Resident Evil

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Resident Evil
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Capcom
Developer:
Developer(s) of original games: Capcom
Sound driver: SCSP (1Track)
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Saturn
JP
¥4,8004,800 T-1219G
Sega Saturn
US
$49.9949.99 T-1221H
Sega Saturn
EU
MK81092-50
Sega Saturn
BR
191386

Resident Evil, known as Biohazard (バイオハザード) in Japan, is the first in a long line of survival horror games developed and published by Capcom. It was ported to the Sega Saturn by Nextech in 1997, with some members of Sega's team. Nextech would later return to develop Resident Evil CODE:Veronica for Capcom, and consequently were involved in the production of each of its spinoff games and ports.

The Saturn version includes an extra "battle mode" option, not present in other ports of the game, which has the player attempt to survive through rooms of monsters with both limited ammo and limited time. The Sega Saturn Port also includes a few extra enemy encounters such as a Second T-002 Tyrant that breaks out directly after the one Wesker releases. It also features a model edit of the Hunter known as the "Tick". Battle Mode has a special "Gold Tyrant" used for the boss.

Production credits

  • Cast
    • Chris Redfield: Charlie
    • Jill Valentine: Inezh
    • Barry Burton: Gregory
    • Rebecca Chambers: Linda
    • Albert Wesker: Eric
    • Joseph Frost: Jason
Original Version Staff
  • Planner
    • System Plan/Camera Works: Hideki Kamiya, Hiroki Kato, Kazunori Kadoi, Koji Oda, Satosi Murata
    • Scenario: Kenichi Iwao
    • Event Director: Kazuhiro Aoyama, Takashi Nakaya, Masaaki Yamada
    • Background Story: Yasuyuki Saga
  • CG Team:
    • Background model: Ippei Masuda, Satoru Nishikawa, Junko Yasuda, Tetsuya Shiraishi, Yasuyuki Matsunami, Keiichi Nabetani, Motoji Fujita, Atsuko Hamada
    • Character Model/Motion: Jun Takeuchi, Satomi Hayashi
    • Character Texture: Yuji Ishihara, Ryoji Shimogama, Hideaki Katagiri
  • Graphic
    • BG/Object Texture: Chie Nishida, Hideyuki Koitabashi, Nobuaki Yamazaki, Jun Ogawa, Yasushi Hiraoka, Hidesato Sueyoshi, Manabu Takeda, Ippei Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Nakamoto, Naomi Takemoto
    • Icon Design: Shizuyo Ukai
    • Lettering: Aya Nishio
    • Effect: Yoshiaki Teshima, Satomi Tsubota
  • Sound
    • Composition / Arrangement: Makoto Tomozawa, Akari Kaida, Masami Ueda
    • Sound design: Ippo Yamada, Hideaki Utsumi
  • Software Engineer
    • System: Yasuhiro Anpo
    • Cockpit: Takayuki Inoue
    • Sound system / Effect: Tomohito Ishihara
    • Player / Enemy: Katsutoshi Karatsuma, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Yuji Hagiyama, Shigeki Niino
    • Event: Syuichiro Chiboshi, Kiyohiko Sakata, Noriyuki Ohtani, Takeshi Enomoto
    • Room Editor: Hidekazu Shingaki, Michinori Kataoka, Hideaki Motozuka
    • Movie: Hiroaki Watanabe
    • Authoring System: Atsushi Manobe, Takashi Hashimoto, Mitsunori Sakano
    • Base Program: Kazushi Sano, Takahiro Yamada
  • Design
    • Plot: Takahiro Arimitsu
    • Rooms: Yuko Nakadai, Mitsuru Kuwahata, Nakayama, Kazuki
    • Characters: Isao Ohishi
    • Enemies: Toru Nakayama, Kazunori Shimizu, Yorinao Matuura
    • Publicity: Masako Honma
    • Supervisor: Masahiko Kurokawa
    • Special Thanks: Tsuyoshi Wakuta, Takuya Shiraiwa, Shigeomi Okamura
  • Film Crew
    • Producer: Norihiro Nishitani
    • Production manager: Masanari Takano
    • Director: Mituhisa Hosoki
    • CG Movie: Seiji Namba
    • Director of Photographer: Iwao Hara
    • Lighting: Takahisa Aiba
    • Make-Up: Shoko Kato
    • Styling: Wakana Hara
    • Casting: Toru Tateishi
    • Narrator: Ward.E.Sexton
  • Cooperative company
    • Production: Center Field Co.,Ltd.
    • Special Effects: Gives Co.,Ltd.
    • Post Production: Vision Universe Co.,Ltd.
    • Music: M On M Inc. / Music Expedition Co.,Ltd., Planning Support F.M.C
    • General Producer: Tokuro Fujiwara
    • Producer: Masayuki Akahori
    • Director: Shinji Mikami
Saturn Version Staff
  • 3DCG Team
    • Character Model / Motion / Object / Texture Conversion: Yoshihisa Shimizu, Ryosuke Tei, Naomi Anzai, Misao Kobayashi, Miho Sadogawa, Masahiro Sato
  • 2DCG Team
    • Chief: Yoshitaka Maki
    • BG Saturn Conversion: Yoshiyuki Miyazawa, Yuki Izumi, Shingo Inaba, Kazuhiro Ogura, Keiko Arakawa, Genki Kaneko
    • Icon Design: Yoshiyuki Miyazawa
  • SOFTWARE Team
    • System: Yukihiko Tani
    • Sub System: Eiki Aizawa
    • Enemy / Event: Yuichi Shiono, Masahiko Moriya
    • Sound / Movie: Tomoaki Fujitaka
    • Special Thanks: Kenei Unoki, Eiji Taki, Akira Nishikawa, Manabu Morinaga
    • Super Visor: Katsuji Aotama, Masatoshi Totsuka
  • Sound Team
    • Sound design: Tatsuya Kouzaki
    • Saturn Conversion: Naofumi Hataya, Tomonori Sawada, Seiro Okamoto
  • MOVIE Team
    • Movie Compile: Yuji Sawairi, Hidehiro Kumagai
    • Technical Director: Hiroshi Fukuda
    • Director: Tomomi Endo
    • General Producer: Yoshiki Okamoto, Makoto Oshitani
    • Producer: Tatsuya Minami, Katsuhiro Hasegawa

Presented by: Capcom

Promotional material

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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-28: "1997-28 (1997-08-15)" (1997-08-01)
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Print advert in Playmag (FR) #17: "Septembre 1997" (1997-0x-xx)
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
100 №191, p64[1]
80 №100, p192
100
80 №450, p34
87 Vol 5, №11, p24/129
95 №111, p176
100
92 №60, p30/31
90 №54, p64
93
83
95 №5, p68/69/70/71
94 №23, p74/75[3]
80 №1997-26, p176[4]
87 №, p9[5]
94
95 9/8/2008
Sega Saturn
91
Based on
17 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
576 Konzol (HU)
97
[6]
Consoles News (FR) PAL
95
[7]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
100
[1]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
80
[8]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
80
[9]
Fun Generation (DE) PAL
100
[10]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
87
[11]
Game Power (IT)
92
[12]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
95
[13]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
90
[14]
Gry Komputerowe (PL)
92
[15]
Hobby Consolas (ES)
93
[16]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
83
[17]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
97
[18]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
87
[19]
Neo (PL)
80
[20]
neXt Level (DE) PAL
80
[21]
Playmag (FR) PAL
90
[22]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
80
[23]
Saturn Power (UK) PAL
95
[24]
Sega Magazin (DE) PAL
91
[25]
Sega Power (GR)
95
[26]
Świat Gier Komputerowych (PL)
90
[27]
Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL
94
[28]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
80
[29]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
87
[5]
Super Juegos (ES)
94
[30]
Super Power (FI)
95
[31]
Video Games (DE) PAL
95
[32]
Sega Saturn
90
Based on
29 reviews

Resident Evil

Saturn, US
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Cover
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Disc
Residentevil sat us manual.pdf
Manual
Saturn, EU
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Cover
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Disc
ResidentEvilSaturnEUManual6L.pdf
Manual
Saturn, JP
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Cover
Saturn, BR
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Cover
ResidentEvilSaturnBrManual.pdf
Manual

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File:CVG UK 191.pdf, page 64 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 191.pdf_p64" defined multiple times with different content
  2. File:GameInformer US 052.pdf, page 59
  3. File:SSM_UK_23.pdf, page 74
  4. File:SSM_JP_19970801_1997-26.pdf, page 178
  5. 5.0 5.1 Saturn no Game wa Sekai Ichi~i~i~i!: Satamaga Dokusha Race Zen Kiroku, SoftBank Publishing, page 11 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SnGwSISDRZK Book JP.pdf_p11" defined multiple times with different content
  6. 576 Konzol, "Január 1998" (HU; 1998-xx-xx), page 26
  7. Consoles News, "Septembre 1997" (FR; 1997-08-28), page 106
  8. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1997" (US; 1997-1x-xx), page 193
  9. Famitsu, "1997-08-01" (JP; 1997-07-18), page 1
  10. Fun Generation, "09/97" (DE; 1997-08-13), page 84
  11. GameFan, "Volume 5, Issue 11: November 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 26
  12. Game Power, "Ottobre 1997" (IT; 1997-xx-xx), page 28
  13. GamePro, "December 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 180
  14. Game Informer, "October 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 66
  15. Gry Komputerowe, "8/1998" (PL; 1998-xx-xx), page 1
  16. Hobby Consolas, "Septiembre 1997" (ES; 1997-xx-xx), page 70
  17. MAN!AC, "09/97" (DE; 1997-08-06), page 76
  18. Mega Force, "Septembre/Octobre 1997" (FR; 1997-0x-xx), page 32
  19. Mega Fun, "09/97" (DE; 1997-08-06), page 69
  20. Neo, "Grudzień 1997" (PL; 1997-xx-xx), page 21
  21. neXt Level, "September 1997" (DE; 1997-08-22), page 64
  22. Playmag, "Septembre 1997" (FR; 1997-0x-xx), page 116
  23. Saturn Fan, "1997 No. 18" (JP; 1997-09-12), page 82
  24. Saturn Power, "October 1997" (UK; 1997-08-22), page 68
  25. Sega Magazin, "September 1997" (DE; 1997-08-13), page 22
  26. Sega Power, "Dekémvrios 1997-Ianouários 1998" (GR; 1998-xx-xx), page 28
  27. Świat Gier Komputerowych, "10/1997" (PL; 1997-xx-xx), page 50
  28. Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1997" (UK; 1997-08-13), page 74
  29. Sega Saturn Magazine, "1997-26 (1997-08-01)" (JP; 1997-07-18), page 178
  30. Super Juegos, "Septiembre 1997" (ES; 1997-0x-xx), page 70
  31. Super Power, "10 1997" (FI; 1997-xx-xx), page 49
  32. Video Games, "9/97" (DE; 1997-08-27), page 100



Resident Evil games for Sega systems
Sega Saturn
Resident Evil (1997) | Resident Evil 2 (unreleased)
Sega Dreamcast
Resident Evil 2 (1999) | Resident Evil Code: Veronica (2000) | Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (2000) | Biohazard Code: Veronica Kanzenban (2001)
Arcade
Gun Survivor 2: Biohazard CODE:Veronica (2001)
Sampler Discs
Sega Dreamcast
Biohazard Code: Veronica Trial Edition (1999)
Resident Evil related media
Book
Saturn Ban Biohazard Official Guide (1997) | V Jump Books Game Series: Sega Saturn Ban Bio Hazard (1997) | Biohazard: Code Veronica Koushiki Guide Book (2000) | Luchshiye igry dlya PlayStation. Ves' mir Resident Evil i Tomb Raider (2001)