LOL @ star wars newbies "ep 4 is dated" :lol:

But really though, ep 1 isnt as bad as people make it out to be. I personally think episode 2 is the worst of the prequels, 3 is the best, the prequels in general arent that bad to me either. I think some hardcore star wars fans pointed out certain things and brought down the prequels in general, outside of jar jar and the corny/badly acted attempt at romance in ep 2 its really not that bad imo.

I found difficult siting through episodes 1 and 2 TBH. If it wasn't for the brand name I wouldn't bother watching them at all. Now for episode 3 I revisited it recently and I actually liked it better than The Return of the Jedi. So to me Lucas finished strong in the end. Definitely no hate for the guy.

Hey guys we asked you if you had any questions for Corey Marshall and you let us know!

Here's the interview in it's entirety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jn4Oh-d2rc

Hope you enjoy it! We are looking to bring members of the community on to the podcast to share there Shenmue experiences... If thats something you would be interested in, let me know by leaving a reply and I shall PM you with details.

Thanks guys
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Did you guys know that every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes?

The topic sums up with the purpose of this is. Here's some pics of what I got. I hope all of you had a great Christmas.

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Ehm... the helicopter ran out of gas.

He's actually flying, that's why he has to grab the ladder, to keep the helicopter flying. His chi mantains the rope straight.

Yeah, and we won't get Shenmue III either.

Disgusting.

reptile wrote: Personally will play Shenmue 3 in ENGLISH to make life easier

With you 100% on that. I don't think I'll ever understand choosing to play a game with Japanese dialogue when you don't know the language, especially in the case of Shenmue, where the whole game is voiced.

I just played Yakuza 1, 2 and 4 at my friends and in my opinion IT IS NOT like Shenmue! It's an OKAY
videogame overall. What a bunch of noobers claiming that it's a spiritual successor. Such violent pound-to-pound combat that isin't even representative of what Shenmue's FREE Battles were. Kazuma cannot even control his moves and everything is bat shit crazy.

What! So after all this time, it's just an asian guy that beats up people and is set in Japan so somehow people believe it's a spiritual successor. I do not care about Yakuza story and find the game to have appeal for people without patience.I know that professional game reviewers claim it is spiritual successor to Shenmue but NO, WRONG.

You can hate on the English voice acting of Shenmue II (or I) all you want, but there's no denying that that version of Delin is superior. I'd never played the original Dreamcast version until recently, and was surprised by how dull and depressing Japanese Delin is. Even his grunts suck in comparison.

Hello everyone,

Thanks to the great work of dojo members Esppiral , Sappharad and others, we are now able to play Shenmue and Shenmue II in a proper widescreen format and with almost no clipping. Moreover, we are also able to remove the annoying black bars from Shenmue II's cutscenes.

So I made two utilities that can save you time when applying the widescreen/no clipping fixes and also to remove the black bars from "all" the cutscenes in Shenmue II automatically.

The first utility supports the EU version of Shenmue I and Shenmue II

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

The second utility supports What's Shenmue, and the JP version of Shenmue I and Shenmue II

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

Sample Screenshots:

http://i.imgur.com/J7QNvqp.png

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http://i.imgur.com/LwbaNI4.png

http://i.imgur.com/TK5WtZR.png

http://i.imgur.com/YVyNAv3.png

http://i.imgur.com/PjVj939.png

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

http://i.imgur.com/K50ZNRe.png

So I made a utility that can save you time when applying the widescreen/no clipping fixes to Shenmue I (game and passport discs) and Shenmue II, and the utility will also remove the black bars from "all" the cutscenes automatically.

The two utilities will work with any version of Demul, and they may also requires the latest version of Cheat Engine to be installed, so it's already included with the utility.

Here's a nice video tutorial on how to use the tool by BlueMue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ1Jfq61s6k


And another video tutorial by Ziming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKw029vkWqY

Download the utility for EU Shenmue I&II from this link

Download the utility for What's Shenmue and JAP Shenmue I&II from this link

Check the latest Demul build from this link

Please share your comments, suggestions and feedback...
Enjoy.

1. Pheonix Mirror
2. Wulinshu
3. Ryo's Clothes + Watch
4. Joy's Bike
5. Stab Armor Move Scroll
6. Terry's Necklace
7. Ren's coins
8. Demon's Triangle Move Scroll
9. Dragon Mirror
10. Tom's Hot Dog

You can hate on the English voice acting of Shenmue II (or I) all you want, but there's no denying that that version of Delin is superior. I'd never played the original Dreamcast version until recently, and was surprised by how dull and depressing Japanese Delin is. Even his grunts suck in comparison.
Shenmue dubs have so much charm.... it really makes me happy shen 3 is getting dubbed. a sub only s3 would have sucked imo.
Well, I don't think it would be a case of sucking simply because it lacked an English dub - many of us played Shenmue II that way and it was fine - but having English voice acting is definitely a nice consideration, as bad (though mega charming) as it may be.

It really makes me wonder how good the voice acting in Shenmue III will be, especially now that video games have evolved astronomically since the early 2000s and good voice-over talent isn't so few-and-far between nowadays. Add the fact that the direction might not be so robotic and emotionless as it was back then and we might be pleasantly surprised. Heck, Shenmue III might even give the most unknown voice actors their big break.

GYO6161 wrote: Now if you were on disc 3 and it was time to go home after a day of work and you don't have enough money for the bus, what happens? :0

Maybe Ryo is forced to beg in the harbor next to the homeless man.

The English voice acting isn't great. It's far from it, actually, but I don't really care. Playing Shenmue II in Japanese for the first time just didn't feel right to me. Corey Marshall just IS Ryo to me.

Corey Marshall FTW.

Can't stand reading subtitles, it's just distracting. Doesn't bother me when it makes sense for certain scenes or situations (Inglorious Basterds is a good example of this), but to sit through a film and having to read the entire time? No thank you. So obviously in a dialogue-heavy game like Shenmue, it can fuck right off. Dub any day of the week. Except match days, then everything else can fuck off too.

*PC/PS4

Just wide screen support, 1080P 60fps, optional timeskip in Shenmue 1, Japanese and English dub, and... ABILITY TO TRANSFER SAVE TO SHENMUE 3!!!!!!:) :):)

I also agree that voice acting for a game like shenmue is not cheap and I prefer just one dub.

But I don't think it'll be a smart business decision. If it was me I'll probably go with only eng, but I don't think this'll be the case.

I've added English subtitles to a quirky short VHS video that promoted the upcoming release of Shenmue. Requested by BlueMue.

It's voiced in Japanese by none other than that lovable rogue Chai. Interesting choice of salesman...

Edit: presumably the line about "no movies" is referring to the fact it doesn't use pre-rendered FMV clips (unlike many of the games back then).

https://youtu.be/83Uyc9WW0Ro

GYO6161 wrote: Has anyone reported any slowdowns on Demul. Im curious if Demul is able to emulate the dreamcast limitations.

I recently played through Shenmue II on Demul and never got any slowdown.

The only time Chai sounds a little sane, lol.
Awesome seeing this with subs even if its short.

I also can't help but notice that a lot of these prototype videos have higher quality sound effects even on a VHS source like this, like some sound effects sound clearer... i wonder if this is uncompressed audio data they were using for the promotion.
I would imagine so; they did the same with Shenmue: The Movie , did they not? I was always shocked by the difference in audio quality between the game and the movie. It was weird, but still cool to hear it presented in that way.

Ryo better be getting some coochy next game, or Ill be wondering.

Kuroioni wrote:

GYO6161 wrote: Sweet! let's see if Bluemue can do an English version of this

I actually have recorded the English version of this scene and will be uploading it shortly.

Here's the English version.

GYO6161 wrote: Sweet! let's see if Bluemue can do an English version of this

I actually have recorded the English version of this scene and will be uploading it shortly.

Photos of F4F's Ryo Hazuki and Lan Di statues together.

I've been going trough some hard ones, but every time life hits me hard, i just think of S3 coming and of those words from Tom, and i keep that smile no matter what life throws at me.
Yeah, i know this sounded corny but i wanted to say it anyways
His pickles are guaranteed to make you happy, too ;-)

I want them to continue in the same fashion as the previous games, I love them!

MiTT3NZ wrote: I sexually abused Megumi at the shrine. The kitten watched. Yamagishi-san joined in.

So that's how Yamagashi-san hurt his backside...

Not to be getting too off topic but i myself tried the undub of shen1 and it just didnt feel right. For me Corey Is Ryo and maybe its just nostalgia but growing up with shen1 in the us and shen2 on xbox, it just feels right. Tom/Ren/Guizang/Fukuhara, all of these characters just feel right for me in english and so i prefer the games in English.
I however always saw Shen 1 and 2 as equally great in different ways.

Same for me, sorta. Dub for Shenmue all the way, but I had the Pal version of Shenmue Il on DC long before I got the xbox version. so that one has to be subbed, feels right. Sorta like an old school Kung fu movie lol

Also, the "surprise" next to Astroboy and Shenmue III is likely to be an animation.

I have never bought the homeless man in the harbor the can of coffee, i even once got him the soda.... oops, yep I'm terrible ik.
Funnily enough, the first time I ever met him, I had absolutely no idea the vending machines even sold coffee - a combination of my lack of concentration and how hidden in plain sight they are - so I must have spent what felt like minutes scrolling through the soft drinks wondering which one would 'count' as coffee before getting him a Jet Soda or something, which he wasn't very happy about. It was only after discovering them by accident some time later did it all make sense. Now I get him a coffee every time.

The first time I had to sneak into that 'old' werehouse no. 8 to speak to Chen took me like 30+ times.

I remember just how frightening it was getting chased by guards and getting caught.

That old bigger ended up having to give me a map, it was really embarrassing lol
Same here, dude. I used to fucking dread that part every time I played because I didn't feel as if I'd figured out the solution for some time, but I could do it with my eyes closed nowadays.

The first time I played the game, I was never able to help the old woman find that person's house, primarily because I didn't have a complete grasp on the controls left.
Again, same here. Even though I now understand Sakuragaoka is really small and has a really simple layout, back when I first played the game as a nine year-old, it felt like a damned city I was lost in.

"Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep". The day has arrived!!"
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GYO6161 wrote:

shredingskin wrote: Same, but with more porn.

Sailor porn?

Only the finest!

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.

I put together some of the clips that were shared on twitter. I expect a full conference video in the coming days.

If you don't think it's worth the effort to keep trying new ways to bring about Shenmue III, then that's entirely your choice. You can retire to your cave and forget all about it. Good for you. Enjoy. But you have no right whatsoever to tell anyone else to give it up and that they should be embarrassed for trying. Be it for a videogame sequel or anything else in life. Shame on you for that.

I wish I could post more, but my brain has literally flatland. It did a while ago during the day to be honest. I am going to try and get some sleep, fly home tomorrow, and then sit and try to type out anything I can remember from the past few days. It was so crazy, I haven't been able to do what all of you guys have been doing all day, and actually digesting the new information and images, as well as going nuts about them.

One thing I can remember and can be open about, is that when the "surprise" part of the confrence happened, and Cedric brought Suzuki-san back on stage, and the video of the Shenmue tree as well as the interior of Shenhuas home.... It legitimately almost brought me to tears. It's the best video I have seen yet, and I was unbelievably blown away by how faithfully it had been recreated, down to the last pot and pan. That blew my mind beyond words, and it's the video that has filled me with the most confidence about this game yet.

Isn't it just wonderful how we can all come together and relish in the sweet fact that shenmue 3 is happening and that the brand is relevant. Incredible, this series is so special. There's no feeling quite like it :-)