You might be thinking of Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta and Super Saiyan 3 Broli, which were added to Dragon Battlers pre-Dragon Ball Heroes (alongside Raging Blast 2, which we also cover in at least one of those news posts).Cipher wrote:Do any Heroes historians know what the first non-"canon" transformation added to the card-line/arcade game was? Relevant to the in-progress Kanzenshuu Wiki. I want to say it was Super Saiyan Bardock, but I feel like there might have been a game-only Super Saiyan 3 somewhere beforehand. If you know the actual card and set number, that would be helpful too.
Trying to lay out distinctions for which characters the series does and does not distinguish with the "Xeno" suffix (which is somewhat arbitrary, but generally appears to apply to characters with histories unique to the game but who have main series counterparts, and for whom the distinction isn't simply a game-only transformation).
The earliest Heroes new, non-canonical Super Saiyan 3 transformation I can remember was Super Saiyan 3 Trunks. Don't have a link handy for that (I'm not sure we explicitly covered it?), but here's a Super Saiyan 3 Gogeta post in June 2012 noting Trunks from a year prior. I remember he was shown off in one of the PVs/openings for an update...?
As for Bardock, all the hints began in June 2011, leading up to Episode of Bardock and the "Special Selection DVD" and the actual Heroes stuff in the subsequent months.
So maybe Trunks...?