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Nixzero's 3DO game list includes a reference to "Dragon Knight III - Knights of Xentar". The word "xentar" doesn't show up on a forum search here, but the game is apparently a reasonably well-known eroge that came out in Japan in 1991, and was ported and translated in 1995 for a US DOS release. The same Wikipedia article reports a 3DO release, with no year given, but I haven't found anything else about it.

I don't really see myself playing an eroge, let alone one that I assume is still in Japanese -- but I'm at least curious as to whether this was a real 3DO release, or if this is just typical Internet fiction. Anyone know for sure?

I've never even heard of internet fiction referencing Dragon Knight III before this. It's obviously wiki silliness but I wonder if there had ever been plans for a port to 3DO.

The claim of a Japan-only 3DO version was added to the Wikipedia article in 2008 by a user named Jinnai, but it looks like the rumor goes back further: here's a 3DO game list dated 2004 that has it, for instance.

And aha, here we go -- this 3DO FAQ from 1994 (!) has a list of "software in production" (which is a mix of vaporware and released titles), and there's Dragon Knight III. So I guess this is an old claim and, if the FAQ is correct, there were indeed plans for a port.

I wonder if Bitrate knows anything about it?

So much vapourware - makes me sad

mattyg wrote:So much vapourware - makes me sad

Agree.

Austin wrote:I wonder if Bitrate knows anything about it?

Unfortunately, no. It's on a listing of mine, but I've never happened across any significant information.

On a related note, however, I did locate another unreleased 3DO title. I'll throw some information up about it in another thread.

bitrate wrote:Unfortunately, no. It's on a listing of mine, but I've never happened across any significant information.

Hey, thanks for your reply. So Dragon Knight III/Knights of Xentar can be definitively removed from any/all lists of released 3DO games, then? That old FAQ makes it sound like there was something planned and/or announced, but I guess it never got anywhere.

bitrate wrote:On a related note, however, I did locate another unreleased 3DO title. I'll throw some information up about it in another thread.

Nice, I look forward to reading about it!

Glad I found this thread, I'll make sure to remove this title from the game list I've been working on. I'd found it referenced in quite a few other lists, but I haven't been able to find any concrete proof that it was actually released on the 3DO (box scan, serial number, ROM-dump, etc.).

While it's sad that it never got a 3DO release, I guess I can't be too bummed. Being that it's an eroge game, I doubt I would have played it anyway, but if I did, I'm sure I'd have an easier time finding and playing the US MS-DOS version.