Shenmue Options Guide/FAQ v. 1.0
© 2000 John M. Adriatico
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2/5/2000
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This part of the FAQ will help those non-Japanese speaking Shenmue fans (like
myself- no, really, I had to experiment A LOT to make this guide!! ;-)) through
the Main Menu. After pressing Start, you are transported to the main menu and
here are your choices. Choose by highlighting and pressing the A button. (Menus
from top to bottom, going clockwise):
New Game- Starts off Shenmue from the beginning of the game.
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Continue- If you save your game during play and when it stops at the lock screen
after that, reset the game by pressing A+B+X+Y/Start and go to the main menu and
continue the same way that you would load a save game in the Load & Start menu.
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Options- Configure your Shenmue game-playing experience here.
Use D-pad to select, A or B to exit, except on third bar, push A to select
Control and Sound Configurations.
First Bar- Children's Mode
Left Selection- On. Will make 98% of on-screen text appear in the Japanese
alphabets of Hiragana and Katakana, which is more easily readable then the other
alphabet, Kanji, and if you would like to attempt to read the Kata and Hiragana,
you can find guides online which will help you.
(Note: This will also disable all other choices in the second (perspective mode)
menu and automatically select the Normal (Game) Mode where Speech and Text are
turned on.)
Right Selection- Off. Will make 98% of on-screen text appear in the Japanese
alphabet of Kanji. This alphabet is very similar to Chinese, and consists of
over 2,000 characters. If you are not really interested in what the characters
are saying, or if you would like to explore the other perspective modes, choose
this option.
Second Bar-Perspective Mode
(Going from Far Left to Last Right)
Children's Mode must be off to select these.
First Selection- Cinema Mode. Makes Shenmue play out more like a movie and
disables text on-screen.
Second Selection- Scenery Mode. Will put more emphasis on your surroundings and
scenery. Text and Speech both enabled.
Third Selection- Game (Normal) Mode. The standard mode, it gives you more of a
first-person experience than with the other modes. Of course, text and speech
are on.
Fourth Selection- Quest? Mode. Mostly Like Scenery mode, except for no speech,
only text.
Third Bar- Control and Sound Configurations
(Highlight sub (menu)bar when in main options menu and press A to enter)
Left and Right refer to pressing left or right on the D-Pad when highlighting
the bar and seeing the options to the right of the lozenge-shaped (normal) bar.
Menu Bar 1- Sound Selections. Left- Mono / Right-Stereo
Choose Mono only if you are using a non-stereo TV. To experience the best
quality sound on a stereo TV or with a stereo connection, leave the selection as
stereo.
Menu Bar 2- Area Selections Left- Off / Right- On
Turning this on will, when you exit the Hazuki household, give you a choice of
where you want to go automatically, without you having to guide Ryu there
yourself.
There are four options. Going clockwise from top:
1. City of Dobuita
2. Entrance to Sakuragaoka
3. Entrance to Yamanose
4. Outside the gate of the Hazuki household.
It switches around sometimes too..
Menu Bar 3- Trigger Options
The default mode is to leave this to the right side, where the left trigger is
to have a first-person view and the right trigger makes Hazuki-san run like the
wind! (Ok, not exactly, but you get my point...) Choosing the left option will
reverse the trigger functions.
Menu Bar 4- Year On/Off
Left- On / Right- Off
Do you like being in 1986? Hmmm... 1986.... I was one year old back then! But if
you don't want to see the year displayed whenever you enter somewhere next to
the date and above the time, choose the right option to turn off the year
display, but note , time will still progress and the month, date and time will
still be shown.
Fourth Bar- 70 Man Battle Mode
Please note: This will only be available once you complete the game and save the
clear data!!!
It's like the fight you had where Chin Taijin's son helped you out by fighting
alongside of you, but this time you're on your own! Pretty fun, I might add.
I hope that this FAQ helped you out a lot and enhanced your Shenmue-playing
experience! Remember, you can always change the options by pushing the Y button
during game play and selecting the mini Dreamcast controller. Any corrections,
comments or suggestions are appreciated. Please do not E-Mail me for tips or
translations for scenes or events in Shenmue!
There are many excellent guides available at places like: (To name a few only)
http://www.gamefaqs.com
http://guides.ign.com (requires registration)
Thank you for reading and thanks to the Sega/CRI AM2 Team and Yu Suzuki for
their gift to gameplayers of the 21st century- Shenmue!!!
Remember, please visit my website!!!
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/anotherplace
Sayonara and see you next chapter...
Johnny-san
