Update. Download link.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_v8TiFb835KUDVzSll0VWpOWDQ/view?usp=sharing

mirror.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/awld54696m4hc1a/widescreen.7z


Original Post.


Hi, I am just crazy and I can't stop getting involved in new things.

Right now I need help to test Shenmue II on Xbox, this is a quick and dirt attempt to make the game run Widescreen and/or at 720, hex editing the default.xbe.

I need people with a softmoded Xbox, an HDTV cable and if possible, an upgraded ram Xbox.

The goal is mainly to achieve propper widescreen support, 720p is a plus.

My setup is somehow a mess ( Xbox v1.6....) so my console hangs at the first loading screen. I could be either bad video config on my end or just that the Xbox ran out of ram, so that's why I ask for upgraded ram xbox to test, anyway anyone can test and post their results.

Here it is the default resolution.

http://i.imgur.com/QYM9F9z.png

And here the widescreen 853x480 one.

http://i.imgur.com/fEPMISe.png

As said my Xbox hangs at this screen and I need people with different set ups to test it.

Links

720p .xbe
https://mega.nz/#!lF42yRiT!mv4uM7Pj-si2b06awYkD5tZHqgzv4w-CFnExbRoTM4k

853x480 .xbe

https://mega.nz/#!BNggyRAR!zVLNE-CjTRswYEO7kpydTSz_d6DiZKP45CDd0lMFp2Q

Just drag and drop the default xbe on the root of the game and overwrite, remember to make a backup of your original .xbe just in case.

Thanks.

My PC died (definetly) some days ago... so no photoshop in this one until I reinstall it.



I almost lost all my data, thank god I recover some of it.

Thanks Fenix for the forklift-

Ok so......

Done!

4:3
http://i.imgur.com/54AmOoW.jpg

16:9
http://i.imgur.com/yFdU7DC.jpg

4:3
http://i.imgur.com/Uiu4KWS.jpg

16:9
http://i.imgur.com/kqBSELW.jpg

Sorry for the crappy "screenshots"


Things to note, the Hud is not scaled just stretched, other thing to know is that, in the same fashion as the Dreamcast version emulated with the Widescreen hack on NullDC, geometry outside the 4:3 will start to disappear, but in a slightly different way, for instance, if Ryo's hand/arm goes out the 4:3 on Dreamcast, his arm and hand will disappear, on the Xbox, only if the full character is out of the 4:3 area will disappear, so the effect is less distracting.

The images above are a good example, the characters outside the 4:3 area are still "complete" and not "broken" as it would on the emulated DC version, also the extra FOV is awesome!!!!


I must thank MarvelousMirth I was failing miserably trying to change the aspect ratio, without him this couldn't be possible.

Next thing I want to do is increase a bit the internal resolution, from 640x480 to 720x480, the game shouldn't perform any worse and we could gain a bit of sharpness.

Edit I forgot to add the link lol

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_v8TiFb835KUDVzSll0VWpOWDQ/view?usp=sharing

mirror.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/awld54696m4hc1a/widescreen.7z

Giorgio wrote: Incredible! What CPU speed you need in order this to run well on the original Xbox?

It runs fine on a default xbox, no need to upgrade the hardware.

It runs fine on a default xbox, no need to upgrade the hardware.

My brother wants to sell me a xbox. So since it is my brother, how much should I pay him for it? I can't afford too much. It is a stock Xbox, so I would have to mod it without games that could do it like 007?

I wouldn't pay more than 60€ for it.

About softmodding the console, I have no idea, a friend of mine installed the chip for me.

A few decent screenshots showcasing the new 16:9 aspect ratio.

http://i.imgur.com/ZukP0h2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qgEdGoR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aYMhVki.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/azxnnbH.jpg

Ever wanted to know whats behing the walls?

http://i.imgur.com/1uKtlD3.jpg

CATS!!!!

http://i.imgur.com/g7qaCiG.jpg

Wireframe hack.
link.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ouirrgkkuq9kl38/wireframeshenmue.7z

@DEVILLE_David

He will never get the recognition he deserves, just because most of his compositions are focused on the videogame industry, it is as sad as it sounds...

My fave compositions from him are To Zanarkand (FFX) A Return Indeed (LO) and most of the Blue Dragon Soundtrack.
He was my inspiration to start learning piano on my own, I did this ( A return indeed) cover some time ago, I love that song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhIoz7fDJQ

Shitty/old/ cheap keyboard sound, sorry xD

Yesterday I dreamed about Shenmue 3 :rotflmao: :roflmao: It was about that tech demo that Cedric tweeted about.

It started with a snowy place, showing the new weather engine, there were rabbits deers and other animals there, then the camera panned out, a lot of flowers in blossom and petals started to fly around the sky, in a beautiful manner, and suddenly it changed to a beautiful spring with green mountains and hills plenty of life.

A figure appeared from the distance, it was Shenhua, she was walking around the environment, she seemed very happy and plenty of life too, her outfit was different but similar to her traditional one, she was wearing a hat and had longer hair than before ( I know it makes no sense, but I don't have control over my dreams xD)
While she was walking she meet Ryo, our Ryo, it was the CG Ryo xD, and then when everything was getting interesting I woke up T_T

In my dream Shenhua's dress was gorgeous, I am not very good at drawing, but I tried to make a sketch of the basics.

http://i.imgur.com/vCYtkZL.jpg

Man I wish I could take a photo out of my Dream that whole thing was gorgeous.

Lovely cover

Raining.


I'll show myself the door xD

Hi! I am not very active in this topic, and I should.

I am still working on remaking some characters, since I've learned A LOT, since I started this journey with Shensun.

So I'll post the current State of Shenfua's model it has been remodeled almost completely!, I'll have to render the portratis again :rotflmao:

http://i.imgur.com/CS4CVef.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/R84fSTY.jpg

Finished!

And rigged!

I think Shensun is gonna like this.

Crazy amount of work to fix his neck, the result worth it.

Anthony817 wrote: Esppiral, if and when you do get it working, could you please show some video of it?

Done, this is the prologue



I'll post a short gameplay soon, still uploading to youtube.

Esppiral, if and when you do get it working, could you please show some video of it?

Done, this is the prologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93g42dzE48

I'll post a short gameplay soon, still uploading to youtube.

Nice! Are you using a 1080p upscaler as well or a simple VGA to HDMI adapter with that?

This offscreen gameplay was captured using a plain simple RGB cable :oops:

Ok, I will give a little brief of how I did achieved widescreen on Shenmue II with virtually no clipping at all.
First off I must say that it come with its own tradeoffs, I will explain them later.

Ok, so I took a different approach to make Shenmue II widescreen, instead of changing the 3d matrix, to expand the horizontal view I did the opposite, I changed it to expand the vertical view, in orther to achieve widescreen without cropping the image top/bottom, I used the camera zoom value to put the camera further away, since the game renders everything "inside" the zoom camera area the end result is the game running in widescreen with zero clipping.

Top original widescreen hack, bottom new one, notice how now everything is rendered on the right and left of the image.

http://i.imgur.com/qaISlMX.jpg
[imghttp://i.imgur.com/jNQeJFw.jpg][/img]
http://i.imgur.com/FBJUUE8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1pqzMz3.jpg

Ok now the tradeoffs.

Cutscenes are not affected by the ingame zoom value, so the end result, while widescreen, is cropping the top and bottom of the image, I've been looking for a similar value for cutscenes with no luck so far. Anyway we can remove the black bars in orther to have the whole screen filled with the cutscene so givin us the same widescreen as the standard game but without those awefull bb, again, bad news, it seems that removing the BB requieres specific values for cutscenes, since the game does not use an universal addres for the BB.

http://i.imgur.com/WLXrtkR.png

So the game will display cutscenes like the top righ image.

Another tradeoff is that the game will lag more on Dreamcast since it is actually rendering quite a bit more geometry than with the previous hack.
So this will come in handy for those tha want to replay the game in widescreen with no clipping.


Shenmue II pal (alternative widescreen/no clipping)
02311880---C3A00000
0227E198---35AA359E

Since characters no longer clip aoutside the 4x3 area I would recomend using the autofixer for Shenmue I, for Shenmue 2 there is no such a problem, the game won't clip (the hack behaves differently/better on real hardware though)

I love how faithful those screens are compared to the source material, furniture and even some mountains are placed in the same place







I love it.

Someone refresh my memory, did Shenhua's house had electricity in Shenmue 2?

That's something that got my attention when I was ripping shenmue II geometry, it looks like it has 2 bulb lamps outside, while the interior lamps do work with oil (or something else xD)

http://i.imgur.com/pylnXrt.jpg

At first I didn't like the Shenmue tree, but in motion... o god lord gorgeous.

@Thief

original


recreation


wallpaper version

I did a comparison between Shenmue 3 and Shenmue 2 assets. Hope you find it interesting.

Could this be printed? I can send you the model if you feel like it.

I've been asked how can I manipulate the ingame camera on Shenmue II, well since this is very usefull to rip game assets I will post it here so everyone can use it.

First you will need this cheat engine table, nulldc, 3D RIPPERDX and patience.
https://mega.nz/#!JIQWTa6a!_8ogL3RCdELnbdeX1Db6rJuYkof6HlcP_08WKGhZWcI

As many of you may know it is difficult to rip Shnemue II's assets since you can only rip what's inside the game's fov, everything else will be clipped, so to rip a full scene could take you up to 10+ rips and hours of headache.... so manipulating some memory addresses you can change that, it means you can rip bigger chunks of assets, (or play the game like an old GTA game xD) this is extremely usefull since there is no geometry extractor for Shenmue 2.

Let's get to work.

Make sure You have the latest version of Cheat engine, and you have the cheatengine table I've provided you.

Run Cheat engine, load the cheat engine table, Run NullDc, attatch Cheat engine to NullDc.

Load Shenmue II you should see the game as usual.

http://i.imgur.com/h3bzQnE.jpg

Change the field of view value to something like 52aa2aaa (you can try different values)

http://i.imgur.com/wyOe6zp.jpg


Now change the "perpendicular address" to 0000C000 this will prevent the rip to have the Z axis distorted and you will get a better view of what you are going to rip.

http://i.imgur.com/NZ6BrfK.jpg

Ok now put the camera as far away as you want by changing the address (camera up) to your desired value.

http://i.imgur.com/gCJJps3.jpg

Chek if everything you whant to rip is in place.

http://i.imgur.com/0pvjHQy.jpg

Import it to 3ds max and enjoy your "almost" perfect rip.

http://i.imgur.com/LAvIhmk.jpg


Some examples.
http://i.imgur.com/9y5U58O.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7I1QIfx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/P0gsICm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EItdW1G.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MIkbmc5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rO9hRC2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zAMUfg3.jpg


Cheers.

It is possible to make original Xbox games run at native 720p on the console, in fact this has been done already.

http://i.imgur.com/F3Dmqr2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TVdZlVj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0QZAtFA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aj40jYe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xlAcnna.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qaPQ5v5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/G5USVj5.jpg

But the compatibility rate is not that high, basically in many games the console will run aout of ram, if you have a 128 ram xbox you will have higher rate of succes, Shenmue II believe it or not, is very ram hungry even on an Xbox so it will hang at the first loading screen, if you have a 128mb ram xbox youu could try it and report the results.

http://i.imgur.com/4CsFXW4.png

https://mega.nz/#!ZAAUnSLT!aESDhxpHwgDAXt6V_uMK8n18q3QzuwojL8hw8hOnCuc

More than graphics I just want superb (facial) animations, I know that with the current budget that's not gonna happen but a man can dream.

Console manufacturers (sony) will charge Ysnet to publish on psn even a simple demo, so....

With all the resolution debate madness lately and the 4k debate....

PS4 neither Xbox One shouldn't struggle to run a direct port of Shenmue I & II at 4k, Sega should tweak some world and hud textures and make it widescreen, do a direct port, advertise it as first 4k console game ever.

Profit.

Does not look better than my average Psx game, don't know why it is releasing on an inferior platform, Metal Gear Solid looks miles better, imagin Shengmu running on the mighty Psx, that would be like real life grafix.

The project is till alive!

Kiske wrote: Is this an Xbox 360 on the left side of the TV screen?

Maybe they use it to run Shenmue II

I do see a Dreamcast on the table, close to the TV and a jewell case close to it, probably Shenmue I or II

also

I want to keep my expectations low, but they have skyrocketed since cedric's last tweet.

They have used my render for the splash screen!

I'll watch it later.

We just need the prologue sequence of Shenmue III shown at e3, starring Shenhua (updated model) in a beautiful forest with some incredible Shenmue soundtrack in the background while she says some heartbreaking chinese proberb.

Just like in the previous Shenmue games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-kBO9z370

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqxH8shaO_c

@Sonoshee I like your avatar.

Awesome Japan can be everything.... except awesome...

Something like this?




In cheat engine chage this

Code: Select all

2C27E100
00000000

This will place the camera behind Ryo, even on cutscenes, leaving to some hilarious results.

You can also play it in widescreen with this hack I did a while back.

TOMB RAIDER THE LAST REVELATION PAL UK.

Code: Select all

2CB75D08
3EC00000

(extra geometry clipping.)

His next video should be recorded using Reshade (SSAO, GI, DOF, Lens flare, bloom) when do it right it gives the game a new dimension, almost like playing a remaster.

I've been mession around with it an the Screen Space ambient occlusion alone makes the game 100% more beautiful.

Notice the contact soft shadows that Ryo ( and everything actually) casts to the environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwX51lRH2Xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-EfHPrI0o