Ok, I have a question/thought, and some of you are probably going to ave your head and tell me I'm stupid. But it seems like the community has made a lot of progress towards ripping models, extracting textures, and I saw even once a custom Sonic & Mario texture. Which leads me to my next question, games like Mario 64 people have re textured and done some really nice/crazy stuff with ([youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QUnokNHTrI[/youtube]). My question is could something similar be done with Shenmue, is it possible to update the textures in Shenmue to be of higher quality and or replace some models altogether? (i'm guess no on the later because no one has a way to export to that custom format??)
So maybe I will take an semi-educated guess and attempt answer my own question as to why this can't or hasn't been attempted. Someone tell me I'm right or wrong?
1. without access to the game source, the game's resolution is still only at 240x320 (maybe 640x480p with vga?), so any new textures wouldn't be an improvement? emulators such as nulldc only upscale?
2. I'm guessing higher polygon count models are possible, but require time, effort, and good method for exporting into the Shenmue custom format and again textures would still probably suck.
Just a crazy thought, would like to hear some thoughts, comments and discussion. (constructive please)