Dynasty Warriors 3

 
Alternate costumes

Press A or X when selecting a character to choose between two costume colors.



In- game reset

Press Start + Back during game play. Note: This only works in certain screens.



Opening Edit option

Press X, Black, Y, White, L, R, White(2) at the main menu. A sound will confirm correct code entry.



All generals

Hold L + R and press White, Black, Y, X(2), Y at the main menu. A sound will confirm correct code entry.



All Shu generals

Press White, Black, X, Y, White, R, L, Black at the main menu. A sound will confirm correct code entry.



BGM Test option

Press L, White, Y, R, White, Black, X, Y at the main menu. A sound will confirm correct code entry.



In- game reset

Press Start + Back during game play. Note: This only works in certain screens.



Alternate costumes

Press A or X when selecting a character to choose between two costume colors.



Bonus FMV sequence

Highlight the "Replay" option at the "Opening Edit" screen, then hold L + R and press A. You will see all of the people from the gray army dancing.



Highlight the "Replay" option at the "Opening Edit" screen, then hold Black + White and press A. You will see Zhu Rong singing.



Very hard difficulty setting

Successfully complete the last level of Musou mode under the hard difficulty setting to unlock the "Very Hard" setting at the option menu.



More powerful arrows

To make your arrows more powerful, hold R as when firing an arrow, but press Y. It will shoot a more powerful beam instead of just a normal arrow. You do not need the stronger arrows item for this trick.



Bodyguard Manual special item

At the Siege Of He Fan Castle level, go to where Xhu Zhu is located. Defeat him on the ridge and the "Special Item Discovered" message will appear. Complete the level and you will have the Bodyguard Manual, which makes your bodyguards stronger.



Buckler special item

This item prevents you from be overpowered while blocking. Play the He Fie level as the Wu side. Allow Taishi Ci to get killed in the arrow attack, then retreat with Sun Quan to the lower right corner of the level, to the broken bridge. You will jump over the bridge with Sun Quan. About five minutes later, Zhang Liao will attack Sun Quan. Defeat Zhang Liao and he will drop the item. This item is very useful when blocking, especially when fighting against Lu Bu.



Item upgrades

To get better upgrades, such as Tortoise Amulet +60, play the game under the hard difficulty setting in these stages and kill these character s for only items in that stage. Do not bother doing this on any level below Attack On Liu Biao.

Nanman campaign (Shu and Wu): Yong Kai, Dong Tu Ne.

You Ting (Wu): Man Chong, Cao Xiu, Hu Zhi, in box directly in front of Cao Xiu fort, to the side of Sima Yi in box.

Jie Ting (Shu): Du Xi, Deng Ai, Xin Pi.

Yi Ling (Shu): Ling Tong, Zhu Ran (Wu): Shamoke, Lei Tong, Wu Lan

Chi Bi (Wei): Cao Pi, Cao Hong, (Shu): Zhu Ran, Xu Sheng, Taishi Ci

He Fei (Wei): Zhu Huan, Han Dang, Jiang Qin.

Fan Castle (Wei): Second level of stage in box

Chang Ban (Shu): Li Dian, Xiahou En, Zhang He (Wei): Mi Zhu, Chen Zhen, Liu Qi

Guan Du (Wei): Yuan Xi, Yuan Tan.



Getting second and third weapons

Go to You Ting and defeat Zhang Pu and Zhen Ji. They will both give you weapons. Sometimes the weapons are first weapons, at other times they are the second or third weapons. Note: This can be done with anybody, but you should build them up first.



Play the Assault On Wu Territory level under the hard difficulty setting. Have someone help you defeat the stage. While the other person is defeating the officers, go and take all of the weapon boxes that appear. Some weapon boxes are in boxes. After completing the level, you should have the second and third weapons.



Play as Cao Cao and successfully complete the game . His first and second weapons are the same as Liu Bei's, Sun Quan's, and Sun Jian's first and second weapons. When you start a new Musou with these character s, you will automatically get their second weapon.



Play under the normal or hard difficulty setting. Go to the Assault On the Wu Territories level and play as Sun Ce's forces. There are four weapons in this stage; three of them are held by officers, Zhang Ying, Chen Heng, and Yan Yu. The fourth one is in a box that will be diagonally left of your position as soon as you enter the fort on the bottom right of the map, where Liu Yong is located.



Play the Nanman Campaign under any difficulty setting. Meng Huo, Meng You, and Dailali Dongzou will all give you weapon boxes. They usually are a mix of second and third weapons.



Start a two player free mode game under the hard difficulty setting at the Battle Of You Ting level. Play as Sun Jian's forces. This stage is the perfect place to find second or third weapons. Player one should be a fresh character you want the weapon for, while player two should be a maxed out character with the fourth weapon. When you start the level, let player two take care of the Gate Captains, archers, and soldiers. Then, walk player one to the crates at the start of the beach and smash them all. One of them contains a weapon and another has an item. Move player two up the path to Liu Biao's castle. On the way, look for a crate. Kill the soldiers there with player two, then move player one to the crate and smash it. Pick up the contents, which almost always is a second or third weapon. Finish the stage with player two.



Play the Guan Yu's Escape level as any character under the medium difficulty setting. Play the level two times and make sure that your character has moderate stats. Play through the level as normal and make sure to get all the weapons available from officers. On the second time through the level, you will get that character 's second or third weapon.



Easy second weapons

Play a two player game with one character who has very good stats and another character who you want the weapon for. Play at the Yellow Turban Rebellion under the hard difficulty setting and have each character equipped with a Red Hare Saddle. At the very beginning, put the character you want the weapon for near Sun Jian but not in a place where he could get hurt. Next, have your strong character fight Sun Jian. When he dies, he will drop a weapon. Let your strong character just stand there. He should have good enough defense that barely any health is taken away. Have the other character quickly run in, grab the weapon, and run out again. Then, go in the castle with the strong character and kill He Jin to end the level. You will almost always get the character 's second weapon and sometimes even their third weapon. Note: You may have problems doing this with Zhang He.



There are four weapons that can be found in the Assault On Wu Territory level. Play on Sun Ce's force on any difficulty setting. Note: The harder the setting, the better the weapons. Both of the generals at the start of the level, Zhang Ying and Chen Heng, drop weapons. As you progress through the level, defeat Tashi Ci and go to fight Yan Bai Yu. His sub-general Yan Yu will drop the third weapon. The fourth weapon is in a crate in the middle-left part of section where you fight Liu Yong.



Easy third weapons

Go to the Surprise Attack On Lui Biao level with an already enhanced Lu Bu and the character you want. There are five weapon boxes throughout the level. Get those with the other character , not Lu Bu after killing every person on the level with Lu Bu, except for the main person. Then, kill the last person. There is also a Musou +10 and an Life +10 in the level. For a third weapon, play under the hard difficulty setting. If you do not get their second or third weapon, play on the other side.



Max out a character (with or without a fourth weapon). Put a base strength character in the player one slot. The game adjusts its difficulty according to the first player's strength. Then, put your maxed character in slot two under the normal difficulty setting. Play the Battle At Tong Gate. At the start of the battle, put your first player character in a safe spot nearby then kill Tong Gate Generals Ma Dai, Pang De, and Han Sui. By now Ma Chow will be occupied with Cao Cao -- kill Cheng Yin and he will drop a weapon box. Keep the box on the second player's screen and have player one take the box. Have player two stand there and let his bodyguards take care of any units. Then, take player one to the northern-most point of Cao Cao's side of Tong Gate. Once there you will find a box with a weapon inside. Take the weapon, then hide player one and kill Ma Chow with player two.



Play the Battle of Mt. Ding Jun level on Shu forces. Turn around and take the path Zhand Fei is taking. Kill Xiahou De to get the weapons box. Go to where Xiahou Yuan is located and go right, then break open the box and pick up the weapons box. Next, find and kill Cao Hond and pick up the weapons box for the last one in the stage. There is also a Life +10 to the right of Cao Cao, to the left of you. You should play the level under the normal or hard difficulty setting for a better chance at getting the third weapon. The weapon will give you better stats. For example, playing on easy results with Life +9, playing on hard results in Life +31.



Play the Battle At Tong Gate level in two player mode under the hard difficulty setting. Have one of the players be powered up and the other as the character that will get the third weapon. Leave the first player where they start (unless there are enemies nearby, then move them away). Have the second player go to the right. Hopefully they will start near Cao Cao. If not, then use someone that does to find the box. Follow the hill to the left and when it makes a sharp turn keep going forward until you find the coast. Then, follow it to the left until you find a box that always has a weapon in it. Get it, then move him to safety. Use player one to finish the level. This may need to be repeated if the found weapon is the player's second weapon.



Play the Siege Of He Fei Castle level. This stage is quite long; save often in case you run out of time. First, defeat all the enemies at the bottom of the map, but do not proceed upwards -- there will be a surprise attack coming from the southeast. Defeat all of them, then go to the northeast part of the map. You will know if you are in the correct location if a message stating something about arrows appears. Quickly run across. Arrows will shoot at you from the sides. Continue on to the Wind Corridor Trap. Instead of going around it, got into it, avoiding the columns. The weapon box inside contains your third weapon. Defeat Sima Yi to finish the level.



Play the Fan Castle level under the normal difficulty setting with a Warrior Body Guard (so that you will not get a level 3 body guard weapon instead). Find all the crates in the level. There should be two weapon crates and Gan Ning should drop one. Make sure that you build up your character slightly or equip an Tiger Amulet, Tortoise Amulet, a Buckler (so that your guard can not be broken) and a Speed Scroll. Also have the character 's second weapon (or first if you are very skilled). You will get the character 's second and third weapons. It is possible to do this level without leveling up at all.



Easy fourth weapons

Play under the hard difficulty setting with two players (one who already has a fourth weapon and the other that needs a fourth weapon). Complete what is necessary with the good character , then use the other character to pick up the fourth weapon. For example, to get Taishi Ci's special weapon, play the Assault On Wu Territory level with Lu Bu and his fourth weapon and Taishi Ci. Get Taishi Ci to safety. Kill every one except Sun Ce. Then, use Taishi Ci to get his fourth weapon.



Note: You do not necessarily have to pick up the item with the weaker character . Anybody can pick up the fourth item for the weaker character . It will automatically be given to the character without the fourth weapon.



For precious (special) items, put the character whose weapon you are after in the first slot (base strength) and put a maxed out character in slot two. With player two, perform the actions required to make the weapon appear then just have player one collect it. For Supply Troop weapons, have a base strength player in slot one and the character whose weapon you are after in slot two. Do what is needed to get the weapon under the hard difficulty setting.



Get a character 's second weapon , choose the Nanman campaign, then kill everyone (including Meng Hou), except Meng Hou for the last time. At the end, you should have three weaponsm with one being the special weapon. This can be done with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Zhou yu, and Xiahou Dun. Note: Always use the second weapon always as it does more damage.



Shorter Musou

A shorter Mosou Max stat may be better, since it requires less time to fill up and Musou more readily available. Avoid taking the +10 Musou boxes and do not use +xx Musou Max items.

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Extended Musou

If you have items that give a plus to Musou or have picked up enough Musou Wine, hold "Musou" and your character will continue to Musou until his or her bar is gone. However, if you just tap "Musou", your character will do his/her starting Musou and any more added by items or Musou Wine will not be drained.



Easy Musou mode

To complete beat Musou mode easily, start a game in two player Musou mode. Choose the character you want to be. Then, with the second controller choose any character that is already leveled up and is good. Play through Musou mode with the good character and you should win easily. Make sure you keep the other character out of danger.

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Better kill bonuses

Kill Gate captains with Musou attack (full combos) to get Defense Up +2 instead of +1. You can do this either in Free or Musou mode. One way to fill up you defense meter quickly is to play the Battle Of Hu Lao Gate level as the allied forces. There are seven Gate captains and three officers who have the Defense Up item. Kill them all with Musou attack to get +20 total. You can also use this trick to Attack Up. Everything +1 killed by Musou attack will be +2 (defense or attack).



Do a 20 or more hit combo to kill a general to get double the amount of the normal + Defense or + Attack bonus. For example, killing Gan Ning at Yi Ling with a big combo will give you +8 Attack instead of +4 Attack. Note: You must kill the general with the combo.



Get at least an 8-hit combo to get Attack/Defense +2 instead of +1.



More kills

Go to a gate but do not kill the Gate Captain. Kill his guards and the Gate Captain will call for more men. The Gate Captain will move back. Go to the gate until the small sign appears and kill all the men that appear. You can lower the number of people for that general. You can do this anywhere, with anyone. It is also good training for you and your bodyguard.



Avoid falling

When someone does a combo on you, their last hit will usually throw you. While you are being thrown through the air, tap L a few times to flip back on your feet.

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Knocking riders off elephants

Stand in front of the elephant that is going to ram you. When it hits you, press L a few times to bounce up. While still in the air from your bounce, execute your jump attack. Note: Do not try this with weak character s with weak defense.



Opening gates

When fighting on a level with wooden gates, position your character against to and facing a gate. Try to fire an arrow through it, at the enemy soldiers on the other side. When you hit one, the gate will open up.



Walk down Mt. Ding Jun without hitting the spikes

When you walk down Mt. Ding Jun, hold L (Block). Continue to walk down the hill. This will prevent you from sliding. This a very good way to walk/ride and keep your life up by not walking into any spikes. Note: This also works when riding a horse.



Xu Zhu the elephant in opening

Enable the "Opening Edit option" code. At the scene where the player you select would be on an elephant hitting people, choose Xu Zhu. Play it to see Cao Cao on a elephant, but you will first see Xu Zhu taking the place of the elephant.

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No death in hero's end in opening

In the hero's end part of "Opening Edit", put in one of the following to see him/her order troops to battle while mounted: Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo, Meng Huo, Zhu Rong, Diao Chan, Zhang Jiao, Fu Xi, and Nu Wa. About all the Wu characters have the scene with the boulder falling on someone; try it with Huang Gai.