Kind of feel weird just posting it here like this, but Mittens and Ziming have already set the standard! May Yu have mercy on my soul..
I may or may not be seeding that file, and I may or may not have taken that screen cap. Here is the magnet link.
As you can see from the image, the torrent is the PAL versions of Shenmue I & II (I guess to avoid hex editing saves?), as GDI rips. It's a sizeable torrent (5.21GB), but it should never have taken me
twelve and a half hours to get! Sadly it did. There were only two people seeding. Now there are three of us.
Anyway, to that guy Giorgio - I believe these are the full, perfect rips. No content missing, it seems. The files are compressed with WinRAR. Here is the WinRAR dialogue window for the first disc of the original game;
As you can see, RAR'd it is 500-odd MB. Unpacked, its around the 1GB mark. This unpacked size holds true for all four discs on both games. Weirdly, although unpacked they all reach the same sort of size, Shenmue II's discs aren't compressed quite as much as the first game's. I wonder why this could be? Perhaps the WinRAR algorithm has a tougher time with the Shenmue II?
I say "I believe these are the full rips"
>>UPDATE: confirmed as full rips, no minor dialogue or anything missing at all!<< as it's just finished, and I've not had the chance to test them. In any case, I'm going to seed that torrent for ever. Or until I try them and find out that they don't even work lol. I'm pretty confident they're the ones, though. Hop on board the slowest, most awesome torrent in the world, guys!
I will try these rips in the next couple of days. Not even got an emulator yet (suggestions? Obviously I know about nullDC). I have a 360 pad for Windows, so hopefully it'll work nicely! Can't wait to play Shenmue again!
Nice to see the décor hasn't changed around here.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:24 pm
