--- Excalibur007 <kevinmos3@...> wrote:

On the subject of movies... have you seen the Saturn
Shenmue that's
on the 4th disc of Shenmue 2? I just watched that the
other day for
the first time. Does anyone know more information
about it? Was
that demo really done on a Saturn? Parts of it look
like a Saturn,
but other parts of it look like "there's no way the
Saturn could do
that". ;)

Later,
-Ex





Yes I have (ages ago) and yes it was originally
planned for the Saturn.... 16 Chapters spanning 4
discs per chapter!
Obviously they cut alot down and/or decided to delay
it for the following console as it was taking too long
to make and would look better on the DC.


Since it was a *demo* then yes, most likely it was all
Saturn... thats the thing about demo's... they show
exactly what the machine is capable of, but once you
get in game having to deal with large levels that you
can go anywhere in you have to limit polygons and
textures etc. due to processing power etc...

I still have some old Official Sega Magzines (UK) that
have pics of some 32X (aka Sega 32X) demo's (done by
some Norwegian/Danish company) that completely
outshine the graphics found in any of the 32X games.
Infact the demo's would look more at home on the
Dreamcast/PS2/Gamecube.


I'll *try* to rewatch that again tomorrow.


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk@...