Backyard Baseball 2003

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Backyard Baseball
Subseries of Backyard Sports
Backyard Baseball	1997
Backyard Baseball 2001	2000
Backyard Baseball 2003	2002
Backyard Baseball 2005	2004
Backyard Sports: Baseball 2007	2006
Backyard Baseball '09	2008
Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers	2010
Backyard Baseball '97	2024
Backyard Baseball '01	2025

Backyard Baseball 2003 is a singleplayer cinematic camera sports game in the Backyard Baseball and Backyard Sports series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		If fully installed, the game does not require the CD to play.

System	Location
Windows	%WINDIR%\hegames.ini^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Game runs at 640x480
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Press `Space ␣`, select "Options", then check "Display in Window", then click OK or press `⇧ Shift`+`F5` to toggle (otherwise `Alt`+`↵ Enter` in that case using ScummVM).
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Frame generation		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus		Required to navigate the menus.
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		No direct support in ScummVM yet (instead controls mouse)
Full controller support		It is possible to move the cursor and select using a controller, but only when the Gamepad option is selected from the Single Game or Season Play modes. Even then, you can't use it outside of those modes, such as in the Club House (main menu). Need to use mouse and/or keyboard to pause and change game options or exit game.
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)
Additional button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Can only turn background music on/off
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Hex-edit the game data file
Open `baseball2003.(b)` with a hex editor such as HxD. Go to offset `0xB2C8A`. Replace byte `0A` with `00`.

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					For 64-bit use ScummVM 64-bit
Mac OS (Classic)

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, 2000, ME	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	40 MB	514 MB
Video card (GPU)	640x480 resolution 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible	DirectX 8 compatible
Other	8x CD-ROM drive

Windows 95 might work but is not officially supported.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

Developers

	Humongous Entertainment
Publishers
Windows	Infogrames
Mac OS	Humongous Entertainment
Engines
	SCUMM^[1]
Release dates
Windows	June 30, 2002
Mac OS (Classic)	June 30, 2002
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Continuous turn-based
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Point and select, Direct control
Genres	Sports
Sports	Baseball
Art styles	Cartoon, Digitized
Themes	Contemporary, North America
Series	Backyard Baseball, Backyard Sports