Dark Seed

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Dark Seed
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Gaga Communications
Developer:
Sound driver: SCSP (1 track)
Peripherals supported: Shuttle Mouse
Genre: Adventure

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Saturn
JP 		¥5,8005,800 T-18501G

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Dark Seed (ダークシード) is a 1992 PC adventure game ported to the Sega Saturn. It was followed by Dark Seed II. It was once set for release on the Sega Mega-CD, but this plan was canceled.

The Saturn version of the game fails to take advantage of the wider colour palettes and otherwise superior graphical hardware of the system, instead looking almost identical to its earlier counterpart.

Magazine articles

Main article: Dark Seed/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Mega-CD print advert in EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
also published in:
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #65: "December 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
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  • GamePro (US) #66: "January 1995" (199x-xx-xx)
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  • Game Players (US) #0802: "Vol. 8 No. 2 February 1995" (1995-0x-xx)
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
60 №343, p31
43 №1995-07, p126[4]
29 №, p15[5]
Sega Saturn
 44
Based on
3 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
60
[6]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
59
[7]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
43
[8]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
29
[5]
Sega Saturn
 48
Based on
4 reviews

Dark Seed

Saturn, JP
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Cover
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Disc

Unreleased versions

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Dark Seed
System(s): Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: Vic Tokai
Developer: Vic Tokai
Planned release date(s): 1994-12[9], 1995-03[10]
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
60 №3, p95[10]
Sega Mega-CD
 60
Based on
1 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Sega Mega-CD
 N/A
Based on
0 reviews

Dark Seed

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Saturn
✔
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
40,235,664 1995-05-30 CD-ROM(JP) T-18501G V1.001

References

  1. ↑ ', "November 1994" (; 1994-1x-xx), page 91
  2. ↑ ', "November 1994" (; 1994-1x-xx), page 159
  3. ↑ ', "November 1994" (; 1994-1x-xx), page 30
  4. ↑ File:SSM_JP_19950701_1995-07.pdf, page 128
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Saturn no Game wa Sekai Ichi~i~i~i!: Satamaga Dokusha Race Zen Kiroku, SoftBank Publishing, page 17 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SnGwSISDRZK Book JP.pdf_p17" defined multiple times with different content
  6. ↑ Famitsu, "1995-07-14" (JP; 1995-06-30), page 1
  7. ↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 September" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 56
  8. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "July 1995" (JP; 1995-06-08), page 128
  9. ↑ File:EGM US 065.pdf, page 326
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 File:NextGeneration US 03.pdf, page 99
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