Shenmue not working on Dreamcast

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Hey,

I just got Shenmue and I started to play it and I got about 10 minutes into it, then it froze, so I turned off the system then turned it back on, the game would get to the SEGA screen then go back to the menu. I resurfaced it, cleaned the Dreamcast's lens, and it still falls in the same patern. Would this be disk corruption? Is there anyway to fix it?

-RJ

[Mozgus]

Is it a retail copy? Check for any label side damage by holding the disc up to a light and looking for any tiny holes.

[corn619]

I learned the hard way that resurfacing DC discs is almost always certain death to the disc. I had 5 discs of mine resurfaced by a store that is pretty good with resurfacing and none of them worked after, all my PS2 games work fine after but my DC games were screwed. Try erasing the save file sometimes the save file is corrupted and the game won't start also try another VMU sometimes the VMU sucks hope this helps.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I learned the hard way that resurfacing DC discs is almost always certain death to the disc. I had 5 discs of mine resurfaced by a store that is pretty good with resurfacing and none of them worked after, all my PS2 games work fine after but my DC games were screwed. Try erasing the save file sometimes the save file is corrupted and the game won't start also try another VMU sometimes the VMU sucks hope this helps.

cant get far enough into the game to save . The other DC games ive had resufaced and or repaired work fine mozgus. It is a retail copy.

[Niode]

Get an image off the net somewhere. (not hard to find it's one of the most popular games for DC). Burn it to disk. If the you can get further on the backup then you know it's not the DC. The retail copy is probably borked. I would never get a DC game resurfaced due to them not having the same layout as a CD-rom. (the inner ring is slightly larger afaik). I remember talking to friend of mine who owned a game store back when the DC had been out for a while and I enquired about resurfacing DC games and she said that she couldn't recomend it, she had a few disks not being fixed by it so just refused them from then on.

If the resurfacing didn't kill it, it was broken before you got it (im assuming it's used).

I'm just glad I got all the rare DC titles the day they came out! In hindsight I wish I had got 2 copies and kept one sealed but ah well.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Get an image off the net somewhere. (not hard to find it's one of the most popular games for DC). Burn it to disk. If the you can get further on the backup then you know it's not the DC. The retail copy is probably borked. I would never get a DC game resurfaced due to them not having the same layout as a CD-rom. (the inner ring is slightly larger afaik). I remember talking to friend of mine who owned a game store back when the DC had been out for a while and I enquired about resurfacing DC games and she said that she couldn't recomend it, she had a few disks not being fixed by it so just refused them from then on.

If the resurfacing didn't kill it, it was broken before you got it (im assuming it's used).

I'm just glad I got all the rare DC titles the day they came out! In hindsight I wish I had got 2 copies and kept one sealed but ah well.

im not much of a person that likes to do the ISO's and such, i got 35 minutes into it yesterday but it froze, i think it IS the dreamcast because some of the games my friend had that worked perfectly dont like to run on it, South Park being the one off of my head, besides, i need to buy a backup DC anyway.

[grittykitty]

does it freeze at a certain point, or after a certain amount of time? i had a burned copy of pso that used to freeze at a specific point - as expected, that ended up being a problem with the disc. but, if your game freezes after a certain amount of play time, then i would blame it on the system. just a wild guess here, but if the system is the culprit then you might want to check the connections inside the system itself.

[Niode]

What do you mean when you say it freezes? Does it freeze on one frame? Or does it just go back to the system menu (the one with the bouncy clock, vmu etc)

If it's freezing (IE Lock up) on one frame then i'm not sure if there's a fix for that. The system is probably broken beyond repair. If it's booting you back to the system menu then you need to do the PSU fix. Just google for it. It'll bring up a ton of results.