Season Two Allstars Blog

No honestly… I apologize for not writing anything on the blog in such a long time.

I have been really lazy. In the meantime a lot of stuff has happened, Ntreev has banned 1250 accounts – of which most seem to be Brazilians. Sadly some of these Brazilians seem to be totally innocent. A few friends of mine got banned in this wave as well. However I am not going to comment on this situation here.

In other news I have shot a -38 on White Wiz, which was quite amazing. The round a had a lot of messed up teeshots and 3 ppics.. so I would not call it perfect in any way. I also had a look into Nintendo DS development using DevKitPro and wasted some time for no reason. It was interesting.

Let’s move on to some news about KR and general Pangya development. It seems that the new course is being worked on under the name of “Oriental Panda”. The USA Season 4 client seems to be taken straight from the latest code base of the game and therefore included some major spoilers about the new course. For example all the NPCs are already there, including full textures and 3d models. I am too lazy to extract all of them, so I will leave that to someone more passionate.

PS: Also all of the place holder images for the new course are written in Japanese – this indicates that the main development of Pangya has indeed moved to Japan.

So last night I was interrupted by several IMs from ruri:

9:45:45 AM >> 200 man tourney
9:45:45 AM >> in 15 minutes
9:45:45 AM >> YOU MUST COME
9:45:45 AM >> YES?
9:45:45 AM >> QUMA 1 in 15 minutes
9:45:45 AM >> 200 man tourney

Of course I was really happy to see that, since these GM tourneys are rare as hell and the last 200 men tourney had awesome rewards like Fairy Wings for the Luck Award winner!

So we all headed off to Quma 1, first game filled up instantly. I did not get in, Ruri and Mygo did. About 5 seconds later both are complaining about being kicked from the room – the GM had decided to shut down and re-open the whole room. Sadly this time none of us got in since the room filled up all 200 slots in less than two seconds:

GM "200 Man" Tournament

We all waited hoping that the GMs would run another tourny when this one finishes.. instead we all got disconnected?!

See you later, Quma!

So we all were pretty happy, assuming that the tourney (along with the whole server) died and the GM would likely reopen a new one and we could all use our second (third?!) chance to get in.

Instead we get this in Pippin server:

GM Ticker

While the whole lobby was complaining about having received a quit from Quma server dying the GMs replied with this ticker:

We are sorry for the problems with the 200 man tournament. We have found a bug in the 200 man tournament system, which caused a malfunction. There will be no further tourney. The test has ended. Thank you for participating.

Testing?! Bug?! What the fuck. Honestly Ntreev, this one did not go too well. At least I am not pissed anymore about not getting in!

I researched these a while ago, very helpful when dunking or going for max pang with Beam Impact bonus. Also useful to tell if you need 7 or 8 spin on hole 15. I figured going by the Ntreev announcement “Sharing is caring!” – so here you go. Might add some more courses later.

Some people really have too much time on their hands, clearly I am one of those people. So here is my latest project:

Pangya 6i Calculator running on Rockbox

The whole thing is running on the totally awesome open source firmware for MP3 players – Rockbox.

This thing was actually a bitch to make since every change required a complete recompile of Rockbox, since all plugins have to be build in directly into the core. That is probably the only thing I don’t like about Rockbox.

It’s still pretty buggy and I don’t plan on actually using this, after all it was just made to waste some time. However, once Pangya Portable drops and gets popular with the girls, this will definitely help me to get laid! Yes! Either that or I wake up.. Hmm!

12:59:41 AM Rich: If I was a girl, I would do it to you

It has been a while since the last, a very long while since the last Blue Lagoon one.

Got it this morning without really trying:

Blue Lagoon -40 (Pangya Korea)

Just like on my Pink Wind -40 a few weeks (months?) ago I missed hole 1 again.. here’s what happend:

Blue Lagoon Hole 15 failure

What a shame.. but, oh well. -41 is next!

It seems Ntreev is putting a lot of effort into spreading the word that they now run Pangya. For some reason it seems that Hanbit did not yet transfer them the Pangya.com domain. So about two weeks ago Ntreev asked in a news post:

Please all go to Naver.com and search for “Pangya”. Then when you see the results please click the Pangya.Ntreev.com one, not the Pangya.com one. Repeat this when you can!

What a lousy attempt at SEO. Currently they are even running an event in which GM Rami chooses the best Pangya related blog or website. While this might actually be a nice event for those running Korean blogs about Pangya the actual reason for this is obviously to generate back-links.

In their newest attempt of improving their rank for the new Pangya website they have finally changed the watermark that gets drawn onto every screenshot.

But.. Oops.. Ntreev.Pangya.com? Almost guys, just swap it and its correct. Maybe this is not a silly mistake of not actually knowing their own URL? Maybe they want people who see the screenshot to enter Ntreev+Pangya into Naver to further improve their search rankings? Yeah right! Go and fix the watermark!

Seriously Ntreev, there’s so many articles, software and even hundreds of books out there on SEO. Do yourself a favor and read some of it. In the meantime I guess proper SEO will arrive in Korea around the same time when they learn to abandon IE6. See you all in 2019!

Here are some updates that occured during the week.

I finally improved my Ice Spa record! While this is one of those courses that I absolutely dislike playing I managed to shoot a -43 today with 3 missed strokes. Maybe one day I can still improve it further.

In other news we have found out that Korea does not seem to like the Hard Gay outfit for Max. If you use it and manage to get first place in a tournament it will not show the actual outfit but rather show a blank Max with plain white wife-beater shirt and his red pants. Whoopsy was not very happy to hear about this, since he just filled up his Hard Gay outfit with control cards.

I wonder if this is actually a bug or a new feature that Ntreev introduced. Who knows.. Ntreev does a lot.. especially putting the server into maintenance mode. But its all good and I will try to be patient.

So the other day I had finished the Korean event and filled up everyones hearts. Sadly it took me that long to realize that this stick is freaking annoying. It just looks plain weird and stupid. Not to mention that it just stays there even with the open mouth animations. What the amazing tongue skills?!

Seriously though.. I’m not going to wear this crap anymore. If a girl was doing this in real-life can you imagine how annoying it would be? I would probably have a hard time to resist giving in to the desire to slap her. Seriously, just eat the freaking stick already. This is just disgusting and annoying! Argh!

I made a -40 again, on KR and on Pink Wind this time. Sadly this is the first -40 since Season2, even before Ice Spa.

I missed hole 1 by a nike and got demotivated however the round obviously still turned out nice.