Dynasty Warriors 3 Secrets (PS2)

Dynasty Warriors 3 is a Hack and slash video game developed by Omega Force and published by Koei. It is third in the Dynasty Warriors series in North America and the second in the Shin Sangokumusou series in Japan. It is a spin-off from the video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms and based around a series of books by the same name, written by Luo Guanzhong. It contains a number of fictional and non-fictional elements from the same era in Chinese history that Romance of the Three Kingdoms is set but follows the main events of part of the story which is to unify China under the single rule of a kingdom.

Dynasty Warriors 3 was the first in the series to introduce a two player mode and numerous other improvements over Dynasty Warriors 2. New stages, characters, weapons, attacks and music are introduced providing a completely new experience to a player that has played Dynasty Warriors 2 before. The gameplay engine and the graphics engine have also been updated, providing higher quality environments, textures and general overall graphics. Only one expansion was released for the game, Dynasty Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends and it was the first in the Xtreme Legends series. (Wikipedia)

Secrets

Begin the game with more characters
If you have/had the game ''Dynasty Warriors 2'' and you still have the saved game on your ps2 memory card, DW3 will directly detect the saved DW2 and add a few characters you had in it.

JP Secret Ending
Note: you may need to unlock enough characters before you can do this.

1. in the main menu go to Options.

2. in the option menu go to Opening Edit (bottom right choice)

3. in the opening edit menu highlight Play (2nd from the bottom choice)

Now do either 4a or 4b:

4a. press and hold L1 and R1.

4b. press and hold L2 and R2.

5. press circle to play, then you will see the secret ending!

Yellow Turban 2nd Wine and Dim Sum Trick
In the Yellow Turban stage there is an extra Fairy Wine and an extra Dim Sum Snack on the protruding ledges upon the castle wall. There is a trick to easily retrieve them.

Stand under the ledge where the urn is. Jump up and break the urn from under it. You will know you've broken the urn by the falling urn debris. Now save the game mid-way. Reload the save game. The Fairy Wine or Dim Sum Snack will now be at the ground level.

The history-based intro of the game: