Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Hints & Cheats

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Unlockables

New Tournament Levels

Unlockable How to Unlock
Adept Beat Novice Tournement and buy the Adept mode from Mr. Popo's Shop located in Edit Skills
Advanced Beat Adept Tournement and buy the Advanced mode from Mr. Popo's Shop located in Edit Skills

Breakthrough Capsules and Dragonballs

Breakthrough Capsules are rare, untradable items. Breakthrough capsules will unlock every Red and Blue capsule (and where applicable, the attacks at full power as if several of that attack capsule were equipped) at the same time for that character. The Breakthrough capsule takes up all 7 slots for the capsules though, meaning you can't equip any of the Green capsules with it. The Breakthough Capsule can only be obtained by collecting all 7 Dragonballs and summoning the dragon (to summon, go to the capsule list, when you go to the Dragonballs, it will ask if you want to summon Shenron, say yes to summon). All the Dragonballs are obtainable in Mr. Popo's Shop for 8,000 Zenny. They are only found as a Recommended Capsule (Dragonballs will be displayed as grey capsules in the recommended section), as a Random Capsule for 3,000 Zenny, or at random as a prize for completing a level in story mode.

Unlockable How to Unlock
1-Star Dragonball Super-Rare, if the desired Dragonball isn't the Recommended Capsule, enter & exit Mr. Popo's shop until he has it displayed
2-Star Dragonball Super-Rare, same as for the 1-star Dragonball
3-Star Dragonball Super-Rare, same as the other Dragonballs
4-Star Dragonball You get this free when starting a new game. If you have a second memory card, you can get this by starting a game and trading. Otherwise, same thing.
5-Star Dragonball Super-Rare, same thing as Dragonballs 1-3.
6-Star Dragonball Super-Rare, the same.
7-Star Dragonball Super-Rare, same as all but the 4-star Dragonball.
Breakthough (Insert Character Name Here) Once you get all 7 and summon the dragon, it'll give you 3 characters to choose from. If the character you want isn't there, pressreset and try again.

Unlock Characters

How to unlock the hidden characters.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Yamcha Beat A Cold-Blooded Assasin
Trunks Beat Perfect Form Cell Complete
Android 16 Defeat Android 16 in story mode as Cell
Android 17 Defeat Android 17 in story mode as Picollo
Android 18 Defeat Android 18 in story mode as Vegeta
Android 19 Defeat Android 19 in story mode as Vegeta
Zarbon Defeat Zarbon in story mode as Vegeta
Hercule Beat the adept mode of the World Tournament
Vegeta Defeat Vegeta in story mode
The Great Saiyaman Beat the advanced mode of the World Tournament
Cell Defeat Cell in story mode
Frieza Defeat Frieza in story mode
Nappa Defeat Nappa in story mode
Raditz Defeat Raditz in story mode
Recoome Defeat Recoome in story mode
Teen Gohan Defeat Cell as Gohan in story mode
Captain Ginyu Defeat Ginyu in Story Mode after he takes over Goku's body
Dodoria Defeat Frieza with Vegeta in Story Mode.

Side Quests

Unlockable How to Unlock
Cells Side Quest Complete the Android Saga
Friezas Side Quest Complete the Namekian Saga
Vegetas Side Quest Complete Story Mode

Unlock Legend of Hercule Mode

Unlockable How to Unlock
Legend of Hercule Mode Beat Wourld Tournament on Adept Mode. Legend of Hercule mode will be available at Mr. Popo's shop to buy.

New Title Screens

Unlockable How to Unlock
Cell title screen Defeat Freiza in Story Mode
Friza title screen Beat Saiyan story mode
Everybody title screen Beat Android story mode

Frieza's Spaceship Capsule

Play through the Namekian Saga under the hardest difficulty setting and defeat Frieza at all times without losing once. The Capsule at the end should be Frieza's Space Ship. When you die, Frieza's Space Ship appears and restores everything. It also transforms you into Cyber Frieza.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Easter Eggs

  • Control the Dragon Radar

    On the loading screen, a dragon radar with the logo of the game is flashing in the bottom right corner. You can control the movement of it's light by pressing left or right with the control stick.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Secrets

  • Play a stage in night

    In order to play a darkened stage when you choose where you want to fight instead of using the A button use the Y button. Of course not all stage will have a night version only a few.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Glitches

  • Get 8 Capsule Slots

    This glitch only works with one of the characters who can use the Senzu Bean, Saiyan Heritage combo. (Goku, Kid and Teen Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, Raditz, Nappa, and Cell)

    Select one of the characters above and make sure that they have an empty capsule tray. Then, put down at most three capsules. Then, put down 1/3 Senzu Bean and then Saiyan Heritage. Then, put down a capsule that will take up the second to last capsule slot. Finally, replace the 1/3 Senzu Bean with a full one.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai FAQs & Walk-Throughs

FAQ/Move List FAQ/Move List by DutchKraken 36K
FAQ/Walkthrough FAQ/Walkthrough by HMKing 41K
Other Game Script by TIDQ 58K
Character Guide Android #19 by blockofwood 15K
FAQ/Move List FAQ/Move List by GenYLun 25K
FAQ/Move List FAQ/Move List by jdanielcs88 35K

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