The option to customize controller inputs was removed.

Information specific to items, magic and lore have their information omitted, resulting in one less column of text.

A majority of additional information for all equipment in the menu were also removed due to the storage limitations.

Menus were reorganized to accommodate the changes.

The storage and screen space limitations of the SNES resulted in shortened translations of the script, abilities and enemies.

Kanji for elemental properties are replaced with icons.

Official titles based on a job that was displayed next to a party member in the main menu was removed.

Name changes for several characters that were more appealing to western audience, excluding the latter: Tina → Terra, Lock → Locke, Mash → Sabin, Biggs → Vicks.

This resulted in pop-culture references, major story mistakes, story structure and characters arcs that were mistranslated and misinterpreted, inaccuracy of world-building and player hints and in-game instructions that weren't clearly explained.

Localization - The script was solely translated in English by Ted Woolsey who, under severe time constraints to meet the deadline of the North American release, had re-written major changes to the story, characters and terminology.

New Logo & Title Screen - A new logo featured during the opening introduction and title screen to accommodate the name change to ' Final Fantasy III'.Ĭompared to the Super Famicom version (left).In addition to an English localization, numerous changes were incorporated: This is due to the original versions of Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy III, as well as Final Fantasy V having released in Japan only at the time, with Final Fantasy IV rebranded and released internationally as ' Final Fantasy II', thus the game was also rebranded to accommodate the absences. It is the North American localization of the game and was renamed and marketed as ' Final Fantasy III'. The first international edition of Final Fantasy VI was released on October 20, 1994.

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