Tue, Apr 27, 2010 | 10:54 BST

PartnerNet snap hints at Shenmue II download

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Shenmue 3! Not really. Project Berkeley II! Possibly.

Another image from “XboxLeaker” today has dropped a potential fan-heavy bombshell, showing a listing for “Project Berkeley II”.

The shot apparently comes from PartnerNet, and obviously suggests that Shenmue II may be heading Xboxward as a download.

This is the same source that seemingly outed a downloadable version of Jet Set Radio yesterday.

Project Berkeley was an original codename for Yu Suzuki’s giant, Dreamcast-based ego-wank.

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15 comments

Tomo
27/04/10, 10:57 am

Never got round to Shenmue 2, so I’d lap this up in an instant.

mington
27/04/10, 11:01 am

I saw a leaked Shenmue picture yesterday which looked mega fake.

This probably holds a little more weight…a little

I don’t think i’d want to play through it again, although Ren was a fucking bad ass

Aimless
27/04/10, 11:04 am

Based off what’s been seen of the Sonic Adventure port, even if this game does exist it’ll be a shoddy, no-frills conversion.

I’d happily buy it — and a plethora of other Dreamcast games — if Sega are willing to put a bit of effort in, mind.

mington
27/04/10, 11:07 am

Heres the thing from yesterday

http://scrawlfx.com/2010/04/rumor-shenmue-also-coming-to-xbox-live-arcade

@3 its all no-frills which completely sucks, as if they showed jet set radio some love it would be out of this world

Gekidami
27/04/10, 11:12 am

Shenmue 2 was already on Xbox, you’ve have thought that they’d have put it for download along with the other ‘classic’ games.

mington
27/04/10, 11:19 am

I think they update the graphics slightly

Fin
27/04/10, 11:22 am

Where’s my Phantasy Star Online XBLA?!!? DO WANT!!

elronathon
27/04/10, 11:25 am

My goodness, this is one of my favourite games ever. Jet Set Radio too…although I have them on the DC still I think I might well get suckered into these again!

mington
27/04/10, 11:27 am

i played phantasy star on my dreamcast for over 200 hours, i know thats not much in this age of WoW but it was a fucking lot for me back then

I had a character with over 100 hours of play and i saved over him by accident when i created a character so me and a friend could go online and abuse people, as it turned out the joke was on me. i was almost brought to tears

Phantasy stars already on the Xbox anyways you have to pay monthly to play it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasy_Star_Universe

#10

Gekidami
27/04/10, 11:45 am

Heh, i played PSO for over 5 years through all the different versions. Doubt Sega would put it back up though, they’d have to charge for the servers.

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Fin
27/04/10, 11:45 am

@9 I was the same, I’d probably 500 hours over the three iterations (v1, v2, Ep I & II).

I’d a similar experience – had a level 100 HUnewearl on v1 with ~180 hours on her, pulled out the VMU without thinking while it was saving… Luckily I’d an Xploder cheat disc, was able to hack and modify and get a (close enough) version back. Phew!

Same thing happened with my first character – think he was a level 34 RAcast when I did the same thing.

Not Phantasy Star Universe – I want Phantasy Star Online! (V2 or Ep I & II, I wouldn’t be too bothered) No monthly fees! Keyboard support! Voice chat disabled! UNREEEEEAL!!

#12

mington
27/04/10, 11:53 am

…and a faster run speed would be nice