Great Sluggers '94/Walkthrough: Difference between revisions

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Once you have inserted a coin into the cabinet of [[Namco]]'s [[1994]] {{c|baseball}} arcade game [[Great Sluggers '94]], the game will proceed to the mode selection screen shown above; for '''1 Player''' and '''2 Player''' games, one coin is worth between one and three innings and you will have to insert another to continue each time the appropriate number is reached. For '''1 Player Complete''' and '''2 Player Complete''' games, between 1-9 or 2-18 coins are worth one game - and if you've not inserted enough, you shall have to insert more until the text "MORE COIN!!" in the bottom-right corner of the screen changes to "PUSH 1P OR 2P". For '''Season''' games, one coin is again worth between one and three innings but it's a special one-player game in which the player must face seven CPU-controlled teams in succession; if he is beaten by one of them, his game is over. Once you have pressed either Start Button to confirm your chosen mode, the game will proceed to the team selection screen - and you'll then have forty-four seconds to select one of the twenty-eight new teams, by pushing the joystick up, down, left, and right, before pressing that first button to confirm your choice; if you have only selected a 1-player mode, you'll now have to select a second team for the CPU to predetermine the behaviour of, but if you'd selected a 2-player mode, the second player will now have to pick a second team to take control of (which, as in the original [[Great Sluggers]], is too bad if the first player happened to have chosen the team that he wanted to take control of). The game shall then proceed to the new position selection screen as the timer in the top-right corner of the screen continues counting down - and it has one player from the first player's chosen team in his home outfit (holding a bat), and another player from the second player's chosen team in his visitor outfit (wearing a mitt) below them. Either player can push their joystick to the right, to change the player from the first player's team into his visitor outfit swapping his bat for a mitt and the other player from the second player's team into his home outfit swapping his mitt for a bat, then push it back to the left after doing that, to change them back to how they were before, before pressing that first button to confirm their choices; you will then have to select one of two methods of fielding, '''Full Auto''', or '''OF Auto''', before the game proceeds to its new team lineups screen. All 238 player names have their position next to it - and once the game proceeds to its new pitcher selection screen you will have to select one of your chosen team's four pitchers, by pushing the joystick up and down then pressing the first button to confirm your choice. Also, if you have only selected a 1-player mode the CPU will automatically select the first of its team's four pitchers, to predetermine the behaviour of; all 112 pitchers' names also have the letter "L" or "R" next to them which indicates whether they will pitch while facing to the left or the right. You will now have to select a BGM mode ('''BGM''' or '''No BGM''') by pushing the joystick up and down and pressing the first button to confirm your choice (however, if you are using [[MAME]] to play the game, it does not matter which option you choose, as the NB-1 driver doesn't support sound emulation) - and the game then proceeds onto the stadium selection screen. You now have to select one of the ''two'' new stadiums for the match to take place in (based on the Kōshien and Kaihei Dome from NS2 {{c|World Stadium}}):

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It will now be the first player's turn to pitch and the second player's (or the CPU's) turn to bat; the score display will also have the initial of the second player's team underlined in red as a result of this and the  text above it shall now read as "Bottom of 1st". The game continues, until the preset number of innings (depending on what the arcade owner set the "CONTINUE1" and "CONTINUE2" settings in the game's options menu to), have been played (you then have to insert another coin and press either Start Button within 15 seconds, to continue your game each time) - and, once nine full innings have been played, or the losing team gone down by twenty (instead of ten) runs in the bottom of any inning (however, if both of your teams have the same amount of runs, after nine full innings have been played, your game shall continue for up to three extra ones; but if either of the two teams should score thirty runs, the game will automatically be called), the text "GAME OVER" shall appear upon the screen, before it fades to black. The screen will then fade back into a shot of your chosen stadium's exterior - and that text "Sports" will then fade into view in the centre of the screen, while the additional texts of "Namco" (their logo in white) and "News" zoom into view above and below it. The screen will now fade out to a shot of a male reporter in a studio; the text of "RESULT OF TODAY'S GAME" and the two teams will get displayed at the top of the screen, with the amount of runs that both teams scored during the top and bottom of each inning shall be displayed at the below it, as the following texts appear upon the left side of the screen (this was also the only chance that American gamers had to see a "Namco Sports News" report):

Eight baseballs will then fly towards the centre of the screen, transforming into the letters that spell out that familiar text of "GAME OVER" as they hit it; the game shall then go back into attract mode, before displaying its current team positions and statistics. However, if both teams have scored the same amount of runs after up to three extra innings have been played, the reporter will speak the following text (as in the original GS, it is the same reporter):

Eight baseballs will then fly towards the centre of the screen, transforming into the letters that spell out "GAME OVER" as they hit it; the game shall then go back into attract mode as usual (however, if the result for the game happened to be a 0-0 tie, it won't display its current team positions and statistics).