Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden

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Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden

Publisher: Bandai, Ecofilmes (PT)

Developer: Bandai

Peripherals supported: Six button pad

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1994-04-01	¥8,8008,800	T-133013
ES	1994		T-133016-09
FR	1994		T-133016-09
PT	1996		MDJSB0672

Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden (ドラゴンボールＺ武勇列伝) is a 1994 fighting game by Bandai for the Sega Mega Drive made with the Dragon Ball Z license released exclusively in Japan — and also France and Spain, due to the great popularity of the Dragon Ball Z anime in these European countries. The French/Spanish version was renamed Dragon Ball Z: L'Appel du Destin and has the game translated to French language and the instruction booklet in French and Spanish languages.

The game was also distributed in Portugal in 1996 where it is simply called Dragon Ball Z.The first version of the game sold in the region was just the Japanese version with a regular photocopy of the spanish half of the French / Spanish version instruction manual and a Mega Key 2 included. For the second version the distributor, Ecofilmes, would take Japanese copies of the game, replace the cover by one from a VHS Dragon Ball Z movie tape directed by Japanese scriptwriter and series director Kazuhisa Takenouchi (竹之内和久) sold by Prisvideo (Prisvideo signed a contract in 1996 with, London based Manga Entertainment^[1], a producer, licensee, and distributor of Japanese animation in the United States and United Kingdom, to release their Manga videos in Portugal) a sister company of Ecofilmes during the same period in the region and the manual with Portuguese translated equivalents (but keep the Japanese cart), and sell the game as is, promising a free converter cart (Mega Key III) as the Japanese cartridges cannot fit into European Mega Drives. A 500$00 Escudos discount coupon (2.50€) was offered with the game for the aforementioned VHS tape. Some time after, they released a third version and switched to use the French version cartridge. The three versions are now very rare.

Gameplay

The game is a typical fighting game. punches, kicks, jumps, and various combination moves can be done by holding the various controller buttons together. The button is used to switch between staying on land and flying in the sky.

An unique feature in this game is that both characters will always be on-screen simultaneously — leading to the game doing vertical split-screen with scrolling, rotating split screen, and various other neat tricks the Mega Drive was not known for doing (accomplished using various tricks with VDP layer management). This feature is in fact required by some of the strongest moves (which require both players to be far away from each other).

Playable characters

Goku
Vegeta
18
Rekum
Gohan
Trunks
Kurilin
Ginyu
Piccolo
Cell
Freeza

Magazine articles

Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

50

^[3]

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

65

^[4]

Consoles + (FR)

85

^[5]

Hobby Consolas (ES)

89

^[6]

Joypad (FR)

NTSC-J

83

^[7]

Mega (UK)

NTSC-J

77

^[8]

Mega Force (FR)

NTSC-J

80

^[9]

Mega Fun (DE)

NTSC-J

59

^[10]

MegaTech (UK)

NTSC-J

75

^[11]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

NTSC-J

81

^[2]

Player One (FR)

80

^[12]

Sega Power (UK)

NTSC-J

64

^[13]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-J

62

^[14]

Sega Zone (UK)

NTSC-J

82

^[15]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

73

^[16]

Todo Sega (ES)

87

^[17]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

82

^[18]

	75
Based on 17 reviews

Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, FR/ES
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, PT(1st Version)
Cover
Cart Mega Key 2

Mega Drive, PT(2nd Version)
Cover
Cart Mega Key III

Mega Drive, PT(3rd Version)
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	af8f3371
MD5	ae9347eeea41c1a02565a187a4bf28f7
SHA-1	dc6336dfbbe76c24ada735009d0d667ce27843f6

2MB

1994-03

Cartridge (JP)

✔

CRC32	f035c737
MD5	9386f82fc9ab95294ca35961db80d0b9
SHA-1	5ff71986f4911b5dfd16598a5a3a9ba398c92c60

2MB

1994-03

Cartridge (FR)

External links

Portuguese TV commercial for Dragon Ball Z Prisvideo VHS Tape

References

↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Entertainment
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File:MeanMachinesSega21UK.pdf, page 52 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega21UK.pdf_p52" defined multiple times with different content
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 63
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "May 1994" (JP; 1994-04-08), page 18
↑ Consoles +, "Mai 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 90
↑ Hobby Consolas, "Junio 1994" (ES; 1994-xx-xx), page 110
↑ Joypad, "Mai 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 44
↑ Mega, "July 1994" (UK; 1994-06-16), page 44
↑ Mega Force, "Mai 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 28
↑ Mega Fun, "06/94" (DE; 1994-05-18), page 103
↑ MegaTech, "July 1994" (UK; 1994-06-16), page 44
↑ Player One, "Juin 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 32
↑ Sega Power, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-07), page 66
↑ Sega Pro, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-14), page 60
↑ Sega Zone, "June 1994" (UK; 1994-05-xx), page 16
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
↑ Todo Sega, "Junio 1994" (ES; 1994-0x-xx), page 44
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 57

Dragon Ball Z games for Sega systems
	Dragon Ball Z V.R.V.S. (1994)
	Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden (1994)
	Dragon Ball Z: Shinbutouden (1995) \| Dragon Ball Z Idainaru Dragon Ball Densetsu (1996)
Unlicensed Dragon Ball Z games for Sega systems
	Dragon Ball: Final Bout (1998)

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[:File:MeanMachinesSega21UK.pdf_p52-2] 2.0 ^2.1 File:MeanMachinesSega21UK.pdf, page 52 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega21UK.pdf_p52" defined multiple times with different content

[3] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 63

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1994-05.pdf_p18-4] Beep! MegaDrive, "May 1994" (JP; 1994-04-08), page 18

[5] Consoles +, "Mai 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 90

[:File:HobbyConsolas_ES_033.pdf_p110-6] Hobby Consolas, "Junio 1994" (ES; 1994-xx-xx), page 110

[:File:Joypad_FR_031.pdf_p44-7] Joypad, "Mai 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 44

[:File:Mega_UK_22.pdf_p44-8] Mega, "July 1994" (UK; 1994-06-16), page 44

[9] Mega Force, "Mai 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 28

[:File:MegaFun_DE_1994-06.pdf_p103-10] Mega Fun, "06/94" (DE; 1994-05-18), page 103

[:File:MegaTech_UK_31.pdf_p44-11] MegaTech, "July 1994" (UK; 1994-06-16), page 44

[:File:PlayerOne_FR_043.pdf_p32-12] Player One, "Juin 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 32

[:File:SegaPower_UK_57.pdf_p66-13] Sega Power, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-07), page 66

[:File:SegaPro_UK_35.pdf_p60-14] Sega Pro, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-14), page 60

[:File:SegaZone_UK_20.pdf_p16-15] Sega Zone, "June 1994" (UK; 1994-05-xx), page 16

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p85-16] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85

[:File:TodoSega_ES_15.pdf_p44-17] Todo Sega, "Junio 1994" (ES; 1994-0x-xx), page 44

[18] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 57

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Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden

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Contents

Gameplay

Playable characters

Magazine articles

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References