Well with nothing much happening around here… I guess it is safe to say that I’m going on a break to Japan for a few weeks… Clap Hanz hasn’t moved or budged for awhile but that may change in the weeks to come. I still hold my doubts because Famitsu usually would have some information about up coming games by now… other than that well while I’m in Japan I’ll try check out Tokyo Game Show… I’ll also probably pick up Japanese PSN credit so… If people are interested feel free to ask.
I’ll be leaving this post with some recent videos of matches I had with my rival/friend. Though my performance wasn’t the usual… he can put on a pretty good show too… 
Yes, they are both the same person… and yeah Dual Style player. 
Wasn’t so fun trying to get this uploaded… but now that I know, I will know what to expect from Youtube in the future…
This match was pretty funny, see I have tried to capture a few good matches with players who are interested in playing in them… well this was a randomly generated character match, the gear and setup are all generated by a script I wrote a long time ago for my trick shot rival when he was touring in the shadows. Anyway it is interesting what combos can come up, however we happened to get Jasmine and Toro… Canillo actually uses Toro quite regularly, the only part that ended up being random was the gear. Who uses Magnum Side or Pin Turbo?
Sadly I had to cut out a lot of rubbish shots or putts to fit it into the limit… This time when Youtube means 15 minutes, they mean 15 minutes… not 15:59 which you could do with the 10 minute limit and push it to about 10:59. It’s okay though cause the shots you don’t see are just putts or any shot that wastes time because the player is unable to win the hole anyway. Enjoy.
If you haven’t purchased the Mingol 5 Extras or Addons well it is now the 29th and the half price special is now over. On another note, I just noticed that the upload duration limit of videos on Youtube is now 15 minutes. This is enough for nearly a full match… Cool.
Guess I’ll be recording more matches again… No need to program my own video player just to have videos longer than 10 minutes now. How about a speed run? 
Nothing Special Happened… I was thinking of holding an event but was actually busy today. 
Anyway… It would have been nice if the brought out the cake for awhile… too bad I guess.
In celebration of the 3rd Year Anniversary of Minna no Golf 5, all the extra add-ons or downloadable content has now gone on a 50% discount sale for one week.
[Duration is from Japan time July 22nd to July 29th.]
I would have posted this sooner, but internet has been playing up all day long… Hardly could stay connected to do anything haha… If you don’t have any of the extra content, the whole package will cost you 3,500 yen. This offer is only available in the Japanese PlayStation Store and not available in the other regions that also support the Mingol version.
I’ve done a few minor updates to the site, there is now a Minteni Events Category and I’ll be doing some HTML5 experiments on the site to stream videos that are longer than ten minutes…
This was recorded last week when a rare friend logged online…
Over the course of last week there was many complains of the server disconnecting players, I experienced these issues also so it wasn’t just a small number of users. Anyway today there was an Emergency Maintenance that happened and the staff has posted up an apology for the inconvenience or grief experience from the 6th~12th of July. That’s all it says on the login screen…
So this weekend I hit another -14 on Chura Umi… but apart from that, I also hit three Albatrosses, only managed to keep two of them but the better looking one didn’t survive. Who knew that I would hit so many, really should record them before I hit more. Something is making me hit Albatrosses more than usual though, it has never been my strong point. Though I would trade all these Albatrosses for one really nice Homing Spiral… heh.
I’ll come fix this later haha… today is the 13th year since the release of Minna no Golf!
Today I set up my Shihiko.net site up again… I can’t remember how long ago was the last time I actually used that domain as a proper website, but I decided to make the site last week so I have an alternative area to write about Games other than Minna no series… Currently I’ve left registration off until I have time to design the layout and look of the new website, but if you’re interested in Game Development or the Gaming Industry related studies feel free to visit.
On another topic… Everybody’s Tennis on the PlayStation Portable is released today. As with tradition, the Everybody’s series reflects the Minna no series without having the weird redesigned character images on the cover.
Shihiko.net: [ Shihiko° × Game。]
- Shihiko : If I had I would have posted. I am not sure about the TGS thing, but I'll probably be going to it.
- reeja19 : Shi, have you heard anything about a Minna 6 announcement at TGS yet?
- reeja19 : Ya it definitely looks like a pretty rare shot
- Shihiko : Already checked it at youtube when she messaged me heh. Took her 5 hours or so which sounds about right.
- reeja19 : Rino made on, it's on hsg.com you should check it out
- Shihiko : I could try make one if you want
- reeja19 : Shi... Rino and I have been trying to find a video of a failed spiral that hits top of pin and ends up as unplayable. However, since we can't read japanese it is proving difficult, any help would be appreciated.
- Cabanon : haha yeah.
- Shihiko : stuff in the chat never stays around forever anyway, that's what the message boards are for. haha...
- Shihiko : Yeah the site moved, I couldn't be bothered restoring the chat
- Cabanon : some message disappeared here. (Latest Message 1 month, 1 week)
- Shihiko : If i have time, but mngp2 doesn't seem to stay connected well for me. I tried recently and kept getting disconnected or not syncing. Not sure if it was cause i tried to play match with a hsg player while using mng/ebg.
- Hikari : That time should be 3rd May, 10:30am at JP.
- Hikari : We are going to have an OT2 block party on 2nd May 2010, 9:30pm (EST), will you join, Shihiko? If you do, just simply login to hotshotsgolf.com and click on the chat room link. We sure will have lots of fun there.
- Shihiko : Yeah I love that court heh.
- yannzoo2 : Just got it, it was the garden lake one. In case it might some, you just have to go back to the mansion with Rosetta and challenge the driver.
- yannzoo2 : Unfortunately, I still miss one court... But I am currently perfecting the double exhibition levels...
- Shihiko : So you got all the courses? And also I reckon during testing they may have used the original models because it saves time while the others devs get the parts system set up.
- yannzoo2 : About the 1st screens, I had noticed those were Yuki and Erenoa, but the courts are definitely from the Portable version, or some that should have been there.
- yannzoo2 : Thanks for info, still one to get !
- pompom : «link»
- pompom : «link»
- Shihiko : yeah, you posted.
- Envisager : Indeed! Its all over the place, HSG.com too, thought it would be nice for us all to join together for the celebration!
- Shihiko : Well MusterBuster just posted it up on the official Euro blog... «link»
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