Mana Games

[Left Foot Brake]

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CONCEPT
This mod attempts to combine some of the greatest tennis games into one. The platform that enables this is the brilliant TENNIS ELBOW 4 by ManaGames.

You will see tributes to courts from games from the past primarily from the Topspin and Virtua Tennis series of games, but some from others as well.
Coincidentally, both series officially stopped after 4 games, so the “5” in the title of the mod is in reference that this is a fictional continuation of these games. I took
inspiration from these games; the courts alone took a considerable amount of effort to recreate in a faithful way.

The fantasy “Virtua TopSpin Pro-Tour” is a combination of real and imagined events, incorporating Grand Slams, Elite League, The Gold Series, World Team Cup,
Pro, Pro-Am and Amateur Tours. You will see a large variety of tournaments you can enter with your pro, held on the 135 2D courts that are included in the mod.

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There are also many pros from Topspin and Virtua Tennis games included in the training club as practice partners. You will notice that they are wearing faithful recreations of the outfits in their respective games and even have the correct
racquet and string setup as they used in real life. It was necessary to create many new outfits for this so I kept going and made over 120 new clothing items for your
pro. There are also items kindly included from YoungSerif and Burned and members of the XKT Modding team. All credit goes to you!
There is even an entire line of clothing from my own fictional Tennis company “Code Violation”. All those designs are copyrighted, so don't get any ideas...

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There are over 100 real life racquets and 50 strings from many manufacturers included in this mod.. I tried to include a variety of racquets. From historic wooden classics, top-of-the line prostock customs through to the aluminium $29 job I bought from the local sports store (incidentally, that's not my current racquet; they are both included, though) Surely, you will find one that you like, or maybe own or have used in real life. Chances are you will probably learn about some new ones you didn't know existed; I sure did.

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The TE4 original sound has been overhauled with the gracious help and contributions of the XKT mod team. Without their kind help and permission to use
their work, this mod would not exist. I have attempted to add aural variation and timbre to the grunts and sounds and added a large number of umpires, again for
aural variation.

I made a new UI and included a soundtrack that should invoke old memories and create new ones. I also altered some of the menus, definitions and functions
within the game, as to give it a fresh and more natural feel.

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One notable thing would be the play styles. Here is the equivalent playstyles to the
original Tennis Elbow 4 versions;
Defender ---> Defender
Power Baseline ---> Baseliner
Puncher ---> Hard-Hitter
All-court Attacker ---> Aggressor
Volleyer ---> Serve & Volley
Counter ---> Returner
Counter Puncher ---> Counter-Attack
All-rounder ---> All-Court
Bulldog ---> Tactical

Thankyou very much to Mystery, Burned, YoungSerif and Fed1. You have all been of great assistance to me over the last few months with your support and advice.
Special thanks to Burned for playtesting the mod beforehand and basically eliminating some game-breaking glitches which I stupidly included.
Speaking of stupid glitches, there are bound to be some which I have caused. If you experience crashes, 99.9% certain it will be because I have messed something
up, so don't bother the game developer, it's my fault, not theirs. Speaking of the developer, thankyou very much to Manutoo for making such an
incredible piece of software and having the foresight and nobility to allow it to be modded to such depth. Tennis Elbow 4 is his creation and I really want to be
respectful of him and his community... which is why I am realeasing this mod and making all off it's components completely open source – if anybody wants to use
any of the items created, full permission is granted, just find some way to credit me if you can.

I anticipate that most people will think this mod is awful and I couldn't argue with them... I see errors everywhere.. but I made it as good as I could be bothered, but I
personally don't think it's very good. I feel I failed. and I am sorta lacking the motivation/inspiration to refine it any further so instead of just deleting it all
(which I considered many times), I will release it so others can at least see it and decide for themselves.

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My life has taken several turns for the worse in the past few months and I have been struggling alone in a very personal and private matter for a while now. I have
considered taking my own life many times in recent times, working on this mod has given me a distraction and temporary relief from these bad thoughts and
negative realities but now my time on it is over and it's time again to face reality.

Anyway, I hope somebody, somewhere enjoys it.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3rfdvmxhp64z14u/Virtua+TopSpin+5+by+LFB.rar/file

Left Foot Brake

– 2022

[chixudedunai]

This is my first time speaking on this forum. I have been following you since you were preparing to make this mod. Thank you very much for your labor during these hours. Thank you very much for making such a good mod.

[MaxiReturns]

Looks awesome! Thank you for your hard work

[Mystery]

Gratz for releasing it! You definitely put a lot of work into this as a solo modder so props to you. I still didn't have the time to check it out yet after you sent it to me last week, but will do so very soon. Best of luck to whatever's coming next for you.

[Burned]

Congratulation on such an achievement !
As I told you in private messages, your mod is incredible and I'm glad to know you've taken a great deal of pleasure making it.
I'll be spending some hours playing it for sure !

Thanks again
Burned

[noys390]

Great work !!

[anthologie]

i go to test this mod

Thx for you re work !

[FriedlandH]

Great mod. Can I give you a suggestion? Can you add more female grunts to the women's tour besides the men's tour?

Thanks

[Andynator7]

Hey Left Foot, this is a great mod! You should be proud of it. And even if things seem rough remember that they will always get better. Let me know if you ever want someone to talk to--seriously!!

[Gusbaldo]

I've just been playing with your mod and it's amazing! You were in all the details.
It plays very well, I like the speed of the game.
I love the menu interface and the music, for the first time I don't have the need to mute it.
I preferred to change the difficulty to elite but I understand the intention of the mod and it seems right to me that it is in arcade by default.

I don't know what else to tell you at the moment, just congratulate you on the great job you've done. I will continue playing it.

[Fed1]

Hey, I wasn't able to test the patch until today, and I've got to say it's really nice!! it clearly shows your love for the previous tennis games that you (and I as well) played growing up, it's vey a love letter for sure!!! I loved the detail of showing the players with the OG game they came with, and even with the proper outfits! You even added the SPT logo!!! and well done job with those courts! Cheer up as it's an amazing mod!! Most of us are just here to enjoy the content a very few talented people can make, not only you do this for free but it clearly shows you got talent!!

On a more serious note, I really hope you're ok and seeking out for professional help. You probably know this already, but your life is worth it! so please, fight back!! your work is amazing and everyone here is grateful for the tremendous work you put into this!!

THANK YOU!

[MaxiReturns]

You should upload your mod maybe on mod.io, makes fun to play it

[Left Foot Brake]

Hey Guys -
First post for a long time. As some of you already know, I have been struggling with some mental health issues the last year or so. I have been suffering pretty severe depression and anxiety. It got so bad that I deleted all my mods and work, not just on Tennis Elbow but on a variety of other games I have been working on for literally years. I have recovered a lot since that point in my life, but still battle with it (or the threat of it returning) every single day.

The good news is that I have got some stability and control back in my life, which means that I am might be in a position to do an update on my VT5 mod. I was honestly really embarrassed about it, a year ago.... but upon review I see that it is actually not bad.... in fact... it's kinda insane the amount of work that I did on making those 2D courts and things like, the 100+ racquets included in the mod.

So, no promises on timeframe - but I will try to patch the few bugs that were found in the original mod (not game-breaking ones, just silly glitches and thing in the calendar) and might do a bit of an update, maybe post it up on mod.io as suggested.

Anyway - hope to post more again soon.

[Fed1]

Welcome back buddy!! glad to hear from you and that you're feeling better! Like I mentioned the mod is great already and only a few little details to improve here and there, hope you can add a few extras eventually!!

[skyfuzzball8312]

How I can Install your mod, I subscribed to mod.io and didn't loaded into the game.