This article has a talk page!This page details pre-release information and/or media for Final Fantasy III (NES).
Famimaga, February 23rd 1990#
The first two pages of the magazine are a double-page ad for the game, showing how Square was using Nasir Gabelli, their star programmer, as a marketing tool.
More interesting are the design documents at the bottom, which are most likely real ones. They are written in a poor English and are a set of instructions directed at Nasir.
- The leftmost page has three points: the first seemingly has to do with a text bug in the window to deposit items in the Fat Chocobo's item box, the second point deals with an issue regarding the animation of the Wyvern enemy (the first mention having a typo) and the player character, and finally at the bottom some unrelated information regarding Rad Racer II's certification process with Nintendo of America. While Rad Racer II and Final Fantasy III were being developed at the same time and Nasir was credited for the first Rad Racer, he is not credited for the sequel. This note seems to indicate he did have a hand in it.
- The second page deals with save data processes.
- The text on the third page is sadly impossible to make out, though it seems to deal with screen graphics data.
- The rightmost page asks Nasir to correct the size of the shadow on the airship, here called "Big chopper", with the tile art used as a visual cue (though only the corrected art is visible to us).