Final Fight 3

Final Fight 3
Final Fight 3's title screen
Publisher	JY Company
Developer	Hummer Team
Cart ID(s)	JY-116
Console	Famicom
Date	September-October 1998
Sound engine	Capcom (Mighty Final Fight) (Mega Man 6)
Alternate names/hacks	Garou Densetsu Special

Final Fight 3 is a pirated port of the SNES game of the same name, made by Hummer Team in 1998. This is Hummer Team's last game published under JY Company.

Overview

Final Fight 3's gameplay

This is a direct port of the SNES game. All four playable characters from the original game are present as are most of the enemies, bosses and rounds. However, the weaker enemies appear throughout the whole game.

The game is considered to be easier than the SNES game, with fewer enemies appearing on the screen at any given time to prevent sprite flicker. There is only one route in this game, unlike the original. To mantain the aspect ratio, the playing field was made smaller by placing a black bar at the top of the screen with the players' score and data, and a bar at the bottom of the screen stating the current round and showing the Final Fight 3 logo was also added.

The cutscenes are taken from the respective stories, with slight typos and all of the punctuation removed for unknown reasons. It is also difficult to tell who is speaking because the text is all rendered in white in this game. The text was mostly copied from the English version of FF3.

Unlike most Hummer Team games, the ending is not a simple "The End" screen. Instead, it opts to copy Dean's ending from the SNES game, taking and simplifying its graphics, while the music and sound effects were stolen from Mighty Final Fight.

Trivia

• The JY Company logo can be accessed by pressing Down, Down, Left, Up, Right, Left, Up and Down on the title screen.
• This game has dip switches, some of which bring up Garou Densetsu Special, which is identical aside from the title screen and the removal of the opening cutscene. Hummer Team originally made a Garou Densetsu Special game, but when comparing the title screens they come out as different, revealing that Final Fight 3's was either redrawn or edited.
• The opening cutscene appears before the title screen in this version, while it appeared afterwards in the original SNES game.
• In the cutscene before Round 2, the line "Those bastards slaughtered my family." is used, which only appears in a beta version of the SNES game—in the final release, it was changed to "Those maniacs slaughtered my family!". This would appear to indicate that this game is based on the beta version rather than the final Western release.
• When compared with the SNES version, the scoring is about 100 times smaller in this game.
• Haggar's name is misspelled as "Huggar" in-game.
• Levels 2-1 and 2-3 were also featured as the third and fourth rounds in the game "War" from the Super New Year Cart 15-in-1 multicart.

Gallery

Original release (Scan by MWK)

Later release to liquidate the remaining PCBs