Which parks are you using to hit your 600-foot homer?

[araparseghian]

I've been playing games on easy mode and deliberately striking out to hit special pitches for Aluminum Power, but every time I hit a homer it either goes short of 600 or gets stopped by some structure beyond the fence. I've already ruled out Steele Stadium, Cement Gardens, and Tin Can Alley.

[B Dawg]

I did it with Keisha Phillips in the default park that you use in League Play. Didn't have to use the power up for it either.

Also fun fact, once you get the Aluminum Power power up, save your game. If you don't get 600 feet, just reload the save and try again and you can just do it over and over again until you get it. Then when you get it, finish the game from that point and it will pop.

[araparseghian]

Originally posted by notchrhino's Dog:

I did it with Keisha Phillips in the default park that you use in League Play. Didn't have to use the power up for it either.

Also fun fact, once you get the Aluminum Power power up, save your game. If you don't get 600 feet, just reload the save and try again and you can just do it over and over again until you get it. Then when you get it, finish the game from that point and it will pop.

In other words, I should forget about doing it in single game and just create a new league play team.

[Cheezie]

Originally posted by araparseghian:

Originally posted by notchrhino's Dog:

I did it with Keisha Phillips in the default park that you use in League Play. Didn't have to use the power up for it either.

Also fun fact, once you get the Aluminum Power power up, save your game. If you don't get 600 feet, just reload the save and try again and you can just do it over and over again until you get it. Then when you get it, finish the game from that point and it will pop.

In other words, I should forget about doing it in single game and just create a new league play team.

I loaded the bases in an exhibition game and saved with the aluminum bat available and just farmed grand slams(and homerunes but I need another 60 of em still). I had gotten the 600 ft before but you'd def get it with that method.

Strike outs would be easy as well. Wait til you got heat since even normal cpu don't ever hit it and just save at 2 strikes than load as required.

[Drai]

I got it with Angela Delvecchio which I wasn't expecting. I think it was on the default league park but it may have actually been at Eckman Acres.

[mooseyminion]

what's the parking lot with the trash bin? did it there with either Pete or Billy Jean.

[Sauvagess]

Originally posted by Drai:

I got it with Angela Delvecchio which I wasn't expecting.

Angela has a whopping 89 in power which is only beaten by Achmed Khan, Mikey Thomas, Pablo Sanchez, and Sally Dobbs. Of those four, only Sally has worse Contact, so she's moderately consistent at belting them out of the park - part of the reason why she's arguably the best pitcher in the game. This is, of course, not counting any stat boosts she gets playing against her brother Tony on the opposing team.

[Chf. Squiggy McBooty]

Originally posted by Sauvagess:

Originally posted by Drai:

I got it with Angela Delvecchio which I wasn't expecting.

Angela has a whopping 89 in power which is only beaten by Achmed Khan, Mikey Thomas, Pablo Sanchez, and Sally Dobbs. Of those four, only Sally has worse Contact, so she's moderately consistent at belting them out of the park - part of the reason why she's arguably the best pitcher in the game. This is, of course, not counting any stat boosts she gets playing against her brother Tony on the opposing team.

Wait, that last sentence - what? Who else has hidden boosts, all the obvious people? I thought all that sibling stuff was just fluff.

[Sauvagess]

Originally posted by Chf. Squiggy McBooty:

Wait, that last sentence - what? Who else has hidden boosts, all the obvious people? I thought all that sibling stuff was just fluff.

Nah, it's real. Characters perform better or worse depending on certain circumstances - it's not visible in the early game, only when they changed from 4 to 10 stat visibility did they start showing off the temp changes (Baseball '01 will have this feature)

Amir gets better batting and running but worse pitching when he's on the same team as Achmed.
Angela and Tony basically nearly maxed out players when they're on opposing teams.
Ashley and Sidney get better batting and maxed out fielding when they're together.
Ernie Steele and Kimmy Eckman get a big boost if they play on Steele Stadium or Eckman Acres respectively.
Maria becomes literally the best character in the game if her team color is Pink.
Marky gets various boosts if he's on a team with Billy Jean (who becomes awful as a result) and/or if he's going against the Sox or Socks. If he's on the Sox or Socks team, he becomes worse.
Sally gets ridiculous boosts if she's on the same team as Ronny, but Ronny loses all of his stats.

Beyond that, every kid gets a boost on their respective birthday, and kids can randomly have Hot/Cold days which you can only see with cheat engine to look at stats.

There are more of these in later games where pros are thrown into the mix, but that's information for later.

[Chf. Squiggy McBooty]

Huh. Just huh.

Aside, to answer OP, Tin Can Alley. No, seriously. The homer that gets you Tin Can Takedown is pretty much required to be a > 600 footer. Not really much point trying to farm the 600 footer if you're already going to get it from doing another achievement.

[araparseghian]

Originally posted by Chf. Squiggy McBooty:

Huh. Just huh.

Aside, to answer OP, Tin Can Alley. No, seriously. The homer that gets you Tin Can Takedown is pretty much required to be a > 600 footer. Not really much point trying to farm the 600 footer if you're already going to get it from doing another achievement.

Just one problem: getting a home run at Tin Can Alley, even with aluminum power, is damn near impossible.

[Drai]

Originally posted by Chf. Squiggy McBooty:

Huh. Just huh.

Aside, to answer OP, Tin Can Alley. No, seriously. The homer that gets you Tin Can Takedown is pretty much required to be a > 600 footer. Not really much point trying to farm the 600 footer if you're already going to get it from doing another achievement.

You don't need to hit it up and over the buildings. If you get a home run straight down the right base line, or slightly inside of it, the home run just needs to be enough to get over the dumpsters and not the buildings.

[Chf. Squiggy McBooty]

Originally posted by araparseghian:

Just one problem: getting a home run at Tin Can Alley, even with aluminum power, is damn near impossible.

But you're going to be going after that achievement anyway (I assume, since we're already talking about farming another achievement). May as well try to optimize your time.

[The Progressbar95 Guy]

i got it on accident one time in Parks Department Field No. 2 probably with Pablo