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Final Fight 3 (NES)

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The NES Final Fight 3 is an awkward but impressively feature-complete unlicensed port of the SNES version.

Fun piece of trivia: Rather than compose the SNES soundtrack with their sound engine, they cleverly just slapped the soundtrack from Mighty Final Fight, an official Final Fight game for the NES released 5 years earlier. According to an interview with Hummer Cheng, he stated that he was the game designer of the game and had no time to do music for it.

PR3-JYLogo.png

Pressing Down, Down, Left, Up, Right, Left, Up, Down on the title screen will trigger a hidden JY logo screen with the common full-screen logo. The only way out of it is to reset the game.

(Source: BootlegGames Wiki)

Dip Switches#

Garou_Densetsu_Special-FF3-title.png

As with several other pirate games, Final Fight 3 uses a PCB with a DIP switch on it, which changes some aspects of the game's appearance. The two titles contained in this game are Final Fight 3 and Garou Densetsu Special, which has cheerier music and no cutscenes. The DIP switch can be toggled in FCEUX by resetting the game (note that other emulators may handle this differently).

Round Select#

Pause the game and press Select to load a black screen. From here, you can press B or A to increase the round number and unpause to start on your chosen round.

Note that the counter starts from Round 1-1 instead of the round you're currently on. The last valid option is Round 6-2, which takes 16 button presses; anything higher crashes the game.

(Source: Bootleg Games Wiki)

Source Code#

Some keybinding configuration and uncompiled source code is inside the ROM. The keybinding config is for the Hyper Editor 5 (he5) Chinese word processor. These are the segments:

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