Yakuza 3 Remastered

Yakuza 3 Remastered

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Yakuza 3 Licensed Music, Video and Uncensor Restoration Patch
By [LSSAH]Canzah and 1 collaborators
This guide will instruct you on how to restore the licensed music that was cut from the western version of Yakuza 3, as well as higher quality videos from PS3 version and uncensor the game.
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Description

Welcome, Kyoudai.

The purpose of this guide is to tell you how to restore the licensed music from the Japanese version of Yakuza 3 that was unfortunately cut from all western versions of the game due to SEGA refusing to license the songs in question - "Loser", "Omoi Ga Afuretara" and "Jikan yo Tomare" by Japanese singer "Eikichi Yazawa" as well as "Don Quixote Theme" of the Japanese discount chain store "Don Quijote Co., Ltd.".
Additionally, all pre-rendered videos have been replaced by the original ones from PS3 as they are higher quality than their PS4/PC counterparts, you can find a comparison between them in the Images section of the NexusMods link below:
https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuza3remastered/mods/5/?tab=images
You will notice that the PS4/PC ones suffer from severe video macroblocking and artifacting issues which is why for this patch we opted to replace the videos with the PS3 ones.
Certain line of dialogue in a cutscene before the final boss has been corrected to feature a more accurate translation.
Finally, the Tamashiro Family Crest and Pin have been uncensored to the the original Rising Sun motif found in the original PS3 release that was unfortunately censored in PS4/PC versions due to its association with Japanese Imperialism in some regions of the world.

Those of you that might be familiar with our music restoration patches for the PS3 and PS4 Yakuza titles should be right at home with this guide, as the steps to follow will be just as simple if not simpler thanks to not needing a hacked PS3 or PS4 console to use this.
This video below will give you a glimpse of what you can expect after restoring the licensed music:

Installation

Now here come the steps on how to install the patch.

First of all, you will need to download the package from the link below which contains the patch and all its necessary files:
https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuza3remastered/mods/5/

After that, extract the contents of the archive with the patch to a folder of your own choice, it's compressed in 7z format which can be unpacked using 7zip or WinRAR, though I do recommend 7zip for best compatibility to avoid any potential issues.

Next you'll need to open the folder with the game itself, naturally make sure it's installed beforehand.
You can do so by Right Clicking it in your Steam Library and then selecting Properties -> go into the Local Files tab -> and finally press the Browse Local Files button which will open the folder with the game.

Now all you will need to do is select all the files from the restoration patch you unpacked earlier and copy them to the folder with the game, overwriting the files when asked if you want to do so - this is crucial.

The only thing left for you at this point is to simply start the game and enjoy it in all its restored glory.
You can expect similar guides for future Yakuza games once they make their way to PC in the future.

Dinner is served. Come sit down, everyone!

Conclusion

I would also like to direct your attention to the upcoming Yakuza Kenzan fantranslation project being worked on by my friend, Slow, you can find more information about it as well as my patches for the PS3 and PS4 Yakuza titles over on his website which can you find under the link below:
http://yakuzapatch.tumblr.com/
195 Comments
NumberOneQuietFan 26 Jan @ 5:17am 
why was one of the tojo clan pins censored?
Slow  [author] 3 May, 2024 @ 3:43am 
PSA I am done arguing, retranslation was verified with native speakers (few of them were openly LGBT) and it is more accurate than some fujo translator's fanfic. If it messes with your headcanon - don't copy AUTH folder.
Slow  [author] 29 Sep, 2023 @ 12:41pm 
Don't copy auth files at all, iirc
soin 23 Sep, 2023 @ 5:38pm 
So I just delete the "subtitle.par" file from the "auth" folder before installing if I don't want the dialogue to be changed?
Slow  [author] 7 Jun, 2023 @ 2:46am 
Retranslation only affects one cutscene near very end, it's minor. Otherwise - one of last files in AUTH folder affects it.
Shoppe 7 Jun, 2023 @ 2:40am 
is there way to download the mod without the retranslation? I'd like the story experience to be as close to my friends' as possible (they play on PS4)
mari 21 May, 2023 @ 5:08am 
surprised nobody's found a good file hosting alternative after so long... i just wanted to pick up the game for a couple hours to get through the opening cutscenes but i guess i'll go take a shower while i wait lmao
Slow  [author] 12 Apr, 2023 @ 11:17am 
We had issues with moddb in the past, I'll try to upload it to pcgamingwiki after I'll fix it to work with RMM, for now I sadly don't have time and space to do so. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Cassette 27 Mar, 2023 @ 5:34pm 
Great mod, but I'll also echo what others have said, Nexus is too slow for such a big file, it takes three to four times longer than the game itself to download on my end, another host would be really appreciated.

Might I suggest hosting it on pcgamingwiki? They have a hosting section for mods, patches and the like and your mod is already listed there in the game's article. If not, maybe moddb, their speeds are usually much faster than Nexus'.
jerm 19 Feb, 2023 @ 2:38am 
Goat