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Glitch in MLB 2K6 gives CPU huge vertical leap watch!

youtube.com — A glitch in MLB 2K6 for Xbox360 gives the CPU outfielders enough vertical leap to clear the Green Monster at Fenway. Video taken by the guy that sits next to me at work who does 360 saves. No cheats are active.

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  • daurkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42That is so funny and it would piss me off so much that I'd really try to get my money back.
    • catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -53/+2digg down..wrong reply
    • jedi0utkast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You can get your money back.
      I bought the game at gamestop because is the only Baseball game available, after just a day i was feed up, when back and returned the game, they where polite and just asked why, I said "It just sucks", I got me a copy of GRAW instead, now I am a happy camper.
    • GNiMeLF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There's a Small ladder, so in gaming respects. it's possible! *thumbs up*
  • GhostlySnow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+144dang steroids
  • Terc, on 10/12/2007, -126/+11Not sure it give the "CPU" That's the processor, a huge vertical leap, but it does give the AI player quite the vertical
    • toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+79"CPU" in games refers to the computer player.
    • usernameistaken, on 10/12/2007, -15/+83@Terc
      Do us a favor. If you've never played a video game, don't include yourself in the discussion.
    • Unr3a1, on 10/12/2007, -25/+13Wow, I feel copied. I swear I was the first to do that with my user icon.
    • Elohir, on 10/12/2007, -55/+17"Glitch in MLB 2K6 gives CPU huge vertical leap"

      Bitch all you like, no matter how incorrectly you choose to use the term, a CPU is a processor and an acronym-crazy title like that is hardly clear.
    • Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -38/+9He's right - CPU is different from CPU player.
    • anguijm, on 10/12/2007, -15/+34OK smartypants, did you really think he meant the CPU (processor) gained some crazy athletic ability wrt its vertical leap. If that happened I am not sure the height of the processors leap would be the big news...maybe the fact it was leaping.

      Some diggers need to get a ***** life...Japanese people talk around things all the time....it is assumed that the listener is smart enough to figure out what the subject is. In English(at least on DIGG), however, people seem to think that whatever someone says is exactly what they meant in any situation.
    • dustinhoffman, on 10/12/2007, -24/+8You never know with CPUs...

      Intel - "Leap Ahead"

      Sounds like a CPU feature to me....
    • dustinhoffman, on 10/12/2007, -24/+2Just a second... before I let that last post go.... I know that the CPU is not an Intel Proc but a PowerPC jobber...Just so that's clear...
    • schlemmsy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27I'm really struggling not to get involved in this but I can't seem to help it.

      CPU is, or at least was, often the default title given to the computer-controlled player/opponent in arcade games. This was generally the case where a number of players can be onscreen at the same time.

      An example of this would be Track & Field:
      http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/T/wTrack_&_Field.png
    • Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -21/+6"OK smartypants, did you really think he meant the CPU (processor) gained some crazy athletic ability wrt its vertical leap. If that happened I am not sure the height of the processors leap would be the big news...maybe the fact it was leaping."

      Actually yes I thought something along those lines. When I read it I thought that the CPU was spiking, or that some kind of very serious glitch in the software resulted in the CPU overclocking or burning itself out. Somehow the acronym standing for "Central Processing Unit" doesn't really bring to mind a computer-controlled player right off the bat.
    • phatfish, on 10/12/2007, -20/+8I think the technical term is NPC (non-player character) :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-player_character
    • kmarchiori, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11NPC? yeah, maybe if you're playing an RPG. Maybe CPU player, but CPU is close enough. I figured it out, why couldn't you, Terc?
    • Xoligy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"Wow, I feel copied. I swear I was the first to do that with my user icon"

      It doesn't matter... Terc's doesn't have any effect since he's buried anyway.
    • Terc, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15Alright guys I'll give. I'm not a big gamer, I shouldn't have commented, it's just that the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "CPU" is a processor, not an AI controlled player. Great glitch though.

      @Unr3a1,
      I hadn't seen anyone's icon like ours before I did mine. I'll probably be changing it soon since I know it's not unique anymore.
    • jedi0utkast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It is amazing how some individuals in their efforts to look cool, only end up looking like some retarded dumbass.
      The use of term CPU to make reference to the computer controlled player has been around since the beginning of video games, may not be absolutely accurate, but still is a term that any person who has been playing video games for a little will understand. Making that kind of comment is not only dumb, but demonstrate that a lot of people commenting about video games have actually no idea what they are talking about.

    • blueblood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3using the term CPU to suggest a computer player is for the most part confined to console games, therefore if you are a PC gamer you will most likely think of a processor. PC computer players are usualy known as NPCs(world of warcraft) or BOTs(counter strike) to name a few
  • GhostlySnow, on 10/12/2007, -21/+6Yea but the cpu for computers is the central processing unit..... Yea.........................
  • dangerousLEH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35haha, oh man, did anyone else think of the softball episode of the simpsons where darrel strawberry did the exact same thing as this video?
    • chrismcelligott, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Were talking softball...
    • chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48Well Mr. Burns had done it
      The power plant had won it
      With Roger Clemming Clucking all the while
      Mike Socher's tragic illness made a smile
      With Wey Boggs lay unconcious on the bar-room tile

      We're talking softball
      From main to sandiego
      We're talking softball
      Manning Lee and Ken Sego
      Ken Griffy's grotesquely swollen jaw
      Steve Sax and his run-in with the law
      We're talking Homer, Ozzie and the Straw

      We're talking softball
      From main to sandiego
      We're talking softball
      Manning Lee and Ken Sego
      Ken Griffy's grotesquely swollen jaw
      Steve Sax and his run-in with the law
      We're talking Homer, Ozzie and the Straw
    • kurupt, on 10/12/2007, -49/+22@Chris9902

      Thanks for bringing back that memory but, just to point out it's:
      Roger Clemens not Clemming*
      Mike Scioscia not Socher*
      Wade Boggs not Wey*
      Maine not Main*
      Mattingly not Manning Lee*
      Canseco Not Ken Sego*
    • chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -14/+54I just wrote a 10yr old song from memory and you point out a few spelling mistakes.

      not cool.
    • Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46You wrote a ten year old song from a cartoon from memory, and you're calling someone else 'not cool'?
    • briguy200, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18He didn't write a 10 year old song, he recited a 10 year old song.......and those aren't spelling mistakes. You got 7 out of the 9 players names wrong. DO'H It almost makes the song funnier that way.
    • duketime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Remembering the song is impressive, but he's just obviously not a baseball fan since remembering these players' names isn't a matter of spelling so much as knowing baseball.

      Which is cool, I'm a huge baseball fan, but I don't have a problem with non-fans. But thinking "Canseco" is "Ken Sego"? Oy.
    • pt4117, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Those aren't spelling mistakes. Those are the wrong words. I don't know why the correction was dug down.
    • BiteTheHand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Unless you are moored41, you didn't recall the lyrics from memory. You just went to some random page, copied the lyrics over, screwed up and then got defensive about it.

      http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thesimpsons/softball.htm

    • siq1ne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hahah.. i just have to laugh at the fact that someone corrects somebodys mistakes and gets mad duggdown.

      on the brighter side of the topic, i love that episode. ahhh, the simpsons.

      if there ever is a time machine im going back to a time when i was a child, and watching nothing but the simpsons.. ill bring the entire dvd collection.. every season 1 through 45. ha.
  • ScottJG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60Didnt you watch? He climbed the ladder that was right there!
    • scottkuma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! Thumbs-up!
    • Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I was thinking that too. Perhaps it's more of an easter egg than a glitch.
    • strickdd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You have to wonder what the chances of the ball being hit RIGHT at the ladder!? Astronomical, just like the jump/climb.
  • Millennium, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Funnyest Glitch i've seen in some time ... Very nice!
  • hotbeefman, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Funny enough I wish I could digg it twice
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    • H3BR3W, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27Or you could just digg unnecessary ***** comments down with regular ole' Digg V3.
    • COlson87, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3How is that comment assholey?
  • monkeymad2, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20I was expecting the processor to leap out of the 360...
    • jeet404, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh man that was actually funny instead of all the rest of the idiots trying to say well I was thinking of the Central Processing Unit.

      But is it me or can I actually imagine this happening?
  • lefragileebouy, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2looks like the most boring game in existance. and how utterly slow!
    • catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7slow motion? f
    • eggo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yeah, baseball sucks. At least this game is accurate in that respect. Now you can be bored to tears without sitting in the hot sun for five hours.
  • samfold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10These are some of the funniest comments I've ever read on digg. Kudos to everyone involved :)

    Leaping cpu's. I love it.
    • Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Dude needs to visit /. more often :)
  • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I love the fact that MLB 2K6 for gamecube doesn't work with wireless controllers....
    • jaderobbins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3f'real? i hadn't heard this, link to story?
    • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1idk about a story... i own the game and when i went to use it with my wireless controllers, it just goes crazy like someone is hitting the analog stick left and right incredibly fast...
    • mcottier, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1mecole21, i think your wireless controller is screwed up.
    • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3it works in other games fine....
  • Xertion, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5I with the people who thought it was a computer CPU and not a NPC. I never heard of a "non-player Character" as being a CPU in my life. I have been playing games and using computers since Space Invaders and Pacman were all the rage.
    • skywake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10never heared of an NPC being named CPU1, CPU2 ect? you need to get out more... or maybe i need to get out more...

      i think i need to get out more... sorry, carry on...
    • shakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15CPU has been the name for NPCs in game consoles for thirty years.

      As far as I know the term NPC come from dungeons and dragons. In the original table top dungeons and dragons game there are non-player characters managed by the dungeon master. In video games NPCs' AI is calculated by the CPU so they are CPU-controlled characters.
    • warox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Xertion: It really is a very common name. I can think of Super Off Road for NES where computer players were called CPU as one example.
    • admdrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Referring to one of the in game players (in just about *any* game) as the "CPU" or "CPU Player" isn't any different than calling the player character as yourself, especially in sports games.
      Examine, for a moment, this:
      "I played the CPU in NHL 2K6 and beat it 5-1."
      Well, surely it was meant "my player controlled team beat the system controlled team 5-1," but that's awkward to say in conversation.

      The system of using "CPU" as the name for a non player controlled team/character/entity in-game has been around for years (if not decades), though it's seemed more prominent on consoles than on PCs.
    • duketime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5But be careful about using the term NPC! Because then your character is going to be called a PC and we'll get into this mess all over again.
    • DaVillageVidiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CPU, NPC, whatever. blah blah blah
      "CPU player" or "CPU character" would have made the title too long. I'm glad it caught my eye. besides, I understood WTF they meant.
  • ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1Good old EA and their recycled rushed to market crap.

    I wonder what kind of "features" *cough* bugs *cough* the new round of games will have.
    • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9MLB 2K6 is made by Take 2 interactive.... MVP is EA's baseball game... but they lost the MLB liscense this year so they went to NCAA...
  • ARNick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4About the CPU thing.... I mostly work on Nintendo consoles and most of their first party games (for example, Mario Party) designate the AI opponent as "CPU". Plus, the headline can only be so long. Didn't mean to offend anyone, but the resulting comments have been amusing!
  • theGrue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hmm... FNG... You work for Datel or CodeJunkies or whatever it is?
  • mattgo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3MLB2K6 isn't an EA game, It's 2K Sports. EA makes the MVP series, arguably the best console baseball series since the 2004 Edition. Unfortunately, EA had to change it to the NCAA format because 2K purchased the exclusive rights to make MLB games (Same thing EA did with Madden).
    • admdrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MLB 2k5 (I have the Xbox version) is probably my current favorite, both in terms of gameplay and presentation. They worked with ESPN on the 2k5 release, so the voiceovers, graphics, and style are right from an ESPN broadcast, which makes for a very fun and watchable game.
    • prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're right about the "arguably" part. In general, I find the gameplay in MVP a bit better (having to hammer A to get the player to sprint out of the box in MLB is ridiculous), but the presentation in MLB is miles ahead of MVP. The ESPN color commentary is the best I've ever heard.
  • ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2OMG, it's the million dollar man!
  • Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I had no clue they allowed X-Men into baseball these days...........maybe I should watch it more often.
  • TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is a cheat built into the game to let you scale any outfield wall like this- you need to earn "tokens" to unlock the cheat.

    Not sure about Xbox360, but it is there in the PS2 version of the game.
  • wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And this is what happens when one publisher gets and exclusive license to a sport. Unimaginitive gameplay, and slopppy execution. Why should Take2 give a ***** about making the game really good. Sports game players really want to play their fav teams and players. Unless you are some kind of fanatic there are very few console players that give a crap about NCAA baseball. So Take2 is the only game in town.

    I expect Madden will be similarly crappy this year. Although (if the gameplay is good enough) maybe a generic football game may find a market.
    • jaderobbins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yeah something like those old school nintendo sports games with generic team names/playes :D
    • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There's also MLB: The Show, but that's made by Sony for only the PS2 & PSP... there is a loophole to allow the manufacturers of the consoles to make a MLB liscensed game for their consoles only... Sony took advantage of this; Nintendo & Microsoft didn't feel like coming out with their own MLB games...
    • Lynx34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually Nintendo had one lined up called Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball; however, it was cancelled, though some hope it gets pushed to production on Wii. Frankly I'd think that'd be pretty cool, expecially since the last baseball series that Nintendo made (Ken Griffey Jr.) was really really fun.
  • billmarvin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's not only buggy on the 360, but the commentating, and most of the game is bugged on the regular x-box.
  • EricJD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like Superman playing baseball
  • rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Haha. Neat bug. Looks like it's not a jumping bug, but it just has to do with grabbing the top of the wall, which works in 95% of the stadiums out there. I guess the programmer forgot a few lines....

    if (stadium_location == fenway){
    allow_wall_grab = false
    }
  • Knice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What I would like to see is the guys reaction when the computer pulled this off. I am sure he was less than amused.
  • CheapDigWannbe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At least he used the ladder, and not JUST jump so high in the air.
  • tskrilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Major League Baseball 2K6

    All bonuses:
    Enter Derek Jeter as a case-sensitive code to unlock all jerseys, stadiums, teams, arcade games, and cheats that can be purchased. This code unlocks six of the first seven skybox cheats.

    Topps 2K6 All-stars:
    Enter Dream Team as a case-sensitive code.
    Desmond McCann.

    Rocket arms:
    Enter Gotcha as a case-sensitive code.
    Desmond McCann.

    Bouncy ball:
    Enter Crazy Hops as a case-sensitive code.

    Crazy pitches:
    Enter Unhittable as a case-sensitive code.

    Super wall climbs:
    Enter Last Chance as a case-sensitive code.

    Its a cheat a code not a glitch
  • bUND, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This is the WORST game ever.

    HORRIBLE graphics, even for the 360. There was a recall when the game first released because it would freeze all the time.

    Just another company porting over a PS2 game to the 360, trying to make a quick buck.

    And they wonder why more people don't buy their ***** games for.

    We want the next gen games NOW !!!!
    • ja1217, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yeah, i played the game on a friend's 360 and then got the game at home for my ps2 and I can hardly tell the difference.
  • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it doesn't look much different than Triple Play 2000...
  • deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Are you sure this is MLB2k6? Looks more like Blernsball 2k6 to me.
  • jedi0utkast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The best part is that this is the only Baseball game for XBOX 360.

  • mobilehavoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's so awesome - I like how the guy comes back down to earth so slowly.
  • natrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The 2k6 NHL game was even worse. It would crash everytime a game ended so you couldn't get anywhere in the league. It was unplayable... what's up with 2k6's job lately... are they trying to ruin their own name?
    • colol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now that they're the ones with the MLB license, they have to get caught up to EA's record of suckitude.
  • MaNiaC510, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1baseball games sucks.
  • DaVillageVidiot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The same crap happened to me.... but I just stopped playing in Fenway park.
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