Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?

Sakura Wars
Sakura Wars	2000
Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die	2001
Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?	2003
Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens	2005

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

This game is not playable in English (see Localizations for supported languages).

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc 4.60 DRM^{[Note 1]} disc check (DVD Edition) StarForce 3.03.022 DRM disc check (Traditional Chinese version)

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

General options menu

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVEDATA\SAKURA3.SYS^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Resolution set at 640 x 480
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Known as Cursor Speed (カーソル速度/游標速度)
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

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Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Pentium III 500 MHz	Pentium III 866 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	640 x 480 16-bit resolution 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0a compatible	64 MB of VRAM
Other	8x CD-ROM drive

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Pentium II 300 MHz	Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	640 x 480 16-bit resolution 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	64 MB of VRAM
Other	4x DVD-ROM drive

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[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).

Developers

	Red Entertainment
	Overworks
Publishers
	Sega
	Dysin Interactive
	AcerTWP
Release dates
Windows	September 18, 2003
Reception
IGDB	TBD
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Cinematic camera, Bird's-eye view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure, Strategy, Visual novel
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Fantasy, Japan, Romance, Steampunk
Series	Sakura Wars