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    Can anyone read this Shenmue kanji?

    If anyone can read this, that would be great. This is a Shenmue video I purchased on eBay, but I cannot read kanji(kanji is what assembler told me this is).

    http://i17.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/50/4f/aa_1_b.JPG

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    1st word is katakana - says shienmuu. Next 2 characters are kanjii - ichi and shou. 3rd bit I'm finding hard.

    Shienmuu = shenmue
    Ichi = 1
    Shou = badge or chapter

    so... Shenmue first chapter ?

    *edit* sorry I'm back!!!

    Umm, well I can't translate the last word, but the first character is yoko - so I'm guessing Yokosuka.

    So your sentence says:

    Shenmue Chapter 1: Yokosuka
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    Shenmue Issho Yokosuka

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    Ah, excellent. Thanks guys.

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    Quote Originally Posted by retro
    1st word is katakana - says shienmuu
    That's a small "e" after the "shi", making it "she", so it's really "shenmuu". Still doesn't explain why the hell they called it "shenmue" - that's just asking to be pronounced wrong. For ages (until I saw the box) I thought it was pronounced "Shenmué"...
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    Because "Mue" is Chinese?
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    Was it? I dunno, I never played the first game. And I sucked at the second.
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    Play the first! It is good! It has all those elements you look for in a video game... a Sega Saturn, a games arcade, annoying voice overs, and a trap for paedophiles.

    Don't believe me? Play the game! It won't be long before a little boy comes up to you and asks, "Hey Mr., do YOU want to play with me?"

    /snigger
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    huh?? o_O
    now come to think of oh yea~~~... Xp
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    Dude -- play dat shit! It's a lovely game. And yeah, Kyuu is right. Just about every name that isn't obviously Japanese (and the tools they got to play "Americans") are Chinese.

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    Quote Originally Posted by retro
    Don't believe me? Play the game! It won't be long before a little boy comes up to you and asks, "Hey Mr., do YOU want to play with me?"

    /snigger
    :smt042 Ryo's the new Michael Jackson!
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    I guess while we're on this topic, can someone point me to a site that has audio samples of all those gay pickup lines Ryo said? I never played the ENG version, so didn't really know about them until recently.

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    I'd actually looked before, but come up with nothing. I'll see what I can do - if not i'll try hooking up my Dreamcast to my PC and sampling them.... that one's worth it for sure ;)

    And the voiceovers are appauling!
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    Yeah, the hideous dub is one of the things that put me off even touching Shenmue. I lost the will to live when attempting playing Grandia 2 for similar reasons...
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    get Shenmue The Movie.
    the cheapo(HK) one has the English voiceover which sucks major... :p

    should be able to pick up used DVD copy for around $5 off eBay...
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    So non-HK copies have Japanese voices? I was under the impression that it was only in English.

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    Shenmue the movie is English only. Yuu Suzuki the tool thought that the English voices sounded good. Just goes to show you that he has no idea what English "Should" sound like. Shenmue or any other game dubbed sounds bloody awful in English.

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    Just like any anime. Since I got a DVD player (or should I say PS2), I have never had to watch an English dub ever again!
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    Most of these game developers than can't speak English have far too much of a fascination with it. Anything "international" (FFVII, X, Xenosaga, etc.) should at least have an option to turn that bullshit off. Last I checked, they don't... not for the voices anyway.

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