Shenmue I & II mods via proton?

[Cascadoo]

Hi,

Recently started playing Shenmue I on steam via proton and tried to apply some mods that I followed from the "Shenmue Mods - A Step By Step Guide" video. So far I tried the widescreen fix, audio restoration, special K textures and a couple of the various texture mods but I noticed that none of these actually work when I start the game.

I also noticed that when trying to apply the shenmue II textures with special K, Shenmue II stops launching until I remove it.

Honestly the mods are not necessary for me to play but I am curious if anyone ever got the mods to work when running via proton? I did try taking a look through protondb but did find any reports that mentioned the use of mods.

 

[spud1897]

Hi,

Recently started playing Shenmue I on steam via proton and tried to apply some mods that I followed from the "Shenmue Mods - A Step By Step Guide" video. So far I tried the widescreen fix, audio restoration, special K textures and a couple of the various texture mods but I noticed that none of these actually work when I start the game.

I also noticed that when trying to apply the shenmue II textures with special K, Shenmue II stops launching until I remove it.

Honestly the mods are not necessary for me to play but I am curious if anyone ever got the mods to work when running via proton? I did try taking a look through protondb but did find any reports that mentioned the use of mods.

Don't use Special K it's horrendous. We did an updated video. Get rid of all the mods you have installed thus far and follow the update video here

 

[Cascadoo]

Thank you for the information. I was not aware of the issues with special K mod. Fortunately I had a copy of my installation before applying the mods and was able to revert and apply the "Better texture for Shenmue". Can confirm that it now works!

 

[Jibby]

Did you get widescreen working? If not, it's an awkward workaround but you may just need to use the patcher in a Windows VM and then copy the patched .exe files back across. I can't see WINE working too well with it.

 

[Cascadoo]

Did you get widescreen working? If not, it's an awkward workaround but you may just need to use the patcher in a Windows VM and then copy the patched .exe files back across. I can't see WINE working too well with it.

That is exactly what I did, just sharing the shenmue installation directory on a windows VM. Unfortunately the cut scenes still do not play in widescreen. I will note that when dragging the exe to the batch file on the VM, there was an error of not being able to find a specific file which I forgot. The batch file does go through the process saying completed successfully. I can probably try migrating install to a native windows installation and do the patching from there but that will probably be more trouble than it's worth.

 

[AltGr]

The batch file does work on Wine like: wine '/path/to/DRAGnDROP Shenmue EXE HERE.bat' '/path/to/Shenmue.exe'

In any case all it does is edit some hex values, so you can just use ghex or okteta or whatever hex editor you want and search for the 4 patterns written in the bath file for the v1.07 (like 89 15 1C BB BB 00) and replace them with the corresponding "patch-patterns" (90 90 90 90 90 90).

For mods that use Forklift, right-clik on the game in Steam and select Properties and add the launch option: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xinput1_3=n,b" %command%

 

[Cascadoo]

The batch file does work on Wine like: wine '/path/to/DRAGnDROP Shenmue EXE HERE.bat' '/path/to/Shenmue.exe'

In any case all it does is edit some hex values, so you can just use ghex or okteta or whatever hex editor you want and search for the 4 patterns written in the bath file for the v1.07 (like 89 15 1C BB BB 00) and replace them with the corresponding "patch-patterns" (90 90 90 90 90 90).

For mods that use Forklift, right-clik on the game in Steam and select Properties and add the launch option: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xinput1_3=n,b" %command%

Thank you, will give this a try.