Shenmue Dojo

Hi Everyone,

I am here with yet another Shenmue mod coming.

A while back, I learned how to edit textures in Shenmue 1 and 2.

A big thanks to Ilducci for the lesson. He went out of his way to make a video tutorial for me, which will be uploaded to my youtube channel in the coming weeks. Thank you so much bro!

Anyway, out of respect for my Facebook group, Shenmue500K, I decided to make a version of Shenmue 1 disc 3 with modded textures showcasing key members of Shenmue500K and ShenmueDojo.

Its a nice nod to the community and a test of my hacking skills.

I hope to have it done soon.
Here is who is currently on task to be hacked into the game:
(Most people will just have their avatar in the game)
Myself as a poster and a NPC (Yup a NPC, hard to do but not impossible)
Corey Marshall
Lisle Wilkerson
Yama
LanDC
Kiyuu
A big tribute to Bysby
Kenny
South Carmain
Kiba
Mr Frozen
Ali Novin (He will be in the Arcade)
Adam Koralik (he will replace the Sega Batteries guy)
Norris (a fellow admin at 500K) (he will be on a poster in Fuku-san's room)
AXM
Ryudo/Bluecast (we had our beefs but I miss you bro)
Ziming
and many others from here and 500K

I'll also be working on incorporating the action of being able to sit, like in What's Shenmue.

Anyway, this is still in its hacking stage so I don't have much to show just yet.

Video Preview of a modded texture. Its upside down in this video, but I have since fixed that. This is Laura Elza Cosplay. She has a great Joy, Chunyan, and Nozomi cosplay.
https://www.facebook.com/LaraElizaCosplayer?fref=ts

Is it possible to replace the textures with bigger texture sizes (eg swapping 256x256 with 512x512)?

ReeceKun wrote: Is it possible to replace the textures with bigger texture sizes (eg swapping 256x256 with 512x512)?

I was told that it's possible using the shentrad tool

Right now, I am respecting the original file size of the textures to make it console friendly. But Ill be looking into this.

south carmain wrote:

ReeceKun wrote: Is it possible to replace the textures with bigger texture sizes (eg swapping 256x256 with 512x512)?

I was told that it's possible using the shentrad tool

ShenTrad tool's resizing capabilities only affect the MT5/MT7 formats. Map formats, such as PKF/PKS, are not having that luxury at this time.

The overall problem (in my opinion) with Shenmue Textures is that:
Shenmue 1 textures are too dirty
Shenmue 2 textures are too clean

Yeah I also noticed that S2 has some super sharp textures.

Interesting idea. If it is possible to replace textures then that would be great to make some high res videos, i mean some textures are ultra low res, replacing them with professional high res textures would prolly make the game look so much better. I take it the video tutorial for replacing textures is not online yet?

Master Kyodai wrote: Interesting idea. If it is possible to replace textures then that would be great to make some high res videos, i mean some textures are ultra low res, replacing them with professional high res textures would prolly make the game look so much better.

Yep! Some texture formats we can edit and some we can't. For those we can, I'm looking into it. I'm not much of a texturer but I can insert textures easily now.

Master Kyodai wrote:
I take it the video tutorial for replacing textures is not online yet?

Sorry for the delay.
Here it is! Thanks to IlduccI!

Here is the first test video of the mod.

The posters come out really good in this place! The cupboard looks a bit strange with photo textures.
You plan to cover other regular objects in the game like that aswell? Just takes some time to get used to that.

BlueMue wrote: The posters come out really good in this place!

Thanks!

BlueMue wrote:The cupboard looks a bit strange with photo textures.

Actually the cubboard is using the same texture as that door with the same poster on it. Change the door and it changes the cubboard too lol. I want to see if I can hack the map to give it its own unique texture.

BlueMue wrote:You plan to cover other regular objects in the game like that aswell? Just takes some time to get used to that.

Oh yes. I'm also redubbing the game a bit. But.... I'm thinking about just sticking to Shenmue 1 for this mod. This was just a test of the texture hacking technique given to me by Ilducci, which is on my YouTube channel.

Here is a new test video showing some changes to Fukusan's posters.

Update:
So.. Given my recent announcements, I am considering this project to be cancelled until further notice.
I just don't feel like working on this for all of this time is probably just a waste. I mean who would even play it? Noone tends to download my mods and im spending so much time on this.

Here is my final update until further notice.
A reskinned QTE Title featuring Alphaomegasin.