The most impressive 32-BIT tech demo! Shenmue on the SEGA Saturn! 

The Shenmue prototype on the SEGA Saturn, is without any doubt the most impressive 32-BIT tech demo planet Earth has to offer! Yu Suzuki's AM2 devs were on another level of "skill"! Find my "SPECIALS" playlist here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZrVtr9RZcYs.html

Wow so they where actually planning on doing Shenmue 1 & 2 on Sega Saturn back in 1994 but decided to hold it off till they dropped the Sega Dreamcast...! It looks really Amazing on the Saturn port!

I wish I could live in the universe where this was made for the SATURN :). thanks for sharing

This Demo and PZ Saga demonstrate that it is not about the power of the Sega Saturn, but the effort and the willingness to work hard of the developers. This game would have been one of the best games ever in Saturn. For some reason 8, 16 and 32 bit era have some magic that cannot be replicated in modern graphics. Modern games have no soul.

Apparently the Saturn utilized its sound chip to help aid the 3D rendering of this game, literally pulling resources from every corner of the console.

this would've looked better than anything the PS1 had to offer.

Quality of faces in unprecedented on a 32 bit hardware. I wish we could obtain the full reel or even a playable version

damn if this would have released on the saturn in idk 96' playstation would be gone

It probably look even better on CRT

This is mind blowing!!!

I hope there was a rom for this and to let the community see and expand the source code

this and Virtua fighter 3 that was to be released on saturn

This was absolutely insane by the time. i saw this tech demo for 1st time like 2006 - 07 here on YT and my chin went down to the floor immediately!! 3D advanced techniques like complete polygonal eyes with full movement and facial expressions, full motion capture with actors! also not only shenmue1 but shenmue2 is shown in this tech demo as well . I came to think this development was not being executed on a normal saturn but a ram upgraded one (6 or 8mb ram). Anyways great video! #HailSEGA

Yes it is.

Whats also crazy is that this basically shows gameplay from shenmue 1, 2, and even a little of the beginning of 3.

They should have released this on the Saturn; the console NEEDED this.

If im not wrong yu suzuki has confirmed that unfortunately this demo didnt run on a stock saturn, but on a 3d accelerated addon they were working on for the saturn... theres an interview where he confirms this.

Dam impressive

I feel the Yakuza dna in here

Sega..... Where the hell was your focus between 1993-1996.... You let noobs body your legacy in one generation.

Its paintful to watch this😢

There was an actual trailer, cant find it anymore.

La gente olvida que esto es una demo y no un juego, y que el framerate es terrible. Como demo esta muy bien, pero me parecen demostraciones mucho mejores el Sonic R y las demos del unreal homebrew de saturn

Be better off paying for this one then the last one Even as a bonus game by buying the latest one

His fathers death scene in the saturn version will never not make me laugh.

The Saturn was basically on par with the N64, Even more so with extra 4MB ram. It not insane to think Sonic Advanture 1 & 2 could've worked at 512x240 with 950k quads with advanced effects/textures. Sega should've gave out dev tools that would've made coding on the system easy. It had 480MB/s bandwidth without the latency that the N64 suffered from.

This does look amazing but I doubt you could get anything playable at this level on Saturn. When you add in game logic, sound, collision ect I think it would just be too much. I would love to be proven wrong though