VF3TB Dreamcast Codes, Tricks & Easter Eggs

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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]
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VF3tb DREAMCAST CODES/TRICKS FAQ by sal 
written by Sal A. F. (aka, piccolo)

INTRODUCTION
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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:
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(jp)=works on japanese version.
(us)=works on US version.


START:
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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:
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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)

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