Officially, Sega kept mum, but the hype continued to build through the rest of the year and into 1997. A port was inevitable - they just knew it - and rumors were already flying that such a port was well underway.

VF3, as it is commonly abbreviated, soon became the topic of much speculation among Saturn owners. Sega brought over some cabinets for display at that year's Electronics Consumer Trade Show in the U.S., and both vendors and gamers alike were wowed by what they saw. It immediately became the standard by which all comers were measured - partly due to the depth of its gameplay, and partly because the game's graphics (generated by the new Sega Model 3 board) shattered all previous records for polygon counts in a videogame. Virtua Fighter 3, the third incarnation of Yu Suzuki's groundbreaking 3D fighting game, first hit Japanese arcades on 10 September 1996.

Here's the scoop on this sucker, I think this was lifted off that Saturn SegaBase article: They must be off of a glitchy Model 3 or Dreamcast emulator, fo sho'. Many believe or are trying to pass these off as screen-shots of the mysterious, un-released Sega Saturn port of Virtua Fighter 3, but I seriously doubt it considering their clarity and similarity to the Model 3/Dreamcast versions.

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