A member from the Assemblergames forums who goes by the name TapamN has found some rare Saturn-era artwork from Shenmue. Check them out below!

Sega Saturn Shenmue Art: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

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So, how about these concept artworks? I haven't been this interested nor pissed off in a long time. I'm vehemently against spoilers, yet hungry for even a shard of new Shenmue information. It's a shame we have to see such major spoilers before playing the game (IF we ever do see it in action), but it's oh so intriguing. On the bright side however, these concepts may slightly differ from the final version. Even if they don't, they're vague enough that much is still left to be discovered.


On to the topic at hand... I posted about this on the 500K Facebook page as well, but I figured it was time to reappear on the Dojo because this theory is worth spreading. My theory is that a deceased Ren is being carried off by Akira (Ryo) in the 10th concept image. More importantly, Ren has been killed by the hands of his friend, Akira. Firstly, at the top left corner of image 9, that's an alternately dressed Ren. In the background, a horde of people appear to be charging after Akira for an epic battle. Is Ren leading these people into battle, or is he there for Akira? Remember the concept art of Ren on a horse? It's possible that the Chiyoumen could entice Ren with promises of riches if he joins them. I would say he's there to support Akira, but who knows. They succeed in this battle apparently, defeating Lan Di as Yu Suzuki so wonderfully spoiled for us. That's assuming Lan Di didn't already meet his demise long before this scene.

http://cdn.escapistmagazine.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/698/698955.jpg

So what next? As you can see by the map, this epic battle depicted in image 9 occurs somewhere in Western China. In concept image 10, Akira is holding someone's apparent lifeless body. I'm convinced by the clothing that it's Ren as seen in image 9, minus the bandana. If you'll notice, Akira is now ironically wearing a white headband (to honor his former friend?). What happened? If the epic battle is over and Ren didn't perish there, what killed him in the following chapter 10 that appears to take place far away near Beijing (?). I'm thinking after Lan Di's defeat, Ren and Ryo now have access to both mirrors, and Ren's desire to unlock the treasures of the Qing Dynasty overcomes him. According to Master Chen, there will be trouble if those two mirrors come together. Whether that's in the form of a mythical beast resurrecting on Earth, or that's simply a metaphor for something else very grim, I think it's something that needs to be avoided. Akira may have no choice but to stop Ren, which is why he's still honoring his friend with the headband, and the fact that he's clasping his body doesn't signify a hate-filled battle.

If you'll remember, there's a flashback scene in Shenmue I where little Ryo gets into a fight with a friend at school. Iwao tells him, "A friend you can trust is a true friend indeed." I believe this flashback has a lot of significance, since everyone warns Ryo that Ren isn't exactly trustworthy. It shows in his incessant talk of money, and his giddiness towards the Qing Dynasty treasure. It's obvious that Ryo and Ren have grown closer by the end of Shenmue II, but Ren still may not be the most honest and loyal friend in the world. Thoughts?

Its an interenting theory, makes some sense.
We can also see Shenhua (with Landi and NiaoSun?) around Shaolin temple, althouh we already knew that something like that would happen by the project berkley trailer...

Yep, the Shaolin Temple in Luoyang. That's definitely taking place in Luoyang in Project Berkley.

Btw, I want to correct you, I think what you are seeing its Guilin 桂林, theres no Macau in the map... actually its too bad, would be an very interesting place to visit because of its history, i guess :p

The Guangzhou place Im almost sure its Kowloon, make sense but dont know, Its impossible to read the characters because they are covered by pictures...

I know where Guilin is. But you're right, there is no Macau on here. That's gotta be Guangzhou. The second concept in the sequence surely includes Hong Kong and Kowloon together. On the map, that third image with the train is exactly where Guangzhou is located. Maybe that's where the Miao Guang Temple will be? :D I've done some translations to the map and tried to find out where some of these other areas are. There's definitely no Korea on here though, so I don't know what to think about that. Busan and Seoul in Korea were Shenmue Online locations, confirmed. Macau also. And since Shenmue Online was borrowing locations from the actual game, what does this mean? Very interesting!

http://s21.postimg.org/lahl363gn/translated.jpg

can we also get a link going to Ren on the Horse? I am fairly certain I have seen it but I can't find it at the moment.

http://www.shenmuedojo.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/REN_03.JPG

By the way, I appreciate everyone's warm welcome. I intend on sticking around this time.

Awesome theory. Maybe this " Qing dinasty possession" thing, or even Ren's greed, are similiar reason why Iwao killed Sunming Zhao

This is fascinating stuff.

As soon as I saw images 1 and 3, they immediately reminded me of the 1999 Shenmue calendar. I've taken some snaps of most of the months. The ones missing are familiar pictures of Shenhua so I didn't bother taking them.

As far as I can recall offhand, I haven't seen this artwork in any other Shenmue merchandise. But this stuff is absolutely beautiful to look at.

There's a light directly above so apologies for the shine.

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Ox:
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Note the eagle:
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And the cover:
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well done for matching the statue with the one from akira/pai's stage in virtua fighter 2. does anyone know what it is? seems that it must be quite a significant object to depict it.
Apparently, that's the Iron Lion Statue in Cangzhou.

http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af167/Kiyuu/DSC03915.jpg

I found this image in the website of Tetsuya Hattori, the martial-art actor/advisor of Shenmue.
This picture was taken with his Bajiquan master Wu Lianzhi when he visited Meng Cun.

http://www.kaimonkensha.com/kiroku/0712mouson/04.html

You can learn more about the statue from the Wiki page here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangzhou

The only funny part of that vid was the end when he asks when shenmue is coming out. The rest of it is a poor attempt at trying to be stand up comedian like, stick to being a game journalist jeff.

Screw Sega if it C&Ds him. As long as someone isn't making money on it, what concern should it be to Sega? If they actually plan on making HD remakes then I'd understand, but since they care nothing about the series they should just go back to making Sonic games and leave this guy, his talent and his love for the game alone.

Hello. ^^
I NoconKid.
Shenmue HD remaster (FanMade) Thank you for your interest shenmue HD movie watching.
What will happen next I shenmue HD work in progress can not say for sure.
Who had been working for two months during the rest day job.
Probably would not be so fast as jobs go back to work again.
But slowly, we will update it takes a long time.
Thank you again.

Use the translator may be wrong.

Well since you are probably going to wait until november, i will just tell you this right now.

Shenmue III is not in production (unless its another secret, but i doubt it). But Yu Suzuki wants to make it, trust me. If you wonder why i am so sure, there is a reason. When i was talking with him, as you know, he showed me private artworks (can't thanks him enough) and while doing so, i've asked him why he did not show this to the public until today (i consider myself a random dude, i am not a pro journalist, even tho i'd love to work for the game industry) and here is what he told me :

"I am not showing this because it could be used to promote Shenmue III"

I do not know how its gonna sound to your ears but to mine, Yu Suzuki is still keeping everything because he still has the will to create it. Of course, in the mean time, he'd like to work on other projects and games, but he definetly hasn't given up on Shenmue, trust me.

I was not supposed to write this down right now, but since i am probably going to make you wait longer, take it as a gift. Do not give up guys, Yu Suzuki wants to make it, let's keep going and provide support.

Ughh that commentary was such typical cringe worthy old hat. These people have the attention span of a 6 year old.

Very very soon !

Worked on it all day long and i am done. I will see where and when i'm going to post it. I have to arrange something with Shenmuedojo's and Shenmuemaster's admin and that's it.

Hope you'll like it !

http://shenmuedojo.net/new/extras/interview1114/okart.jpg

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.

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

I've been thinking on this project for a long time, and I think now it's time to make it public.

During my Shenmue II Spanish Translation, I've encountered, what I think, all the changes based on censorship for the Overseas Edition of S2:
- Baby Jesus's image on the Virgin Mary in the Moon Child Convent.
- The cassette tape's change.
- All of Yuan's references, both in voice and when asking the people of Kowloon.
- Hassan's nationality being changed from arabic to chinese, with a full clothing replacement.
- (XBOX dub) Lack of a strong chinese accent from a fellow with a red chinese dress in the Wise Men Qr. This is more a dub issue rather than a censoring issue.

Well, I've been decensoring and rewriting things for the Spanish translation... But it would be a shame if it was exclusive for Spanish, right?

So I'll be announcing right now a side project of this translation called Yuan's Revenge. Right now, this is what I've already done:
- Restoring the Moon Child Convent image on Dreamcast. Doing it on XBOX is a mystery, depending on the progress of the MT5/MT7 model handlers and if the HM7 format is identical between consoles.
http://i.imgur.com/zs1nGdDs.jpg
- Restoring the censored cassette tape and re-subbed the whole thing. It can be done on XBOX as well.
- Restoring Yuan's male japanese voices. I've made a small document on the subtitle changes for the NPCs, but maybe a Japanese translator could do a bit of a better job.
- Restoring Hassan's original clothing.
- While this is not a censorship issue, the Coca-Cola branded cans/machines are also restored.

This is what needs to be done yet:
- Find voice actors (I know some places) and redub Yuan, Hassan, the chinese guy, the censored cassette tape and other minor adjustments on XBOX.
- Edit all the existing voices to remove the "s" from the "she" parts in Yuan-based lines in the XBOX dub.
- Editing Hassan's clothing on XBOX.

The final result will be PacoChan's patcher, which means you'll need the original GDIs in Dreamcast and it will export CDI images, with a choice between undownsampled audios or downsampled for 80min/99min discs. Right now the XBOX version is on the preproduction stages but, considering there's no Default.xbe edit, I think it can export just the files, ready for FTP them into the HDD.

What do I need? Right now, people who can help testing and checking all these issues. A sound engineer/editor would be nice (I can do most of the removal stuff, but I'm busy with the translation, if nobody could help before I finish the Spanish translation, I'll be doing the editing myself).

Here's a small appetizer for all of you, courtesy of Brett "Switch" Chandler, Rock_Lee-Vk and myself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdBNUS5jY2c

Another option for Suzuki to consider:

The British site Eurogamer recently had the opportunity to meet Will Morton, former supervisor of the dialogue and sound designer senior Rockstar North. In twelve year career in the Scottish studio, Will Morton has worked on titles such as GTA Vice City, Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, and more recently Grand Theft Auto V. Just after the release of the original version of Grand Theft Auto V in December, Will Morton (accompanied by another member of Historic Rockstar North) Rockstar left to found his own studio, Solid Audioworks. Which specializes in the production of music, dialogue, sound and video games.

When asked by Eurogamer about the type of project he would like to work, the answer of Will Morton is surprising:
"I would like to contribute to the resurrection of Shenmue. I am truly a fan of Shenmue 1 of Dreamcast, and Shenmue 2 on Xbox. I would love to help rethink the series for next-gen consoles.

The soundscape is extremely important in Shenmue, and the quality of work done over games by Will Morton no longer to be proven, it would be interesting to see what the experience of the latter could provide a potential new episode .dropoff window Hopefully Yu Suzuki think of him one day if he gets the green light to get back on floor on Shenmue.

From Eurogamer. Used Google translate.

ShenmueTree wrote: Can I vote for an imaginary member that then votes for me? :X

Flatlandaniel wrote:I nominate ShenmueTree for having one of the best signatures in Dojo history.

Flatlandaniel=ShenmueTrees ALT account lol

Sony has started a poll at their american Playstation blogg about the most anticipated game 2015 - http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/12/18/votes-open-playstation-blog-game-of-the-year-awards-2014/#sf6405302

And I suggest that we all cast our vote for Shenmue III.

Xiuying art I've never seen before.

And they weren't cheap let me tell ya' that!

No, but in all seriousness, i have been working on these kicks for some time now, i bought a pair
of reeboks and customized them, heres the result!

Enjoy!

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The English voice acting isn't great. It's far from it, actually, but I don't really care. Playing Shenmue II in Japanese for the first time just didn't feel right to me. Corey Marshall just IS Ryo to me.

1 had the better campaign. And even though the multiplayer is still amazing to this day, H2 did so much to improve it. H2 multiplayer was the best multiplayer experience of that generation imo. It consumed more lives of my in-person and online friends then I can count. It provided hours..nay, days of comedy, frustration, satisfaction and grew friendships out of nowhere in a time when XBL was innocent and pure. Nothing still compares to it.

Hi everybody,

I don't know if anyone remembers me. I was a member for the boards back in the day under the name Rising Tiger (or something like that). I wrote some of the fan-fiction that's actually on the Shenmue Dojo main site too.

Anyways, I thought I'd post the teaser trailer to a little project that I'm looking to wrap up soon. It's a fan-film based on Shenmue called 'Suka High.

Shenmue - 'Suka High - Teaser Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-x6omdV18c

I'm looking at one more shooting session tomorrow afternoon/evening. Hopefully, I'll have it finished before the end of May.

Shenmue was and still is my favorite game of all time. I've been wanting to do a project like this for the longest time now, and I'm so happy that I've finally gotten the people and the time to actually do it with. Once the short film is finished, I'll be sure to post it on here. I'd love to hear what you guys think.

*Also, if this is in the wrong forum, then I'm sorry. Please move it to the most appropriate forum.

A 2015 documentary about Baji Quan (Meng Cun) and a meeting with Master Wu Lianzhi (who Yu Suzuki lately met):

Hello everyone !

First, a huge thanks to Yu Suzuki who allowed me to share this. Now that I've got his approval, here are more details about the latest tweet.

As you all know, Yu Suzuki has restarted his twitter account.

He has met with Baji Quan Master : Wu Lianzhi and they both shared a good time. However they were not alone. Indeed, from time to time, Master Wu Lianzhi is teaching Baji Quan in Japan and they met during that event, along with many other people (check pictures below).

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On that day, Yu Suzuki also received a 色紙 (a square piece of fancy paper, used for poems) from Master Wu Lianzhi. Here's what you can read on the paper : « 遊戯の父» which, literally means : « father of games ». Not necessarily video games, it's a general meaning in chinese.

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Known for many games, Yu Suzuki has managed to share his knowledge of Baji Quan (Hakkyokuken) through Virtua Fighter and Shenmue.

Thanks again to Yu Suzuki !

鈴木さん、写真を使わせて頂くことになり、心より感謝しております。

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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

Even though everything is going great, everyone needs to realize that 2 Million and even 4 Million is not the end of the road. If you watch the video (and look at the stretch goals) you will see that there are 3 places Yu wants to go with the game, the first is 4 Million and the others are currently unannounced.

We need to make sure that we all keep an eye on the Kickstarter and more specifically the stretch goals as more will be added over time :D!

Can't wait to see all the characters in next gen graphics!

But the question is.....will Shenmue 3 finish the story, or will we have to hope it makes enough money to get funding for for Shenmue 4?

http://shenmuedojo.net/new/games/s3preview.html

Q: Budget and money are the main problems... If you ever reach your goal and gather enough money to create Shenmue III, do you think that you will be able to conclude the story? Knowing that Shenmue's story is very deep and seems to be far away from its conclusion.

Yu Suzuki : Yes indeed, the story is far away from being completed and to be honest, I do not think that it's possible to end it during Shenmue III. If I had to do it my way, players would experience the ending during Shenmue V. But that seems to be a lot so I'm going to try to finish it within the next 2 games.

Call me crazy but it just wouldn't be the same without them. I'm sure I can't be the only one who feels this way

Ive heard from Lisle Wilkerson, Corey Marshall, and Eric Kelso. (Ryo, Gui Zhang, Ren, Fukusan, Joy, Xuying, Yuan)

They all want to do the game. It is up to the devs to invite them.

I have not heard from Paul Lucas yet. (chai and Lan Di)

All 3 of them publicly said this on my facebook timeline.

News of the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter reaches Time magazine!
http://time.com/3923809/shenmue-3-kicks ... id=fbshare

"and then Yu Suzuki tweeted a picture of a forklift" ... "please don't do that"

I just hope that they do what they want. They made the first 2 games, and they were absolutely amazing. I feel like we are in good hands with Yu and his team. The last thing that I want is them to start taking people's ideas from the surveys and trying to change their overall vision.

Its Yu guys, he will do this his way, we have nothing to worry about :)

YS: Bringing the sequel to reality isn’t something that was just started recently. Even more than 10 years since Shenmue 2, there are still many passionate fans and whenever I attend events or autograph sessions overseas I’m always asked about when Shenmue 3 will be coming. For example, at my autograph sessions in France, 80% of the fans are Shenmue fans.

One of the reasons I traveled all way to Monaco, to let Yu Suzuki know we where still supporting him! It was great to receive so much support from "the dojo" and other English Shenmue Communities.

Monaco was extremely French-related. Most simple English questions couldn't be answered because of French <--> Japanese translators on the exhibition floor. With my presence, I was able to inform the English communities with live report.

2016, I'm definitely there again!

Well he's in communist china where earning money is for capitalist pigs so starve to death?

I always thought with the original Shenmue on the Dreamcast it would've been cool to be able to use the fishing rod controller...

I can't be the only one that liked Sega Bass Fishing, right?