Shining Force III Scenario 3: Hyouheki no Jashinguu

Shining Force III Scenario 3: Hyouheki no Jashinguu
Developers: Camelot Software Planning Publisher: Sega Platform: Sega Saturn Released in JP: September 23, 1998 This game has unused playable characters. This game has a prerelease article

Shining Force III: Bulzome Rising is the fairly rushed conclusion to the series.

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Prerelease Info

Debug

Debug is present and accounted for, this time around it's been slightly expanded. Use AR code 36023A1E 0001 to enable it.

Menu

Name	Explanation
Scn	Area Warp - select the map where you wish to go, hit A then close the menu. The second option chooses what exit you spawn from, or in battle, what cutscenes play. In some maps setting it to -1 allows you to spawn out of bounds.
Flg	Sets event flags.
Prm	Roster editor. Add or remove characters, what team they're in, skill lvs, and their levels or classes.
Itm	Gives you any item in the game, provided you still have space. There is also an option for Max Gold. New to Scenario 3 is an option called "All Item Honjin". This option places 1 of every item in HQ storage.
Sav	Saves file
Lod	Loads a save file
Snd	Sound Test
12P	What this does is unknown, currently, selecting it just refreshes the menu.
Cfg	The normal Configuration menu

(Source: [1] Knight0fDragon)

Controls

Pressing X+Y+Z together will pause the game. In this mode, pressing any button other than L, R, or Start will advance the game 1 frame, pressing L will enable some printout information and R will disable. To exit, Press the Start button. Holding Z will disable collision, allowing you to cross out of bounds. In battle, if you hold Z while an enemy or character ends their turn, the battle instantly ends, or instead you can kill specific characters/enemies by holding Start while ending their turn. Finally, pressing R during a cutscene will skip dialogue, and L will disable it. Pressing it multiple times can advance through scenes slightly faster, though this will crash the game on certain scenes, such as when Fake Benetram leaves the Saraband bridge battle.

Records/Name Changing

An early version of the Record room from the Premium Disc is present here. Starting a new game with no previous save AND while debug is active enables it and gives you a bit of unique dialogue. It lets you set the synchronicity points, as well as some other general flags, and allows you to change the name of most Playable Characters.

Unused Areas

Far more boring compared to the previous two games, it seems as if these maps had all most of their content cleaned out. Use Scn in Debug to access these areas:

Name	Image	Notes
TESMAP (Measurement Test)		Back again, just as unchanged as ever.
(Store Test)	N/A	More or less same as the last game.
Aspia Roof	N/A	Crashes the game. It's inclusion is likely an oversight.
Special Battle		According to the developers, there was only suppose to be a single Battle on the Premium Disc originally. As is, you are taken to dream, where the old man tells you that this map was intended for the Premium disc and cannot be loaded.
Polygon Character Test		Broken, though this was likely intended for the Premium Disc.
Ryuta Test		Some kind of dev test, but it appears to be missing files. After getting through the GID errors, there's two characters visible when starting up the map, a bouncing Unoma and a Lightning bolt. Talking to either crashes the game, although the thunderbolt brings up a YES/NO prompt before doing so.

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  As that game is built off scenario 3, attached is a prerelease image from Shining Force III: Premium Disc to show what the "Polygon Character Test" may have originally looked like.

Unused Characters

Rogan

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  With debug enabled, one can see these errors every time the map loads. These are Sprite ID errors, indicating that Rogan is attempting to load the wrong sprite.

Perhaps the only truly unused character in the entire Trilogy, Rogan is almost complete, only missing 2nd promotion graphics. As-is his sprites do not load, as the files use the wrong ID. His entry and stats suggests he was originally suppose to join at the very start(assuming you obtained the Ship Key in scenario 1}. This conflicts with Scenario 2, which instead has him briefly joining Medion's force as an NPC player. His reason for being removed, according to the developers on the game's website, had to do with a change in story. A clue as to what that change might've been can be found in Scenario 1 as there exists a sprite of what appears to be Edmund(one of the starting characters of scenario 3) in a death throe.

Penkichi

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  The sprite shown on the website, unknown if this was part of the model or not.

The 60th character slot contains a character named "ペンきち"(Penkichi). According to the official developer website, this was merely a joke character. It was supposedly a flat 2D image of Pen made to fill the lone placeholder slot. The fan translation edits this out to "Jane". Internally, Jane doesn't become a playable character until the Premium Disc and the version used in the final battle draws from the Enemy/NPC entries. Unlike unused characters from the previous game, Penkichi has graphics associated with it!. In-game it uses Basanda's sprite and the Icon of Scenario 1's Elbesem Statue. However, like all the other unfinished characters(except Rogan), Penkichi lacks a proper model and will crash the game if it ever goes into battle.

(Source: [2] SF3 Official Website)

Unused Cutscene

To do: The scene is stored in the game, and is functional, but not accessible under normal means...

Original:

[Edmund]:
なぜ(私を倒さなかったのだ・・・。

私には返る国さえもないというのに
・・・死に場所さえ与えられぬのか?

[Donhort]:
くわしい事情はわからぬが・・・
なぜ(死に急ぐのだ({EDMUND}?

[Edmund]:
私は({PRESS}帝国のガーゼル将軍の口車に乗リ
共和国を裏切ってしまった時から・・・
死に場所を探していたのだ({DONHORT}。

[Bresby]:
やリ直せばよかろう({EDMUND}将軍
これだけ崩壊した共和国には・・・
お主のような将軍が必要なはずじゃ。

[Edmund]:
私のような者が・・・必要・・・?

そうか(そう言ってくれるのか・・・。

私はべアソイルに戻ろう(そして・・・
国境を守リながら自分を見つめ直そう
そして(もしも自信がついたら・・・。

Fan Translation:

[Edmund]:
Why didn't you kill me...
I've no country to return
to... Can't you at least
grant me a place to die?
[Donhort]:
I don't know of your situation... but
why are you in such a hurry to die?
[Edmund]:
Ever since I was tricked by General Garzel
and betrayed the Republic... I've been
searching for a place to die, Donhort!.
[Bresby]:
You should try to start anew,
General Edmund. The weakened
Republic... needs generals like you.
[Edmund]:
I'm... needed...?
Is that so...
I'll return to Baersol and guard the
border while I do some... thinking.

I may be able to regain my confidence...

X5BTL92.BIN contains dialogue for sparing Edmund if he is a boss during a specific battle. While the cutscene itself is in the game and is fully functional, the ability to actually spare Edmund was not programmed into the battle. X5JINMEI.BIN, the dialogue for the encyclopedia even has dialogue to reflect this change:

共和の理念から(かけ離れた現状に失望し
新秩序構築のため反乱を起こすが失敗
その失意の中で{JULIAN}軍と戦い敗れる
しかし命は救われたため(べアソイルで
自分を見つめ直すことになった共和国武将

Former Republican general who forms
a rebellion. Defeated at Baersol by the
Julian army. His life spared, he's given
a second chance.

Unused Enemies

To do: Actually comb through the enemy list for unique unused entries, if any Rewrites as needed. Figure out how i should go about adding Leftovers from previous scenarios.

Buried in the game are a slew of unused enemy entries all of which still have model files present, though most had their contents dummied out. An unusual amount of these are from previous Shining Force games. They follow X8PC[###].BIN(### being the values below) Note:Number is for the Model IDs. To get the Sprite IDs, subtract 500 from the Model ID(For example: Sara Sldr's Sprite set is 201)

Japanese	English	Sprite	Number	Notes
???	???	N/A	700
ﾌﾞﾗｯｸﾅｲﾄ	Black Knight		710
ｾｲﾝﾄ	Saint		712(Dummy)
ｽﾗｯｼｭﾊﾞｯﾄ	Slash Bat		738	Why this graphically complete bat enemy went unused is unknown.
仲間になるPC	(untranslated)	None	791(Dummy)	It's the PC script from Scenario 1.
ｶﾞｰｺﾞｲﾙ	Gargoyle		850
魔物	Monster	Not Found	888(Dummy)	It's a mystery as to what this unusually generic entry might be. It's the second to last on the list.
ﾊﾟﾋﾟｰﾄﾞﾗｺﾞﾝ	Dragon Pup	898
?	???	None	905	At the very end of the battle list are these 6 entries, 5 of which contain Model data, and Enemy sprites end at 389, though the 405-408 were used for special effects.
?	???	None	906
?	???	None	907
?	???	None	908
?	???	None	909
?	???	None	910(Doesn't exist)

• 3D Models

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  Dragon Pup

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Unused Items

To do: If i ever get around to it, document all the useless low tier weapons that obviously go unused. Finish adding the unused stuff from previous games Finish Transcribing Japanese Names/Descriptions, and retranslate the more suspect ones like Hell Rod.

Much of the unused content from Scenario 1 returns, some of it is now used(or can be obtained by having it in your inventory from scenario 2, the katanas, for example.), but this game also adds many, many more that the player can never obtain.

No	Image	Name(Fan Translation)	Description（Fan Translation）	Stats	Notes
66		シミタ一 Scimitar	ン一ド系統の武器 Sword	5 ATK	Enemy only weapon
114		シーブスナイフ Sneaky Knife	ナイフ系統の武器 Knife	ATK 13 AGL 5	Translates to "Thief's Knife"
115		ジョーカーナイフ Joker Knife	ナイフ系統の武器 Knife	ATK 13
138		ビーストスピア Beast Spear	スピア系統の武器 Spear	ATK 18
139		コメットスピア Comet Spear	スピア系統の武器 必殺技発動 Spear - has Special Attack	ATK 18	Special Attack is "Meteor"
152		スカイ トマホーク Ultra Tomahawk	トマホーク系統の武器 必殺技発動 Tomahawk - Special Attack	ATK 20	Originally called Ultra Axe.
169		ドラゴンナックル Dragon Cestus	ナックル系統の武器 必殺技発動	ATK 19 Crit + 5	Holy Cestus from Scenario 1.
178		マーリンズワンド Pyra's Wand	ワンド系統の武器 必殺技発動 スパーク Wand - Special Attack, Spark L3, regen 2 MP	ATK 19 AGL 5 MP Regen + 2	It's not known if it even has a special attack anymore.Fan translation adds the Regen 2MP and L3 bits.
188		クイロンの矢 Moogie's Arrow	矢系統の武器 必殺技発動 Arrow - Special Attack	ATK 24 AGL 3	This is Caylon's Bow from Scenario 1. The Fan Translation is a reference to an admin for a Shining Force fansite.
192		ニ一ドルクォレル Needle Quarrel	クォレル系統の武器 必殺技発動 Quarrel - Special Attack	ATK 22 AGL 2 Crit + 5
196		クールブラッド Cold Blood	冷血 Accessory - Cools the Blood	???	Stats don't noticably change. It might be tied to the battle where a character is frozen in ice, but you're not able to see their inventory during that battle.
216		ライトアンカー Light Anchor	アンカー系統の武器 Anchor	14 ATK
217		へビーアンカー Heavy Anchor	アンカー系統の武器 Anchor	20 ATK	Neither of these are used. The earliest character you can get that even uses Anchors joins in Chapter 6
222		切り花 Cut Flowers		N/A	Scenario 1/2 Leftover
225		' Large Egg		N/A	Scenario 1/2 Leftover
227		像の黒水晶 Statue Gem	アスピアの迫跡に開像があるらしい? Gem from a statue in Aspia	N/A	Scenario 1 leftover
229		' Saraband Key	()	N/A	Scenario 2 Leftover
230		神刄の杖 Divine Cane	バサンダ専用 回復のカを備えた武器 Staff - Revive if used	ATK 16
231		地獄のロッド Hell Rod	デスへレン専用の杖 Staff - Hell Dragon L2	ATK 20	The Fan translation description is a lie. A rough translation would be "Dessheren only - Cane". Item is fairly functional, though you don't get a spell for equipping it like the normal rods.
240		(Barrand Key)		N/A	Scenario 2 Leftover
241		(Robot Eye)		N/A	Scenario 2 Leftover
242	48px	(Secret Key)		N/A	Scenario 2 Leftover
294		風神の (Divine Wind Fan)	ゴリアテ専用 風の力の源となる (Source of the Wind's Power, Special Attack)	N/A	Goriate's Fan. The Fan Translation's description omits the "Goriate only" Game thinks it's an item.
295		ハルバロッド Halberod	レインブラッド ナイト用 [__ ___]の武器 Magic Halberd Rod	ATK 21	Based on the description, it appears to be an exclusive weapon for the Rainbloods, though the fan translation omits that part.
297		カオスメビウス Chaos Mobius	大司専用 Holy Weapon	N/A	This appears to be the weapon the Bulzome High priests use at the end of the game. Unlike the Canes from the first game, this isn't even consider a weapon, and cannot be equipped.
299		?	???	N/A	This was meant as a placeholder, or was penkichi's weapon. Either way, it's not functional.

Unused Text

X5BTL399.BIN

For some inexplicable reason, this entire file exists. It's a mix of early Scenario 2 and 3 battle dialogue and a souped up BTL99, which is also present on the disc. The dialogue(Fan Translation) is as follows:

Lure the enemy into an area where we
will have the advantage. We should not
rush into such a narrow passage, {11}{08}.
Protect {11}  at all cost.
Without him, we have no
hope of saving Destonia.

{11}{08}, if you can anticipate when the
enemy will move on the offensive, the
tide of battle will turn in our favour.

{11}{08}, enemies in sandy and grassy terrain
will respond to our movement and appear.
If you sense danger, remain still.

Advance while breaking the enemy's
formation. Don't allow them to send
reinforcements to the area in front of the
main hall where {11}{08}'s force is engaged.

{11}{01}, you've broken through
their formation! Now, focus on
the enemy's defenses so we can
activate the west tower's switch.

The Bulzome Sect have set up their
defenses and sent reinforcements
to the main hall, but we can't waver.
Let's continue to pursue our objective.

It won't be easy to break the guard's
formation and penetrate the east
tower defenses while preventing
them from sending reinforcements,
but we must succeed, {11}{15}.

They have faltered under our
offensive and lost the opportunity
to send reinforcements.
The opportunity for
victory is ours, {11}{15}.

The enemy was able to send
reinforcements to the main hall,
but we must not waver. We must
fulfill our duty at the east tower.

In order to ensure the success of the
three forces' objectives, we must
move towards the stone wall while
avoiding the Walcurey's attacks.

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To pass the trial, the enemy must
be annihilated and {10}
must not be defeated.

{11}{15}, try to take advantage of how
your allies are divided up. Doing so, we
can draw the enemy into breaking rank.

As the leader, you must
remain on the battlefield.

{1A} is our savior.

You should deal with those
strange masked monks instead
of wasting time talking to me!

The enemy is divided into two
battalions, but we might be able to
gain some interesting information.
Let's engage those near Balsamo!

To battle against our own countrymen
is regrettable, but if they attack us,
our force must respond, {11}{15}.

The boat has sailed, but there
still may be clues in Balsamo.
Let's head there now, {11}{15}.

{12} peeked inside the ruins

Push off, freak!{0F}{05}{05} I'll be taking
the treasure from this ruin.

The {10} army escaped the ruins

The ruins have collapsed

The ruins are destroyed
and not safe to enter

The ruins are sealed

{10}, thieves are planning to
loot those ruins! We must stop
them from stealing the treasure!

{10}, as our leader, you should
remain on the battlefield. Your allies
can take care of those ruin looters.

{12}, it appears you can't carry
any more. Let me hold it for you.

It appears you can't carry any more.
Let me hold it for safekeeping.

{12}, your hands are full.
Let me take that for you.

{12} received the {14}

{12} looked inside the mine

It's pitch dark inside

{10}, as our leader, you should
remain on the battlefield. Leave the
exploration of the mine to your allies!

{10}, as our leader, you
should remain on the battlefield.
Leave the bandits to your allies!

Ho...{05} I'll be taking the
treasure in this mine.

{10}, bandits are planning
to loot the mine! We must stop
them from stealing the treasure!

The {10} army escaped the mine

In order to progress through the chief's
ruins, you must defeat each level boss.

{11}{01}, in order to complete your
objective, you must head down
that path and continue moving.
Success will require determination.

To succeed in battle, take
the initiative, but observe the
enemy's movements before acting.
Consider time and space
and rely on your judgement.

In order to progress through the sage's
ruins, you must defeat each level boss.

In order to complete your objectives
and improve your skills, training
in the sage's ruins is crucial.

You may dispatch the weaker enemies or
advance in search of stronger opponents.


It is entirely up to you, {11}{15}.

In order to progress through the sage's
ruins, you must defeat each level boss.

If you can clear the sage's ruins,
Bulzome is nothing to be feared.
Work towards making yourself stronger.

Typical enemies will not be enough.
You should try defeating the boss
in the center. Choose opponents
suitable for building your experience.