Just curious as to whether the bandwidth of the site is a major financial drain. I've noticed a lot of the image assets, particularly on the main site, but also on the forum, could do with being run through png crush, at a quick glance you'd probably save at least a meg of data going over the wire o...

nice find! Shenmue references are pretty rare, in regards to "many many years"... Outrun 2 did have a shenmue reference as well. One of the bars from Shenmue 2 featuring on a track. Can't quite remember the exact details at the moment, but it's on the kikizo forums if you want to look it u...

Technically, the Dreamcast wasn't a true 128-bit console. Still didn't stop it kicking the PS2s ass for ages graphically.

You're thinking of Joy City Entertainment (JCE). Chinajoy is an annual games event, sort of like E3 in China. no i am not thinking about JCE , i am talking about a big show in China , the last Shenmue Online appear was in that show It was directed to the second post down. He got a little mixed up o...

You're thinking of Joy City Entertainment (JCE). Chinajoy is an annual games event, sort of like E3 in China.

Stick PSI PHI in there, then Ryo can walk up to the arcade machine and say "wow.... i can't believe suzuki wasted his time on this instead of getting me out of that cave".

I don't understant why they made an entirely different domain than the one we are used to (smocn.com - which still has the "stay tuned" screen). In order to try and verify that this new site isn't a fake, i ran a few checks: It seems that the IP address of the new site comes from China, so...

-Ryudo- wrote:http://shenmue.planets.gamespy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33191

Yup, and MJQ Jazz Bar also appeared in Outrun 2.

Twist05 wrote:BORING.

Ok then, try picturing your face on each of the bowling pins instead. Worked for me.

Think of the bowling pins as representations of all our hopes and dreams...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76AJLRpg_AE

Sega Japan has offered insight into its current development plans, with a senior executive making comments that will both delight and terrify the firm's loyal fanbase. Speaking to Nikkei Business, Sega Director Hideki Okamura outlined that before the year is out, a 'significant title' would be rele...

Henry Spencer wrote:^

Another anonymous 'source' I take it? He may be fooled once again. :?

I dunno, he's usually right about pretty much everything. Said with certainty that VF5 was coming to 360.

Adam Doree says he knows that NiGHTs is on internal schedules for 2007 release on Wii, and also that the quote that started the post was from Sonic Team.

Thought that name (nl4m) sounded familiar... that's right! He had the excloooosive Shamoo III video.

http://shenmue.planets.gamespy.com/foru ... ht=#695699


Also,

nl4m wrote:that's it.. I'm leaving and I'm never coming back!

-June 2006

As Kiyuu said, it's still on Sakuragaoka's server.


The reason for the downtime has nothing to do with SEGA because (sorry for the caps)...

SEGA HAS NO CONTROL OVER WHAT YOU SEE AT SHENMUE.COM.

It is being hosted by forum member Sakuragaoka. Doesn't anyone remember the whole passport fiasco?