Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball • Hacker News Board

Love this idea. Golf and Tennis, too. I think the main challenge for other sports would be less access to near-realtime game data down to the ball and player position, etc.

Re: Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Post by kridsdale3 » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

PEDANT ALERT:

This is clearly 16 bit.

Re: Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Post by brownrout » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC

austinallegro wrote: post #20

This is brilliant. Can you make a sub-game, Streets of Rage II beat em up that you can play when the benches clear in a real game? Perhaps have Mortal Kombat finishing moves when the managers are fighting the umpires?

Ha! And when the batter rushes the mound. Jokes aside, like the idea of some interactive minigames between plays and innings...

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Post by THansenite » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:39 PM UTC

devrundown wrote: post #5

This is really cool! Would love a technical breakdown on how you put this together.

Agreed. As a developer, I'd love to see how this was done or if you have it out on Github.

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Post by brownrout » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

JMiao wrote: post #12

fun idea and gj execution, but the art looks like bad ai pixel art, at least on my screen. gives it that uncanny youtube music stream look.

Yeah because it is AI pixel art :/ But something also seems off with the AA right now. Going to try to fix. Then, maybe sponsor some artist-made sprites later if there's interest in the project.

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Post by vitorbaptistaa » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

Amazing project! I'd love to see something like this for the football world cup. Maybe a FIFA 97 style?

I wonder if some kind of filter would work or we would need some data source. Looks much harder given the fast-paced nature of the game.

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Post by ecommerceguy » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:43 PM UTC

This is great! Thank you for coming up with this.

edit- First 2 plays I watched are back to back homers. Go Royals!

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Post by tiahura » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

Awesome.

do the mlb streams flag a challenge?