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Rusty's Real Deal Baseball

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Rusty's Real Deal Baseball is a downloadable free-to-play 3DS eShop title notable for featuring the ability to haggle with Rusty over the price of various minigames (though only down to a specific amount; still gotta fork out real money, after all). With the Nintendo eShop shut down, the rest of the minigames are no longer purchasable without any modifications.

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Find a way to cover the infamous Pappy route here.

Regional Differences#

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  • In the Japanese version, Rusty is named "Darumeshi" and has a much different design, with squinted eyes and big teeth. He wears a sweater vest instead of an orange T-shirt.
  • Rusty's wife, Mitzi Slugger, also has a different design, with more squinted eyes like Darumeshi's, as well as brown hair and a pink shirt.
  • Rusty's kids have designs that are mostly the same, save for a slightly different color scheme and...dripping noses.
  • Rusty's past mentor, Pappy Van Poodle, has a different outfit in the Japanese version, and is named Inuzo Toipu.
  • Instead of offering Rusty donuts in the international versions, the player can offer boiled eggs in the Japanese version. The Japanese version also has a unique animation for Rusty peeling the shells of the boiled eggs.
  • Nontendo is called "Hontendo" in the Japanese version and "Jintento" in the Korean version.
  • In the Japanese version, Mitzi Slugger runs a bar instead of a café.
  • The mailbox outside the player's house was changed from green to red.
  • There's a lucky cat in Rusty's store in the Japanese version; this was replaced by a baseball statue in the western release.
  • The boxes for the games are slightly different, with the characters on them having slightly different designs, mostly just color changes.
  • The landscapes for 'Bat and Switch', throwing sections of 'The Aim Game', and 'Quick Catch' are slightly different. The Japanese version has these areas overlooking a hill and a train bridge. For some reason this was changed to be overlooking a river. There are also cherry blossom trees in the original version.
  • In 'Drop and Pop', the head design which is the final tire you hit in each level was originally a daruma doll face.
  • Distances are measured in meters instead of feet in the Japanese version.
  • The T-shirt your Mii can wear has a black stripe in the Japanese version.