SMDzero wrote: Why will Shenmue 3 be cancelled on January 20th 2017?


Because when Donald Trump becomes President he'll crack down on anything to do with China.

Not to derail, but you're mistaken about that.

Picks up at 0:50, and is pretty damn good from there on. The MSX version is 17 minutes long, which is insane for a synthesized track. Unfortunately, it's not as good in my opinion.

It's here!

https://youtu.be/nOs3FX-29Fg


Media coverage
http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/03/fan-remasters-shenmue-the-movie-into-5-hour-long-epic-5921456/
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2016/06/03/shenmue-the-movie-gets-fan-made-remaster/209928/
http://agetimes.net/tech/gaming/fan-remasters-shenmue-the-movie-into-5-hour-long-epic/
http://www.gametoppc.com/2016/06/gaming-fan-remasters-shenmue-movie-into.html
http://hu.ign.com/shenmue/13059/news/eld-at-ujra-a-shenmue-filmet
http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/4/11858558/shenmue-the-movie-high-definition-full-version
http://www.gameplane.de/shenmue-remaster-von-shenmue-the-movie-veroeffentlicht/
http://n4g.com/news/1914461/shenmue-remaster-of-shenmue-the-movie-published
http://www.gamecrate.com/shenmue-movie-gets-proper-fan-remake/13744?hootPostID=738c94624bee5a411c809e8cb0751b4b
http://www.rebelgamer.de/2016/06/seht-euch-hier-shenmue-the-movie-in-high-definition-an/53376
http://n4g.com/news/1914461/shenmue-remaster-of-shenmue-the-movie-published?info=true

Old OP contents
I am pleased to present to you the trailer for my recently begun project-

Shenmue: The Movie Remastered


https://youtu.be/jGmwkT-bFLQ


I've always been disappointed by the original, and although I understand that they had run time and disc space limitations to work with, I felt that Shenmue: The Movie wasn't an adequate experience. I decided just a few days ago that with the power of modern emulation, I could remake Shenmue: The Movie the way I felt it should have been done, and in 1080p this time.


I'm happy with how the trailer turned out, but keep in mind that not all of the footage you see here is final. Certain parts of the game have given me some trouble, for example the "microstutter" you probably noticed in the Yokosuka harbor scene. I'm hoping to get every second of the 3-5 hour long finished product as perfect as possible.
Edit: Fixed the stutter in the harbor cutscene and uploaded a new version of the trailer (embedded above).

"Can I help?"

Absolutely! However, I will be doing all of the recording and editing myself to keeps things easier and more consistent. What I will need that I'm not sure I can do myself (not very well, at least), is assets like title and ending cards, a custom thumbnail, and probably a new font too. The one by David Brown that I used is nice, but it doesn't support numbers, so I couldn't use it for the intro text or credits. Besides these sorts of things, I'm completely open to any advice, compliments, or criticisms anyone has. This is about creating the best remake possible, not my ego.


As said in the trailer, I'd like to give a big thanks to BlueMue for his advice while I was recording this; David Brown for the Shenmue font he created which I used at the end of the video; Esppiral , Masterchan777 , and Sappharad for creating the awesome Shenmue I&II Auto Fixer; and the entire Demul team for making such a fantastic emulator.


Thanks for watching and reading! I'd love to hear your thoughts!

fittersau wrote: Dec 2017 is going to be such a busy period for franchises.. Avatar 2, Star Wars 8... Shenmue 3.

Star Citizen would be the real killer if it released within a month or two of Shenmue III.

Which has me thinking. Instead of doing a 3-5hr epic, how about adopting an episodic format? Perhaps that would be really interest for shenmue, and gives you a more succinct experience with plenty of minutiae as well.

That's a good idea, but I'd like to keep it as Shenmue: The Movie . If I did end up splitting it, I'd probably do three episodes (one per disc).

Edit: I found out what was causing that annoying stutter. It wasn't the emulator as I had suspected, but rather my recording settings. There were a couple of options that I thought didn't make a difference, but turning them off seems to have fixed it.

Double edit: Updated the OP with a fixed version of the trailer.

https://youtu.be/gPyQwN9YNgw

This thing is going to flop so hard. I wonder how much they've spent so far with all of the renames and redesigns.

Warren Spector just confirmed that he's going to be working on System Shock 3. Best knews since the announcement if you ask me.

https://twitter.com/Warren_Spector/status/700064673836564481

Posting a picture would be advisable, however I'm not sure if buying/selling is allowed here.

In any case, welcome!

I've been meaning to post this for a while. I'm a pretty active member on TheIsoZone, and am greeted by this every time I check the site.

http://puu.sh/ni4n7/6793acb986.jpg

Our favorite schizo Brosauce was around for less than a year and a half before he got banned (on Christmas day, in fact) and managed to rack up nearly 7000 posts in that time. That's 13 posts per day! I know he made another account there within the last year, but got banned pretty quickly. I almost feel bad for him since he clearly has some kind of disorder.

To my utter astonishment, I found about a dozen PC Engine games when I checked Half Price Books today. There were a couple I already had, and a few that didn't look interesting or playable with my limited Japanese, so I "only" walked out with 9. After sales tax the whole lot cost me just under $60.

What I don't get is why the weirdo who previously owned these threw out the jewel cases, but kept the plastic sleeves and manuals.

http://i.imgur.com/Ia9FX3i.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/xkHCQrN.jpg?1

I will probably finally take the plunge and get a SSD this year as the prices are coming down.
Any brand reccomendations Cost to Quality?

Samsung's are arguably the best, but among the most expensive; Crucial's are pretty much the king of price/performance; Plextor's are great, but a little more expensive than Crucial's I think; and Corsair (not sure if they even still make SSD's) and Intel are just stupidly overpriced. OCZ's were great with the Vertex 4's and Vector's, but like Corsair I'm not sure if they're still making SSD's.

Mushkin, Kingston, G. Skill, AMD, etc. are pretty much all shit tier (sorry to anyone who owns those).

Avoid older Sandforce (memory controller, not a make) drives like the plague.

Sonikku wrote: For those of you in need of a distraction from politics I present to you the first goat weapon's platform.



ISIS just got serious.

I'm surprised they'd risk losing one of their sex slaves.

I believe SSD consumes less power and emits less heat too?

Correct. Cutting out the motor which HDD's rely on allows SSD's to use just a few watts at most as opposed to about 10-30 on mechanical drives. The only advantages HDD's have are cost and mass storage (the largest SATA SSD is a 2TB from Samsung whereas consumer HDD"s can go all the way up to 6 or 8 ).

Soooo want!!! Please SEGA!!! http://i67.tinypic.com/16731iu.png

That's about what it looks like in Demul, which is very impressive in my opinion. I've been using it so much lately for my Shenmue: The Movie project that I forgot what Shenmue looks like on the Dreamcast. I pulled it out the other day to test the "new" CRT I just got, and now I don't know if I can go back (from Demul).

Why do people keep using spambots in this day and age?

Who's ever said to themselves, "That Nigerian prince needs my help! I don't need 3 million dollars and I sure could use a larger penis and hot young amateur milfs xxx" in the past couple of years?

Once I was in an Internet cafe and when I went to check my mail I'd seen the previous user hadn't logged out.

Not only was his inbox filled with all the "Hot Dating Singlez!!!111!!!" and bank transfer scam rubbish, but he'd actually replied to quite a few of them. I didn't investigate further before logging out but all I could think was "...they exist."

Natural selection 8)

I'll post my games in a bit. The problem is, they're all in boxes since I'm getting ready to move.

http://i.imgur.com/le5AQzf.jpg?1

The rest
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http://i.imgur.com/LdO72VJ.jpg?1

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http://i.imgur.com/CWYq6Xn.jpg?1

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Imgur album if you want a little context

Sega Saturn

1) Panzer Dragoon Saga
2) Radiant Silvergun
3) Burning Rangers
4) Fighters Megamix
5) Nights

Ones that I would loved to have included:
Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Virtua Cop 2, Deep Fear, Sengoku Blade, Mr Bones, Guardian Heroes, House of the Dead, Sonic R, Last Bronx

It's nice to see another Mr. Bones fan. That one is truly a hidden gem, even if it's a hard a son of a bitch.

Got myself one of these to avoid shelling out cash for a TurboGrafx 16 and its most highly regarded games. Works great for both regions and can play homebrews.

MiTT3NZ wrote: Don't have a 4k TV so not arsed.

That's exactly what most people are going to say. I'm curious as to who Sony is targeting with this.

Sonikku wrote:

Posted for OL because I know he's into that kind of stuff.

Then I bet he'd love this

Update!

http://i.imgur.com/uEoijsk.gif

After weeks of struggling with various recording programs and settings, I finally found a combination that I'm happy with, and as of today I've finished disc 1. I expect the next two to take 2-3 weeks, so before April is over I should be into the editing part of the project.

A couple of weeks ago, I had an idea which I'd like to poll you guys again for. Once I'm finished with the whole thing, but before I put it on YouTube and etc, I'd like to have a live premiere and stream the movie all the way through. What I'd like to know is if anyone would actually watch it.

PM me if you have any ideas or concerns. I'll do another update once I'm finished with disc 2.

Rakim wrote: This political season needs to hurry up and end already.
I had a dream about the democratic primaries last night.

WTF Subconscious!

Only 7 more months to go!

No luck contacting any friends or family of his? His website is still up, right? It's a stretch, but maybe someone could contact the host to see if they'd be willing and or able to help.

I see, it's just a blogspot page. They should still at least have his email address, if that wasn't already known.

What's the story behind the two images that were posted back in November? Perhaps Wude put them up? One of them is related to what he'd been posting back in April of 2014. Even if it's someone else, you should try to get in touch with them if you haven't already. I would expect them to at least know something about the situation since they presumably have access to Wude's blogspot account.

http://ichi-3dstuff.blogspot.com/

http://puu.sh/nDyyV/71a0f5bc0a.jpg

http://puu.sh/nDyDn/40526d4b6b.jpg

Nice story. Welcome to the dojo!

Natalia Poklonskaya

I barely got halfway through it. The acting was too cringey.

Update #3!

http://puu.sh/ogexm/366cbeb709.jpg

Yesterday I banished Chai to the depths of Yokosuka Bay, thus marking the end of project's recording workload. Unfortunately, I still can't give a solid estimate on date of completion or the final product's run time, but I don't think I'll finish before May. If I reach completion ahead of schedule, I'll likely make another trailer, this time with the real footage of course. As always if you have any ideas or recommendations, please let me know.

A guy over on TheIsoZone recommended this converter/upscaler from Sewell. He also made a video on it.

https://youtu.be/QlgRH62E11Q

As for a VGA box, I've been very satisfied with the $25 one I bought from Retro-Bit. Unfortunately, it's not in stock on Amazon anymore and it's $60-70 on eBay. I swear I got mine for $25 back in July.

I can make a .flac or .wav of it using my Shenmue: The Movie Remastered footage. I've been recording at 48kHz and 320kb/s, so there shouldn't be any quality issues. I'll post it by tomorrow.

Edit: Here you go. https://firedrop.com/4d8b3306b2984b03

Sorry, I had to.

Unless they're messing with us and hiding progress, I'm fairly certain that this means we won't see an announcement at E3. However, I can't imagine they would respond like this and then never follow up unless there's a really big "blocker" preventing them from doing so. I'll have my fingers crossed from here on out. [-o<

Jibby wrote:I hope they open up phone ordering soon for people who couldn't contribute.

They're "looking into it."

Finally got God Hand for a reasonable price, even though I should have bought it years ago when it was in bargain bins. Fuck GameStop stickers.

after translation you still need to activate it in the menu before you actually learn the move, just like you would any other scroll.

Actually, you can learn scroll moves without reading the scroll. Just go into practice and do the move; you'll get a "X has been mastered" message along with the iconic sound effect. It's no different from mastering moves like Dark Moon or Brutal Tiger, which can't be learned from a scroll or tutor.

From the outside, it seems like the vastly more logical option is to leave the EU, especially if Turkey is allowed in.

One is "racist," the other is "funny."

Final Update!

https://i.sli.mg/yJTssi.jpg

Fear not, for I have been hard at work for the past month and a half, and am finally finished! The official run time is 4:50:11 (4 hours, 50 minutes, 11 seconds), and the file is 28.4GB in size. As you can see in the image above, it took over 8 hours to render, even with my graphics card doing so. It's going to take an eternity to upload, but I should have it on YouTube by June 2nd in preparation for the 3rd of the month Tweetathon. I would greatly appreciate it if others would include a link to the video in their tweets that day.

I'll update the OP once I've finished uploading, but the video will remain private or unlisted until the 3rd. I plan on uploading a 4:3 version for people who don't like the 16:9 pop-ins, but I don't think I'll be done with that for at least a couple of weeks.

"So when's II coming out?" At the moment, I can't start on II because there's simply too many texture glitches. Hopefully, the next version of Demul will allow the increasing of the internal resolution like the build I used for this project. If that's the case, and it fixes most/all of the bugs, I will begin work on Shenmue II: The Movie, and the story will go on.

Thank you to everyone who directly or indirectly contributed!

It's feels wonderful to finally be done! Once again, thank you to everyone who helped out! (Knowingly or not)

Enjoy!

SMDzero wrote:Plus you can impress all the sailors walking around town in the jacket.. swiggin' sodas buying cheap toys and whatnot.

Fixed

Well guys I have great news. I am finally feeling well enough to start my new stage hand job here in Atlanta! I will be working the biggest venues and shows in the city, building the stages and environment for each show, and doing production where needed. Plus there is always the oh so very fun unique behind scenes stuff my eyes will get to take in that makes the magic of concerts and stage productions rock the faces of 20,000 person arenas! I am so beyond stoked to finally be able to do this again, my first show is R Kelly next saturday, im so happy and humbled to be back in the entertainment industry! :D

scratch all this. Im in the hospital right now with an ulcerative colitis flare. colonoscopy tomorrow, this to figure out if they will have remove my colon. im so i dont even know right now, just disappointed and all kinds of other feelings.

What an awful 180. I'll pray for you.