Backyard Soccer MLS Edition
Developers | |
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Humongous Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Infogrames | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 3, 2000 |
Mac OS (Classic) | October 3, 2000 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Cinematic camera |
Controls | Point and select, Direct control |
Genres | Sports |
Sports | Football (Soccer) |
Art styles | Cartoon, Digitized |
Themes | Contemporary, North America, Europe |
Series | Backyard Soccer, Backyard Sports |
Backyard Soccer | |
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Subseries of Backyard Sports | |
Backyard Soccer | 1998 |
Backyard Soccer MLS Edition | 2001 |
Backyard Soccer 2004 | 2003 |
Backyard Soccer MLS Edition is a 2000 children's association football (soccer) video game developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Infogrames. It is the first sequel to Backyard Soccer and the fifth entry in the Backyard Sports series. Unlike the original game, it features kid versions of several professional soccer players from Major League Soccer, as well as the teams that existed in the league at the time of release, plus kid versions of three players from the U.S. women's national soccer team who won the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The game also features some of the quality of life improvements from Backyard Baseball 2001, including the menus.
It was released for Windows and Macintosh on October 3, 2000.
The game has been out-of-print for years due to the expiration of the MLS and the players' licenses. It is unlikely to ever be republished due to all the players having long since retired from the sport.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail |
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | C:\Windows\hegames.ini |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game cloud syncing
- No save game cloud syncing information; you can edit this page to add it.
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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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).
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) |
Input
- The mouse can be switched between one button mode (left mouse button does all actions) or two button mode (left mouse button does passing and dribbling, right mouse button does all other actions).
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Keyboard only features two pre-determined layouts. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Required to navigate the menus. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Can only turn background music on/off. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Other information
API
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Pentium 166 | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Other | 4x speed (or faster) CD-ROM drive |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 7.5.3 | |
Processor (CPU) | 132 MHz PowerPC | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Other | 4x speed (or faster) CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ 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).