This is the biggest/dumbest project I've taken on in OOTP modding. If this doesn't get me to learn how to use eriqjaffe's uniform maker, nothing will.
isekai (異世界) - Japanese term for "different world," a style of fiction where someone is transported to, and has to survive, in another universe. Think of Inu-Yasha or Spirited Away.
yakyu (野球) - Japanese term for baseball, literally "field ball." It's been said that if Horace Wilson didn't introduce baseball to the Japanese people, they would have invented the sport organically.
Therefore,
Isekai no Yakyu - baseball in another world - takes place in an alternate universe from ours, where an alternate 12-team league plays in Japan and occasionally exports players to MLB. And more importantly, doesn't violate any Japanese intellectual property rights.
The Project Contents
- 12 all-new fictional team identities, inspired by alternate names and slightly different circumstances for the teams in [LEAGUE REDACTED]
- Historical variants for the 12 teams, including relocations, redesigns, and one very contentious merger
- An independent league with fully fictional teams in further-flung locales
- A South African winter league to keep your prospects in game action
- And a quickstart at the ready for you to get rolling in the new universe, complete with familiar faces from MLB/MLBPA licensed data
Add the JPBO into Your Existing Save
Uniforms, Logos, and League Template for 26
For
FastSpring/standalone, unzip to My Documents\OOTP Developments\OOTP Baseball 26\ - the subfolders in the zip will put everything into the right place.
For
Steam, unzip to Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Out of the Park Baseball 26\data instead.
Then in-game, use Game Settings > Global Actions > Add a template to this game to add the JPBO; close and re-open your save to see the uniforms and logos present.
League Template for 25
League Template for 24
League Template for 23
Quickstarts and Ballparks
26, including MLB, KBO, Partner Leagues, and WBC plus players in the licensed data set on the related JPBO club
JPBO Ballparks (built by SilvaM and Flying_Canuck, Ringo and I just removed the troublesome trademarks)
25, including MLB, KBO, Honkbal, and Partner Leagues
24, including MLB, KBO, and Partner Leagues
24 Historical, set in 1950 including MLB and MiLB
23, including MLB
Other Downloads
B-Sides Uniforms and Logos
Suid-Afrikaanse Bofballiga (without JPBO logos on shoulders)
Modern Uniforms and Logos, pre-23 template
The timeline to make changes manually to your historical game
Working schedules, just in case
Socks to patch any 25 games
Latest Update
Happy Pi Day and Happy OOTP 26 Launch Day! New league template and a patch file with only socks for any OOTP 25 players now up and ready to roll.
Credits- 39_Ringo for collaborating on the designs and creating the B-Sides
- Gaijin Baseball on YouTube for fact-checking my divergences from reality and suggesting team identities
- dishnet34 for moral support and being a sober second set of eyes
- silvam14 for granting permission to include his Japanese ballparks (minus certain trademarked materials) in our mod
- Flying_Canuck for the same
- pauwoo for creating the A Set league template for 23
- SlayerMathis for the hard work deleting the duplicate personnel in the 24 A Set Modern QS