Remembering MVP Baseball 2004 and the Infamous Left-Handed Hitter Glitch

[Steve_OS]

Long before launch angles and spin rates entered mainstream baseball discourse, there was a game that...

Written By: Chase Becotte

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[ChaseB]

And yes I know there's an MVP forum, but I wanted to post this here since I dunno how many people are seeking out that forum these days, plus sure some of y'all remember this bug well too.

[Madden08PCgmr]

Pretty amazing, to this day I still see people calling MVP the best baseball game. Talk about nostalgia!

The PS2-gen has completely jumped the shark (at least for me)

I spent countless hours on Madden with the PC mods.. but it just feels prehistoric now. Feel the same looking at clips of MVP

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by Madden08PCgmr

Pretty amazing, to this day I still see people calling MVP the best baseball game. Talk about nostalgia! The PS2-gen has completely jumped the shark (at least for me) I spent countless hours on Madden with the PC mods.. but it just feels prehistoric now. Feel the same looking at clips of MVP

I will say going back and playing it for this article, it still feels pretty good, but I think we forget how much like 30 fps and even really solid animations for the time can't compare to even middling games today in terms of basic feel.

But man the soundtrack, game intro, and the vibes are still immaculate when I boot up that game even if I don't actually want to play it for that long.

[NAFBUC]

Great article ChaseB! I played the heck out of MVP04.

[ChaseB]

One other thing I'm spoiled by in modern times is the simulation times. It takes so long to simulate 162 games in comparison to like The Show. Do any of y'all remember who you were getting minor league rosters from at the time? Did you send the memory card away or were you on PC, or did you go to one of the peeps because you had, what was it a Max Drive to DL the rosters to PS2/Xbox? Or was it some offshoot of a Game Shark?

I remember using GeekRosters to DL rosters.

[Armor and Sword]

I loved MVP 04 and then 2005 was my GOAT. I made the jump to The Show with the 2009 version which got me to purchase a PS3 and ditch my PS2 after 10 glorious fun filled years with it.

MLB 2011 finaly made me forget about MVP 2005. But man what a run I had with 2005. Thats when I finally played all 162 for 5 straight seasons with the Marlins.

Fun times.

And to this day it still had the best fielding controls and base running controls. The price you pay for these beautiful animations on The Show is less total control…..thats when I realized as early as The Show 2009 to move to auto fielding (manual throwing).

MVP College Baseball 2006 was also an all timer!!!!

[bcruise]

Definitely up there with some of the strangest glitches I've ever seen in sports videogames. For the record, so was that A's bug in one of the rosters in this year's Show that caused the starter to only be able to throw eephuses. That seems like it's fixed now at least.

A quick search of the MVP forum shows that I probably hadn't migrated over here yet when that bug was a thing, but I distinctly remember lighting up MaddenMania (which was more than just a Madden forum back then) and BaseballSimCentral over that bug. It was so hard to convince people that it was actually a serious bug because many people just downplayed it into a "homer" glitch - disregarding the fact that it affected every kind of contact off the bat of lefty hitters.