs (2018 rank: 23)35) Ronald Acuna Jr., OF, Braves (2018 rank: NR)36) Juan Soto, OF, Nationals (2018 rank: NR)37) George Springer, OF, Astros (2018 rank: 24)38) Charlie Blackmon, OF, Rockies (2018 rank: 16)39) Mitch Haniger, OF, Mariners (2018 rank: NR)40) J.T. Realmuto, C, Phillies (2018 rank: 82)The top of the next group brings a pair of old college teammates and rivals in Trevor Bauer and Gerrit Cole, who rose into the upper echelon of AL pitchers with stellar 2018 seasons. Another electric arm comes right after them: flamethrowing Yankee Luis Severino, who is set to start Opening Day.
Also helping to round out the Top 50: the 2018 MLB hits and stolen-base leader Whit Merrifield, 2017 NL Rookie of the Year Award winner Cody Bellinger and another pair of star shortstops in Xander Bogaerts and Andrelton Simmons.
| Baseball Stars 2 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) |
|
| Publisher(s) |
|
| Producer(s) | Eikichi Kawasaki |
| Designer(s) | Masami Tokusue |
| Composer(s) | Kazuhiro Nishida Masahiko Hataya |
| Series | Baseball Stars |
| Platform(s) |
|
| Release |
|
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | Neo Geo MVS |
| CPU | M68000 (@ 12 MHz), Z80A (@ 4 MHz) |
| Sound | YM2610 (@ 8 MHz)[2] |
| Display | Raster, 320 × 224 pixels (Horizontal), 4096 colors |
Baseball Stars 2[a] is a 2-player baseballsportsarcade game released by SNK in 1992 for the Neo-Geo console.[3] A less detailed console version was released for the NES by Romstar the same year.
Neo Geo version[edit]
Gameplay screenshot from the original Neo Geo version.
You can select from one of 18 teams across two leagues: Exciting League (beginner) & Fighting League (expert).
It featured 18 teams across 2 leagues (Exciting League and Fighting League) and put more emphasis on the graphics and the gameplay; for example, being able to change pitchers or batters and powering up batters which increased the size of the bat.[4]
NES version[edit]
Baseball Stars 2 for the Nintendo Entertainment System was distributed by Romstar in 1992.
Changes made from the original Baseball Stars, released by SNK in 1989:
- Female players are no longer included in any form.
- Two additional batting stances. These additional stances are never used for players on custom teams. They will only appear on the pre-made teams' players
- Enhanced pitch control.
- Ability to shift field formations when playing defense.
- Ability to view your team roster and ratings while in-game.
- Sidearm-style pitchers are never generated on custom teams. They can only be hired.
- Easier bunting controls; bunts are now retractable. (Hold Down+A to bunt instead of stopping the swing partway through.)
- Ability to see lead-offs while pitching/batting.
- Six pitchers and four bench players instead of five each.
- New music and home run animations. These include the 'Power connect' graphic for a two-run home run, an animated graphic of the batter rounding the bases and pumping his fist for a 3-run home run or grand slam, and a similar (yet very rare) graphic including a West highland white terrier following the batter for a come-from-behind (usually game-ending) home run in a dramatic situation.
- Can no longer name custom teams or rename players on custom teams
- You can still upgrade player using the same 15-point system introduced in the original Baseball Stars. However, the random points you get to disperse to various skills each time you purchase a player upgrade changed from between 1 and 6 to between 1 and 5
- Player upgrades overall are much more expensive while the money received during play has remained about the same. This makes it much more time-consuming to upgrade players to maximum.
- You can still fire players and hire players. However, due to the fact you cannot change the names of hired players your hired player will always be named generic names given by the game (examples 'STAR 5', 'ROOK 2', etc.). This can also lead to multiple players sharing the same name throughout the custom teams, even conceivably multiple players on the same team with the same name.
Players can still create leagues of up to 125 games (6 teams playing each other 25 times) and view statistics such as League Standings and Top 10 in Average, Home Runs, Runs Batted In, Earned Run Average, Wins and Saves. (A peculiar glitch occurs when viewing league leaders. The last pitcher listed on any user-created team in 'View Team' does not appear in any of the Top 10 leaderboards.)
Reception[edit]
| Reception (Neo Geo) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||
The Neo Geo version was critically acclaimed. The first issue of GameFan reviewed the Neo Geo version, with its two reviewers scoring it 99% and 97%; the former said it 'is far and away the best sports game I have ever played' and the latter said the 'graphics are incredibly well detailed' and 'the gameplay is unparalleled.' They concluded that it 'has the best graphics, sound, and game play this side of ESPN.'[5]
The NES version was less popular than the original Baseball Stars was on the NES. Reasons for this included the inability to change the name of a gamer-created team or names of the players on a gamer-created team, and unimproved graphics over the original.
Re-releases[edit]
The game was included in the SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 compilation by SNK Playmore for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii, released on 2008.
The Neo Geo version was re-released for Wii by D4 Enterprise via the Virtual Console in Japan on October 30, 2007,[7] in PAL regions on November 30, 2007,[8] and in North America on December 10, 2007.[9]
SNK Playmore released ports for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable developed by M2 on August 25, 2011 on PlayStation Network via NEOGEO Station in Japan and North America on July 19, 2011,[10] and in PAL regions on August 24, 2011.[11]
A port for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux and asm.js developed by DotEmu was released by SNK Playmore as part of the Humble NEOGEO 25th Anniversary Bundle on December 8, 2015.[12] It was released on Steam on April 27, 2016 and on GOG.com on May 30, 2017.[13]
Hamster Corporation re-released the game as part of their ACA Neo Geo series for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on March 21, 2019.
Notes[edit]
- ^Japanese: ベースボール・スターズ 2Hepburn: Bēsubōru Sutāzu 2
References[edit]
- ^CRV (September 13, 2007). 'Pixel'. gdri.smspower.org. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
- ^'SNK NeoGeo MVS Hardware (SNK)'. system16.com. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^'Neo•Geo CD: The Arcade In A Box - Baseball Stars 2'. GamePro. No. Premiere Supplement. IDG. Spring 1996. p. 102.
- ^Baseball Stars 2 user's manual (Neo Geo AES, US)
- ^ abGameFan, volume 1, issue 1 (October 1992), pages 7 & 49
- ^http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Player%20One/playerone_numero021/Player%20One%20021%20-%20Page%20106%20(1992-06).jpg
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (26 October 2007). 'Japanese Virtual Console list - November 2007'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (29 November 2007). 'EU VC Releases - 30th November - Baseball Stars 2'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (10 December 2007). 'US VC Releases - 10th December - Pokemon Snap'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^'NeoGeo Station to get The King of Fighters '95 and Baseball Stars 2'. EntDepot. 18 July 2011. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^Barker, Sammy (25 August 2011). 'European PlayStation Store Updates: 24th August 2011'. Push Square. Archived from the original on 10 May 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^Walker, Alex (10 December 2015). 'The NEOGEO Humble Bundle Is Incredible, And You Can Trial The Games In Your Browser'. Kotaku Australia. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^'Release: 15 SNK NEO・GEO Classics'. GOG.com. CD Projekt. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
External links[edit]
- Baseball Stars 2 at GameFAQs
- Baseball Stars 2 at Giant Bomb
- Baseball Stars 2 at Killer List of Videogames
- Baseball Stars 2 at MobyGames
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Stars_2&oldid=941700279'
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For Baseball Stars on the NES, GameFAQs has 3 FAQs (game guides and walkthroughs), 5 cheat codes and secrets, 10 reviews, and 23 user screenshots. Jul 31, 1989 For Baseball Stars on the NES, GameFAQs has 3 FAQs (game guides and walkthroughs).
The 2019 MLB season so close now. Spring Training has begun. Players are taking the field. So it\'s time to rank the best of the best.MLB Network recently concluded its annual countdown of the Top 100 players in MLB. How is the list compiled? MLB Network\'s research team, in conjunction with the show\'s producers, use statistical analysis to rank the Top 100 players in MLB for the 2019 season.
(It\'s different from the Shredder, which is used to determine the network\'s annual ranking lists for the Top 10 players at each position.)Here\'s the full list - MLB Network\'s Top 100 players in MLB for the 2019 season. And it starts with.1. Mike Trout, OF, Angels (2018 rank: 1)Trout\'s marching along the path to Cooperstown. And, somehow, he looks like he might be getting better.
He\'s now either been the American League Most Valuable Player or runner-up in six of his seven full seasons - winning the award twice and finishing second four times. Nolan Arenado, 3B, Rockies (2018 rank: 7)Arenado is a superstar offensively and defensively at third base. He\'s become a perennial National League MVP candidate with three straight top-five finishes, and he\'s also on a run of four straight All-Star nods, four straight Silver Sluggers and six straight NL Gold Gloves.4. Francisco Lindor, SS, Indians (2018 rank: 17)One of the game\'s brightest young stars, Lindor has finished in the top 10 of AL MVP voting in all three of his full seasons. He\'s made three straight All-Star teams, won back-to-back Silver Sluggers and is an AL Gold Glove-caliber shortstop, too. And the fun he has playing the game is contagious.
Alex Bregman, 3B, Astros (2018 rank: 57)Bregman, Altuve\'s teammate in Houston, made the leap to AL MVP Award candidate himself in 2018. His breakout year - 31 homers, 103 RBIs, 105 runs scored and a Major League-leading 51 doubles - earned him a fifth-place AL MVP Award finish and his first career All-Star nod.8. Christian Yelich, OF, Brewers (2018 rank: 46)Yelich put it all together in a sensational first year in Milwaukee, winning the NL MVP Award and batting title, leading the Brewers to the NL Championship Series and nearly winning a Triple Crown. Yelich was a first-time All-Star and second-time Silver Slugger, and he\'s won an NL Gold Glove Award once before. 9., 3B, Indians (2018 rank: 22)J-Ram forms a dynamic duo with Lindor in the Cleveland infield. Ramirez was an AL MVP Award finalist for a second straight year in 2018 after crushing a career-high 39 homers, and he\'s a back-to-back All-Star and Silver Slugger, too.10. Shining tears x wind wallpaper 2017.
Jacob deGrom, SP, Mets (2018 rank: 52)deGrom had an all-time-great pitching season in 2018 - an MLB-best 1.70 ERA, plus 269 strikeouts - rivaling Dwight Gooden\'s iconic 1985 season for the best in Mets history. The New York ace added an NL Cy Young Award to the NL Rookie of the Year Award already in his trophy case, and he finished in the top five of NL MVP voting and earned his second All-Star nod.
In the next tier of players come the megastars who signed record-setting free-agent contracts during Spring Training: Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. There\'s also Betts\' partner in crime in the Red Sox\'s lineup, J.D.
Martinez, and the biggest bats from the rival Bronx Bombers, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. A pair of dominant AL aces in Chris Sale and Justin Verlander, and a deep crop of NL first basemen in Goldschmidt, Freeman and Votto round out the MLB Network Top 20. This group includes four former MVP Award winners: Stanton (2017 NL), Harper (2015 NL), Votto (2010 NL) and Verlander (2011 AL). 31) Carlos Correa, SS, Astros (2018 rank: 10)32) Kris Bryant, 3B, Cubs (2018 rank: 8)33) Matt Carpenter, 3B, Cardinals (2018 rank: 62)34) Anthony Rizzo, 1B, Cubs (2018 rank: 23)35) Ronald Acuna Jr., OF, Braves (2018 rank: NR)36) Juan Soto, OF, Nationals (2018 rank: NR)37) George Springer, OF, Astros (2018 rank: 24)38) Charlie Blackmon, OF, Rockies (2018 rank: 16)39) Mitch Haniger, OF, Mariners (2018 rank: NR)40) J.T. Realmuto, C, Phillies (2018 rank: 82)The top of the next group brings a pair of old college teammates and rivals in Trevor Bauer and Gerrit Cole, who rose into the upper echelon of AL pitchers with stellar 2018 seasons. Another electric arm comes right after them: flamethrowing Yankee Luis Severino, who is set to start Opening Day.
Also helping to round out the Top 50: the 2018 MLB hits and stolen-base leader Whit Merrifield, 2017 NL Rookie of the Year Award winner Cody Bellinger and another pair of star shortstops in Xander Bogaerts and Andrelton Simmons.
| Baseball Stars 2 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) |
|
| Publisher(s) |
|
| Producer(s) | Eikichi Kawasaki |
| Designer(s) | Masami Tokusue |
| Composer(s) | Kazuhiro Nishida Masahiko Hataya |
| Series | Baseball Stars |
| Platform(s) |
|
| Release |
|
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | Neo Geo MVS |
| CPU | M68000 (@ 12 MHz), Z80A (@ 4 MHz) |
| Sound | YM2610 (@ 8 MHz)[2] |
| Display | Raster, 320 × 224 pixels (Horizontal), 4096 colors |
Baseball Stars 2[a] is a 2-player baseballsportsarcade game released by SNK in 1992 for the Neo-Geo console.[3] A less detailed console version was released for the NES by Romstar the same year.
Neo Geo version[edit]
Gameplay screenshot from the original Neo Geo version.
You can select from one of 18 teams across two leagues: Exciting League (beginner) & Fighting League (expert).
It featured 18 teams across 2 leagues (Exciting League and Fighting League) and put more emphasis on the graphics and the gameplay; for example, being able to change pitchers or batters and powering up batters which increased the size of the bat.[4]
NES version[edit]
Baseball Stars 2 for the Nintendo Entertainment System was distributed by Romstar in 1992.
Changes made from the original Baseball Stars, released by SNK in 1989:
- Female players are no longer included in any form.
- Two additional batting stances. These additional stances are never used for players on custom teams. They will only appear on the pre-made teams\' players
- Enhanced pitch control.
- Ability to shift field formations when playing defense.
- Ability to view your team roster and ratings while in-game.
- Sidearm-style pitchers are never generated on custom teams. They can only be hired.
- Easier bunting controls; bunts are now retractable. (Hold Down+A to bunt instead of stopping the swing partway through.)
- Ability to see lead-offs while pitching/batting.
- Six pitchers and four bench players instead of five each.
- New music and home run animations. These include the \'Power connect\' graphic for a two-run home run, an animated graphic of the batter rounding the bases and pumping his fist for a 3-run home run or grand slam, and a similar (yet very rare) graphic including a West highland white terrier following the batter for a come-from-behind (usually game-ending) home run in a dramatic situation.
- Can no longer name custom teams or rename players on custom teams
- You can still upgrade player using the same 15-point system introduced in the original Baseball Stars. However, the random points you get to disperse to various skills each time you purchase a player upgrade changed from between 1 and 6 to between 1 and 5
- Player upgrades overall are much more expensive while the money received during play has remained about the same. This makes it much more time-consuming to upgrade players to maximum.
- You can still fire players and hire players. However, due to the fact you cannot change the names of hired players your hired player will always be named generic names given by the game (examples \'STAR 5\', \'ROOK 2\', etc.). This can also lead to multiple players sharing the same name throughout the custom teams, even conceivably multiple players on the same team with the same name.
Players can still create leagues of up to 125 games (6 teams playing each other 25 times) and view statistics such as League Standings and Top 10 in Average, Home Runs, Runs Batted In, Earned Run Average, Wins and Saves. (A peculiar glitch occurs when viewing league leaders. The last pitcher listed on any user-created team in \'View Team\' does not appear in any of the Top 10 leaderboards.)
Reception[edit]
| Reception (Neo Geo) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
The Neo Geo version was critically acclaimed. The first issue of GameFan reviewed the Neo Geo version, with its two reviewers scoring it 99% and 97%; the former said it \'is far and away the best sports game I have ever played\' and the latter said the \'graphics are incredibly well detailed\' and \'the gameplay is unparalleled.\' They concluded that it \'has the best graphics, sound, and game play this side of ESPN.\'[5]
The NES version was less popular than the original Baseball Stars was on the NES. Reasons for this included the inability to change the name of a gamer-created team or names of the players on a gamer-created team, and unimproved graphics over the original.
Re-releases[edit]
The game was included in the SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 compilation by SNK Playmore for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii, released on 2008.
The Neo Geo version was re-released for Wii by D4 Enterprise via the Virtual Console in Japan on October 30, 2007,[7] in PAL regions on November 30, 2007,[8] and in North America on December 10, 2007.[9]
SNK Playmore released ports for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable developed by M2 on August 25, 2011 on PlayStation Network via NEOGEO Station in Japan and North America on July 19, 2011,[10] and in PAL regions on August 24, 2011.[11]
A port for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux and asm.js developed by DotEmu was released by SNK Playmore as part of the Humble NEOGEO 25th Anniversary Bundle on December 8, 2015.[12] It was released on Steam on April 27, 2016 and on GOG.com on May 30, 2017.[13]
Hamster Corporation re-released the game as part of their ACA Neo Geo series for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on March 21, 2019.
Notes[edit]
- ^Japanese: ベースボール・スターズ 2Hepburn: Bēsubōru Sutāzu 2
References[edit]
- ^CRV (September 13, 2007). \'Pixel\'. gdri.smspower.org. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
- ^\'SNK NeoGeo MVS Hardware (SNK)\'. system16.com. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^\'Neo•Geo CD: The Arcade In A Box - Baseball Stars 2\'. GamePro. No. Premiere Supplement. IDG. Spring 1996. p. 102.
- ^Baseball Stars 2 user\'s manual (Neo Geo AES, US)
- ^ abGameFan, volume 1, issue 1 (October 1992), pages 7 & 49
- ^http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Player%20One/playerone_numero021/Player%20One%20021%20-%20Page%20106%20(1992-06).jpg
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (26 October 2007). \'Japanese Virtual Console list - November 2007\'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (29 November 2007). \'EU VC Releases - 30th November - Baseball Stars 2\'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (10 December 2007). \'US VC Releases - 10th December - Pokemon Snap\'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^\'NeoGeo Station to get The King of Fighters \'95 and Baseball Stars 2\'. EntDepot. 18 July 2011. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^Barker, Sammy (25 August 2011). \'European PlayStation Store Updates: 24th August 2011\'. Push Square. Archived from the original on 10 May 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^Walker, Alex (10 December 2015). \'The NEOGEO Humble Bundle Is Incredible, And You Can Trial The Games In Your Browser\'. Kotaku Australia. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^\'Release: 15 SNK NEO・GEO Classics\'. GOG.com. CD Projekt. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
External links[edit]
- Baseball Stars 2 at GameFAQs
- Baseball Stars 2 at Giant Bomb
- Baseball Stars 2 at Killer List of Videogames
- Baseball Stars 2 at MobyGames
Retrieved from \'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Stars_2&oldid=941700279\'
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For Baseball Stars on the NES, GameFAQs has 3 FAQs (game guides and walkthroughs), 5 cheat codes and secrets, 10 reviews, and 23 user screenshots. Jul 31, 1989 For Baseball Stars on the NES, GameFAQs has 3 FAQs (game guides and walkthroughs).
The 2019 MLB season so close now. Spring Training has begun. Players are taking the field. So it\'s time to rank the best of the best.MLB Network recently concluded its annual countdown of the Top 100 players in MLB. How is the list compiled? MLB Network\'s research team, in conjunction with the show\'s producers, use statistical analysis to rank the Top 100 players in MLB for the 2019 season.
(It\'s different from the Shredder, which is used to determine the network\'s annual ranking lists for the Top 10 players at each position.)Here\'s the full list - MLB Network\'s Top 100 players in MLB for the 2019 season. And it starts with.1. Mike Trout, OF, Angels (2018 rank: 1)Trout\'s marching along the path to Cooperstown. And, somehow, he looks like he might be getting better.
He\'s now either been the American League Most Valuable Player or runner-up in six of his seven full seasons - winning the award twice and finishing second four times. Nolan Arenado, 3B, Rockies (2018 rank: 7)Arenado is a superstar offensively and defensively at third base. He\'s become a perennial National League MVP candidate with three straight top-five finishes, and he\'s also on a run of four straight All-Star nods, four straight Silver Sluggers and six straight NL Gold Gloves.4. Francisco Lindor, SS, Indians (2018 rank: 17)One of the game\'s brightest young stars, Lindor has finished in the top 10 of AL MVP voting in all three of his full seasons. He\'s made three straight All-Star teams, won back-to-back Silver Sluggers and is an AL Gold Glove-caliber shortstop, too. And the fun he has playing the game is contagious.
Alex Bregman, 3B, Astros (2018 rank: 57)Bregman, Altuve\'s teammate in Houston, made the leap to AL MVP Award candidate himself in 2018. His breakout year - 31 homers, 103 RBIs, 105 runs scored and a Major League-leading 51 doubles - earned him a fifth-place AL MVP Award finish and his first career All-Star nod.8. Christian Yelich, OF, Brewers (2018 rank: 46)Yelich put it all together in a sensational first year in Milwaukee, winning the NL MVP Award and batting title, leading the Brewers to the NL Championship Series and nearly winning a Triple Crown. Yelich was a first-time All-Star and second-time Silver Slugger, and he\'s won an NL Gold Glove Award once before. 9., 3B, Indians (2018 rank: 22)J-Ram forms a dynamic duo with Lindor in the Cleveland infield. Ramirez was an AL MVP Award finalist for a second straight year in 2018 after crushing a career-high 39 homers, and he\'s a back-to-back All-Star and Silver Slugger, too.10. Shining tears x wind wallpaper 2017.
Jacob deGrom, SP, Mets (2018 rank: 52)deGrom had an all-time-great pitching season in 2018 - an MLB-best 1.70 ERA, plus 269 strikeouts - rivaling Dwight Gooden\'s iconic 1985 season for the best in Mets history. The New York ace added an NL Cy Young Award to the NL Rookie of the Year Award already in his trophy case, and he finished in the top five of NL MVP voting and earned his second All-Star nod.
In the next tier of players come the megastars who signed record-setting free-agent contracts during Spring Training: Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. There\'s also Betts\' partner in crime in the Red Sox\'s lineup, J.D.
Martinez, and the biggest bats from the rival Bronx Bombers, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. A pair of dominant AL aces in Chris Sale and Justin Verlander, and a deep crop of NL first basemen in Goldschmidt, Freeman and Votto round out the MLB Network Top 20. This group includes four former MVP Award winners: Stanton (2017 NL), Harper (2015 NL), Votto (2010 NL) and Verlander (2011 AL). 31) Carlos Correa, SS, Astros (2018 rank: 10)32) Kris Bryant, 3B, Cubs (2018 rank: 8)33) Matt Carpenter, 3B, Cardinals (2018 rank: 62)34) Anthony Rizzo, 1B, Cubs (2018 rank: 23)35) Ronald Acuna Jr., OF, Braves (2018 rank: NR)36) Juan Soto, OF, Nationals (2018 rank: NR)37) George Springer, OF, Astros (2018 rank: 24)38) Charlie Blackmon, OF, Rockies (2018 rank: 16)39) Mitch Haniger, OF, Mariners (2018 rank: NR)40) J.T. Realmuto, C, Phillies (2018 rank: 82)The top of the next group brings a pair of old college teammates and rivals in Trevor Bauer and Gerrit Cole, who rose into the upper echelon of AL pitchers with stellar 2018 seasons. Another electric arm comes right after them: flamethrowing Yankee Luis Severino, who is set to start Opening Day.
Also helping to round out the Top 50: the 2018 MLB hits and stolen-base leader Whit Merrifield, 2017 NL Rookie of the Year Award winner Cody Bellinger and another pair of star shortstops in Xander Bogaerts and Andrelton Simmons.
| Baseball Stars 2 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) |
|
| Publisher(s) |
|
| Producer(s) | Eikichi Kawasaki |
| Designer(s) | Masami Tokusue |
| Composer(s) | Kazuhiro Nishida Masahiko Hataya |
| Series | Baseball Stars |
| Platform(s) |
|
| Release |
|
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | Neo Geo MVS |
| CPU | M68000 (@ 12 MHz), Z80A (@ 4 MHz) |
| Sound | YM2610 (@ 8 MHz)[2] |
| Display | Raster, 320 × 224 pixels (Horizontal), 4096 colors |
Baseball Stars 2[a] is a 2-player baseballsportsarcade game released by SNK in 1992 for the Neo-Geo console.[3] A less detailed console version was released for the NES by Romstar the same year.
Neo Geo version[edit]
Gameplay screenshot from the original Neo Geo version.
You can select from one of 18 teams across two leagues: Exciting League (beginner) & Fighting League (expert).
It featured 18 teams across 2 leagues (Exciting League and Fighting League) and put more emphasis on the graphics and the gameplay; for example, being able to change pitchers or batters and powering up batters which increased the size of the bat.[4]
NES version[edit]
Baseball Stars 2 for the Nintendo Entertainment System was distributed by Romstar in 1992.
Changes made from the original Baseball Stars, released by SNK in 1989:
- Female players are no longer included in any form.
- Two additional batting stances. These additional stances are never used for players on custom teams. They will only appear on the pre-made teams\' players
- Enhanced pitch control.
- Ability to shift field formations when playing defense.
- Ability to view your team roster and ratings while in-game.
- Sidearm-style pitchers are never generated on custom teams. They can only be hired.
- Easier bunting controls; bunts are now retractable. (Hold Down+A to bunt instead of stopping the swing partway through.)
- Ability to see lead-offs while pitching/batting.
- Six pitchers and four bench players instead of five each.
- New music and home run animations. These include the \'Power connect\' graphic for a two-run home run, an animated graphic of the batter rounding the bases and pumping his fist for a 3-run home run or grand slam, and a similar (yet very rare) graphic including a West highland white terrier following the batter for a come-from-behind (usually game-ending) home run in a dramatic situation.
- Can no longer name custom teams or rename players on custom teams
- You can still upgrade player using the same 15-point system introduced in the original Baseball Stars. However, the random points you get to disperse to various skills each time you purchase a player upgrade changed from between 1 and 6 to between 1 and 5
- Player upgrades overall are much more expensive while the money received during play has remained about the same. This makes it much more time-consuming to upgrade players to maximum.
- You can still fire players and hire players. However, due to the fact you cannot change the names of hired players your hired player will always be named generic names given by the game (examples \'STAR 5\', \'ROOK 2\', etc.). This can also lead to multiple players sharing the same name throughout the custom teams, even conceivably multiple players on the same team with the same name.
Players can still create leagues of up to 125 games (6 teams playing each other 25 times) and view statistics such as League Standings and Top 10 in Average, Home Runs, Runs Batted In, Earned Run Average, Wins and Saves. (A peculiar glitch occurs when viewing league leaders. The last pitcher listed on any user-created team in \'View Team\' does not appear in any of the Top 10 leaderboards.)
Reception[edit]
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The Neo Geo version was critically acclaimed. The first issue of GameFan reviewed the Neo Geo version, with its two reviewers scoring it 99% and 97%; the former said it \'is far and away the best sports game I have ever played\' and the latter said the \'graphics are incredibly well detailed\' and \'the gameplay is unparalleled.\' They concluded that it \'has the best graphics, sound, and game play this side of ESPN.\'[5]
The NES version was less popular than the original Baseball Stars was on the NES. Reasons for this included the inability to change the name of a gamer-created team or names of the players on a gamer-created team, and unimproved graphics over the original.
Re-releases[edit]
The game was included in the SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 compilation by SNK Playmore for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii, released on 2008.
The Neo Geo version was re-released for Wii by D4 Enterprise via the Virtual Console in Japan on October 30, 2007,[7] in PAL regions on November 30, 2007,[8] and in North America on December 10, 2007.[9]
SNK Playmore released ports for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable developed by M2 on August 25, 2011 on PlayStation Network via NEOGEO Station in Japan and North America on July 19, 2011,[10] and in PAL regions on August 24, 2011.[11]
A port for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux and asm.js developed by DotEmu was released by SNK Playmore as part of the Humble NEOGEO 25th Anniversary Bundle on December 8, 2015.[12] It was released on Steam on April 27, 2016 and on GOG.com on May 30, 2017.[13]
Hamster Corporation re-released the game as part of their ACA Neo Geo series for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on March 21, 2019.
Notes[edit]
- ^Japanese: ベースボール・スターズ 2Hepburn: Bēsubōru Sutāzu 2
References[edit]
- ^CRV (September 13, 2007). \'Pixel\'. gdri.smspower.org. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
- ^\'SNK NeoGeo MVS Hardware (SNK)\'. system16.com. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^\'Neo•Geo CD: The Arcade In A Box - Baseball Stars 2\'. GamePro. No. Premiere Supplement. IDG. Spring 1996. p. 102.
- ^Baseball Stars 2 user\'s manual (Neo Geo AES, US)
- ^ abGameFan, volume 1, issue 1 (October 1992), pages 7 & 49
- ^http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Player%20One/playerone_numero021/Player%20One%20021%20-%20Page%20106%20(1992-06).jpg
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (26 October 2007). \'Japanese Virtual Console list - November 2007\'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (29 November 2007). \'EU VC Releases - 30th November - Baseball Stars 2\'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^van Duyn, Marcel (10 December 2007). \'US VC Releases - 10th December - Pokemon Snap\'. Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^\'NeoGeo Station to get The King of Fighters \'95 and Baseball Stars 2\'. EntDepot. 18 July 2011. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^Barker, Sammy (25 August 2011). \'European PlayStation Store Updates: 24th August 2011\'. Push Square. Archived from the original on 10 May 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^Walker, Alex (10 December 2015). \'The NEOGEO Humble Bundle Is Incredible, And You Can Trial The Games In Your Browser\'. Kotaku Australia. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^\'Release: 15 SNK NEO・GEO Classics\'. GOG.com. CD Projekt. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
External links[edit]
- Baseball Stars 2 at GameFAQs
- Baseball Stars 2 at Giant Bomb
- Baseball Stars 2 at Killer List of Videogames
- Baseball Stars 2 at MobyGames
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