Shenmue Dojo

Hmm, maybe im just borking the binary.

If I remember correctly, some sort of low level hash check gets either done to the 1st read or ip binary.

I'll continue to stab at it.

BUMP.

I am still working on this mod.

Changelog to come when I have made more progress.

/jamess

Definitely looking forward to any updates. I am sure even that even if you don't succeed immediately you will find out interesting stuff to tweak or hack if you keep going. Keep up the good work!

Thanks!

Yup i have been documenting everything. Most of it is known already but a good portion of that knowledge isnt public!

So it will be eventually.

UPDATE: July 21st 2014.

So I made a ton of reference changes in 1st_Read and in some motion data files.

Ive gotten some weird results. Things like Ryo doing the wrong animation when buying a soda (kind of like LanDC's evi soda machine video). SO right now its a trial and error procedure. I am also working on finding differences in RAM when Wang gets on and off his bike to see if I can make Ryo perform the same.

One quick work around I am testing now is to see if I can get Ryo to trigger that animation of Wang getting on the bike.

Maybe Just Maybe, Ryo will get on and stay on the bike.

Also, some people are mad on Facebook that I do not provide any photos or anything about what I am doing.

I know that looks suspicious, but its just a matter of me being lazy and not caring to show it in action. Id rather spend that time developing the method itself.

So as of now we have three potential solutions.
1. Pivoting player control from Ryo to Wang.

2. Adopting Wang's animations into Ryo's user controllable AI

3. Swapping the motorcycle with a bicycle and tweaking the motion data of the motorcycle to make it slower and chain load Wang's bike riding animations.

Number 3 was my original idea that actually sort of worked. However, to dump Ram I was using a hardware method that busted my mother board. (Thank you to the moron on dreamcast.eu who cursed me out on that when it was his mathmatics)

Number 2 is my primary focus as itll make it as authentic as possible.

Number 1 is wishful thinking.

Both number 1 and number 2 require a good amount of hacking in 1st_read.bin

Kyodai! I actually found some useful changes from Whats Shenmue to the retail NTSC shenmue that might help this out. I might be combining the two files into one ultimate 1st_read to see if I can make my own potential loop holes in the retail version.

I swear to god I will get this working one day. Even if it takes a life time.

/james

I'm wishing you luck!

Thanks!

Riding the bike has been something I wanted to do since I first heard about it.

Also, I love bike riding in general so its nice to adapt that into my favorite world

The problem with this mod is that its just a pain in the ass to figure out lol. Shenmue is usually an easy game to work with since alot of variables are human readable when editing. Plus, we have an awesome modding base here, although it has died down somewhat since the early 2000's.

LoL your avatar. I actually know miley cyrus outside of her popularity career. Shes really not that bad of a person.

Update:

Continued doing code searching to pinpoint the correct RAM calls when Wang gets on the bike.
Also, working on motion.bin to trial and error out a solution.

Not too much is different from my last update. Just trial and error many many times.

Update:

Im setting the first alpha release for December 25th.

Post from Facebook:

Amazing Shengoro. I'm waiting this very mod.
You know, I'm having a lot of fun with you mods. I finally make one of my dreams true; go to the war ship in the harbor, lol.

thanks! lol

You can thank Giorgio for that one though

Thanks to him also haha ^^

Thanks for the update! Appreciate all the great this you to for the community!

Alrighty, as promised. Here are some teaser images of my new approach.

Custom debug value allowing for player to control Wang's AI. Here we have WanRyo about to hop on the bike.


Here we have the first camera pivot as the bike animation happens, that doesnt exist.
The model for Ryo/Wang disappears. I do not know why this happens yet.


Here we have the final camera pivot of WanRyo on the bike.


Here we have WanRyo riding to the end of Dobuita.


Currently, the bike floats and Ryo's model dissappears.

With this approach, I do not know if its fixable. But I'll keep looking into it.

For now, thanks for being patient.

/james

Would it be possible to just create a model of Ryo riding the bike? Like having Ryo on the bike be all one character and the wheels act as his legs sort of, of course that would look strange during A LOT of scenes, well it would be hilarious at least.

Imagine a Bicycle bound Ryo trying to find Chai and doing a kick with the wheels.