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Hello there!

Been a while, hasn't it?

New fans have grown up, old fans have passed on (and away), and our project team has not only expanded in recent months - with the help of the Yakuza Modding Community (full credits will be included in the mod) - but has also undergone a change in management.

Today, we finally have something to show you.

Keep in mind that the translation is still undergoing proofreading and polish, and both the UI and fonts will be improved. If it currently looks like Google Translate to some, rest assured - it isn’t. A member of the previous team was not proficient in English, but this, along with the text’s style, is being addressed.

Our goal as a mostly new team is to ensure that the game is not only playable but also stylistically consistent with the series and its historical period. References to 1600s Japan are carefully preserved and adapted to maintain immersion. No offensive language has been used, no content has been cut, and there may even be a few optional mods included.

Kenzan is getting closer to release - right now, we are reworking the UI using proper techniques we’ve learned along the way.

Soon, we will publish gameplay footage of the translation from our tests and refine everything to ensure it looks and works as well as possible.

See you soon - this time for real.

Sincerely, The Kenzan Translation Team

P.S. You may ask what took us so long? Real life and troubles with the previous "team". Now things go as smooth as possible. Stay tuned!

Update on the state of the project

Finally restored access to this account, apologies for a very long absence.

No, it’s not dead, we’ve just had a lot of IRL problems to deal with, mostly this year, but right now it’s safe to say - this project will be finished before the official release of Kenzan Kiwami!

Issues with game text appearance are pretty much sorted at this point, most of the text is undergoing proofreading and additional translations and we’re establishing a new pipeline that will allow more flexibility while editing game text.

Both hackers and translators are doing their best to deliver the best version of Kenzan despite all of outside issues.

Is it dead?

No.

Judgment: Pierre Taki Restoration Patch by Canzah

This is an unofficial patch for Judgment, or Judge Eyes as it's known in Japan, meant to restore Kyohei Hamura's original appearance and Japanese voice to the likeness of the actor that portrayed him in the original, launch version of Judge Eyes in Japan, Pierre Taki.

To explain the reason for this patch existing you'll need to understand the history of what happened with production of the game. Originally, famous Japanese actor Pierre Taki portrayed Kyohei Hamura, who is a very important character in the game. The game came out in December of 2018 in Japan, and mere 3 months after that in March of 2019, Pierre Taki was arrested for possession and use of cocaine. This resulted in what is known as "cancel culture", where all companies and employers of Taki started to erase his contributions out of existence, SEGA being no exception to this. The game was immediately pulled from store shelves and digital storefronts, preventing anyone from being able to buy the game outside of second hand used copy market. In July of 2019, the game was re-released in Japan as Judge Eyes: New Price Version, with the major change in that version being the replacement of Pierre Taki as Kyohei Hamura's actor, whose model was changed to a generic thug not based on any actor and all his voice lines redubbed by the unfortunately less than stellar performance from a Japanese voice actor Miou Tanaka, known primarily for voicing generic "grunt" characters. And, as expected, the western release of the game was based on the aforementioned New Price Version with Pierre Taki removed and replaced. Because I stand against both censorship and "cancel culture", I've decided to create a patch for the western version of the game that would restore Pierre Taki as Kyohei Hamura's actor in the game. Upon discussing the idea with Slow and Timo, we decided to pool money together and order the now rare and expensive original Japanese version of the game with Pierre Taki's inclusion, upon which I took the necessary files from it and created this restoration patch for your enjoyment.

All appearances of Kyohei Hamura in the game, be it cutscene, gameplay, voice or even UI and credits related are now portrayed by Pierre Taki. Patch is for the CUSA13197 release of the game, and confirmed working with DUPLEX release, running on a 6.72 jailbroken PS4.

Instructions:

Download it here

Make sure you have Judgment installed and then install the included PKG file.

Enjoy the game in all its restored glory

Special thanks to:

SlowpokeVG for providing the font SEGA used in the intro cutscene and covering part of the funds needed to purchase the original Japanese copy of the game Timo654 for refreshing my memory on formats used in Yakuza and also covering part of the funds needed to purchase the original Japanese copy of the game Kent for doing the necessary video editing involving the character of Kyohei Hamura in the game's intro cutscene

PS. Kenzan is currently on hold due to lack of translators who quit after realizing the scope of the project as well as our lack of time due to our new jobs.

#judgment #judge eyes #yakuza

Yakuza Kiwami Mods Updates

As some of you may know, Yakuza Kiwami finally came out on PC few days ago and to celebrate this, we have ported the Licensed Music Restoration Patch as well as Classic Music Mod to the PC version. While doing this, we've also made further improvements to both of them:

Licensed Music Restoration Patch now also restores the licensed track when fighting Futoshi Shimano for the second time later in the game.

Classic Music Mod on the other hand now restores the use of "Intelligence for Violence" track to the fights against Nishikiyama Clan in front of Serena and during the lead up to Kazuto Arase just like it was back on PS2, with a small surprise specifically in the fight in front of Serena.

Naturally since the Classic Music Mod includes Licensed Music Restoration Patch in it by default, it also incorporates the updated restoration of the licensed track in the second Futoshi Shimano fight. As we do not intend to leave PS4 behind, we have consequently updated the PS4 releases of both of them to also incorporate the updates featured in the PC releases.

You can find the links to the PC releases in form of Steam Guides

As for Kenzan, obviously we are still working on it, don’t worry.

Yakuza 1 Kiwami Classic Music Mod by Canzah and Slow

This is a mod for PS4 version of Yakuza 1 Kiwami meant to restore the music from original PS2 release of Yakuza 1. Yakuza 1 Kiwami remixed all music, arguably for the worse, without offering an option to choose original PS2 soundtrack.

This mod does just that, it replaces the remixed music from Kiwami with original PS2 tracks from Yakuza 1. In few rare instances where certain tracks didn't exist in PS2 Yakuza 1 (Lau Ka Long's theme, Amon's theme) we have used their equivalent variants from Yakuza 3 which are the origins of Lau's and Amon's unique themes that Kiwami remixed. All the tracks are naturally properly looped, with 1/1000 of a second precision for seamless loops and transitions. Volume levels are likewise normalized to be as close as possible to Kiwami's volume levels so that they aren't jarring.

Furthermore, the mod includes Yakuza 1 Kiwami Licensed Music Restoration Patch as it doesn't interfere with the PS2 music in any way whatsoever, so you do not need to install it separately. Feel free to read the separate readme for the Licensed Music Restoration Patch.

The mod is for the EU CUSA07615 release of the game, confirmed working with DUPLEX release.

Naturally, this will come out for PC version too, just like Licensed Music Restoration Patch.

Instructions:

Make sure you have Yakuza 1 Kiwami installed and then install the included PKG file.

Download Mod

Enjoy the game with the original PS2 soundtrack!

No Kenzan translators were harmed during the making of this mod.

Video demonstration:

Still alive, but very late

There won’t be a Beta release of Kenzan translation patch this year either, but for one good reason - we have finally managed to assemble our team of great translators!

Sadly, it’s not possible for them to finish translation just in a month, so expect more news next year.

We are still searching for a programmer capable of editing PS3 EBOOT files and fixing these issues: http://yakuzapatch.tumblr.com/post/141564790911/programmers-help-needed

Just a few reminders:

This is a NONPROFIT project;

Patch is being made with CFW PS3 in mind, but also works perfectly on RPCS3;

Don’t believe everything that anonymous people post about us being dead, we care about this project;

Yakuza 3 and 5 are underrated;

Please buy Hokuto ga Gotoku so we get more spinoffs officially and be sure to fill Kiwami 2 survey.

Two great news for PC gamers

https://store.steampowered.com/app/638970/Yakuza_0/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/834530/Yakuza_Kiwami/

Be sure to buy them, they will have Music Patches on day one.

And Kenzan finally works on newer builds of RPCS3.

Shame there’s no Dead Souls for PC or PS4, though.

Yakuza 6 Music Patch

Hi there.

Here’s a big patch for Yakuza 6 that restores more than 10 cut songs.

Download it here along with patches for other Yakuza games!

About Kenzan (main reason why we’re here):

Story dialogues, substory messages, bounties, kakemawari jobs are almost finished, but I’m gonna have to play whole game again to double check, polish and fill in the gaps, so for now I took a break and we started translating UI and maps.

Here’s some WIP stuff, soon all Japanese words on these screenshots will be replaced with English, so don’t worry:

It’s coming slowly, but we’re getting there.

Q: Are u going to patch yakuza 0 with English translation on ps3, or i should just forget about it ,till someday after a lot of years play it on ps4 (till i get one)

A: Seriously, consider getting PS4, it’s so much better on it. But I’ll see what I can do about it or maybe someone else will, it’s a pretty easy, but tedious task.

Q: Ishin?

A: Hell no. Not any time soon. I don’t have translated text for it and it’s HUGE.

Q: Why havent you released atleast the beta translation for this? If you only have one chapter left to translate then thats better than nothing

A: I’m gonna release beta with 90% of all text after I’ll run out of text that I can use. I don’t plan on dying any time soon, but just in case all my files will be released anyway by my friends, so don’t worry, it’s coming one way or another.

PS4 Yakuza Zero and Kiwami Music Restoration Patches [Updated for patched Kiwami]

Owners of hacked PS4s can now enjoy Yakuza Zero and Kiwami with original Japanese music.

Here’s “Bubble” restoration in action:

Download them here along with PS3 Yakuza patches!

Enjoy!

First 2018 update

Oh, dear, oh dear, oh dear! I'm here, I should be there. I'm late, I'm late, I'm late! - Bílý Králík

Well, at least I’m not late to wish you a Happy New Year! Kinda...

I’ve been working on my PhD lately, so I didn't manage to meet the 2017 deadline. Sorry about that!

Quick update: Almost finished editing all side missions in the game, only one chapter left. After that I’ll start editing items and other text messages.

Quick update

It’s been a while. Sorry about long silence. I really am sorry.

Project is NOT DEAD. On the contrary, it has never been so alive. I’ll update about it a little bit later. I’ll see how things will go first.

For now, I just wanted to give you a quick heads up and answer some questions:

Translation patch WORKS with RPCS3! It’s currently WIP, so Yakuza games run very slowly, but be sure - it’ll get perfect soon.

Translation patch will work on any PS3 that allows running modded games with modified EBOOTs, since some text and features are hard-coded. I’m not familiar with current state of ps3 hacking scene, but CFWs can run it with no problems.

Yakuza 0 and Kiwami in English for PS3 are currently NOT POSSIBLE, due to PS4 games being encrypted. As soon as it gets extractable, I’ll see what can be done about that. Obviously, it’ll require some ASM wizard to make quality of life improvements.

Q: When you patch RGG1&2 HD and RGG3, will you be changing character names to their originals?

Currently both of those are put on hold (even by my standards, lol). I can’t open files of Yakuza 1&2 and HD and I couldn’t find any info that would help me do that. Same reason there’s no undub, btw.

Yakuza 3 lacks a little bit more than ASM hacker’s touch. It lacks A HUGE amount of English text and so far nobody even touched it. But yeah, I’ll change names in Yakuza 3 at least. Just not any time soon, sadly.

Hokuto ga Gotoku looks awesome, by the way. Hope it’ll get official translation and they’ll keep songs in it.

Was sad to hear about Black Panther project, btw. Looks like it has very small chances of recovering. If you can help with translation (well, I don’t know, maybe you are biased against PS3 Yakuzas, but love PSP games, so you ignored my cries for help lol) go check out their forum topic and help them.That’s all for now, folks. Will try to update more often.

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If you want any of these games in the west go fill this out!

Are you still expecting to have this done by the end of the 2017? Just curious and eager lol, not trying to sound impatient. I'm extremely grateful for this patch and all the hard work put into it. Really, thank you everyone involved in this :) Also, do you take donations? I don't know anything about Japanese or programming, but I'd love to contribute some way if that would help.

Well, I’m pretty sure by the end of 2017 (despite my procrastination I think it’s still a realistic deadline) there will be at least a version with almost fully translated main storyline (without some dialogue choices) and majority of sidequests, basic translation of item descriptions and translated instructions for minigames. Dialogues with random NPCs that usually tell you how they got drunk or wasted their money, indepth descriptions for stuff and some other text won’t get translated properly unless I’ll find some translator. Because currently adapting egomaniac’s letsplay translation to game text is a pain in the ass, and he didn’t translate many things apart from dialogues anyway.

Nope, I don’t take donations, because I don’t want to make me hate myself even more for every day I don’t edit text. If you want to donate somebody - donate to KHH (especially now, when CaptainEpic’s HDD broke), egomaniac or Yakuzafan. They deserve it more.

I’m planning on releasing source code for all my stuff once I’ll clean them up from cursing and unused things. That includes current translation files that you’ll be able to apply to your game and see current state of translation (at this moment it’s a full story mode and ~half of quests. I’ll be updating it once in while too. That’s just in case I’ll decide to die suddenly or something.

How can i help you with yakuza 3? Thanks.

If you know Japanese - you can help with translation. There’s a lot of untranslated messages.

If you know ASM and can edit PS3 EBOOT files - you can try to implement Various Font Width in Japanese EBOOT.

Help is always welcome.

Will I need custom firmware on my PS3? How does that work?

Yes, you need a custom firmware. Basically, you need to hack your PS3 to get an ability to run game dumps.

how the project doing and will you do ishin

Slowly, since I don’t have translation in text and need to play a game just like letsplayer did and re-type all text from his videos.

Story is fully playable, but I’ve done only 5 chapters of sidequests, and now I kinda got stuck on hostess quests - they have a LOT of text.

Since I’m not a translator, I can’t do Ishin until somebody will translate a full script.

If somebody want to fully translate a huge game - I can extract a full script and give it to you.

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