It wasn't just about new faces, though. The update acted as the ultimate referee. It smoothed out the , making those frame-perfect blocks actually possible against a Paul Phoenix player halfway across the globe. It also unlocked new stages, taking fighters from the neon streets of Tokyo to the "Moai Excavation" site in Chile.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 PS3 Update 1.03 is a patch released by Bandai Namco Games, the game's developer, to update the PlayStation 3 version of the game. The update was released on February 2, 2012, and it addressed several issues, added new features, and balanced gameplay.

Namco Bandai’s official changelog was characteristically Japanese—vague in prose but precise in effect. After decompiling the update and testing with community labs, here is the definitive breakdown of .