Today Jordan finally released his Backyard Baseball player rankings and .gifs which were both fantastic. But another important thing happened today: I figured out how to get Backyard Baseball on your phone and on the Mac. Instructions are as follows.
For The iPhone:
Jun 22, 2017 Backyard Basketball 2004 lets you pick your favorite players, suit them up in NBA gear, choose a cool court, and control all the action! Easy gameplay means quick dribbling, sharp passing, and exciting three-pointers-it’s a true Backyard Sports experience for hoops fans that want to. Oct 24, 2018 21 years ago, the original Backyard Baseball game was released for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. The game was wildly popular and probably delivers nostalgia for a lot of people that played it a couple decades ago—you might remember popping in the CD-ROM to play. In honor of the 21-year anniversary, these are my picks for the best ten players in the original Backyard Baseball. This, my friends, is Backyard Baseball. Backyard Baseball takes you back to when you were a kid, when baseball was a game, and the team was hastily put together among the kids in the neighborhood. Playing for Real. Humongous Entertainment reached back into the past and captured all those childhood memories of baseball and digitally assembled.
Step 1: Set the date on your time to anytime before February 15th. (You can switch it back later. You only need to change it to download the game, not to play it.)
Step 2: On your phone, go to the following website. http://gba4iosapp.com/download/
Step 3: Download the GBA4iOS 2.0.1
Step 4: Once that is done downloading go to http://m.coolrom.com.au/roms/gba/14408/Backyard_baseball.php on your phone.
Step 5: Download the game. And follow the instructions.
Step 6: Mobile nirvana.
Lightweight Version For The Computer (Mac/PC):
Step 1: Go to OpenEmu.org and download their emulator.
Step 2: Go to http://coolrom.com/roms/gba/14408/Backyard_Baseball.php and download the rom.
Step 3: Open the rom on the emulator.
Step 4: Somewhat disappointing nirvana. This is obviously the game boy version of the game. It’s like seeing a really good cover band of a group you grew up with. It’s fantastic, but it lacks some of the features of the PC/Windows version, which leads us to…
The Whole 9 Yards On The Computer (Mac/PC):
Step 1: Go to http://scummvm.org/downloads/ and download their emulator.
Step 2 (PC): Either torrent a version of the game online (if you are a cheapskate) or buy a disk (because the people that designed this game deserve all the money in the world).
Step 2 (Mac): You’re going to have to buy a disk.
Step 3: Drag the game files onto your desktop.
Step 4: Open the files up on scummvm and pray that it works.
Note: I haven’t tried this method yet. I downloaded scummvm and that works fine, but I didn’t have a disk so I ordered one online. There’s a video here that can show you exactly how to do it. There are people who have gotten it to work that I’ve seen on message boards. Obviously I can’t confirm this method, but it looked legit enough to me to make the 20 dollar investment of buying a new copy of 2003.
Let me know how it went for you and if you have any questions. We are working to get a developer of the original on the podcast at some point so keep your fingers crossed for that.
#MVPablo forever and may your childhood memories be reborn.
<3 The CFBBQ Boys
Where can I buy the backyard sports or Blue’s Clues games?
Humongous Entertainment is a new company that started in 2014 and not affiliated with the Original Humongous Entertainment that is no longer in business. Unfortunately, we do not own or publish the Backyard Sports or Blue’s Clues’ titles.
Why is the sound not working?
Mobile/iOS
There are three different reasons your iOS device may not make sound:
Headphone mute
Software mute
Hardware mute
First, check the headphones to make sure they are not accidentally muted. Then, press the Home button twice to make a panel appear at the bottom of the screen. Swipe the panel to the right and you should see a speaker icon. This icon should not have a bar through it. Finally, check the hardware mute button, located on the side of the device, and make sure the device is unmuted.
PC Sound Issue
According to our support team, the issue seems to be audio driver-related. A first test would be to change the audio output device or plugging in headphones (sometimes audio issues happen because there is no output device plugged in).
Found a bug in one of your games.
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My mobile game fails to open!
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I can’t open the game!
Our Games now run on ScummVM 2.0 and will crash on startup in when there are no audio devices connected. Connect an audio device (Headphones, Speakers, or through your HDMI monitor) or set up your computer to play sound through its internal speakers and the game should launch normally.
Issues with Humongous CD purchases or requests for replacement.
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iOS lite version
As of the most recent iOS update, the lite versions of our Humongous games are no longer compliant with Apple App Store requirements and they are not currently available for download.
Will HE games play on Windows 10?
As of June 2019, most HE games are Windows 10 compliant. The two exceptions are Pajama Sam 4: Life is Rough When You Loose Your Stuff and Putt-Putt: Pep’s Birthday Surprise.
The version on iTunes is now different from the one I purchased.
Humongous Entertainment re-released Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo and Freddi Fish and the Stolen Shell. These versions are identical to the ones you may have purchased from Atari. Although the older versions are no longer available on iTunes, they should still be available via iCloud.
Is Freddi Fish a boy or a girl?
Freddi Fish is a girl. Her green-colored friend, Luther, is a boy.
Choose your platform:
Mobile/iOS
Graphical corruption after completing the game
Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell and other Humongous Games.
Description: Some games, when hitting “STOP” (or the equivalent) and immediately coming back to the game (by hitting the PLAY button in the launcher), will cause graphics to be corrupted.
Workaround: Since the game is completed, users should go to the OPTIONS menu and select RESET STORY to start over. This should resolve any graphical issues.
Missing dashboard when reloading (continuing from a saved game)
Putt-Putt: Enters the Race
Description: When continuing a game (i.e. reopening the application after it was closed), the dashboard and/or background in some scenes may be missing initially.
Workaround: Glitches go away as soon as the user changes room.
When going back to the launcher using the “QUIT” or “STOP SIGN” icon, the game may have lost the last few seconds of progress
Pajama Sam and Spy Fox games
Description: The STOP SIGN button is really “quit”. The game auto saves at regular intervals based on time so some progress may be lost if you quit.
Workaround: The lost progress is never more than a few seconds, since the previous autosave.
Missing background when reloading (continuing from a saved game)
Freddi Fish 5: The Creature of the Coral Cave
Description: When continuing a game (i.e. reopening the application after it was closed), the background in some scenes may be missing initially.
Workaround: Glitches go away as soon as the user changes room.
Game may appear unresponsive during some animations and/or organ playback
Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell
Description: The organ playback and some “background animations” triggered by the player may cause the game to feel unresponsive to the player.
Workaround: Waiting a few seconds will restore user input.
Mini-game mentions mouse controls, but are unavailable
Spy Fox 3: Operation Ozone
Description: The mini game help document mentions mouse controls, but these are not available on mobile.
Workaround: Some mouse functionality may not be available on mobile.
Desktop
Saved games may be incompatible between languages
Description: Saved games made in one language may not be visible when the language is changed or may cause the game to crash when used in a different language.
Workaround: This is known issue, no workaround currently available
Saved games may be incompatible between different OS versions
Description: Saved games made in one OS may not be visible when used in a different OS or may cause the game to crash when used in a different OS.
Workaround: This is known issue, no workaround currently available
Backyard Baseball Headphones Reviews
Runtime Assertion Error
Description: Games will crash on startup in when there are no audio devices connected.
Workaround: Connect an audio device (Headphones, Speakers, or through your HDMI monitor) or set up your computer to play sound through its internal speakers and the game should launch normally.
Issues on All Platforms
Known Issues with Spy Fox 3: Operation Ozone
-When you go to the kitchen in the House of Darkness and you play the salt and pepper animation more than 3x it gets stuck in a loop bug and you do not get control back. You will have to force quit the game, then start the game all over again.
-German(DE) language is not supported.
Known Issues with Freddi Fish 4: The case of the Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch
Backyard Baseball Headphones For Kids
-Luther and Freddi’s lip-syncs get mixed up at the end.
-There are no subtitles for the Russian language version.