Yo-kai Watch 3

Prerelease Info Notes Bugs

Resources#

Yo-kai Watch 2 LeftoversLeftovers from a whole another time period. Unused AreasEverything was bigger in BBQ. Translation ErrorsFive languages. Few localizers. A lot of errors.

Version Differences#

Regional DifferencesWellcome to totally not USA BBQ, where all th' Dream Link doodads are prohibited! Revisional DifferencesA lot of updates, bugfixes, and eventually quality-of-life elements.

Unused Yo-kai#

Sternyan (y491000)#

Originally added in Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble, Sternyan is a Jibanyan variant with a black haircut and more erratic yellow flames. His location in the game files is y491000, between y489000 (Aristokat) and y501000 (Krystal Fox) , which means he was likely added between Yo-kai Watch Blasters and Yo-kai Watch 3.
Even though he has attack and Soultimate animations, he doesn't have any stats in combat.

Unused Graphics#

To do: Unused character portraits from YWBlasters and YW3 Bosses.

Placeholders#

Inside yw_a.fa/data/menu/mm_medal_d00.xa a placeholder graphic of the Team Members option can be found, compared to the version used in game the text says "探索メンバー" and has "仮" (Temporary) on top.

Used	Unused

In yw_a.fa/data/event/ev_pic/kari_ev_pic_big.xa, an image of one of Yo-kai Watch Blasters cutscenes can be found, the text on the background can be translated as "Temporary image (Big)"

Same as the previous image, this can be found in yw_a.fa/data/event/ev_pic/kari_ev_pic_sml.xa, this image is also from Yo-kai Watch Blasters, the text on the background can be translated as "Temporary image (Small)"

t407g00 texture#

One of the only textures within t407g00 files, contain a placeholder texture for the Statue of Liberty for the scrapped New York-based location.

Early St. Peanutsburg textures#

To do: Find the rest of final textures and search for more unused textures

In the files of Testmap2 there are unused textures with a lot of early store signs, these have some... funny placeholder text.

Early	Final

Testmapmask textures#

The textures from Testmapmask, these are simple textures, within the files of the map there's also a texture probably related to the skybox.

Unused Music#

bgm_T84_dummy.dspadpcm#

An exact copy of Don Spiracy's battle music, likely intended for him to appear as a boss in Blasters T mode as it shares the same file-naming scheme.

Hidden Details#

Riddle Rooms#

When the player visits the Gates of Whimsy, they can end up in a Riddle Room where they'll be in a first-person perspective. The full rooms have detail, which can be seen by using a save editor. When going downstairs in Katie's room, the player will be teleported in the normal house.

Cutscene-only Locations#

UFO#

This area is only used in a cutscene, so it can't be explored. However, teleporting inside of it reveals that is has collision and a minimap, which cannot normally be seen.

Oddities#

Internal Filenames#

• The music used in the Enma Dungeon is called "bgm_E18_Shinigami_Deamon_loop", likely meaning Shinigami Demon, but no such Yo-kai ever appears in game. The name is likely leftover from when this song, along with multiple others from the game, were originally used in Yo-kai Watch Movie: Lord Enma and the Five Tales. The dungeon theme, specifically, was first the theme for the Shinigami "Demon Okure", hence the filename.

Undocumented Localization Oddity#

To do: Upload the graphic.

There is a peculiar regional difference involving one of the coin graphics, where the "rising sun" is changed from red to orange, while the final credits scene (also involving a rising sun) was also removed. Considering that other non-Korean localizations of Yo-kai Watch-related media kept depictions of the rising sun, this makes it a somewhat inconsistent change and suggests that a Korean localization was likely in the works, or may have been part of a new localization standard hence why Yo-kai Watch 4 introduced textless item graphics in all versions.

Locked Infinite Inferno Entrance#

In previous games, a locked shed that's just beyond Prayer's Peak Tunnel led to a post-game location called Infinite Inferno, which is usually unlocked after completion of the game's storyline. But in this game, the shed stays locked at all times due to another location taking its place.

If the player manages to hack into the entrance, the location will be completely empty without any collision, but the music will still play. Whether it was going to be included in any future content is unknown.

Texture Oddities#

Early St. Peanutsburg Cutscene Layouts#

In the cutscene for where Nate rides the plane to BBQ, a slightly earlier layout of St. Peanutsburg can be seen.

Early	Final

There are a few notable, and somewhat last-minute layout changes.

• The "outskirts" consist of cloned and copied roads from St. Peanutsburg.
• The area above the Scrapyard is different, consisting of a sort of foundry rather than some buildings.
• The building below the St. Peanutsburg Town Hall is different.
• There was no sign present in the Phantomart parking lot.
• There was no area leading to the abandoned house in East Pine.
• The Circus was present rather than being introduced in Chapter 4.
• Meadowbrooke Farm had more houses.

A later cutscene where the UFO crashes to Earth after the final battle with Don Spirancy shows St. Peanutsburg from above shows another varied layout;

Early	Final

This layout appears to be slightly later in development, but they have a few notable oddities lurking;

• Erroneously, the fields surrounding St. Peanutsburg and Meadowbrooke Farm are absent in comparison to the scale size.
• Much of the surrounding areas in St. Peanutsburg appear to be crudely copied-and-pasted over with the clone tool despite most of it being covered with clouds. There's also some sloppily-drawn scribbled at the bottom-left with text saying "はらへっとる" ("I'm hungry") in Japanese.
• The river layout near the treehouse was slightly different.

Miscellaneous#

• There's a whopping total of 112 placeholder slots for regular Yo-kai appearing after Fitwit's muscular form, and a 26 placeholder slots for Boss Yo-kai. A couple of these slots would be occupied by Yo-kai introduced in Yo-kai Watch Busters 2.
• The Eyepo Menu before you unlock switching. Which is strange that it exists as there are no accessible Eyepo before that point, so you'd have to break out of bounds to one to see this.

Unused Text#

Dream Medal/NFC Functionality Text#

Despite the international versions of the game not supporting NFC functionality, the text strings for said feature was fully translated.

ywb_lg_en.fa/data/res/text/capsule_text_en.cfg.bin

Inaccessible Yo-kai#

In the international versions, Jibanyan T and Komasan T were available as download-exclusive Yo-kai in the Nintendo eShop, but due to the closure of it on March 28, 2023, they are no longer obtainable normally without trading.

Unused Items#

To do: Try to find more unused items.

Despite their description, these items do not extend the time limit. Instead, they max out your equipment in Zombie Time. Debug Item 1 maxes out the backpack level, Debug Item 2 maxes out your Whomper and Debug Item 3 maxes out your Armor.