Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (Arcade)

Prerelease Info Bugs Unused ActionsLots of broken stuff.

Unused Character#

Shin Akuma#

A leftover from 2nd Impact: set $2011387 to 0F to select the more-or-less functional Shin Akuma. He is surprisingly complete, apart from being unable to perform normal Akuma's Kongo Kokuretsuzan Super Art (due to that Super Art not even being available in 2nd Impact). When he wins a match, the win screen will show Chun-Li's portrait but with Akuma's nametag and win quotes.

It's possible to complete the game entirely as Shin Akuma and doing so will earn you Akuma's ending. The only strange thing that will occur is having to fight Gill twice, a possible leftover result of Akuma having Gill as a sub-boss in 2nd Impact (Ryu was his final boss there).

Despite these other imperfections, Shin Akuma plays with no issues:

• He has incorrect animations when being thrown.
• May freeze in place temporarily when performing his Messatsu Gou Shoryu Super Art. This often happens when both fighters are near the corner.
• Will have discoloration at the "ten" screen following a Shun Goku Satsu finish, but reverts after.
• And many more minorissues.

Unused Widescreen Mode#

By setting the game's region value to 0x9y, with 'y' being the actual region's number, the game will put itself into an unused and unfinished widescreen mode. This mode existed in both of 3rd Strike's predecessors (though it was unused in New Generation), so it's likely a leftover from those two games.

Graphics and gameplay-wise, any sprites that were made with the normal screen size in mind (like the background to the character select screen) are still placed directly in the middle of the screen. Stage elements, like trees, tend to break, as parts of them will unload after they're passed. The health bars don't work correctly because they start depleting after taking a certain amount of damage. The invisible walls that stop players from moving too far away from each other during gameplay are still in the same places, unlike the past games.

Unused Graphics#

Gill's Super Arts#

Select Gill by setting $2011387 to 00 to find these unused displays in the Super Arts selection. The third spot, which is supposed to be Seraphic Wing, is simply blank except for the III marker. Regardless of which one is selected, all three Super Arts will be usable. The Meteor Strike Super Art was wrongly written as "MITEOR STRIKE".

Doraemon#

The graphics for Gill's stage contains this sprite of Doraemon, which is technically used but displayed far off-screen. It is possible to view this sprite in-game [https://twitter.com/crystal_cube99/status/1567664088867799040? using a series of glitches to scroll the camera far beyond the stage's vertical bounds].

Placeholder Sprites#

These sprites can be found in the sprite slots that went unused for some characters. Some of them list their ID number in hexadecimal value. All the graphics are flipped, it's a posibility that Capcom drew the character sprites facing left (which would make texts read correctly).

Character	Sprite	Notes
Alex
Dudley
Elena		A slightly cropped version of this sprite is used when picking your next rival
Gouki/Akuma
Ibuki		忍 (Ninja)
Ibuki		です (Desu) アキAN (Aki AN?)
Makoto		から (Kara)
Makoto		から (Kara)
Makoto		から (Kara)
Makoto		から (Kara)
Makoto		から (Kara)
Makoto		から (Kara)
Makoto		から (Kara)
Makoto		から (Kara)
Oro		欠番 (Missing number)
Remy		Seems to be an early design for Remy
Remy		ボツ（Unused）
Sean		A slightly cropped version of this sprite is used when picking your next rival
Urien		Seems to be an early design for Urien
Yang		龍 (Dragon)
Yang		龍 (Dragon)
Yun		中 (Middle)
Yun		中 (Middle)

Unfinished Sprites#

3 unfinished sprites for Remy can be found in the game, part of his tripping animation.

Unused Sounds#

Unused XCopy VoicelinesFor the fans of funny sounding noises.

Note : the numbers indicated below depend on what's shown in the the sound test menu, also, on certain emulators the 0 don't seem to show for the counter in this menu (Mame and derivates shows the 0), meaning that if the number don't correspond to the sound expected, add or remove a 0 (that wont be shown!)

Announcer: You need to practice more! Most likely meant for when you did badly during the "Parry the Ball" bonus stage.
Sound code No 009E in the sound test.

Announcer: Don't you want a rematch?: Was meant for the Continue screen, similar to the one in Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
Sound code No 0099 in the sound test.

Announcer: Super Art ready!: Infinite announcing that one of your supers is ready, it was replaced by the "L-Let's go!" sample.

Urien: You've got no chance!: Perhaps a scrapped Urien intro.
Sound code No 02EE in the sound test.

Alex: I'm ready.: A scrapped Alex intro, perhaps?
Sound code No 03B0 in the sound test.

Ken: Shippu Jinrai Kyaku!: Obviously meant to be played when Ken does his third Super Art, but it goes unused and instead he just grunts.

Gill: Witness my life eternal!: Unused Gill line. Possibly meant as a round winning taunt or for his Resurrection Super Art.
Sound code No 0370 in the sound test.

Gill: I am your god!: Technically not unused, but it is almost impossible to hear under normal circumstances. While this was a common post-round taunt in New Generation and 2nd Impact, in 3rd Strike you can only hear this line if Gill wins Judgement. The line still usually cuts out before he finishes it though.
Sound code No 036D in the sound test.

Regional Differences#

Character Names#

Japan	International

Just like in other Street Fighter titles, Gouki was renamed to Akuma in the international release.

Super Art Names#

Some Super Arts were given different names in the international version of the game.

Urien's Time Over Defeat Animation#

Japan	International

Much like in the last installment, Urien's Time Over defeat animation on the Japanese version has him strongly grab his arm, to the point of hurting himself and bleeding. The blood was removed in other versions.

Smash the Car Minigame#

Japan	International

The name of the car that appears on the "VS" screen prior to the first bonus stage is different depending on the version. In Japan it is called "4WD" while overseas it is called "SUV".

Parry Minigame#

Japan	International

The text displayed on the second bonus stage is different between the Japanese version and the others. The Japanese version says "BLOCK THE BALL!", while the others say "PARRY THE BALL!". This is because the "Parry" mechanic is called "Block" (ブロック) in Japan.

Development Oversights#

Yang's Super Art II Sprite#

When Player 2 selects Yang, the sprite displayed for his second Super Art, Tenshin Senkyutai, mistakenly shows Necro's first Super Art, Magnetic Storm. It is merely a graphical error and in gameplay Yang will still have Tenshin Senkyutai. This mistake is present in both arcade revisions and was fixed in the home ports.

Twelve's Display Name Sprite#

CP System III	PS2

When picking your next opponent, Twelve's name was mistakenly written as "TWELEVE" in both arcade revisions. It was fixed in the home ports.

References#