Yakuza Kiwami

Six completion rows, the longest set here: go out 10 times, five mangan, one haneman, one riichi ippatsu, one full straight, and 100,000 sticks banked.

• The Lucky Tile cheat sits in Locker I2. It deals you Thirteen Orphans outright, which clears the haneman row and a big chunk of the points at once.
• It cannot do riichi ippatsu, though — a yakuman like Thirteen Orphans overrides ippatsu and other minor yaku, so that row needs an ordinary hand.
• Full straight wants 123, 456 and 789 in one suit. Only chase it when the deal already has five or more numbers of a suit, and only chi to complete one of those three runs — any other chi kills the yaku.
• For the gear, Ranking Match costs a one-off ¥50,000 buy-in and is free afterwards: first place moves you up two ranks, second one, fourth drops you one — and quitting a bad game costs nothing.
• Rank rewards: 25 Toughness Infinity, 20 Staminan Spark, 15 Sarong, 10 Double Chinese Broadswords, 5 Head Honcho Scarf, 3 Lotus Clan Broadsword, 1 Dragon Driver.

Three rows: win without a take-back once, three times, five times. You do not need to know shogi — one item from Locker J3 covers all three.

• The Give-Up Piece in Locker J3 makes the opponent resign instantly whenever you use it, and it counts as a win with no take-back — so it clears all three rows.
• If you are farming shogi points, the Shogi Challenges are far faster than ranked games — set positions with a correct answer, over in moments.
• From about Chapter 10 the prize list adds the Dragon Slayer at 100,000 points. Challenge 9 pays 1,150 a run, so that is 80-plus repeats — and it is not needed for 100% completion.

Each of the four wants 10,000 banked. Pick the cheat items up first and it stops being gambling.

• Cho-han uses Even Goro's Beads (Locker E4) and the Lopsided Cigarette (Locker F3). The beads force the very next roll even; the cigarette skews the other punters' bets to one side.
• Cho-han starts capped at 100 tags and the ceiling climbs to 1,000 as you win — but it only updates when you leave and come back, so step out every five wins or so.
• Save the beads for a direct bet against the house after the ceiling has risen — spending one at a 100-tag cap wastes it.

Rows are 20,000 in poker, 50,000 in blackjack, 20,000 in baccarat and 50,000 in roulette. Two blackjack cheats bankroll the rest of them.

• The Blackjack Amulet is in Locker G3 and the Bust Amulet in G4. Sit at high stakes with 1,000+ chips and use the Bust Amulet first: the dealer busts five hands in a row.
• It fizzles when the dealer stands on 17 from two cards, but five wins still pushes the bet ceiling to 10,000 — then the Blackjack Amulet gives five blackjacks in a row and the chips pile up.
• Blackjack raises your cap on a streak: one win allows 300 low or 3,000 high, two wins 500 or 5,000, three or more 1,000 or 10,000 — and one loss resets it.

Completion is three combination shots and three carom shots. You never have to win a game, and Puzzle Pool is not required at all.

• A carom is cue -> object ball -> another ball, and that other ball drops. A combination is cue -> object ball -> another ball, where the object ball did the hitting. Three of each.
• Do not wait for these in a match: choose Play Alone and Nine-ball, nudge the balls into the shape you want, then scratch on purpose to place the cue ball wherever you like.
• In Puzzle Pool touching a black ball fails the puzzle and the yellow balls are optional help — none of it counts for completion, so skip it if you are short on time.

One row: ten hat-tricks. A hat-trick is all three darts in the bull in a single round.

• Start a 901 game alone: that is twenty rounds of aiming at nothing but the bull, at your own pace.
• Aim with the left stick, pull the right stick down, release to throw. Pull slowly to about halfway rather than to the edge, then release quickly — that lands on target.
• Do not pull back before you are on target: the hand wavers even with the stick still, so commit at the moment the aim is right.

Two rows: ten strikes, and five frames cleared across Split Games. The split side is the harder half.

• Strikes come from the pocket — just beside the head pin. Hit it hard with a little spin and the odds jump.
• Up/down picks the ball (light is controllable, heavy has power), left/right your stance, cross sets direction then power, and a gentle left-stick nudge during the approach adds spin — it is very sensitive, so barely move it.
• Split Game gives ten pin combinations; each must go down in a single throw. You have a stock of three balls and every miss costs one.
• Split Game prizes are all Pocket Circuit parts: three frames gives the Sunshine Decal, five the Extra Speed Frame, seven the Ultra Soft Tires.

Five rows: ten Two-Panel Knock-outs, and 1,600 points on each of Easy, Normal, Hard and Extra Hard.

• 1,600 is the A-rank line. Each course pays out at B (1,200), A (1,600) and S (1,800) — Extra Hard at S gives Toughness Infinity.
• Pitch types and speeds are fixed per course, and Hard and Extra Hard use effectively the same twenty-pitch script — the timing you learn on Hard carries straight over.
• Straights sit at 110-130 km/h, curves at 60-100 and sinkers at 70-110 — not rushing the slow curves is what protects the score.

Six songs, 900 or more on each. Three you sing yourself; three you back up with interjections.

• Interjection songs offer Simple or Lively — you have to take Lively, because Simple cannot reach 900.
• The three you sing are TONIGHT, Iji Sakura 2000 and Bakamitai -Sorrow-; the three you interject on are Otometal MY LIFE (Haruka), Moment de la Petite Sirene (Yui) and EURO de x3 SHINE (Rina).
• Otometal MY LIFE only appears with Haruka along, and the other two need Yui and Rina — so the cabaret side has to be underway first.
• Sung parts follow the lyrics, interjections follow the beat. Hold means hold to the end of the marker; Rapid means mash.

Two rows: five and fifteen different prizes. There are sixteen plushes in total and every one can turn up at any location.

• If the plush you need is not in the machine, ask the attendant to restock — the line-up is randomised, so it eventually turns up.
• How you grab depends on the shape: hook a thin part like a foot or ear, wrap the widest part for a solid hold, or take it at its tallest point so it does not tip out.
• The hardest to find are the Jumbo Chestnut and Jumbo Bunchan — they are visibly larger than the rest, so compare sizes in the cabinet.

One row: ten perfect shots. It looks trivial and the timing is not.

• Pay, pick three backgrounds (which do not matter), then hit a button on the timing marker under the picture as the countdown runs. Nail it and the shot fills with sparkles — that is a perfect shot.
• A visit is three photos, so a good run banks three at once — and you do not have to save the photo for it to count.
• You can go alone, on a cabaret date, or with Haruka in Premium Adventure — the requirement is the same either way.

Collect parts (5/10/20 tires, 5/10/15 motors, 5/10/20 gears, 5/10/20 frames), race ten times, and win all fourteen events.

• New parts appear in the shop after the first, third, fourth, sixth and final races, and get sharply more expensive each time — do not stock up on parts you will not use.
• Some parts are not sold at the Stadium: a few come from shops around town, others from other minigames — the Sunshine Decal, Extra Speed Frame and Ultra Soft Tires all come out of Split Bowling.
• Per-race builds were worked out by kouryakutsushin.com and tabulated in CyricZ's guide — the Introductory Race, for instance, is Slim tires, Speed frame, Speed motor, Balanced gears and a High Speed battery.

Rows at 5, 20 and 45 cards. They come from shops, from the ground around town, and from substories.

• Start by talking to the boy in the lab coat at Club SEGA Nakamichi St. — he hands you Omni Choke and Body Slam to begin.
• Ebisu Pawn and the Purgatory weapon shop each sell cards at ¥10,000 — Super Elbow Drop and Super Leg Splitter at the pawn shop; Super Piledriver, Counter Heal, Super Double Drop and Mystic Heal in Purgatory.
• Six cards come from substories — No.71 Giant Swing, No.72 Finish Time, No.73 Super Romero Special, No.75 Last Resort and No.77 Tie Breaker among them.
• The rest lie around town: in front of the vending machines northwest of the Hotel District save point, behind the front tables in Cafe Alps, behind the pin at the Mach Bowl entrance, the far west end of Taihei Blvd., and by the flatbed truck north of the Tenkaichi St. POPPO.

Two rows: finish Yui's substory and Rina's substory. You raise each hostess by picking the right conversation options.

• They also gate two karaoke rows — Moment de la Petite Sirene needs Yui along and EURO de x3 SHINE needs Rina — so it pays to push the club side first.
• Each substory runs request, conversation, then an after-hours date — and taking that date to the photo booth banks perfect shots at the same time.