Cosmic Carnage

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Cosmic Carnage

System(s): Sega 32X

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Almanic, ALU

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1995-01-27	¥7,8007,800	GM-4004
US	1994-12^[3]	$69.9969.99^[4]	84700
EU	1995-02^[1]		84700-50
BR	1995		151020
AS	199x		84700

ESRB

Sega

Tectoy

Cosmic Carnage, known in Japan as Cyber Brawl (サイバーブロール), is a 2D versus fighting game developed by Almanic and ALU and published by Sega exclusively for the Sega 32X in late 1994.

Story

Light years away in a distant star system, in an intergalactic prison barge, four of the prisoners on the ship mutiny against their captors and escape, attacking the ship and destroying its controls and life support systems. The military crew onboard manage to bring the barge closer to safety, but all but one of the escape pods were destroyed in the destruction. Now the four prisoners and four soldiers must battle to use the last escape pod and escape to safety.

Gameplay

There are eight playable characters in the game, divided into two groups, 'Military' (Soldiers overseas) and 'Renegade' (Fugitives overseas). The goal of the game is to defeat all the other characters in as short a time period as possible. Depending on how quickly the game is completed, a different ending is shown, with the best possible ending having the character make it to the escape pod and escape the ensuing explosion of the barge.

The game uses two punch buttons ( normal, fierce) and two kick buttons ( normal, fierce) on a six-button controller, with two buttons reserved for taunting the opponent and the use of some special moves ( provoke 1, provoke 2). On a three-button controller , and , pressed at normal speed, are used for fierce punch, fierce kick and provoke 2 respectively; if the buttons are tapped quickly they will perform normal punch, normal kick and provoke 1. Similarly to Mortal Kombat, characters can be dismembered if they are hit on the winning round with any special move, although the game has no character-specific fatality animations.

The military characters have the advantage of getting to select their armor before a battle begins, with three pieces of armor for their body, arms, and legs. Each armor piece comes in light and heavy variety, with the difference of either size of the part being the special move it can use. Armor can be destroyed if it receives enough damage, disabling the use of the special move attached to it for the rest of the round. The renegade characters do not have any armor, and do not lose their special moves no matter how much damage they take.

While Cosmic Carange makes use of the 32X hardware to provide smooth sprite scaling and rotation, it is frequently unable to hit its target 30FPS refresh rate, slowing down considerably when too much action is on-screen.

Cyber Brawl

Before the game was released in America as Cosmic Carnage, the game received one major change. The human military characters were replaced with aliens, presumably to avoid the controversy raised by similar games such as Mortal Kombat. The Japanese and North American copies of the game are however, identical - region encoding forces Cosmic Carnage to boot in the US, however by holding , , and START during the introduction, the contents of Cyber Brawl (i.e. the title screen and human characters) will be swapped in.

Characters

Military

	Jake (ジェイク)

	Cylic
	Cylic is a reworked/censored version of Jake for the overseas version.
	Karl (カール) / Tyr

	Naruto (鳴門)

	Naruto (overseas)
	Naruto had his sprite reworked/censored overseas as well.
	Ray (レイ)

	Zena-Lan
	Zena-Lan is a reworked/censored version of Ray for the overseas version.

Renegade

	Bolt (ボルト) / Talmac
	Bolt is a tall humanoid with big razor claws. His special moves are: Gale Wall (P), Gale Wave (P), Pile Dragon (P) and Gale Arrow (HOLD P).
	Finisher (フィニッシャー) / Deamon
	Finisher is an humanoid creature that resembles a scorpion. His special moves are: Whirlwind Thrasher (PK), Hammerhead Whip (P) and Rolling Claw (close P).
	Stere (ステア) / Naja
	Stere has a snake head, human upper body and a bionic snake-like lower body. Her special moves are: Back Whip (HOLD K), Winder Rush (P) and Tail Squeeze (close K).
	Wishbone (ウィッシュボーン) / Yug
	Wishbone is an humanoid that resembles a gorilla. His special moves are: Spinning Double Striker (PP), Blaze Hold (P), Strangle Hold (perform Blaze Hold, then HOLD PPPPP), Wheel Press (K) and Rolling Gangbuster (P).

Production credits

Naoyuki Hayakawa, Masaki Ishikawa, Youji Iwashita, Tsutomu Ando, Yasuo Wakatuki, Noriyuki Tomiyama, Hikoshi Hashimoto, Hiromitsu Shioya, Hidetoshi Fujioka, Hiroshi Yokokura, Hiroyuki Ohtaka, Ryoichi Hasegawa
Special Thanks: Takashi Yoneda, Takashi Sorimachi, Ryusaku Matui, Noboru Kosuge, Kyohko Niyama, Keiichi Egawa, Hiroyuki Sakiyama, Fumiko Aoyagi, Norihiro Sekine, Hideki Youkaichiya
Programmed by: Almanic Corp.
Takashi Shichijyo

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Cosmic Carnage/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #43: "Abril 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

30

^[12]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

65

^[2]

Digitiser (UK)

PAL

69

^[13]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

48

^[5]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)

40

^[14]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

63

^[15]

FLUX (US)

NTSC-U

33

^[16]

Freak (IL)

75

^[17]

GameFan (US)

NTSC-U

83

^[18]

Game Players (US)

NTSC-U

61

^[6]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[19]

GamesMaster (UK)

PAL

66

^[20]

Games World: The Magazine (UK)

PAL

78

^[21]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

39

^[22]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

38

^[7]

Mega (UK)

PAL

77

^[23]

Mega Fun (DE)

NTSC-U

60

^[8]

Mega Play (US)

NTSC-U

52

^[24]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

PAL

42

^[1]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

0

^[9]

Player One (FR)

40

^[25]

Saturn Fan (JP)

NTSC-J

65

^[26]

Sega Magazine (UK)

PAL

80

^[27]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

74

^[28]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

62

^[29]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

79

^[30]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

47

^[31]

Última Generación (ES)

39

^[32]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

70

^[11]

	57
Based on 29 reviews

Cosmic Carnage

32X, US
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, EU
Cover
Cart

32X, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, BR
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, Asia
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-10

Cartridge

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-10-13

Page

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-10-11

Page

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-10-07

Page

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-10-05

Page

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-10-04

Page

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-09-28

Page

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-09-26

Page

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-09-21

Page

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

3MB

1994-09-06

Page

References

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↑ Digitiser (UK) (1995-04-11)
↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 302
↑ Famitsu, "1995-01-20" (JP; 1995-01-06), page 40
↑ FLUX, "Issue #4" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 82
↑ Freak, "3/95" (IL; 1995-xx-xx), page 1
↑ GameFan, "Volume 2, Issue 12: December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 28
↑ GamePro, "February 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 58
↑ GamesMaster (UK) "Series 4, episode 16" (1995-01-03, 24:00) (+7:45)
↑ Games World: The Magazine, "February 1995" (UK; 1994-12-xx), page 15
↑ Game Informer, "February 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 42
↑ Mega, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-30), page 12
↑ Mega Play, "February/March 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 46
↑ Player One, "Mars 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 107
↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 April" (JP; 1995-03-08), page 41
↑ Sega Magazine, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-15), page 84
↑ Sega Power, "March 1995" (UK; 1995-01-19), page 46
↑ Sega Pro, "February 1995" (UK; 1994-12-29), page 38
↑ Sega Pro, "April 1996" (UK; 1996-02-28), page 25
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
↑ Última Generación, "Abril 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 88

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[12] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 52

[digitiser1995-04-11745-13] Digitiser (UK) (1995-04-11)

[14] Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 302

[15] Famitsu, "1995-01-20" (JP; 1995-01-06), page 40

[16] FLUX, "Issue #4" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 82

[17] Freak, "3/95" (IL; 1995-xx-xx), page 1

[:File:GameFan_US_0212.pdf_p28-18] GameFan, "Volume 2, Issue 12: December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 28

[:File:GamePro_US_067.pdf_p58-19] GamePro, "February 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 58

[gamesmastertv4x16745-20] GamesMaster (UK) "Series 4, episode 16" (1995-01-03, 24:00) (+7:45)

[:File:Games_World_The_Magazine_UK_08.pdf_p15-21] Games World: The Magazine, "February 1995" (UK; 1994-12-xx), page 15

[:File:GameInformer_US_022.pdf_p42-22] Game Informer, "February 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 42

[:File:Mega_UK_28.pdf_p12-23] Mega, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-30), page 12

[:File:MegaPlay_US_0601.pdf_p46-24] Mega Play, "February/March 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 46

[:File:PlayerOne_FR_051.pdf_p107-25] Player One, "Mars 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 107

[:File:SaturnFan_JP_1995-04.pdf_p41-26] Saturn Fan, "1995 April" (JP; 1995-03-08), page 41

[:File:SegaMagazine_UK_13.pdf_p84-27] Sega Magazine, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-15), page 84

[:File:SegaPower_UK_64.pdf_p46-28] Sega Power, "March 1995" (UK; 1995-01-19), page 46

[:File:SegaPro_UK_41.pdf_p38-29] Sega Pro, "February 1995" (UK; 1994-12-29), page 38

[:File:SegaPro_UK_56.pdf_p25-30] Sega Pro, "April 1996" (UK; 1996-02-28), page 25

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-31] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87

[:File:UltimaGeneracion_ES_02.pdf_p88-32] Última Generación, "Abril 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 88

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Cosmic Carnage

From Sega Retro

Contents

Story

Gameplay

Cyber Brawl

Characters

Military

Renegade

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References