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- Jan 27, 2020
Hello everyone, it has been a while since I have last posted here. ^^! I hope everyone is doing well.
I was very excited to finally be able to buy the Japanese version of Shenmue. I did so with the sole purpose of learning Japanese, even better than I had with the original US version. The problem quickly surfaced though, that I can not read the kanji hardly at all in both subtitles and the journal as I recall. It seems that the kanji are too blurry on my screen. Anything that has more than a few strokes become painfully, if not completely unreadable.
I am not sure if it is because I have an American TV or maybe just not that great of a TV and some how that is the issue. The TV was around the same time the Dreamcast and the original Shenmue came out and was an ok one back then, so I can not believe that to be the sole problem. Is the screen filtered in such a way that just makes Japanese text unreadable on American ones? The English text from the English version can be seen just fine on the same TV. The kana from the Japanese version can be seen ok as well or at least better than the kanji.
PS. I just tried to play the game again on the same TV to report the issue better here and it is no longer functioning, the TV that is. So I am going to have to buy a new TV anyway for my games. So do I need to buy a TV with a specific function or from a particular location/region? I only have a handful of Japanese ones, so it will mostly be for American games, but also for those handful of Japanese as well. Thank you.
I was very excited to finally be able to buy the Japanese version of Shenmue. I did so with the sole purpose of learning Japanese, even better than I had with the original US version. The problem quickly surfaced though, that I can not read the kanji hardly at all in both subtitles and the journal as I recall. It seems that the kanji are too blurry on my screen. Anything that has more than a few strokes become painfully, if not completely unreadable.
I am not sure if it is because I have an American TV or maybe just not that great of a TV and some how that is the issue. The TV was around the same time the Dreamcast and the original Shenmue came out and was an ok one back then, so I can not believe that to be the sole problem. Is the screen filtered in such a way that just makes Japanese text unreadable on American ones? The English text from the English version can be seen just fine on the same TV. The kana from the Japanese version can be seen ok as well or at least better than the kanji.
PS. I just tried to play the game again on the same TV to report the issue better here and it is no longer functioning, the TV that is. So I am going to have to buy a new TV anyway for my games. So do I need to buy a TV with a specific function or from a particular location/region? I only have a handful of Japanese ones, so it will mostly be for American games, but also for those handful of Japanese as well. Thank you.