As of today the Yakuza Community has agreed that if you get the message about the amulet when you fire up Yakuza Kiwami then you can start your timer at the difficulty selection with -6 seconds on it to reduce the time loss from it.

This does not affect anyone who does not get the message and it also does not affect console runners because the message on console can be skipped manually.

Said Amulet is still considered not to be used in runs.

I will be going over all of the current runs on the leaderboard tonight that contain said message and manually removing those 6 seconds.

Weird update that we never thought would happen either: Loadless might be coming to the PC version of Kiwami (And 0.)

We're currently doing testing on the Load Remover for 0 and there is an asl file for Kiwami that'll get tested in a few days after 0. If everything goes well with 0's things are likely to go well with Kiwami's as well, but we will be testing with multiple people using the file.

If approved it'll be like when K2, 6 and others go their load remover in that none of the old runs will become invalid - they'll stay on the board, but without a loadless time. The only thing this seperates is console from PC and makes timing more fair for those whose systems load a bit slower.

This might mess with the timing rule for the amulet if the actual load remover actually factors that out. We'll cross that hurdle if the load remover works out

As of 13th June 2021 timing on Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami for PC are now both done via Loadless. If you are doing a run on PC submitting via loadless then the loadless timer must be on PC at all times. You can have an optional real time timer if you so desire.

The load remover for Kiwami also has Auto Start. Your splits will start automatically after the Amulet message has disapeared. This means you no longer need to set your splits to -6 seconds before the run.

These changes do not change anything timing wise for console. Please submit Console runs "with loads"