Discussion on "Budokai 3: Greatest Hits"

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:39 am

Evidently the Z Store is saying December 13th I believe, so I'm holding out a spare $20 for then, hopefully it'll be released for real this time. Here's a link revealing the apparent "true release date": http://www.zstore.com/Detail.bok?no=3047

Slickmasterfunk · Post by **Slickmasterfunk** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:41 pm

It'll be released. I just got the annual Playstation Holiday Catalog in the mail and under the Greatest Hits section it lists Budokai 3 with the new cover image and mentions the Japanese language track. The game page on the Playstation website also has the new cover image.

Orochi_Rockman · Post by **Orochi_Rockman** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:00 am

I have it. I bought it today at a Wal-Mart. It's got the new cover, and the back of the box says "Includes Japanese Voice Cast". Inside the instruction booklet it says "To switch voices to Japanese, change the voice setting in the sound submenu of the options menu"

However no such option exists. All of the option menus are exactly the same as the previous version. Also, it corrupts B3 data that you have from the previous version. I tried to load my old save and it corrupted it and now it won't load with my old version either.

On top of all of this, neither Goku nor Piccolo have their European Collector's Edition skins. Future Trunks wasn't unlocked by default but I'd imagine he doesn't have his either.

At best all of the extra content has to be unlocked somehow and the only problem with this version is the data corruption for old Budokai 3 save data.

At worst Atari pulled a "Resident Evil: Director's Cut" on us and ended up giving us the exact same game twice.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:43 am

Orochi_Rockman wrote:I have it. I bought it today at a Wal-Mart. It's got the new cover, and the back of the box says "Includes Japanese Voice Cast". Inside the instruction booklet it says "To switch voices to Japanese, change the voice setting in the sound submenu of the options menu"

However no such option exists. All of the option menus are exactly the same as the previous version. Also, it corrupts B3 data that you have from the previous version. I tried to load my old save and it corrupted it and now it won't load with my old version either.

On top of all of this, neither Goku nor Piccolo have their European Collector's Edition skins. Future Trunks wasn't unlocked by default but I'd imagine he doesn't have his either.

At best all of the extra content has to be unlocked somehow and the only problem with this version is the data corruption for old Budokai 3 save data.

At worst Atari pulled a "Resident Evil: Director's Cut" on us and ended up giving us the exact same game twice.

What about hitting "New Game" with saved content instead, can't it import the original Budokai 3's data that way? Also, did you try unlocking the extra skins through the Dragon Arena passwords for the alternate skins like you were supposed to, do Pan/Kami/Kaio's mouths flap on the menus, and do character expressions change in DU? Concerning the Japanese VAs option, I've heard that's an "unlockable option", meaning it must be unlocked in this release before being able to use it.

kvon · Post by **kvon** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:56 pm

Hey Orochi, check out some posts under DBZ Budokai 3 at gamespot. A person also said that he got the game from Wal-mart, and said that he got screwed. Passwords don't work, no costumes, no voices. He had recently got off the phone with Atari and guess what? They don't have the Greatest Hits version in there system yet! I haven't read the whole discussion, but for those of you who are interested, here's the link.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/drag ... 505&page=0

Orochi_Rockman · Post by **Orochi_Rockman** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:10 pm

I've read that and I've posted in that particular topic. I just though I'd post a little warning about it here just incase anyone else had any ideas of getting it.

Sebastian (SB) · Post by **Sebastian (SB)** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:37 pm

Thank you so much for saving me $20. It's quite unfortunate to hear this news. I'll see what happens with later copies.

Post by **VegettoEX** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:59 pm

I really have to wonder how many people are buying the old Limited Edition version:

... which came out when the game first came out back in November 2004. This is *not* the same as the new Greatest Hits version, which is due out on December 14th (ships the 13th, in stores the 14th).

Orochi_Rockman · Post by **Orochi_Rockman** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:35 pm

Not me.

I've got the Greatest Hits version. Same cover that you have posted there with Vegeta and Goku. Wal-Mart has had it for days.

The S · Post by **The S** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:50 pm

Very puzzling... perhaps everything must be unlocked. Let us scour the sites for information regarding this.

Tekkaman Gamma51 · Post by **Tekkaman Gamma51** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:09 am

Its been solved (for now) :p. Thanks to Oblivion_Awaits, we found out both the Wal-Mart GH copy and the original copy are the same. So sadly, no extras (for now). The only thing to do now is to wait till the schedualed release date then check the game from there. Check the topic for the info.

P.S. I'm a Gamefaqs guy myself :p.

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmes ... c=24890620

Slickmasterfunk · Post by **Slickmasterfunk** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:54 pm

Tekkaman Gamma51 wrote:P.S. I'm a Gamefaqs guy myself :p.

It shows...

Anyways, I have my copy pre-ordered thorugh the FUNimation Z Store and it still hasn't shipped yet. I hope whatever problem there is will be solved before I get my copy.

Orochi_Rockman · Post by **Orochi_Rockman** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:01 am

"It Shows..."

What the hell kind of comment is that? God, you're just as bad as those at GameFaqs that harbor unjust prejudice against those that joined via GameSpot.

Dominator · Post by **Dominator** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:01 pm

Orochi_Rockman wrote:"It Shows..."

What the hell kind of comment is that? God, you're just as bad as those at GameFaqs that harbor unjust prejudice against those that joined via GameSpot.

How does this guy get away with a 85 x 85 av? And Mike spotted my original 80 x 81 Dominator av easily!

Sorry for being off-topic.

Orochi_Rockman · Post by **Orochi_Rockman** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:45 pm

It was 85? Sorry. Didn't realize. Resized.

Akira · Post by **Akira** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:57 am

I should have known this was a too good to be true scenario. Trunks in Battle Armor and Piccolo Daimao character options along with alternate voice choices was enough to make me want to pay $20 to rebuy this game. I am surprised they promised these features then fail to deliver.

Orochi_Rockman · Post by **Orochi_Rockman** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:31 am

Well it might have been an accident. Remember what happened with the Director's Cut of Resident Evil for the PSOne? There was misunderstanding on the Capcom USA end and they ended up cutting everything out of the D.C. that they were supposed to leave in.

Has anyone gotten a Non-Walmart version of the GH and confirmed the extra voices/costumes?

Tekkaman Gamma51 · Post by **Tekkaman Gamma51** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:52 pm

Liveink from Gamespot has purchased the game from Best Buy and claimed that it wasn't in the game.

EDIT:

Its official, Best Buy's DBZB3 is defective as well !!

The S · Post by **The S** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:35 pm

Now that's disheartening. Atari has some 'splainin' to do.

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:37 pm

Thats great news! I was just about to go to BestBuy and get it, but now that I know that THAT's going to be defective to? Awsome! Way to go Atari!

<( The Great Sarcasmo!)