Hello all,
I recently picked up a 4KTV and it is truly beautiful, but I've found a catch that I'm not sure applies to Shenmue yet but is something to consider.
I bought Rise of the Tomb Raider (PS4) at launch and my 9 year old daughter wanted to play. I told her no as the series has become far more violent than it was back in the day but that she could play the previous games in the series. With that, I got out my PS2 Slim and hooked up the AV cables into the Component input of my TV as there are no longer AV (RCA) inputs on modern TVs.
I put in the 20 year old PS1 Tomb Raider and it started up. After the PS1 logo, the game went to black and then showed a "No Signal" notification on screen. I tried a second PS1 game with the same result. Then I tried Tomb Raider Anniversary on PS2 and it loaded just fine.
Come to find out that games made around that time and before it had an output of less than standard definition (480i) and that due to that, most modern TV's (4KTVs) can't display such small resolutions on their screens.
While I didn't get around to testing out my Dreamcast on it yet, I thought that this may be a problem for some us if Dreamcast falls under the same issue when using the original AV cables instead of Component. Regardless, I know I still want to play my PS1 and Genesis games that I have even if my Dreamcast still works, so I purchased one of these:
AV to HDMI Converter
It was $35 on Amazon and I'll let you guys know how it works. At the very least it should help with clarity a little. There is a switch on it that allows the output go either to 720p or 1080p. I doubt it will fully upscale but should at least make the text look sharper and should allow the 4K display to actually display the game.
If any of you have a 4KTV, have any of you ran into any issues playing Dreamcast on your set?