DBZ Budokai HD Collection: Official On-Going Thread

[Hitiro]

No Budokai 2, no Kenji Yamamoto OST and more importantly, NO ONLINE = NO BUY. Still though, its come to make me realize that all these HD Collections aren't really worth it in the end :/ Unless you haven't played or owned them originally.

I don't see why people go along with this type of logic. HD Collections are great for the developers because they can use them to test the water and see if anybody is still interested in the style of the game. If the collection does well then we could possibly see a new Budokai, or Infinite World, pop up from Dimps because of the HD collections success. The same thing is supposed to be happening with the Jak & Daxter franchise, the HD collection apparently sold really well so there has been information circulating that we may be seeing a Jak & Daxter reboot in the near future.

I myself have bought the HD collection on both the PS3 and 360 in support of Dimps in the hope that they will see enough sales for NamcoBandai to consider publishing a new game from them. Hopefully with a fully working online mode and the beautiful character and stage design we have seen from Dimps with their last game. If they do make a new game I really hope they don't toy around with the ki system again. Budokai 3 and Infinite World both did it right, so why try fixing it? It was different from other traditional fighters and it created a sort of meta game based around ki management.

[dbboxkaifan]

Oh hey, it looks like I might actually consider getting this now.

I am indeed too, but first I'll give a try at winning it (@ Dragon Ball Games -- FaceBook). Better free than paid.

And I won Dragon Ball Z For Kinect, I got contacted today by Namco Bandai for the name/address/mobile number for the game to be shipped out. Great! I don't need to spend money on this Kinect title.

No Budokai 2, no Kenji Yamamoto OST and more importantly, NO ONLINE = NO BUY. Still though, its come to make me realize that all these HD Collections aren't really worth it in the end :/ Unless you haven't played or owned them originally.

For B2 and no online, I agree. But as for the original music, just load it up, it's really simple.

[songohan619]

No Budokai 2, no Kenji Yamamoto OST and more importantly, NO ONLINE = NO BUY. Still though, its come to make me realize that all these HD Collections aren't really worth it in the end :/ Unless you haven't played or owned them originally.

Also, since the new PS3s can`t play PS2 games, this is a great chance for those people to replay their games, or play them for the first time.

[GogetaSSJ2]

No Budokai 2, no Kenji Yamamoto OST and more importantly, NO ONLINE = NO BUY. Still though, its come to make me realize that all these HD Collections aren't really worth it in the end :/ Unless you haven't played or owned them originally.

Also, since the new PS3s can`t play PS2 games, this is a great chance for those people to replay their games, or play them for the first time.

And I am one of those people. I have the PS3 Slim so I can't play old PS2 games on it, so this HD collection is going to be very nice to have

[dbboxkaifan]

And I am one of those people. I have the PS3 Slim so I can't play old PS2 games on it, so this HD collection is going to be very nice to have

It depends from what kind of model that PS3 Slim is.

[bkev]

People keep talking about custom soundtracks. Which I'm all for... but, there's one problem: replacing track by track. If you want it to be 100% accurate, you'd have to know which tracks were replaced by what and set the change accordingly. I'd be interested in seeing if anyone's up to the challenge of cataloging the equivalent pieces and saying which replaces what. If this game comes with custom track-by-track replacement it would be a good thing to know.

[GogetaSSJ2]

And I am one of those people. I have the PS3 Slim so I can't play old PS2 games on it, so this HD collection is going to be very nice to have

It depends from what kind of model that PS3 Slim is.

My model is the 120 GB Slim PS3, it doesn't have backwards compatibility with PS2 games sadly.

[dbboxkaifan]

My model is the 120 GB Slim PS3, it doesn't have backwards compatibility with PS2 games sadly.

It might be, if it's a 2000 model (2005/3000/4000 aren't). You'd need to hack the PS3 to get PS2 compatibility back, though.

Anyway, if I don't win I'll be buying this game.

[GogetaSSJ2]

Going to be picking up my copy of Budokai HD Collection in about 3 hours! So excited!

[NintendoBlaze53]

EDIT: Apparently, it's been confirmed on French forums that the HD collection has the 3 extra costumes (or 4 extra characters, Vegeta not changing his appearance). No surprise there!

Awesome! That's great news to hear.

I can confirm it myself now.
I've entered the password in the Dragon Arena, and it unlocks the super-boosted characters to fight, and adds the 3 extra costumes on the other game modes!

May I ask what the code is or when you get it in the game I'm in Dragon Arena (trying to get saibaman and cell jr.) and the game hasn't given me a code to enter in to the pasword for the costumes. Help much apritiated.

[Cold Skin]

May I ask what the code is or when you get it in the game I'm in Dragon Arena (trying to get saibaman and cell jr.) and the game hasn't given me a code to enter in to the pasword for the costumes. Help much apritiated.

In the Dragon Arena, when you have to select one of the available opponents, press R1 or L1 to switch to the list of password opponents (which should be empty right now). Press START to enter a password. It's case-sensitive, so be sure to really write them as they are presented below (the spaces shown here are automatic every 6 letters, no need to input them yourself).

When you activate it, the game will show you the new character and ask you if you want to have him added to your data. Just say "Yes" and the character now appears on the list and his alternative costume is immediately added to other game modes.

"DEMON KING" PICCOLO: Gahaha Saikou da!!!- Saikou nokibu nda!!!
"HALO" GOKU: JaanaM inna-! Shinda raMata Aouna- !
"SAIYAN ARMOR" TRUNKS: DoumoS umimas enOmat aseshi mashit a
VEGETA: GL@nhK aU!pL+ RJ$Pkf znDvf% ZW#sXp ZGa(Oi

Some of them likely mean something in Japanese, but the Vegeta one is a pain to enter as it's complete giberish! Note that Vegeta has no alternative costume to offer, so it's just to have his overpowered version available in the opponent list.

[VegettoEX]

Some of them likely mean something in Japanese

Yeah, they're some of the characters' most iconic/famous lines... combined with a slight bit of randomness.

"Jaa na, Minna--! Shindara mata aō na--!"
"Seeya later, everybody--! Let's meet up again after you die--!"

"Gahaha, Saikō da!!! Saikō no kibun da!!!"
"Gahaha, this is the greatest!!! It's the greatest feeling!!!"

"Dō mo sumimasen. Omatase shimashita."
"I'm so sorry for making you wait."

[Cold Skin]

Thanks for the translation, now I finally know what I was typing!
Back then, I didn't have Internet and tried to memorize those passwords from a magazine I checked out in a store, to try them on my regular edition of Budokai 3 once back home (found out the hard way that it only worked for the new edition).
And for someone not really having notions of Japanese, it was REALLY hard to memorize (and impossible for Vegeta's password)!

It really seems that Vegeta was a last-minute throw-in: no new costume and a password that actually doesn't make any sense...

[dbboxkaifan]

"DEMON KING" PICCOLO: Gahaha Saikou da!!!- Saikou nokibu nda!!!
"HALO" GOKU: JaanaM inna-! Shinda raMata Aouna- !
"SAIYAN ARMOR" TRUNKS: DoumoS umimas enOmat aseshi mashit a
VEGETA: GL@nhK aU!pL+ RJ$Pkf znDvf% ZW#sXp ZGa(Oi

Good thing keyboard works for typing on consoles so it saves A LOT of time than pressing the D-PAD each time for each letter and caps lock on/off.

So, these four codes are the ones fans wanted?

[Cold Skin]

"DEMON KING" PICCOLO: Gahaha Saikou da!!!- Saikou nokibu nda!!!
"HALO" GOKU: JaanaM inna-! Shinda raMata Aouna- !
"SAIYAN ARMOR" TRUNKS: DoumoS umimas enOmat aseshi mashit a
VEGETA: GL@nhK aU!pL+ RJ$Pkf znDvf% ZW#sXp ZGa(Oi

Good thing keyboard works for typing on consoles so it saves A LOT of time than pressing the D-PAD each time for each letter and caps lock on/off.

So, these four codes are the ones fans wanted?

That's right, those are the legendary passwords!

But no worries there, there's a virtual keyboard in Budokai 3 to type them, which is still better than having to press the D-Pad until you find the next letter! Otherwise, people would go crazy cause of the Vegeta password!!

[dbboxkaifan]

Dragon Ball Wiki says that the Japanese version has Videl with Bulma's skin, does the EU/US does too?

Videl
Bulma skin

Japanese version after 100% completion and via Action Replay device

http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon ... _Budokai_3

I'd love to play with Bulma as a fighting character.

[VegettoEX]

We cover this extensively in our "Rumor Guide". There is no in-game option to choose that particular character model skin without cheat devices.

[dragondyle]

I don't know if this was covered, or if the European release got it or not but the NA release has an amazing reversible slip cover with the Japanese box art of Budokai and 3 on the front.

[SparkyPantsMcGee]

I don't know if this was covered, or if the European release got it or not but the NA release has an amazing reversible slip cover with the Japanese box art of Budokai and 3 on the front.

The reversible side looks so much better!

[dbboxkaifan]

I don't know if this was covered, or if the European release got it or not but the NA release has an amazing reversible slip cover with the Japanese box art of Budokai and 3 on the front.

I sure hope the PAL version does as it includes the Japanese audio for Budokai 1 HD. Superb alternative cover.

Edit: The Spanish PAL version doesn't have it, oh well, fingers crossed UK PAL does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbj5-QQkKb0