Alien Soldier
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Developer: Treasure M2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: SMPS 68000 (Treasure) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alien Soldier (エイリアンソルジャー) is a Mega Drive game developed by Treasure and published by Sega in 1995. It was one of the few Mega Drive games to be released in Japan and Europe, but not North America (however it was made available briefly through the Sega Channel service), and is now considered an extremely rare collectors item. It has since been re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service, as well as being released as part of the Sega Ages Treasure Box disc for the PlayStation 2.
In the same year an album was released.
Contents
Versions
- Like many other similar games, PAL release music and sound speed were optimized for 50hz while the gameplay speed wasn't optimized, running slower than it should.
- Some minor changes to the European version of the game were made, like the removal of the catchphrase "VISUALSHOCK! SPEEDSHOCK! SOUNDSHOCK! NOW IS THE TIME TO THE 68000 HEART ON FIRE!"
Production credits
- Main Programmer: Viva! Choco Monkey DX
- Programmer: K.Fujita, M.Maegawa, Fukuryu
- Sound Programmer: M.Yaida
- Character Design: K.Shindoh
- Background Arts: H.Iuchi 8
- Background Design: Tsunehisa
- Guest Designer: T.Shiga
- Music by: N.Hanzawa
- Sound Effects: S.Murata
- Producer: Viva! Choco Monkey DX
- Supervisor: M.Maegawa
- Computer Designed by: Treasure
- Presented by: ©Sega 1995
Digital manuals
History
Development
According to developer interviews, the game was released half-finished due to Mega Drive market collapsing.[21]
Magazine articles
- Main article: Alien Soldier/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: Alien Soldier/Technical information.
ROM dump status
System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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2MB | 1995-02 | Cartridge (JP) | ||||||||||
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2MB | 1995-02 | Cartridge (EU) |
External links
- Sega of Japan Virtual Console pages: Mega Drive
- Nintendo catalogue pages: US, UK, AU
- Alien Soldier on Steam
References
- ↑ File:Aliensoldier md jp cover.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-20 09:51)
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.sega/c/YQhyaN3aJPk/m/KURBIr8Tv_YJ
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Computer & Video Games, "June 1995" (UK; 1995-05-xx), page 52
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mean Machines Sega, "July 1995" (UK; 1995-05-27), page 80
- ↑ Games World Magazin, "" (DE; 1995-0x-xx), page 79
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 https://steamdb.info/app/71116/ (Wayback Machine: 2016-07-30 05:12)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 http://steamdb.info/app/71116/ (Wayback Machine: 2013-05-22 19:18)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 https://steamdb.info/app/71116/history/?changeid=5742550
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 http://steamdb.info/app/71116/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-09-05 16:41)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/software/05.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-05 23:22)
- ↑ http://vc.sega.jp:80/vc_aliensoldier/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-10-14 02:15)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 http://www.nintendolife.com/games/megadrive/alien_soldier (Wayback Machine: 2017-06-24 15:17)
- ↑ http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/8d_avWnVBDGnFOuvdttlDI3UJzTkMaov (Wayback Machine: 2015-09-10 02:04)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Virtual-Console-Wii-/Alien-Soldier-276214.html (archive.today)
- ↑ http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php?action=catalogue&prodcat_id=41&prod_id=19723&pageID=4 (Wayback Machine: 2012-04-03 03:13)
- ↑ https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/article/5120ebe5-d853-47f9-a69f-8a7a5034d0a9 (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoAmerica on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoEurope on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoUK on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ http:/ (Wayback Machine: 2014-10-01 20:07)
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 17
- ↑ CD Consoles, "Avril 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 96
- ↑ Consoles +, "Avril 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 131
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 13
- ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1995-05-23)
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 287
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 9, "" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 19
- ↑ Famitsu, "1995-03-03" (JP; 1995-02-17), page 41
- ↑ GamesMaster, "July 1995" (UK; 1995-06-08), page 54
- ↑ Joypad, "Avril 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 82
- ↑ LeveL, "Září 1995" (CZ; 1995-09-18), page 40
- ↑ MAN!AC, "05/95" (DE; 1995-04-12), page 50
- ↑ Mega Fun, "05/95" (DE; 1995-04-19), page 72
- ↑ Player One, "Avril 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 82
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 May" (JP; 1995-04-07), page 47
- ↑ Sega Power, "July 1995" (UK; 1995-05-18), page 34
- ↑ Sega Power, "Dekémvrios 1997-Ianouários 1998" (GR; 1998-xx-xx), page 49
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "March 1995" (JP; 1995-02-08), page 130
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Junio 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 32
- ↑ Tricks, "5/95" (RU; 1995-xx-xx), page 27
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 7
- ↑ https://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/573107372/Alien_Soldier_Sega_Mega_Drive.html
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