A few days ago, a Wii build of the canceled Star Wars: Battlefront 3 game from Free Radical was leaked online. However, that version was not playable without proper instructions and a certain dolphin build. But now, a small team created a build that you can download and play on PC with the Wii emulator, Dolphin.
To download this playable Wii build, you’ll have to head over to Free Radical Archive’s Discord. On its channel, you will immediately find the download link. I won’t be sharing a direct link as it will be a shame for the team. They deserve your follow.
Once you get the download link, you’ll see four files. The one you’ll have to download is Star Wars Battlefront 3 r2.91120a (Nov21st 2008).rvz. This is the main build of Star Wars Battlefront III dated November 21st, 2008. This is the latest known build and the most functional of the 2.
And that’s it. After downloading it, you can play it using Dolphin. Thus, you will be able to enjoy Free Radical’s canceled Star Wars: Battlefront 3 game. Pretty cool, right?
Now if you don’t want to go into all this trouble, you can simply watch the following video. The video shows off Mission 2 – The Battle of Coruscant. And, since it’s running on PC, you can enjoy it at 4K.
What’s really surprising is that there are proper cut-scenes. However, as you will see, there are a lot of visual issues and placeholder graphics. This shouldn’t surprise anyone though. After all, Free Radical Games never finished it.
And there you have it. This is what Star Wars: Battlefront 3 looked like before it was canned. And now you can play it yourselves.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Thats cool. How many levels/missions are in this? Like 2-3 or the whole game?
Seems like the Discord got deleted. I can't access it using that link.
I've updated the article with a new link, this should work now.
Thanks John! This is super cool and I can't wait to try it out.
Link does not work
Hello @ryankennethmoore:disqus & @disqus_HYNSsmnsiX:disqus and everyone reading this.
I've been in the Free Radical Archive Discord server since Nov. 2023, they posted the build on Hidden Palace (a website that has released so many pre-release builds of old games). Grab it from there.
Also, they posted it in an entirely separate channel called #faq-wii-build with long messages, they attached a certain .ini file (it's called RABAZZ.ini) that they say that you must put in "(dolphin folder name)SysGameSettings. If you do not do this, the game will not start!"
I wish if I could simply click on to copy the messages, but many of them contain external links that I can't post here because it's against DSOG's rules.
How cool to see a game without politics.
Those were the times!