Welcome to the FM3 Cheats and Hints page, here you will find various hints and cheats to help you through the game.

Get new endings:
Clear the game, then start a new game and save it over top of your other file. Then clear the game again with the name of Cloud Honshi (for you who played Final Fantasy VII, he is Clouds brother). If you entered the cheat you would see him in the ending of the game he looks a lot like cloud but he is darker in skin.

Play with your Battle Skills:
When you beat Emma's or Alisa's story line. Wait until after the credits and you can save your game at a final save point. Then the title screen comes up. Load your memory card file into the game. You are allowed to play the other or same story line with all the Battle Skills you learned in your previous game file.

Special Weapon and Wanzer:
In the Alisa missions, after mission 46 go to the ArmoredK (Auspend) web site and check out BBS 3. At the bottom there is a number (555-XKR-224). Then go to the Auspend Garbagepit. There should be something called the Inferno Dialer. Dial this number in and you will receive the parts to a Hoshun Mk112 and its beam weapon. You must then put it together and upgrade it. It is the best wanzer in the game!

Split point:
The "split point" in the game is so close to the start that gamers could play the same story and never know what they did wrong. It occurs when you finish the Wanzer testing. Ryogo will ask you if you want to deliver Construction Wanzers with him. If you go with him you will get Emma's story. If you do not go with him you will get Alisa's story.

Capturing enemy Wanzers:
To capture an enemy Wanzer, make him surrender. Any Wanzers that surrender before the stage is cleared will become yours. You can tell if a Wanzer has surrendered by looking at its color. If it is gray, and has a white flag on top of it, it has surrendered. This does not work, however, for tanks, jeeps, etc., as you can not store them.

Backup Wanzer:
If you capture an enemy Wanzer at the end of a battle, keep it. This way, if you lose a Wanzer in your next battle, you have a spare Wanzer to replace it. Besides, you do not have to replace any destroyed parts on a captured Wanzer; they are automatically repaired for you. Just make sure that you add some weapons to it, because your only attack on a captured Wanzer is the HARDBLOW, which is the weakest.

Restart a battle:
Save the game as soon as you start a battle. If you lose, you can reload the save from the beginning of the fight and try a different strategy. This also prevents you from losing a Wanzer that you want to keep.

Kill ejected enemy pilots easier:
Attack an ejected pilot with a machine gun, shotgun or flamethrower. Although rifles, missiles, and melee weapons do much more damage, you will often miss completely because only one shot is fired. However, a machinegun and shotgun will fire multiple times, and the flamethrowers can attack a target at least four times.

Fighting helicopters:
Helicopters are big, but you have a greater chance of hitting them with a machine gun or shotgun than any other ranged weapon. Missiles, however, can usually hit a helicopter if it is almost out of missile range.

Grenade launcher:
A grenade launcher does not strike one square; it strikes several, depending on which type you have. Make sure "friendly" units are at least two squares from the damage area to prevent a "friendly fire" situation.

Destroy Wanzers and Body Parts Quickly:
To easily pummel any enemy wanzer, always equip some sort of melee weapon like batons and fists. When in battle, come up close to the enemy wanzer and punch him. Depending on your Power level and upgrades, you should be able to do around 200 damage on a part of a wanzer. I find it easier to destroy the arms or legs of an enemy wanzer by just punching them rather than shooting. Kazuki's Zenislev works best in these situations or Pham's Zeros.

Money and The Power:
During the course of the game, you either receive or download Battle Simulator Scenarios for you to "practice" in. Of course its not only for practice, its also for getting experience and money. The first battle you get is the JDF base scenario which is a good beginning one, but later on you will want the Taal Base scenario. The Taal scenario gives you a lot of money depending on the level of your wanzers. The stronger your wanzers are, the harder the opponents get, and the more money you receive. The experience you receive in the Simulator count as actual experience.