YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z

YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z

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How to play as Beck (Mighty No. 9) and other unobtainable outfits
By Akela
Tecmo never made the pre-order bonus outfits available post-launch, as well as the completely unobtainable "Shirtless" outfit. Now you can use them if you follow my guide!
   
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New & Better Method!
I've found a new way to get the skins by tricking the game into thinking you own the DLCs!



Simply download this .zip file:

https://mega.nz/file/QrIjSY5I#RMugagE7_3xFNb7unce36cBvGMR9ZkG-K6XPT_33Qwk

Now go to your game's installation folder. You can easily do this by right-clicking the game in your Steam library, then go to Manage > Browse local files.

Lastly, go to the Binaries folder. You are going to extract the .zip contents here, both the Win32 and Win64 folders. It'll ask to overwrite two steam api files, click yes to that. If you ever want to revert this, I've provided a backup of the originals.

That's it, you're done. The game will now think you own all of the DLC skins.

You only need to follow the rest of this guide if you specifically want the "Shirtless" skin, that one cannot be unlocked any other way.
Locate your config folder
You'll need to have launched the game at least once before doing this.

Go to your file explorer, and in the address bar paste this in and hit enter:
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\NRZGame\NRZGame\Config\

If for some reason that didn't work, the location it's supposed to take you to is:
C:\Users\*your username*\Documents\My Games\NRZGame\NRZGame\Config
Editing NRZGame.ini
Open up NRZGame.ini with whichever notepad program you use.

Go down to "[NRZGame.NRZCostumeManager]" (line 276)

Underneath this you'll see 7 lines, each referring to the 7 outfits that are in-game, including the Shirtless outfit that was never released!

Decide which one you want to play as. For example, the second "Costumes" line is Beck, from Mighty No. 9. So if you wanted to play as him, you take the first "Costumes=" line:

Costumes=(CostumeID=0,PackageName="YaibaCostumeDefault",

And change "CostumeID=0" to "CostumeID=1"

Then, go down one line, to this one:

Costumes=(CostumeID=1,PackageName="YaibaCostumeBeck",

And change "CostumeID=1" to "CostumeID=0"

This is what it'll look like:


See how I swapped their numbers? What you're doing is tricking the game into loading the Beck outfit instead of the default outfit. Whichever line you change to "CostumeID=0" will be the one it loads, but make sure only one line says "CostumeID=0"!

Use the above steps to use any of those 7 outfits. Each line is self-explanatory, they each say which costume they're for pretty plainly, like "YaibaCostumeNuigurumaa" is the Nuiguramaa outfit, obviously.
One final, very important step
Save NRZGame.ini and set the file to read-only by right clicking it and going to properties! Every time you want to edit it you'll need to undo this, and then remember to set it back to read-only, otherwise the game will undo everything you change.

So there you have it, you can finally use each outfit, including the never-released Shirtless outfit!

Have fun!
Images of each unobtainable outfit
Here are images of the four outfits you normally cannot obtain anymore!

Beck from Mighty No. 9:


Shirtless:


Nuigurumaa:


Camo:
Unobtainable DLCs for Mighty No. 9
Deep Weeb also wrote a guide on how to unlock two previously unobtainable backer-exclusive DLCs for Mighty No. 9!
https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2509021714
9 Comments
Akela  [author] 20 Feb, 2024 @ 8:22am 
Good to know, I couldn't find any info on that when I made the guide!
guy 20 Feb, 2024 @ 8:19am 
Alternatively, shirtless is obtainable through gameplay. It's a reward for beating the game on Hard.

https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3163882922
Akela  [author] 27 Apr, 2022 @ 7:27am 
Sorry, I only just now saw your comment. I added a link to it at the end of my guide, nice work on finding a way to unlock those for Mighty No. 9!
Deep Weeb 4 Jul, 2021 @ 11:43am 
I made a guide and featured yours, if you don't mind featuring mine in exchange... :MightyGunvoltBurst_DarkBeck:

https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2509021714
Deep Weeb 13 Mar, 2021 @ 3:18pm 
:MightyGunvoltBurst_Beck:
Akela  [author] 25 Jan, 2021 @ 2:49am 
I've updated the guide with a new and much easier method of unlocking all of the DLC skins (minus the unreleased "Shirtless" one). The game will think you own the DLCs so you can now select the skins from the menu, without having to edit a config file. :winter2019coolyul:
Akela  [author] 16 Oct, 2020 @ 2:36am 
No problem, enjoy! Hopefully sooner or later I can figure out a way to have them unlocked in-game so you don't have to do the .ini editing.
lofoa82 16 Oct, 2020 @ 2:33am 
THIS IS JUST PLAIN AWESOME. Thank you so much for this!
FullOfLife 15 Oct, 2020 @ 2:38am 
Great job! :mno9electricitypower::mno9firepower::mno9icepower::mno9militarypower: