Total Classics 1978

The 1978 season featured a constant battle for first place in the AL East between the Red Sox and Yankees. On July 19, 1978, the Yankees were in 4th place, 14 games behind the Red Sox.

On October 1, 1978, the final day of the regular season, the Red Sox won and the Yankees lost, making them tied for first place with identical 99-63 records.

On October 2, 1978, the two clubs met in a one game playoff. Cy Young Award winner Ron Guidry notched his 25th victory of the season and Bucky Dent secured his place in Yankees history by hitting a 3-run home run over the Green Monster.

The 5-4 game is considered by many as one of the most exciting games in Major League history.

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The Total Classics 1978 mod brings you the sights and sounds of the 1978 baseball season. Besides rosters, portraits, uniforms and audios, the mod provides themed menu and loading screens, stadium select screens with actual stadium photos, 1978 jukebox music, a 1978 era overlay, an accurate 1978 schedule and correct 1970's era stadiums for every team.

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*** INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ***

- After you download the total_classics_1978.7z file, double-click to open it.

- Extract the contents of the file into a folder.

- Double-click the explodeme.exe file

- Find the location of a CLEAN (or patched) copy of MVP Baseball 2005 and click "Extract".

- Allow the program to extract all of the new content.

- Play the new Total Classics 1978 mod.

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*** VERSION HISTORY ***

<u>v6.0</u>

1. Replaced all uniforms with Dennis James' new 1978 uniforms

2. Replaced all 1978 uniform previews and removed 2005 uniform previews

3. Updated team selection screens so that nothing shows up for post-1978 teams (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, etc.)

<u>v5.0</u>

1. Added Dennis James' 1970's stadiums (Busch Stadium, Dodger Stadium, Shea Stadium, Veteran's stadium, Riverfront Stadium, Three Rivers Stadium, Astrodome, Baltimore Memorial Stadium, Fulton County Stadium, Cleveland Stadium, Metropolitan Stadium, Milwaukee County Stadium, Comiskey Park, San Diego Stadium, Candlestick Park, Royals Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Wrigley Field, Olympic Dome, Kingdome, Exhibition Stadium)

2. Added 1970's Anaheim Stadium

3. Added new stadium select screens for Shea Stadium

4. Added fix to remove names from Toronto Blue Jays home uniforms

5. Fixed Fred Stanley face

<u>v4.0</u>

1. Added new versions of Forbes Field, Crosley Field, 1970's Candlestick Park, Olympic Stadium, Astrodome

2. Added many new faces with modified hairstyles (bigger afros, longer sideburns, thicker moustaches) to give the players even more of a 1970's look

3. Added more player audios

<u>v3.0</u>

1. Added new faces

2. Added new Total Classics 1978 game logo

3. Removed "MVP Baseball 1978" logo from all loading screens

4. Added many new player audios

5. Modified contact and power settings for players with low home run totals

6. Added updated Olympic Dome, Astrodome and daytime Cleveland Municipal Stadium

<u>v2.0</u>

1. Added new faces

2. Added new player audios

3. Added new stadiums (1970's Baltimore Memorial, 1970's Comiskey Park, 1978 Fenway Park, 1978 Kaufmann Stadium, 1978 Yankee Stadium)

4. Added new 70's batter walkup music

<u>v1.1</u>

1. Included the proper, non-debug, version of the installer to prevent "missing DLL" error messages that occurred when running the installer included with the v1.0 package

2. Built the v1.1 package using 7zip, which reduced the file size by 75 Mbytes

<u>v1.0</u>

Initial release