After Burner Complete

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After Burner Complete
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Rutubo Games
System(s): Sega 32X
Original system(s): Sega X Board
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1995-01-13 ¥4,980 GM-4006 US 1995-01 $49.99 84507 UK 1995-01 £49.95 84507-50 FR 1995-01 ?F 84507-50 DE 1995-01 DM ? 84507-50 ES 1995-01 ?Ptas 84507-50
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After Burner Complete (アフターバーナー・コンプリート), known simply as After Burner in North America is an enhanced Sega 32X port of After Burner II, released in 1995 by Rutubo Games and Sega.

Gameplay

You pilot a fictional airplane called the SSF-14 fighter, using to descend and to climb it, like in a real fighter plane (although that can be changed in the options under "UP/DOWN"). Playing with a three-button controller and fire the vulcan guns, which have infinite ammunition; is used for missiles, which are limited to 50 at start but get replenished at certain points of the game. Six-button controllers are also supported, with which rolls, still shoot missiles, and fire the vulcan guns, sets the speed to low, speed middle and speed high.

There are 23 stages in all and upon reaching stages 5, 9, 13 and 19, allows you to continue the game from the respective stage, through a new option at the title screen.

History

During most of its development it was known as Super After Burner.

Similar to the 32X version of Space Harrier, After Burner Complete saw mixed reviews from the press, being seen as a simple port of an ageing arcade game which offered few improvements over the Sega Mega Drive version of After Burner II (released back in 1990).

Versions

After Burner Complete is extremely similar to the arcade release of After Burner II, with minor tweaks to make it more suited to a home console environment, and an options screen allowing for adjustments in difficulty and control schemes. But features slightly lower resolution sprites in places and runs at half the frame rate (30FPS vs. 60FPS).

It was the most accurate home version of After Burner at the time of release (bettered the following year by Sega Ages After Burner II on the Sega Saturn).

Production credits

• Reprogrammed by: Rutubo Games
• Programmers and Planners: Y.Kenji (Rutubo Games), K.Tsuneyoshi (Rutubo Games), M.Hashimoto (Rutubo Games), S.Mukaigashira (Rutubo Games), M.Mishima (Rutubo Games), T.Matsushima (Rutubo Games), T.Maeda (Rutubo Games)
• Special Thanks: H.Aso, K.Nagata, O.Sato, Y.Ohoka, S.Yonekura, H.Lee, K.Hayashida
• Presented by: Sega Enterprises Ltd.

Source: In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: After Burner Complete/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #43: "Abril 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication Score Source Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP) 92 №, p82 Weekly Famitsu (JP) 63 №318, p40 GameFan (US) 77 GamePro (US) 78 №68, p60 GamesMaster (UK) 50 №26, p45 No results 66 №77 Games World (UK) 81 №8, p16 Joypad (FR) 75 №41 MAN!AC (DE) 63 №2/95, p45 Mega (UK) 81 №27, p32/33 Mega Fun (DE) 51 №2/95, p105 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 53 №29, p88/89 Next Generation (US) 60 №2, p93 Player One (FR) 78 №52, p122 Sega Megazone (AU) 45 №48, p22 Sega Force (SE) 72 №3/95, p6/7 Sega Power (UK) 62 №64, p54 Sega Pro (UK) 84 №41, p61 Ultimate Future Games (UK) 51 №3, p86/87 Video Games (DE) 53 №2/95, p91 VideoGames (US) 70 №76, p76

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Based on 21 reviews

32X, US
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, EU
Cover
Cart

32X, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 204044C4 MD5 EC9529858CC7961B39F5382B2F657B8F SHA-1 9CF575FEB036E2F26E78350154D5EB2FD3825325	2MB		Cartridge (JP/US)
✔	CRC32 029106F5 MD5 A8E05BD3CDF97E1811EBD6D52C4371A7 SHA-1 C7D56CC75DC9A5206FDA6A080CBEDAE9F48C82BC	2MB		Cartridge (EU)

References

Games in the After Burner Series
	After Burner (1987) | After Burner II (home computers) (1987) | G-LOC: Air Battle (1990) | Strike Fighter (1991) | Sky Target (1995) | Sega Strike Fighter (2000) | After Burner Climax (2006)
	After Burner (1987) | G-LOC: Air Battle (1991)
	After Burner (1988)
	After Burner II (1990) | G-LOC: Air Battle (1993)
	G-LOC: Air Battle (1990)
	After Burner III (1992)
	After Burner Complete (1995)
	Sega Ages After Burner II (1996) | Sky Target (1997)
	Sky Target (1997)
	After Burner II (200x)
	Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 10: After Burner II (2004)
	After Burner: Black Falcon (2007)
	After Burner Climax (2010)
	3D After Burner II (2013)
	After Burner Climax (2013)
After Burner related media
	Sega Game Music Vol. 3 After Burner (1987) | After Burner (1990) | Strike Fighter (1991) | Yu Suzuki Produce After Burner II (1997) | Yu Suzuki Produce G-LOC/R360/Virtua Racing (1998) | After Burner Climax Sound Track (2006) | Retro Game Anthology #5 -AFTER BURNER in DREAM- (2007) | After Burner 20th Anniversary Box (2007) | After Burner II (2018)
	After Burner (1987) | After Burner / Super Hang-On (1987)