Shenmue 2 Demo?

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Re: Shenmue 2 Demo?

Postby BlueMue » Sun Aug 28, 2016 1:11 pm

I have a demo from the Official German Xbox Magazine march 2003 and it has a Shenmue II demo on it. It's actually the featured game on that disc.

Need to take a look at it again to see what part of the game it contains.
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Re: Shenmue 2 Demo?

Postby BlueMue » Sun Aug 28, 2016 5:30 pm

Well, I finished playing through the demo. And I made a video of the whole thing while I was at it.

To keep it short, it contains the beginning of the game. From the intro until you get the bag back.
I made an attempt to leave the demo area to see if there's more on the disc.
If you want to see that and how the demo ends got to 21:45.

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Re: Shenmue 2 Demo?

Postby ShenGCH » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:06 am

Strange that they decided to fade out the music from 2:22 - 3:11 considering it wasn't that way in the Dreamcast version. I wonder what spurred them to do that :???:
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Re: Shenmue 2 Demo?

Postby BlueMue » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:13 am

This demo is running at 50Hz and because of this the intro takes noticeably longer and just runs out of music.
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Re: Shenmue 2 Demo?

Postby Yokosuka » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:34 am

BlueMue wrote: This demo is running at 50Hz and because of this the intro takes noticeably longer and just runs out of music.


Interesting. What thing does take longer? The music or the animation?
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Re: Shenmue 2 Demo?

Postby BlueMue » Mon Aug 29, 2016 11:49 am

The animation, of course. Everything is slower and you can feel it just by running around. I've never played either Shenmue in 50Hz so it felt pretty strange.

They didn't take any effort to adapt anything in the demo anyway. At the end is shows the US cover with the US release date. It even shows the ESRB logo when you start it.
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Re: Shenmue 2 Demo?

Postby Yokosuka » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:39 pm

BlueMue wrote: The animation, of course.


Oops, yeah I meant shorter for the music.

I remember Sonic on Megadrive. Apparently, the overrall game was forced to 50 Hz in Europe. That means the animation and even the music were slower. No one was aware until we discovered the US version years afterwards...

50hz still penalizes us nowadays as main of our TV channels are using 1080i 50fps btw.
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Re: Shenmue 2 Demo?

Postby BlueMue » Tue Aug 30, 2016 5:04 am

Yokosuka wrote:I remember Sonic on Megadrive. Apparently, the overrall game was forced to 50 Hz in Europe.

50Hz was a tough thing for the music in games back then. In the 16 Bit era they mostly got it sorted out but some games on the Mega Drive were still too slow. Sonic 1 is unfortunately one of them. I think it's because they had to produce tons of cartridges in a short time so the ROM is the same between the PAL and US.

The speed of the gameplay is a whole different beast of course. 99% of them were too slow but there are some rare cases where the developers did put effort into optimizing the PAL version. Thunder Force IV for example runs at the correct speed in 50Hz. Technosoft even optimized Thunder Force III in the same way, even though it never got a PAL release.
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