High Seas Havoc

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High Seas Havoc

System(s): Sega Mega Drive-based arcade hardware, Sega Mega Drive

Publisher: Data East (JP/US), Codemasters (EU)

Developer: Data East

Sound driver: Data East/High Seas Havoc

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1993-05	¥?	?

JP	1994-04-22	¥6,800	T-13103
US	1994-01^[1]	$54.99^[1]	T-13076
UK	1994	£?	T-120035
FR	1994	?F	T-120035
DE	1994	DM ?	T-120035
ES	1994	?Ptas	T-120035
PT	1994	?PTE$	MDJ14020
AU	1994	$99.95^[2]	FHAV00SMC

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High Seas Havoc, known as Captain Lang (キャプテンラング) in Japan and just Havoc in Europe, is a platform game developed by Data East for the Sega Mega Drive in 1993. An upgraded version of the game was also released exclusively in South Korea, for a bespoke Data East-made arcade board based on the Mega Drive in the same year. Interestingly the PCB ID is "DE-0407-2" which might suggest there is another unknown Mega Drive based board out there.

Gameplay

In the game you play as an anthropomorphic seal named Havoc (Lang in the Japanese version) on a quest to rescue a girl named Bridget from the evil pirate Bernardo. All controller buttons are treated the same. Pressing once jumps. Pressing while in midair does a spin attack. Pressing while crouching (hold ) lunges forward in a roll. Jumping on enemies destroys them and jumping on treasure chests opens them.

Versions

The first stage "Cape Sealph" has been removed for the PAL version, which starts with the second stage "Pirate Ship". The data is still on the ROM however, and can be accessed using cheating devices.

Localised names

Also known as
Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Havoc	Havoc
English (US)	High Seas Havoc	High Seas Havoc
Japanese	キャプテンラング	Captain Lang

Production credits

Game Designed by: 大谷明
Logic Designed by: 松田康弘, 藤丸博康
Character Designed by: 佐藤睦典
Visual Designed by: 新谷恵, 児玉陽一
Music Composed by: 清水絵美
SE and Music Composed by: 是政
Special Thanks to: Masato Noguchi, Steve Miller, Yasuro Koideya, Hisatada Ohta, Eisuke Tsuzawa, Syuji Ishimaki, Manabu Yokoi, Yukie Shiraiwa, Ayumi Kitazawa, Mari Matsuzaka, Konoa, Data East USA, Inc.

Data East Corporation

Source: In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: High Seas Havoc/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #52: "November 1993" (1993-xx-xx)
also published in:

Game Players (US) #0612: "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (1993-xx-xx)^[3]

PDF

Print advert in GamePro (US) #57: "April 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

PDF

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0904: "Vol. 9 No. 4 April 1996" (1996-03-19)
also published in:

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #81: "April 1996" (1996-xx-xx)^[4]

Photo gallery

PCB

Arcade PCB (top)

Arcade PCB (bottom)

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average

Publication	Score	Source
Beep! MegaDrive (JP)	50	№1994-04, p18^[5]
Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP)	63	№, p85^[6]
Consoles + (FR)	89	№35, p120^[7]
Computer & Video Games (UK)	60	№151, p100^[8]
Game Players (US)	73
GamePro (US)	80	№55, p58^[1]
GamesMaster (UK)	60	№16, p50/51
Hippon Super (JP)	30	№1994-06, p63
Joypad (FR)	90	№33, p38^[9]
Mega (UK)	66	№19, p39^[10]
MegaTech (UK)	38	№28, p62/63
Mean Machines Sega (UK)	64	№19, p70-72^[11]
Player One (FR)	86	№45, p86/87
Sega Power (UK)	62	№53, p42/43
Sega Pro (UK)	68	№31, p62/63
SuperGamePower (BR)	90	№1, p30/31^[12]

	67
Based on 16 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart File:High Seas Havoc MD US Manual.pdf Manual

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, AU
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, AU (missing stickers)
Cover

Mega Drive, UK

Mega Drive, FR
Cover

Mega Drive, DE
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	17be551c
MD5	5479601228fd14fefbd1d1fd5fceebed
SHA-1	0dc1969098716ba332978b89356f62961417682b

1MB

1993-09

Cartridge (US)

✔

CRC32	76e6d20d
MD5	232874913a8c74deecb24145d60917aa
SHA-1	6e0344aace03b703cb05a9a0e10c47ebe404a247

1MB

1994-03

Cartridge (EU)

✔

CRC32	61ba8199
MD5	c2aa79a9bdfccf691ff07b9fc0e34355
SHA-1	7c305a4b8cc220f5321eac80ea3fc104a9f5897a

1MB

1993-12

Cartridge (JP)

External links

References

[:File:GamePro_US_055.pdf_p60-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 File:GamePro US 055.pdf, page 60

[:File:Gamestar_AU_05.pdf_p76-2] File:Gamestar AU 05.pdf, page 76

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0612.pdf_p85-3] File:GamePlayers US 0612.pdf, page 85

[:File:EGM_US_081.pdf_p117-4] File:EGM US 081.pdf, page 117

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1994-04.pdf_p20-5] File:BeepMD_JP_1994-04.pdf, page 20

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-6] File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 87

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_035.pdf_p120-7] File:ConsolesPlus FR 035.pdf, page 120

[:File:CVG_UK_151.pdf_p100-8] File:CVG UK 151.pdf, page 100

[:File:Joypad_FR_033.pdf_p38-9] File:Joypad FR 033.pdf, page 38

[:File:Mega_UK_19.pdf_p39-10] File:Mega UK 19.pdf, page 39

[:File:MeanMachinesSega19UK.pdf_p71-11] File:MeanMachinesSega19UK.pdf, page 71

[:File:SuperGamePower_BR_001.pdf_p30-12] File:SuperGamePower BR 001.pdf, page 30

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High Seas Havoc

From Sega Retro

Contents

Gameplay

Versions

Localised names

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Photo gallery

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References