=========================================================== SEGA VIRTUA FIGHTER 3tb. VF3tb DREAMCAST CODES/TRICKS FAQ by sal © written by Sal A. F. (aka, piccolo) version 3.0 (final rev.) [last updated 06/24/2002] =========================================================== DISCLAIMER ---------- This FAQ is for private and personal use only. It can only be reproduced electronically / placed on a web page or site as long as it is unaltered, with this disclaimer and the copyright notice appearing in full. Any information used from this document, quoted or no, should have this author's name somewhere clearly as acknowledgement. Feel free to distribute between others, but this FAQ is not to be used for profitable/promotional purposes; this includes being used by publishers of magazines, guides, books, etc. or being incorporated into magazines, etc. in ANY way. VF3tb DREAMCAST CODES/TRICKS FAQ by sal © written by Sal A. F. (aka, piccolo) INTRODUCTION ------------ The purpose of this faq is to put together every single code/trick ever found in VF3tb for dreamcast. I have not seen any other faq that has ALL the tricks listed in this faq, There are old tricks and new ones found by me. All tricks/codes have been tested and proven to work. This document can be found at gamefaqs.com and virtuafighter.com. LEGEND: ------ (jp)=works on japanese version. (us)=works on US version. START: ----- DIFFERENT INTRO MUSIC: just hold start on both joysticks at the sega logo screen (the one just before the intro). (jp)(us) PLAY AS THE ALPHABET CHARACTER: at the character selection screen, highlight akira, press start, highlight lion, press start, highlight pai, press start, now choose any character you want to play with the A button. to play against the alphabet character just follow the same procedure but with these characters; akira, lau and pai in that same order. (jp)(us) KAGE and JACKY's PEACE SIGN: just hold D+p+g+e before victory pose. only works in single character (ob) mode. won't work in team battle mode. (jp)(us) KAGE'S SPECIAL VICTORY POSE: choose his 2p costume (silver pants), be on akira's stage, do the peace sign after you get an excellent, a basin will appear and hit kage in the head. (jp)(us) PAI'S KISS:get an excellent on akira, she'll blow a kiss in her victory pose mocking akira's own taunt. (jp)(us) SNOWMAN IN THE DESERT: if you manage to get an excellent victory with shun di on the desert stage, you will see a huge snowman if the camera is in the right angle. (jp)(us) TRIBUTE TO GALAXY EXPRESS 999 by leiji matsumoto (a famous manga/anime) / or in other words the FLYING TRAIN TRICK : if you play as jeffrey and execute a toe kick into splash mountain (TKOD) while on dural's desert stage, you will see a flying train passing by if the camera angle is right. (jp)(us) SLOW MOTION REPLAY: just hold E before replay starts. (jp)(us) PLAY AS SILVER/GOLD DURAL IN TRAINING MODE: at character select screen hold start+X+A for silver, hold start Y+A for gold dural. (jp) PLAY AS DURAL: at character select screen press down, up, right, left+ start. (us) CANCEL END CREDITS: hold start. (jp) caution; do this on the jp version and it might freeze. CHANGE VIEWS: press start during a 1p game. (jp)(us) FUNNY FACES: choose akira, do his f,b+PG throw on anyone, now change the view to a first person perspective, now look at their face, that's how they look when they get hit on combat. hit them and it'll come back to normal. taka can do this with his f+PG throw. (jp)(us) FORCE TO WATCH THE REPLAY: just hold all 4 buttons, your human opponent can't skip the replay as long as you hold the buttons. (jp)(us) HIT THE TRAIN: works only with kage, sarah, jacky, lion and aoi. at the subway stage, as the match starts turn around quickly (b,b+p) and run towards the train till it hits you, this will take all of your life bar except one last point (1 more point and you're dead) (jp)(us). CHANGE BACKGROUNDS: in normal or team battle VS modes. for NORMAL VS MODE; to get the original vf3 backgrounds just press the A button or let the timer run out, for vf3TB backgrounds hold start then press A. for TEAM BATTLE : vf3 backgrounds hold start,press A, VF3TB backgrounds press A or let timer run out. (jp)(us) GET DURAL'S SPECIAL BACKGROUNDS: in a VS match, hold start in both joysticks at stage select screen, you'll have a 1/16 chance of getting the new backgrounds. (jp)(us) CHANGE BACKGROUNDS IN TRAINING MODE: to get the original vf3 backgrounds hold start then X and A. to get the vf3TB backgrounds just press A. to get dural's backgrounds hold start+A. (jp)(us) AUTOMATIC DIFFICULTY: highlight training mode, at this screen hold X then press A, the computer will automatically increase or decrease the difficulty (up to level 7) depending how "well' you're doing. (jp) FLIP SHUN'S BOAT: in shun's stage, make taka jump continously at one of the corners of the boat, the boat will flip. (jp)(us) CLEAN PAUSE: just hold X then press A. (jp)(us) TSUKAMOTO'S FACE: in normal mode or VS mode (US), on taka press start, sarah press start, lau press start, kage press start, akira press start. now look at the new "lau". (jp)(us) TURN OFF BGM DURING GAME: in a VS game hold both start buttons right after you choose a stage, hold it till the announcer says "GO". In a one player match (1p VS cpu) there are 2 methods of doing this, as soon as the sega logo (the one just before the intro) screen appears hold start on the second stick/controller, now press start on the first controller to start a new game, right after you choose a stage hold start on the first controller till the announcer says "GO" but keep kolding start on the second controller. you have to keep holding start on the second controller for the whole game if you dont want to listen to the bgm. (jp)(us) DEBUG MODE: at the game's intro sequence hold G+P+K+E then press start (do this with the stick),then choose normal or team battle mode against cpu. command inputs will be shown just like training mode. (jp)(us) "BURN" YOUR OPPONENT: in jacky's stage hold P+E before the round starts. now watch your opponent BURRRN!! . you can do this everytime a round starts. (jp)(us) MAKE YOUR SHADOW DISSAPEAR: in training mode, ring out your opponent while in first person perspective view, when the round starts again you will have no shadow. to get it back just go through the views till its back. (jp)(us) FUNNY ANIMATIONS: get your opponent very close to the edge of the ring, now do a throw that has a lot of movement like for example wolf's giant swing, taka's head rocker etc... experiment with all characters throws, if done right your opponent will fall to the ground but you will still be doing for example a giant swing but you are throwing thin air!. a very funny one is kage's u/f+PG. (jp) (us) FAR / CLOSE DISTANCE BETWEEN FIGHTERS: this will let the 1P player start the match either closer or further from the 2P player. For example, there will be different distances from the 2P player when the announcer is still saying "fight one, ready, go". this glitch is very similar to the old VF1 saturn glitch, when sometimes your character or cpu appeared right in front of the other player at the start of the fight, that was a ramdom glitch and could not be reproduced when you wanted it to happen. in VF1 saturn, once the announcer finished, you or the cpu would get back to normal distance, not so on vf3tb dreamcast! where it stays near / far until you move. ok, so to do this, have akira (it can be done with any character but akira's "E" button win pose animation makes it easier) on the 2P side, choose any stage, now beat/ring out your 1P opponent, stay VERY close to the edge so that when you do akira's "E" button win pose (he double kicks..) he would ring himself out, now press start to cancel this falling animation, the next round you should see the 1P player either very close or pretty far from akira as the round starts. the different distances depend on how long you take to press start to cancel the falling animation. I found out that it works all the time if you press start when the camera begins to move when he's about to fall. (jp) CREDITS: ------- thanks to hiro for translating the "far/close distance.." trick from my vf3tb DC technical manual book. thanks to all the VF japanese magazines, books, mooks etc... Sal A. F. (aka piccolo) [END OF DOCUMENT]