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Mega Man III

Platform: Game Boy Year: 1992 Developer: Minakuchi Engineering Co., Ltd. Buy: Amazon

Mega Man III is the third entry in the Game Boy Mega Man series, taking elements from Mega Man III (NES) and Mega Man IV (NES). This time around, Dr. Wily has rebuilt four Robot Masters from the third game and four from the fourth game, and built himself a fortress at sea from which to tap into the powers of the Earth's core. On top of that, after his less-than-successful flirtation with a future copy of Mega Man in the previous game, Wily has resurrected the Mega Man Killer concept, this time in the form of Punk.

After the first two Game Boy outing for the series proved decent, but rough around the edges (especially in the case of Mega Man II (GB)), Mega Man III feels like a much more polished product, with greatly improved graphics, sound and level design, along with the charge shot ability that was introduced in the fourth NES game. Like Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (GB), the difficulty can be punishing at times, but this time it's mostly confined to the second half of the game, with the first half being a lot more reasonable by comparison.

Screenshots

Music

Like the rest of the game, the music takes a leap forward, and is rendered in much higher fidelity than in the previous two entries. Kouji Murata re-arranges a good number of tracks from the third and fourth NES games (and even a couple from the first and second), while also providing a nice helping of memorable original music. This time around, the battles with the Robot Masters also get the same music from the games they originally came from, as compared to the previous two Game Boy Mega Man games, which used the same boss battle music throughout.

Like the previous two games, there's an unused ending theme, taken from the NES Mega Man IV. This one would eventually be re-used in the next Game Boy entry.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Title Screen	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	1:50		Download
02	Password	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	1:17		Download
03	Stage Select	Minae Saito	Kouji Murata	0:35		Download
04	Game Start	Manami Matsumae	Kouji Murata	0:08		Download
05	Sparkman Stage	Yasuaki Fujita	Kouji Murata	1:14		Download
06	Geminiman Stage	Harumi Fujita	Kouji Murata	2:03		Download
07	Snakeman Stage	Yasuaki Fujita	Kouji Murata	1:31		Download
08	Shadowman Stage	Yasuaki Fujita	Kouji Murata	2:19		Download
09	Mega Man III Boss	Yasuaki Fujita	Kouji Murata	1:15		Download
10	Stage Clear	Takashi Tateishi	Kouji Murata	0:04		Download
11	Get a Weapon	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	0:30		Download
12	Dr. Wily Stage Map	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	0:10		Download
13	Dr. Wily Stage 1	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	1:33		Download
14	Diveman Stage	Minae Saito	Kouji Murata	1:34		Download
15	Skullman Stage	Minae Saito	Kouji Murata	1:45		Download
16	Drillman Stage	Minae Saito	Kouji Murata	1:38		Download
17	Dustman Stage	Minae Saito	Kouji Murata	1:17		Download
18	Mega Man IV Boss	Minae Saito	Kouji Murata	0:45		Download
19	Punk Theme	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	1:03		Download
20	Dr. Wily Stage 2	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	1:34		Download
21	Game Over	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	0:07		Download
22	All Stage Clear	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	0:08		Download
23	Ending	Kouji Murata	Kouji Murata	2:09		Download
24	Unused Theme	Takashi Tateishi, Minae Saito	Kouji Murata	1:56		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Unknown
• Recorder: OlfinBedwere
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer/Arranger: Kouji Murata
  • Not Credited Composer: Manami Matsumae
  • Not Credited Composer: Takashi Tateishi
  • Not Credited Composer: Yasuaki Fujita
  • Not Credited Composer: Harumi Fujita
  • Not Credited Composer: Minae Saito

Kouji Murata has taken credit for composing the game's original music and arranging the works from the prior Mega Man games. The composers for the NES games are known from the staff rolls in their respective games.

(Source: Kouji's website [1]; game lacks credits.)

Game Rip

Ripping Game Boy music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site. The soundtrack was recorded using the Game Emu Player in foobar2000.

Japan Title: ロックマンワールド3 (Rockman World 3) Platform: Game Boy Released: 1992-12-11 Publisher: Capcom Co., Ltd.     USA Title: Mega Man Platform: Game Boy Released: 1992-12-?? Publisher: Capcom U.S.A., Inc.     UK Title: Mega Man Platform: Game Boy Released: 1993-06-19 Publisher: Nintendo Co., Ltd.