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I know what you mean about the crowded areas slow-down!
That really bugged-me in the first one, how they'd just pop-up infront of you without warning. But I still play both games in 60Hz mode - better graphics I believe?

I'm sure I will be going-back through the whole Shenmue adventure sometime in the future after i've finnished no.II, so I will get to have my own toys and that.


Strangest thing happened though...
On my first day in... (South Korea is it?), I got a Winning Can from a Drinks Machine. But now I cannot find it anywhere.
I'm not that bothered or nothing, i'll probably never use my Dreamcast on-line anyway.

I wouldn't worry about not being able to carry over your data from Shenmue 1. Not much is carried over anyway - just the toys you collected.
I can't remember if your money is carried over, but it doesn't really matter, because Ryo has his bag stolen at the start of Shenmue II and loses all his dosh anyway.

I always play Shenmue I&II in 50hz, as on 60hz the slowdown in crowded areas is pretty bad.

There's still something I don't like about Shenmue II...
And it's to do with the fact that I cannot continue my original Cleared Game from Shenmue over into this one. :(

And it's all because I only have 1 Memory Card.

I've got one of those Blue ones SR sell for around £15 - 4 times the size of the Official VMU's, priced around the same.
It's split up into 4 things - each one containing 200 blocks.

On the first of those 4 things, I have all my Dreamcast games saved there - inlcuding Shenmue. But I only have 18 bocks free, but Shenmue II needs about 22. So I cannot save it into that one of the 4.
And you can't continue the game from one section, and save it into the other either.
Further more, I can't even copy the Shenmue data into another section or even another Memory Card - because I don't have one.

So I had to start a new game of Shenmue II from scratch in the 2nd section.
By the way, these Memory Cards ARE very-reliable for un-official ones. Only things is that they have no screen though. :(


I'm just interested to know what i'm missing now.
You start the game with no money in Shenmue II, but would you have some if you continued your Saved Data from the first adventure??

Solskjær wrote:
> So I must have one of the earlier copies then... still a shame I
> couldn't get one of the later ones though.

Every DC Shenmue II has Japanese voices.
I, along with thousands of others, signed an online petition to try and sway SEGA into translating it into English voices - but to no avail. In the end though, most people ended up liking the Japanese voices.

> There isn't anything like an Action Replay Cart or anything that
> converts the speech to English is there? Just out of interest.

I doubt it.

> I bet the X-Box version will have English in it though. :P

It definately will - but will it be released in Europe? At this point, nobodies really sure.

Thanks, that makes me feel so-much better! :)

So I must have one of the earlier copies then... still a shame I couldn't get one of the later ones though.

And what's that you say.... America didn't get it - AT ALL???? :D


There isn't anything like an Action Replay Cart or anything that converts the speech to English is there? Just out of interest.


I bet the X-Box version will have English in it though. :P

You didn't know that Shenmue II (PAL) has Japanese voices eh?
That must of come as a bit of a surprise.

Many people (me included) think it gives the game a more authentic feel - tho it is a bit tiresome sometimes having to read all the text.

SEGA just did a quick conversion in the dying days of the Dreamcast in order to get it out and fulfil their promise of a Euro release.
America didn't get it at all.

Shenmue II? Brillaint game!
The series has continued-on in the same-way that made me love the first one so-much! There's just one problem though....

THE SPEECH IS IN JAPANESE!!!!
Surely this isn't normal for a PAL game??

If you've got this game in PAL form, does yours has Japanese in-game speech??

The text (which I know have to read all the way through) is all in English and everything, and that Shenmue Digest thing on Disc 4 is all in English too... but why would a PAL game be in Japanese??

I'm gunna e-mail the guy I brought it from later and try to solve the puzzle here. But I am trying to look at things positively here...

I'm delighted I finally have the game, and I know I will not be able to find it Brand New (which it was) anywhere else. So i'm DEFINITLEY keeping it. And I think the Japanese talk will only help to increase the feel and effect I get from this epic adventure and it's Asian styles.

Shenmue II arrived yesterday, but since no-one was hear to answer the door, I missed it. :(

But I got it from the local Post Office today, and i'm about to go play it in a moment. :D

I reckon it'll be well-worth the £35 I spent.
The only reason I haven't yet played it is because I also got Mario SunShine today. :)

Some good gaming ahead :)

Well, I posted the order for Shenmue II yesterday, so if it all goes to plan and doesn't get lost in the post, it should be recieved tommorow. :)

Then it's just a matter of waiting a few days for the Cheque to clear, and when that's done, providing he still has some copies left, the game will be dismissed and on its way to me while I await for its arrival with Super Mario SunShine on the GameCube. :D

Ah, life rules!