Sol-Feace
From Sega Retro
- For the 2023 aftermarket re-release, see Sol-Deace (Retro-Bit).
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD | ||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Renovation Products Wolf Team (JP) Sega of America (US) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Wolf Team Madhouse | ||||||||||||||||||||
Original system(s): X68000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: Wolf Team sound driver | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Shooting[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sol-Feace (ソル・フィース) is a 1990 shoot-'em-up for the X68000 by Wolf Team. It was ported to the Sega Mega-CD and in North America, to the Sega Mega Drive by Renovation Products under the name Sol-Deace.
Contents
Story
In the year 3300, a supercomputer called GCS-WT is built to unite society (spread out over 300 solar systems) through diplomacy, but decides to spiral society into a dystopia it rules as a dictator. Only the scientist Edwin Feace was able to escape GCS-WT's reign — by leaving the solar system and settling a newly discovered planet, where he builds the Sol-Feace, a ship which, when mass produced, should form a sizable enough army to defeat GCS-WT. Unfortunately, GCS-WT finds out and kills Feace and the natives of the new planet who aid him, leaving only two soldiers and one Sol-Feace to stop GCS-WT.
Gameplay
Sol-Feace is a horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up: , , and all shoot and can be held down for rapid-fire. The player's ship has three weapons mounted at different points: top, middle, and bottom (relative to the player's perspective).
Power-ups can be found by shooting capsules. Weapon power-ups can be grabbed with the top, middle, or bottom of the ship, which determines where they are mounted. It is possible to have three different weapons mounted, each at a different position. The angle of the ship's outer weapons can be adjusted by moving without firing. Moving opens the bottom weapon and closes the top weapon. Moving opens the top weapon and closes the bottom weapon. Moving closes both weapons, and moving opens both weapons.
The player loses a life if the ship collides with an enemy or object. The game starts with four extra lives. The game ends if the player loses a life without any extra lives remaining.
There are two difficulty levels, Normal and Mania, and the player can choose between three speed levels before the game starts.
Items
Weapon change items are found in capsules. Shoot open and fly over to collect.
Capsule | |
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Shoot open to release a power-up item. | |
Plasma Bullet | |
The standard weapon, initially equipped. | |
Double Plasma Bullet | |
Two plasma bullet streams in parallel. | |
Laser | |
Shoots long lasers. | |
Missile | |
Shoots missiles that spread outward when mounted on the outer parts of the ship. |
Stages
Stage 1 | |
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Stage 2 | |
Stage 3 | |
Stage 4 | |
Stage 5 | |
Stage 6 | |
Stage 7 | |
History
Sol-Feace was one of the Mega-CD launch titles to be released, debuting in Japan in December 1991 as one of two launch titles for the system (the other being Heavy Nova). It was also a launch title for the Mega-CD in Europe, sharing a box with Cobra Command and being bundled with launch units in the United Kingdom and Italy. It would also be bundled with launch North American Sega CD units, and as it was never given a stand-alone release, effectively went out of production when the redesigned Sega CD units went on sale.
During development the game was known as Hyper Attax.
Production credits
Mega Drive version
- Producer: Masaaki Uno
- Director: Jun Hoyano
- Executive Producer: Masahiro Akishino
- Programmed by: J.Takahashi, S.Horishita, BugTaro
- Music Composed by: Motoi Sakuraba
- Graphics by: Jun Hoyano, Mitsutoshi Yasumori
- Music Supported by: Ryota Furuya
- Mechanical Design by: Tadashi Hamada
- Character Design by: Toshio Yamamoto
- Thanks to: Panzer Ohmi
- Special Thanks to: Kazuyuki Fukushima
- All Produced by: Wolf Team
Mega-CD version
- Producer: M.Uno
- Director: J.Hoyano
- Programmed by: S.Horishita, J.Takahashi, Bug太郎
- Mega‑CD Assistant Programmer: C.Tokuhiro
- Visual Programmed by: Bug太郎, J.Hoyano
- Graphics by: J.Hoyano, M.Yasumori, M.Matsushima, K.Tajima, M.Kimura, Y.Nishitani, T.Isogai, K.Fujita, M.Kaneda, T.Okuda
- Mechanical Design by: T.Hamada
- Music Composed by: M.Sakuraba
- Exective Producer: M.Akishino
- Special Thanks to: T.Yamamoto, J.Asanuma, Z.Ando, H.Ogawa
- Art Director: Animaru‑Ya
- Sound Editor: Mitomo
Magazine articles
- Main article: Sol-Feace/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
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Physical scans
Mega-CD version
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Based on 22 reviews |
Mega Drive version
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Based on 9 reviews |
Technical information
- Main article: Sol-Feace/Technical information.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/mcd/soft_licensee.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-10 17:56)
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 52
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 58
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 44
- ↑ File:Sol-Deace MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:SolFeace MCD JP SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 8
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 119
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 82
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 62
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 70
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 111
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 39
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 72
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 25
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 50
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 98
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 154
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 47
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 83
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 37
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 20
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 22
- ↑ ', "December 1991" (; 1991-11-08), page 60
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 74
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 42
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 72
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 212
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 213
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 28
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 44
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 60
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 67
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 38
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 166
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 45
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