Dragon Force
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System(s): Sega Saturn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega (Japan, Europe), Working Designs (US) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Sega CS, J-Force | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: SCSP (1 track) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peripherals supported: Saturn Backup Memory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Simulation RPG[1], RPG[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dragon Force (ドラゴンフォース) is a tactical RPG developed by Sega for the Sega Saturn.
The game became notorious for showing the power of the system by controlling 200 characters (made with sprites) at the same time without having any slowdown.
Contents
History
It was originally developed by J-Force, a company founded by former Wolf Team developers, but finished at Sega after J-Force went bankrupt. Western localizations were made by Working Designs, and unlike most Working Designs releases, this one was also released in Europe (by Sega).
In North America, four different disc variants exist and three different Dragon Force-themed stickers for a Saturn Backup Memory cartridge.
Sequels and re-releases
It was followed by Dragon Force II: Kami Sarishi Daichi ni.
Production credits
- プランニング: 大場 洋, 橋本 隆司, 中島 圭, 相馬 直也
- デザインチーフ: 三瓶 昌広
- グラフィックデザイン: 柴田 和幸, 高橋 良仁, 伊藤 俊博, 副島 恵文
- グラフィックデザイン: 浅井 幸信, 宮脇 和浩, 奥田 昌子
- キャラクターデザイン: 日野 慎之助
- ビジュアルデザイン: 清水 徹
- プログラムチーフ: 円藤 義秋
- プログラム: 飯田 貴行, 松尾 力, 吉川 成晴, 藤本 冬彦
- プログラム: 中村 通晴, 菊地 正彦, 渡部 直樹
- プログラムアシスタント: 百田 浩司, 向井田 和幸, 金子 博政, 山口 健一
- サウンドディレクター: 村崎 弘史
- 音楽: 前田 龍之
- 効果音: 岡元 清郎, 南波 真理子
- DSPプログラム: 小原 孝浩
- 声の出演
- アステア: 井上 喜久子
- ロウ: 大塚 明夫
- ティリス・マニ: 高橋 美紀
- ノルン: 麦人
- ナレーション: 有本 欽劉
- エンディングテーマ: "未来"
- 作詞: 飯島 恵子
- 作・編曲: 前田 龍之
- 歌: 藤田 詩織
- 演奏: 伊東 賢一
- レコーディングスタッフ: 成田 尊, 川平 真二, 町田 直幸
- シナリオプロット: 護矢 真, Cybersound™
- スペシャルサンクス: 山本 友浩, 佐々木 享, 佐々木 麻美, 佐野 高穂
- マーケティングスタッフ: 川越 隆幸, 細井 貴志, 竹崎 忠, 南雲 靖士, 花谷 和広, 船田 晃
- ディレクター: 伊藤 知行
- テクニカルディレクター: 永田 浩一, 片木 秀一
- アートプロデューサー: 田中 江
- プロデューサー: 麻生 宏, 山田 辰夫, 押谷 真, 石井 洋児
- Director: Victor Ireland
- Translation: Akiko Peterson, Victor Ireland, Dean Williams, Laurie Tom, Tim Trzepacz
- Programming: Tim Trzepacz
- Additional Music: Bill King
- Recording Engineer: Bill Staeck
- Voice Talent:
- Astea: Katie Staeck
- Nolun: Dean Williams
- Teiris: Rhonda Gibson
- Rudget: Jon Thompson
- Katt: Kathy Emma
- Narrator: John Truitt
- Manual Design: Don Shirley, Victor Ireland, Cindy Ireland
- Product Testing: Bonnie Shirley, Eric 'Pottle' Brewer
- Sales: Kelly Knight
- Director: Tomoyuki Ito
- Planning: Hiroshi Ohba, Takashi Hasimoto, Kei Nakajima, Naoya Souma
- Design Chief: Masahiro Sanpei
- Graphic Design: Kazuyuki Shibata, Yoshihito Takahashi, Toshihiro Ito, Yasufumi Soejima, Yukinobu Asai, Kazuhiro Miyawaki, Masako Okuda, Shinnosuke Hino
- Visual Design: Tooru Shimizu
- Programming Chief: Yoshiaki Endo
- Programming: Takayuki Iida, Tsutomu Matsuo, Shigeharu Yoshikawa, Fuyuhiko Fujimoto, Michiharu Nakamura, Masahiko Kikuchi, Naoki Watabe
- Programming Assistants: Hiroshi Momota, Hiromasa Kaneko, Kazuyuki Mukaida, Kenichi Yamaguchi
- Sound Director: Hirofumi Murasaki
- Music: Tatsuyuki Maeda
- Sound Effects: Seiroh Okamoto, Mariko Nanba
- Scenario: Makoto Goya
- Technical Directors: Kouichi Nagata, Shuichi Katagi
- Art Direction: Koh Tanaka
- Producers: Hiroshi Asou, Tatsuo Yamada, Makoto Oshitani, Youji Ishii
- USA Special Thanks: Cindy & Brodrico, S. Schmitt, Jin Shimazaki, Shinobu Shindo, Mike's Music & Sound, Mountain Dew
- Japan Special Thanks: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Jun Sasaki, Mami Sasaki, Takaho Sano
Magazine articles
- Main article: Dragon Force/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Game Informer (US) #41: "September 1996" (1996-0x-xx)[7]
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #87: "October 1996" (1996-xx-xx)[8]
- Game Informer (US) #42: "October 1996" (1996-xx-xx)[9]
also published in:
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #89: "December 1996" (1996-xx-xx)[10]
- Ultra Game Players (US) #93: "January 1997" (1996-12-31)[11]
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #91: "February 1997" (199x-xx-xx)[12]
Artwork
Physical scans
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Based on 37 reviews |
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Technical information
ROM dump status
System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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664,816,320 | CD-ROM (EU) | MK81382-50 V1.100 | ||||||||||
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569,045,232 | 1996-03-08 | CD-ROM (JP) | GS-9028 V1.007 | |||||||||
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569,056,992 | 1996-04-09 | CD-ROM (JP) | GS-9145 V1.011 | |||||||||
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665,834,736 | CD-ROM (US) | T-12703H V1.000 | ||||||||||
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1996-06-27 | CD-R | Page | ||||||||||
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1996-10-31 | CD-R | Page | ||||||||||
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1996-11-01 | CD-R | Page |
Extra content
This game has extra content which can be viewed when accessing the disc on a PC.
Folder / File | Type | Size | description |
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DISC_ABS.TXT | TXT (Abstract) | 601 | About this game. |
DISC_BIB.TXT | TXT (Bibliographiced) | 7,221 | Story |
DISC_CPY.TXT | TXT (Copyright) | 43 | Copyright |
External links
- Sega of Japan catalogue page (Japanese): Saturn
References
- ↑ File:DragonForce Saturn JP Box Back.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/segasaturn/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-04 08:13)
- ↑ http://www.sega.co.jp:80/sega/p_cafe/DB/09028/09028.html (Wayback Machine: 1998-12-03 03:48)
- ↑ http://riehlspot.simplenet.com/vgame/new/saturn.html (Wayback Machine: 1999-02-21 17:22)
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "August 1997" (UK; 1997-07-11), page 34
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Computer & Video Games, "September 1997" (UK; 1997-08-13), page 64
- ↑ Game Informer, "September 1996" (US; 1996-0x-xx), page 7
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 73
- ↑ Game Informer, "October 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 5
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 65
- ↑ Ultra Game Players, "January 1997" (US; 1996-12-31), page 74
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "February 1997" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 65
- ↑ Secret Service, "Luty 1998" (PL; 1998-xx-xx), page 22
- ↑ Neo, "Kwiecień 1998" (PL; 1998-xx-xx), page 4
- ↑ Neo, "Maj 1998" (PL; 1998-xx-xx), page 4
- ↑ Ação Games, "Março 1997" (BR; 1997-xx-xx), page 8
- ↑ Consoles +, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 126
- ↑ Consoles +, "Février 1997" (FR; 1997-0x-xx), page 130
- ↑ Consoles +, "Octobre 1997" (FR; 1997-xx-xx), page 118
- ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1997-09-17)
- ↑ Edge, "May 1997" (UK; 1997-05-02), page 88
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 1997" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 60
- ↑ Famitsu, "1996-04-05" (JP; 1996-03-22), page 1
- ↑ Fun Generation, "03/97" (DE; 1997-02-12), page 77
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 6: June 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 18
- ↑ GamePro, "February 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 98
- ↑ Game Informer, "January 1997" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 42
- ↑ Gry Komputerowe, "11/1997" (PL; 1997-xx-xx), page 1
- ↑ Hyper, "October 1997" (AU; 1997-xx-xx), page 70
- ↑ Intelligent Gamer, "January 1997" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 46
- ↑ Joypad, "Juillet/Août 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 72
- ↑ Joypad, "Octobre 1997" (FR; 1997-xx-xx), page 96
- ↑ MAN!AC, "03/97" (DE; 1997-02-12), page 40
- ↑ MAN!AC, "08/97" (DE; 1997-07-09), page 84
- ↑ Mega Force, "Novembre/Décembre 1997" (FR; 1997-1x-xx), page 58
- ↑ Mega Fun, "04/97" (DE; 1997-03-05), page 80
- ↑ Next Generation, "April 1997" (US; 1997-03-11), page 126
- ↑ neXt Level, "Oktober 1997" (DE; 1997-09-19), page 76
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 12" (JP; 1996-05-24), page 70
- ↑ Saturn Power, "August 1997" (UK; 1997-06-25), page 74
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "Mai 1997" (DE; 1997-04-09), page 76
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "August 1997" (DE; 1997-07-09), page 76
- ↑ Sega Power, "March 1997" (UK; 1997-02-12), page 53
- ↑ Świat Gier Komputerowych, "10/1997" (PL; 1997-xx-xx), page 52
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "August 1997" (UK; 1997-07-16), page 70
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-06 (1996-04-12)" (JP; 1996-03-22), page 231
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 12
- ↑ Strana Igr, "Aprel 1997" (RU; 1997-xx-xx), page 76
- ↑ Super Power, "3 1997" (FI; 1997-0x-xx), page 48
- ↑ Ultra Game Players, "February 1997" (US; 1997-01-28), page 71
- ↑ Video Games, "2/97" (DE; 1997-01-22), page 93
Dragon Force | |
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Main page | Comparisons | Hidden content | Magazine articles | Video coverage | Reception | Technical information
Music: Dragon Force Original Soundtrack (1996) | Dragon Force Complete Album (2005) Audiobooks: Dragon Force: Souseiki Hen (1996) |
Games in the Dragon Force Series | |
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Dragon Force (1996) | Dragon Force II: Kami Sarishi Daichi ni (1998) | Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 18: Dragon Force (2005) | |
Dragon Force related media | |
Dragon Force Original Soundtrack (1996) | Dragon Force II: Kami Sarishi Daichi ni (1998) | Dragon Force Complete Album (2005) | |
Dragon Force: Souseiki Hen (1996) | |
Dragon Force Koushiki Guide Book (1996) | Prima's Dragon Force Unauthorized Game Secrets (1997) | Dragon Force II: Kami Sarishi Daichi ni Official Guide (1998) |
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