Hi spud1897,

I am giving away a set of the Guide Maps through the Phantom River Stone twitter account that everyone is welcome to enter (closes 19 Feb 2018).



Enter here: https://twitter.com/phantom_river/statu ... 1619241984

Niowiad wrote:Shops were closed. Were the shots taken during holidays or something?

It was a weekday, but they were taken before 10 am so most of the shops hadn't opened yet (just like in Shenmue ).

Last week it snowed in Yokosuka! I jumped on a train to capture photos of as many "after the snow" Shenmue locations as I could. Everything looked remarkably like how it's depicted in the game. https://i.imgur.com/U5zDzpp.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OdhQzVh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3GP9kmT.jpg ...

Great stuff as always. Thank you for all the work! Thanks sand4fish - here's the latest batch! https://i.imgur.com/fxiveVDs.png Sightings Near Dobuita That Made a Shenmue Fan Look Twice https://i.imgur.com/uM47HAOs.png Sakuragaoka Park in Real Life https://i.imgur.com/y2EUvmSs.jpg Examining the 3 N...

The fight choreography was really well done, and the voice acting fitted perfectly.

Two questions for you; you mention that the game should be able to fit on 80min CDRs with full audio, does this full audio mean there will be no degradation in audio quality or must there be come loss in compression, and also will there need to be any compressing of textures in getting this to 80mi...

You can download it from the Yokosuka tourism website:
http://www.cocoyoko.net/news/shenmue.html

I was recently in Yokosuka, and found Dobuita, but couldn't find the Information Centers that had these maps. Thanks for uploading what the actual guide looks like. Hm, yeah they are not particularly obvious to find. I've seen a few people who had trouble locating the maps. I'll look at putting up ...

There is a glimmer of hope with respect to this: as part of the project work is being done on attempting to fit the revised Undub onto standard CD-Rs, while maintaining the original audio quality. I definitely don't wanna put any pressure on you guys, but is there an estimated time of delivery for ...

Blog post with some analysis of the new images at Phantom River Stone:
http://www.phantomriverstone.com/2018/0 ... shots.html

https://i.imgur.com/wdnW4jXs.png Interview with Yokosuka City | The Story Behind the Shenmue Guide Map https://i.imgur.com/eIXGJ8as.png Shenmue Master's Interview with Yu Suzuki | Gamescom 2017 https://i.imgur.com/JnCfGThs.png Merry Christmas 2017 from PhantomRiverStone.com https://i.imgur.com/u0nO...

Woah, member of the year! Thank you so much.

It's an honor!

An English translation of the interview is now up at the Phantom River Stone blog.

http://www.phantomriverstone.com/2018/0 ... iscay.html

Thanks mjq jazz bar.

(I can confirm I'm working on a translation of the second part & will update here once it's done.)

So in preparation of the new release... has anyone found a source of 99/100 minute cd-rs that work well? Besides the ones Nico0020 gets in Japan. There is a glimmer of hope with respect to this: as part of the project work is being done on attempting to fit the revised Undub onto standard CD-Rs, wh...