Vay

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Vay

Publisher: Working Designs (US), SIMS (JP)

Developer: Hertz

Peripherals supported: CD BackUp RAM Cart

Genre: Simulation

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1993-10-22	¥7,8007,800	T-44014
US	1994		T-127025

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Vay (ヴァイ), sometimes subtitled Ryuusei no Yoroi (流星の鎧), is a 1993 Sega Mega-CD RPG.

This is a very straightforward RPG as far as RPGs go, but it has an interesting premise about a high fantasy civilization interacting with a futuristic mecha (the "Armor of Vay"). It also has an elaborate English localization by Working Designs, which was one of the few points of note according to the contemporary reviews of Vay's US release.

Production credits

Overseas version

USA Team

Executive Producer: Victor Ireland
Director: Dean Williams
Translation: Horkom International, Hiroko Mori, Dean Williams, Victor Ireland, Andy Hedman
Sound Engineer: Bill Staeck
Additonal Art: Bill Ulch, Mike Winterbauer, Tim Linden
Additonal Music: Bill King
Manual Design & Unchi Input: Don Shirley, Victor Ireland
Cast
- Sandor: Jason Mitchell
- Elin: Katie Staeck
- Pottle: Ashley Angel
- Rachel: Kathryn Kirk
- P.J.: Tammy Jones
- Kinsey: Katie Staeck
- Lynx: Mike E. Miller
- Jeal: Dean Williams
- Sadoul: T. O. Smith
- Narrator: Keith Lack
- King of Kerzalt: Hal Delahousse
- Otto: Dean Williams

Japan Team

Director: K.Maz
Producer: K.Kato
Planner: Fun
Main Program: Gyo
Sub Program: Taka
Illustration: Yasuhiro Kagami
Animation: Yasuo Isii
Battle BG, Map, Animation Graphics: Fukuinhei, Koohii*Gyuunyuu, K.Tani, M.Taishi, Senbei
Object Graphics: Fukuinhei, Meiden
Monster Graphics: B.T.S, Koohii*Gyuunyuu, Meiden, M.Taishi
Music Composer & Sound Effect: Sakop
Map Editor & Writing: Senbei
Scenario Program & Animation Edit: Taka
Event Construction: Senbei, Taka
Animation Scenario: K.Tani
Item Location: Meiden
Monster Location: B.T.S
Debug: Maria
USA version Program: Danna
USA version Debug: H.Yagi
Special Thanks: Cindy, S. Schmitt, Jane Chaney, Bill Gibson, ArtsVision Corp., Audio. Tanaka Corp., Nekurai, ...And You
(C) 1993 SIMS Co., Ltd
(C) 1994 Working Designs

Magazine articles

Main article: Vay/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0705: "Vol. 7 No. 5 May 1994" (1994-0x-xx)

Print advert in VideoGames (US) #66: "July 1994" (1994-0x-xx)
also published in:

GamePro (US) #60: "July 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[1]
EGM² (US) #2: "August 1994" (1994-0x-xx)^[2]
Game Players (US) #0710: "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[3]
EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)^[4]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #62: "September 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[5]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #65: "December 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[6]

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

50

^[7]

Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US)

NTSC-U

58

^[8]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

54

^[9]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

55

^[10]

Game Players (US)

NTSC-U

76

^[11]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

85

^[12]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

81

^[13]

Hippon Super (JP)

NTSC-J

20

^[14]

Mega (UK)

NTSC-U

85

^[15]

Mega Fun (DE)

NTSC-U

83

^[16]

Mega Play (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[17]

MegaTech (UK)

NTSC-U

84

^[18]

Sega Power (UK)

NTSC-U

75

^[19]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-U

83

^[20]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

65

^[21]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[22]

	69
Based on 16 reviews

Vay

Mega-CD, US
Cover
Disc Manual Map

Mega-CD, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

388,900,848

CD (JP)

T-44014

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

475,541,472

CD (US)

T-127025

References

[:File:GamePro_US_060.pdf_p111-1] GamePro, "July 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 111

[:File:EGM2_US_02.pdf_p139-2] EGM², "August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 139

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0710.pdf_p114-3] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 114

[:File:EGM2_US_05.pdf_p65-4] EGM², "November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 65

[:File:EGM_US_062.pdf_p65-5] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "September 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 65

[:File:EGM_US_065.pdf_p49-6] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 49

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1993-11.pdf_p27-7] Beep! MegaDrive, "November 1993" (JP; 1993-10-08), page 27

[:File:ElectronicGames2_US_27.pdf_p190-8] Electronic Games (1992-1995), "December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 190

[:File:EGM_US_061.pdf_p36-9] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 36

[10] Famitsu, "1993-10-29" (JP; 1993-10-15), page 1

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0708.pdf_p74-11] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 8 August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 74

[:File:GamePro_US_062.pdf_p126-12] GamePro, "September 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 126

[:File:GameInformer_US_017.pdf_p29-13] Game Informer, "July/August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 29

[14] Hippon Super, "November 1993" (JP; 1993-10-02), page 40

[:File:Mega_UK_24.pdf_p66-15] Mega, "September 1994" (UK; 1994-08-18), page 66

[:File:MegaFun_DE_1994-09.pdf_p97-16] Mega Fun, "09/94" (DE; 1994-08-24), page 97

[:File:MegaPlay_US_0504.pdf_p63-17] Mega Play, "August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 63

[:File:MegaTech_UK_34.pdf_p10-18] MegaTech, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-15), page 10

[:File:SegaPower_UK_59.pdf_p66-19] Sega Power, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-01), page 66

[:File:SegaPro_UK_36.pdf_p53-20] Sega Pro, "September 1994" (UK; 1994-08-11), page 53

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-21] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87

[:File:VideoGames_US_66.pdf_p72-22] VideoGames, "July 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 72

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Contents

Production credits

Overseas version

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References