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Mega Man X3

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Mega Man X3
Mega Man X3 cover
Developers
Minakuchi Engineering
Windows Capcom
Publishers
Capcom
Virgin Interactive
Release dates
Windows March 28, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Scrolling, Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Platform
Vehicles Robot
Art styles Anime, Pixel art
Themes Sci-fi
Series Mega Man X
Mega Man X3 on HowLongToBeat
Mega Man X3 on IGDB
Mega Man X3 guide on StrategyWiki
Mega Man X3 on MobyGames
Mega Man X3 on Wikipedia
Subseries of Mega Man
Mega Man X 1995
Mega Man X3 1997
Rockman X Math Whirlwind 1998
Mega Man X4 1998
Mega Man X5 2002
Mega Man X6 2003
Rockman X7 2004
Mega Man X8 2005
Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2018
Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2 2018
Rockman X Dive 2021
Mega Man X Dive Offline 2023

Mega Man X3[Note 1] is a singleplayer side view scrolling platform game developed by Minakuchi Engineering and published by Capcom. It is the third main entry in the Mega Man X series.

The original game was released on SNES in 1995 and later received an enhanced port on PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996 that contains enhanced sound, music and the newly-added FMV cutscenes. The PlayStation/Sega Saturn ports were later ported to PC and released on March 28, 1997.

The game's installer was written for a 16-bit system and doesn't run on a modern OS, requiring workarounds such as running 32-bit InstallShield 3 software to install the game (which doesn't create desktop or start menu shortcuts for the game). The game's framerate is capped at 59 FPS.

The original SNES version of the game was later included in Mega Man X Legacy Collection.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]

Video

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use the Borderless Gaming Application. (Note: Video cutscenes would be shown in its original resolution. Gameplay is stretched, but functional)
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 59 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

In-game keyboard remapping settings.
In-game keyboard remapping settings.
In-game controller settings.
In-game controller settings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Japanese
Japanese vocal Opening/Ending themes from Playstation version is missing; the game uses International Opening/Ending themes instead.

Issues fixed

Low FPS on AMD cards

Turn GPU scaling on in the AMD control panel[citation needed]

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 3 compatible


Notes

  1. Known in Japan as Rockman X3 (Japanese: ロックマンX3)
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References