Shenmue Dojo

Widely regarded as one of the greatest games ever made, Shenmue was also the most expensive video game ever produced at its time of release. Let's see what the fuss is all about!

Rakim wrote: How the hell was the Hazuki family so wealthy? Did Iwao have 100s of paying students or what?

Himuro wrote:

Rakim wrote: How the hell was the Hazuki family so wealthy? Did Iwao have 100s of paying students or what?

I know this is old, but it's pretty clear that the Hazuki's are an old samurai family. In Yamanose, they are the biggest house at the top of the neighborhood, indicating status and importance. They have a family/clan symbol that seems to indicate a history. Remember the katana and the sword arm guard. That's a weapon of status. You should also remember that Ryo's Buddhist, and historically, martial artists who were Buddhist hailed from samurai families (i.e. WW2).

BlueMue wrote: I've kept trying to win the Dural Gold over the past couple of days at a very slow pace as it started to become very hard for me to keep doing it. And you know what? I give up now!

I've drawn 2000 frickin tickets and no Dural Gold. I did win the Dural Silver 15 times but I don't care at all about that crap prize. I don't know why I never won the top prize. Maybe it's because I use winning cans. Maybe it's because reloading after 10 tries somehow ruins how the game calculates when you win the top prize. Maybe it's some kind of fault in the emulation that prevents the prize from ever appearing. Maybe I'm just trying to find explanations as I don't really believe any of this it causing problems. Or maybe I simply just have the worst luck imaginable.

Unless maybe someone can shed some light on winning that prize (I don't even know how the top prize ticket looks. I've tried digging through the game files and couldn't find any of the tickets) or somehow really hack the game to always give the top prize at the raffle. Until there is a glimmer of hope, I count this prize as a myth. As something virtually impossible to get.

BlueMue wrote:[...] Wonder how many days of constant trying it took. [...]

BlueMue wrote: No way... I didn't just see that happen.

I can't believe I finally got to see that damn ticket. And this video is 4 years old. No one has ever dug that up yet?
Can't be that someone actually did a video with all the winnings. Wonder how many days of constant trying it took.

This actually encouraged me to try this again at some point... a little bit.