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Contra III: The Alien Wars
| Contra III: The Alien Wars | |
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| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Series | Contra |
| Platform(s) | Virtual Console, SNES |
| Release date(s) | SNES JP February 28, 1992 NA April 6, 1992 EU November 19, 1992 Virtual Console JP January 16, 2007 EU January 19, 2007 NA January 29, 2007 KO April 26, 2008 |
| Genre(s) | Run and gun |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Input methods | GameCube Controller, Classic Controller |
| Compatibility | 5  Perfect |
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| See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
Contra III: The Alien Wars, released in Japan as Contra Spirits (魂斗羅スピリッツ) and in the PAL region as Super Probotector: Alien Rebels, is a 1992 run and gun game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System produced by Konami. Set in the futuristic year 2636, the alien invaders that were defeated during the previous installments have decided to launch a full-scale war against mankind on Earth, starting the "Alien Wars". New styles of levels in The Alien Wars involve motorcycle chases, riding on missiles, and two Mode 7 enabled top-down stages.
Problems that may occur with any Super NES title on Dolphin are listed below.
Glitched Sound
Sound is glitched in the OpenAL backend. Use XAudio2 to prevent this. Fixed in 5.0-798.
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 Contra III: The Alien Wars since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
Testing
This title has been tested on the environments listed below:
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Gameplay Videos
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- Konami (Developer)
- Konami (Publisher)
- Contra (Series)
- Japan (Release region)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- Korea (Release region)
- 1992 (Initial release year)
- Run and gun (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Single-player only (Game mode)
- 1 (Players supported)
- GameCube Controller (Input supported)
- Classic Controller (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Untested
- Virtual Console games
- SNES games