Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A look at Beta Yamanose and Sakuragaoka in the glorious light of the rerelease.
These maps have been brought over from the 0.400 Debug Beta.
It was a pretty simple job as I just put the area folders into the right place with the names of the regular Yamanose and Sakuragaoka and Forklift loaded them in.
There is no music loaded for these maps and there are very little sound effects. For some reason you can hear the fridge motor hum in certain places. To make it less dull the unused FREE 1 music has been added, wich had been provided by Shenmue Fans.
A side effect of overwriting the original maps is that there is some geometry left over from these. Things like trees in the street shouldn't be there and Yamanose is fighting for what textures to use. The upside is that the beta maps are easily navigateabl without any tweaking whatsoever. Even the NPCs are still there aswell. Stairs work for the most part, but Ryo doesn't walk these automatically, may have some weird animation or fail to walk them down again if you run or sometime no matter what.
These maps are not meant for regular gameplay however. Triggering the wrong stuff with NPCs or any cutscene will immedately result in a crash. The loading zones are also not working so you cannot leave these areas at all.
A look at Beta Yamanose and Sakuragaoka in the glorious light of the rerelease.
These maps have been brought over from the 0.400 Debug Beta.
It was a pretty simple job as I just put the area folders into the right place with the names of the regular Yamanose and Sakuragaoka and Forklift loaded them in.
There is no music loaded for these maps and there are very little sound effects. For some reason you can hear the fridge motor hum in certain places. To make it less dull the unused FREE 1 music has been added, wich had been provided by Shenmue Fans.
A side effect of overwriting the original maps is that there is some geometry left over from these. Things like trees in the street shouldn't be there and Yamanose is fighting for what textures to use. The upside is that the beta maps are easily navigateabl without any tweaking whatsoever. Even the NPCs are still there aswell. Stairs work for the most part, but Ryo doesn't walk these automatically, may have some weird animation or fail to walk them down again if you run or sometime no matter what.
These maps are not meant for regular gameplay however. Triggering the wrong stuff with NPCs or any cutscene will immedately result in a crash. The loading zones are also not working so you cannot leave these areas at all.
