Virtua Fighter 3
Arcade1996Windows, macOS, LinuxBeta
Runs natively on PC through Virtua Fighter 3 Recomp.
Project page on github.com.
Cover art and game details from IGDB.
- Original console
- Arcade
- Runs on
- Native PC
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Method
- RecompThe original machine code translated automatically into C or C++, with tools like N64Recomp or ReXGlue.
- Status
- Beta
- Last update
- Oct 2026
- AI use
- AI-assistedThe project says much of its code was written with AI tools.
Listing updated .
About Virtua Fighter 3
Virtua Fighter 3 is the third fighting game in the Virtua Fighter series. Two new Japanese characters were added to the roster of fighters: Aoi Umenokoji, a beautiful Japanese woman and a childhood friend of Akira Yuki who used a nimble form of Aiki-jujutsu as her fighting style of choice, and Taka-Arashi, a Sumo wrestler from Japan. Taka Arashi would not make another appearance in the Virtua Fighter series until Virtua Fighter 5 R; the series' current producer, Hiroshi Kataoka explained that the removal of Taka in subsequent installments was due to the technical implications of having a substantially larger character.
- Released
- 26 Jul 1996
- Genre
- Fighting, Arcade
- Themes
- Action
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Developer
- Sega AM2
- Publisher
- Sega
- Rating
- 88/100 from 10 ratings
Screenshots, summary and details from IGDB ↗. They describe the original game, not the port.
Virtua Fighter 3 PC port: quick answers
- Do I need to own Virtua Fighter 3?
- Yes. Virtua Fighter 3 Recomp needs game files from a copy you own. PlayPorted links only to the project page and never to game files.
- Is the Virtua Fighter 3 PC port finished?
- It is in beta: playable, with known issues. Its last update was Oct 2026, and the latest release is 0.1.1-alpha.
- Which systems does it run on?
- Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Is it an emulator?
- No. Virtua Fighter 3 Recomp translates the original game code into native code, so it runs without an emulator.
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