Shiren 3 PSP:Differences from the Wii release

Rescues

JP Wii / PSP

The Japanese Wii version had Wi-Fi rescues. SEGA shut down the servers on October 31, 2011 and the Nintendo Wi-Fi service ended on May 20, 2014. The PSP release has/had? Wi-Fi rescues and they both offer code based rescues. This was removed from the North American release.

JP Wii

• If the player did rescues over Wi-Fi, they would receive rescue points which could be sent over to Magic Castle DS via Wi-Fi. From the main menu of DS2, the player could enter in their Wii FC and then cumulative rescue points and then the DS would connect to Wi-Fi (and convert the points to items? See notes)

PSP

The PSP features local Wireless Lan rescues.

Locations

JP Wii

• "DLC" Locations: for the Japanese Wii release for (unknown cost). They were made available normally as post-credits dungeons on the NA release and the PSP port.
  • Shrine of Mystery & Mystery was made available starting on Friday, July 4, 2008
  • Mysterious Dungeon was made available on July 18, 2008
• Dungeon of War: Shiren Wii has a Wi-Fi ダンジョン対戦 (Dungeon Battle) option. The dungeon page for this dungeon has more info, but nothing has been confirmed 100% due to the conflicting information found on the only 2 sources for the dungeon.

PSP

• The PSP release of Shiren 3 has 6 exclusive dungeons. The first 4 become available to you after you defeat the Sword Tiger at the Ruined Temple. Asuka's dungeons will become available to you after your confrontation with Eagle (Johnny) at the Eagle's Fortress'.' You can select them from the overworld menu under the けいたいダンジョン (Mobile Dungeon) menu. There are 2 dungeons per character and each one can be considered an easy or hard difficulty dungeon. Monsters and rare items that don't show up during the story can be found here. The easier of the dungeons will have every single item identified and the harder versions of them will have all items unidentified.

• • This is Shiren
  • Over there, Sensei
  • There is Asuka
  • Again, Shiren
  • Even in the distance Sensei
  • Asuka there as well

Buffs and Nerfs

PSP Nerfs

• Gitan Mamels only drop 500 Gitan in the PSP release, down from 2,000.
• Ultra Gaze drop 2,000 Gitan. Down from 5,000.
• Jars of Change always spawn with 3 charges in dungeons.
• The Winds of Kron show up earlier in dungeons with dragon orbs.
• The floor layout in the Dragon Veins dungeon can no longer be recorded.

PSP Buffs

• The Boss(es) of the Tsuzura Maze have had their health increased by some degree.*

Misc

PSP

• The attack animations of dual wielding swords has been increased.

Sending/Receiving Jars

• The 送信の壺 (English: Sending Jar) and the 受信の壺 (English: Receiving Jar) allowed players to send and revieve items via wireless communications. The data remained in the English Wii translation by Atlus and the PSP port. The English versions got a description translation, despite no way to ever obtain them without cheats. "Hacks! This jar is not supposed to appear!"

"I never could get this working but as best I understood it you would find in your travels two new pot types, "Sending Pots" and "Receiving Pots". Fill up a Sending Pot with whatever random crap you care to and hit send to now have these items picked up by any random player of the game (or you can keep it to just Wii coded friends) who hit receive on a Receiving Pot they'd found in the game. Sort of a kludgey Warehouse Pot but, like a lot of these online aspects, not very well thought out compared to the elegance of the rest of the game." Lord Gek on Neogaf

References

• Wii Wi-Fi shutdown
• Some info on this page made possible thanks to Famitsu.
• Some info on this page made possible thanks to a Japanese Shiren wiki.
• Thanks to Lord Gek for info on how Dungeon Races and Sending/Receiving Jars worked.
• Page into thanks to Firepulser. Shiren 3 GameFAQ's board.
• Siliconera: SEGA shuts down the Shiren servers in Japan.
• Jar descriptions thanks to Echeclus11's GameFAQ's FAQ (Used with permission.)