Speedball 2 - Brutal Deluxe

[Kon-Tiki]

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review and Download (if available) (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/592)

[MagicDave]

I've never felt I had to comment on a game before... but I do now.

Get a joystick, get this game, then PLAY IT TILL YOUR FINGERS BLEED. This game is definately one of my favourite Amiga A500 memories.

It's fast, tough, addictive, sheer arcade fun.

[punch999]

Ahh yes I played a ps1 version of this but it was called speedball 2000

wonderful game

I was in the ftp today just looking around And saw this game and downloaded it HAHA got a head start on yall!

[rudhraigh]

Speedball 2 is the basis of my relationship with my older brother.
That and kicking the crap out of each other of course.

[swiss]

Playing this against others is the best way to play it !

I don't know how many hours I spent tackling and defeating (at least I tried that) my cousin. GET IT - LOVE IT !

[rudhraigh]

T'was a great game but singleplayer stalled out cause you eventually had to start replacing your guys with transfers, and they were never as good as the later teams..

[JudgeDeadd]

Wow! Fraction rating!

I remember playing this game both on PC and Amiga, the Amiga version was better.

[BLauritson]

PC ports of Amiga games never are as good. I had the Amiga game, and really enjoyed it.

[ramblerkidjr]

Does anyone have any game play tips they would like to give me? Its a great game but i cant seem to even win a single game the other team is always faster than me. :cry:

[swiss]

be brutal (remember it's calle d Brutal Deluxe). Try to tackle everyone you see. Once they stumble they loose the ball.
Oh andy try to avoid walking straight forward. Do it like the rabits!
Try to kill the other players!
Practice lots and lots and lots and lots ... :D

[Mrs John Murphy]

If you do the season mode then make sure that you start off against the worst team (Revolver I think).

Then upgrade one guy (ideally CF) and use his pace to do stuff like collect all the bonuses.

Upgrade down the middle first and do the wing players last. In the early games keep it simple and down the middle.

[Flop]

YES! I used to love this game, back in the day. Thanks a lot, Swiss, this is just what I needed. :ok:

[lgonggr]

Yeeeeehaaa !!! :D

I played this game to death and beyond, just like its predecessor. Who says brilliant hard-crack-like addictive games must be over 0.5 MB ? You gotta love these guys, all their games are great.

Muchos gracias,
Lodewijk

[Oberon]

This game awakes some old memories in me, back to the golden amiga days..(i had really a relationship with my amiga 5000, because it was my first computer, and like in reality, you never forget your first Girlfriend/- you never forget your first Computer)
Speedball2 whas one of my favorite games on my Amiga 5000, well one of many.

Now with the multiplayer support for the PC version, it's even more fun to play SB2

Big thx! :ok:

[Vitas]

Yeah, this is one hell of a game... i remember playing it on and on and trying to win against Super Nashvan in the late naight hours:)))

[Das Ei]

Seems like a good game, and I feel aggresive... :Titan:

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Jacek Dobrzyniecki@Aug 8 2005, 02:44 AM
Wow! Fraction rating!

I remember playing this game both on PC and Amiga, the Amiga version was better.
What a surprise. LOL LOL LOL

Had Amiga version, and I bought GBA and PS1 versions (someone else mentioned it above), but nothing beats feeling with Amiga version of this game.

[Drum]

Awesome game, I played forever on my AtariST1040. The way to go for season play was to concentrate on grabbing all the coins to train *only* 1-2 players in your original team to full stats (300 was the max stat limit if I remember right). You could concentrate more on getting coins than scoring goals for the first 3 matches. The other half of my strategy was to look at the free agent speedball players that would come up for hire after every match...there would always be 0-1 players that were "superstars", meaning they had great stats and one over the 300 max score. Get those and put them where they would do best (you could move your trained ball players to different positions if necessary). At the end I would have 4-5 free agent superstars and my 2 fully upgraded players, which could always beat the snot out of the championship team.

[punch999]

I had the ps1 version very very fun game

[Player one]

looking for this game is what got me into older games and ultimately finding abandonia. enough said.

once you get the lead, i find its best to stop trying to score and use your fastest guy to just run around getting coins. it becomes easy with the transfers and a good CF, if hes really good you can just do a straight run.

the straight run
get the ball then just chrage straight into thier player, pass him the ball then tackle him and continue the same through the Mid and Keeper. it dosent work against really good teams. but with the first CF transfer he should be much better than the other teams players. i find it easier to do when scoring down field.

[Player one]

also throwing the ball so the keeper jumps, then tackling him as hes in the air was always a favorite way to score

[Kelrond]

Like many others here, I really LOVE this game! :drool: But I would like to try it out again, just for old times sake, but I just can't make it work. :help: I'm using DosBOX, which it should be compatible with, but when I try to run SB2.exe, nothing happens... The cursor just keeps blinking and that's it... :cry:

Anyone know what I can do to make it work? :tnx:

[Kelrond]

Shameless bump... :ph34r:

[Earendil]

Aaaaamazing!

I haven't played this game for years which raises a question about my memory. I'm sure I used to play it using the arrow keys on the kepboard, rather than the Q/A/O/P combination that is used now.

As I am a little less dextrous than I was then, does anyone know how to amend the keyboard controls?

Cheers.

[gameTroll]

ah, yes, speedball 2. the quintessenctial classic. led to many a slagging match with my brother when i beat him 245-15! ah yes, the fights.....the graphics.....and the guy saying 'ice cream, ice cream!'

[Hyde]

Fantastic game ....though .......q = backwards and a = forwards ....o = left and p= right ..........any way to change it to the basic asdw ??? set up ??

[Guest_Dan]

Does anyone know exactly how the injuries work, other than what the manual and FAQs say (which aren't very helpful)? If a player gets injured, do their stats ever go back up again, or do I have to resign myself to trading them after that, because they are basically useless? Thanks!

[Listoric]

This is ust the best sportsgame ever made. I still love it and i really love to play every mod which could be just a bit like this game nowadays. WOuld really like to see a UnrealTournament Mod or somehting like that. Just imagine playing this game with friends in the internet.. *dreams*

Anyway, i HAVE TO download it now, it`s just one of the best games ever made imo... :kosta:

[Gelfo]

This is an absolute classic. I have fond memories of the guy yelling "ice cream, ice cream"

The Amgia version was best by miles, the one they brought out for the playstation was awful.. just like the sensible soccer. It should have at least been 4 players, that would have made it so much better.

The futuristic violent basketball style sport game was done better though in a game called 'futureball' I think . . that was much more fun.

[Kelrond]

Originally posted by Kelrond@Aug 12 2005, 10:15 PM
Like many others here, I really LOVE this game! :drool: But I would like to try it out again, just for old times sake, but I just can't make it work. :help: I'm using DosBOX, which it should be compatible with, but when I try to run SB2.exe, nothing happens... The cursor just keeps blinking and that's it... :cry:

Anyone know what I can do to make it work? :tnx:
So, no one else is experiencing the same problem as I am? If anyone is, please let me know how you fixed it. It would be fun to try suvh a classic out once again... :D

[!]

Hmm, how do you change the controls?

[German S.]

Hi all, well THAT GAME IS UNBELIEVEABLE!!! i had played it to with my brothers in the 90´s and with my friends over hours... the first addiction with games... its the best game i ever played! its so fat! And lot of memories i took too :ok:

i want to run it again, but i have a problem too :cry: i have to play it again!!! :evil: :wall:

so bye everyone! :bye:

[help]

when i open the game it is too big on the screen so i can only see a small amount how do i fix this problem

[Menasor]

ive got an XP which has trouble running a lot of the games...i can't remember where i dl this game from, but i used a Genesis Emulator to run it...and it ran perfectly! the genesis emulator is excellent --> even works to run cool games like ShadowRun with good sound and music!

[Menasor]

Originally posted by !@Oct 13 2005, 07:06 PM
Hmm, how do you change the controls?
I dont think you can change the controls...the controls were giving me problems in this game too as they were too uncomfortable and made teh game difficult...i guess you just have to practice.

[thanks]

thanks alot i found a genisis ersion and emulator and now its running great

[Zarrahtass]

Hi
I can´t play the game with Dosbox, how do you use it?
Setup won´t save my changes (crashes wenn it asks "save? y/n)
Any ideas?
Do you run it in dosbox? no problems?
Thanks,
ZaR

[Guest]

:help:
Same issue as Zarrahtass here. Does any one know how to fix that?

THANK YOU!

[Zarrahtass]

Hi
Bad luck for us, that nobody has a hint..
But if you set the sound device to pc speaker it might run.
It does in my case. But i had to change this in the sb2.ini with notepad because the sb2 setup crashes everytime.
hope i could help you!
cu
ZaR

[d-bug]

OK, it's running fine with DosBox, when you go ahead and get D-Fend wich is a
GUI-Interface for DosBox. If you got it simply run D-Fend, add a new Profile, use
the Wizard to configure Speedball2 and answer all questions with o.k. . Thats all. By now SP2 should run without problems.

Sorry, bad english over here :whistle:

[Guest]

to all the people asking how to get it to run in dosbox: don't bother.

the PC version is inferior to the amiga version, which runs perfectly in winuae and euae, so just run that instead.

[Guest]

Can anyone give me a step by step exercice! I have the same problem like others!
Blinking cursor and nothing happens.

Thanks for helping... ( hope so)...

[delarge]

Originally posted by Listoric@Sep 25 2005, 04:49 PM
This is ust the best sportsgame ever made. I still love it and i really love to play every mod which could be just a bit like this game nowadays. WOuld really like to see a UnrealTournament Mod or somehting like that. Just imagine playing this game with friends in the internet.. *dreams*

Anyway, i HAVE TO download it now, it`s just one of the best games ever made imo... :kosta:
there is a halflife 1 mod called kanonball thats based on this classic. go visit the site http://www.planethalflife.com/kanonball . the mod was dead for a while but people are starting to play it again. i highly recommend this game to every speedball fan that has halflife. to find other players and servers go to www.gamesurge.net where there is an irc channel called #RCKanonball.

[Guest]

o mannnnnn this game is great but impossible to play with these strange controls LOL
:tai:

[stephquan]

Pfft dont be babies! the controls are easy to get the hang of.

it runs fine from dosbox for me, but it might be hanging if your sound is not set up properly so run the setup first.

I usually play the cup not the season, its faster and you can get the super stars at any time. the best players you can buy are jensen in defense, Jams in attack, and selene in midfield. however, you generally can still upgrade their aggression if the rest of the team is maxed out.

as for gameplay - slide tackle works best from behind, and better from an angle then straight on.
goals are good points, but can be very hard to get...
if you get the chance to buy a great 'defender' early on, put him in left or right defence not goal so you can take him out and collect all the bonus'
the domes that give you points make GREAT scores if you have a strong player rebounding a ball off one. use the points multiplyer on either side and go ahead. scores of 80 or 100 points in single rebounding rounds are possible :)

i love this game, super nashwan are always a challenge : )

[tjeppen]

Originally posted by ramblerkidjr@Aug 8 2005, 07:28 PM
Does anyone have any game play tips they would like to give me? Its a great game but i cant seem to even win a single game the other team is always faster than me. :cry:
Yes I do, hit the stars on the side of the playing field, and then score goals, the stars multiply your score (the more stars , the higer your score for eferything, even injuring an opponent)

[Guest]

Originally posted by BLauritson@Aug 8 2005, 09:17 AM
PC ports of Amiga games never are as good. I had the Amiga game, and really enjoyed it.
you are soooooo right on that issue

[Guest]

i bought me a joystick for this game, but i cant get it to work. it says joystick in setup, but nothin happens when i try it in the game.

[bruno]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jun 24 2006, 05:07 PM) 239394</div>
i bought me a joystick for this game, but i cant get it to work. it says joystick in setup, but nothin happens when i try it in the game.
[/b]

Try to run the game in dosbox, because dosbox will config and calibrate your joystick. :ok:

[Guest]

I used to love this game-- my favorite scoring technique was to run the ball up to the center scoring cone on my opponent's side (or whatever it is), get very close to the cone and throw hard into it. keep holding the button for max strength on the throw, and run with the ball all the way to the goalie, slide tackle him, and throw the ball in for a score.

someone mentioned earlier-- grab as many coins as you can, double your points by using the circular thing on the left/right. The stars don't double your score, they just give points as long as they are lit, or if you light them all-- but it takes too long trying to illuminate them all, and you're bound to get ganked trying.

get guys that are fast. I remember early on Quiss or something like that is a great forward.

[Guest]

Well, the game is great but the controls are not... well, I think I have to get used to it. It's kinda hard, though...

[delarge]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(little fish @ Jun 24 2006, 04:22 PM) 239395</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jun 24 2006, 05:07 PM) 239394
i bought me a joystick for this game, but i cant get it to work. it says joystick in setup, but nothin happens when i try it in the game.
[/b]

Try to run the game in dosbox, because dosbox will config and calibrate your joystick. :ok:
[/b][/quote]

works great now, thx.

[Maramil]

This game is great... I even have it on my phone LOL :bleh: (look at site Glu, Speedball 2 brutal deluxe (http://www.glu.com/games/game.php?game=speedball_2_brutal_deluxe) :bleh: )

[doc]

There are only 3 games is miss from my old Amiga (Projectyle, Speedball 2 , F-29). Projectyle is still my favorite with Speedball 2 a very close second. This is a great game!!!. Now i just need Projectyle and F-29 to be in video game bliss

[Guest]

I've just got this game on my phone, but it's got this odd start stop controls but brought back memories so i've got it working with dosbox, awesome game.

One way to score massive points - 100 or so is to get the ball through the loop de loop thingy and then curl the ball into the warp by throwing it along the sideline from above. So if you are playing up the screen go to the top right warp, go above it and throw the ball with curl into the warp, it hits all the stars and gives huge points.

[Guest]

I'm not too fond of this game, but it's still fun

[aqrub]

The link (http://www.abandonia.com/games/Speedball%202%3A%20Brutal%20Deluxe.zip) of the download is broken, could anyonne of U place it somewhere? :sos:
Thanks

[James Bond]

I love this game... but how do you exit out of it?

[aragon47]

I've found a quick and dirty solution to the controls issue if you're running SB2 in DOSBox using keyboard controls. When you've opened your DOSBox session, press CTRL+F1 to initiate the KeyMapper. Its a bit daunting at first but you can use the mouse to navigate the keymapper screen.

Simply ADD the following keybindings:

Make "Q" also = the UP arrow (or click on the Q key, click ADD near the bottom of the screen and press the UP arrow, for example)
Make "A" also = the DOWN arrow
Make "O" also = the LEFT arrow
Make "P" also = the RIGHT arrow

Just click the SAVE button when you're done.

Essentially, Q and UP perform the same actions and so on. Simply remove the key bindings when yer done.

If you'd rather use W, A, S, D where W = UP, A = LEFT, S = DOWN and D = RIGHT, then go for it! Choose whatever keys suit you.

Alternatively, use WinUAE - the Amiga emulator. That is a fantastic emulator!

Wow, playing SB2 again brings back some fond memories for sure1 ^_^

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to make it save in the league mode, I just keep getting told to 'insert disk' in Dosbox

[Tausney]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Sep 21 2006, 03:07 PM) 256481</div>
Does anyone know how to make it save in the league mode, I just keep getting told to 'insert disk' in Dosbox
[/b]

I'm getting the exact same here. Using DOSBox 0.65, even mounting my floppy drive to a: and putting a disc in does'nt do anything. How do you save?

[jg-eberhardt]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tausney @ Oct 2 2006, 07:28 PM) 258939</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Sep 21 2006, 03:07 PM) 256481
Does anyone know how to make it save in the league mode, I just keep getting told to 'insert disk' in Dosbox
[/b]

I'm getting the exact same here. Using DOSBox 0.65, even mounting my floppy drive to a: and putting a disc in does'nt do anything. How do you save?
[/b][/quote]

Try mounting two drives: 1. c: for the game and 2. point a:\ to c:\ for the saves. Works fine with D-Fend, and you don't need a floppy :ok: .

[Guest]

This is one of the best games i´ve ever played. Every time i started the game, i couldn´t stop playing, until i´ve finnished the tournament :)

Brutal Deluxe 4 ever. I even dedicated my DoW SpaceMarine Team to them :D

[kenriku]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(E.T. @ Nov 20 2006, 07:02 AM) 267667</div>
Try mounting two drives: 1. c: for the game and 2. point a:\ to c:\ for the saves. Works fine with D-Fend, and you don't need a floppy :ok: .
[/b]

Tried using D-Fend, mounting game dir as c: (drive type) and c: as a: (floppy type). Didn't work. Help please?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Because you're doing that wrong.
-t floppy SHOULD ONLY BE USED FOR REAL FLOPPY DRIVES OR FLOPPY IMAGES.
The way I understand the instructions posted by E.T., you should mount your game directory both as A and C drives.

[Guest]

Can someone post how to config d-fend or dosbox to save Speedball2?
The posts below doesn´t help

[The Fifth Horseman]

They already did, so stop whining and start paying some attention to what was said before.

[trikztar]

Fantastic game - countless hours I have spend trying to beat my frined in this...The ice cream yell has stuck with me ever since. Good times!

[Phillip]

Thanks for uploading & hosting the game!!!!
4 direction keys and one fire button - I cannot imagine to squeeze more fun out of this!
So many brilliant memorys and so much fun!
I just hope that they don't screw up the successor (just in the makings at the moment).

Damn, my fingers are bleeding & the neighbors are complaining about that yell deep in the night:
ICE CREAM!

YEAH!

PS: On the savegame posts: If the program says "Insert disk" I just confirm (pressing space) and it's saved. However, this is the only savegame I can make and it's absolutely enough anyway :-)

[Dave]

Ahahah! True, when a player was injured.....Ice Cream, Ice Cream! :brain:

[Laahustaja]

Playing this great game... In league mode. Just had got some good players, and I beat hell out of even some best teams in division 2. But then, 14 matches played, I finished 4th in the legue, and I get kicked out??? It just game over? How can I play second season with my team?

[Laahustaja]

No-one knows? :sos: Why did I get kicked out as I was 4th in division 2?

[Donners]

It's nice the computer version doesn't have the same bizarre mirrored face graphics that the Sega Master System did. :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Laahustaja @ Jul 30 2007, 03:39 PM) 301973</div>
Playing this great game... In league mode. Just had got some good players, and I beat hell out of even some best teams in division 2. But then, 14 matches played, I finished 4th in the legue, and I get kicked out??? It just game over? How can I play second season with my team?
[/b]

A remnant from its console origins, I suspect. If you aren't promoted in the first season, it's game over. Life's tough for managers!

[Laahustaja]

Hmmm... It's tough then! I'm too bad in this... Must try harder!

[Guest]

I remember a great cheat for building up team strength. When playing the first team, build up experience by making sure that the score is tied when the game is over. Keep replaying them all the while racking up experience points and trading players until you've got an almost unbeatable all star team. Then smash your way to Super Nashwan in the final!

[chumloofah]

Wow, this is a game from the time when games truly were games.
Spent ludicrous amounts of time trying to translate this one into RL.
After a couple of bloody noses and one poor guy weeping like the 6 year old he was I was forced to abandon the project.
:wallbash:

[boomshanka]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MagicDave @ Aug 8 2005, 11:24 AM) 140339</div>
I've never felt I had to comment on a game before... but I do now.

Get a joystick, get this game, then PLAY IT TILL YOUR FINGERS BLEED. This game is definately one of my favourite Amiga A500 memories.

It's fast, tough, addictive, sheer arcade fun.
[/b]

agree... big time - this game rocked .

apparently theres a SB3 out. . .. . . . . .. .

[Dave]

Never heard about it...
Maybe Speedball 2100?

Edit: It's out!
http://www.speedball2.com/

[speedballer]

Hi
I want to play this with 2 Players is this possible? I was not able to see a keyboard setting for this and joypads are not supported as i see it.

[speedballer]

Has someone the link to another version of speedball II. Perhaps the amiga version which one can play with WIN UAE, an amiga emulator?
The main reason is, that it might been possible to play there more seasons than one and been kicked when not been promoted or first in league one.

[dosraider]

TeH best link EvAh:
http://google.com

And Lemon of course, never heard of it?
There you'll find speedball, speedball2(imageworks) and Speedball 2: Brutal DeluxeCD32(Renegade) for Amiga.

[SB Fan]

Does anyone know why the 'get it' link sends me to a dead page ?? I click on it and it just says "forbidden"....

[TheChosen]

Download was broken. File name was wrong and all that. Just fixed it and tested; it should be now working.

[SB Fan]

Download was broken. File name was wrong and all that. Just fixed it and tested; it should be now working.

Gribble, thx Cosen, but it now says Not Found :S Any other ideas ?

[BranjoHello]

Interesting concept, good action, nice challenge -> :OK:

[Palocles]

I've been putting off playing this again because i've got no joystick but i recently decided to play a few 'Manager' tournaments. This is the only way i ever got into the 1st Division on Amiga, decades ago, buying all star players.

But Manager is so frustrating as the team seems to play like a bunch of retards. Then i tried a Championship and discovered there's no Manager mode and very quickly got used to those odd controls.

Now i think the keyboard controls are actually pretty good (considering) as they aren't bunched up and you can mash away at space with your thumb.

Some of these questions were posted a long time ago but i'll answer them anyway:
What happens when a guy is injured? You have to retrain him. Don't get injured, basically. You can usually survive a guy going down but you wont get many other upgrades for the team.
Why did i get game over when finishing in 4th? Cause you have to be 1st (or maybe 2nd) in 2nd division to be promoted to 1st division.

Now i have a question; How much cash do you get for each coin collected? I played one game, got a couple of coins but lost the match and only had about 200 credits in the bank. XC

Anyway, off to try crack into 1st Division again.

[vota dc]

Team Manager is impossible because to win you have to collect lot of coins from field. So the combo retarded (guided by AI) team and few money mean impossible to win.

Cup is very easy if you start against Revolver: 200 each coin!

[Funkmaster5000]

Despite of this being an old thread (which is scary in my opinion, I'll tell you why), I have to post something here, too!

I've just watched the Top 100 of all time video games (of course this is one of thousands) of a game magazine and the first entry was Speedball 2! And I was like, hmm maybe the guys on Abandonia have it and here we are! I'll go give it a try!

[waka]

Just tried my USB Competition Pro and it works really well in DOS Box. Sadly, the sound of the DOS version is nothing compared to the Amiga version. But I haven't been able to find a working copy of it online. The game always crashes if you try to play a game other than Practice...

[jamotide]

I had no problem with it on winuae, it ran fine and with a gamepad,too.