Final Fantasy Legend III

Final Fantasy Legend III
Also known as: Jikuu no Hasha: SaGa 3 (JP) Developer: Square Publishers: Square (JP), Squaresoft (US) Platform: Game Boy Released in JP: December 13, 1991 Released in US: September 29, 1993 This game has unused items. This game has unused abilities. This game has regional differences.

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Final Fantasy Legend III is the only SaGa game not to be produced by Akitoshi Kawazu, so its gameplay and presentation are considerably different. Whether that makes it more accessible, or more boring and "vanilla", is open to the player's interpretation.

It was remade for the Nintendo DS, like its predecessor.

To do: A lot of translation differences (raw text dump: US, JP). Also check for unused text.

Unused Items

Many of these are blank in the English version.

Use code 01??01C7 (where "??" is one of the below) to modify the item in the second slot in the item list. The first entry is for the English version, the second for the Japanese version.

Digit	Name (US)	Name (JP)	Comments
E5	Blank	Warp 2 (UAAPU 2)	Listed at the end of the Unit digits. Cannot be installed onto the ship, so its function (if any) is a mystery.
ED	Blank	Password (Aikotoba)	Unknown what this would be used for, if anything. Maybe an key item version of the ERAUQS password for Viper?
EF	Blank	Pureland Case (Ijigen KEESU)	Could have been used anywhere in Pureland, really.
F6	Blank	Plutonium (PURUTONIUMU)	Needed to power the Talon?
F9	Blank	Blank	Just an empty slot, presumably.
FA	Blank	Blank	Just an empty slot, presumably.
FB	Buji	BARUZAI	You must have been able to "install" the crew members like units in an earlier version of the game. This seems to be removed in the final; they don't do anything, much like the other values. Note that he's actually called Buzi in the English version.
FC	Shar	SHARURU	Another crew member.
FD	Juba	ZUKAUBA	Another crew member.
FE	Masa	##PiZA##Pe (glitch)	Another crew member.

Unused Abilities

To do: Provide cheat code.

The Talent "X-Heat" is not possessed by any monster, beast, cyborg, robot, or boss in the game. It's a single-target instant death attack with a unique animation: the screen fades to white like the White spell or the Talon's cannon, and then the same grim reaper sprite as the other instant death attacks appears over the target. In the Japanese version, this talent's name is houshanou (Radiation).

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Japan	US

Monster Sprites

Three monsters were changed in the English version.

Japan	US

What was once a crazy robot nurse became a bizarre abstraction with gigantic lips and long hair(?)...

Japan	US

A dual-knife-wielding cyborg ninja surgeon was transformed into some sort of skull-headed pirate wielding twin sickles. This change and the previous one were likely made in order to avoid portraying medical professionals as scary or antagonistic to children. Despite the change, the two monsters still frequently appear as NPCs in laboratories throughout the game.

Japan	US

The creepy clown monsters used to be creepy puppet clown drummers. Take your pick as to which one is worse.

(A possible reason for the switch is that the drummer version is based on the mascot for the rather famous and now-defunct Cui-daore Restaurant in Osaka, the Kuidaore Taro. The reference would go over the heads of most non-Japanese players.)