Notices by Matt (zeldatra), page 9

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Kaito never enters a building in Lost Judgment that requires him to take off his shoes. I learned this when his feet suddenly disappeared after I entered a shrine in Infinite Wealth.

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installing Lost Judgment and Like A Dragon Gaiden again JUST to pull animations from them

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Korea have a president serve a full term challenge (impossible)

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Somehow controversial opinion: brutal dictators who gas their own people are bad and should be taken out, all other factors are meaningless.

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“DoorDash steps up driver ID checks” brother my background check from 2022 is still ongoing

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Worth noting that 1915 is the year Japan’s largest irl yakuza clan was established.

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“Huh this game looks kind of int— …I’ve seen that overhead punch before” is more or less the entire track my thoughts took at Project Century’s announcement before the hype set in

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Also Yagami (and Kaito’s) entries in the party database seem to genuinely stem from RGG just adding protagonists sequentially with each new game going back to Yakuza 6; Kiryu is 1, Majima is 2, Yagami is 3, Ichiban is 4, and his yakuza 7 party + Masumi Arakawa fills out the remainder before we suddenly start getting LJ side characters; seems the ones who follow you around worked internally like Y7’s party members even though most of them don’t ever join you in combat.

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>finally figure out how the game decides what songs play for which leader during battle in which cities
>edit those entries according to the files’ numerical values so that Kasuga has the correct battle theme in Kamurocho rather than reusing his Yokohama battle theme as happens in vanilla
>no music during battle in any of the three cities for any character

God dammit

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(and Seonhee of course - interestingly, again, Yagami has an entry that goes unused, as do Kaito and the Genda Law employees)

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while digging in the files i fixed a weird and mildly infuriating inconsistency where Nanba's full name is never written anywhere, in the UI or otherwise. Turns out the reason for this is because RGG literally just didn't write it down in the party.bin file. Everyone else's full name is there except for Nanba.

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...Lotta references to Yagami/his moveset in some of these files. ...hmmm

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http://rainbowdash.net/url/876675 Kaito’s here now too just because I wanted practice

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Haruka now replaces Chitose rather than Saeko for the simple reason of her default job skills make more sense. UI replacement is next.

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Makin’ progress! http://rainbowdash.net/url/876674

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There was a Scooby Doo movie a few years back that included a lengthy scene where they intercut a conversation with computer generated shots of the Mystery Machine moving through traffic and that was kind of goofy but at least there was TRAFFIC

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Like the background is a separate render composited behind the car anyway, you could put LITERALLY anything back there

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it always bugs me in animated shows when car scenes involve two characters talking to each other for a minute or more with no stops, no traffic, barely a passing car, just moving in a straight line while the CGI equivalent of a Flintstones background passes behind them. Add an intersection somewhere. Goddamn.

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A shocking amount of it works out of the box by simply unlocking the party leader slot

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-Saeko, and presumably most other characters, have their own dialogue box walla! When speaking to other characters she has sound bites she’ll pull out (“Hey,” “Mhmm?” “I see,” etc). That will make things much easier down the line as I don’t have to edit Kasuga’s.

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-She is mute in most other minigames except Can Quest, where Kiryu’s dialogue is still used even if playing as Ichiban. Very, very weird.
-She… grows when you try to open a locked door??? The animation itself seems to change your scaling factor. It isn’t noticeable as Kiryu/Ichiban as they’re roughly the same height within a few centimeters, but Haruka is much shorter so it’s very obvious. She then shrinks when the animation is done. Very very weird.
-Sprint speed seems to scale to your height. This is Very Bad.

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Weird factoids about playable Haruka:
-she is capable of doing all of Kiryu’s minigames although because she is much shorter some of her animations are a bit weird, IE she doesn’t reach the handlebars in Can Quest. Not sure how easy the fix for those things is because although I COULD tweak the animations, they’re meant to be universal so switching the party leader to anyone else breaks the animations for them.
-she CANNOT play most of Kasuga’s minigames, he takes over for those. Likely has something to do with the game switching to his cutscene model or something like that, I haven’t looked too deep into it yet.

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>replacing Saeko with Haruka works
>giving her her haircut from Yakuza 6 works
>giving her her clothes from Yakuza 6 causes the game to crash.

Wtf

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She’s just a model swap of Saeko… for now. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876671

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yakuza 9 leak http://rainbowdash.net/url/876670

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Persona 4 except your cousin is clearly an alien in a wig who lives in Dojima’s attic http://rainbowdash.net/url/876669

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Saw the Grinch today. Crossed to the other side of the street.