The game

Everything on this page is read in the cartridge's code; each item carries the address where it can be seen.

The modes

The menu (p01:6543) has five: 1PLAYER, 2PLAYERS, PENNANT, TEAM EDIT and WATCH. If there is both a disk drive and a Game Master 2, a sixth one appears, MEDIA SELECT, to choose where to save (p01:6561). The mode is kept as a number from 0 to 5 and, for the game, as flags: one player, two, PENNANT or the computer alone (p00:4A5E).

PENNANT is the league: 1 to 6 players (p13:633A) and 1 to 26 games per pair of teams (p13:641A). It keeps the results table (試合結果) and the standings (順位表) with wins, losses, percentage and games behind. With a single player the other two games of the round are drawn by lot: each team gets 0 to 15 runs and, on a tie, one of the two gets one more (p15:AC31).
TEAM EDIT changes the teams' names and figures, within caps (below), and saves them to disk or to the Game Master 2's SRAM.

The rules

Three strikes; four balls (FOUR BALL) or a hit by pitch (DEAD BALL) give the base.
The game ends (p02:940A, p00:46A1):
after any bottom half, with a ten-run difference, and as soon as the home team leads by ten during a bottom half;
from the ninth on, after the top half if the home team is ahead, after the bottom half if the score is not tied, and as soon as the home team goes ahead in the bottom half;
if a score reaches 99.
The speed of a pitch comes from the three SPD digits of the card: 80 to 199 km/h (p03:AAE1). Pressing down on release makes it a quarter faster; up, a quarter slower (p03:AB32).
Every pitch tires: 1 the normal one, 4 the fast one and 2 the slow one. When the stamina runs out, the card's speed drops by 4 to 7 km/h (never below 80) and, every so often, each breaking ball loses a point (p03:ABAA).
In TEAM EDIT, a change that goes over the caps is undone (p15:B693):
the 12 fielders add up to at most 3.500 of 打率, 200 HR and 600 of RUN;
the 4 pitchers add up to at most 540 of SPD, 9.90 of 防御率, 200 of STM and 25 in each of the three breaking balls (C, S and F).

The teams

Six stock teams (p13:731F): each card has the name, 12 fielders and 4 pitchers. The columns are those of the TEAM EDIT screen; the names are in hiragana. The stock teams do not have to meet the TEAM EDIT caps: the FLYERS add up to 590 of SPD.

Each team has a theme (our reading of the names): the FLYERS are named after aircraft (ふぁんとむ phantom, ぜろ zero, とむきゃっと tomcat), the RIDERS after motorbikes (かたな katana, にんじゃ ninja), the KOBE LINES after Kobe stations (ろっこう Rokkō, さんのみや Sannomiya), the BRENDS after coffees and teas (きりまん Kilimanjaro, だじりん Darjeeling), the PROGRAMS after programming terms (にーもにっく mnemonic, れじすた register, あせんぶる assemble) and the DARKS carry surnames.

FLYERS (p13:7727)

	NAME	LR	打率	HR	RUN
1	ふぁんとむ	R	.287	24	99
2	ひえん	R	.290	32	82
3	とむきゃっと	L	.342	37	75
4	ぜろ	R	.337	50	50
5	いーぐる	L	.307	44	62
6	はりあー	R	.310	30	44
7	たいがー	R	.283	29	72
8	すかいほーく	L	.261	33	65
9	もすきーと	L	.284	51	81
10	らいでん	R	.275	26	93
11	あるはとろす	R	.274	33	86
12	ふおけうるふ	L	.248	35	70

	NAME	LR	U/D	SPD	防御率	STM	C	S	F
1	しでんかい	R	U	160	1.32	43	9	9	9
2	みらーじゅ	L	U	150	2.79	75	3	8	1
3	ふぉっかー	L	D	140	2.61	40	9	9	1
4	しゅみっと	R	U	140	2.60	19	9	0	9

RIDERS (p13:732B)

	NAME	LR	打率	HR	RUN
1	はりけーん	R	.287	5	96
2	かたな	L	.310	11	91
3	しゃどう	R	.326	38	78
4	はあれい	L	.333	45	82
5	とらい	R	.324	32	36
6	じいた	L	.290	20	65
7	にんじゃ	R	.348	14	72
8	ばは	L	.254	9	84
9	えりみねーた	R	.257	12	55
10	いんとるーた	L	.270	6	42
11	ふぁらお	R	.246	10	46
12	りくおう	L	.301	18	62

	NAME	LR	U/D	SPD	防御率	STM	C	S	F
1	ふぇいざー	R	U	161	1.45	55	8	8	8
2	ぱりだか	L	D	130	2.09	82	2	9	0
3	ほうく	R	U	140	2.25	41	5	5	5
4	ぶろす	L	U	145	3.60	34	2	9	0

KOBE LINES (p13:742A)

	NAME	LR	打率	HR	RUN
1	ろっこう	L	.230	5	53
2	みかげ	R	.243	6	50
3	あしや	R	.280	9	31
4	おかもと	L	.298	12	23
5	たかとり	L	.203	8	36
6	にしのみや	R	.221	8	40
7	ぽーあい	R	.159	5	42
8	いたやど	L	.188	7	10
9	はなくま	L	.199	7	4
10	たるみ	R	.205	3	18
11	おうじ	R	.176	4	25
12	ふかえ	L	.243	1	21

	NAME	LR	U/D	SPD	防御率	STM	C	S	F
1	さんのみや	R	D	130	2.04	91	9	9	0
2	なだ	R	U	155	2.82	34	5	3	1
3	もとまち	R	U	140	1.53	50	5	2	0
4	すま	L	U	150	2.26	18	3	9	9

BRENDS (p13:7628)

	NAME	LR	打率	HR	RUN
1	あめりかん	R	.208	15	41
2	もか	L	.254	27	32
3	きりまん	L	.320	31	15
4	ぶるまん	R	.303	39	8
5	えすぷれそ	R	.298	25	44
6	ぶらじる	R	.267	18	72
7	ぎょくろ	L	.244	11	33
8	ぺこ	L	.235	6	82
9	てっかんのん	R	.222	12	21
10	だじりん	L	.211	15	36
11	あるぐれい	R	.198	10	42
12	うーろん	L	.232	7	79

	NAME	LR	U/D	SPD	防御率	STM	C	S	F
1	ぷーある	R	U	150	2.14	92	9	3	8
2	さんとす	L	U	160	1.17	71	3	9	4
3	げんまい	R	U	145	2.02	43	7	7	7
4	やむちゃ	R	D	140	2.71	56	9	5	0

PROGRAMS (p13:7529)

	NAME	LR	打率	HR	RUN
1	にーもにっく	L	.255	21	55
2	れじすた	R	.302	13	90
3	さぶるちん	R	.299	20	41
4	おうえす	L	.260	34	23
5	りたーん	R	.246	30	36
6	あせんぶる	L	.240	17	65
7	りんく	L	.276	17	13
8	しふと	R	.247	6	25
9	ろうど	R	.267	15	52
10	いんく	R	.238	9	78
11	あんどおあ	L	.272	11	63
12	こーる	R	.250	4	29

	NAME	LR	U/D	SPD	防御率	STM	C	S	F
1	じゃんぷ	R	U	160	1.66	66	7	1	1
2	りすとあ	L	D	135	1.37	90	1	6	5
3	へっくす	L	U	135	2.38	29	2	5	7
4	こんぺあ	R	U	140	3.15	42	5	0	0

DARKS (p13:7826)

	NAME	LR	打率	HR	RUN
1	いわさき	R	.300	11	80
2	まつい	R	.220	8	38
3	しょうがき	R	.201	32	12
4	もあい	L	.354	50	2
5	ながえ	R	.270	21	21
6	ちあき	L	.224	5	65
7	ふくい	R	.199	8	24
8	みよし	L	.210	10	9
9	ながた	R	.200	12	32
10	かみお	L	.175	7	71
11	はる	R	.205	9	25
12	おーた	R	.211	4	34

	NAME	LR	U/D	SPD	防御率	STM	C	S	F
1	おーつか	R	U	140	2.45	73	9	1	1
2	うえはら	L	U	130	2.19	36	7	7	2
3	あかだ	R	D	130	2.71	12	4	6	3
4	さぎさか	R	U	160	2.07	99	3	0	0