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Revision as of 11:44, 18 January 2019
| Gale Racer | ||||||||||
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| System(s): Sega Saturn | ||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||
Developer: Sega AM1  | ||||||||||
| Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (16 tracks) | ||||||||||
| Peripherals supported: Arcade Racer Joystick | ||||||||||
| Genre: Racing | ||||||||||
| Number of players: 1-2 | ||||||||||
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Gale Racer (ゲイルレーサー) is a conversion of the 1991 Sega System 32 arcade game Rad Mobile for the Sega Saturn. It was released exclusively in Japan in December 1994 as the first racing game for the system.
Contents
Gameplay
Gale Racer shares similar gameplay to Rad Mobile, with the player driving eastwards across America against rival cars against a strict time limit. There are, however, a number of graphical and technical changes to better suit the Saturn's hardware, and rather than one continuous journey, "areas" are split up by loading screens. There are also 23 rival cars, as opposed to the arcade's 14.
Gale Racer has the player drive a completely different vehicle to Rad Mobile, and renders all the rivals as polygons, rather than resized sprites. Similarly to Rad Mobile, a Sonic the Hedgehog "mascot" hangs from the car's ceiling (resembling his look in Sonic the Hedgehog 3), however others from the Sonic series are available, including the first home sightings of Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel.
However, despite being a port of a then-three-year-old game (for arcade hardware that had been retired), Gale Racer is noticeably scaled back over its arcade counterpart, running at half the frame rate with lower draw distances, and less detailed "textures" for the road and scenery. The breaking up of areas means stage transitions no longer exist, and the road is always the same colour. The physics of the mascot are also simplified, always swinging and rotating at the same rate regardless of what is happening in-game.
There are also no exploding police officers when the player finishes first.
Production credits
- Producer: Youji Ishii, Yutaka Sugano
- Director: Tomohiro Kondo
- Game Designer: Koji Iwashita
- Graphic Designer: Takashi Thomas Yuda, Keiichi Matate, Makiko Banju
- Program: Toru Asato, Shiori Hongo, Kaoru Aota, Akio Ujino, Yumiko Hide
- Computer Graphics: Count Zero
- Design: Ginji Sabano, Shin Kato, Makiko Ozawa, Sozi Kano
- Sound: Yoshito Kida
- Adviser: Manabu Ishihara
- Special Thanks To: Kazuhiko Nagai, Yoshio Inoue, Jill Alexander, Daisuke Teraguchi
Track list
| 1. [data track] |
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| 2. Invitation Card (01:05) |
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| From: Advertise |
| 3. Gale Racer (01:58) |
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| From: Opening Movie |
| 4. Just the Thing (02:11) |
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| From: Course 1-1, 6-4 |
| 5. On the Horizon (02:49) |
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| From: Course 1-2, 2-2, 3-3, 5-2, 6-2 |
| 6. Midnight Illusion (01:59) |
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| From: Course 3-2, 4-1, 6-1 |
| 7. Mountain Storm (01:56) |
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| From: Course 2-3 |
| 8. Flushing Beat (02:17) |
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| From: Course 2-1, 3-1, 4-2 |
| 9. Darkest Time (01:50) |
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| From: Course 5-1 |
| 10. Radmobile Theme (00:19) |
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| From: Reslut |
| 11. Battle Attack (01:38) |
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| From: Course 1-3, 3-4, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3 |
| 12. Stillness (01:10) |
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| From: Mode Select |
| 13. Game Over (00:24) |
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| From: Continue |
| 14. V.S. End (00:16) |
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| From: 2Players V.S Ending |
| 15. End In Defeat (01:20) |
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| From: Bad Ending |
| 16. The Glory (02:03) |
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| From: True Ending |
| 17. Twilight of the Goddess (01:43) |
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| From: Staff Roll |
Magazine articles
- Main article: Gale Racer/Magazine articles.
Physical scans
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 Spinecard  Disc  Manual |
Technical information
ROM dump status
| System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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460,380,480 | 1994-11-09 | CD-ROM (JP) | GS-9003 V1.000 |
External links
- Sega of Japan catalogue page (Japanese): Sega Saturn
References
- ↑ File:Galeracer_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Consoles +, "Janvier 1995" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 148
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Computer & Video Games, "February 1995" (UK; 1995-01-15), page 34
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Joypad, "Février 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 56
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mean Machines Sega, "February 1995" (UK; 1994-12-30), page 52
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Saturn no Game wa Sekai Ichi~i~i~i!: Satamaga Dokusha Race Zen Kiroku, SoftBank Publishing, page 16 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name ":File:SnGwSISDRZK Book JP.pdf_p16" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Ultimate Future Games, "February 1995" (UK; 1995-01-01), page 105
- ↑ Excalibur, "" (CZ; 1995-08-01), page 1
- ↑ Famitsu, "1994-12-23" (JP; 1994-12-09), page 1
- ↑ MAN!AC, "03/95" (DE; 1995-02-08), page 36
- ↑ Mega Force, "Janvier 1995" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 86
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 February" (JP; 1995-01-07), page 32
- ↑ Sega Pro, "February 1995" (UK; 1994-12-29), page 22
- ↑ Ultimate Future Games, "February 1995" (UK; 1995-01-01), page 109
- ↑ Última Generación, "Marzo 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 72
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