What's Shenmue: Yukawa (Moto) Senmu o Sagase

For the VHS video, see What's Shenmue (VHS).

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What's Shenmue: Yukawa (Moto) Senmu o Sagase
System(s): Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Developer: Sega Software R&D Dept. 2
Peripherals supported: Dreamcast VGA Box
Genre: Demo
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1999-08-05 FREEfree 610-7179 JP (Famitsu) 1999

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What's Shenmue: Yukawa (Moto) Senmu o Sagase (What's シェンムー ～湯川(元)専務をさがせ～) is a promotional Sega Dreamcast disc for Shenmue. It was given away shortly before the Japanese release of the game.

What's Shenmue is not a very big demo - it introduces the main characters and details what the game is about, before allowing the player to control the protagonist of the series, Ryo, around a portion of Dobuita. The ultimate aim of What's Shenmue is to find the then senior managing director of Sega, Hidekazu Yukawa. Once found, Ryo needs to chase him down the street in a series of quick time events, then defend him from a gang of "thugs" (before Hidekazu Yukawa wakes up in a room filled with unsold Dreamcasts to find it was all a dream).

Being a demo, What's Shenmue has a number of small differences to the final game. Tom wears a different sweater, Ryo can crouch, there are dogs and some of the NPCs which block the paths do not appear in the final game at all (but do appear in Shenmue II).

Magazine articles

Main article: What's Shenmue: Yukawa (Moto) Senmu o Sagase/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Dreamcast, JP
Cover

Dreamcast, JP (Famitsu)
Cover

Technical information

Main article: What's Shenmue: Yukawa (Moto) Senmu o Sagase/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	1,188,907,776	1999-07-20	GD-ROM (JP)	610-7179 V1.004
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	1,188,907,776	1999-07-20	GD-ROM (JP)	610-7375 V1.004 (Famitsu-ban)
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1999-07-19					Page