Theonik
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There's NullDC but it can be buggy with some games like Shenmue.
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Skies of Arcadia and Shenmue might be headed to XBLA/PSN
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Same here. Make it happen, Sega.
Vyse The Legend
Member
Skies of Arcadia needs to be a tweaked version of the GameCube one. Tone down the random encounters, please. It's the only flaw of the game, but it's a glaring one, especially since the title system is influenced by them.
Shadow Hog
Member
Take the GC version, use the audio assets from the DC version (no silly MIDI music here)... I forget if one version has better textures than the other, but if so, use those instead... yeah, the opportunity to make a "definitive" version is pretty alluring.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Grrr, stop bumping this thread with useless information! My aching heart can't take it! ;_;
You pretty much nailed it there. As far as I know, the GC version is the "definitive" in nearly every way sans the music.
GC version + DC audio. And put the VMU mini-game back in for a Wii U port.
east of eastside
Banned
Any long time DC fan selling their DC with these remakes? I'm really tempted but don't want to end up regretting it.
U n i o n 0015
Member
With no word of when/if these are actually coming out, I wouldn't sell them.
Has any journalist pressed Sega on the issue?
Has any journalist pressed Sega on the issue?
I remember people mostly complaining about draw distance/fog or something.
I won't sell mine even if these remakes surface.
When was the last time you watched Shenmue The Movie? The first game is great and all, better than the second as an experience but worse as a game. Hopefully if we really do get HD ports, they update it with the improved mechanics of the second game as a few other modern ones that would make them much more enjoyable.
On the other hand, its very much a matter of time before we get them (along with Sonic Adventure 2). Sega Dreamcast Collection ?
Believe...
Eh. The gc version of SoA was a terrible port. A few extra battles weren't worth the butchering of the sound, odd bits of censoring, removing most of the challenge and that weird clipping. - Never been crazy about seeing DC games ported. Almost like Sega is whoring them out to any system that'll pay. But then I've always been a little strange when it comes to the Dreamcast.
I've never heard about *any* of these things, sans the downsampling of the music, and I'm a pretty big fan of the game. The graphics were certainly improve for the GC director's cut (i.e., the characters actually have individual fingers now).
And there's way more than just a "few extra battles" in the Gamecube version.
Shadow Hog
Member
I wouldn't say it's mere downsampling. As I recall, just from comparing what I knew of Pirate Isle's music from a DC demo and Pirate Isle's music in Legends, the whole thing felt more hollow; like, the decay on notes that ceased playing was much more gradual on the DC version, and much more sudden in the GC version. Some kind of reverb, maybe? I dunno, I'm not a Music major, and it's been years since I've heard the GC version of the music, so...
Bucket-o-roadkill
Member
The music was absolutely horrible on the GC compared to the DC version, just a mess.
Reminded me of the early 90s where you'd hear some epic music on an Amiga game, then hear the PC version with an adlib card. Then your ears would just bleed.
Reminded me of the early 90s where you'd hear some epic music on an Amiga game, then hear the PC version with an adlib card. Then your ears would just bleed.
Games journalists are all camping outside Sega'a house with camera crew as we speak.
east of eastside
Banned
I recently completed Shenmue 1 and am about a 1/3 of the way through Shenmue II... Frame rate, load time improvements (NPC pop-in elimination for SII), anti-aliasing and analog control are going to go a long way improving the remakes over the DC originals.
It will be weird playing on PS3 having to input X O triangle and square instead of A B X Y (and seeing it in the lower corner of the screen all the time). Not sure if I'll be happy with that change.
Sega, plz don't use cheap looking font like a lot of HD remakes.
It will be weird playing on PS3 having to input X O triangle and square instead of A B X Y (and seeing it in the lower corner of the screen all the time). Not sure if I'll be happy with that change.
Sega, plz don't use cheap looking font like a lot of HD remakes.
Gillian Seed
Banned
The Gamecube version was much better overall.
Where was this confirmed?
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I'd do naughty things to get a home port of Daytona 2.
I always thought they were both MIDI, but the instrument samples were different, hence the disparity in sound.
Meicyn
Gold Member
On the subject of sound for the game:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36020843&postcount=220
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36020843&postcount=220
SkyMasterson
Member
I hate bumping this, but any updates yet? I guess if there was someone would bump this but you never know haha.
I own Shenmue 1 and 2 but I would kill KILL to play these in Widescreen/HD/Analog controls. Also having the games connect with each other would be fantastic...please Sega.
Also when is that Jet Set Radio HD coming out?
I own Shenmue 1 and 2 but I would kill KILL to play these in Widescreen/HD/Analog controls. Also having the games connect with each other would be fantastic...please Sega.
Also when is that Jet Set Radio HD coming out?
This is NeoGAF. Had there been any updates you would definitely find them in this thread already.
Dude, it has already been bumped not two weeks ago :/
As per the "new news = new thread" rule, I'm pretty sure you won't need to crush people hope&dreams once actual news come out.
toythatkills
Member
Yes, please SEGA...
And PLEASE, stop bumping this thread! Every time somebody bumps this thread, Lan Di kills a puppy.
Pfft, Lan Di's been waiting for Ryo so long he must have died of old age by now
Jet Set Radio HD is out this "summer", and I'm sure they wont talk about Shenmue or Arcadia until that is out.
Ninja Moomin
Banned
Just wondering if sega is shooting itself in the foot by releasing 720p versions of games at a low price on the PSN, when fans would go apeshit for a 'proper' remaster of Shenmue or Skies.... along the lines of Halo Anniversary.
I know I'd buy those in a heartbeat.
I know I'd buy those in a heartbeat.
toythatkills
Member
Summer of Arcadia
You would, but I wouldn't. I'd struggle to justify buying Shenmue even on XBLA knowing that it's telling a story that I will never get to the end of, there's no way I'd pay $60 for it unless it comes out at the same time as Shenmue III.
Exactly. Fans. Nobody outside fans gives a shit about Shenmue, and I highly doubt there's that many in the first place. And didn't Halo Anniversary slightly bomb ?
