Ah yeah I was kinda shocked when I ran into up-zero in their other Japanese Saturn releases after getting spoiled by up-down in Saturn Devil’s Course. ; D
Don’t think I know about a special perfect shot power boost thing, is this just in the Japanese MD releases, or other platforms too?
That’s interesting about the ROM dates for the MD releases, so they had those all converted and then spaced out the releases as they thought best.
New 3D Golf Simulation: Pebble Beach no Hatou (Super Famicom 4/10/1992)
(ペブルビーチの波涛, which Google Translate says means “The Roaring Waves of Pebble Beach”)
(Came out for SNES in the US in the same month–and out in Europe the same year–as “True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links.”)
There is now music during play (it does get a BIT repetitive eventually) and the space around the green isn’t as weird (except in those small turns near the hole where the hole follows your view for 1 pixel…) as in the previous, first T&E Soft Super Famicom golf outing (“New 3D Golf Simulation: Harukanaru Augusta”). The greens are still pretty steep but the holes now suck the ball right in if it gets close. The beach cliffs are scary and aside from maybe three or so long cliffside holes in a row around mid-course that all feel a bit similar (and scary), the hole variety is pretty remarkable.
While the previous game had kind of abstract, dithery shapes as foliage, here they switch to the heavily hand-drawn style that if memory serves is used for at least most of the rest of the series–which is too bad because I thought the abstracted trees looked a lot nicer.
Caddie Dawg: “Nice recovery.”
Me: “Thanks, Dawg.”
There are two different lies in sand, I think depending on how hard your ball plops in there:
Some Wile E. Coyote physics after I finally flubbed a tee shot:
I was going through my pics folder the other day and found a bunch of screens from when I played through the fanslated Psy-O-Blade MD, so yeah, here those are, for some different T&E goodness:
Honestly, wouldn’t really recommend this game unless you like that style of Japanese adventure game that usually involves just click on the same thing repeatedly to get all the messages before moving on. I mean, it’s a cool game for that, but that is a pretty big hurdle.
New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki (Super Famicom)
Released 9/18/1992–it actually came out almost a year earlier in the States, as “True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club.”
ワイアラエの奇蹟 (Sega Retro) - “The Miracle at Waialae” (Google Translate). In Hawaii. ‘Waiʻalae means “mudhen water”’ (Wikipedia):
'Wai’alae is a Hawaiian word for spring water of the mud hen, which comes from mud hen ('alae) and spring water (wai).[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
In the 1830s and 1840s, the location of the artesian spring for the spring water (or wai) in Wai’alae was a closely guarded secret known only by an elderly couple. King Kamehameha III drank from this spring while visiting. During the twentieth century, the location of the spring became unknown.[12][13]
The wetlands in the Hawaiian Islands are a winter habitat for the American coot which is also known as “mud hen”.[14] The Hawaiian mud hen (or ‘alae), which is referred to in Wai’alae, is the endemic Gallinula sandvicensis and is a close relative of the coot.[5][15] Mud hens, moorhens, marsh hens, and swamp hens are closely related.’
Seems to play pretty much like the previous game, N3DGS Pebble Beach no Hatou.
There’s rain at one point (and a rainbow maybe after it–at any rate a rainbow shows up on some holes sometimes), not sure if it affects the play. The trees and backgrounds are a bit better drawn. There’s still some spacial funkiness when you get down to attempting fine aiming–and still some wild bounces off a green now and then.
No caddie names here.
