Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Cheats (GameCube)

At the character selection screen, choose the first character (player one or two),while
the other player waits. After the first player chooses, remove the memory card from slot
one and put it in slot two. You should now be able to choose another custom character for
player two.

Add a Senzu Bean with Sayian Heritage. Your attack will be boosted after the Senzu Bean is
used. A normal bean takes up 3.

If you equip two of the same ability, you will do a lot more damage. For example, if
playing as Vegeta use the following: Final Flash x2, Big Bang Attack x2, Super Sayian,
Super Vegeta, 1/3 Senzu Bean. Your attack for Final Flash and Big Bang will be higher.

Go to the Skill Shop and go down to the "Recommended" section. It will tell you what
item it is. If it is not a Dragon Ball, exit and re-enter the shop again. The Recommended
item will have changed. Keep repeating this until you see a Dragon Ball in the Recommended
section. Make sure you have enough money, as each Dragon Ball costs 8,000 Zenie.

After you complete story mode, go back to it. Go to Saiyan Sage episode 3, Saiyan
Attack. You will play as Piccolo. You will first face five Saibaimen. Defeat them. Next,
you have to face Nappa. You will only have two thirds health though. Defeat Nappa. Return
and do this again as many times as you desired. Every time you defeat Nappa the first time
without losing, you will get a Dragon Ball capsule.

Go to the tournament and win a lot of Zenie. Then, go to Mr. Popo's shop and buy
everything in the "Recommended" section. Eventually, you will acquire the maximum amount
of every capsule (9) and force the CPU to give you nothing but Dragon Balls. This takes a
lot of time, but eventually you will get every breakthrough and stack every character's
capsules up to 9, making them as strong as possible.

Get 12,000 Zenie go to "Recommended" in Mr. Popo's shop. When you see Frieza's Space Ship.
pay the 12,000 Zenie. This Capsule takes three spaces in Frieza's slot. When you die,
Frieza's Space Ship appears and restores everything. It also transforms you into Cyber
Frieza. Additionally, play through the Namekian Saga on the hardest difficulty setting
and defeat Frieza at all times without losing once. The Capsule at the end should be
Frieza's Space Ship.

At the character selection screen in duel mode, have player one choose a character first.
Then, choose the custom skill setting. Then, take the memory card in slot one and move it
to memory card slot two. Player two can now choose a custom skill setting without having
two memory cards. If you do not like the random choice of three characters that Shenron
powers-up, restart the GameCube. All your Dragon Balls will still be there when the game
is resumed. Summon Shenron again until you like the choice of the three random
characters.

At the level selection screen, press Up. The screen should now have question marks and now
say random. It will select any level in any order.

Win a World Match Tournament at the "Adept" level to unlock Mr. Satan (Hercule).

To charge your energy, rotate the Right Analog-stick clockwise. This works best with
Piccolo.

Taunting (press P + K + G + E) will lower your opponent's Ki gauge by 1.

There is a capsule to get Super Trunks 2. It is stronger then Super Trunks and is very
helpful when fighting in the tournaments. You can purchase this from Mr. Popo. The
"Recommended" capsule section is the best place to find it. Exit in and out of the
purchase screen and the recommended capsule should eventually appear as Super Trunks 2.
Additionally, first buy the Capsule for the Adept level for World Tournament mode. Then,
complete the Adept level with Trunks. When you go in the Skill Shop, the Super Trunks 2
capsule will be there for you to buy at the bottom as a Recommended Capsule.

When you start the game and "Press Start" appears, remain idle and a FMV sequence will
start. When the title screen appears, the background will be different. There are three
or four different backgrounds. Besides the four backgrounds in the startup menu, and two
different start up title songs, there is the normal background that has the actual Dragon
Ball Z title screen from the show. There is also one that has to do with each main villain
played against in the game.

Power Up = hold x press back hold back

  Super Sayian = triangle R2

  Galick Gun = square x4 circle

  Final Flash = square x2 Triangle x2 circle

  If you are going to buy some of Vegetas skills buy Super Sayian Vegeta,
  Super Vegeta, Final Flash, Big Bang & Galick Gun.

  

Within the game you can collect the seven Dragon Balls. In order to get them, you have to
buy them at Mr. Popo's shop. However, they are very rare. They cost 8000 Zenie each and
will only appear in a "Recommended" or "Gambled" Capsule. After collecting all seven, go
to the Caps List option in the "Edit Skills" menu. Then go along to the second to last
list. If all seven Dragon Balls are present, press A and you will be asked if you wish to
summon Shenron. Select "Yes" and you will be given the option to "Breakthrough" three
random characters. Breakthrough is a Capsule which will open all the Death Moves,
Transformations, and Physical Moves of the character in possession. However, it takes up
seven ability slots and cannot be equipped in conjunction with anything else. After
choosing your character, the Dragon Balls will disappear and you will have to collect
them all again. If you do not like the random choice of three characters that Shenron
powers-up, restart the GameCube. All your Dragon Balls will still be there when the game
is resumed. Summon Shenron again until you like the choice of the three random
characters.

Android #16:

  You can unlock #16 when you complete the "Aim For Perfect
  Form" episode.

  Cell, Android #17,and Teen Gohan:

  Play through "The Androids Saga" at any level.

  Freiza, Ginyu, and Recoome:

  Play through "The Namek Saga" at any level.

  Hercule:

  Win a World Match Tournament at the "Adept" level.

  Radditz, Vegeta, and Nappa:

  Play through "The Saiyan Saga" at any level

  Saiyaman:

  Win a World Match Tournament at the "Advanced" level.

  Trunks:

  You can unlock trunks when you complete the "Perfect Form Cell
  Complete" episode.

  Yamcha:

  You can unlock Yamcha when you complete the "Aim For Perfect
  Form" episode.

  Zarbon:

  You can unlock Zarbon when you complete the "Vegeta's
  Attack" episode.

  Goku:

  you start with him

  Kid Gohan:

  You start with him

  Piccolo:

  You start with him

  Krillian:

  You start with him

  

Super Saiyan: With 4 or More KI Guauges

  Square,triangle,X

  Galick Cannon(A) ! Ki Gauge Used

  Square,Square,square,square,O

  Galick Cannon (B)1 Ki Gauge

  square,right,square,square,o

  

When selecting character, highlight kid gohan
  and press square, you should get a box giving you the choice of kid
  gohan or teen gohan.
  

To get unlimited energy, go to Mr. Popo's shop and go to the recommended section. Leave
and return until Gero's Perpetual Energy appears. Every character can use it, but no
transformations are allowed.

You can destroy Kami's lookout with Goku's Spirit Bomb or Hercules' Present For You. After
you destroy it, you will fight in an area with a lot of dirt and a few mountains. On the
island stage, hit your opponent into the rocks once or twice. They will shatter and you
will fall into a cave-like stage with waterfalls in the background.

Go to story mode after you finish it. Finish any desired level and you should get a
Capsule. Although you cannot choose the Capsule that you get, you might get a new Capsule
that you need. Also, in order to collect all the Capsules and even the Dragonballs without
playing in World Tournament Mode consistently to attain the money for them, just continue
to play story mode after you have unlocked all the chapters. You will continue to receive
capsules each time you play, and sometimes even a free Dragonball. Eventually, you will
have the maximum of every capsule and force the CPU to give you Dragonballs. To make it
even more simple, find a chapter such as number 9 in the Namekian Saga (Raging Frieza)
that gives you three Capsules each time you complete it. The only capsules you will ever
have to buy in Mr. Popo's shop are the two World Tournament Capsules for Adept and
Advanced, and The Legend of Hercule Capsule.

Once you have completed story mode once, you will notice that there are some people
missing, except for Gohan as a super hero and Hercule who get unlocked in world
championship mode. Go back to story mode and you will see what you have done instead of
starting a new story. Some of the episodes will have "New" beside them. Go into those
episodes to get new players and new player abilities, such as a Super Saiyan for Vegeta.

If you are doing a combo that your having trouble with (for example, the Super Kamahamaha
(K(2), Right + K, K, E), hold the D-pad and press the rest of the moves and it will put
in the arrows. For example, hold Right and press K(2), K(2), E.

When playing as Trunks in practice mode, go to the grass land and use his burning attack.
You will fight in a hole that Trunks made with his attack and the trees will be burned to
a crisp.

To get all the characters simply play through story mode. 

  Radditz, Nappa, Vegeta-complete the saiyan saga.

  Freiza, Captain Ginyu, Recoome- complete the namek saga.

  cell, android 17 and teen gohan-complete the androids saga.

  android 16,Yamcha-complete "the aim for perfect cell" episode.

  Trunks- complete the "perfect form  cell complete" episode.

  Zarbon-complete the "vegeta's attack" episode.

  Hercule(The weak man who takes glory for killing cell)-complete world 
  tournament at adept level.

  (Great)saiyaman-complete the world tournament at advanced level. 

  Oolong-complete the story mode on very hard WITHOUT using ANY 
  continues.

  Abilities-

  Super saiyan(Goku)-complete the Namek saga.

  super saiyan(Vegeta)- play through the androids saga.

  super saiyan and super saiyan2 (Gohan)-complete the androids saga.

  Super Vegeta-Complete "Vegeta's confidence"

  To get all the moves for a character get all seven dragonballs and 
  wish for the "breakthrough" capsule. (it comes up with random 
  characters to do this on if you do not like the characters that 
  appear. turn off your console and try again. Repeat until you get your 
  desired character).

  

Complete story mode (including the extra sections after initially
  completing the game).

  The remaining characters can be unlocked by winning world match on all
  difficulties.

  

Play in Novice mode and become number one. Go to Mister Popo. You will see a gray Capsule
for 8000 Zenie. It is Adept mode.

One of the rarest capsules in the game, this can be obtained by buying the recommended
capsule at Mr. Popo's shop or by completing the Androids Saga episode: A New Threat.

Play through "The Androids Saga" at any level to unlock Super Saiyan ability (Vegeta
only).

Highlight the name of the character you want the alternate outfit of
  and press square. When it goes to the fight, your character will be
  wearing an outfit worn once in the show.

  

  


 
  


  

You can collect all 7 DragonBalls during the game, They cost 8000
  Zenie at Mr. Popo's Shop. The are listed under Recomended and you can
  buy them over and over.  Just keep going in and out of Mr. Popo's
  shop until it shows a black capsule by the word recommended and it
  will say like '1-7 star DragonBall'. That saves you from going to recommended
  and buying and buying till it pops up a DragonBall capsule.

  SS4 Goku

  Beat tournament mode with all characters on advanced then hold select
  + X while selecting goku he should power up to ss4 but he is only as
  strong as a normal ss but it is still cool.

  


  

  Breakthrough Tip

  When all 7 dragonballs are collected you summon shenron(as you should
  know already)and you get to choose between 3 characters to give
  breakthrough too.If you dont want any of those characters to have
  it,reset your PS2 and go back into it.To get all 7 dragonballs,go in
  and out of "edit skills" until a dragonball comes up at
  recommended,and you should have no problom getting all 7. Note:It does
  take a while for the dragonballs to show up so you have to have
  patience for this.

  

When you call Shenron and are at the point of the three choices
  don’t wish yet. Remove the memory card and wish (it doesn’t matter
  who because it will say that there is no memory card). When asked to
  retry say no. You will be taken back to call Shenron again. Repeat
  until the fighter of choice appears in the list then re-insert the
  memory card and it will be saved.

  

This is one of my best and favorite strategies to win in duel mode
  against the computer or your friend. Select Captain Ginyu as your
  character. Once you start the match, don't fight back. Wait until you
  only have about half of your yellow meter left, then do Captain
  Ginyu's body switch (right+square,square,triangle,circle). Your
  opponent should gain your low health and body and you should get their
  high health and body. Then all you have to do is finish them off with
  their own special move (Press Start then go to Skills Sheet).

  

First, get the super saiyan ability, then press R1 and R2 at the same
  time to transform. this way can be used for anyone's type of
  transformation.

Complete the "Aim For Perfect Form" episode to unlock Yamcha.

When selecting Capsules for any Saiyan, half Saiyan (except Saiyanman), or Cell, you can
trick the CPU into giving you an extra slot. First, use four slots for anything, then use
the 1/3 Sensu Bean and Saiyan Heritage. There should be an empty slot at seven. Next,
replace the 1/3 Sensu Bean for a normal Bean. In effect, you will get a full Sensu Bean
for two slots instead of three. You cannot trick the CPU into changing the new eighth
slot into anything else.

This has no purpose other than a laugh, and will not unlock anything in the game. Enter
practice mode (or two-player duel if you want to play with a friend) and choose your
characters and stage. When the fight starts, put as much distance between you and your
opponent as possible. If in practice mode, set the opponent's action to Deflect-Back at
the pause menu. Once you are as far away as desired, launch an energy ball by pressing
Circle. In practice mode, your opponent should knock it back at you. Just before the ball
hits you, press Guard and if it timed correctly, it should be reflected back at the
opponent. In a two player match, you can play it like a proper game. For example, flip a
coin to see who serves (launches the energy blast). Set a score limit. If the Ki ball is
knocked away, hits, or is hit by another Ki blast, whoever reflected the ball last gets
the point.

Complete the "Vegeta's Confidence" episode to unlock Super Vegeta.

Play through "The Androids Saga" at any level to unlock Cell, Android #17, and Teen Gohan.

A character's voice will remain the same, even after transformations. Do a special attack
to hear their real voice, such as Perfect Cell's Spirit Bomb.

Complete the "Aim For Perfect Form" episode to unlock Android #16.

message: All you have to do is pick Captain Ginyu in tournament mode.
  Don't do anything and when you are in the red life bar use his body
  switch technique. You will have your opponents high life and ki and
  your opponent will have your low one. I have won all of tournament
  mode with this move. I got 50,000 zenie and got a red capsule which
  had Super Trunks 2. So do this trick always. 

  

  Spirit Bomb

  You can do this only with goku and cell!!!!!!!! With cell you go to
  perfect form and have more than 3 ki.Then if you are on the left side
  of the screen you press P Left& P Left& P & K & O.If
  your on the right side of the screen you press P Right & P Right
  & P & K & O!!! For Goku you have to get the skill and put
  it under custom mode then when you pick your player pick goku and go
  to custom mode then when you play you need to be either king kai fist
  2,5, or 10! Then if your on the left side of the screen press P Left
  & P & P & K & O! If your on the right side of the
  screen press P Left & P & P & K & O!

  Tip: You can only do spirit bomb with cell if your in Perfect form.You
  can not do the spirit bomb with goku as a super saiyan! You can only
  do it with goku as king kai fist 2,5,or 10 !!

  

On world championship mode, if you win you get 10,000 Zenie and second place gets you
5,000 Zenie. This is useful because when you go to the shop and buy the Red Capsule, you
will get some very good moves such as Super Saiyan Trunks, Kamahamaha for Krillen, and
even Super Saiyan Level 2 for Gohan.