Hidden and Cut Content in Yakuza Games (7, 0, K1, K2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- I started having a look at the Like a Dragon files and found some interesting stuff. So, I thought I’d do the rest of the games I owned on PC :) I used QuickBMS to extract all of the files into the file browser so I could view them as images. They were all DDS files, so I used an intel plugin with Photoshop in order to view and edit some of the ones that I couldn't see with just the default Windows photo viewer and then would save them as PNGs to put into Premier.
Every single thing in this video has been clarified in the comments so you do not need to comment. Thank you to those that did, though :).
Thanks for coming down here. Firstly, I tried to optimise the text as much as possible so you hopefully shouldn’t have to pause all too much. If you feel like I didn’t give you enough time to look at something it was most likely because it’s not all too interesting. I tried to make it that all the text could be read without pausing so try not to pause all too much because then you won’t enjoy the video. If it’s still too fast for you then lol RIP sorry but if I gave everyone more time to look at everything the video woulda been WAY longer. Could have done commentary, yeah, but then the video woulda been way, way worse. Trust me.
For clarification, Like a Dragon didn’t have all too much so I instead used its section to basically demonstrate what we’re looking at here. I didn’t delve into models much but that’s because normally they’re just obvious test files or things you actually see in game. I didn’t look at textures either because for the most part they literally had nothing on them besides what you actually see as well. Couldn’t look at source code ‘cause I didn’t really know how. I also purposefully didn’t show things that were already on the Cutting Room Floor pages for the respective games (except for maybe 1 thing). The pages on the games are super baron, but they at least have some things lol.
Timestamps:
Like a Dragon 0:00
Yakuza 0 3:29
Kiwami 1 6:36
Kiwami 2 10:32
Judgment Beta 12:04
Outro 17:30
Songs:
Tekken 7 - Moonsiders, Pt. 1
Persona 4 - Heaven
Yakuza 0 - Heart break mermaid
Yakuza Kiwami 1 - Moment de la Petite Serene
Yakuza 3 - Bunch of karaoke songs but I say what they are in the vid
Final Fantasy VII Remake - Due Recompense
Yakuza Kiwami 2 - Outlaw’s Lullaby
Yakuza 2 - Outlaw’s Lullaby
Judgment - It’s Show Time!!
Final Fantasy XIII - Chocobos of Pulse
Yakuza 5 - highway - เกม
In the begining I couldn't even pay attention to the actual video without staring at the millions of Joon-gi Han passing across the screen
Fr WHY WAS EVERYONE JOON-GI 💀
Ooh the images at 1:46 in the video is actually part of a substory in Y7:Like a Dragon called "Forget me not." I'll not say the story of it since it was pretty interesting and I dont want to spoil. But yes, you can start the substory around North Jinnai Station(?)
Ah okay sweet as. I tried to look around for it online and genuinely couldn't find it anywhere. I think I did that substory too, which is rather embarrassing lmao
@@SnowiestAngeman it's alright :>> But your video overall was really entertaining to watch!!! the effort to look through those files 😵😵
Honestly I wish they had more substories like that one, it showed a deeper emotional side to Ichiban after what felt like a long while (at that point) of him being cheerful,stubborn and oblivious. It was a nice and brief change of tone.
Granted the story does a good job of making things deep and interesting for Ichiban and company in the second half, but if I recall this substory is early on and gives us a peak of just who Ichiban is past his "hero" schtick and just how deep it can get for him.
Not saying I didn't care for the beginning btw, it was a solid start but it felt like it was missing something to make things as tense or emotional as they could've been given Ichiban's situation.
And what a substory that was. Man…
@@SnowiestAngeman it was called forget me not and you forgot it :,(
Nice transition from Heartbreak Mermaid to Moment de la petite Serène
Thank you I spent an entire car ride home thinking of that idea
you not wrong
btw shouldn't it be Sirène? (if it was meant to be Mermaid) , Moment de la petite serène sounds like a typo to Sereine who would mean "Instant of the little relaxed" :p
@@Noctaru Yes, it was a typo. My bad.
@@rhenation5426 no problem , it was also in the video itself thus why I wanted to say it , it's just funny :p
the walkman stuff in 0 is from a DLC in the Japanese version
if you preordered the soundtrack you would get a PSN code that would unlock it
the walkman would allow you to change the backround music at the raidios at the hideouts (where you do the raidio show substory)
the walkman also included music from different games in the series
Ye figured that out after finding the files for it all. Super depressing that it was only for Japan and that no other game tried to bring the feature back or that it wasn't in the PC version or something :(
@@SnowiestAngeman I believe it's because the Walkman played all of the licensed music from the previous games. Since they'd be too costly to negotiate for international distribution, they decided to just axe the whole thing for 0.
There were some licensed japanese music from the 80s, that also justified the cut.
Yeah, Kiryus and Majimas voice actors resung a few songs for the Walkman. I dunno what Kiryus VA sang, but Majimas VA sang “RUNNER”.
Do you guys think it could be unlocked with mods?
the "apartment" you saw in the leftover Judgment files is from a side case where Yagami has to investigate a haunting
Someone already pointed it out but thank you regardless
It returns in Gaiden in basically the exact same scenario. The RGG Studios Official Ghost Apartment™
I'm glad to see more stuff about cut content in the Yakuza series being covered since there's not a lot on the TCRF currently
Anyway i should mention there's an unused model of Yoshitaka Mine in Kiwami's files wearing an outfit that resembles the one from the flashback cutscenes in 3 (the one where a bunch of pictures are presented to Kiryu at Serena about Kanda, Hamazaki and Mine)
Someone else commented that already but I just didn't really think about it because I already knew that prior to looking at the files. Sorry about that
7:31 Her name reads as "Kyaba futarime" which can be translated to "Second cabaret"
Considering the 仮 kanji is above it my guess is that she's a placeholder for the second cabaret's host
Thank you but yeah the Kari symbol meant temporary and stuff but I assumed it was a placeholder for something they never added, being a 3rd hostess. My reasoning was mainly just because there was stuff like the Akemi render so I assumed it was the same situation
I think it says "Cabaret's second" Since the counter comes after Cabaret, meaning that the noun is implicit in the hito kanji. I think it's still right and that the image says she is the second cabaret host.
The walkman display is exclusive to the japanese version since it has 80s Japanese songs that you can download and play in-game
The photo minigame placeholder girls are cute tho....
Yes to that but it's just sad that it is no longer a thing. Especially not in English, anyway. The photo girls make me wonder if they different AV stars or some random ladies who conveniently wore the same outfits as the final girls haha
13:16 I think this is actually an apartment that's used for one of the side cases in judgment (I think its called The Ghost Tenant)
You are indeed correct. My mistake on that whoops
at 1:47, those pictures are taken from a substory where Ichiban uses his powers of undiagnosed schizophrenia to go on a date with the girl you save at theater square at the beginning, during the substory, you go to the arcade and get your picture taken, just wanted to correct you :)
2:54 I believe thats the icon that shows up in the corner when you focus on Ichiban's personality stats and etc.
God damn it, you're right. I knew it would have been staring me right in the face lmao. Thank you for informing me though, and if I get around to making a part 2 of this I will be sure to include this
@@SnowiestAngeman also, there was a Yakuza 0 Kiryu Model (only his, for some weird reason) in the Yakuza Kiwami's folder, which is kind of funny, but real.
@@kiryukazuma1269 I never noticed unless it has some weird name. Could easily just be his model that they may have kept around for testing while they made the new model for Kiwami 1 considering that would just be an easy option for them when they started making the game
@@SnowiestAngeman yea
7:16
Correction: That being a photo from Hannya man, one from Majima and 2 from the hostesses
you can't fool me
finally, someone has made cut content :0
That Due Recompense drop with best boy Rikiya was 🔥
Glad someone could appreciate it :)
A lot of the warped low-quality textures like the majima cutscene for example, are cube maps. They are used for reflections in-game. Quite a few of the real life images are textures for background models in-game as well.
This looks super interesting! Thank you so much for taking the time for searching these files!
Thank you for watching :)
Lesss goo covering some cut content. I can already tell this will be a good video.
6:30 ah yes, my favorite casino game, Russian Roulette
Am I the only one perturbed by the fact that everyone in the Yakuza 7 footage was Joon Gi Han?
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Nice video, it's nice seeing someone digging this deep just for cool videos on youtube. I love what you doing. Keep up with the Yakuza content m8
In 0 there actually even more ishin-related stuff in the form of fighting moves that were cut + a cut majima move.
They got ryoma's unarmed moveset (I know it is just a mix of kiryu and kazama's moves but it's marked as such), about 70-80% of ryoma's sword moveset and even saigo (ishin ryuji) moveset. Though most of ryoma's unarmed moves have janky hitboxes which is actually fixable. Now to majima's cut move which is just breaker's elbow counter for thug but with a different voiceline when it is executed (Majima saying "OSSAI" lol). Despite these moves being unused, you can mod the game to make the leftovers usable since they do work without a problem (minus having to fix ryoma's unarmed moveset). Additionally, kiryu's legend style was going to be the exact same as the one in Y5 as completed versions of the komaki parry, tiger drop, komaki evade strike, etc. Even the cigarette taunt and feel the heat animations is left in along with the feel the heat activate sound which is the same one used in kiwami 2.
Now kiwami basically has the same but with nishiki having his share of unused moves.
He has a cut move where he's able to heal just like mine from yakuza 3. I know there's already an enemy healing mechanic but I guess this is a unique heal move? Majima's move which is just his 3rd heat "harsh lesson" counter and sera sway attack grab(?).
Kiwami 2, being described as judgment beta in the video, has almost all the judgment moves but without any sounds or effects.
There's also a younger version of Mine from 3 in Kiwami 1. It's a entirely new model. I really wonder what that was going to be used for.
Maybe he was gonna show up in a substory like Ryuji in 0? Although idk how old this new model is supposed to be
"Whatever the heck this is, which is related to this thing." 😭
the editing and material covered is sick, great video
16:05 Sugoroku is a kind of japanese board game
I see thank you. Japanese is not my forte even though it was in English technically lol
It's pretty much the same game in VR outside of the combat
Your edits are really really good, I lost my shit at 9:38. So damn well placed. MY BOI
Listen, I can't read whatever's on screen when you fucking starts playing heaven. I just vibe and think about Nanako the whole time
This video is of higher quality than we deserve.
6:31 baccarat just got real
thank you for this, I've always wanted to know if there ever was cut content from the Yakuza series but I've never been able to find any videos on it
Yeah I never could either so I literally did the Thanos meme and did it myself haha
You scared me hard with that P4 music. I thought there was a song I missed in the game. Even worse, I recognized it but couldn't name it for a full four seconds.
I love the music syncs throughout the video
Kiryu taking his shirt off and revealing he was actually another body double
11:14 that has to be easily the smoothest transition to OG outlaw lullaby I have ever seen
just wanted to say i really like your editing style. slick and satisfying and makes me pop a giggle when i see jpg of real japanese child
Dude, Heaven from Persona 4 gave me PTSD lol
It's a banger even though it plays in a not very banger part haha
Akiyama model in Like a Dragon.
Hmmm I wonder where the rich friendly businessman could've taken part in Like a Dragon... Maybe Ogata Nick knows?
This is sick. The photo of ichiban and the lady is from one of the substories i think. The walkman is exclusive to the japanese only ps3 version of yakuza 0 i think as well.
Thank you :) and yeah someone pointed out the Ichiban and lady thingy and the walkman is upsetting because they never made it available elsewhere
Finally some Yakuza related videos with a good edit, good god my guy this is top tier
Thank you I'm glad you liked the video :)
superb editing as always
8:01
My best guess is that Kiwami was developed based on a beta of 0, where those leftovers from 5 were still there, and not from the final version where they were already removed.
(as if both games started being developed at the same time but then got separated)
Yeah well Kiwami 1 is essentially Yakuza 0 2 so it makes sense that there would be a bunch of unused things from 0 still in the files. Especially considering the things take up very little file space
meanwhile I just wish Ishin would get translated and brought to all platforms worldwide, I want to run around as a samurai
solid video dude really good editing and music on point tekken ff7 and persona wow
I use only the best songs in my videos haha. Thanks for watching though glad you enjoyed it :)
Man your videos are the freaking best!!! And btw you have nice taste of music
Thank you and thank you :)
6:37 my god what a beautiful transition
Great stuff man!
Good video. I like your editing style.
Thanks for the lovely music you are amazing
Damn Akiyama could've been in yakuza 7
I know :( so upsetting. There's no other files for other characters that go unused too so clearly they were going to
@@SnowiestAngeman maybe in yakuza 8 they will include him
The rumour is that they could'nt snag his Voice Actor on time for the game production so they replaced him with Dandy Nick.
The apartment in the Judgment Beta part is used in a side case. You stay the night to see if it's haunted. You also referenced Shinada. The room he's in when he visits the soapland early in Y5 was re-used in Judgment. I'm not very far in to Judgment so can't comment on the other stuff though.
Also, before the name Judgment, the game was known as "Project Judge" when it started development. Also, the Japanese name for the game is Judge Eyes.
Yeah project judge would make sense then. I also know it's Judge Eyes and then like shinigami no yuijin or something but all the files and that logo just said Judge so I was curious that's all
this video is bomb, can feel the effort you put into it, keep up the good work boss.
Thank you, my king
4:03 yeah,it's a Shinada substory. I did that one an hour ago.
Bruh the Tekken 7 background footage was fire. Do 3, 4, 5 and 6. Or tell us where to find the game of the DOG!!!
The editing of this fuckin video is golden, amazing video bro had a good ass laugh
Thank you I appreciate the kind words :)
Dude your editing style is so good, you should do the rest of the games. loved the video tho!
Thank you very much :) I might do the rest but probably not for a while. It takes ages and I currently do not have the time hahaha
1:52 it's a substory you know it's called Forget me not and it's about u meeting the girl u saved back in kamurocho but she's just ur imagination that's why theres a version with and without her because u imagine her there
I'd be really interested in a dig into Yakuza 6's files itself. Onomichi reminds me way too much to Okinawa to not make me think that certain areas (specifically the mall in 6) likely shares models from that game.
I dunno if it does or not but they easily could've based some things in Onomichi off Okinawa considering the similarity of their settings as they're both more sorta rural settings rather than big bussling cities
1:40 the photo with ichiban by himself and the other with him and the female is related to a sub story in game.
1:49 is from a sub story
Freakin’ mad lord bro! This is some next level quality content. Keep up the great work
At 5:52 the kid in the middle is on a poster in sotenbori karaoke bar( You can see it when you are choosing a song to sing)
Ahh I see. Thank you for letting me know
This is so well made dude! You must have spent some time on this!
Thank you I'm glad you could enjoy
Liked and subbed just because of the kuze bike edit😊
imma guess someone already commented the Mine model that’s in Kiwami’s files, that has different textures than any other Mine in the other games but if not there you go!
They have but it's fine it means more chances for people to see it in the comments
In Yakuza 0, I also found some unused stuff like the old Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio logo and the Playable Demo warning screen in English that was used when the game was still in beta at that time.
I need to see the RGG Studio old logo.
5:52 the real ass people pngs are from the various elevators you can see around the city, i know cause the kid in the middle was so funny i took a screenshot of it in game
also i believe the crusty pngs of random ps3 locations in the game are most likely from cubemaps to simulate reflections, since real reflections would not run very well they just use a single image for reflections to make it look right
At 7th photos: there is a substory with girl-ghost, where you go photobombing with her, this is photos from that wuest. First Ichiban has photo with girl, and after without her.
Indeed I didn't really think that would be the case though because the files called the one of Ichiban on his own as ui_item_printclub_kasuga_b so I just assumed it was some printclub item like in Kiwami 1 and 5, rather than it being related to a substory
6:26 Looks like the boat one of guys who were watching Majima was on at the end of chapter 3
1:38 i dunno if anybody said it already in the comments here but this image is actually in the game. It's in a substory
Transmitting this information works a lot better with spoken narration than written text on screen that can disappear too quickly to be read at the same time as examining the images you want us to look at.
Yakuza 7s weird dating picture is a substory where ichiban hallucinates the lady he saved 15 years ago and she became his biggest fan and they did some shit together
There's one with her (ichiban hallucinating) and one after (end of substory)
The image at 7:29 reads as "Second Cabaret Person" if you're still interested
I know I'm almost a year late but I really like the beta Yagami he looks good.
In k1 there's a lot of leftover movement data for akiyama and saejima
This is so calming
Nice vid
Thank you I'm glad you could enjoy it :)
1:46 it’s from a sub story (which is pretty sad and emotional 😭)
13:21 is used in a side case
Yeah the funny thing about the substory is that I think I've already done it but I'm just a monke who forgot lmao
@@SnowiestAngeman Monke
7:30
That just means "caba[ret club] second person"
This is a very well made video!
I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
4:42 Is technically unused on the pc/ps4/xbox relase of the game but this is actually a leftover from the PS3 JP ver.
The Walkman was an item that you could get if you redeemed the DLC included with a Disc of "Ryu ga Gotoku 0 - 80's Hits! Collection" which contained a lot of 80s songs and some covers done by both Kiryu's and Majima's voice actors. Ingame it let you listen to these 80s japanese songs and the Main themes of the other games! Such as...
-Recieve You (Yakuza 1)
-As a man, As a brother (Yakuza 2)
-Loser (Yakuza 3)
-Butterfly City (Yakuza 4)
-Start OF THE END (Dead Souls)
-BLOODY MOON (Yakuza 5)
-Clock Strikes (RGG: Ishin!)
And if it wasn't awsome yet. They included "Bubble" the main theme of Yakuza 0
Sadly this dlc was never dumped and it can only be activated on RPCS3 (A PS3 Emulator)
Like A Dragon- Akiyama's name in the files, so that means he was meant to be in the game like the other characters maybe he was meant to have like a similar role to Nick Ogata or a substory cameo or summon or something.
That Yagami lookalike probably was an original design concept until they decided to cast & modeled Takuya Kimura. Another thing Yugami was wearing red pants instead of blue jeans
The rest are well, the series is known for reuse assets, in fact 6 & Kiwami 2 have an unused dodge counter & Kiwami minor cut content was Brawler's combat speed was faster than it was in the final game. I saw those cut content on another video.
Yes indeed to both of those last two points. The first one though I actually remember someone saying that they should have made Akiyama fill in Nick Ogata's role which would have been great. It would have made sense too considering he actually plays a role in the story and has his own character render and stuff. Lot of people say that they couldn't afford the actor but I dunno how true that is. Maybe they just changed their mind
@@SnowiestAngeman yeah I read comments & stuff that Koichi Yamadera & people at RGG Studio has some back & forth going on but I found nothing so it's probably a bunch of BS & if it is true RGG could've recasted Akiyama with a sound alike. I've never seen or read a lot of behind the scenes drama in Japanese Game development with their actors aside from Kaoru original voice actress in Yakuza 2 (Not Kiwami 2). Maybe Game Studios & Actors Drama is probably rare in Japan at least to me.
If anyone knows 1 story or any stories around Japan Game Studio & Actors Drama just tell me.
@@rickythemaddragonxiong8757 I think it's BS too but at the same time Japan have such a negative stigma to any sort of bad press. They'll never share any sort of arguments or disagreements except by accident, as opposed to the west who eat that shit for breakfast. At the same time they hate recasting people so if it truly was a bad fight they would've done what they did and just not had Akiyama. I doubt it though, TBH. Maybe they just wanted less involvement of previous characters? I dunno
@@SnowiestAngeman I know little to nothing about how casting in Japan works but what's wrong with hiring another actor? I know that for say a franchise if an actor playing a character has died they cannot recast him or her in the next thing to be respectful or if the the person has gotten bad rep or something they just simply recast. But what about if the actor's rejected or quitted a role? What's wrong with finding another talented voice actor for Akiyama, are they afraid of being sued like do they have to ask permission 1st? Japanese Mainstream Media casting & rules just sounds confusing already.
@@rickythemaddragonxiong8757 It's all very silly but it's mostly because in Japan they have such an immense amount of respect for voice actors to the point where sometimes they just refuse to recast. There's instances like Phil in Kingdom Hearts 3 whose voice actor passed away, so they made him a mute (which was weird). Normally though the only time they'll ever recast is if the actor does actually pass away or has some serious illness where they physically can't play the character. But there's examples like how Tanimura in Yakuza 4's actor quit acting due to a bunch of false controversy and rather than recasting him like they did in the remaster, they just cut Tanimura out of the rest of the series lol
I'm pretty sure the reason they didn't take new screenshots for the monitors in purgatory are because of time constraints. RGG studios has ridiculous deadlines.
Yeah I assumed the same thing but it's a little weird because there are some images on the monitors of a clearly different Kamurocho haha. It's nothing detrimental anyway considering they're kinda hard to see anyway
Let's just say that Akiyama was left over from Y6 and they're going to save that for his own spin-off!
Please
Please RGG
2:56 oh thats just an outline icon of ichiban posing with hands in his pockets
Someone let me know it's from the personalities screen. I never noticed because I was always too busy staring at the pretty colours of the wheel
Your videos are so awesome
Thank you I'm glad you enjoy them :)
This is probably the first yakuza cut content video I've seen.
I hope you enjoyed it
@@SnowiestAngeman i did, looking forward to other videos
You're doing gods work since ALOT of this shit is not on the cutting room floor
Thank you and also because everyone normally just goes "Wanna know anything about what's in the files for the game? Yes? Join the Yakuza modding Discord" lmao
3:00 "LIKEDRAGON A YAKUZA"
I love how judgment was finished they just dont want to give it to us
They just wanted to keep OG Yagami to themselves. Cheeky bastards
A yes the most important character in judgement the blue cart
Yeah haha it was the evidence of Okubo's laundry cart being used to hide the dead body but they just poorly photoshopped a cart into a underground parking lot. Hilarious too because they still have the white lines from the jpg they edited haha
Also the apartment at 13:20 you go in in a substory it was something about ghost hunting
Thank you for the clarification I was confused by it because what was actually used in case files and what wasn't was all very split apart in the files sometimes so I wasn't too sure what it was
Be warned once you see it, you won't be able to unsee it. At 5:51 those people aee used as flat decals inside the elevator that goes up and down outside of the sega game centre at tenkaichi theater.
It is kind of cursed.
Maybe the safe finder in kiwami 2 was there because they were already thinking in the safe mechanic from Yakuza 7
Nah the safes were actually introduced in Yakuza 6 but there were only like 10 of them. The likely scenario is that they got rid of them in Kiwami 2 because they had locker keys which were kinda the same purpose and then wouldn't have brought the safe finder back for Yakuza 7 because there are so many that it would make finding them trivial. At least, that's what I think
By the way speaking of the controller images Nintendo switch pro controller buttons are in the game if you plug in a switch pro controller
That photograph of ichiban and that girl is actually q substory
I really like the Beta Yagami a lot wtf
This video is very hilarious for a slideshow of yakuza pics
Thank you haha
The persona music got me crying again
we've been blessed
5:56 reminds me of the Taxi office where kiryu worked in yakuza 5... only a bit different
Good shit as always.