Dolphy race guide

Hudson Gate Dolphy races have been running at JP, EU and NA homes for a while already so I feel urged to do a top post in this topic. The people at Hudson probably noticed the races were losing interest so they have made a major update in there. The update included an additional new race course and some new rewards. It managed to return the action back in there and space is packed with people again. That is nice of course but it also killed the old course races. I am trying to collect all the basic things into this post so you don't have to read through the whole topic to find them. I wont be going into the tactics, stats etc. in this post. You can read many different opinions about them in this thread and numerous other discussions in other forums. Just saying you shouldn’t trust any of the s.k.“absolute facts” you hear or read about, because there aren’t any. The thing is at least 50% random so just enjoy and have fun.

Voting on the winners

Everyone can vote for the winners by selecting the Dolphy they think is going to win the next start.
Voting (betting) takes place in the Hudson Gate Disk which can be reached by going through the gate marked with “R” Hudson Gate public space.
The happy Dolphy’s are singing (notes coming out) and will behave better in the race than ones unhappy or even mad.
Races start at :00 :20 and :40, every other is the default Challenge and next the new Star course (see the Entry times below).
You will receive 4 dolphy ornament rewards and two glowing horns eventually by picking the winners. They will come in random order so getting them all can take quite a few tries, any number of wins from 4 up (Winning Dolphy color has no effect what so ever in getting the rewards).

Raising your own Dolphy

By purchasing the Dolphy apartment you get the chance to start racing your own Dolphy’s.
You can own 3 Dolphy’s at a time and take them to the public races in the Hudson Gate once they are adults.
You also can start over with any of your Dolphy’s if you are not happy about them. You will get a newborn for replacement and can start raising it from the start (you can keep re-crating it multiple times until you get your favorite start stas).
You will get the next baby once the previous one reaches the maximum in its stats (30).
The skills can be altered by 1 point per day after they already have maximum stats by feeding them super foods.
You should keep on voting for the winners to get super food for your Dolphy babies wish makes them grow faster.

Dolphy Limits

Maximum sum of all skills is 30
Maximum of single skill is 20
Minimum of single skill 1
Newborn sum of all skills 10 (random combination of skills in ranges 1-8)
Adulthood sum of all skills 20


Food items

You will get super food for your Dolphy’s by voting on the winners in the races. It will speed up the growth of your Dolphy. Super foods will only last one feeding each, so you have to keep on voting to have them available for your babies. The Dolphy room also has auto feeder facility and will keep feeding your dolphy’s with the last skill food you have given it manually (the feeder only gives out normal fish so the super food must always be fed manually).

Normal fish
+2 for the juveniles (sum 10-20), +1 for adults (sum 20-30) / day



Super fish
Received for picking winners in the races
+3 for the juveniles (sum 10-20), +2 for adults (sum 20-30) / one day

Super fish will add one to selected skill for fully grownup's, but then also removes one from the skill witch has been increased longest time ago.


Attending in races

Once your Dolphy reaches adulthood (sum of skills 20) you can start racing it on the Hudson Gate. Sending it to race is done from your Dolphy central console through picking a suitable strategy for it and jumping to the Hudson Gate. Once you enter the disk, your Dolphy will follow you (given you are not too late for the race and Fortuna is with you). The race invitations stay active for hours and even in a case of restarting your PS3, when re-entering the Hudson Gate your Dolphy may pop in some start. The Dolphy’s are picked randomly by the game and you can’t be sure they will appear in the first start you send them. Note! Once your Dolphy has entered the race there is no way you can cancel it and it will race even if you get disconnected from PSN. Your Dolphy won’t score anything if that happens and it becomes just like one of the Hudson bots for that race. Event the owner name will wiped out of it in case of owner disconnection, and you can’t race it until the next day.
Key to success is to pick the right strategy and time when to send them to races. One good approach is to first go in to a race and have a peek at the competition in there. Only if the action in there looks ok for yours, should you send it in (You only have one go per day with it). Avoid competing against your friends if not your not trying to figure out who’s Dolphy is the fastest, because there still is only one winner in every start. It’s much better to take turns and vote for all your friends Dolphy’s when they get in the race (the number people voted for yours can be seen after the update).
Your Dolphy can only race once a day and the game will reset at 09:00 JST at the same time in every region meaning all the growth will happened then. Also resets your daily race status enabling you to race your Dolphy’s again, if you want to have a race free day for example.

Entry times (24/7)

Race disk opens :05 :25 :45
Participants selected :12 :32 :52
Races start :00 :20:40 two different tracks
Star course at:20 on even hours, and at :00 and :40 odd hours JST (Japanese time)




Rewards


Challenge Course

Bubble Dolphy Figurine random winning vote
Star Dolphy Figurine random winning vote
Metal Dolphy Figurine random winning vote
Striped Dolphy Figurine random winning vote

Dolphy Thropy 1st win
Bronze Crown 1st win
Silver Crown 3rd win
Golden Crown 5th win
Flame Dolphy (Animated skin) 10th win


Star Course

Glowing Horns (Blue) random winning vote
Glowing Horns (Red) random winning vote

Bronze Tiara 1st win
Silver Tiara 3rd win
Golden Tiara 5th win
Stealth (Animated skin) 10th win


Effects

Sparkle (Small), (default)
Simple Bubbles , (default)
Colorful Bubbles, (default)
Heart Marks, (default)
Sparkle (Big), 25 votes
Cherry Blossom Bubbles, 50 votes
Snowflakes, 75 votes
Fall Leaves, 100 votes
Fun Stars, 125 votes
Blue Flames, 150 votes
Waterdrops, 175 votes
Puzzle Pieses, 200 votes
White Feathers, 225 votes
Pink Butterflies, 250 votes
Dolphy, 275 votes
Dolphy Panels, 300 votes
Smoke, 350 votes
Colorful ♂, 400 votes
Colorful ♀, 450 votes
(´*(|)*') , 500 votes








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Dorufirumu personal space and Dorufiresu race manual

Hello

As many of you already know Japanese Home got nice Hudson Dolphin race and personal space update last Thursday. Many of us have been spending all our free time in there trying to make some sense in to the JP menu madness and collect the missing rewards.

Please feel free to post all helpful info on Dolphin race and raising you find in this thread so we have it all collected in one place.

Here for starters:

Basic information of the race are already available in many sites and you can always use google translator to translate the Hudson official pages found at:
http://www.hudson.co.jp/home/guide.html
and http://www.hudson.co.jp/home/dolphy.html

Basic idea is to bet on the dolphin you think will be the winner. There are 4 dolphin ornaments available for your apartments and they are given randomly to the race betting winners.

If you purchase the personal space you can start raising up your own personal dolphin, witch can then later take part in the public Dorufiresu -races.
Winning race rewards/ornaments mentioned above also gives you 3 different "Super food" for your own dolphin witch can only be feed to him once. At the start your dolphin is still a juvenile and can't do much else than swim and eat the food you provide him with. Later you can start training him for the races and customize the looks etc. I'm not that far with my own "ひ" dolphy so I can't go into any detail about those yet.

Translation of the personal space 7 page instructions can be found in the in the official US forum at http://boardsus.playstation.com Please go to :
PlayStation.com Forums - PlayStation®Home - PlayStation®Home General - Irem Festival Square Prizes (at page 542 if you have 10 messages / page)

Now to the confusing Japanese menus..
The only I translated so far is the all confusing (auto)feeding panel menu.

Dolphin Feeding:

スピードフイツシユ - Speed (Blue Fish) adds +2 for speed (+1 for adults)
The base speed of the Dolphin.

スタミナフイツシユ - Stamina (Green Fish) adds +2 for stamina (+1 for adults)
Stamina will decrease when going through each ring, this affects speed and it will eventually drop to zero.

シャープフイツシユ - Sharpness (Purple Fish) +2 for sharp (+1 for adults)
Higher value increases the probability of successful passage trough the rings.

Reward Super Foods (Stars shaped) received by winning bets at the Hudson Gate lounge “Dorufiresu”.

スーパースピードフイツシユ One time only Speed (Blue Star)
Adds +3 for dolphin speed
スーパー Super
スピード Speed
フイツシユ Fuitsushiyu (fisshu)

スーパースタミナフイツシユ One time only Stamina (Green Star)
Adds +3 for dolphin Stamina
スーパー Super
スタ sta
ミナ mina
フイツシユ Fuitsushiyu (fisshu)

スーパーシャープ フイツシユ One time only Sharpness (Purple star)
Adds +3 for dolphin Sharpness
スーパー Super
シャープ sharp
フイツシユ Fuitsushiyu (fisshu)


After feeding the Super “stamina” star I got a notification window with following text. It made me wonder if the content could have something valuable info. Here is rough translation I made using google etc. internet translation tools.

Original contents:
ひに本日だけ、 スーパース夕ミナフイッシュを与えま
す。明日からは、 スタミナフイッシュが自動で与えら
れます。

ひに本日だけ Today only collection day
スーパース夕ミナフイッシユ Super Stamina fisshu
を与えま す。 gift will increase growth.

明日からは As of tomorrow
スタミナフイッシュ Stamina fisshu
が自動で与えられます. Automatically given by.

Note. Only one portion of food will be counted for per day. So feeding it manually more than once has no effect what so ever. I assume the last food you feed him will stay as the active for that day?

Be careful not to delete you lovely dolphin by accident (happened for us all few times at the start). Its still unclear what menu combination does that so I only use the ones I know to be secure.

Regards, Satu

 

Hi again,

I had really nice surprise waiting when I arrived home tonight.. My dolphin is so mature now It has become adult during the day and I'm now able to start training it for the big races. Bye byes to my easy stat increases I'm not sure what is the ramp up to the adulthood, my "ひ" now has Speed 8, Stamina 6 and Sharp 6.

 

Some more info on the "Super fisshu".. You will still receive them from the race's even after the original 3 have been used and your dolphin has grown up. They just lose some power and only give +2 per day for your adult dolphin.

 

Small update on what we have gathered so far..

Everything might not be absolutely correct because some of the info was gathered from our Japanese friends and we're not able to confirm how correct they are.

For example the maximum sum of all properties your dolphin can have is 30? (e.g. 10 + 10 + 10 or 15 + 5 + 10 etc.).
This is not confirmed but I assume it to be true for now.

Racing

You can start racing with your dolphin immediately she is adult. The race is started from the main panel (the one you see straight in front of you when entering the apartment) by selecting your dolphin name and pressing triangle button of your controller. You then chose one of the 3 top items to enter the race from the sub menu. Its still unclear to me what they really mean but I assume you should pick the one your dolphin has best points on?.
Your dolphin will then exit the space and you should head to the Hudson "Dorufiresu" public space, your dolphin will follow you there. When you enter the actual game area trough thee 'R' -gate you will receive a information window telling you if your pet has been picked to enter in the next race or not. The request to attend to the races will only stay active for one hour so you will have to renew it if your dolphin was not picked to race during that time.

You will receive rewards and additional decorations from the races based on position and how many have picked your dolphin.. all of this is still unclear to me because mine only has done one start and no one (other than me) trusted in her


Note.. After racing you can't access any of the panels and menus in your apartment the same day. Please handle all of your training, feeding etc. for that day before sending her to the race. You can only race once per day so be careful to pick a good time for it (many friends on line there to help).

Here is rough translation of the Racing menu

スピード重視 (先行逃げ切る)
スピード speed
重視 importance; stress; serious consideration
(先行 preceding; going first; leading; going ahead;
taking priority
逃げ切る) to get away; to manage to hold on

ス夕ミナ重視 ( 後半勝負)
スタミナ stamina
重視 importance; stress; serious consideration
(後半 second half; latter half
勝負) victory or defeat; match; contest; game; bout

シャープ重視 (リングクりア)
シャープ sharp
重視 importance; stress; serious consideration
(リング ring
クりア) Kuri y

レース参加をやめる Stop racing

Have Fun

 

Lots of speculation here, but based on a discussion I over heard the other night, the disabled menu items are for your next Dolphy baby's. After raising yours to some set merits, witch are still totally unclear to me.. Maybe a certain number of wins? Getting the crown for yours? Attending to some set number of races? anything else I might have been missing?

 

OK confirmed now,
You will get a lovely dolphy baby once your first one reaches maximum level (sum of all properties 30). Getting her can take a while, I got mine some 6h after ひ reached her max. Welcome ハイホー (Hi-Ho), hope she gets to be at least as good as her big sis

 

Made translation of the race entry and victory windows..

When your dolphy is accepted to compete in the next star you will see small window (all in your menu color) popping up. It will appear in the actual race area when you enter it or just before the dolphy's appear if you entered it before the dolphy's are there.

Here is rough translation of the content:

ひがレ-スに出走します。
ひ Dolphy name
が indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
レース race
に indicates such things as location of person or thing,
location of short term action, etc.
出走 entry in a race; GP
しま 1: island;
2: territory
す nest; rookery; breeding place; hive


Note. No window or messages will be displayed if your dolphy was not selected to the current start.



Here is translation of the victory certificate:

優勝

Dolphy name

Owner PSN ID


ドルフイーの力スタマイズ
「銅の王冠」 を入手しました。


優勝 overall victory; championship

ドルフイーの力スタマイズ Dolphin -Customize power
ドルフィ Dolphy
のか Power
スタマイズ customize

「銅の王冠」 を入手しました。
「銅の王冠」 "The Copper Crown."
を入手しました。 Was obtained.

 

About choosing the race mode for your dolphy..
Nearly confirmed you should pick the one your dolphy has the best skills on. My stats: ひ 12-8-10 races:
Speed preference 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd. Sharpness: 6th 6th 7th. Might just be random or can it?

 

Resting times..

ドルフイーテストコース Dolphy Test Course

このドルフイ-は疲れているようです。 This Dolphy - It seems tired.
しぱらくゆつ Some Time
くろ休ませましょう。 Let rest back.

The day resets at 09:00AM JST (01:00AM UK) so you actually can race your dolphy two times in a row if you want, by doing it just before and after the reset time

 

My second dolphy called ハイホー (Hi-HO) reached her adulthood last night.. Shes still so baby, I don't expect her to win races anytime soon.

The ring game has changed from the first one for her and I think the limit of good mood (singing) is 80+ points now (at least 76 was not enough and 82 is).

 

Killed my "Let's go" (レッツゴー) several times tonight. Because of my neglect she had gathered too much of the all unimportant sharpness (10) while I was away on my last holiday trip. I now decided to test a new tactics of going all for the speed. After numerous (25+) "re naming's" finally got her to 6-3-1 start stats. Let's see how she does on only speed food. Go reborn レッツゴー