[Unofficial fanmade] Shenmue 1 in HD being recreated

[VR46]

Take a pill and calm back down, is nothing official, read below.

A Shenmue superfan is recreating Yu Suzuki's 2000 Dreamcast adventure in HD for a modern audience.

As spotted by Gamers Heroes, a Korean modder going by NoconKid on YouTube has been updating Shenmue's original asset to make them all nice and shiny.

NoconKid was originally just going to recreate the "Game You" arcade, but the project quickly escalated and now they've remade plenty of locations like the parks and tobacco shops, as well as added new arcade cabinets.

Since this is just a fan project, chances are slim that it will see a commercial release, but Sega has collaborated with fans this way in the past. The publisher's 2011 remake of Sonic CD was actually the work of a fan/coder named Christian Whitehead, who Sega decided to collaborate with on his masterful update. "Sega had done what few multinational companies of its size, age and resulatant inflexibility could have: made a fan a creative asset," wrote Simon Parkin in our Sonic CD review.

Link

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-08-18-shenmue-fan-is-remaking-the-classic-adventure-in-hd

[eastyy]

and now its known i see it being shut down very very soon

[VR46]

May as well remove mods, already posted in Shenmue 3 thread.

[Radirgy]

1st rule of this kind of project is you keep it under wraps until it is done.

[randombs]

^^ I know what you mean. But there's hope because Sega did nothing about Streets of Rage Remake until the actual release day. They shut it down pronto but the hype surrounding it means it's still easy to get hold of in its finished form. In fact, I wonder if Sega did it like that on purpose. They could've shut it down so much sooner but left it, which meant we got to play the betas and keep up with the project.

I'm hoping the same thing happens here.

I doubt they'd collaborate like they did with Sonic CD but it might depend on their own digital distribution plans for Shenmue 1 and 2.