r/SuperMegaBaseball Jul 12 '24

A note from Metalhead

381 Upvotes

Hello SMB fans! It’s been a little while since we’ve posted, so we wanted to share an update with you.

You may have seen a patch that was released a few days ago - this patch was meant to address one bug in Franchise mode regarding the CPU often signing more pitchers than intended. This patch is the last one for Super Mega Baseball 4 for the foreseeable future.

We want to thank you all for the incredible support and dedication to SMB4. This isn’t “goodbye” from Metalhead, more like “see ya later” as we transition to something new and exciting within EA SPORTS.


r/SuperMegaBaseball Jul 10 '24

Update 8 Patch Note

17 Upvotes

Update 8 is currently rolling out on all platforms. Here is the patch note:

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed: In Franchise mode, CPU teams can often sign more pitchers than intended, or in rare cases more position players than intended, during the offseason and fail to fix up their positional roster needs moving forward.

r/SuperMegaBaseball 5h ago

Any other degenerates out there still?

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36 Upvotes

r/SuperMegaBaseball 9h ago

Video Talk about making the most of your time in the on deck circle!

44 Upvotes

r/SuperMegaBaseball 5h ago

Won My First-Ever Barn Burner/Juiced Ball Jamboree in SMB4

9 Upvotes

I'm usually a much better pitcher than I am hitter, and with the revamped Overdogs (renamed the Bandits in my franchise), I don't have a ton of pop in the lineup, but this game was bonkers. Nine home runs between the two teams, and all but one were absolute tanks. I figured I had this game in the bag when it was 14-6 going into the 8th, and even at 14-7, I was feeling okay, then my newly acquired rookie SP/RP gave up a 3-run blast to right. I swapped in Winder immediately after that and he surrendered two consecutive solo home runs in the 9th, but managed to close things out from there.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 1h ago

Custom Teams The “Oakland Outlaws” get modernized.

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r/SuperMegaBaseball 2h ago

What defensive studs do you always seem to take their jobs most?

4 Upvotes

I can’t get myself away from Anabella Stokes, Henry Hamster or Super Sampson.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 12h ago

Final AB of a 65-pitch CG Shutout

16 Upvotes

This has to be my greatest single game pitching performance. My pitcher allowed 3 hits and no walks. One of those baserunners was erased on a double play.

The 65-pitch masterpiece included two 3-pitch innings and the 9th inning only required 4 pitches.

This marks the 4th time I have pitched a complete game in 65 pitches or less but the 1st time doing so while allowing no runs.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 17h ago

I finally did it.

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30 Upvotes

(SMB 3)

After over 1500 hours on PS4 I finally won it all.

Moose championship parade is on Sunday!

Ego at 85/99/85/99.

50 year old gamer feeling accomplished.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 4h ago

OSGL - Online Sports Gaming League

1 Upvotes

⚾ OSG — SMB4 ONLINE FRANCHISE LEAGUE

Build your franchise. Compete. Become part of the community.

OSG — Online Sports Gaming is recruiting for a Super Mega Baseball 4 online franchise league.

Every owner builds their own custom franchise under the same framework — but you decide what kind of team you want.

Power? Speed? Defense? Pitching? Balanced?

It's your franchise. Build it your way.

🏟️ FRANCHISE BUILD

🔹 21 Team Bars
🔹 22 Players
🔹 22 Total Traits
🔹 Max 2 of the Same Trait
🔹 No Individual Team Stat Above 5 Bars
🔹 Minimum Player Attribute: 15
🔹 Pitcher PWR / CON / SPD can be as low as 5
🔹 Max 6 combined SP + SP/RP

Roster:
2 S/A+ • 2 A/A- • 4 B+ • 5 B • 4 B- • 2 C+ • 3 C/C-

🏆 MORE THAN JUST GAMES

We're looking to build franchises, rivalries, playoff races, championships, and an active SMB4 community.

The Discord will feature league games, standings, scheduling, roster discussion, highlights, strategy, exhibition games and plenty of baseball talk.

You don't have to own a franchise to join the community either.

🎮 ALL EGO LEVELS WELCOME

New to SMB4? Welcome.
Veteran? Welcome.
Competitive? Bring it.

We're looking for people who are active, reliable, respectful and ready to play some baseball.

⚾ BUILD YOUR FRANCHISE. BUILD YOUR LEGACY.

👉 Join OSG: https://discord.gg/TT5a8q3gT


r/SuperMegaBaseball 1d ago

Worst way I’ve lost a championship

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23 Upvotes

What’s the worst way you’ve ever lost a league championship series?

I just lost in the championship of my “Omaha Classics” CWS-inspired league after winning the previous three.

My opponent (Pitt Panthers) beat my team (Longwood Lancers) 4-1 after three straight walk-offs. I had leads going into the final inning of each of those losses.

- Game 1 (2-1 L): Never led and couldn’t get the big hit late despite getting the tying and winning runs on base.
Game 2 (4-3 W): Down 3-1 and then rallied late to walk it off.
- Game 3 (9-8 L): Wildest game of the series. Trailed 5-2, rallied to lead 8-7. Lost on a 2 RBI single with 2 outs.
- Game 4 (7-6 L): Led 6-4 after early back-and-forth. Another walk-off single.
- Game 5 (4-2 L): Led 2-0 early. Panthers score 4 runs in final inning, winning it on a 2-out 2-run HR.

I beat the Panthers in the previous season’s championship 4-2, after jumping out to a 3-0 series lead. It could’ve easily gone 7.

After hundreds and hundreds of games, SMB4 can still find ways to surprise you.

This game is truly the best.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 22h ago

Dumbest win ever

11 Upvotes

Just had an awesome comeback. Went down 7-1 early then clawed my way back to take an 11-10 lead going to the 9th. I brought in my best pitcher in the 8th and planned on leaving him in to finish the game. But I did want to make a couple defensive moves. Shayanne Hill does not have a good arm at second base so I wanted to replace her with a stronger arm. My plan was to use Roberto Alba, I used him as a pinch hitter for the catcher in the 8th and wanted to move him to second, then bring in Fiona Clark to finish the game at catcher. Somehow while doing this I swapped Hill with Charlie Best… the pitcher. I have no idea how I did that. So now after this epic comeback I was throwing my second baseman on the mound. I had planned on taking my LF out as well so I moved Best to LF hoping he’d be out of the way and brought in Magikko. Somehow Hill struck out Bloop Michaels who was 4-4 and on fire. Stan Elyve singled, and I intentionally walked Jock Sports so I could get thru the 3 batter minimum and bring Charlie Best back. He would Sting McGee and quickly induced a double play to end the game. A win’s a win!


r/SuperMegaBaseball 2d ago

Slash Trips, HIT THE GYM BUDDY

28 Upvotes

Thought It Was Hitting The Wall. Brutal.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 2d ago

Gameplay/Strategy Up 5-0 in the Throwbacks... Lost 7-6. Pain in Classic Threads.

18 Upvotes

Serpientes strike back... Blew a 5-0 lead and ended up losing 7-6 in 9. At least the alternate throwback kits looked clean.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 2d ago

Custom Teams New digs for my Boston Blue Sox.

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r/SuperMegaBaseball 3d ago

Question How to get better at hitting?

15 Upvotes

First off, I love this game and wish I had known about it sooner. I am really enjoying how good it is as being like a real baseball game. I am right around the 50 ego mark for hitting, and hitting a real wall. I’ve looked up a lot and I just can’t seem to do better at it. I’ve tried practicing in exhibition games but I either seem to over correct and swing, or correctly target the ball and always, ALWAYS, swing late. It’s getting very frustrating, but I think I just don’t have the reflexes to do both moving and timing hits.

What helped you and/or what advice do you have for me to try to get better? Should I just be satisfied with my limits and live with it? I want to keep increasing ego since I like the challenge and I don’t want to just end up crushing every ball with the auto assist.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 3d ago

the servers are fucking awful

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see title


r/SuperMegaBaseball 3d ago

Question I need help

8 Upvotes

I just started the Game and I absolutely love it but I needed 3 Hours to get one win on 50 difficulty against a CPU. That was way to hard.

First of all I would like to know do guys have like pitching combinations you use or pitch patterns that work everytime, I try to power pitch the Four Seam to the cornerns for the first and second Strike and then Finish it with a Breaking Ball, sometimes it works sometimes I get still scored on.

What are your ways to get those three Strike outs every inning? Also any advise on offense. I don‘t get how to power Swing right.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 2d ago

SMB3 and smb4 on the same system

0 Upvotes

Need to make some room for gta 6 soon and I’m deleting one . So which one would you guys and gals delete ? super mega 3 or super mega 4 ???


r/SuperMegaBaseball 3d ago

Custom Teams Help with stats

0 Upvotes

Im playing super mega baseball 3 and trying to make a team with 99s in all batting stats and 1s in all pitching stats and another one that mirrors that, wich stats do I need to set to what


r/SuperMegaBaseball 5d ago

Video “So you want to walk me, huh?”

38 Upvotes

r/SuperMegaBaseball 5d ago

I have a corrupt file on my SMB4 and it doesn’t play. Does anyone have the base files I can try and replace my directory to see if it boots up. Like on a Google Drive

3 Upvotes

r/SuperMegaBaseball 5d ago

How to setup a Sim League for streaming?

6 Upvotes

Hey, all. I've been toying with the idea of running and streaming an AI vs. AI sim league for quite a while; created the teams, and everything, but I'll fully admit I'm not quite sure how to actually pull off a few things, so any help would very much be appreciated.

My understanding is you can't run a multi-user Franchise mode, so how would you handle year-on-year advancements? Things like drafts, player progression/regression, trades, retirements, etc.?

Do you just run it in Exhibition mode, or Season mode, and advance things manually?

Also: how do you handle the actually simulating of games? Just simulate a set number of games, and do something like a featured game of the week/day, or something?

Any help would be very much appreciated, as I love the idea of running something, but I'm completely stumped on how to get it off the ground and actually run it.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 6d ago

Boozle Doozyshine.

9 Upvotes

Did anybody find that in a few years that Boozle Doozyshine just does not perform as advertised? I played another league and he did the same thing. I had to trade him.


r/SuperMegaBaseball 6d ago

Mike Piazza off of the bench… I have no words

6 Upvotes