Final Fantasy III (NES)

Final Fantasy III
Developer(s)	Square
Publisher(s)	Square
Series	Final Fantasy
Platform(s)	Virtual Console, NES
Release date(s)	Famicom JP April 27, 1990 Virtual Console JP July 21, 2009
Genre(s)	Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	Wii Remote, GameCube Controller, Classic Controller
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	FFFJ01
See also...	SNES Version Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Final Fantasy III (ファイナルファンタジーIII Fainaru Fantajī Surī) is the third installment in the Final Fantasy series. The story revolves around four orphaned youths drawn to a crystal of light. The crystal grants them some of its power, and instructs them to go forth and restore balance to the world. Not knowing what to make of the crystal's pronouncements, but nonetheless recognizing the importance of its words, the four inform their adoptive families of their mission and set out to explore and bring back balance to the world.

NES Global Problems

Problems that may occur with any NES title on Dolphin are listed below.

DirectX with NES Games

Most NES games suffer strange graphical issues when using the DirectX backend with some graphics drivers; notably NVIDIA. This is a driver bug.

NVIDIA Title Corruption

As of 5.0-4869, the D3D driver bugs can be worked around by setting Ubershaders to Exclusive/Synchronous (Ubershaders). It's unknown what exactly is going on with the driver that's causing Exclusive Ubershaders/Synchronous (Ubershaders) to work properly.

This seems to have been rectified at some point, though it's unclear what resolved it.

Problems

This title does not have any additional game-specific problems.

Configuration

This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Final Fantasy III since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
4.0-8445	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	Works OK. Requires EFB2RAM.	JMC47