How to Play Tekken 3 on iPhone

Tekken 3 came to the PlayStation in 1998, a year after Namco’s arcade original, with a new generation of fighters led by Jin Kazama. The home version adds modes of its own, including Tekken Force, a beat ’em up, and Tekken Ball, played with a beach ball. If you own the game, Nagori lets you play it on iPhone and iPad.

What you need

• An iPhone or iPad with iOS 17.6 or later.
• Nagori from the App Store. Your first game is free.
• A disc image of your copy of Tekken 3: .chd, .cue + .bin, .pbp, .iso or .img, or a .zip or .rar containing it. The game fits on a single disc.
• For two-player fights, two Bluetooth controllers.

No BIOS file is needed.

How to play Tekken 3 on iPhone

1. Install Nagori from the App Store.
2. Copy your Tekken 3 disc image to the Files app, in iCloud Drive or On My iPhone.
3. Open Nagori, tap + and select the file. For a .cue image, select the .cue together with all of its .bin files, or add the archive they came in.
4. Find Tekken 3 on the PS1 shelf with its box art and press Play.

Controls

Tekken gives each limb its own button. On the PlayStation pad, Square and Triangle are left and right punch, X and Circle are left and right kick, and every move is built from those four buttons and the direction you hold. Tap up or down to sidestep.

The game is played on the D-pad, so the Standard touch layout has everything it needs. If your thumb slips between the face buttons, open Edit Layout in the pause menu and make them bigger, or move them to where your thumb rests. Throws and many moves need two buttons at the same moment, and those are easier on a controller.

With a controller, every button sits where it did on the PlayStation pad, and the left stick works as the D-pad too. Press the left stick to open the pause menu.

Two players

Tekken 3 is at its best against another person, and Nagori supports two controllers. Connect both and choose VS Mode to fight a friend on one screen. The touch controls hide while a controller is connected, so each player needs one.

Saves

Many of Tekken 3’s fighters are locked at the start and join the roster as you finish Arcade mode. The game keeps what you unlock on a memory card. In Nagori, each game has its own memory card, written every few seconds, so your roster is still there next time. On top of that:

• Quit any time. Leave in the middle of a match and Continue puts you back in the same round.
• Save states. Pause and choose Save before the last fights of an Arcade run. If you lose, Load and try again instead of starting the run over. Nagori keeps your last four saves per game.

Best settings

• Quality: High, the default, renders the fighters and stages at twice the original resolution.
• Quality: Low keeps the original resolution with sharp, unfiltered pixels, if you want the game exactly as it looked on the console.
• Precise Geometry, in Advanced Settings, steadies the slight wobble of PS1 polygons on the fighters and the stages.
• Screen Effects → CRT Screen adds scanlines, closer to the look of an arcade cabinet or a 1990s TV.