Vay
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System(s): Sega Mega-CD | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: Working Designs (US), SIMS (Japan) | |||||||||||||||
Developer: Hertz[1] | |||||||||||||||
Peripherals supported: CD BackUp RAM Cart | |||||||||||||||
Genre: RPG[2][3] | |||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Vay (ヴァイ), also known by its full title Vay: Ryuusei no Yoroi (ヴァイ流星の鎧), is a Sega Mega-CD role-playing game developed by Hertz. First published in Japan by SIMS in October 1993, it was later localized by Working Designs and published in the United States the following July.
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Plot
Vay features an interesting premise, a high-fantasy civilization which co-exists with futuristic mecha (known in-universe as "Armor of Vay"), and also received an elaborate English translation and localization by Working Designs.
Versions
Localised names
Language | Localised Name | English Translation |
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English | Vay | Vay |
Japanese | ヴァイ流星の鎧 | Vay: Ryuusei no Yoroi |
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
- Main article: Vay/Promotional material.
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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388,900,848 | CD (JP) | T-44014 | ||||||||||
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475,541,472 | CD (US) | T-127025 |
External links
- Sega of America webpage: Mega CD
References
- ↑ http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Hertz
- ↑ File:Vay MCD JP Box Back.jpg
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/mcd/soft_licensee.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-10 17:56)
- ↑ http://www.workingdesigns.com/museum/sega_cd/ourgames/index.html (Wayback Machine: 2002-08-13 22:47)
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "November 1993" (JP; 1993-10-08), page 27
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 190
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 36
- ↑ Famitsu, "1993-10-29" (JP; 1993-10-15), page 1
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 8 August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 74
- ↑ GamePro, "September 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 126
- ↑ Game Informer, "July/August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 29
- ↑ Hippon Super, "November 1993" (JP; 1993-10-02), page 40
- ↑ Mega, "September 1994" (UK; 1994-08-18), page 66
- ↑ Mega Fun, "09/94" (DE; 1994-08-24), page 97
- ↑ Mega Play, "August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 63
- ↑ MegaTech, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-15), page 10
- ↑ Sega Power, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-01), page 66
- ↑ Sega Pro, "September 1994" (UK; 1994-08-11), page 53
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
- ↑ VideoGames, "July 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 72
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