VMU archiving project

[streeker]

Aaaaaaaah, okay. So it seems to be a 2-Player-only minigame.
Thanks for the hint!
I will try it with two VMUs then - hopefully I still have enough batteries at home

Addendum: having two VMUs connected actually did the trick!!
BTW, this has been about "Bababa Battle" - the minigame from "Real Sound - Kaze No Regret".

[Xiden]

Shenmue - man this game is huge... It took about a week just to compile a list of all the character animations (DLC), that are still missing. With the help of the (unlocked) Shenmue Passport disc, an almost perfect savegame and a helpful website (http://orchardslope.g1.xrea.com/shenmue/p1.html), I've manged to get it all together.

Overall there has been once a total of 339 character animations for the "Shenmue Goodies" VMU minigame. 4 of these came with the minigame itself, the other 335 could have been downloaded in exchange for "winning cans". Yet, in order for these characters to appear on the listing in "Shenmue Passport", Ryo had to have talked to or crossed paths with them at least once.

207 animations are currently in circulation, the other 132 are missing. I would be nice, if at least some of these could surface somehow. I'd love to add as many as possible to the VMU collection set for a June 30th release. So, in case you still own some of the "Shenmue Goodies" please go through the following lists and let me know, if you find something.

This is the list of all wanted characters in alphabetical order:

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Akihiro Ishida
Akihisa Shigematsu
Akimichi Kunieda
Akira Fujiwara
Arihiro Sato
Atsushi Kuwata
Atsushi Sayama
Bob Dickson
Daisuke Joujima
Daisuke Ono
Eiji Tonomura
Fumihiko Hotei
Fumio Ebina
Genzo Todaka
Giichi Imaichi
Goshi Uchiyama
Hajime Sato
Haruo Asano
Hidekazu Himuro
Hideki Tajima
Hiromasa Ono
Hironobu Kikuchi
Hiroshi Sakiyama
Hiroyuki Kiba
Hiroyuki Orihara
Hitoshi Kai
Hitoshi Numakubo
Ichiro Tano
Isao Terashima
Jack Nickinen
Jake Lambert
Jin Kaido
Jin Kano
Junko Yamamoto
Kaname Honjo
Katsutoshi Busujima
Kazuhiro Ino
Kazuki Goya
Kazuomi Narasaki
Kazushi Shoji
Kei Yamashita
Kengo Kamijo
Kenichi Okabayashi
Kentaro Sekizaki
Kim Shihan
Kimie Udagawa
Kiminari Misawa
Kiyoshi Nishida
Ko Muratani
Kosaku Noda
Kosaku Shirono
Kosuke Saito
Kotaro Sumiya
Kyoichiro Konno
Kyosuke Hatanaka
Makoto Kanamori
Makoto Ogishima
Makoto Ojima
Masamune Tokuda
Masashi Yoneda
Masato Wada
Masaya Tokumitsu
Michiko Miyoshi
Minoru Asada
Mitsuru Iwata
Mitsuru Kumeta
Mohamad Hassan
Motohiro Anzai
Nanako Shinohara
Naomi Koshiba
Naomichi Aizawa
Naomichi Tsukamoto
Norihiko Kazuhara
Osamu Murakawa
Osamu Ushio
Paulo McCoy
Rin Kaido
Robert Wells
Roy Miller
Ryoko Nishizawa
Saburo Yoshino
Sadam Daei
Santa Maeno
Satoru Tsukakoshi
Shigeki Murayama
Shinobu Mita
Shota Yamaguchi
Shozo Endo
Shuichiro Ida
Shunsuke Tada
Suguru Hirano
Sumio Kosuge
Tadashi Muraoka
Tadatsugu Kimura
Taeko Nomura
Taiki Nimura
Takahiro Iwami
Takashi Watanabe
Takayuki Shibata
Takefumi Kagawa
Takeo Narumi
Takeru Majima
Takichi Yamada
Takuya Maruyama
Tatsuki Mitsumine
Tatsuya Honda
Terumasa Moriya
Tetsu Shimizu
Tomoaki Tange
Toshihito Takii
Toshimichi Fukui
Tsukasa Ishigaki
Tsuyoshi Seino
Wataru Koga
Wooden Man
Yasuo Kusano
Yasuomi Kujirai
Yasushi Shima
Yohei Sakamoto
Yoshiharu Hanaoka
Yoshihiro Horiuchi
Yoshihiro Oguchi
Yoshikazu Takahashi
Yoshinori Kondo
Yoshio Ishikawa
Yoshiyuki Tokuchi
Yuichi Tsuge
Yuka Komine
Yukio Satake
Yukito Tomonari
Yumi Morino
Yutaka Koizumi

The VMU filenames for the animations above should be different from the following,
i.e. these are the filenames of the animations I already have:

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V_SHENMUE005
V_SHENMUE007
V_SHENMUE008
V_SHENMUE009
V_SHENMUE010
V_SHENMUE011
V_SHENMUE012
V_SHENMUE013
V_SHENMUE014
V_SHENMUE015
V_SHENMUE016
V_SHENMUE017
V_SHENMUE019
V_SHENMUE020
V_SHENMUE022
V_SHENMUE023
V_SHENMUE024
V_SHENMUE025
V_SHENMUE026
V_SHENMUE027
V_SHENMUE028
V_SHENMUE029
V_SHENMUE030
V_SHENMUE031
V_SHENMUE032
V_SHENMUE033
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V_SHENMUE035
V_SHENMUE036
V_SHENMUE037
V_SHENMUE038
V_SHENMUE039
V_SHENMUE040
V_SHENMUE041
V_SHENMUE042
V_SHENMUE043
V_SHENMUE044
V_SHENMUE045
V_SHENMUE046
V_SHENMUE048
V_SHENMUE050
V_SHENMUE051
V_SHENMUE053
V_SHENMUE054
V_SHENMUE055
V_SHENMUE056
V_SHENMUE057
V_SHENMUE058
V_SHENMUE059
V_SHENMUE060
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V_SHENMUE065
V_SHENMUE069
V_SHENMUE070
V_SHENMUE071
V_SHENMUE072
V_SHENMUE073
V_SHENMUE074
V_SHENMUE075
V_SHENMUE076
V_SHENMUE077
V_SHENMUE078
V_SHENMUE081
V_SHENMUE082
V_SHENMUE083
V_SHENMUE084
V_SHENMUE086
V_SHENMUE087
V_SHENMUE088
V_SHENMUE089
V_SHENMUE091
V_SHENMUE093
V_SHENMUE094
V_SHENMUE096
V_SHENMUE100
V_SHENMUE101
V_SHENMUE103
V_SHENMUE105
V_SHENMUE108
V_SHENMUE112
V_SHENMUE113
V_SHENMUE114
V_SHENMUE115
V_SHENMUE117
V_SHENMUE121
V_SHENMUE122
V_SHENMUE123
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V_SHENMUE125
V_SHENMUE126
V_SHENMUE127
V_SHENMUE128
V_SHENMUE129
V_SHENMUE130
V_SHENMUE131
V_SHENMUE132
V_SHENMUE133
V_SHENMUE136
V_SHENMUE140
V_SHENMUE141
V_SHENMUE142
V_SHENMUE144
V_SHENMUE145
V_SHENMUE146
V_SHENMUE147
V_SHENMUE148
V_SHENMUE149
V_SHENMUE150
V_SHENMUE152
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V_SHENMUE160
V_SHENMUE161
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V_SHENMUE165
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V_SHENMUE168
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V_SHENMUE171
V_SHENMUE172
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V_SHENMUE174
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V_SHENMUE178
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V_SHENMUE187
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V_SHENMUE191
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V_SHENMUE197
V_SHENMUE198
V_SHENMUE199
V_SHENMUE202
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V_SHENMUE208
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V_SHENMUE263
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V_SHENMUE271
V_SHENMUE273
V_SHENMUE276
V_SHENMUE279
V_SHENMUE364
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V_SHENMUE368
V_SHENMUE369
V_SHENMUE391
V_SHENMUE392
V_SHENMUE393


Can you point me where you found a almost perfect savegame....

[streeker]

What are you up to??

The savegame I was referring to is from El Bucanero's VMU Backup CD - it's named V41425.VMS.
It will only work with the US version of the Shenmue Passport disc. Six characters haven't been met, according to the Shenmue Goodies overview.

[streeker]

Regarding "NBA 2K1 VMUv": I've managed to to alter icon from the VMS file by "hand-pixeling" one frame of the actual animation into the code using a hex editor So, it doesn't look that bootlegish (i.e. icon that reads "LCD Anim") anymore. I think I'm fine with the result for the time being.

But, it also came to my attention, that there have been "VMUv" animations for the other 2K1 sports games - namely "NFL 2K1" and "World Series Baseball 2K1" - as well... The former has been available on the following SEGA website: https://web.archive.org/web/20040212090 ... ndex.shtml. For the latter I couldn't find a proper SEGA microsite, but it has been mirrored on the following website back in the day: http://www.angelfire.com/games4/segafan ... games.html

So yeah, that's another two minigames/animations, which are still missing...

[streeker]

Okay guys, I'm in the middle of getting everything together for the release.
And I realised, I need help from somebody, who's in possession of one of the green GODZILLA VMUs - one that still has the original minigame installed.

The thing is, the minigame unlocks the "Collected Coliseum" mode in the Dreamcast game "Godzilla Generations". I'm trying to recreate this unlocking process, but I believe, the minigame has to be installed under its original filename - which I don't know yet. So, if one of you could help me out with just the filename, that would be great! Take a look at the example picture underneath to get an idea where to look for it. Thanks!

[slayer2k8]

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I have the VMU and if its the file name from the VMU manager screen i can do that.
If its something else you'll need to let me know.

[streeker]

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I have the VMU and if its the file name from the VMU manager screen i can do that.
If its something else you'll need to let me know.

I just realized, that you have be logged in to see the picture...
But, yeah. I only need the name from the VMU manager screen - middle row on the left side, should be about 12 characters long.

[OatBob]

Okay, here's what my copy looks like. I bought my green Godzilla VMU, used from a Japanese seller, and it has both files, Atsumete Gojira and Godzilla Generations. It's safe to assume the one feature has been activated.

Atsumete GOJIRA - VMU game

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あつめてゴジラ ~怪獣大集合~     GAME
GODZILLA              GODZILLA.VMS
1998/07/11 00:00    128ブロック

Godzilla Generations save

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ゴジラ・ジェネレーションズ   DATA
GODZILA_GEN     GODZILLA.DAT
1999/08/15 09:50      6ブロック

[streeker]

Atsumete GOJIRA - VMU game

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あつめてゴジラ ~怪獣大集合~     GAME
GODZILLA              GODZILLA.VMS
1998/07/11 00:00    128ブロック

Well, I've been able to recreate everything exactly as seen above. Still no luck on unlocking the special mode in "Godzilla Generations". I guess, I'm out of ideas now. Could it be that "Godzilla Generations" is actually looking for something hardware specific on the Godzilla VMU?

[OatBob]

btw, Maximum Impact is the one that advertises connectivity with the VMU game.