Thanks everyone for the kind words and support, I honestly wasn't expecting to even reach 500 views. I still dislike hearing my own voice, lol. Update #1: Japanese PS2 save file now available.

@awhvex7188

Ай бұрын

This is always wild. I wonder how long it will be before everything for every ps2 game is found. Seems like every 3-6 months something thats been hidden for "15+ years" gets magically found as of more recent years

@Fabioluiz100

25 күн бұрын

This video was suggested on my KZread home page.

@VilifiedOne

17 күн бұрын

@@awhvex7188 I would like to know the contents of every game really, but PS2 isn't super mod friendly and it takes time to research formats and develop tools. I imagine a lot of my favorite games have at least something unused.

@awhvex7188

15 күн бұрын

@@VilifiedOne thats alot of "miniscule" knowledge for one person 🫡 Its crazy that you gave me a response around this time, i have been using dolphin emulator on my phone and have been playing pokemon rumble wii, that game only released with gen 1 and gen 4 pokemon but in 2020 a hard pokemon fan and pokemon rumble player thought that gen 2 and gen 3 pokemon were suppose to be in the game, come to his suprise that with a little bit of fiddling in the code and porting the models over from other games that use similar models gen 2 and gen 3 worked flawlessly and added about 200 extra pokemon to the game aswell as their shiny variants.

"Always hard neversoft" is the best motto I've heard so far

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Realest motto of them all.

The name "Sukehachi" is probably a pun for "Skate". Skateboard = スケートボード Suke(to) = スケー(ト) = Skate Hachi = 八 = 8 Sukehachi = Sk8 = Skate Just my theory

@glorbojibbins2485

Ай бұрын

Lol rad

@jj-cz3rq

Ай бұрын

Definitely correct!

@Laekith

Ай бұрын

That's absolutely what it is

@Ktjnn

Ай бұрын

The Japanese do love combining words and puns in general, makes sense.

@Jacquobite

Ай бұрын

@@Ktjnn I don't think I've ever met a person that doesn't like (good) word play.

youtube algo actually recommended solid content here, great job on the video. Well spoken, well written, well read. 10/10

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

I really appreciate it, thank you very much! :)

@Jokervision744

Ай бұрын

​@@VilifiedOne I agree, and just to point out the number of 👍.

The Japan-exclusive skaters need to be ported to the PC version as a mod

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

They have been, but without their videos. I've been porting them to XBOX, as that's my preferred way to play. (video coming soon)

@Mateus_Carvalho

Ай бұрын

Wonder if they'll somehow end up on THUG Pro at some point.

@RitzLazyArtist

Ай бұрын

@@Mateus_Carvalho And reTHAWed if someone requested 10K Rising to be put in the update 4.1 or 4.2.

@foally8485

Ай бұрын

@@VilifiedOneis a modded og xbox needed? i only have a base console

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

@@foally8485 You can also use XEMU. Tony Hawk 3 runs flawless at 60fps under XBOX emulation, if your PC is decent enough.

I’m making beef brisket tonight. Probably.

@Danny__Noble

Ай бұрын

Did you?

@JMFSpike

Ай бұрын

@@Danny__Noble LOL

@coconuthead8484

Ай бұрын

You sound boring 😊

@RawrStickers

Ай бұрын

Was it good?

@lifespanofafry1534

Ай бұрын

@@RawrStickers I ended up smoking a chicken. Sooooo good. Applewood.

Brother, this is your "first video you ever wrote a script for?" Fuck me, you're gonna enjoy your time here if this is how you come out the gate, swinging.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! I tried my best, as I pretty much never commentate anything -- most of my channel up until this point was just throwaway videos.

@dylanherron3963

Ай бұрын

@@AntiJewluminatiDwarf Imagine taking you the slightest bit seriously, Captain Dogwhistle. Nice name, you f*cking block of concrete. You're a Flat Earther for Christ's sake. What would you know about being the actual first in history to explore ANYTHING? My man has less than 1k subs, got blessed by the algorithm, knows how to mod game files, and compiled a working version of the game's missing skater, and is the first person (that we know) to do it in the 23 years the game came out. You post conspiracy shorts. I'd say have a seat, but just eat the fucking whole chair dude.

Those shmup themed boards are pretty rad

@gamerguy425

Ай бұрын

if they ported Cotton-related boards I would have lost my shit that a franchise I learned about in obscure sega import collecting made a cameo in my favorite games as an American child. I think a pin up of Silk might have actually been pretty fitting deck lol.

just got recommended this. I appreciate your information and high quality video. Thank you

Never even knew that Japanese versions had exclusive skaters

man, that's cool as hell. We're kind of a lucky community that, firstly we know about this, but also so much talent is in here that lets everyone experience it. I'm just a fairly casual THPS fan, but it seems every few months someone invites me to put on a new pair of socks so they can blow them off once again. The story behind this one is cool, I had no idea save discs were a thing

So glad this dropped in my recommended. Keep making content!

Really happy this popped up in my recommended. No clickbait, thoroughly researched and explained well, and I learned something today about one of my fav games series - THPS

Very well made, I look forward to more of your vids

Short, to the point and really rad information. Great stuff.

Definitely seems like a obscure easter egg. Similar to the cheat codes for the pre-made custom skaters

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

That's definitely the feeling I got as well, those pre-made skaters take up the created skater slot however, where as sukahachi has a unique slot in the master skater list.

Great work on the video. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for making this video! Very cool 😎

Keep making A class videos like this and you'll grow in no time flat. That was very well edited and extremely informative. Also, congrats on making a video on something I've never seen before. Just absolutely amazing all the way around. Great job! 😁

Cool video, i love nostalgic video games. Happy your video got recommended to me. You sir earned another subscriber. Great content!

Finally good quality content

bro this is so cool, good content !

algorithm just recommended me this elite channel. i haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere. could you do a video on those ps2 save collections. i never even knew that was a thing you could do

@VilifiedOne

18 күн бұрын

Appreciate the support; I'll consider making a dedicated video, I'm just in the middle of rebuilding a desktop currently.

"The skater lost to time" is a subtitle that goes so damn hard

@georgealvarez1195

Ай бұрын

A good anime name 😂

Wow! Amazing! After 20+ years with the THPS franchise and a highly dedicated modding community I thought there was nothing else to find. Guess I was proven wrong, good job man!

This video was amazing to watch, such an interesting discovery! These games were my childhood and seeing hidden content from it being discovered now is an incredible thing.

I loved this game as a kid, spent many hours over the years I remember I could unlock multiple stages in 1 run

Thank you for this, I heard about this for a long time I’m glad someone figured it out

Great video!

@VilifiedOne

29 күн бұрын

Thanks so much!!

this is so cool, thanks for the video and discovery!

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed, I appreciate the support!

Great job! Subbed

Whoa pretty neat stuff. Great video lad!

This is incredibly cool and super interesting. I have never heard about this before, thought I knew everything about these games. Super awesome.

Mind. Blown.

Brought back my childhood, u earned a sub!

that tokyo map with the never ending slide around 😎

A new reveal for THPS3 in 2024? Thank you!

That discord convo made me lol, "It doesn't exist" *shows personal copy* "Fair enough"

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

"Hold my beer"

So sick! Algo did me justice here lol

Respect for adding the save file too. I have a emulated disc drive and mem card pro for my gamecube. The fact i could just pop this in is awesome.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Have a GCLoader and a X16 madcatz card, myself. You're very welcome, I hope I can get a non-Dengeki PS2 going save eventually.

Neat. Since there’s an actual flag to be triggered for the unlock instead of hacking together unfinished data, a simple AR code should be able to flip the flag on the JPS2 version without needing a full mod. The challenge is, of course, *finding* that flag in memory. Reminds me of another THPS thing that’s known to exist but has no clean footage and little documentation: Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure (essentially a level pack for THPS4 with licensed characters, same engine and all) has some implemented but unused costume part options for the CAS. One otherwise unused part is loaded as a placeholder on the title screen, but texture files indicate a few others.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

I'm aware of this game and played it in my youth, TH4 isn't too different from 3 so I may be able to script for it; Even easier since there's an XBOX version.. I'll consider checking it out. As for PS2, I hadn't thought of a memory patch which is kind of funny considering I grew up with an Action Replay disc.. oh well. I'm pretty inexperience in this area, so I'm of no help here but it would be really great if someone made the effort to do this. On the PS2 side of things, I've been comparing the dengeki save to "new" and "slightly uses" saves in gameplay, trying to see if I can piece together a few addresses, as I've experience with writing save editing tools. Never done it for a console game before but maybe it'll happen..

Rad video :]

Quality content 🔥

I love the way you're explaining this like we just got a few den geki disks laying around in a draw or whatever 🤣 very cool stuff tho!

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

To be fair, all of them have been backed up online :)

@resident19guy

Ай бұрын

@@VilifiedOne well that shows me, then!

Awesome video buddy! I highly reccomend taking the music out of your video or they will clip you if you can get monitized eventually

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

I appreciate the concern, but I've no interested in being monetized on KZread, nor any kind of partnership with them for the record.

This is so cool, thank you for sharing! I'm noticing from your video that THPS3 apparently uses different trick string fonts between the JP PS2 and JP GCN versions. Wonder why that is!

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Actually didn't notice until you pointed it out, rather strange. Both of the fonts are bitmap fonts to my knowledge, but perhaps the Gamecube version was the least of their concern considering no videos for the new skaters. Even though I mentioned the disk space, compression was really good back then; Overall lazy.

I had no idea different regions of THPS had different skaters, let alone one hidden. Great vid!

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

For sure! The original game has some songs replaced in Europe, one of them is "No Time to Waste" by Aim ft. YZ... the other one was something sky by Aqua I think? It's very cool to see, but I would have loved the Japanese pros regardless, and that's why I published the XBOX mod.

Very good video

Awesome video' bruh 😊

Psyvariar is one of my favorite games from Japan and so is Tony Hawk thanks so much for sharing this !

Hot damn! This video is about to blow up

0:39 No doubt one of only a small handful of non-rpg games where the smaller data storage of the GameCube was actually a problem. Most games were not large enough to require anything more then 1.46GB. However, I have to wonder if perhaps some developers chose to limit their multi-platform games to 1.46GB to avoid the issue of having to choose to either not release a GameCube version, cut a bunch of content to make it fit onto a GameCube disc (which would obviously make for a rather butchered release, although you could try to make up for it somewhat with exclusive content), or split the game up into 2 or more discs. If I'm not mistaken, the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII was released on a single blu-ray disc, but since the 360 was still using the outdated DVD's it's version of the game required 3 discs. Thankfully, this sort of thing isn't really an issue anymore. X-Box and Playstation both use the same format, and although the Switch uses a very different format, it's game cards go up to 60GB which is a little more then the 50GB a dual layered blu-ray can hold. Not sure if they're making games big enough to need 4K blu-rays yet, but I guess if they are Nintendo would need to make bigger game cards. Switch is on it's last legs anyway though, and I'm sure Switch's successor will have bigger cards.

Cool vid, subscribed

Good stuff

This is an extremely cool find, excellent video! I wonder if other THPS games have hidden skaters?

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

The PS1 version of THPS4 has Bam Margera as a fry cook.

@maxmorgan1218

Ай бұрын

@@VilifiedOne Lol, just googled it then. Absolute perfection.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

It's pretty neat tho sadly unused. I believe it was an inside joke because the GBA version also as a non-bam fry cook that (I recall) is unlockable.

@maxmorgan1218

29 күн бұрын

@@VilifiedOneHow strange haha. I love it when things like this are discovered.

Interesting. I lived here in Osaka half my life and my Jaoan ps2 collection is everything i can dream about i bave this but never knew this. Now it makes me wonder if there is something like this on the Japanese Def Jam Fight for New York because there were exclusive Japanese only characters on there too.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

It would be really great to see another character like this, especially if the game was published by success. An interesting time to be alive.

Good video

sub earned brotherbear 🤜

That outro caught me off guard lol

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Always hard! 💪

That’s pretty awesome

fuckin awesome work! i love these videogame lost medias

This game needs to be on the PlayStation cloud.

Theres a lot of unique DLC esque content released through gaming magazine CDs that nobody knows about. I have one that adds a small island to Morrowind on Xbox

@dathotbox

Ай бұрын

Ayyyy that's pretty sick. I only ever remember the game saves

@kwizzeh

Ай бұрын

This was a thing with Japanese mags. Dreamcast magazine had new moves for Fire Pro Wrestling D for example.

@PCFROMVCS

Ай бұрын

Its a game save on a CD like all the others, from an America magazine. Not sure how they pulled off adding a whole island (it is pretty small) but I've seen people theorize they probably used a hex editor, or some kind of deeper save editor, to edit the save file so that there's extra content on the file thats not in the original game

@fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771

Ай бұрын

Is there a name for this island? I love Morrowind and would like to learn more about this

@PCFROMVCS

Ай бұрын

@fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771 I sold my old Xbox, so I can't check out the old save file right now, but I'll give you some info on the CD. It's from Xbox Magazine November 2003, labeled disc #24. On the back of the box it's just named Morrowind "treasure hunt" in the download center column. From what I remember, the island was super tiny off one of the coasts, in the corner of the map. It had a tomb with some unique enchanted items inside. I don't think the island had a name, but the tomb was probably named something. I also found some more unique enchanted items in the one of the guilds in either Aldruhn or Viviec. The enchantments weren't unique or anything, they were just standard enchanted weapons/armor with unique names. In all honesty, the additions were a little underwhelming, so after seeing the island, I mostly forgot about it and went about the normal game. There could be more stuff added that I didn't bump into though.

Actually doing the stuff here in this video. I'll sub. This era of youtube has this suff few and far between.

We found him boys. We did it.

I wish we could get 3+4 🥺

#Legend moment

Would really really love to see a Gamecube Action Replay code for this, I still play everything in my stock 'cube, and would love to have this one in my collection!

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

You could use something like a Memory Card Pro to transfer the save to a stock cube, Wii is also incredibly quick to softmod. You can use GCMM to copy the save to your card. You're right though, would be very cool.

This is so rare 🥶

I always find stuff like this neat and my mind wanders to when this was put in the game and the people responsible could have thought it would never be a big deal, just a throw-a-way gag or something and here it is many many years later popping back up. It also gives me thoughts that there's potentially a lot more things in older games that have not been discovered since the method of unlocking this is a bit quirky for lack of a better word and that some of those methods might be lost to time because preservation wasn't at the forefront of video games and is still sorely lacking these days, sadly. ALSO, the save file thing is pretty neat. I grew up in the 90's and never heard of such a thing, there were demo disks, cheat websites (like cheat cc and cheat planet. who can forget printing out pages and writing down codes.) and such but this would have blown my little mind back then.

Great video man, a background music would be good, besides that, all fine!

Nice video. I did a brief research to see if the Japanese community was aware of this character. I could only find a post from 2002 which predates the Dengeki save file. Original text is 日本語化や日本人キャラプラス意外に変化がないと 思ってたら微妙に違ってた。 ２１回クリア後にNeversoft Eyeballってキャラが出たんだけど そこでオリジナルキャラのSUKEHACHIも登場。 サクセスのＴシャツ着てるけどこのキャラは一体…。 The key part of the above being "after 21 times clearing, Neversoft Eyeball and original character SUKEHACHI was unlocked. He's wearing an Access t-shirt, but what is this character". Perhaps the character was hidden in plain sight.

@hima.tsubushi

Ай бұрын

I also located the original issue of Dengeki the save data was on. It was Dengeki Playstation D57 (February 2003). I hope this helps.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Only the Neversoft eyeball is unlocked. I looked in the unlock scrips, as well as 100% the game legitimately, so I'm not sure about this post. Thanks for telling me the original Dengeki disc, as well!

Got my sub

Next Gen subscriber

Someone needs to send this to Nick Robinson so he can start digging into who the character is based on.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

I don't think it's anyone specific, someone below had a decent theory as to what the name could mean; It's a detail I wish I had picked up / included in my video, solid theory.

TIL about Save Game Collection Disks.

My man really made his KZread script debut by giving a history lesson, demonstration, and gift to the gaming community all at once. Real King hours.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

I really appreciate that man, one hell of a compliment. It means everything to me, thanks for your support!!

That’s pretty interesting, didn’t even know about a lot of this, sucks the online got cut though from that version.

Hell yeah!

Let's goooo, banger of a video my friend.

Fuckin dope ass video first time I've been schooled on thps in along time

Anthony Trujillo is a skater I barely played as in Tony Hawks American Wasteland

Awesome

Does the JPN version have Kriptonite by 3 Doors Down in its soundtrack or did you edit that in? I don't remember that song being in the American version

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Edited in, 5:45 I put a note in the corner. :) Footage didn't have music, all I had on hand lol.

@marhawkman303

Ай бұрын

@@VilifiedOne hunh, thought something felt wrong. the song just felt.... out of place. Like it wasn't being rendered by the same hardware as the game audio.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

@@marhawkman303 It was the only song I had on hand that fit the gameplay, but for sure, it doesn't sound compressed at all.

@olympian3

Ай бұрын

@@VilifiedOneI used to have a custom soundtrack with that song on my Xbox back in the day so it fits for me 😂

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

I have it on my XBOX as well lol, that's the only reason I had it on hand.

Why... did you capture gameplay without licensed music, only to add licensed music back in lol. I mean it's fine I'm just confused. Also imagine Kyroptonite in THPS that actually goes hard lol I didn't expect it to work

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Because I am sick of the soundtrack right now, I've heard it too much this week. I usually use custom soundtracks, but that's an XBOX feature, no Gamecube.

this was a crazy algo recommendation

Dam this brings back a lot of memories with my first serious girlfriend, we spent hours on this and were so excited for underground when it came out

@VilifiedOne

8 күн бұрын

I was really excited for THAW, personally. good times.

Wow, never thought the same company that made my favorite yuri VNs also had their own THPS skater.

Subbed

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

I appreciate it, glad you enjoyed the video. :)

SHOUT OUT HIROKI goofy supreme

Huh. Neat.

Great video. SO quiet though!

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

Is it? Sounded pretty loud on my end, sorry about that if so.

Behind every cool video game discovery is 5 discord mods all saying it doesn't exist.

You played the music, you got balls.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

You're going to love my Pro Skater 1 playthrough then :)

@victorvonjacoby9349

Ай бұрын

@@VilifiedOne Ill be waiting brother man

5:29 Wait, they had a GTA3 tie in with Claude?

@VilifiedOne

9 күн бұрын

No, that's my create-a-skater.

Very epic poggers content dude! Would love to see more from ya :D

At 5:30 is that supposed to be Claude from gta3? How random.

@VilifiedOne

Ай бұрын

That's my create-a-skater at the moment.

@ultraslang

Ай бұрын

@@VilifiedOne aaaaye, big fire bro!

unfathomably based

The algorithm is rarely right. But in this case, it was _perfect._ Excellent video, hope to see more in the future!

There is definitely a way to mod the PlayStation 2 games. There is a bunch of Soul Calibur 3 hacks. None of them would run on OPL though.

@VilifiedOne

29 күн бұрын

All I know is PS2 games can be LBA hell. Not all games require specific addresses, sizes and checksums, but some do; Not sure about tony hawk. I think, like Dolphin, a PS2 game can be ran as an extracted ELF, so I might look into that. It's enough to make a save file, anyway.