Shenmue I & II 16:9 & Black Bars Auto Fixer - Updated

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Shenmue I & II 16:9 & Black Bars Auto Fixer - Updated

Postby masterchan777 » Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:20 am

Hello everyone,

Thanks to the great work of dojo members Esppiral, Sappharad and others, we are now able to play Shenmue and Shenmue II in a proper widescreen format and with almost no clipping. Moreover, we are also able to remove the annoying black bars from Shenmue II's cutscenes.

So I made two utilities that can save you time when applying the widescreen/no clipping fixes and also to remove the black bars from "all" the cutscenes in Shenmue II automatically.

The first utility supports the EU version of Shenmue I and Shenmue II

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The second utility supports What's Shenmue, and the JP version of Shenmue I and Shenmue II

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So I made a utility that can save you time when applying the widescreen/no clipping fixes to Shenmue I (game and passport discs) and Shenmue II, and the utility will also remove the black bars from "all" the cutscenes automatically.

The two utilities will work with any version of Demul, and they may also requires the latest version of Cheat Engine to be installed, so it's already included with the utility.

Here's a nice video tutorial on how to use the tool by BlueMue

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And another video tutorial by Ziming

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Download the utility for EU Shenmue I&II from this link

Download the utility for What's Shenmue and JAP Shenmue I&II from this link

Check the latest Demul build from this link

Please share your comments, suggestions and feedback...
Enjoy.
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby Ziming » Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:59 am

This will save me a lot of time as I've been using artmoney to remove the black bars in Shenmue 2. Thanks!
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby BlueMue » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:05 am

Awesome! Especially handy because of how it removes the black bars. No need to use nullDC for screenshots anymore!
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby Radar » Fri Jan 15, 2016 1:03 pm

I glad there's better way now :)
Speaking of black bars, use this codebreaker code
Code: Select all
01160FF4
0000E100
to remove all of them on real console, isn't it great? Just one code!!! :D
Credits to yzb37859365 and S4pph4rad from http://assemblergames.com

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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby shengoro86 » Fri Jan 15, 2016 1:22 pm

Thank you!
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby Nankeiro » Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:09 pm

Radar wrote: I glad there's better way now :)
Speaking of black bars, use this codebreaker code
Code: Select all
01160FF4
0000E100
to remove all of them on real console, isn't it great? Just one code!!! :D
Credits to yzb37859365 and S4pph4rad from http://assemblergames.com




Could you please tell to the people new on this, like me, in how we could play the game in the Dreamcast with this code? How can we apply it? or do it? I really would like to know this! Thanks in advance!
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby Sappharad » Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:33 pm

Nankeiro wrote:
Radar wrote: I glad there's better way now :)
Speaking of black bars, use this codebreaker code
Code: Select all
01160FF4
0000E100
to remove all of them on real console, isn't it great? Just one code!!! :D
Credits to yzb37859365 and S4pph4rad from http://assemblergames.com


Could you please tell to the people new on this, like me, in how we could play the game in the Dreamcast with this code? How can we apply it? or do it? I really would like to know this! Thanks in advance!

There's probably better information in the Widescreen codes thread, at least I assume someone has posted something about it there.

You need the Codebreaker (or Xploder which is what it was sold as in Europe, or X-Terminator which is what it was called in Japan) cheat device. You can either buy this or find a copy online to burn.

Once you've booted the cheat device, remove the Codebreaker disc and insert Shenmue 2. (Or whatever game you're using codes for) It will detect the game and offer to let you add codes for it by pressing something. Just use the interface on the cheat device to add the codes you want, turn them on (they highlight in a different color when turned on) and I believe you press start once the game is selected to go back to the main screen where it will offer to save your codes to the VMU and start the game. Once the codes are saved, you'll just need to boot the game via codebreaker each time and turn the codes on. (I think it remembers the codes you had turned on last time)

It's not possible to patch the widescreen directly into the game yet if you want to burn a copy with the codes always enabled. (The black bars is a different story because yzb37859365 did that as an actual patch to the game code, whereas the widescreen ones are patches to memory.)

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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby Ziming » Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:36 pm

Will this auto fixer work with any version of Demul or only the latest release of the emulator? I tried it on version 0.7 alpha and it doesn't work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby masterchan777 » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:26 pm

Ziming wrote: Will this auto fixer work with any version of Demul or only the latest release of the emulator? I tried it on version 0.7 alpha and it doesn't work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

It will work with any version of Demul, as long as the executable name is demul.exe
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby funny-boy » Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:03 am

still waiting for shenmue1 & 2 jan ver fixer.
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby myshtuff » Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:41 am

Wow! Awesome work!
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby SheepheadCG » Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:22 pm

Hey guys,

This is great work! I am a noob when it comes to Demul but have managed to get the game running finally. I have installed cheat engine and have the Auto fixer running but cannot work out how to get it to work :$. Can someone please run me through the steps please.

I have tried multiple ways of doing it. Do I have to have cheat engine open? Do I do it all before I run the game, after I am on the Dreamcast hub screen? I'm so confused lol.I must be doing something wrong :(

Thanks guys
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby Ziming » Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:47 pm

SheepheadCG wrote: Hey guys,

This is great work! I am a noob when it comes to Demul but have managed to get the game running finally. I have installed cheat engine and have the Auto fixer running but cannot work out how to get it to work :$. Can someone please run me through the steps please.

I have tried multiple ways of doing it. Do I have to have cheat engine open? Do I do it all before I run the game, after I am on the Dreamcast hub screen? I'm so confused lol.I must be doing something wrong :(

Thanks guys


First make sure you install Cheat Engine 6.5 that came with the Auto Fixer. Then click and start up Demul without loading the game, after this open up the auto fixer and select the game you want to apply it on. Now you go back to Demul and load the PAL version of Shenmue 1/2. This is how I got it to work.

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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby SheepheadCG » Sat Jan 16, 2016 7:29 pm

Thanks a lot Ziming! Turns out I was doing it correct but the version of Shenmue 1 was not PAL even though the site listed it as that. Wow it does look great! Makes me even more interested to see what the re-releases would be like (if Sega ever pulls their fingers out).

Thanks again!
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Re: Shenmue I & II 16:9/No Clipping & No Black Bars Auto Fix

Postby BlueMue » Sun Jan 17, 2016 1:54 pm

I made a little tutorial on how to use the fixer and also play in 1080p.
The video shows Shenmue II running with the patch for a bit too.

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