A tool for making MLB Power Pros roster mods
A few years back, the user CSho27 made a program for MLB Power Pros Wii roster edits called PowerUp. But the wicked and villanous administrators with Major League Baseball killed the API the program used to rely on for scraping player stats and names.
Now after a rework, this program is up and running again. The download links are here. The tool lets you quickly generate an MLB Power Pros roster edit you can pull into the Dolphin emulator based on any year in MLB history. Here’s 2013:
Based on the real-world stat lines, appropriate abilities and names are generated automatically. Player likenesses are randomly generated and will take manual work to adjust if you want to make the world’s greatest 2013 MLB Power Pros roster mod, but the hard work is done for you automatically.
It’s not really built for it, but you could also use this tool to generate a fictional roster mod. You would just have to start a new roster based on some real MLB season, then manually adjust every player to suit what you’re looking for.
To keep track of any future updates to the app, join the Power Pros Discord and check out the #powerup-app channel there.
Taking a flyer… Then flipping that sucker for cash!
So I have saved searches on eBay and Mercari US for baseball video game stuff. I at least briefly scan over everything that comes in. How else would I slowly fill my house and eventually die, suffocated by copies of Super Yakyuudou 2 and Nicktoons MLB?
So can someone help me understand what’s going on with this on eBay:
And this on Mercari:
These are all separate people with separate listings for the “Subscribe to Nintendo Power” flyer/insert that comes in the box for Mario Superstar Baseball. And what’s worse, they’re spending some time constantly renewing these listings, so they keep appearing in the new stuff.
Points in favor of buying the “Subscribe to Nintendo Power” insert:
- It’s got a render of Mario holding some baseball stuff.
- Maybe you’re a completionist collector who has the game, box, and manual for Mario Superstar Baseball but not the insert! Oh no!
- One day all physical things will erode and become more rare, but the cultural legacy of Mario is likely to live on. Maybe every graven image of Mario will one day become valuable.
Points against buying the insert:
- Nintendo Power doesn’t exist anymore, so you can’t use it to get a subscription.
- It is very small. You couldn’t, like, hang it on your wall. And it would be really odd to have framed on your desk.
- The insert is a thin piece of paper that’s often crinkly and gross.
- $10 seems high?
Far as I can tell from checking completed listings, no one has ever bought one of these on eBay or Mercari. And… Why would you?
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YouTube Viewing Guide
- Just wrapped up a playthrough of the MLB Power Pros 2008 success mode on the channel. Here’s the ending bit.
- Power League III (PC Engine) Gameplay. Byyy Hudson. Just some straightforward good games and they run great on the MiSTer.
- Microsoft Complete Baseball: ’94 Edition (PC) “Gameplay”. More multimedia encyclopedia than game, but it’s an interactive thing what runs on an old computer. Plus it’s got a trivia game. After playing Hanshin Tigers DS I wanted to look at an American version of the same thing, and this is exactly that. You would have to enjoy reading book-length text on a Windows 95 to really get value out of this thing, but it’s still impressive.