SEGA developers revealed they developed a "fully playable" Shenmue 2 PS2 port but it never saw the light of day.
Shenmue 2 was later released on the Xbox, a year after the Dreamcast was discontinued. There was also an Xbox port of Shenmue, but that never saw the light of day for a different reason.
Shenmue 2 was eventually ported to the Xbox with an ... “The shaders for the Dreamcast were fixed, and the PlayStation 2 had to be programmed to support the shaders,” Wada explained.
A Sega Dreamcast classic from 1999 is getting a new remake this spring on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
Ever since I got my hands on a North American copy of Shenmue back in the year 2000 ... convenience store inside a piece of 25-year-old Dreamcast software, as well as real stores in Japan ...