Stocke wrote: You mentioned cutting back on the drink too a while ago. Hows that working out if you don't mind me asking?

Definitely cut down on the drinking to help quit smoking. If you drink you can never really quit smoking for good. And if you can, you're a harder man than I..

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBkWmMawVzA&feature=share&list=PL248B4B877F6157AA&index=34

:king:

2Pac and Suge Knight playing Sonic 2 for Sega Genesis:

KUTSUNA Shiori

Don't get me started on Yura

Yura v Bora?




Yura

I agree, Thief.




Round 2


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@Crimson Ryan How are you liking the Z1 Compact? Looking to get rid of my iPhone 5S, but heard because of the waterproofing the Z1 compacts speaker isn't that good. Also any other disadvantages?
Cheers
Haven't heard any negatives about that from reviews. From my own experience, the speakers are loud and clear.

It's one of the best phones Sony have made so far. Perfect for one-handed use and doesn't fill your pockets. Don't think of it as a miniature Z1 because there's no drop in terms of specs. It's a Z1 in a smaller, compact package.

I've never owned an iPhone but I've used an iPad for the past two years and I'm already a bigger fan of Android than iOS.

Being a part of the Z flagship line it'll also be upgraded to KitKat. Also heavily integrated with Sony's ecosystem including PlayStation and Video Unlimited.

I got mine for £449 with a SmartWatch 2, but prices have already dropped under the RRP.

It's the big day today. Moving back to Japan.
Everything is in order. What an ordeal it is sell off, get rid of, cancel and move things when you're married.
I'll be leaving at midnight tonight. Be in Tokyo for a few days and then back down to my "home" town in Kyushu. Then finding a 1 or 2 LDK in a town outside Fukuoka called Yanagawa. That'll be my home for a couple years and where I work. Then ill probably move into Fukuoka city.

Thinking to do video's about my life and small things. Not the mostly pretentious kind you find on YouTube where they try to teach you about Japan but just more in general about what my situation is in life. Mostly for family and friends but ill probably post them up here too. Thinking of maybe doing one today. Just a short little thing in the airport to kick it off.

The final verse on Me Against the World>>>the rest of hip hop

Thought id share some pics ive taken of my home town Sasebo while im on the train to Fukuoka atm.
View from the train.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/03/ry4ypa5a.jpg

Pretty good ramen place I used to eat at alot back in '06-08
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This cat was hunting after a crow for awhile until it noticed me watching it.
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This guy was chanting for abit so I made him e-famous.
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Some classic "peace peace my name is kotaro" action.
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Why are you being such a jobsworth? It's not up to the regular members to ask for other members to be banned.

@Nahovil and AM2 Do youse guys actually listen to k-pop or do you just perv on the girls? If the former give me some recommendations bros. I'm starting to get into it a little bit.

And to stay on topic here's a picture of Hyuna:

Departure

Decided to get the galaxy note 4 instead of the Z3. The Z3 is a good phone but it was lacking behind spec wise so i thought if i'm going to get a new phone i might as well get the most up to date.

That said if anyone else is interested in the note 4 i would advise them to wait for a price drop. It may be a powerhouse but it is poorly optimised for most applications and the cpu starts overheating fairly quickly so i wouldnt recommend it to anyone living in a warmer climate.

Well anyway my final verdict will depend on how well it runs shenmue once i get reicast working. So far ppsspp has been horrible for 3d games so i'm nervous about how reicast will perform.

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Shenmue Dojo forum member aizen59 has recently conducted an interview with Yu Suzuki. Among the topics discussed are Shenmue's development, never before revealed Chiyoumen bosses and some other shorts stories.

Read full article

The article has also been published natively in French over at Retro Playing .

ROLA

The American video game website Polygon has published a new article featuring Yu Suzuki. This is just one of a 18 part series that looks into the Japanese game industry.

Polygon Article: Two hours in Yu Suzuki's kitchen

I noticed my list had a fair share of absentees. There's a lot of games from really great series I like quite a bit that couldn't break the top 10. So I'll try to post my favourite series:
1. Shenmue
2. Yakuza (except Dead Souls)
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Virtua Fighter
5. OutRun (especially the first and 2006)
6. Disaster Report-Raw Danger
7. Metal Gear Solid
8. Space Invaders (especially the first, '91, both Extremes and Infinity Gene)
9. Hotel Dusk-Last Window
10. MSR-PGR (especially MSR and PGR2)

So, comparing to the favourite games list, Shenmue, Yakuza and Raw Danger remain strong, the Virtua Tennis (only 2 is exceptional), Tetris (there are loads of bad Tetris games), and WarioWare (they're great but all too similar) series don't make the grade this time. Neither do oustees Far Cry or Age of Empires.
On the other hand, TLoZ, VF, OutRun and MGS (at least) make their due appearance.

UPDATE: THIS RELEASE IS NOW OUTDATEDD. PLEASE USE MY EXPLORATION MOD RELEASE!
http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=47225







Hi all,

I know I have been releasing a couple of these cdi files.

The last one with all of the beta maps was emu only since it was too big for a 99 min CD-R.

Well here is my answer to that. \:D/

This release is a version of the Shenmue Beta from Shendream with the beta maps now playable.

Credit to this mod goes to Wude, he did all of the hex editing. I am merely releasing this out to the public.


What does this include?
- The following maps are playable:
--Beta Yamanose
--Beta Sakuragaoka
--Wish Road

What can this be played on?
-Confirmed on
--Dreamcast Hardware (CD-R NTSC)
--DEMUL (Windows)
--NullDC (Windows)
--Reicast (HTC One Android 4.4.2 Rooted)

How can I play?
-Hardware
--Burn cdi as RAW DAO (burn confirmed with Alcohol 120%)

How do I load the Beta Maps?
-From Debug Menu
--Beta Yamanose
Continue NO/OFF
Scene 01
Area JU00
Entry 00

--Beta Sakuragaoka
Continue NO/OFF
Scene 01
Area JD00
Entry 01

--Wish Road
Continue NO/OFF
Scene 01
Area D000
Entry 01
Note: Run towards Mountains to get to the road

Note about beta maps
These were made playable by fusing these maps with their retail counterparts. Fusing map data to make it walkable.

These replace the maps, making the game unplayable. This is more for the purpose of seeing the beta maps yourself.


Enjoy Everyone! \:D/


Download Link:
https://mega.co.nz/#!CIlSwSyD!uQc6gaKE1kjugBMWTX3QaWnREkfxLvgbg6G2PETKT58

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A Shenmue documentary is currently in the works by Adam Sipione . It tells the story of the games history, its fans, and how it impacted the gaming industry. For more information visit their Facebook page and follow them on Twitter.

Shenmue: The Documentary: Teaser Video | Facebook | Twitter

Lazerhawk

Congratulations to BlueMue! He's our new Shenmue forum moderator.

Thanks Ziming and also Yama of course. It's a great honor to become a moderator and part of the Dojo team!
Now let's fight those spam-bots!

Shenmue brought an expectation for me that jujitsu had a lot of strikes on top of the throw oriented combat. Looking at jujitsu displays, that's not the case. It's mostly about throwing and grabs. I would like strikes too, but no jujitsu school I've found has an large number of strikes. In fact, I think jujitsu - and further, other japanese martial arts - just don't look appealing, which is surprising because the fighting style Ryo uses really appeals to me. I realize it's a game, but I was really interesting in doing something similar.

Old school Jiujitsu incorporated strikes into it, given that it originally came from the battlefield. The reason why the Hazuki style doesn't resemble jiujitsu is because it isn't jiujitsu. It's mainly a mix of various techniques of whatever looks visually appealing. As for Japanese martial arts not looking visually appealing, that's mainly because Japanese martial arts are pretty spartan in nature and are focused on maximum efficiency and no wasted movement.

Some of Ryo's throws like the uchimata, seoi nage(the basic B throw), and the tomoe nage (I don't remember the in-game name, but whatever the default <-B throw is) are straight out of modern Judo. The arm break throw looks like it comes from classic jiujitsu. The Swallow Flip resembles a classic Wing Chun move, though other kung fu styles practice it. I think there was a throw that looked like it came from Aikido, but it's been awhile since I last played and I could be remembering that wrong.

The striking techniques could have come from a number of styles, since many striking styles share the same techniques and only have minor differences in execution. Moves like the Mantis Chop and Iron Palm could come from various kung fu disciplines. The basic punches and kicks most likely come from karate and the more fancy acrobatic kicks are probably from Tae Kwon Do. The kata that Ryo showed Hanhui was definitely karate-based IMO.

The fight between Iwao and Lan Di isn't realistic at all and looks like something out of a Shaw Brothers film. However, if we wanted complete realism from Shenmue, we wouldn't have duck races.

I think the hazuki style mixes multiple disciplines. I'm no expert but it seems like it has a bit of everything.
Canonically, Iwao probably mixed in stuff he learned from various kung fu styles during his trips to China.

The original Shenmuedojo.com domain is now back with us again. Shenmue Dojo was created 15 years ago with this domain. In 2003 we lost ownership of it and only recently were we able to get it back.

Honestly. We all just want the next Shenmue or re release on anything with similar graphics to the DC.

ys wrote: Old school I tried out the URL and it felt a bit weird to type it again after all this time.
What is the plan regarding the domains by the way? Will .net be phased out eventually or will you keep both?

We'll keep both, especially since most of the older stuff is hardcoded with .net.

Xu Ying Hong.

Hands down my favorite character. Full of story, character, and voiced by someone i have much respect for.

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A Shenmue 3 Kickstarter has just been announced at Sony's E3 press conference! Let's make Yu Suzuki's dream a reality! Shenmue 3 Kickstarter Info site: http://shenmue.link/

Kickstarter Links: Shenmue 3 Kickstarter | E3 Kickstarter Reveal | Kickstarter Promo
Shenmue Fan Communities: Shenmue 500k | NeoGAF | Yu Suzuki's Twitter

Will we see nozomi and gui zhang at some point down the line? Is there 11 or 16 chapters? Who's the Jacky Bryant looking character in project berkeley and shenmue online footage?

Oh dude I suppose I should have updated this :lol:


Well first off, I am in a much better place! I patched things up with my best friend, and he in fact fronted me the money to hopefully make a pledge to the Shenmue Kickstarter.

I have also met a female, and it's been going well. Haven't pulled the trigger to become an exclusive couple yet, but we are not that far off having that conversation.

Also, we have Shenmue 3 on the way, a LOT of work going on, and also kept so busy with the Shenmue community and some Shenmue projects!

So doing great! it's amazing how things can turn around so quickly for the better :D


Thats great dude! Glad to hear all is going well.

To all: I made a blog to detail thoughts on life and such to help me write out my thoughts. Check it out if you like.
https://jamesreiner.wordpress.com/

Here it is!

Surprised it's not here already but fuck it lets start talking about it innit.

So, what say you? Do you agree with what women say about the glass ceiling effect? Personally, in all employments I've been in it's never been an issue, that's not to say it doesn't happen but I've never seen it exist. I believe in feminism, but only on the scale of everyone being equal, and that's what feminists bleat on about all the time; "we only want everything to be level". Well... why don't we call it humanism... or equalism? It's because a number of feminists don't want that, they are keen to be above males, and it doesn't matter whether they're legitimately better, but because they've got a vagina in the 21st century that automatically makes them better than you. Try picking up something heavy. What? Can't do it? Make me a fucking sandwich.

mue26 is exempt from replying to this topic as he doesn't have prior experience with teh femz

I've been wanting to do this for a while now. The results are better than I ever had expected, so I'd like to share with everyone.

A big discussion when talking about Shenmue and current technology is how to properly display the image. Some connect via VGA to a monitor which is the easiest solution and looks great. Most want to play on their TV's however, which as time goes on gets a little more tricky. I've done various methods including VGA on monitor, VGA to component on a CRT 4:3 HDTV, VGA pixel for pixel on an XBR-3, VGA to HDMI through a HD third party scaler (the one Adam used) and finally now this method which I can confirm absolutely demolishes every other way I've ever viewed this game.

So the first thing to know is you'll need to properly upscale the image, otherwise it'll look horrible. To properly upscale into HD (while retaining the correct aspect ratio) a third party scaler is required, which are niche and quite expensive. They get the job done, though obviously don't push the envelope any. The image quality is better than displaying pixel for pixel.

4K UHD is the same principal, though thanks to new technology becomes a bit easier (just more expensive, but is an investment). The two best scalers on the market as of today are the X-Reality PRO by Sony and the Revelation by SHARP. I won't go into major detail, but both are comparable and take different steps to achieving the same end goal.

Because the X-Reality PRO is an internal scaler, we're actually going to want to convert the VGA signal to HDMI raw without upscaling. From there the X-Reality PRO will do the rest and by the rest, I mean this . Do take a glance as it'll show the amount of tech the engine uses to upscale an image, something a third party scaler simply isn't capable of.

The end result is this and I don't think much more could be expected of a game developed from the late 90's onward, especially with a rendering resolution of 640x480. The X900B in general hides jaggies particularly well, but what stands out to me the most is the color range and depth. Granted this is a testament as to how far technology has come, but it also says a lot about the production value of Shenmue. It truly was ahead of it's time.

Here is the game (both Passport and Disc 1) running:

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The equipment (though the most important tech such as the scaler is internal):

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Peter wrote: Those are just insane! What????

Do we really need a full blown HD revamp of the series which could take up to a year? Just stick these on the PS3 store!

Agreed, pretty much everything AM2 creates ages like fine wine.

A lot has been said, as of late especially, regarding the high production costs of the series and many in the gaming MSM have been using that fact as a opportunity to take baseless pop shots. With screens like these however, it is clear that there was a clear reason why the game was produced in the manner in which it was and we are still reaping the benefits to this day.

The fact that a game as old as S1 looks this good on the most modern tech, from the sheer color saturation to the crisp image quality is a testament to how ahead of time and advanced the game (and the development behind it) truly was.

always good to be around, my friend!