Dark Seed

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Dark Seed

System(s): Sega Saturn

Publisher: Gaga Communications

Developer: Cyberdreams

Original system(s): PC

Sound driver: SCSP (1 track)

Peripherals supported: Shuttle Mouse

Genre: Adventure^[1]^[2]

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1995-07-07^[2]	¥5,800 (5,974)5,800e^[3]	T-18501G

Non-Sega versions
Amiga Amiga CD32 IBM PC Macintosh PlayStation Windows PC

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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 in time for September^[4], later Christmas 1994^[5], 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

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)^[6]
GamePro (US) #66: "January 1995" (199x-xx-xx)^[7]
Game Players (US) #0802: "Vol. 8 No. 2 February 1995" (1995-0x-xx)^[8]

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1995-07: "July 1995" (1995-06-08)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

60

^[9]

Saturn Fan (JP)

NTSC-J

59

^[10]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

43

^[11]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

29

^[12]

	48
Based on 4 reviews

Dark Seed

Saturn, JP
Cover
Disc File:Dark Seed Sat JP Manual.pdf Manual

Unreleased versions

Dark Seed

System(s): Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: Vic Tokai
Developer: Vic Tokai
Planned release date(s): 1994-12^[13], 1995-03^[14]

Sega Retro Average

Publication	Version	Score

	N/A
Based on 0 reviews

Dark Seed

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

40,235,664

1995-05-30

CD-ROM (JP)

T-18501G V1.001

Track list

1. Data track

2. CD Warning message (special) (0:08)

► Running time: 0:08

References

Dark Seed
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[:File:DarkSeed_Saturn_JP_Box_Back.jpg_p-1] File:DarkSeed Saturn JP Box Back.jpg

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[:File:SSM_JP_19950701_1995-07.pdf_p7-3] Sega Saturn Magazine, "July 1995" (JP; 1995-06-08), page 7

[:File:MegaPower_UK_16.pdf_p7-4] Mega Power, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-20), page 7

[:File:SonicTimes_US_1994-10.pdf_p7-5] Sonic Times, "Volume 2 Number 9: October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 7

[:File:EGM_US_065.pdf_p91-6] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 91

[:File:GamePro_US_066.pdf_p159-7] GamePro, "January 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 159

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0802.pdf_p30-8] Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 2 February 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 30

[9] Famitsu, "1995-07-14" (JP; 1995-06-30), page 1

[:File:SaturnFan_JP_1995-09_19950915.pdf_p56-10] Saturn Fan, "1995 September" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 56

[:File:SSM_JP_19950701_1995-07.pdf_p128-11] Sega Saturn Magazine, "July 1995" (JP; 1995-06-08), page 128

[:File:SnGwSISDRZK_Book_JP.pdf_p17-12] Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 17

[:File:EGM_US_065.pdf_p326-13] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 326

[:File:NextGeneration_US_03.pdf_p99-14] Next Generation, "March 1995" (US; 1995-02-21), page 99

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Dark Seed

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Contents

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Unreleased versions

Technical information

ROM dump status

Track list

References