Lunar Silver Star Story

For the Mega-CD version, see Lunar: The Silver Star.

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Lunar Silver Star Story

System(s): Sega Saturn

Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten

Developer: Game Arts, JAM

Supporting companies: Gonzo (animation), Kusanagi (background art)

Licensor: Game Arts

Original system(s): Sega Mega-CD

Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (2 tracks)

Peripherals supported: Saturn Backup Memory, Video CD Card (Complete)

Genre: RPG^[1]^[2]

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1996-10-25^[2]	¥6,800 (7,004)6,800e^[3]	T-27901G
JP (Complete)	1997-07-04^[4]	¥6,800 (7,140)6,800e^[5]	T-27904G

Non-Sega versions

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Lunar Silver Star Story (ルナシルバースターストーリー) is a role-playing game released by Game Arts in 1996. It is a remake of the Mega-CD game Lunar: The Silver Star. It was first released on the Sega Saturn exclusively in Japan before receiving a Japanese and North American release on the PlayStation. It had a sequel, Lunar 2: Eternal Blue, released in 1998.

An improved version called Complete or MPEG-Ban (ルナシルバースターストーリーＭＰＥＧ版) was released later.

History

Release

The Saturn version sold 115,343 units during its first week on sale in 1996 and went on to sell 200,035 units in Japan overall as of April 1999.^[6]

Working Designs had planned to localise this game for the North American market as Lunar: Director's Cut (with a planned release date of March 1997^[7]), but while featuring in some form at E3 1997, this version was not released.

Versions

The Saturn and PlayStation versions of Lunar Silver Star Story are broadly the same, however without the Video CD Card, all full motion videos in the Saturn version are played at a lower resolution than on the PlayStation. With the Video CD card, the roles are reversed.

Being released a two years later later in late 1998, the PlayStation version offers a number of minor enhancements over its Saturn counterpart, including shorter loading times and minor changes to graphics and audio (the logo, for example, has a strip of silver on the PlayStation). In the US, the PlayStation version refers to itself as Lunar Silver Star Story Complete, presumably to highlight the enhancements, though from a gameplay perspective is not thought to be any more "complete" than the Saturn original.

Production credits

Cast

Alex: Akira Ishida
Luna: Kyoko Hikami
Nall: Junko Hagimori
Ramus: Yasuhiro Takato
Nash: Daisuke Sakaguchi
Mia: Yoko Asada
Jessica: Haruna Ikezawa
Killy: Tomokazu Seki
Temujin: Yasunori Masutani
Xenobia/Remilia: Aya Hara
Phacia/Pilya: Sakura Tange
Royce: Machiko Toyoshima
Laike/Dyne: Akio Otsuka
Ghaleon: Kiyoyuki Yanada
Fidy/Mel/Myght: Yusaku Yara
Producer: Youichi Miyaji
Scenario Director: Kei Shigema
Director of Event Movie: Toshiyuki Kubooka
Screen Play Director: Toshio Akashi (Ikusabune)
Game Director: Masaaki Ando (Japan Art Media)

Scenario Staff

Original Story: Studio Alex
Story: Kei Shigema, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Toshio Akashi, Takashi Hino
Main Game Scenario: Ryoushirou Hasukawa (Tenpu)
Game Scenario: Ryoushirou Hasukawa (Tenpu), Daisuke Tazawa, Takahiro Hasebe, Kei Shigema
Image Board: Hajime Sato

Game Staff

Game Design: Japan Art Media
Main Programmer: Shigeyuki Sata
Battle Programmer: Masaaki Ando, Tsuyoshi Tanaka
System Programmer: Miyuki Inoue
Music Programmer: Tsuyoshi Tanaka
System Design: Tomonori Sugiyama (Vanguard), Shin Ito (Vanguard)
Battle Balance: Go Sugiyama (Vanguard), Toru Yamazaki (Vanguard)
Trap Design: Tomonori Sugiyama (Vanguard), Kazuhiro Ohtahara (Vanguard)
Text: Mitsuru Takahashi, Shigeyuki Sata
Character Demonstration: Mitsuru Takahashi, Shigeyuki Sata, Masaaki Ando
Map Designer: Junichi Kamiya, Ryuichi Nawamura, Hidenori Sato, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Kyosuke Naito, Shinichi Shibazaki, Kouzi Shinozaki, Junichi Kashiwagi, Masaki Kurosawa, Erika Kame (Neverland)
Battle Map Designer: Ryuichi Nawamura, Kazumitsu Bokuzen
Character Graphic: Naoko Sakurada, Daisuke Ito, Hirohisa Suzuki, Sachiko Yokose, Toshimasa Fukuyama

Animation Staff

Storyboard/Character Design: Toshiyuki Kubooka
Key Animation Supervisor: Takeshi Honda, Masami Ozone, Moriyuki Matsutane, Keiichi Sato, Mahiro Maeda, Toshiyuki Kubooka
Animater: Tomohiro Hirata, Masami Ozone, Shoichi Masuo, Kunihiro Abe, Masahiko Okura, Hiroko Yoshizawa, Hiroaki Gouda, Yasushi Shingo, Tatsuo Yamada, Susumu Yamaguchi, Junichi Hayama, Koji Sugiura, Michinori Chiba, Tomohiro Kawahara, Ritsuko Watanabe, Takaaki Fukuyo, Toshiharu Murata, Noriyuki Matsutane, Akeri Funato, Takeshi Honda, Mahiro Maeda, Toshiyuki Kubooka
Inbetween Checker: Tomoyuki Hou, Sachiyo Hiraide, Sachiko Kobayashi
Inbetweeners Thanks to: Triangle Staff, Oh! Production, Wonbat, Studio Takuranke, Zero G Room, Studio Live, Dangun Pictures, Whisky Studio, Liberty, Line, Production I.G, Denki Gonzo
Character Color Designer: Waka Mizuho
Scan/Paint/2D Rendered: Raretrick, Jitensha, Daumu, Takahashi Production, T-2 studio, Tokyo Kids, Visual Work Shop, OLM, Denki Gonzo
Art Director: Masanori Kikuchi
Background Artists: Kusanagi, Studio Uni
2D Digital Effect: Tudo Koubo, Big X
3D C.G.: Toshio Akashi, Taku Sakuragawa, Hidenori Tanaka, Kenichi Iwaida
CGI: Denki Gonzo
Publicity Poster Thanks to:
Animation Director: Keiichi Sugiyama
Assistant Producer: Keiichi Kitada, Kazuki Tsunoda, Koji Nakano
Animation Producer: Shoji Murahama
Cinepak Data Creation: Sega Digital Studio
Animation Production: Gonzo

Face Windows Staff

Illustrator: Takeshi Mori
Graphicker: Waka Mizuho

Battle Mode Background Art Staff

Illustrator: Umanosuke Iida
Background Artists: Kazuo Ogura, Yuji Kihara, Yoji Nakaza, Nobuhito Sue, Kusanagi

Music Staff

Sound Producer: Isao Mizoguchi (Two Five)
Music: Noriyuki Iwadare (Two Five)
Sound Effect: Yasuyuki Konno (Swara Production), Sanae Kasahara (Two Five)

Debugging Staff

Chief Debugger:
Test Player:
Title Logo Designer:
Supervisor:
Special Thanks to:
Kadokawa Shoten Staff:
Executive Producer: Tsuguhiko Kadokawa

Magazine articles

Main article: Lunar Silver Star Story/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Flyer (complete)

Print advert in (JP) #1996-10: "1996-10 (1996-06-28)" (1996-06-14)

Print advert in (JP) #1996-18: "1996-18 (1996-10-25)" (1996-10-11)

Print advert in (JP) #1996-19: "1996-19 (1996-11-08)" (1996-10-25)

Print advert in (JP) #1997-13: "1997-13 (1997-04-25)" (1997-04-11)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

(FR)

NTSC-J

92

^[8]

(JP)

NTSC-J

63

^[9]

(JP)

NTSC-J

63

^[10]

(FR)

NTSC-J

100

^[11]

(JP)

NTSC-J

74

^[12]

(JP)

NTSC-J

80

^[13]

(UK)

NTSC-J

94

^[14]

(JP)

NTSC-J

77

^[15]

(JP)

NTSC-J

90

^[16]

(JP)

NTSC-J

94

^[17]

	83
Based on 10 reviews

Lunar Silver Star Story

Saturn, JP
Cover
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Saturn, JP (Complete)
Cover
Spinecard Disc

Technical information

Main article: Lunar Silver Star Story/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

648,716,880

1996-09-30

CD-ROM (JP)

T-27901G V1.05

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

603,384,432

1997-05-27

CD-ROM (JP)

T-27904G V1.00

Track list

T-27901G

1. Data track

2. (Music 01) (2:27)

3. CD Warning message (special) (0:09)

► Running time: 2:36

T-27904G (Complete)

1. Data track

2. Data track

3. (Music 01) (2:27)

4. CD Warning message (special) (0:09)

► Running time: 2:36

Extra content

T-27901G

This game has extra content which can be viewed when accessing the disc on a PC.

Saturn (JP) Extra files
Folder / File	Type	Size	description
\TEXT\AR_BOOK.TXT	TXT	25,089	Post recording sctipt.

T-27904G (Complete)

This game has extra content which can be viewed when accessing the disc on a PC.

Saturn (JP) Extra files
Folder / File	Type	Size	description
ABSTRACT.TXT	TXT (Abstract)	35	Title
AR_BOOK.TXT	TXT	25,089	Post recording sctipt.
BIB.TXT	TXT (Bibliographiced)	4	No message
CPYRIGHT.TXT	TXT (Copyright)	100	Copyright

References

↑ File:LunarSSS Saturn JP Box Back.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ss/soft_licensee2.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-20 23:05)
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-10 (1996-06-28)" (JP; 1996-06-14), page 14
↑ https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ss/soft_licensee3.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-07-28 12:30)
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1997-13 (1997-04-25)" (JP; 1997-04-11), page 8
↑ htt (Wayback Machine: 2008-12-30 00:53)
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 140
↑ Consoles +, "Janvier 1997" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 94
↑ Famitsu, "1996-11-01" (JP; 1996-10-18), page 1
↑ Famitsu, "1997-07-11" (JP; 1997-06-27), page 1
↑ Joypad, "Décembre 1996" (FR; 1996-1x-xx), page 86
↑ Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 22" (JP; 1996-10-18), page 193
↑ Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 25" (JP; 1996-11-29), page 70
↑ Sega Power, "January 1997" (UK; 1996-12-19), page 59
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-19 (1996-11-08)" (JP; 1996-10-25), page 230
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 11
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 10

Lunar Silver Star Story

Main page | Comparisons | Maps | Magazine articles | Reception

Books: (1996) | (1997)

Demos: Lunar Silver Star Story Hibaihin Auto Demo (1997)

Lunar games for Sega systems
	Lunar: The Silver Star (1992) \| Lunar: Eternal Blue (1994)
	Lunar Silver Star Story (1996) \| Mahou Gakuen Lunar! (1997) \| Lunar 2 Eternal Blue (1998)
	Lunar: Sanpo-suru Gakuen (1996)
Sampler Discs
Lunar: Eternal Blue Hibaihin Auto Demo (1994)
Lunar Silver Star Story Hibaihin Auto Demo (1997)
Lunar related media
	(1992) \| (1992) \| (1994) \| (1995) \| (1995) \| (1996) \| (1997) \| (1997) \| (1998) \| (1998)

[:File:LunarSSS_Saturn_JP_Box_Back.jpg_p-1] File:LunarSSS Saturn JP Box Back.jpg

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[:File:SSM_JP_19960628_1996-10.pdf_p14-3] Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-10 (1996-06-28)" (JP; 1996-06-14), page 14

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20190728123006.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Ffb.2Fsegahard.2Fss.2Fsoft_licensee3.html-4] ttps://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ss/soft_licensee3.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-07-28 12:30)

[:File:SSM_JP_19970425_1997-13.pdf_p8-5] Sega Saturn Magazine, "1997-13 (1997-04-25)" (JP; 1997-04-11), page 8

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[:File:EGM_US_088.pdf_p140-7] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 140

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_061.pdf_p94-8] Consoles +, "Janvier 1997" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 94

[9] Famitsu, "1996-11-01" (JP; 1996-10-18), page 1

[10] Famitsu, "1997-07-11" (JP; 1997-06-27), page 1

[:File:Joypad_FR_059.pdf_p86-11] Joypad, "Décembre 1996" (FR; 1996-1x-xx), page 86

[:File:SaturnFan_JP_1996-22_19961101.pdf_p193-12] Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 22" (JP; 1996-10-18), page 193

[:File:SaturnFan_JP_1996-25_19961213.pdf_p70-13] Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 25" (JP; 1996-11-29), page 70

[:File:SegaPower_UK_88.pdf_p59-14] Sega Power, "January 1997" (UK; 1996-12-19), page 59

[:File:SSM_JP_19961108_1996-19.pdf_p230-15] Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-19 (1996-11-08)" (JP; 1996-10-25), page 230

[:File:SnGwSISDRZK_Book_JP.pdf_p11-16] Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 11

[:File:SnGwSISDRZK_Book_JP.pdf_p10-17] Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 10

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Contents

History

Release

Versions

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

Track list

T-27901G

T-27904G (Complete)

Extra content

T-27901G

T-27904G (Complete)

References