south carmain wrote: you won't see much differences with something so small, try replacing the ground texture with something high res to see real results.
as for running it on the DC if the DC can process high res textures then you would need to run the game through a modded DC that could run games from an SD card as each disc would become 5gb+
My thought here is not to use the dremcast at all, as we are clearly still limited by the 480p output no matter what. My thinking here, is how everyone talks about wanting a HD Version of Shenmue, or ripping the models to put in other games, or numerous failed attempts to recreate the game in a modern engine. Instead of all that, I just think it would be cool to just upgrade the game as much as we can using emulation (which should have fewer limits than actual hardware), lets make Shenmue on emulation look good. It looks like have the tools to do it. Textures seem like an good first step. Its a thought, I'm not a graphic artist, but I would be willing to help where I could.
Actually more the point, I sorta want to make a small pc, that I will hook up to my HDTV, and replay some my classic dreamcast games, in HD (or near it), but Shenmue, that's the one that deserves an HD upgrade.
to this(I got it from Shenmue passport)
and the result is below, don't forget to zoom:
