Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Playthrough of the version included on the SEGA Mega Drive Flashback. Performance wise, Shinobi III is one of the worst games on the Flashback, as in addition to the framerate issues it also suffers from a lot of slow down, making it more difficult to time jumps. I was amazed I only died once in this playthrough, and even more astounded that I didn't die in the Traps level. The one death I had was due to the controls not responding (more on that below) so I made a savestate at 45:41 -if the game was going to screw me over then I was totally up for save state spamming my way through the rest of the game. Thankfully I didn't have to do that.
The Flashback comes with two wireless six button controllers, but my advice is to not use them -they're terrible! They require two AAA batteries each, the battery compartments are screwed on, and the biggest problem is that the controllers can and will completely drop your inputs for a couple of seconds at random. Sometimes they can get stuck on a direction after you've let go of it, eg if you were pressing right and then let go, the controller will still think it's pressed on right for a second or more. I got really lucky with this playthrough as up until the very end the controller behaved itself. You can use original Mega Drive 6 buttons controllers, but I didn't have any available when I was recording these videos.
I would advise to not buy the Flashback, go for the Mega Drive Mini instead.
Playthrough of the version included on the SEGA Mega Drive Flashback. Performance wise, Shinobi III is one of the worst games on the Flashback, as in addition to the framerate issues it also suffers from a lot of slow down, making it more difficult to time jumps. I was amazed I only died once in this playthrough, and even more astounded that I didn't die in the Traps level. The one death I had was due to the controls not responding (more on that below) so I made a savestate at 45:41 -if the game was going to screw me over then I was totally up for save state spamming my way through the rest of the game. Thankfully I didn't have to do that.
The Flashback comes with two wireless six button controllers, but my advice is to not use them -they're terrible! They require two AAA batteries each, the battery compartments are screwed on, and the biggest problem is that the controllers can and will completely drop your inputs for a couple of seconds at random. Sometimes they can get stuck on a direction after you've let go of it, eg if you were pressing right and then let go, the controller will still think it's pressed on right for a second or more. I got really lucky with this playthrough as up until the very end the controller behaved itself. You can use original Mega Drive 6 buttons controllers, but I didn't have any available when I was recording these videos.
I would advise to not buy the Flashback, go for the Mega Drive Mini instead.
