This doesn't fix my issue, which is it messes with the original framing. Not that Shenmue is the most cinematic game, but it looks way weirder seeing everything scrunched into the center with just empty background on the sides.
YS net always said an Xbox release could happen at a later date. I think they wanted to limit the platforms initially cause that makes the dev cycle easier for them or something, but unless something's changed I'd say an Xbox port was always likely.
Well there it is then.
I think whatever Yu Suzuki said has been largely misconstrued. When asked about an Xbox release, urged people to "use their imagination" in regards to discussions that had taken place already with Microsoft, and how they were unwilling to support the project in the first place.
I spoke to a producer at the time Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing came out and he said AM2 had all or most of the recordings in higher quality.
It's off topic, but where? He hasn't showed up much on Sonic Retro since Mania came out, and barely posts on Twitter anymore and when it is it's about his personal projects.
No, Sumo couldn't have cleaned it up to sound that good, it doesn't work that way. Voice audio was downsampled to 8khz and sometimes 11khz, depending on whether it's cutscenes or random NPC's. While you can upsample audio again, you've already lost the higher frequencies and no amount of cleanup is going to get you audio as a good the recordings from All Stars Racing. Shenmue the Movie had the better quality voices, so there's another place they were used. I don't know the sources for your reference either, but it's possible that perhaps what they had access to was the original recordings from the studio each day. If that is the case, they would have to slice up tens of thousands of audio clips to match the already separated clips that were downsampled for the original game.
Is it common knowledge that there's a limited edition in Japan? I didn't know until I stumbled across it today.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B07G4Q9XRF/
Comes with a two-CD soundtrack of music from both games (40 tracks), which as far as I'm aware is the first time Shenmue II has had any kind of official soundtrack release.
Edit: Ah, it's not common knowledge because it was only announced today. Weird coincidence.
You don't need Google Translate. There's a language toggle at the top of the homepage (might be at the bottom on the mobile site IIRC). Doesn't translate item descriptions but it does all the signup and order forms, etc.
Is it common knowledge that there's a limited edition in Japan? I didn't know until I stumbled across it today.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B07G4Q9XRF/
Comes with a two-CD soundtrack of music from both games (40 tracks), which as far as I'm aware is the first time Shenmue II has had any kind of official soundtrack release.
Edit: Ah, it's not common knowledge because it was only announced today. Weird coincidence.
Uh guys, Amazon Japan allows me to ship it to the Canary Islands. Rule of thumb: if it ships to the Canary Islands it ships to every corner of the planet lol
that's... dumb as fuck lol
