Secret THPS3 skater found after 20 years 

Thanks everyone for the kind words and support, I honestly wasn't expecting to even reach 500 views. Update #1: I uploaded a follow up video, we now have all the cheat codes for both Japanese variants. Update #2: Japanese PS2 save file now available.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I’m making beef brisket tonight. Probably.

Never even knew that Japanese versions had exclusive skaters

Those shmup themed boards are pretty rad

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

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

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!

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.

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

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! 😁

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

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

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

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

I was recommended this video on the home page. I subscribed eh! Good work

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!

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

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.

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

Thanks for making this video! Very cool 😎

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

bro this is so cool, good content !

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.

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

Whoa pretty neat stuff. Great video lad!

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

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

A new reveal for THPS3 in 2024? Thank you!

Great job! Subbed

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.

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

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

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

So sick! Algo did me justice here lol

Brought back my childhood, u earned a sub!

Quality content 🔥

Hot damn! This video is about to blow up

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

Awesome video' bruh 😊

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

We found him boys. We did it.

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

this was a crazy algo recommendation

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!

Great video!

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.

Cool vid, subscribed

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

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

Mind. Blown.

#Legend moment

Next Gen subscriber

sub earned brotherbear 🤜

That outro caught me off guard lol

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

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.

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.

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

0:35 I guess that works. I thought these ending movies were cut from the Japanese GameCube version due to one of the song's lyrics explicitly mentioning the PlayStation 2. It wouldn't sound right if the latter console gets mentioned on non-PS2 ports of the game.

Very good video

Rad video :]

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

Good video

Great, if we can get this guy, then that slightly gives hope to Jamie Thomas and Bucky Lasek in thug 2, as i heard they have models on the disc but there's no way to get them in the game

fuckin awesome work! i love these videogame lost medias

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!

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

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

This game needs to be on the PlayStation cloud.

Wow very interesting... couldn't you use a trainer like cheat device or action replay or game shark for the ps2 to get him? You can create / add your own codes. Pretty outdated but i wouldn't be surprised if its either possible or has already been done in Japan.

what dashboard is this, I've never seen a LIBRARY option in any PS2 console.

How do I spell the name of these disks? I’m going to need to find out what that initial d special stage file is. Interesting video!

Good stuff

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

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

@2:21 i forgot evolution snowboarding was a thing, i remember evolution skateboarding as a kid. I wonder what the save is for that, or really what kinds of save stuff in general is available. Shame that America never got something like it

Cool stuff! Just an idea; Can’t we make Action Replay codes to unlock the character?

Hey whats that Library Option after System Configuration? Modded PS2? Browser 2.0? what functionality does it have just out of curiosity

Ive played the Korean THPS2 version but never heard about a Japanese THPS3 before. Are there any other Japanese releases?

unfathomably based

Awesome

This is so rare 🥶

now i'm wondering which ps2s have the library option on the main menu?

Do you use a PSX (PS2 DVR) so that's why there's the library option in the PS2 main menu?

I've been getting heavy into Tony Hawk Mods, is there a way to tip those deck graphics? I'd love to have them for Thug Pro or ReTHAWed.

Hell yeah!

Great video. SO quiet though!

TIL about Save Game Collection Disks.

You played the music, you got balls.

What THPS1,3,4 & THUG 1/2 secrets are there? On the JPN release

I wish we could get 3+4 🥺

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Can someone elaborate on the Library button in the PS2 BIOS?

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.