#cpbl

'Zhonghua Zhibang Online'

[BROWSER] [TAIWAN] [MAGAZINE, SPREAD] [2004]

"Professional baseball has been developing in Taiwan for 15 years, accompanying many fans through their passionate youth. Now, the first online game officially licensed by the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), Zhonghua Zhibang Online, has finally been launched! Developed by Dōngfāng Yǎnsuàn and published by Yóuxì Xīngànxiàn, this game breaks away from the traditional action-packed RPG genre, allowing CPBL fans to participate in a massive online baseball extravaganza, fulfilling their childhood baseball dreams. The development process of Zhonghua Zhibang Online was extremely rigorous. Senior professional baseball commentator Tseng Wen-cheng was specially invited as a consultant to assist in gathering baseball knowledge and provide guidance to the artists on scene drawing and model creation, as well as the planners on numerical settings and game content writing. Regarding player movements, "motion capture" was used. Base sliding, swinging, pitching, umpire's call and strike judgments, and body movements were filmed by professional players performing the actions. The captured motion files were then overlaid into the game, allowing the players in the game to exhibit almost identical, detailed movements to real players in the 3D In the world of Zhonghua Zhibang Online, players take on the role of team manager, handling everything from finding and creating players to training, scheduling batting, and even tactical arrangements. Players can realize their dream of leading a team and competing against other baseball stars from their computers. Notably, once the league season begins, all schedules are uploaded in real-time, allowing players to choose a team and simulate their own performance online using actual batting and skill levels." ~Bahamut Gamer's Community, based on machine translation (Source) =====

'Zhōnghuá Zhí Bàng 3'

[VARIOUS] [TAIWAN] [MAGAZINE] [1998]

Soft World had a couple licensed titles for the Chinese Professional Baseball League, with a third installment given plenty of advertising around this time. But for reasons lost in translation, it was never released.

According to a Facebook conversation on the issue, it appears that is was actually a modified version of Pro Evolution Soccer, and with the country entering the WTO around the time, the inevitable copyright issues led to to it being cancelled. But I'm going by machine translation so take this with grain of salt unless someone here can translate the conversation proper.

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