Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 to Sparking! Meteor Modifications (NTSC-U)

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This is a rather simpler mod of BT3/Sparking! Meteor i acrued and compiled myself after learning how to mod the game using the various tools the community made over the years (AFS Explorer, Sparking Studio etc), my motivation to made this is simply because after seeing how Sparking Zero uses the same JP localizations for its name and i also grew up with the Sparking release since i live in Hong Kong where i import alot of JP regional games, so i take it to making my own actual Sparking releases BT3 with the added benefit with English localizations but with JP original title names, soundtracks and modifications.

This is all vanilla canon DBZ stuffs, it has none of the goofy character mods or whatnot. And yes i would consider making the much more complete PAL Europe versions with all the other languanges but that takes time.

Changes include:​

  • Modified the soundtracks to using the actual JP release of the game which uses actual DBZ anime and Sparking Meteor soundtracks by Shunsuke Kikuchi (though rearranged and mostly instrumental), vocal Sparking Meteor intro with Super Survivor and included modified translated JP soundtrack lists names in the soundtrack selection that most BGM hack of this game completely ignored.
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  • Replaces the Budokai Tenkaichi 3 logo in main menu and replay logo to the clean Sparking Meteor logo (without the Japanese katakana pronounciation on the logo), i dont know why on emulators the logo looks a bit blurry, i might update it later.
  • Added lots of new canon DBZ and DB characters for the second costumes slots for most rosters (One arm Future Gohan, GT Vegeta, Adult Blue Baby (Vegeta), Adult Chichi, Ginyu Goku, Future Teen Trunks, GT Trunks, Gohan in Kaioshin outfit etc). All of these are in the second costume slots of certain respective characters (though i also put and replace some to what i think best represents them).
  • I made 2 versions here, one includes a bigger giant-type characters mod for some giants about the same size as Sparking Zero giants (courtesy of Sparking Hyper mod, currently still in beta). the other is the more vanilla one, other than the bigger giants versions, everything else has the same contents.
Screenshot for new Characters slots:
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Screenshot for BIGGER GIANTS:
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I actually also made a more complete BT3/Sparking Meteor with added 4 costumes slots for each characters and quite literally more characters added, and also some arena mods but the more i played it the more unstable it is so i don't feel like posting that one. But it does contain mostly vanilla canon DBZ characters (also no goofy character mods, so dont worry), if anybody interested you can contact me on Discord (#honey_pot2254) for me to share it with you.

To do lists:
  1. Complex system save and game editing to change the whole ID of the game and the icon of the save in the bios into custom Sparking! logo and names like the famous BT4 mod.
  2. Add more costumes slots versions that arent prone to crashing the game.
  3. Naming characters fix for certain western localized characters like Mr. Satan (Hercule), Fasha (Celipa) and many others, and maybe even fix all the moveset names to JP original names.
  4. Plan to add Battle of Gods/Resurrection F characters (SSJG, SSJB, Golden Frieza, Beerus and Whis) with fixes regarding whos to replace and how to make it less disruptive to the vanilla experience.
Credits: Vive (for the Sparking Hyper mod, and some models), DB GT EX patch, Sparking Studio, AFS Explorer, and various uncredited model and moveset maker from BT3 community, alot of these models i acrued randomly whenever i found one (lots of the links and where to find them are already dead).

UPDATES: 9/04/2025

Google Drive links updated, new changes:

  • Rearranged costumes slots to prevent movesets glitch with incompatible characters.
  • Changes Hercule to Mr Satan in duel mode.
  • Minor changes to hp starting stats for certain characters.
  • For Bigger Giants version, disabled Giant Ape forms for Raditz, Nappa, Fasha and Turles to avoid awkward size differences when playing these vanilla size great apes with the bigger giant type characters.
I've been trying to make use of these rarely used forms for proper Vegeta GT character slots, but so far i can only made it possible if i use KKTeamTenkaichi dlc mod that has features for repeatable character slots, i can still use pcsx2 pnach cheat (courtesy of Vive) here:

Pick Any Character Multiple Times-> PS2 NTSC-U

patch=1,EE,20261658,extended,1000000D
patch=1,EE,20261664,extended,1000000A
patch=1,EE,20261670,extended,10000007

But it defeats the whole purpose of this being a full complete iso (and its janky to set the cheats on real PS2). So instead im just gonna share my patched very unstable and unfinished personalized ISO that are based off KKTeamTenkaichi dlc mod, has every characters (canon dbz db dbgt), proper Vegeta GT slots, new arena stages, personalized actual DBZ anime soundtracks (without the soundtrack lists name changes for now), and also 2 dlc characters Whis and Beerus, planning to add SSJG/B or Golden Frieza.

Personalized ISO

And also im sharing just in case you want to play this on emulator my own cheat pnach setups for PCSX2 (includes proper widescreen hack)

Pnach cheat
 
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Thank you very much! It have kid Krilin too? Im curious to see teen future Trunks.
 
This is a duplicate thread i made of this thread in /repo/downloads

Original thread

I have a couple of messages that the thread section is harder to find than romhack releases thread here, so i just posted it again here

Stay tunes for updates, currently planning to add extra OST slots (up to 20 more tracks) so you can have the full default JP OST but also the Kenji Yamamoto BT3 one, and maybe if i can finish it sooner a Golden Frieza slot and SSJG/SSJB in the 4th costume slots of the characters.
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Thank you very much! It have kid Krilin too? Im curious to see teen future Trunks.
I have it in the personalized ISO not in the vanilla releases as a replacer for Nam third costume, i will add it to the vanilla but unfortunately the game has limits to only 4 character costume slots (and i do like the vanilla 4 costume slots of Krillin) so i gotta think which ones to modify for now.

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I see, I think I had him with the red gi clothes as a normal Krilin skin, but I dont know how to stract him and put in another .iso
 
Google Drive Links Updated:

New Changes:

  • Added 20 more new tracks to the game, its now combining both the JP OST and the Kenji Yamamoto BT3 ones. Plus at least 8 personalized Dragon Ball OST at the end of the tracklists.
    • Day of Destiny Tamashii tai Tamashii (Gohan SSJ2 song)
    • Mind Power...Ki (Trunks flashback song)
    • Cha-La Head-Cha-La (Need no introduction, pun intended)
    • We Gotta Power (DBZ 2nd Opening song)
    • Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku (GT Opening)
    • Makafushigi Adventure (DB Opening)
    • We Were Angels (DBZ 2nd Ending song)
    • Blue Velvet (GT 3rd Ending Song)
    • The Biggest Fight (DBGT Final Bout for PSX Opening Theme)
    • Pefect Cell Theme (Faulcouner, but not the actual Faulconer but the famous remix, not a fan of American OST, but i can give credits if the themes are good)


I'm thinking the Kenji Yamamoto tracks are just placeholder for now for more genuine DBZ tracks to be added, if you have something to add to the track lists feel free to let me know, theres 19 OSTs in both of the vanilla game (actually the JP ones have 4 more tracks unlocked through story, 4 versions of Super Survivors, already included in the OST now), so i need at least 19 more to fill it in.​

  • Rearrange some roster names and placements to be SZ styled (Vegeta mid, end and gt etc). And all names are now ported to all game modes including Training and Ultimate Battle.
  • Damage tweaks to some movesets by Ultimate Gohan, SSJ4 Vegeta, Cell 2nd Form, SSJ3 Goku, and Supreme Kai. I noticed they deal damage way less when transforming compared to the previous forms, its very minor but its a long term plan to fix alot of these inconsitencies.
  • Make so that Old Kai/Kibito Kai and Uub 2nd costume slots transformation are disabled.

Currently planning to add to the base vanilla alot of the Personalized ISO contents but unfortunately its cumbersome to do so, alot of the new roster features that most Tenkaichi mod use, uses KKteam dlc mod but its also very unstable and prone to crashing. So i'm not planning to update that one anytime soon but i will keep making updates to both of the vanilla versions.

For future updates, probably more costumes slots, and moveset renames, and maybe even arenas (only vanilla and canon themed arena like Otherworld Tournament arena).

In the meantime heres a fun gameplay of the bigger giant versions i have as a showcase




STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT UPDATE OF DRAGON BALL Z
 

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