Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution

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NAOMI 2 PlayStation 2
Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution
System(s): Sega NAOMI 2, Sega NAOMI 2 GD-ROM, PlayStation 2
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega-AM2
Genre: Fighting
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 2002 ¥? 840-0106C JP 2003-03-13 ¥6,800 (7,140)6,800 (7,140) SLPM-65270 US (Greatest Hits) 2003-08-12 $19.9919.99 SLUS-20616GH EU (Promo) 2003 JC-P51616-EU DE 2003-06-30 SLES-51616 INL-P51616-GE ES 2003-06-30 SLES-51616 INL-P51616-SP FR 2003-06-30 SLES-51616 INL-P51616-FR UK 2003-06-30 £39.9939.99 SLES-51616 INL-P51616-UK IT 2003 SLES-51616 INL-P51616-IT AU 2003-07-07 SLES-51616 INL-P51616-UK KR 200x SLKA-25043 KR (BigHit) 2008-04-17 SLKA-25188

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Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution (バーチャファイター４ エボリューション) is an updated version of Virtua Fighter 4, and was released for Sega NAOMI 2 arcade hardware in 2002. The NAOMI 2 release was available in both standard ROM board and GD-ROM forms.

It was subsequently brought to the PlayStation 2 a year later, curiously under Sony's "Greatest Hits" range, basing its record off the earlier Virtua Fighter 4 PS2 release.

Gameplay

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The game introduces two new characters; the Judoka-assassin, Goh Hinogami and the Muay Thai boxer, Brad Burns. Various other tweaks have also taken place - for example, Vanessa Lewis's alternate Muay Thai style from Virtua Fighter 4 has been removed, and replaced with a Vale Tudo "Offensive" style, making her a solely Vale Tudo brawler. Every stage has also been adjusted, for example, Lei-Fei's stage in Virtua Fighter 4 previously took place during sunset, but in Evolution it takes place during the morning.

• Improved Graphics: better anti-aliasing.
• New item store in Quest Mode.
• Currency system in Quest Mode.
• Opponent tracking log in Quest Mode: kept track of which opponents were fought in Quest Mode.
• Increased number of character items.
• Improved ranking system.
• Special gameplay modes (i.e. Hyper Fighter, See-Saw, Wrestler's, etc.).
• Emblem collecting: placed special incentive to defeat certain opponents or to avoid being defeated by certain opponents.
• New ring type: Semi-open/semi-walled.

Production credits

Arcade version

• Executive Producer: Hisashi Suzuki
• Executive Director: Yu Suzuki
• Coordinator: Hiroshi Kataoka, Noriyuki Shimoda
• Supervisor: Toru Ikebuchi
• Game Director: Daichi Katagiri
• Main Programmer: Tetsuya Sugimoto
• Main Designer / Stage Design: Munekazu Makino

Program

• Programmer: Susumu Morii, Syuji Takahashi, Masataka Daigo, Shinji Ohshima, Yohsuke Takeda, Dai Matsuzaki, Shigeru Yoshida, Ryo Sato

Character Design

• Character Name
  • Goh Hinegami: Jun Kubota (iceman)
  • Brad Burns: Hiroaki Ota

Item Team

• Item Director: Tomonori Shiino
• Item Designer: Nobuhiko Kosuge, Chizuka Tamehira, Makio Kida, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Ringo Manabe, Mitsugu Tsuchida, Tetsunari Iwasaki

2D Design

• 2D Designer: Masatomo Suzuki

Emblem Design

• Emblem Designer: Kenji Miyawaki, Masaya Saida, Erika Aihara

Plan

• Planner: Hiroshi Masui

Motion

• Motion Director: Kouji Kudou
• Motion Designer: Toshiyuki Ohashi, Akio Murakawa, Makoto Koizumi, Hajime Itou, Kousuke Sasaki, Masato Nakamura, Masanori Chida, [NOVA Inc.] Kazuaki Kitazawa
• Motion Capture Team: Hans Van Veenendaal, Takeo Iwata

Motion Actor

• Katsugekizawa: Wataru Koga, Naoyasu Achi, Kazuhiro Sinyako
• Stunts Astyn: Motoki Kawana, Akira Sugihara, Yoshio Miyaki

Game System Regulator

• Game System Regulator: Masaharu Terabata, Tetsuji Sugahara, Junji Ogahara, Yo Momotani

Sound

• Sound Creators: Fumio Ito, Shinichi Goto, Sachio Ogawa, Keisuke Tsukahara, Naoyuki Machida, Yasuhiro Takagi, Tatsutoshi Narita
• Guitar Player: Tomoya Koga
• Character Voice: Shinichirou Miki, Mahito Tsujimura, Minami Takayaka, Shigeru Chiba, Nina Kumagaya, Takahiro Sakurai, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Toshihiko Seki, Eric Kelso, Jeff Manning, Dennis Gun, Donna Burke, Ryan Drees, Lisle Wilkerson, Bill Sullivan

VF.NET

• VF.NET Team: Yusuke Shimizu, Hideo Gunji, Koki Koiwa, Kazuhiro Shigekuni, Shinji Okuma, Yasuyuki Komiya, Chika Torii, Shuhei Nakayama, Hiroshi Tsurusaki, Wataru Nakanishi, Kei Terui

Publicity

• Publicity: Taku Kihara, Sayoko Nishino, Masayuki Kato

Special Thanks

• Special Thanks: Kazfumi Ohhashi, Susumu Aketagawa, Magic Capsule Co., Ltd., Virtua Fighter 4 original staff, NAOMI by Hardware R&D Dept.
• Presented by: Sega
• Created by: Sega-AM2

Original Game ©Sega ©Sega-AM2/Sega,2001,2002

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In-game credits

PlayStation 2 version

• Producer: Hiroshi Kataoka
• Director: Noriyuki Shimoda
• Art Director: Satoshi Fujinuma

Programmer

• Arcade Portion
  • Program Director: Toru Kujirai
  • Main programmer: Masanori Sato
  • Programmer: Hajime Take, Hajime Iwamoto, Hitoshi Iizawa, Takuya Nagayasu
• Original Portion
  • Main programmer: Tetsuya Sugimoto
  • Programmer: Shinji Ohshima, Yohsuke Takeda, Ryo Sato, Kenichirou Tabata

Designers

• Art Director: Satoshi Fujinuma
• Characters & Items: Chizuka Tamehira, Genta Takahashi, Hiroaki Ota, Kozue Suzuki, Nobuhiko Kosuge, Masayuki Takahashi, Ringo Manabe
• Stages & Effects: Seiji Aoki, Yuichi Matsui
• 2D Graphics: Kazuya Suzuki, Masatomo Suzuki
• Design Supervisor: Youji Kato
• Planners: Daichi Katagiri, Hiroshi Masui, Tomonori Shino, Kouji Kudou, Masato Nakamura, Yo Momotani, Masaharu Terabata, Masanori Chida
• Sound Creators: Fumio Ito, Shinichi Goto, Naoyuki Machida, Tatsutoshi Narita
• Guitar Player: Tomoya Koga
• Player Database: Dai Matsuzaki
• Test Team: Yuichi Taniguchi, Naoto Tomita, Tsutomu Morohashi, Hisashi Arima, Masataka Arai
• Visual Editng: Naonori Watanabe, Hidekuni Ohta
• Publicity: Taku Kihara, Masayuki Kato
• Publicity Design: Sayoko Nishino
• Replay Data: Bunbun-Maru, Chibita, Hideto Sugawara, Hiromiki Kumada, Hiroshi Nakamichi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kazuki Tokunaga, Kurita, Kyasao, Masahide Hiroike, Masaki Takamatsu, Ohsu Akira, Rei Hase, Segirl, Wakao Nakamura, Yasuyuki Yamada, Yo-ro-, Yousuke Fukazawa
• Special Thanks: Enterbrain, Inc., Sega Amusement Co., CRI Middleware Co. Ltd., Joji Morikawa, Keisuke Chiwata, Kenji Furukawa, Jun Kubota (iceman), Kazuaki Kitazawa (Nova Inc.), Akio Murakawa, Hajime Itou, Junji Ogihara, Kousuke Sasaki, Makoto Koizumi, Tetsuji Sugawara, Toshiyuki Ohashi, Erika Aihara, Hans Van Venendal, Keisuke Tsukahara, Kenji Miyawaki, Masataka Daigo, Masaya Saida, Mitsugu Tsuchida, Munekazu Makino, Sachio Ogawa, Shigeru Yoshida, Susumu Morii, Syuji Takahashi, Takeo Iwata, Tetsunari Iwasaki, Yasuhiro Takagi, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Ryujirou Ota, Takami Shibasaki, Yusuke Shimizu, Hideo Gunji, Koki Koiwa, Kazuhiro Shigekuni, Shinji Okuma, Yasuyuki Komiya, Chika Torii, Shunei Nakayama, Hiroshi Tsurusaki, Wataru Nakanishi, Kei Terui, TR Department
• Supervisor: Toru Ikebuchi
• Executive Director: Yu Suzuki
• Executive Producer: Hisashi Suzuki
• Created by: Sega-AM2
• Presented by: Sega

Original Game ©Sega ©Sega-AM2/Sega,2001,2003

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In-game credits (JP)

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SEGA OF AMERICA, INC.

• Executive Vice President: Shinobu Toyoda
• Vice President - Marketing: Mike Fisher
• Product Manager: Noah Musler
• Localization Producer: Osamu Shibamiya
• Test Lead: Shawn Dobbins
• Senior Media Specialist: Teri Higgins
• Creative Services Manager: Arianne McCarthy
• Package Design: Vicki Morawietz
• Special Thanks: Bryan Burk - Translation Services, Ken Natsuhara, Klay Vorlick, Jason Kuo, Yosuke Moriya

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US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #168: "July 2003" (2003-06-03)

Merchandise

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  QUO Card

Physical scans

NAOMI 2 version

NAOMI 2, JP
Cart

NAOMI 2 GD-ROM, JP (Revision A)

NAOMI 2 GD-ROM, JP (Revision B)
"Long" instructions
Disc

PlayStation 2 version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Computer & Video Games (UK) 93 GameNOW (US) 100 September 2003, p53 Game Informer (US) 90 August 2003, p86 75 August 2003, p7

	90
Based on 4 reviews

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Consoles + (FR) NTSC-J 95 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 95 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 93 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 93 Hyper (AU) PAL 92 PlayStation 2 Official Magazine - UK (UK) PAL 80 PSM (US) NTSC-U 100 Virtual'nyye radosti (BY) 90

	92
Based on 8 reviews

Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution

PlayStation 2, US (Greatest Hits)
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Disc Manual

PlayStation 2, JP
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PlayStation 2, EU (Promo)
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PlayStation 2, UK
Cover
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PlayStation 2, FR
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PlayStation 2, DE
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PlayStation 2, ES
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, IT
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PlayStation 2, AU
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PlayStation 2, KR
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PlayStation 2, KR (Big Hit)
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 de98c574 MD5 f134f40f81ba1a53751aae8ba913ab54 SHA-1 4db383186146a5cea69d05821860f33cabfaccaf	1,851,654,144		DVD-ROM (EU)	SLES-51616 (V1.00)
✔	CRC32 28e0d826 MD5 0f23792d1dd0cded72b837a9d66646e0 SHA-1 a906a1236084a8bc306edfda06ea0c066ed8edee	1,238,695,936		DVD-ROM (JP)	SLPM-65270 (V1.00)
?	CRC32 8eff0759 MD5 f416a04771f71e4a3cd543d908361657 SHA-1 8db936701494a299118ff87d3c31e83ff407d7ea	1,564,114,944		DVD-ROM (KR)	SLKA-25043 (V1.02)
?	CRC32 4f5175bf MD5 46fbdccbe61654218d3c0a944591a56c SHA-1 e818cf52f50288240a866016825d513721cfb4f0	1,558,740,992		DVD-ROM (US)	SLUS-20616GH (V1.02)
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		2003-05-22	DVD-R				Page

External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Arcade, PlayStation 2
• Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution on PlayStation.com: JP, US, KR (Big Hit)