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- Hardball 5
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- HardBall 5 Tips and Tricks
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- 1. Bypassing the cut-off man
- As we made the computer baserunners extremely aggressive, we put in a
- feature that allows you to bypass the cut-off man. When throwing the ball
- in from the outfield, press button #2 (instead of button #1) to avoid the
- cut-off man.
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- 2. Rounding the bases
- When running the bases, if you want to round a base and continue on to
- the next base without pausing, press the directional button of the next
- base before reaching the base you're running toward.
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- 3. I'm having trouble batting...
- If you're having trouble batting, practice with the small batter view before
- before taking on the larger batter view.
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- 4. Playing MLBPA teams against Legends teams
- To play MLBPA teams vs. Legends teams in exhibition play, you need to
- create a "new league" with a combination of both Legend and MLBPA
- teams and have it loaded as the current league.
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- 5. Setting the music volume
- The music volume slider on the "Sound and Music Setup" screen controls
- the music during the menu screens and the music volume slider on the
- "Options" screen controls the volume of the background music option
- during gameplay.
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- 6. Setting the skill level sliders
- A setting of "easy" for a team means the team will have an easy time
- playing, a setting of "hard" for a team means the team will have a difficult
- time playing. For example, if a user wants an advantage over an
- opponent, he should set his team to easy and the opponent eam to hard.
- This works the same when playing against the computer: to make it easy
- or you to play against the computer, set your team's difficulty slider to
- easy and set the computer team's difficulty level to hard.
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- 7. Preventing inside-the-park homeruns
- Use your custom outfield setting in the old-time ballparks to prevent
- inside-the-park homeruns.
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- 8. Importing manager profiles
- If you want to import a team including the "manager profile" settings, do it
- by using the "Import Team" function under "Edit League" instead of
- "Import Team" on the "Edit Team" screen.
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- 9. Creating new players
- If you want to create new players that don't use the MLBPA or Legends
- digitized pictures and names, import in empty.pit (an empty pitcher file)
- or empty.btr (an empty batter file) instead of editing the existing players.
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- 10. Slow gameplay
- If you experience slow game play when you have background music
- enabled, you should re-install the game using the "normal" install option.
- The "minimal" install option saves hard disk space by reading most data
- off the CDROM during game play and on some computer systems this
- can result in slow game play. Alternatively, you can go to the game
- options screen and turn off background music. If your game still plays too
- slowly, don't forget to check the "Game Speed" slider on the options
- screen to make sure it isn't turned down.
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