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.
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