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Emulator for Shenmue

Postby Lambert180 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:34 am

Hi,

I'm looking to play Shenmue I and II again (played both when I was a kid and had a Dreamcast) but I am totally clueless when it comes to emulators. I've done a lot of googling but there just seems to be mountains of info and people making different recommendations and suggesting different settings for emulators etc and it mostly means nothing to me.

I have a fairly powerful Windows 10 laptop (64 bit). Can someone please link me to ....

1) The best emulator to run them both on my system
2) Download files for Shenmue I and II
3) Let me know if there's anything I need to do within the emulator settings before I can start playing

Sounds like I'm being lazy but I'm going round in circles on the internet trying to find this info myself and struggling.

P.S. Was hoping I could use an Xbox usb controller, is that gonna be do-able? Also, I'd like the original versions if possible i.e. english dubbing so it's the same as when I played it on the Dreamcast.
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Re: Emulator for Shenmue

Postby shengoro86 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:07 am

I can answer question 1.

Your choices are either nullDC or DEMUL.
I suggest using DEMUL if you have a powerful PC since it has a better success rate from what I have been hearing from others.
I personally use nullDC only because im too lazy to switch.
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Re: Emulator for Shenmue

Postby Lambert180 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:59 am

Cheers, after seeing it in a Youtube video, I tried googling 'NullDC Final' and getting one that supposedly had everything set up ready to go, that didn't work.

Then as per another Youtube video, I just downloaded NullDC and then separately got the bios and flash files and put them into the data folder which is supposed to make it work, but still got this error message. Fwiw, I tried loading it when the file was called dc_bios.bin like it was when I downloaded and I tried changing it to dc_boot.bin which I've seen suggested. I get the same error either way, any suggestions.

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Re: Emulator for Shenmue

Postby ReeceKun » Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:41 pm

more info here
viewtopic.php?t=46995
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Re: Emulator for Shenmue

Postby shengoro86 » Thu Apr 13, 2017 5:39 pm


If the link in this forum is dead hit me up. I have this version mirrored
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Re: Emulator for Shenmue

Postby Esppiral » Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:17 am

I recommend you to use demul, since it is the more accurate Dreamcast emulator.

http://demul.emulation64.com/

You can get the games from here.

http://doperoms.com/roms/Sega_Dreamcast/S/50.html

I highly recommend to patch the GDI's using HEX edit https://mh-nexus.de/en/programs.php to make them Widescreen

Code here viewtopic.php?f=37&t=50595

And if you feel brave enough I also recommend to use Reshade for some astonishing results.

https://reshade.me/



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Cheers.
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Re: Emulator for Shenmue

Postby SledgeNE » Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:43 am

I am so sorry when i ask anything emulator-related. But, i downloaded two Emulators and i have different problems: nullDC -yes it runs, but i don`t have picture, but sound. It would be wonderful when you could help me out with this problem. I saw a youtube-tutorial with automatic hotkeys, but it doesn`t work. Demul doesn`t save my controls and i can`t do anything. And Reicast crashes everytime when i want to load a level.
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