More than graphics I just want superb (facial) animations, I know that with the current budget that's not gonna happen but a man can dream.

Console manufacturers (sony) will charge Ysnet to publish on psn even a simple demo, so....

With all the resolution debate madness lately and the 4k debate....

PS4 neither Xbox One shouldn't struggle to run a direct port of Shenmue I & II at 4k, Sega should tweak some world and hud textures and make it widescreen, do a direct port, advertise it as first 4k console game ever.

Profit.

Does not look better than my average Psx game, don't know why it is releasing on an inferior platform, Metal Gear Solid looks miles better, imagin Shengmu running on the mighty Psx, that would be like real life grafix.

The project is till alive!

Kiske wrote: Is this an Xbox 360 on the left side of the TV screen?

Maybe they use it to run Shenmue II

I do see a Dreamcast on the table, close to the TV and a jewell case close to it, probably Shenmue I or II

also

I want to keep my expectations low, but they have skyrocketed since cedric's last tweet.

They have used my render for the splash screen!

I'll watch it later.

We just need the prologue sequence of Shenmue III shown at e3, starring Shenhua (updated model) in a beautiful forest with some incredible Shenmue soundtrack in the background while she says some heartbreaking chinese proberb.

Just like in the previous Shenmue games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-kBO9z370

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqxH8shaO_c

@Sonoshee I like your avatar.

Awesome Japan can be everything.... except awesome...

Something like this?




In cheat engine chage this

Code: Select all

2C27E100
00000000

This will place the camera behind Ryo, even on cutscenes, leaving to some hilarious results.

You can also play it in widescreen with this hack I did a while back.

TOMB RAIDER THE LAST REVELATION PAL UK.

Code: Select all

2CB75D08
3EC00000

(extra geometry clipping.)

His next video should be recorded using Reshade (SSAO, GI, DOF, Lens flare, bloom) when do it right it gives the game a new dimension, almost like playing a remaster.

I've been mession around with it an the Screen Space ambient occlusion alone makes the game 100% more beautiful.

Notice the contact soft shadows that Ryo ( and everything actually) casts to the environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwX51lRH2Xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-EfHPrI0o

I did this a while back, I am definetly in for a retro-dreamcast game case,

EDIT, SORRY I posted by accident the post is still under construction.

HI!

Since it seems those HD remaster we are waiting for will never come to fruiction, I was wondering, what we could do to improve even further the games ( appart for making them widescreen :))

First thing that came to my mind is, well a simple HD remaster would feature some kind of improved lighting, and some "modern" tecniques such as Screen Space ambient occlussion or depth of field, someting that happened to Code Veronica HD.

So I first knew about reshade not so long ago, it is a PC tool that allows you to inject some sort of cool post proccesing effects to any game, the thing is it needs acces to the z buffer in order to inject the most advanced effects, such as the before mentioned SSAO and Depth of field, and whenever I read about it everyone would tell me that the Dreamcast does not have a z buffer nor any Dreamcast emulator. so it was impossible.... well... It turns out they were mistaken.

Both Demul and NulldC have z-buffer and Reshade can actually make use of it to inject advanced postprocessing effects.


You will need Reshade (I use Mediator for convenience)
Demul 5.8.2
http://demul.emulation64.com/
or this specific version of NullDC
http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=46995
And Reshade
https://reshade.me/

So set up everything.
In demul you should select the directx 10 plugin in order to make it work.
In nullDC you should set the z-buffer option to D2468 mode 2 (lower precision) otherwise Reshade will not have access to the z-buffer.

Once you have everything in place just add the emulator to Reshade and tweak anything you want at your will.

The most impressive effect you can actually add to the game is SSAO, you have different options HBO, SGI SSAO etc, it uses the depth buffer to determine objects that are close to each other and makes them project a soft shadow, it gives depth to the game and personally it is pretty impressive,
Basically it does this.

http://i.imgur.com/Ox9krGg.jpg

Some comparissons with the effect turned on and off, notice how closer objects cast soft shadows to each other.

http://i.imgur.com/lY3bk9A.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CS1jTtY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QleNjyi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mj6rKRk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/oY0vjM9.jpg

You can also add Bloom, HDR, Lens flare and so on so lights will look that are actually emiting light.

http://i.imgur.com/t5j19kq.png

http://i.imgur.com/eYiSdqQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XS6DKb2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kZRS4ER.jpg

[img]http://i.imgur.com/TTBOIKK.jpg[img]

http://i.imgur.com/bXrSgQF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xbIKGR4.jpg

HDR lighting

http://i.imgur.com/DODN68F.png

http://i.imgur.com/sj9ParV.png

http://i.imgur.com/gJEkrWd.jpg

Tonemapping for a more natural looking lighting

http://i.imgur.com/ucd9IcM.png

http://i.imgur.com/qtBZsLa.png

http://i.imgur.com/u9RrCdm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/csBuuy8.jpg

Depth of field ( once an object gets closer to the camera the background will become blurry, I love this effect too :))

http://i.imgur.com/l5OzfC9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BMfuUr2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3E74rM5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/O6VcAoH.jpg



Sorry for the overload of images :D

Could you post either a shader profile or a screenshot of the settings you have enabled and levels of intensity? I can get certain things to work, but things like DoF, motion blur, HDR don't work well at all for me. I got SSAO working decently but it looks a lot better in your images.

Phenomenal work though, thank you for sharing with us!


This are the leves and config I use and like the most for SSAO

Should look like the bottom image in debug mode.
http://i.imgur.com/FZn73eF.png


Just tried it out. Your gonna need a BEAST of a system in order to run this. However, I was doing this on DX11 where the instructions say DX10 so that could be the reason. Its pretty simple to use. Just download the .Exe and run it. Point it towards the Emu your using. Run the emulator and press Shift+F2. This will pull up the configuration settings. Just make sure you create a profile first. Cant make any changes before you do it.

Yup, it needs a lot of resources, but tweaking things can lead to great results at low performance cost.


Hello:)
Great post! I trying to make it working on NullDC but Reshade seems to not work with it.

Can anybody please help me with that??


Be sure to set the z-buffer option to D2468 mode 2 (lower precision) otherwise Reshade will not have access to the z-buffer.

And use the Nulldc version I pointed to in the first post.

After some testing it seems reshade works best on Nulldc rather than Demul, eveything I posted here was capture using Demul, but it seems it has some z-buffer problems during cutscenes and closeups, something that doesn't seem to happen on NullDC.

Lovely stuff.

Any chance of a video clip or 10?

Sure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRhyHShqKzs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxzszeMZhUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA35Q73IKxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-EfHPrI0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwX51lRH2Xs

My biggest concern about shenmue III are actually the character models, the game can be better or worse, but if the characters looks like some random people doing Shenmue cosplays, and that is how they look to me right now... it can put me out of the game.

I am sorry for posting this again, but I did some characters models based on the passport faces directly ripped from the game, so I don't understand why thet don't do this, at least....

This are based on the passport faces, tweaked and with new bodies, they are still faith to their original look, they should do something similar

http://i.imgur.com/gbSQGR9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CS4CVef.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nq5piLz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gSvTeSf.png

http://i.imgur.com/ULd9dr8.png

http://i.imgur.com/rFJaTAf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aWkSTOH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nK5bt4g.png

http://i.imgur.com/4JaLmwX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RfPCFcC.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/78IiaW5.jpg


They have more resources and some source material I can't understand why they are making things harder then they are.

Iirc Yu said Sega allowed them to use source material from the original games, I guess this also means source material from the assets they used for the renders back then.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pliNM_D44YE/hqdefault.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YVV9HCE.jpg

just use it!

Now look at this...


http://www.hobbyconsolas.com/sites/hobbyconsolas.com/public/styles/main_element/public/media/image/2016/03/578980-shenmue-3-ps4-pc-mejora-sus-graficos.jpg?itok=bx1AjoW4


http://sullywoodtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/jimcarrey.gif
BTW, it looks that they used different models for Shenhua in the renders, some looks different than others, all are beatifull anyway. :)

Now it'd be great if someone can figure out a way to port the "better clipping" version of the dreamcast widescreen mod to xbox, so that we get both no clipping on the sides and the correct cinematic aspect ratio now that the black bars have been removed.


Looks like someone has come with a better solution,

http://ps2wide.net/xbox.html#xshnm2

I haven't tested it personally but by the looks of it it seems it is a perfect widescreen hack.

Hi I bring you an hex fix to patch a Shenmue I 1ST_READ.BIN/ISO/GDI/CDI.

This hex hack will make Shenmue display in Widescreen aspect ratio without clipping or glitches unlike NullDC extra geometry option or previous action replay codes, it will basically render the extra geometry necessary for 16:9 TV's.

The hack works great on emulators, as do on a real Dreamcast. (Click Show for download links)

Shenmue PAL Disc 1 (GDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue PAL Disc 2 (GDI - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue PAL Disc 3 (GDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue PAL PassPort (GDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
ISOZONE: http://theisozone.com/downloads/dreamcast/dreamcast-gdi/shenmue-pal-169-widescreen---hex-hacked-by-esppiral/
SHENMUE, E MK-5105950, V1.00120001005

So with an hex editor find and replace the following values.

Value 1
Find

CCCCCC3D AAAAAA3F
Replace

CCCCCC3D 398EE33F
Render fix
Find

203F090C 8BC78AD4 FFE55224 51145214
Replace

303F090C 8BC78AD4 FFE55224 51145214
Render Fix
Find

09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 00000000 00000000 00000000

Replace

09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 00008C42 0000F042 0000803F 0000803F 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 0000803F 0000803F 0000803F

Old Widescreen hack
http://i.imgur.com/Xv2I3OU.jpg

New Widescreen hack
http://i.imgur.com/AS3NBC5.jpg




http://i.imgur.com/PhuFLsP.png
http://i.imgur.com/xPF0drC.png

http://i.imgur.com/6Uzml7M.png
http://i.imgur.com/pGZNsyL.png

Care to provide the Action Replay / Codebreaker version of this, so it can be used by people with original discs?

If not I can go ahead and convert later, just want to give you the opportunity to post it if you were planning on it.

I'd appreciate it.

Here it is the Cheat engine table to make things easier.

https://mega.nz/#!FZBDjbKK!HsqYjfQBkUXQ-XwnEuT-8wzjsljQH5KrXsnc18AoAvM

What's Shenmue (Widescreen HEX Patch)

Value 1

Find
AAAAAA3F 70A0190C 3C90090C 0CA2080C
Replace
398EE33F 70A0190C 3C90090C 0CA2080C

Value 2
Find
44B71E0C BA87090C 48B71E0C A0FB080C
Replace
44B71E0C BA87090C 48B71E0C B0FB080C

Value 3
Find
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 862F962F A62FB62F C62F4369 D62FE62F
Replace
00008C42 A0FB080C 0000803f 0000803f 862F962F A62FB62F C62F4369 D62FE62F

One of those values should be set way higher than 1, don't remember witch one actually.

Shenmue 1 Intro in 21:9 old widescreen vs new widescreen

UPDATED AS 11/06/2017

SHENMUE2 , E MK-5118450 V1.001

1ST_READ.BIN / ISO HEX PATCH (Click Show for download links)

Shenmue II PAL Disc 1 (GDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue II PAL Disc 2 (GDI - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue II PAL Disc 3 (GDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue II PAL Disc 4 (GDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
ISOZONE: http://theisozone.com/downloads/dreamcast/dreamcast-gdi/shenmue-ii-pal-169-widescreen---hex-hacked-by-esppiral/

Shenmue II Full English Xbox Speech Mod Disc 1 (CDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue II Full English Xbox Speech Mod Disc 2 (CDI - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue II Full English Xbox Speech Mod Disc 3 (CDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
Shenmue II Full English Xbox Speech Mod Disc 4 (CDI) - FireDrop | Mega.nz
SHENMUE, E MK-5105950, V1.00120001005


Value 1 (widescreen)
Find
ABAAAA3F 90FF1D8C
Replace
398EE33F 90FF1D8C

Value 2 Render Fix
Find
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 00000000 00000000 00000000
Replace
00001B43 0000F041 0000803F 0000803F 09000900 09000900 09000900 09000900 0000F041 0000803F 0000803F

Value 3 (Render Fix)
Find
Find
60DF048C 00000000 00000000 E62F224F F36E06D1
Replace
FA3B008C 00000000 00000000 E62F224F F36E06D1

Value 4 (No Black Bars)


Find
01A0 01E100E1 A36002C9
Replace
01a0 00e100E1 A36002C9


http://i.imgur.com/FCjXQ8J.png

http://i.imgur.com/DfghTW5.png

http://i.imgur.com/SL4UmwD.png




Cheat engine table so anyone can toy increasing draw distance and other cool things.

https://mega.nz/#!xd5A0aID!6xWUxleyG9CjWFHuML9_Fek6wiQpfgBehoGQDYP7ais


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MeFn0nCVww

If they are going to just uprres the game and nothing elese, then they shouldn't waste the time.

Shenmue deserves a proper remaster just like Yakuza kiwami.

Direct port of the games (just upscaled) would harm the franchise more than doing nothing

Shenmue deserves the Yakuza Kiwami treatment.

As far as I remember the faces ( at least the passport ones and I bet some others too) Are digital scans from some handmade busts.

http://i.gyazo.com/c62a23b466991608f65476ce66b93542.png
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSIOojzDPnjbl_Xm9XhFLdziPUOmaYl9d2d7z0M3ZNOxOYDSiPbuw


Those busts were used not only in the passport but in the Shenmue online trailer and official artwork.

Passport
http://i.imgur.com/l5OzfC9.jpg

Shenmue online
http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire1/081c121996067879e2804bfc7024dcd01233201400_full.jpg

Artwork
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100104004206/halofanon/images/b/b3/Shen2-ryo-hazuki2.jpg


Passport Face ( tweaked +Into a new model)
http://i.imgur.com/1Yt7ryo.jpg


And as some of you may know I have used those passport faces as base for new models, they are fully rigged

Left original artwork, right reconstruction using the ripped face from the game.
http://i.imgur.com/HTguH99.png


http://i.imgur.com/rFJaTAf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/aWkSTOH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/R84fSTY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/nq5piLz.jpg




http://i.imgur.com/4JaLmwX.jpg

http://www.shenmue500k.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Esppiral-nozomi-flower-shop.png


http://i.imgur.com/gSvTeSf.png http://i.imgur.com/5O1DYlz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/78IiaW5.jpg


Every single model uses the passport faces as a base.

Sorry for the overload of images, I know it seems I always try to post my pics when this topic surfaces....

Bu t my point is, the excuse of old models and new tech incompatible is... well... BS.

So the real reason why they aren't using faces close to the originals is beyond my comprenhension...

You can directly patch the CDI, there is no need to extract and recompile it.

Just drop the .cdi into an hex editor find and replace the values and you are good to go.

Thanks for liking it!!! But I hope they come up with something WAY better and less amateurish than my work, anyway working on the next tweetaton!!!

Great Video Ziming!!!

I may be the only one dissapointed here......

Gamescom is located in Germany isn't it? an hour by plane from Barcelona... and I won't work this August.... decisions...

Anyway glad they changed the logo, and I LOVE those characters, everything is shaping nicely!

Upon closer inspection it looks that the models are based off the Passports ones....



Yet they somehow managed to make them look ugly, maybe are those dead eyes, maybe in motion they will look fine, time will tell.

The obsession with clutching to the passport models is ridiculous considering Ryo never actually looked like that through all our hours actually *playing* the game. It's ruinous and warps expectations into unrealistic territory.

It was a moon-shot at realism on Dreamcast, but that's it. As good as they were then, they fall short immensely on modern standards of realism, and aren't stylised enough to look like an art style decision.



No one wants realistic characters, Shenmue is more about stylized charecters, I don't see Why they can't atempt to use similar aesthetics, no one is asking for Realistic characters, but for charecters that remotely resemble to the one they are atempting to cosplay...

Actually basic facial features of this new Ryo are mostly identical to the passport one, yet, they fail to match its aesthetics.

http://i.imgur.com/vRNo74j.jpg

Yes Dreamcast Ryo never looked like the passport during normal gameplay, yet it didn't look like the continuous abominations we are getting, so.... If we have to choose one..

I won't get tired of repeating the same, passport model quality is nothing unreachable, and they still look fenomenal even today, not AAA level, but quite serviceable

Shen Huas Passport says hi.

http://i.imgur.com/C3CyPFO.png

This is far from being realistic, yet is appealing, something those new characters fail to achieve.

I hope they don't mess with other important "characters faces",

Including this beauty.

For some reason I like how Ryo looks in that poster, despite being the same picture we already know...

As the tittle says.

I've been toying exporting the 3D model I use for my renders into Unreal engine 4 testing some animation and learning how the engine works,

It is a very Basic test, but it shows how passport Ryo would look in a modern engine, I did it just for fun, and prove the the model can actually look quite good when thrown in to a modern engine, it lacks facial riggin or animation ( that reminds me of something ... xD)

I had some problem importing materials to UE4, so you will see some jankiness in some speculars but whatever.
http://i.imgur.com/7iK3vZS.png

http://i.imgur.com/bJdQHks.png
http://i.imgur.com/oYqAIuh.png


Somehow it ended up looking like that Mario 128 tech demo for the Nintendo Gamecube. :rotflmao:

http://i.imgur.com/VLFqBPM.png

http://i.imgur.com/du1V08o.png

More tests.

http://i.imgur.com/v3vtF5d.png

http://i.imgur.com/86lHJcj.png

http://i.imgur.com/syr33OA.png

http://i.imgur.com/iZqzlyO.png

http://i.imgur.com/5RrDPh7.png

http://i.imgur.com/86lHJcj.png

http://i.imgur.com/cDkvRej.png

http://i.imgur.com/v72okKc.png

A Shenmue I & II pack sounds bad, as bad as little to no effort put in to enhancing the games.