Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

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Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby dark1x » Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:56 pm

So I'm looking to run Shenmue II in Demul, which has become my preferred emulator, but this one game simply does not work and I've been unable to find a solution.

When loading various versions of the game, the same thing occurs - I get to the "now loading" screen and GPU activity simply drops to 0. The emulator responds to commands but the game itself hangs.

I've tried several versions of Demul and various plug-ins and the results are the same every single time. Thoughts?
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Re: Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby Mr357 » Wed Nov 23, 2016 5:59 pm

Where'd you get your Shenmue II .cdi/.gdi's from?
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Re: Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby dark1x » Thu Nov 24, 2016 3:35 am

OK, ended up solving it by simply mounting the game as a virtual drive. How strange.

Everything is working great now.
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Re: Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby GYO6161 » Thu Nov 24, 2016 5:28 am

dark1x wrote: OK, ended up solving it by simply mounting the game as a virtual drive. How strange.

Everything is working great now.

dark1x huh? You don't happen to be John from Digital Foundry are you? :D
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Re: Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby Sappharad » Thu Nov 24, 2016 12:37 pm

GYO6161 wrote:
dark1x wrote: OK, ended up solving it by simply mounting the game as a virtual drive. How strange.

Everything is working great now.

dark1x huh? You don't happen to be John from Digital Foundry are you? :D

His email address is exposed if you visit his profile. Unless someone made an account for him, it's him.

I was going to ask what kind of impact a re-release would have if you decide to do the DF Retro episode on Shenmue 2 before PSX and they decide to announce a remake/port, but I'm guessing if that happened since it would be a new game you'd probably give the new one a fresh analysis anyway. Either way, I love watching the DF Retro series so I look forward to the Shenmue 2 episode whenever it happens.
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Re: Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby dark1x » Fri Nov 25, 2016 3:22 am

Ha ha, yeah, I'm working on a Shenmue II episode. I don't know if I can truly do it full justice, but I'm trying my best!

I want to include Demul in the video this time, of course.
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Re: Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby GYO6161 » Fri Nov 25, 2016 5:23 pm

Good to hear! Can't wait for the vid. :P
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Re: Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby Martin » Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:08 pm

I fuckin' love DF Retro! Maybe have a look at some of the more bizarre graphical differences between Dreamcast and Xbox. Shenmue Dojo have some details about this, posted below.

http://www.shenmuedojo.net/new/extras/s2xboxvsdreamcast.html

Oh, and a modder called iyapol did something amazing (not uncommon on these boards), and introduced some nifty modern effects like depth of field and whatnot with a program called Reshade. I believe he was using Demul, but don't quote me on that. Here's the thread he made.

http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=50413

Here is one of his videos.

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Anyway, good luck with the episode!
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Re: Shenmue II in Demul - crashes on "Now Loading".

Postby Radar » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:38 am

dark1x wrote: OK, ended up solving it by simply mounting the game as a virtual drive. How strange.

Everything is working great now.

But still I'd recommend using an original GD-rom dump image with CHD plug-In to avoid potential problems that people like to blame emulator for.. and thats with games in general, not only with Shenmue.
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