Translation Dreamcast

What's Shenmue English translation

シェンムー ~湯川(元)専務をさがせ~ · What's Shenmue: Yukawa (Moto) Senmu o Sagase

A fan team's English translation of What's Shenmue, Sega's Japan-only Dreamcast demo disc in which Ryo hunts for a Sega executive around Dobuita, with Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese options too.

What's translated

Every menu and subtitle is in English, and a few important graphics were redrawn. Later updates fixed typos in the generic townspeople's lines and reworked some pedestrian dialogue. The same patcher also offers Spanish, German and, since version 1.0.4, Brazilian Portuguese.

Playing it

The team's patcher works on your own copy of the Japanese disc and rebuilds it with the translated files, following the instructions that come with it. The source code and assets of the patcher are published in the GitHub repository linked here.

Credits

Hacking by YZB, Indiket and IlDucci; English translation by Switch and Rakim; proofreading by Merlin Fontana; graphics by BlueMue and IlDucci; built on the Shenmue Translation Pack tools by Manic, ShenDream and Sizious.

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