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Dreamcast save companion for Shenmue

Shenmue Companion

A VMU Pro companion app that connects directly to your real Dreamcast Shenmue save files. Play the side activities, earn and spend yen, collect capsule toys, and sync the results back into the real save data. The idea here is simple: make it feel like something that belongs beside Shenmue’s daily-life rhythm, not something shouting over it.

Forklift Racing Lucky Hit Save Sync
Shenmue Companion start screen

What it does

Shenmue Companion reads the real VMU save, lets you play Shenmue-flavoured side activities on the VMU Pro, then writes the results back with the proper integrity checks so the original game accepts everything cleanly.

It is less about spectacle and more about extending the feeling of the game: small rituals, side earnings, capsule collecting, and that oddly comforting texture Shenmue gives to ordinary things.

Side activities

  • Forklift Racing — top-down races with four forklifts, five Shenmue-inspired tracks, AI rivals, and yen betting.
  • Lucky Hit — the iconic plinko game with believable peg physics, three boards, and tuned payout curves.
  • Capsule Viewer — browse collected toys as rotating 3D spritesheets, filtered to only the items you actually own.

Save compatibility

  • US / NTSC — MK51059
  • EU / PAL — MK5105950
  • Japan — HDR0016
  • Backups — creates a .bak before each write
  • What gets updated — yen balance
  • Integrity — recalculates both VMS CRC-16 and Shenmue’s internal CRC-32