Judgment

Judgment

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How to unlock Legend difficulty from the start
By foxclub49er
If you are like me and desperately crave mind numbing challenge, fear not.
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Introduction
Massive thanks to guguy00 for uploading this save so early!


*ATTENTION*
You must remove any previous incomplete save files from your system for this to work, you can add them back when you finish.


Judgement finally came to PC so lets celebrate with a guide.
The Yakuza/Judgement series like to lock the hardest difficulty behind completion, this tutorial will let you play it on your first run.
Nexus Mods
Head to https://www.nexusmods.com/judgment/mods/9 and download the file data.sys and open it with WinRAR or 7zip
Locating Judgement system folder
Now that we have the system data, we need to find Judgement's system and save data locations.
(C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Sega\Judgment\Steam\87729270\system) for the initiated.

But to get there, first type %appdata% into windows search



then click on the Sega folder


followed by the Judgement folder


now click steam


and click 87729270





Now we can take the data.sys file from our download, and drag it into the system folder,
and click replace when it asks you to overwrite/merge the file.
Try not to cry
Now you can start a new game in Legend difficulty mode, enjoy the pain!
Changing an existing save to Legend
Tool doesn't seem to be working, will finish section when I figure out what's wrong

**PLEASE BACK UP AND MAKE A COPY OF YOUR SAVE BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS**

Now while both ways will work, this method allows you to edit your current save to allow for Legend at any point in the game.

Note: you must have a source code editor such as Notepad++ to do this, download at:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.4.2/

First head to: https://github.com/GarnetSunset/rgg_save_tools/releases/tag/Judge
and click the blue .7z file under the assets tab

Now use winrar/7zip to open the file, the two files we need are:
je_decrypt.exe and je_encrypt.exe

Once you have both files, bring them to the folder that contains your most recent save, which should have the highest number after it (example: save31 for me).
You can find this at: C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Sega\Judgment\Steam\87729270\save__
(To get to this folder follow the previous section of this guide up until you reach the folder 87729270.)


If you did everything right, your save file folder should look something like this:
Changing an existing save to legend PT.2
Tool doesn't seem to be working, will finish section when I figure out what's wrong

Now that we have the encryption tools in our folder, we can drag our data.sav file onto the je_decrypt tool.
18 Comments
Deafgentleman 15 Mar @ 5:04am 
i haven't start anything on steam for that series!! thank you so much!!!!!

yes i did for my wife's on her xbox and ps, switch too!!

SHE WANTED me to do same on steam sob!!

you saved my time@@@@

thank you~~~~~~

keep up great work!!!

now hunting down rest of your works for rest of series lol.
_UnderscoreFresh 17 Nov, 2023 @ 3:54pm 
Some people just want to experience deep torment huh?
Eddie_078 22 Feb, 2023 @ 12:09am 
Mortal wounds galore!!
Nick 8 Oct, 2022 @ 3:05pm 
Also you can use something like https://jsonformatter.org/json-pretty-print to make the output file more readable
Nick 8 Oct, 2022 @ 3:03pm 
how to use the tool:
1) Copy the files to the save folder
2) Open powershell (or cmd) in current folder
3) Type .\je_decrypt.exe data.sav
Maxz85 1 Oct, 2022 @ 12:24am 
Any update on how to switch to legend on an existing save?
AskaLangly 23 Sep, 2022 @ 12:07am 
Cheat Engine route:
An address flips through 1~4 when changing difficulty; 1 is Easy, 2 is Normal, 3 is Hard, 4 is Legend. If you do set it to Legend, don't forget that the difficulty is locked.
foxclub49er  [author] 21 Sep, 2022 @ 12:31pm 
Okay maybe i'm doing something wrong but the decryptor doesn't seem to output a .json
foxclub49er  [author] 21 Sep, 2022 @ 11:48am 
you are my hero Sutando, gonna add it to the guide now, thanks for all your work on github
SutandoTsukai181 21 Sep, 2022 @ 1:13am 
Hi, you can just get this tool

https://github.com/GarnetSunset/rgg_save_tools/releases/tag/Judge

You can decrypt and encrypt saves with it. Decrypted saves are just JSON files, so no hex editing is needed, just look for "difficulty" and "difficulty_org" and set them to the number corresponding to Legend (at least that's how it was for Kiwami 2).