Black Dawn

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Black Dawn NTSC-J
Black Dawn
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Developer: Black Ops Entertainment, Point of View
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (51 tracks)
Peripherals supported: Mission Stick
Genre: 3D Shooting, Shooting
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1997-04-25 ¥5,8005,800 T-7013G US 1997-01-07 T-7027H EU 1997-05-01 T-7027H-50 DE 1997 T-7027H-50 UK 1997-05-01 T-7027H-50 PL 1997 AU 199x VFBLA07SSC BR 1997 191x69
Non-Sega versions PlayStation

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Black Dawn (ブラックドーン) is a 1996 shooter originally developed by Black Ops Entertainment for the PlayStation and later ported by Point of View for the Sega Saturn, and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment on both platforms. It is a 3D helicopter-based shooter running on the same engine as Black Ops' earlier game Agile Warrior F-111X where you're tasked with various objectives, like blowing up enemy targets or rescuing hostages.

It is slightly notable for the fact that a few of the songs from its soundtrack, composed by Tommy Tallarico, were later reused as the themes for the Great Megalith and Molten Mine stages on Sonic and the Black Knight, which Tallarico also worked on, with the Molten Mine version being an arrangement made specifically for Black Knight.

Magazine articles

Main article: Black Dawn/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in EGM² (US) #29: "November 1996" (1996-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #89: "December 1996" (1996-xx-xx)

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) #15: "January 1997" (1996-12-17)

Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #66: "Marzo 1997" (1997-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 55 Freak (IL) 90 Fun Generation (DE) PAL 80 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 83 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 68 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 80 neXt Level (DE) PAL 80 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 58 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 53 Sega Magazin (DE) 69 Sega Power (UK) PAL 84 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL 85 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 67 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 81 Strana Igr (RU) 80 Super Power (FI) 79 Video Games (DE) PAL 77

	75
Based on 17 reviews

Black Dawn

Saturn, JP
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Saturn, US
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Manual

Saturn, EU
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Saturn, AU
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Saturn, BR
Manual

Technical information

Main article: Black Dawn/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	492,579,360		CD-ROM (EU)	T-7027H-50 V1.000
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	471,035,040	1997-02-18	CD-ROM (JP)	T-7013G V1.000
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	492,624,048		CD-ROM (US)	T-7027H V1.002

Extra content

This game has extra content which can be viewed when accessing the disc on a PC.

Saturn (JP) Extra files

Folder / File	Type	Size	description
BD_ABS.TXT	TXT (Abstract)	220	About this game.
BD_BIB.TXT	TXT (Bibliographiced)	126	About this game
BD_CPY.TXT	TXT (Copyright)	165	Copyright