Supa wrote:It was confirmed on Muecas that the motion was completed...maybe it is done and only cut because of disc space?
No, it definitely wasn't disc space. Disc 4 is the smallest disc of them all; if you downsample the 15 minute Shenmue 1 summary video a bit there's enough room for all of the voice acting without any downsampling on that and you can still fit the whole thing onto a standard 80-minute CD-R. Back in 2002 when I made my own English Dub for personal use before there was a public AHX encoder that's exactly what I did. It was nice to go from 3 discs of partially dubbed to the final disc being fully dubbed. (Note that I agree the Japanese acting was better, but I wanted to try the Dreamcast version in English)
There was another interview somewhere where they said the section was cut because it didn't fit or wasn't necessary for the flow of the game. (Or something like that)