Dragon Ball Sparking Zero: How to use Custom Battle Mode

If you’ve ever wanted to create the Dragon Ball Sparking Zero battle of your dreams, the Custom Battle Mode can make that happen! With roughly 5,000 lines of dialogue that you can put together, and a massive roster of 180+ characters, you can literally create the Dragon Ball scenario of your dreams. The game may focus on Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super, but the possibilities are endless with a roster that even reaches into the GT story.

We briefly explored this during our in-person preview of Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, but now we’ve had more time to thoroughly explore the Custom Battle Mode. If you’re looking to figure out what to do with it, we’re here to help.

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How to use Normal Edit for Custom Battle in Dragon Ball Sparking Zero

The possibilities are just about endless! (Image via Bandai Namco)

Normal Edit is Dragon Ball Sparking Zero’s default for Custom Battle. It has features that aren’t available in Simple Edit, such as customizing Effect Settings and Scene Settings. Do you want to make it so that characters transform or tag out at certain times in the battle? You need to be in Normal Edit to do that, through Effect Settings.

Below are all the steps to create these Custom Battles in Dragon Ball Sparking Zero:

• Characters: Who is involved in the battle?
• Battle Environment: Which stage does this take place at?
• Effect Settings: Adjust which effects will activate when certain conditions are met, as well as requirements for different effects to activate.
• Scene Settings: Adjust which scenes play at the start or end of a battle, as well as event scenes that play when a battle’s result has been decided.
• Title Screen: What phrase, background, and melody plays for the title screen?
• Thumbnail: Make a thumbnail from the battle to show off.

The easiest part is picking your Characters. You can literally pick anyone you want. But if you plan on people transforming or fusing, you must make sure the correct forms of a character are in a battle. For example, Z-Goku can’t turn into SSJ4 Goku - only GT Goku can do that!

Battle Environment is also pretty simple - just pick the stage where you want this epic battle to go down at. In our case, we picked the Land of the Kais - because why not? It’s a beautiful stage. However, Scene Settings adds more complexity to the Custom Battle Mode of Dragon Ball Sparking Zero.

Make your own ultimate battle in this edit suite! (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

This is where you create the little cutscenes and moments that happen before and after the battle. Do you want to set up a cool scene where the two characters are talking before the fight? You do that here, in the Scene Settings suite.

You can set screen effects, take your thumbnails here, add things like slow motion, and more. The more you experiment, the more amazing things you can do. When you’ve made and saved the scene, you can easily select one of the empty slots in Edit Scene and add it from your Cut List.

However, you also have to keep one thing in mind: You have to be able to complete these! So no creating impossible scenarios.

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How to use Simple Edit and Copy Edit in Dragon Ball Sparking Zero

The options are stripped down, but there's still a lot of customization possibilities here (Image via Bandai Namco)

Simple Edit is for players who want to make something without all the extra effort that goes into the normal settings. When it opens up, you pick a template to create your battle in, out of the following settings:

• Thrilling battles with last-minute comebacks.
• Exciting team battles.
• Battles against overwhelmingly powerful opponents.
• One-on-one duels to the finish.
• Battles with the odds stacked against me.

In Simple Mode, you just have Characters, Battle Environment, Title Screen, and Thumbnail. In this version’s Thumbnail settings though, you will get some generic options based on the battle, and you can pick one of them.

Copy Edit is pretty simple, too. You open that choice, and select either Bonus Battles or Custom Battle Mode. You can copy a Bonus Battle that you’ve completed though, so keep that in mind. You then adjust it according to the Normal Edit settings.

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Check out our other Dragon Ball Sparking Zero guides and features:

• Dragon Ball Sparking’s Jun Furutani assures players that canonically strong characters will outpower weaker ones
• Dragon Ball Sparking Zero: All World Tournament battlegrounds
• Dragon Ball Sparking Zero controls explained