Blue Almanac
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| Blue Almanac | |||||||||||||||
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Kodansha Research Institute (Translation Super Fighter Team) | |||||||||||||||
| Developer: HOT-B (Translation Super Fighter Team) | |||||||||||||||
| Genre: RPG | |||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Blue Almanac (ブルーアルマナック) is a 1991 RPG for the Sega Mega Drive by HOT-B and the first Mega Drive game published by Kodansha Research Institute. While it was only released in Japan, a western release of the game, now retitled as Star Odyssey, was planned by Sage's Creation for release in July 1991[1], but the translation was cancelled for unknown reasons.
A version of Star Odyssey was reviewed by GamePro in its June 1992 issue, complete with a MSRP of $69.99, suggesting the game was close to a US release.[2]
Two prototypes were independently discovered by drx[3] and by Brandon Cobb, head of Super Fighter Team, who subsequently acquired a license to complete the translation from HOT-B successor company Starfish (who like to revisit old properties), with intentions on releasing it on the twentieth anniversary of the original release. Despite his PR claiming that he received an "unofficial license" from Sega to distribute the game, Sega really asked him to remove their copyrights and trademarks, consequently making the translation fully unlicensed (while Blue Almanac is fully licensed).
Contents
Promotional material
Physical scans
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 Cover
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  Cart  Manual |
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   Cover
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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1MB | 1991-05 | Cartridge (JP) | ||||||||||
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1MB | 1992-01-16 | CD-R disc[3] | Localised US version. ROM header says 1991-10. | Page | ||||||||
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2MB | 2011 | Cartridge (World) | Super Fighter Team version. |
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References
- ↑ File:GamePro US 023.pdf, page 38
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File:GamePro US 036.pdf, page 48 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name ":File:GamePro US 036.pdf_p48" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ File:BeepMD_JP_1991-06.pdf, page 30
- ↑ File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 87
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 57
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "June 1991" (JP; 1991-05-08), page 28
- ↑ Famitsu, "" (JP; 1991-0x-xx), page 1
- ↑ Hippon Super, "May 1991" (JP; 1991-04-04), page 42
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "September 1991" (JP; 1991-08-xx), page 115
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
- ↑ VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "July 1992" (US; 1992-0x-xx), page 35
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