Lost In Translation/Tekken 3

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Tekken 3
Manufacturer	Namco
Released	1996
Control Method	8-way Joystick 6 Button(s)
Main CPU	PlayStation PSX CPU (@ 16.934 MHz) H8/3002 (@ 14.746 MHz)
Sound CPU	Stereo C352 (@ 14.746 MHz)
Video Details	Raster (Horizontal) 640 x 480 pixels 60.00 Hz 65,536 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	13 ROMs 42,467,328 bytes (40.50 MiB)
MAME ID	tekken3 · tekken3a · tekken3b

About The Game

Tekken 3 is 3-D, one-on-one fighting arcade video game.

The world's 19 toughest fighters enter The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, in order to defeat Heihachi, and Ogre, who has taken the souls of many of the world's greatest fighters to adopt its own fighting style. Every character has his own ambition of winning the tournament.

Trivia

Released in March 1997.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Iron Fist 3'.

This is the first Tekken game which has 3-D backgrounds. Namco's Tekken 3 production team used one of the most advanced motion capture apparatus and facilities at its time for the highly life-like movements, moves, actions and reactions of the 3-D characters. They also used some of the very famous and active personalities of different martial arts styles from all over the world, like, for Eddy Gordo's Capoeira style of fight they got the services of Master Marcelo Pereira of 'Capoeira Mandinga'. And for Hwoarang's Taekwondo style of fight they got the services of Hwang Su-Il of 'Japan International Taekon-do Federation, and several other martial arts institutes.

Namco's production team motion captured each and every move to create such an in depth game, that was also one of the most higly anticipated fighting game for the last few years. After Tekken 3, its followers like Tekken Tag, Tekken 4 and Tekken 5 got more and more depth, life-like impression, and the element of giving more fun (and addictiveness to its players).

The word Tournament on the 'You are the Champion!' background is mis-spelled in the Japanese version as 'Tounament'.

Most of the characters like Jin, Law, Julia are the children of the characters from the first Tekken games.

In the Sound FX there is the announcer voice for Jun Kazama, Kazuya Mishima and Sake meaning these characters could have been in the game but weren't added to the final version.

There are 21 different characters, but Anna, Tiger and Panda play identical to Nina, Eddy and Kuma respectively. In total, excluding Anna, Tiger, Panda and Mokujin, there are 17 characters with different moves.

With a cheat enabled sometimes you can face Jun and a new character, Sake (pronounced Shaa-Ke). In fact Jun has a graphic for the VS. screen and a name tag for the energy bar. Uses Nina's body and Jin's moves Sake only has a name tag. Uses Yoshimitsu's body and Jin's moves, and a blank VS. picture. You can play with them with the code enabled. You'll have to find the value which the cpu uses to select your character. The value for Jun is 17 in Hex that will be (11). After you've played with Jun or Sake in the game you can see Jun and Sake in the Percentage Screens which appear in the game randomly when nobody is playing. Jun has got her Percentage Page's thumbnail but sake uses Paul's thumbnail. In the same way, after you've played with Jun and/or Sake you can see them in the EDS screen from the Dip-Switch menu.

It looks like Namco was putting Jun and Sake but then stopped working on them for some purposes (explained below) :

1. According to the story Jun gets killed by Ogre (the god of fight). So if they would've put her they couldn't put Jin in the game as he probably looks of the same age of his mother. That doesn't apply to TekkenTag which has both Jin and his mother Jun, because TekkenTag does not have any storyline and the idea is to put all the characters from previous games (some of them were even dead).
2. Sake was rather populating the game as the game had already got 20 characters at that time. Namco's production team probably didn't had much time to re-do the whole code for character selection so they buried the two raw characters in an as-is condition forever...

Wonder Spirits released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Tekken 3 arcade soundtrack 001 ex - WSCAX-10001) on 18/07/1997.

A Tekken 3 machine was shown at the 2003 classic arcade games show 'California Extreme' in San Jose, California.

Updates

TET2/VER.A (World)

TET3/VER.A (US)

• Build date : 07:56:12, MAR 10 1997

TET2/VER.B (World)

• Build date : 01:58:34, MAR 25 1997

TET1/VER.E1 (Japan)

• Build date : 12:18:11, MAY 15 1997

Tips and tricks

When a Time Release character is about to become selectable the vs. screen before a demo fight will say "Coming Soon" and display a picture of the hidden character.

Play As Anna Williams

Highlight Nina on the character selection screen and press Start. Anna plays identical to Nina. Anna is only available after Bryan is unlocked from Time Release.

Play As Tiger

Highlight Eddy at the character selection screen and press the Start button. Tiger plays identical to Eddy. This option is only available after Ogre 2 (aka True Ogre) is unlocked from Time Release.

Special Outfits

There are three characters that can have an additional outfit by pressing Start to select them instead of a punch or kick button, these are: Jin, Law and Xiaoyu. Law's third outfit is selectable from the start but Jin and Xiaoyu's school outfits can only be selected after Mokujin is unlocked from Time Release.

Fight Jin On Stage 9

If you start a game with Heihachi you will fight Jin on Stage 9 instead, regardless if you continue and choose another character.

Series

1. Tekken (1994)
2. Tekken 2 (1995)
3. Tekken 3 (1996)
4. Tekken Tag Tournament (1999)
5. Tekken 4 (2001)
6. Tekken Advance (2001, Nintendo Game Boy Advance)
7. Tekken 5 (2004)
8. Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection (2005)
9. Tekken 6 (2007)

Staff

Directors

Masamichi Abe

Yutaka Kounoe

Game Directors

Masahiro Komoto

Katsuhiro Harada

Motion Director

Hiroaki Yotoriyama

Motion Manager

Masataka Ishiguro

Visual Director

Yoshinari Mizushima

Main Programmer

Masanori Yamada

Game Programmer

Naoki Ito

System Programmer

Yoshihito Saito

I/O Programmer

Tetsuya Funatsu

Lead Programmer

Toshiharu Hijiya

Stage & Effect Programmers

Yoshiyuki onda

Hajime Furusawa

Hajime Harima

Enemy & Camera Programmer

Junichi Sakai

Test Mode Programmer

Kiyoshi Minami

Tool Support

Koji Yamaguchi

Motion Designers

Yukie Misaki

Yoshihisa Yaguchi

Nobuko Nimura

Fuminori Tsuchiya

Tomoe Yamashita

Ryouchi Ban

Tomoko Tomita

Sachiko Inoue

Isamu Sawada

Kazuo Takahashi

Jin Okubo

Naotake Hirata

Character Model Designers

Takuji Kawano

Kazuaki Fujimoto

Akira Nakajima

Daisuke Tsushima

Lead Designer

Taro Okamoto

Stage Designers

Masashi Kubo

Tatsuya Matsue

Yasunori Yanagawa

Miki Maemori

Hitomi Yotoriyama

Yuko Mizoguchi

Visual Designer

Yukiko Yokoo

Logo Designer

Hideaki ito

Music Composers

Nobuyoshi Sano (Sanodg)

Keiichi Okabe (B.K.O)

Sound Effect & Voice Editor

Etsuo Ishii

Opening Movie Director

Hiroshi Kuwabara

Opening Movie Staff

Takeya Inokuchi

Eishu Takamura

Yukiharu Taniguchi

Coordinate Support

Ryouzi Ichikari

Satoshi Masukawa

Tetsuya Akatsuka

Ryo Sakamoto

Akiya Ikeda

Tatkuzi Kanayama

Tsuyoshi Kiuchi

Kazuhisa Takahashi

Norikatsu Yoshikawa

Makoto Kusano

Yusuke Morita

Atsushi Koyama

Miho anaka

Naoyuki Kondou

Motion Capture Tech. Team

Takayasu Yanagihara

Hiroshi Numakami

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Yasumichi oonishi

Motion Actors

Minoru Suzuki and Osami Shibuya of 'World Pancrase Create Inc.'

Master.Marcelo Pereira of 'Capoeira Mandinga, Barkeley-California-USA'

Hwang Su-Il of 'Japan International Taekon-do Federation'

Yoshinori Aoki

Kenichiro Tamayori

Toshiyuki Miyajima

Opening Movie Effects

Image

Camera Motion Director

Koh Onda

Camera Motion Designers

Kanako Doi

Kazuki Aizawa

Takashi Iwaizumi

Hardware Support

Tohru Ogawa

Hideto Yamazaki

Nobuhiro Tanaka

Fumihiko Hasegawa

oshihiro Shimizu

Technical Support

Tetsuji Baba

Naohiro Saito

Akiko Saito

Yasuo Ohba

Program Supervisor

Katsuo Nakamura

Visual Supervisors

Junichi Kawamura

Satoru Yamada

Producer

Hajime Nakatani

Cabinet and Artwork

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  Tekken 3 arcade cabinet.

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  Tekken 3 flyer.

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  Alternate Tekken 3 flyer.

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  Back of an alternate Tekken 3 flyer.

Ports

Consoles

Sony PlayStation (1998)

Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Tekken 5 Ultimate Collectors Edition")

Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Tekken 5")

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Tekken 3 Arcade Soundtrack 001EX	WSCAX-10001	1997-06-18	Wonder Spirits	CD version.
Tekken 3 PlayStation Soundtrack 002	WSCA-00016	1998-05-20	Wonder Spirits	CD version.
Tekken 3 Seven Remixes	PCCG-00455	1997-08-19	Pony Canyon	CD version.
Tekken 3 Techno Maniax	PCCG-00441	1998-03-18	Pony Canyon	CD version.
Tekken 3 Battle Trax	PCCG-00416	1997-08-20	Pony Canyon	CD version.

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.