Shining Force III Cheats
for Saturn

Battle Difficulty & Music Select

Beat the entire game and collect all the hidden characters Noon, Pen, Rachet, Hagane, and Frank. After beating the game, save it so your save game says "Complete." From now on the OPTIONS screen will show a new option where you can choose your difficulty level and play the game's music.

Clear Attack Screen

During a magic or physical attack press and hold the START button. When you do, the level and health boxes that block much of the screen will turn off.

Friendship System Tips

Make a fighter-type and healer-type or Monk and Mage fight the same opponent until they accept each other as partners. The fighters will protect the healers, while they will keep the fighters strong. Monks and Mages are an odd combo, but the combination of strong physical attack, strong magic, healing, and long range and/or group attacks also make them a lethal combo.

How to get Frank

Frank is in your hometown of Flagard. To make him join all you have to do is physically push him into your headquarters.

How to get Noon

To get Noon, do not kill any of the zombies in the battle in the ghost town's cemetary outside of the Mansion. Let Kahn use his orb on them. If you don't kill any of them, Noon will join after you have killed the Vandal and exited the mansion

How to get Rachet

In the Vandals mansion in the ghost town, check the rooms after you kill the Vandal until you see one with a bunch of machinery and a switch. Pull the switch and Rachet will appear then leave. Later on the first time you visit the Vagabond camp you need to talk to him in the corner and he will run away again. If you talked to him both times he will join you at the battle right before entering the Dragon Cave.

How to get Pen

While you are on the train, explore untill you find a room with a priest and a bag of chicken feed. Use this feed on all the chickens in the cart untill one accepts it and follows you. Later when you visit the vagabond camp for the first time, in one of the tents and old couple will sell you a big egg for 100 dollars. Use this egg on the chicken which will be in your Headquarters. It will hatch Pen who will run away. You'll find in hiding in the corner of Storich.

How to get Hagane

Hagane is hidding as a pillar in the fifth tomb in the battle to rescue Duke Palis on the tower observatory. Just inspect it during the fight or after and he will join.

Hire Mercenaries

In the town before the final battle, head to the bar. In the far right corner are 4 soldiers drinking. If you talk to them right before you head to the final battle, they'll join you for a small price. They won't show up on the character screen, but they'll be put in reserve for the final battle.

Gain Experience Level Quickly

In Ghost Town, you will have to battle the boss, Blue-Colored Vandal. I find he provides a lot of experience points with every hit. When fighting
him, let him use up his entire MP and kill all his minions, but leave him alive. Now that he's all alone and disarmed, battle him one on one with defferent characters and watch those levels go way up. Be careful not to kill him off until you're satisfied. He will regenerate and restore his HP points so you can attack him numerously. Lastly, ENJOY!

Beat the Skull Lord

Right before the final battle, when your under the draw bridge, you'll see another room. After you go though some fighting trials, you'll come to the ultra tough Skull Lord. He casts a spell called "Timat" that causes enough damage to kill instantly. Heres a tip. If you have lots of men around you, the damage is less because the timat has to hit them, too. If you beat him, you'll get the Justice Sword and the Timat Staff, which lets you cast the "Timat" spell.

Ship's Key

In the battle in Flagard castle, Dantares gives you two options: to save your father by attacking Fiale or fighting alongside your team. If you pick the first option and attack Fiale you will be too weak to hurt him. But when you attack him he drops a key. He will say "Out of my carelessness I seamed to drop the Ship's Key, oh well I'll give you that one".

NOTE: This key doesn't do anything. It's for use in parts 2 and 3 of the game, which were only released in Japan.

How to Get Irene

When you first meet Irene (in the cargo hold at Railhead), she is being attacked by a band of thieves. The best way to save her is to send the swiftest party members into hold using one move. (Those that cannot make it in one move should march along side the cargo hold.) Once inside, assemble the party and quickly run to the right-hand exit. You should be able to reach Irene before she dies. If you heal her wounds and talk to her, she will join your party.

A Hiding Place after the Final Battle

During the final battle, the team is split into two groups. One group fights on the bridge, while the other group releases water from the dam. After the fight (and when all of the water has been released), the entire party must move to safety or get swept away by the tide. The band will find shelter behind the city gate – the wall with a door – using a layered regimen of three.

Barrel Tip

It is important in that in every battle scene that contains a barrel you make sure to destroy it. Barrels may contain items or secrets. Some barrels block
rooms or treasure chests that can only be accesed by destroying the barrel.
If a barrel is blocking a room, that room can only be opened after a
battle and only if the barrel is destroyed.

Mountian Glitch

Right before you get to the first train station, walk along the mountains
till you reach an almost straight 45' angle. You can walk up it and
explore. Caution if you wander to far you can get lost and have to restart