Home

Welcome to the BreathOfFire3PCPort wiki!

This project started from wanting using Breath of Fire 3 as a language learning tool (using my nostalgia for the game to help push me through Japanese studies), which evolved into decoding the EMI font files to figure out what Kanji the game was supposed to be rendering, which eventually led to this PC overhaul.

What I found was that the EMI files were poorly understood. Lots of people have taken stabs in the past at understanding pieces, but finding any specific bit of knowledge was hard (lots of digging through gamefaqs boards, github repos, reddit posts, etc.). So, I want to use this wiki to consolidate and document what I've found.

The decompilation process has been a chance for me to learn more about this game I've loved forever - to find in-jokes and debug notes, workarounds for the psx limitations, see the seams that tied this thing together and shed light into systems that always seemed opaque. I hope others can make use of it as well.