Front Mission 3

Front Mission 3
Also known as: Front Mission Third (JP) Developer: Square Publisher: Square Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: September 2, 1999 Released in US: March 23, 2000 Released in EU: August 11, 2000 This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has a hidden level select.

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Front Mission 3: A story of a boy chasing his sister through mecha-filled battlefieds.

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Debug menu‎s A deeper look into what these menus can do

Debug menu

Accessible with following Gameshark codes and holding Select in any loading screen:

D00E5F54 00000100
800E59A6 00000146

(Gameshark code: LiquidManZero)

The debug screen is preceeded by a few options that change some parts of the currently available team. First menu has a choice between Ema[sic], Alisa and -. Ema and Alisa options put their respective story line characters to the current team with their default wanzers. - option leaves the team empty.

Second menu, called PlayerMachine, gives a short selection of wanzers to equip to all team members. Available wanzers:

• Shunwang 1
• Prov PAW2
• Wude 3
• Getty
• Qibing 0
• -

To do: Figure out what SLV menu does.

Third menu, SLV, has an option for Not and Set.

Fourth and final menu has three choices for how well the team is equipped:

• Perfect: gives the team all possible equipment at max level and 7777777 units of money.
• Middium: gives 7777777 units of money and unlocks all equipment, but does not level any of them up.
• NotPerfect: has the team only have the default equipment and does not give any money.

Debug Menu

Visiting this menu enables debug mode that for example opens a new Battle debug menu at the start of each new fight. There are further debug menus accessible via the Stage option by selecting either 303:C998 or 304:C999. These options will take you to DEB2 and Debug top ver3.0, respectively.

Pops up at the start of each battle in debug mode

DEB2

Accessible via Stage 303:C998 from the Debug menu, this menu contains some flag settings and a sub menu Other debug that has sound effect viewer and a city map viewer as well.

Has some handy options that did not work in the main debug menu.

Debug top, ver3.0

Accessible via Stage 304:C999 from the Debug menu, this menu has a bit nicer looking stage select options that has both Alisa and Emma branches categorized.

Has some handy options that did not work in the main debug menu.

Test stage MX09

Accessible via Stage 234:MX09 from the Debug menu, this stage contains 2D and 3D representations of various massive wanzers. The 3D versions are used in cutscenes during gameplay. There is also a height scale for probably testing walking up hills and testing combat calculations on uneven terrain. This map is unfortunately unplayable as trying to start any combat here results in a soft lock.

A nice view of the wanzers in this level from the hill