Shenmue Dojo

Hi all,

Here is some footage of BETA Dobuita, which can be found on Disc 1.

I was sitting on this for a while but some people here wanted some transparency on some of the things I am working on.

So here is a video I had recorded and finally released.

Reecekun, this is the Heartbeats Alley Dobuita variant.

Video:


Some key differences:
Basic differences in look and feeling:


Basic wall texture differences:


No Suzume Park!


No hotdog truck!


Different capsule toy machines!


Snowman and building structures!


Differences in signage!


New store called DEATH!


Ajiichi replaced by a store/bar called WILD GUY!


Different feeling for backalley!


New stores DEATH NEVADA and SUDDEN DEATH!


Different buildings at end of town NO Lapis or Liu Barber!

Very nice! Can't wait to take a look at this myself.

I'm not exactly up to all the facts regarding this beta map. On what version of the game can this be found? And why has is slipped under the radar in previous discussions about beta maps and the exploration mods?

BlueMue wrote: Very nice! Can't wait to take a look at this myself.

I'll be releasing it in V4 (my final version) of the explore mod!

BlueMue wrote:
On what version of the game can this be found?

This particular video has it from the BETA 0.04 version. It can be found on retail too I believe.

BlueMue wrote:
And why has is slipped under the radar in previous discussions about beta maps

Beats me.

BlueMue wrote:
and the exploration mods?

My explore mods are planned well ahead. Since I saw that no one spoke of the beta dobuita map I wanted it to be a final additional thank you in the final version.

The mods themseleves are progressive as V1 was just the normal maps, then V2 had beta stuff, then V3 had wish road and other mash ups.

V4 will have vertical clipping and beta dobuita.

Thanks for this , This is the Layout of the Normal Dobuita Map
I noticed their was a Bar/Hotel called Death , but didnt realise that the full texture says 'Sudden Death'

Eventually I plan to create Interiors for these places in my mod

Damn, some pretty crazy stuff here! The bar called 'Sudden Death' made me chuckle Little reference to when the game was still VFRPG, perhaps? (as in the sudden death matches to decide the victor in the VF games).
Interesting there's more of those snowmen besides the one in the alley dotted around, too...

the little snowmen are cute. if you are very observant you can see one of these in the final game in the alley way to hearts beats bar during the QTE fight with Tony and Smith. its gets destroyed when Ryo throws Tony into it.

ReeceKun wrote: Thanks for this , This is the Layout of the Normal Dobuita Map
I noticed their was a Bar/Hotel called Death , but didnt realise that the full texture says 'Sudden Death'

Thanks for the map!

ReeceKun wrote:Eventually I plan to create Interiors for these places in my mod

A texture mod? Nice! I think the interiors are all PVRs when it comes to textures so you should be good to go.

Miles Prower wrote:Damn, some pretty crazy stuff here! The bar called 'Sudden Death' made me chuckle Little reference to when the game was still VFRPG, perhaps? (as in the sudden death matches to decide the victor in the VF games).
Interesting there's more of those snowmen besides the one in the alley dotted around, too...

I thought the same. I am not sure what else Sudden Death could mean haha.

johnvivant wrote:the little snowmen are cute. if you are very observant you can see one of these in the final game in the alley way to hearts beats bar during the QTE fight with Tony and Smith. its gets destroyed when Ryo throws Tony into it.

Oh cool! I didn't ever see that

wow, that's really impressive, I haven't never noticed it myself too, nice find! ^ ^

Mestre Ziming wrote: wow, that's really impressive, I haven't never noticed it myself too, nice find! ^ ^

I honestly thought that you might have found this back in the day. It's in the YQ14 scene.

shengoro86 wrote:

Mestre Ziming wrote: wow, that's really impressive, I haven't never noticed it myself too, nice find! ^ ^

I honestly thought that you might have found this back in the day. It's in the YQ14 scene.

I didn't test every map, I would think very carefuly what to burn to cd before testing anything, this one map probably wasn't appealing from the content maybe.

Mestre Ziming wrote:

shengoro86 wrote:

Mestre Ziming wrote: wow, that's really impressive, I haven't never noticed it myself too, nice find! ^ ^

I honestly thought that you might have found this back in the day. It's in the YQ14 scene.

I didn't test every map, I would think very carefuly what to burn to cd before testing anything, this one map probably wasn't appealing from the content maybe.

True, I can understand that. Nowadays it is much easier to build cdis and test them in an emulator or on an ODE device.

johnvivant wrote: the little snowmen are cute. if you are very observant you can see one of these in the final game in the alley way to hearts beats bar during the QTE fight with Tony and Smith. its gets destroyed when Ryo throws Tony into it.

It's crazy to think about all these little details that would have taken a lot of work to get done in an age where physics engines like Havok and Euphoria were hardly ubiquitous. Saw a gif the other day of a fight with some of the Beverly Hills Wharf gang where a table gets knocked over and cups fly off, that must have taken some time to figure out back then, only for almost no one to notice.

Also crazy to think all this beta was just left on the disc! I wonder if they could have reduced the game from 3 discs to 2 if they cut out a lot of this unused stuff...

Amir wrote:

johnvivant wrote: the little snowmen are cute. if you are very observant you can see one of these in the final game in the alley way to hearts beats bar during the QTE fight with Tony and Smith. its gets destroyed when Ryo throws Tony into it.

It's crazy to think about all these little details that would have taken a lot of work to get done in an age where physics engines like Havok and Euphoria were hardly ubiquitous. Saw a gif the other day of a fight with some of the Beverly Hills Wharf gang where a table gets knocked over and cups fly off, that must have taken some time to figure out back then, only for almost no one to notice.

Also crazy to think all this beta was just left on the disc! I wonder if they could have reduced the game from 3 discs to 2 if they cut out a lot of this unused stuff...

I've seen most of the unused stuff and I do not think it's enough to bring 3 discs down to 2. As for the physics stuff, totally! It's insane how much work must have went into this.