My buddy tried to bore me with showing off his custom minecraft world at the weekend. I guess I am just too old to be fascinated about his automatic doors in minecraft...

Don't give up hopes for a miracle. Tech has advanced every day since. So much pioneer work in Shenmue, sure SEGA licensed the CRI middleware for sound and video compression, but from todays view it is crazily expensive and time and resource consuming to write everything from scratch, the game engine, music formats and so on. Today you just license a 3D engine and add mp3/WAVE music and that's it. They even had to puzzle and trick a lot to have it fit on 4 GD-ROM. I think every day it gets cheaper and easier to make Shenmue 3.

I had given up hope on Duke nukem a decade ago. And then suddenly a miracle happened. Why not for Shenmue?

I used to wear the same model timex watch featured in the game. I can tell you it's overrated, the alarm works on metal pins in the face which sometimes works, sometimes didn't work. I used to use it to time when my laundry would be done with a cycle to go to the laundry room to retrieve them. I do like Timex watches, they are overall, very affordable and reliable. But this one in particular isn't exactly a home run. I am currently wearing this timex watch, but I have a collection of various wristwatches as it's kind of a fetish of mine. :P

http://www.timex.com/watches/intelligent-quartz-fly-back-chronograph-t2n700za

I'm surprised that nobody said the motorcycle... :-o


I got 2 of these. Not sure if yours was faulty, but for mine the alarm worked fine - just imho the sound was a bit of low volume. Like when i am drunk or stuff i simply wont wake up from some 30 second low volume beeping. But besides that it worked just like in the game for me. The battery really lasts like 5+ years, just like in the end the luminescent feature would lose much of its glow until the battery is replaced. Still a nice all-day watch but take it off before going scuba diving or stuff. The very fine sand of Ibiza still is stuck in one of my 2 models. Otherwise they are really general purpose.

Heavy rain was pretty entertaining. NAHMAN JAYDEN FTW! Just loved his ARI. Reminds me of my Virtual IO iGlasses.

And this is why S3 would be a great idea:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1Vo59478s[/youtube]

This one is more of an experiment, i wanted to see how the Hazuki residence looks like when i remove all Shenmue vegetation and place some of the Vue 6 standard plants instead.

Not impresive.
Wude's renders should be in the official Shenmue's videogames boxes :lol:


And large professional prints should be framed and shown in museums and exhibitions.
Okay maybe not super realistic, but that they got to Wikipedia in the official article kinda is a big honor. I guess it speaks for wude's renders if the wikipedia authors pick his pictures because they feel they belong to the most iconic and beautiful pictures representing the game.

By special request: The Dojo

Xiuyings room in 1080p. Still some minor errors, but nothing disgusting.

I wish i had a save game in nullDC near the tree, if you can get me one i can get you the render.


Zhangyou barber in 1080p:

Shenmue 2 renders are not out of question. Just provide me with a nullDC memory card file that has a usable disc 4 save (Beginning of guilin prefered). I lack the time to play through the whole game to get a capture. I am also not that good playing it on the keyboard.


Yamanose 1080p:


http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1275514684.jpg

Green market Qr. 1080p:

No you dont need a super computer, mine is a 300 Euro department store bargain.

And yeah kick these running kids away. How could they forget that feature?

Golden Quarter at night, 1080p. WIll need to adjust the fluorrescent sign intensity a bit higher for a good result.

http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1275557894.jpg

Game You, fluorescent lighting got terrible. 1080p

Yay, pigeon cafe 1080p...

Residence in 1080p:

THE CHEMIST!

Taken from Wise Mans quarter Chemist shop.

http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1331001869.jpg




The Arcade came out a bit glitched. Dart machine texture is broken and Vending machine is empty. Also some smaller glitches.

http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1331008762.jpg

I actually spent a few minutes with the chemist to upgrade some materials and lighting. His shop looks much nicer now. Ahhhhh and he didn't even say "thank you". XD

Yeah just gimme a nullDC savegame with that and imma do a render.


Meanwhile in the Yan Tin Appartments a young man with some letter in his hand shows up. Probably one of these landsharks...

As i said - gimme a nullDC savegame and imma do it.

I will try to play a bit deeper into Shenmue 2, but im not really good at playing it on a keyboard.



And here's a wan chai electrical store (Original materials):

Thanks Wude, superb save game.

Okay so here's the first snapshot of floor 2F of the Big Ox building...

http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1331135328.jpg


Still some smaller glitches in it. Interestingly the bodies have no reflection... that's because there is no reflection. Due to the programming technique this rooms floor is not reflective as it looks but rather semi transparent and there's an exact mirror of the room below it. No lighting/material adjustments yet in this shot.




Does anyone have a savegame AFTER the annoying dou niu fight? I'm especially bad at the QTE anyways but with a keyboard i don't stand a chance at all.

And finally my first portrait of Ren. Credits go to Wude for the savegame.


http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1331146471.jpg




Edit: And here's the old "Flowershop at night" scene revisited in 1080p and some minor glitches fixed:

http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1331162326.jpg

i might re-rip the whole heartbeats scene from "scratch" i guess.

Just finished rendering the flowershop at daytime:

If you got the gun, you can shoot Lan Di in Kowloon, when he escapes with the helicopter from the roof...

Woke up around midnight. Turn on the TV. Its actually like 8 am. Simply forgot to adjust the clock to Japanese time. Opening the fridge. Hot dog and beer. Hot dog goes into the microwave, beer gets opened immediately. Its cold outside. 7 degree celsius. For Tokyo that is quite low. Turning on some music. Tom Jones - She's a lady. Merry xmas to all of you.

Personally I'd not mind if the U.S. bombed them back to stone age and then makes a big parking lot from the country.

Convenience Store shoppers at night

Midland base camp 446. I felt it would be good to have a 2-way radio with a dynamo crank in case of a zombie outbreak. Well or at least if the batteries are empty.

Lol, when i read the title i thought it was about Senko Muramasa, the legendary swordmaker. But yeah I guess it's unlikely he'd be reborn any time soon...

MiTT3NZ wrote: Not into this kinda shit, but I'd like a couple of replica mirrors.

Offer on my Phoenix Mirror...





Well yeah lameness, not from Shenmue but from a chinese antique shop...

Lmao, well kinda accident i guess. I think they just wanted to show a "screenshot" of Shenmue to underline the article, my fault that i made that pic so much in-game alike. Well no claims by me, since imho all props go to SEGA/AM2, without them there would be no master K renderings at all. But yeah kinda funny since it's the 2nd case i know where some webpage reports about Shenmue and accidentially displays one of my renderings as a "screenshot". Well i take it as a compliment XD

I truly wish noone would ever change their name unless it is a real emergency. In my private forums i made a function so users can only change it once in their lifetime and admins are asked to only do it in truly acceptable emergencies. Just a stupid old man's own 10 cents - so disregard my opinion if you dislike it. But personally I usually have problems keeping track of who is who if people change their name often. In my forums i often had old members i simply didn't "know" because they changed their name and avatar on a regular base. But yeah prolly just my personal problem that i lacked time to keep track of all name changes. </rant>

Three best friends on vacation in Venice...

To be fair here - Ryudo is pretty right. There's not much that differs from the 90s VR helmets. If you had a 1994 Forte VFX-1 you get pretty much exactly the same thing, just better Field of View and resolution. And the current dev kit versions aren't even HD. But when the final version comes out in full-HD (or even 720p) I'd consider buying one, but yeah I have a big collection of VR Helmets at home, not saying it's for everyone, but Skyrim on the dev oculus already looked promising. I just hope the Viero drivers will soon support more games. I think Fallout 3 and GTA IV would be fun on these.

I've had VR helmets since the first "consumer" priced ones came out in the mid 90s. Seen their raise and fall. Back then they were pretty much gimmickery because the normal consumer could barely afford then, they were a bit impractical (Large, heavy, not portable) and few games supported them.

I think for the oculus it's pretty much the same. If they manage to bring out a kinda "universal" driver, like something that hooks onto the nvidia stereo driver or so then maybe it would have at least some support. Last time i checked the vireio perception driver supported something like 7 (in words: SEVEN) games, let it be 10 now, but that's not so impressive. I won't be an oracle telling you about the future of that device, but if it wanna have some they better get some decent game support soon.

If you regard it as a gimmick or not... I actually do. Most people do. And if apple or google would release it it would instantly be a "hit" not a gimmick. But yeah so far I wouldn't be surprised if I am among the very few buying that thing. The only fact thaat saves it here is that unlike 1994 Forte VFX-1 VR Helmet it is not supposed to come with a 2000 Dollar price tag. So maybe it will gather some fans simply because it will be affordable?

I'd like to see a comparison like "NullDC true 1080p Shenmue vs upscaled conversion box DC Shenmue". I'm curious if the difference is visible at all, so far the upscaled version looks pretty nice. But if you have a PC with HDMI out NullDC is maybe the cheaper solution although not always 100% glitch free.

Lmao, that GTA IV Ryo model really looks nice. Well seems Ryo is not really a good driver...

Kinda unfair, but if they "donate" a thousand dollars to a disabled person that also might enjoy the day a little bit (I guess they just need the disabled person at the entrance...) maybe it's not the worst outcome for them. Not saying it's great but at least the money goes somehow into the correct pockets here...

Couldn't resist to buy that Fujitsu F-07C. It's sold as a "phone" but actually comes with an Intel ATom Processor and runs windows 7. Smallest X86 Notebook ever made. Trackball, multitouch display, GPS, wifi, SSD, you name it. pretty cool device. Never had a computer that was sooooo small. Totally love it...

http://www.tankraider.com/userup/1370935306.jpg

I think maybe there could even be different approaches for the Bike mod. OK I'm mainly just guessing here, but possible approaches that came to my mind:

- Replace the Motion data from Ryos walking to the bike motion data. Not sure about the format in S1, in Shenmue 2 you have seperate .mot files for some motions. In Shenmue 1 i think the motions get switched in mapinfo.bin, quote from a Whats Shenmue mapinfo "FTLK: Set motion %d to %s 2"

- Maybe it's also in the 1st_read.bin, if you search the 1st read.bin of Whats Shenmue for "BIKE" you find a reference. Other references in 1st read i suggest at least looking at are "BikeRoot" (I think that might be the definition of the bike) and "Mo_HoldBike" (I think maybe thats the motion for sitting on the bike).

- Edit the motion.bin. Prolly the hardest part since that file is not really human readable. But the 1st read refers to it, i think it refers to hex codes for the start byte to read from if i understand it right.

Sushi bar near come over guesthouse

Nice idea, but a bit too much speculation for my taste. Would have been nice to see some real world background info about scrolls or mirrors (as antiques) instead of being like "I claim the mirrors are scrolls, too". I have many old japanese scrolls at my home and also some ancient chinese mirrors in my possession (Though the mirrors are made of metal, not of stone - as pretty much all real mirrors that the shenmue ones were based on). Personally I'd have wished more research and less self-made mythology. But oh well, if the majority of readers is pleased then i guess that's what counts. Still i like the idea, personally hoping for a stronger next issue.

Finally got married. Not always easy. But then again I'm getting too old to like the idea of dieing alone.

Thanks a lot. Nah dun think I will leave the dojo. I still gotta go to work and got some time to burn there... But yeah my wife is not really a Shenmue fan, actually she never played it. But well maybe she will. In Japan we played Ryu ga gotoku 3 on PS3 together. Well I did the fighting stuff and she translated some phrases from the thugs ("I feel like Ramen").

Ah well it wasn't meant to be harsh. Just my opinion. Well I probably have too many (real) scrolls myself to agree to the statement that they "symbolize an element of mystery and wonder within the world". Fact is that in the game they rather symbolize written knowledge as "learning" a new technique from a scroll is highly desirable during the course of the game. Another aspect of them as written knowledge is the one in the Hazuki Dojo (the decorative one) which simply says "Keep your mind as clear as a polished mirror". Although Shenmue 3 was planned to reveal much more magic and mysticism the original 2 games merely give a hint at the end of Shenmue 2. I also don't agree on the part that the mirrors must be read and understood like scrolls. That's a bit like comparing the scrolls to Hang on, I mean come on you also must master hang on to be good at it?

The real role of the mirrors would have been revealed in Shenmue 3 - but since the majority of users here does not like the "mystic & magic" touch i fear few people would like it. if you want a big spoiler of their real role then watch the Shenmue Online CG trailer. In a nutshell they were supposed to be remote controls for giant monsters. Ah yeah okay, i guess it's time to duck down, i can already see the beer bottles flying in my direction...

The whole notion of having things in common is overrated, I think. It may sound silly to anyone with an ultramodern mindset, but think about it: people used to fall in love and get married all the time without having similar interests in something as trite as entertainment . Yet nowadays -- ridiculously -- that seems to be one of the major things people look for.

We've grown as people together. We surprise one-another. We give eachother experiences that we both may never have had if we didn't meet. And we want to keep doing all of these things.
All of that is much more important than relating to eachother over tv or videogames.

Also what Rakim said.


Hell yeah, if it was about finding someone who got loads of stuff in common with me I'd better had married Ryudo or so. my wife doesn't like sci-fi, she doesn't like Action movies, she doesn't like Shenmue and she's not even into motorc<ycles or sports cars. I can't even tell what it's about, but i have a feeling OL expressed it pretty well already. Oh well all that plus good sex (30 seconds count, too!) and making each other laugh sometimes. Actually i think if my wife also liked Jagged Alliance 2 I'd be scared... 8-[