2007-06-25
Hints/Strategies

MVP Baseball 2004 -- Sure Winning Strategy

When someone from the other team is on any base, attempt to pick him off. Press the X button to throw the ball to the catcher. Make the catcher run away from the pitcher towards the stands. While still running, tap the triangle button once. The catcher will jump and spin around, trying to throw to second base. The ball won’t even come close to second base. Instead, it will drop in front of the pitcher. For some reason, when this happens, the base runner will ALWAYS attempt to steal. Press L1 to control the pitcher. Scoop up the ball and make the easy throw to get the base runner out. It works every time!

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2007-06-25
Hints/Strategies

Platform: PlayStation 2
MVP Baseball 2004 Cheat: Bat Breaking Player
Create a player with the name Erik Kiss (case sensitive). His bat is much thinner than normal, and will break at nearly every at bat.
MVP Baseball 2004 Cheat: Huge Slugger
Go to create a player and create a player named Jacob Paterson. (Case Sensitive) Once he is on your team you will have your self a huge slugger. Most of the time he slams it out of the park with ease with distances over 700 ft.
MVP Baseball 2004 Cheat: Huge Cap
Enter the following name on created player mode: John Prosen and you will get a player that has an enlarged helmet.
MVP Baseball 2004 Unlockable: MVP Rewards
Classic Stadiums
Stadium Location Description MVP Points Needed
Crosley Field Cincinatti, OH Home of the Reds, 1912-1970 2500
Astrodome Houston, TX Home of the Astros, 1965-1999 2500
Tiger Stadium Detroit, MI Home of the Tigers, 1912-1999 3000
Griffith Stadium Washington, DC Home of the Senators, 1903-1961 3000
Shibe Park Philadelphia, PN Home of the Phillies, 1909-1954 4000
Sportman's Park St. Louis, MO Home of the Cardinals, 1920-1966 4000
Polo Grounds New York, NY Home of the Giants, 1911-1957 5000
Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA Home of the Pirates, 1909-1970 5000
Retro Jerseys
Team Year Home/Away MVP Points Needed
Anaheim Angels 1986 Home 250
Anaheim Angels 1986 Away 250
Houston Astros 1986 Home 250
Houston Astros 1986 Away 250
Kansas City Royals 1985 Home 250
Kansas City Royals 1985 Away 250
Milwaukee Brewers 1982 Home 250
Milwaukee Brewers 1982 Away 250
Toronto Blue Jays 1992 Home 250
Toronto Blue Jays 1992 Away 250
Seattle Mariners 1981 Home 350
Seattle Mariners 1981 Away 350
San Diego Padres 1984 Home 350
San Diego Padres 1984 Away 350
New York Mets 1986 Home 350
New York Mets 1986 Away 350
Montreal Expos 1981 Home 350
Montreal Expos 1981 Away 350
Chicago White Sox 1983 Home 350
Chicago White Sox 1983 Away 350
Atlanta Braves 1974 Home 500
Atlanta Braves 1974 Away 500
Baltimore Orioles 1971 Home 500
Baltimore Orioles 1971 Away 500
Minnesota Twins 1977 Home 500
Minnesota Twins 1977 Away 500
Oakland Athletics 1972 Home 500
Oakland Athletics 1972 Away 500
Philadelphia Phillies 1980 Home 500
Philadelphia Phillies 1980 Away 500
Pittsburgh Pirates 1979 Home 500
Pittsburgh Pirates 1979 Away 500
Texas Rangers 1976 Home 500
Texas Rangers 1976 Away 500
Cincinatti Reds 1970 Home 500
Cincinatti Reds 1970 Away 500
Cleveland Indians 1975 Home 500
Cleveland Indians 1975 Away 500
Chicago Cubs 1954 Home 750
Chicago Cubs 1954 Away 750
St. Louis Cardinals 1934 Home 750
St. Louis Cardinals 1934 Away 750
Brooklyn Dodgers 1941 Home 750
Brooklyn Dodgers 1941 Away 750
Pittsburgh Pirates 1916 Home 750
Pittsburgh Pirates 1916 Away 750
New York Giants 1954 Home 750
New York Giants 1954 Away 750
Detroit Tigers 1906 Home 750
Detroit Tigers 1906 Away 750
New York Yankees 1927 Home 1000
New York Yankees 1927 Away 1000
Philadelphia Athletics 1921 Home 1000
Philadelphia Athletics 1921 Away 1000
Chicago White (Black) Sox 1919 Home 1000
Chicago White (Black) Sox 1919 Away 1000
Washington Senators 1913 Home 1000
Washington Senators 1913 Away 1000
Boston Red Sox 1903 Home 1000
Boston Red Sox 1903 Away 1000
Legendary Players
Player Team Years Played MVP Points Needed
Hal Newhouser Tigers 1939-1955 2500
Robin Roberts Phillies 1948-1966 2500
Richie Ashburn Phillies 1948-1962 2500
Ralph Kiner Pirates 1946-1955 2500
Bob Lemon Indians 1941-1958 3000
Phil Rizzuto Yankees 1941-1956 3000
Hoyt Wilhelm Giants/Orioles/Red Sox 1952-1972 3000
Larry Doby Indians 1947-1959 3000
Mel Ott Giants 1926-1947 3500
Pee Wee Reese Dodgers 1940-1958 3500
Bob Feller Indians 1936-1956 3500
Whitey Ford Yankees 1950-1967 3500
Early Wynn Senators/Indians/White Sox 1939-1963 3500
Eddie Mathews Braves 1952-1968 4000
Warren Spahn Braves 1942-1965 4000
Jimmie Foxx Athletics/Red Sox 1925-1945 4000
Roy Campanella Dodgers 1948-1957 4500
Lou Gehrig Yankees 1923-1939 4500
Honus Wagner Pirates 1897-1917 4500
Walter Johnson Senators 1907-1927 4500
Cy Young Red Sox 1890-1911 4500
Satchel Paige Indians/Browns/Athletics 1948-1953, 1965 4500
Ty Cobb Tigers 1905-1928 5000
Babe Ruth Red Sox/Yankees 1914-1935 5000
Jackie Robinson Dodgers 1947-1956 5000
Billy Williams Cubs 1959-1976 2500
Al Kaline Tigers 1953-1974 2500
Ferguson Jenkins Cubs/Rangers 1965-1983 2500
Phil Niekro Braves 1964-1987 2500
Lou Brock Cardinals 1961-1979 3000
Catfish Hunter Athletics/Yankees 1965-1979 3000
Luis Apraricio White Sox/Orioles 1956-1973 3000
Harmon Killebrew Senators/Twins 1954-1975 3500
Orlando Cepeda Giants/Cardinals 1958-1974 3500
Rod Carew Twins/Angels 1967-1985 3500
Brooks Robinson Orioles 1955-1977 3500
Rollie Fingers Athletics/Padres/Brewers 1968-1985 3500
Juan Marichal Giants 1960-1975 3500
Gaylord Perry Giants/Indians 1962-1983 3500
Tom Seaver Mets/Reds 1967-1986 4000
Jim Palmer Orioles 1965-1984 4000
Joe Morgan Astros/Reds 1963-1984 4000
Willie Stargell Pirates 1962-1982 4000
Mike Schmidt Phillies 1972-1989 4000
Robin Yount Brewers 1974-1993 4000
Willie McCovey Giants 1959-1980 4500
Reggie Jackson Athletics/Yankees/Angels 1967-1987 4500
Yogi Berra Yankees 1946-1965 4500
Nolan Ryan Mets/Angels/Astros/Rangers 1966-1993 4500
Bob Gibson Cardinals 1959-1975 4500
Sparky Anderson Manager, Reds/Tigers 1970-1995
Tommy Lasorda Manager, Dodgers 1976-1996
MVP Baseball 2004 Hint: Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds may have been kept out of this game by withdrawing himself from the MLBPA, but his replacement, fantasy player "Jim Dowd", has all his attributes. Simply go to Roster Management and choose Jim Dowd (he's easy to find: he's the best player on the Giants, and one of the best players in the game). Edit the player's name to "Barry Bonds", his number to 25 and his hand to lefty. Edit his features to appear less like a random white guy and more like the famous slugger.
MVP Baseball 2004 Hint: Easy MVP Points
When playing a Home Run Showdown or Pitcher Showdown, start the game on the MVP difficulty setting. As soon as the game loads up, pause and change the difficulty to something easier to handle, like Rookie or Pro. Now when you beat the computer you'll get the MVP points for winning on the MVP level, four times the original amount.
MVP Baseball 2004 Hint: More Easy MVP Points
First, check your MVP Rewards Checklist. Many of the tasks require you to beat certain teams at their home fields. Start a game against any of these teams and choose MVP Difficulty for maximum points. As the game begins, pause the game and switch controller ports to be the team that you're supposed to beat. If they are batting, simply swing and miss every pitch, and you will get large amounts of points for a Perfect Game, No Hitter, Shutout, and Complete Game. That's a couple of thousand points right there. When this team is on the field, just lob fastballs over the heart of the plate, or intentionally walk the batters and serve up Grand Slams. You get tons of points for putting up large offensive numbers. Now the most important part. At the end of the game, it is imperative that you switch the controller port back to the original team that you selected in order to receive credit for the final results. Since you need to beat the home team, they will have the last at-bat. So in the last inning, take control of the home team and do the "Swing and Miss" trick. Then on the final strike, swing as soon as the pitcher releases the ball, then quickly pause the game and switch the controllers again. It will be as if you aquired all of the stats for the visiting team, and you will be rewarded heavily for your performance.
MVP Baseball 2004 Hint: Simulate to Earn MVP Points
In Dynasty Mode you recieve MVP points periodically for accomplishments. Assemble a team you feel is good enough to simulate to the playoffs (hint: Yankees). Simulate the season up to the second to last game and then save the game. Once you have it saved, simulate the last game and move into the playoffs. Generally, you recieve anywhere between 5000-9000 MVP points for making the playoffs. Save the points onto your profile when prompted, and then exit the Dynasty mode without saving. Repeat the process and you'll notice that every time you simulate into the playoffs you're saving the points and not your progress. Do this about 20-25 times and you'll have enough points for all the rewards.
MVP Baseball 2004 Hint: Ultimate Method of Earning MVP Points
Start a new dynasty with the YANKEES. In the DYNASTY SETTINGS page right after you chose to start a new dynasty and even before you choose which team, choose NO for a fantasty draft, put the difficulty level on MVP, turn injuries off, turn suspensions off, turn errors off, turn the trade deadline OFF, turn CPU initiated trades OFF, turn rained out games OFF, and leave everything else as the default. Also, you need to make sure you have the user profile set as PROF1 or if you have your own profile use that one and set it as that in the dynasty options page.

Once you're on the main page of the dynasty, go to SCHEDULE. Scroll all the way through the calender to the last game of the season, since we are using the Yankees for the dynasty, the last game of the regular season on the calender should be on October 3rd, so scroll to October 3rd and choose "Sim up to and including this day." It will take a couple minutes to sim through the entire regular season because the baseball schedule is long and it also has to sim through your two minor league teams associated with the franchise. Throughout the sim, various messages will pop up about the allstar game, minor league playoffs, etc. When these messages pop up, just ignore them and choose "Continue Sim."

Once the sim finishes, go back to the main dynasty page and there will be a couple of boxes that popup saying congratulations you've received 1000 or so MVP points, just click OK and ignore them, because that's not where the bigtime MVP points are. Go to "Advance to next day" and keep pressing continue until you're back at the main dynasty management page and a box pops up saying that the regular season is over.

Right now, save your dynasty and once you're finished saving it go to "Advance To Playoffs", you MUST make sure you save your dynasty at this point BEFORE you choose to advance to the playoffs. After you click on "advance to playoffs," a box will pop up saying "Congratulations, you have completed one or more tasks and have been awarded XXXXX MVP points." The amount of MVP points varies, however you are guaranteed to receive anywhere between at least 15,000 and 20,000 MVP points. Click on OK after that box comes up and press CIRCLE on your PS2 controller which brings up your profile options. When you bring up your profile options go to "Save Profile" and save your profile, it will ask if you want to overwrite previous data and choose YES.

There you go, you've just gotten roughly 20,000 MVP points. Do NOT save your dynasty, the only time you should have ever saved this dynasty was after you finished simming the regular season before you clicked on "advance to playoffs". At this point, just exit the dynasty and a message will pop up saying "are you sure you want to exit, you will lose all of your MVP points and unsaved changes", ignore this message and choose YES. You will not lose your MVP points because you have already saved your profile! You'll now be back at the main menu of MVP Baseball 2004. Just go back to game modes, then go to dynasty mode and load the dynasty.

Once you load the dynasty, just click on "Advance to playoffs" and you'll receive another 20,000 MVP points. Just save your profile and exit the dynasty, then just load it back up again, click on advnace to playoffs again, save your profile again, and exit. You can do this as much as many times as you want, then just go to "My MVP" on the main menu MVP Baseball 2004 and go into "MVP REWARDS" and unlock EVERYTHING.
MVP Baseball 2004 Hint: Barry Bonds
Thankfully, EA has recognized that they could not officially put Barry Bonds in the game, so what they have done is placed a player on the Giants by the name of Jon Dowd. This player is fictional and does not exist in real life, however his performance attributes are identical to what Barry Bonds would be.

To have Barry Bonds in MVP Baseball 2004, go edit the rosters of the Giants and then select to edit the player named Jon Dowd. Change his number to 25, change his name to Barry Bonds, change his birthdate to 07/24/64, make it so he throws and bats left handed, then edit his face to something you think looks most like Barry Bonds in real life.
MVP Baseball 2004 Hint: 100% Pitcher Stamina
This is the easiest way to warm up a pitcher. First intentionally hit the guy at bat.(L1+L3)Your pitcher will be kicked out of the game. Choose a new pitcher and he starts with 100% stamina. Note: Your pitcher will not be suspended for hitting the guy.