Yakuza 4 Remastered – Guide to Change Save Files Difficulty

How to Change Save Files Difficulty

After finishing the main story, the game sets the difficulty to Normal. To change it, you must start a new game. When you start the new game, select the difficulty you want.

After that, load your Premium Adventure save. The difficulty you selected in the new game will now be applied to your Premium Adventure save. This method also works for Yakuza 3.

What You’ll Need

1. You will need a hex editing program. A good free one you should use is HxD.
2. You will also need a Yakuza 4 save file.

Steps

• Find your games save files. They should be at:
  C:Program Files (x86)Steamuserdata(your steam ID)1105500remoteIt should look like savegame1.sav.
  You should make a backup just in case something goes wrong.
• Open up the save file by right-clicking on it then clicking on Open with

• When prompted Choose HxD Hex Editor (If its not there click on “Look for another app on this PC” and find HxD).

Once its open change the 2 selected bits to:

• 00 00 = Easy
• 01 01 = Normal
• 02 02 = Hard
• 03 03 = Legend/Ex-Hard

• Save your changes and boot up your game. You can go to any Hideout and select Stats to check your difficulty.