Tekken 3 (USA) - Game Freeze During Credits and Theater Disk Swap
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:49 am
Tekken 3 has a core-breaking freeze bug that happens after completing the Arcade ladder in Tekken 3. Just after the familiar, "The King of Iron Fist Tournament. Enter the Tekken," line, the game freezes on a black screen. This has happened every time I've tested it, with pretty much every setting I could think of. This probably needs a fix, but the current workaround is that the credits can be skipped if the player presses start before the voice line ends. To replicate, select Arcade, select Hwoarang, then press O and X for a while until the ending plays. Or you could load the savestate I've attached.
Next up is not really a bug, but a weird quirk that's worth bringing up. Once the player has beaten the Arcade mode with every character, they unlock a Theater mode which allows the player to view each ending in the game. The Theater mode also comes with a special bonus feature: Insert the disc from either Tekken or Tekken 2 to see the a gallery of that game's endings instead, all of which are unlocked regardless of those games' saves. This works in the core, but only if Tekken 1, 2, and 3 are all thrown into the same folder together. It's a bit clunky. I was hoping to be able to keep them sorted as separate games and still be able to switch discs without a reset. Will that be possible some day?
Lastly, I'm going to try to dig into my collection and submit reports whenever I can, but I'm unfamiliar with the process here. Is this where should I be making my bug reports? Is github preferred, or is it better to let a core developer verify a bug first and write in the report themself? I just don't want to overreach if filling in my own reports isn't welcome or something.
Next up is not really a bug, but a weird quirk that's worth bringing up. Once the player has beaten the Arcade mode with every character, they unlock a Theater mode which allows the player to view each ending in the game. The Theater mode also comes with a special bonus feature: Insert the disc from either Tekken or Tekken 2 to see the a gallery of that game's endings instead, all of which are unlocked regardless of those games' saves. This works in the core, but only if Tekken 1, 2, and 3 are all thrown into the same folder together. It's a bit clunky. I was hoping to be able to keep them sorted as separate games and still be able to switch discs without a reset. Will that be possible some day?
Lastly, I'm going to try to dig into my collection and submit reports whenever I can, but I'm unfamiliar with the process here. Is this where should I be making my bug reports? Is github preferred, or is it better to let a core developer verify a bug first and write in the report themself? I just don't want to overreach if filling in my own reports isn't welcome or something.