Hot Shots Golf 3

Hot Shots Golf 3
Also known as: Minna no Golf 3 (JP), Moduii Golf Hot Shots Golf 3 (KR) Developer: Clap Hanz Publishers: SCEI (JP), SCEA (US), SCE Korea (KR) Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: July 26, 2001 Released in US: March 2, 2002 Released in KR: May 16, 2002 This game has unused cinematics. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences.

To do: E3 menu and more potential Japanese leftovers. More regional differences. Revisional differences (US V1.01 and v2.00)

Hot Shots Golf 3 is the first game in the series to be released on the PlayStation 2. Interestingly, it is the only title in the series to not be released in Europe.

Japanese Leftovers

Japanese Intro Cinematics

In the Japanese version, if the player waited long enough on the title screen, the game would play a short cinematic with the game having 3 cinematics in total outside of the main intro. While these cinematics are inaccessible in the North American version, they are still present in the game's files. The cinematics are not present in the Korean version's files.

Intro 1	Intro 2	Intro 3

Ayaka

To do: See if there are more Ayaka leftovers, including any potential leftovers in the Korean version.

Ayaka was a character in the Japanese version who appeared in the menus and she could be unlocked by reaching the King rank. She shared her character slot with Nanako (who was replaced with Tiffany outside of Japan) as an alternate costume. While Ayaka was never intended to be in any other versions of the game, she does still exist in the North American version and she can even be selected in the base game in the V1.01 version. By going to the National Tournament mode and inputting the code R?d!n6MttmHT, the player can select Ayaka by scrolling through Tiffany's alternate costumes. Selecting Ayaka will still play Tiffany's select quote. Ayaka's name is translated in various menus which could suggest that she may have been planned to be playable in the US version at one point. While Ayaka can be selected, she does not function properly in game as she is invisible during gameplay (due to her gameplay character files being removed) and attempting to swing a shot will result in the game softlocking.

Ayaka cannot be selected in the US V2.00 version using the previously mentioned code as attempting to do so will result in the player simply scrolling through Tiffany's costumes as usual. However, Ayaka is still present in the US V2.00 version in the same state as she was in V1.01. Ayaka also cannot be selected in the Korean version as National Tournaments were removed.

Ayaka being highlighted in the US version.

Ayaka's bio is present in the US version although it is empty. All of Ayaka's hole animations can be played.

Ayaka's title when starting a VS match is not translated.

Debug Mode

Applying the below code will enable debug mode which grants access to a debug menu when playing in a game mode.

USA SCUS-97130 codes:

Master Code (only needed for cheat devices)
901110D8 0C0443DE

Enable Debug Mode
0033EB04 00000001

With the code on, press L3 to enable a debug menu when either fully on a course, or when you're in the top-down view of the course. This works in most modes excluding training mode.

(Source: Punk7890)

Course Debug Menu

This displays when accessing the debug menu from a course preview.

Text	Effect
COURSE	Allows you to change courses. Courses 1-6 are all of the playable courses. Course 0 can be highlighted but trying to load into it will crash the game as it has no data. Course 0 was likely a test course if it ever existed.
HOLE	Allows you to change holes.
SEASON	Allows you to change seasons.
TEE	Allows you to change the starting tee.
PLAY	Takes you into the game. The game takes you to the currently loaded hole, ignoring any changed options. In order to apply changed options, the player has to highlight any of the higher options when selecting.
MENU	Takes you back to the menu. The game will play the ending sequence of the mode played before going back to any menus.

Hole Debug Menu

This displays when accessing the debug menu during gameplay.

Text	Effect
DIRECTION	Determines the wind direction.
FORCE	Determines the wind strength.
CUP	Determines the hole position.
WEATHER	Determines the weather.
CLUB SET	Determines the club types used. In order to load the visuals for the changed club, the player has to use the "LOAD" option.
BALL	Determines the ball type used.
RESTART	Restarts the hole, taking the player back to their first stroke.
HOLE_OUT	Takes the player back to the hole overview.
MIRROR	Sets the mirror option for the hole
SHOT MENU	If set to on, after a shot, the game will bring up a sub menu where the player can choose to either continue, restart the shot, restart the hole or go back to the hole overview.
BGM	Sets whether the music is on or off.
AI	The game will shot a shot for the player when selected.
DRAW COLLISION	Seems to have no effect.
SPIN	Toggles extra spin for the ball.
VER DEVIATE	Seems to have no effect.
HOR DEVIATE	Seems to have no effect.
RND DEVIATE	Seems to have no effect.
PC	Toggles the player's character. Character stats will change when toggled but the player has to select "LOAD" to load the new character. Note that Ayaka cannot be selected on this menu (Ayaka is slot 15 but the menu cannot scroll past slot 14) and the only way to highlight her is to already be playing as her.
PC COLOR	Toggles the player's costume.
CC	Toggles the caddie. "LOAD" has to be selected to load the new caddie.
CC Color	Toggles the caddie's costume.
LOAD	Loads any newly selected character, caddie and clubs.
SOUND	Takes the player to a separate menu to listen to sound effects and voices.
CHARA	Takes the player to a separate menu to view animations.
TREE	Toggles trees.
SHADOW	Toggles shadows.
TRAJECTORY	When set to it, it triggers debug information about the players shots. It always display the strength of your club and the height of your last shot compared to maximum strength with no spin. When a shot is taken, additional info is shown on the ball's maximum altitude, its distance when it lands, its distance when it starts rolling and its distance when it stops. A graph is also shown showing the ball's trajectory.
GUTS VOICE	Seems to have no effect.
VS VOICE	Toggles the voices in-between rounds in VS Mode.

Sound Debug Menu

This displays when selecting the SOUND option in the hole debug menu.

Text	Effect
BLOCK	Selects the sound block to play sounds from.
BANK	Selects the sound bank for a sound.
NUMBER	Selects the sound effect from the given sound block and bank.
VSVOICE	Selects the VS mode voice clip for the character you are playing when highlighted.

Character Debug Menu

This displays when selecting the CHARA option in the hole debug menu.

Text	Effect
ANIMATION	Selects the animation to play.
MORPHER	Selects the character's facial animations.
CAMERA	Seems to have no effect.
VOICE	Toggles through the character's voice clips although it does not seem to function.
ALL	Plays the whole animation when selected including facial animations and sound.

Shot Debug Menu

This displays after a shot when the SHOT MENU option in the hole debug menu is set to on.

Text	Effect
NEXT	Moves on to the next shot when selected.
AGAIN	Restarts the previous shot when selected.
RESTART	Restarts the hole when selected.
HOLE OUT	Takes you back to the course preview when selected.

Trajectory Debug Display

This displays when the TRAJECTORY option in the hole debug menu is set to on. The first two options are always displayed while the following options are displayed after taking a shot. All options are immediately calculated when a shot is taken.

Text	Effect
DISPLAY 1	Shows the strength of the last shot without taking any extra factors into account.
DISPLAY 2	Shows the height of the last shot relative to a maximum strength shot with no spin.
altitude	Shows how high the ball flew in meters.
bound	Shows how far the ball went when it starts bouncing.
rolling	Shows how far the ball went when it starts rolling.
total	Shows how far the ball went rounded to 4 decimals.
GRAPH	The graph displays the trajectory of the ball when it is shot.

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Japan	US	Korea

The North American version received a new logo to match the game's changed name in addition to updated copyright information. The title screen in the Korean version is mostly the same as the US version although it lacks the information on the trademark of the "Hot Shots Golf" name. The Registered icon on the "Hot Shots Golf 3" logo was also changed to a Trademark icon.

Menus

• The book highlighting the continue option says "みんなのGOLF 3" (Minna No Golf 3/Everybody's Golf 3) in the Japanese and North American versions while in the Korean version, it says "Hot Shots Golf 3".

Japan/US	Korea

• The National tournaments exclusively uses Hirigana characters for its password system in the Japanese version while in the US version, the password system uses the full Latin Alphabet, numbers and Punctuation.
• National tournaments were removed in the Korean version.
• In the Japanese version, Ayaka will appear on the course select screen, regardless of the player's choice of menu character. As Ayaka is not present in the North American/Korean versions (nor does she have a replacement), the character who was present in the menus will appear on the course select screen.
  • Ayaka additionally had some dialogue and an animation when a course was selected. The base roster does not do anything unique when a course is selected in the North American/Korean versions.

Roster/Cutscenes

To do: Cutscenes differ between the Japanese and North American/Korean versions as a result of the changed roster.

The North American version has a completely different roster compared to the Japanese version with every single playable character and Caddy differing between the two versions. The Korean version uses the North American roster. Because of the different roster, every character has a different menu background and every cutscene differs between versions.

Intro

Japan	US/Korea

As mentioned previously, the Japanese version has three extra short intro sequences featuring the game's cast. These intros were removed in the other versions although they still exist in the US version's files. Additionally, the first six seconds of the first extra Japanese intro were incorporated into the intro in other versions.