Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean

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Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Working Designs (US), Sunsoft (JP)
Developer:
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (21 tracks)
Peripherals supported: Saturn Backup Memory
Genre: RPG

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Saturn
JP
¥6,5006,500 T-1514G
Sega Saturn
JP
(Satakore)
¥2,8002,800 T-1517G
Sega Saturn
JP
(Shokai Press Gentei)
¥6,5006,500 T-1507G
Sega Saturn
US
T-12705H
Sega Saturn
KR
T-26804H-08

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Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean, known as Albert Odyssey Gaiden: Legend of Eldean (アルバートオデッセイ外伝 ~レジェンド オブ エルディーン~) in Japan, is an RPG for the Sega Saturn.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language Localised Name English Translation
English (US) Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean
Japanese アルバートオデッセイ外伝 ~レジェンド オブ エルディーン~ Albert Odyssey Gaiden: Legend of Eldean

Production credits

Japanese version

  • Main Program: Ganchan
  • Field Program: Hiroaki Atsumi
  • Battle Program: Hiroya Matsugami
  • System Program: Akihiro Asada
  • Event Program: Ganchan
  • Menu Program: Akihiro Asada
  • Openning demo Program: Hiroya Matsugami
  • Title logo Program: Hiroaki Atsumi
  • Tool Program: Ganchan
  • Chief Designer: Yoshiaki Iwata
  • Town Map Design: Ichi, Tadashi Kozima, Noriaki Kitamura
  • Town Character Design: SP Taka, Takeshi Koshino, Kazumasa Yoshihara
  • Field Map Design: Tadashi Kozima
  • Battle Design: Yoshiaki Iwata
  • Battle BG Design: Sayuri Miyazaki
  • Battle Character Design: Kazumasa Yoshihara, Maya Himeno
  • Pochi is No. 1: Sayuri Miyazaki
  • Event Design: SP Taka, Takeshi Koshino
  • Event demo Design: Noriaki Kitamura
  • Assistant Designer: Nobuhide Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Tanigawa, Ai Tashita, Masaaki Sato, Chiharu Kaneko, Maki Fukunaga
  • Super chimpanzee: Maya Himeno
  • 3D modeler: Yoshiaki Iwata
  • Original Character Design: Hiroyuki Karashima
  • Illustration: Toshiyuki Kubooka, Akari Funato
  • Music Composer: Naoki Kodaka
  • Sound Director / Sound Program / Sound Effect: NAO
  • Sound Effect: Kengo Sakurai, Atsushi Takada
  • Violin: Yayoi Sakiyama
  • Flute: Yoko Niwa
  • Oboe & English Horn: Kaori Miyazawa
  • Guitar: Shigeru Watanabe
  • Percussion: Masato Nishimura
  • Keyboard: Wataru Iwamoto
  • Synthesizer Programing: Naoki Kodaka
  • Recording Engineer: Masato Nishimura
  • Recoroed at: Music Farm Studio
  • Voice actor & actress: Osamu Nakamoto, Tokishige Tsujimura, Hironori Tsuboi, Yoshiyuki Kudo, Ryuji Tanaka, Yoko Okochi, Mariko Masuda, Yoko Ito
  • Voice coordinator: Hideo Zaitsu (Mediabarn)
  • Scenario Writer: Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
  • Scenario Supervisor: Tatsuo Mori
  • Technical Support: Akito Takeuchi
  • Promotion Planner: Hideyuki Kato
  • Planning & Promotion: Hideyuki Kato, Tatsuo Mori
  • Public relations: Hideyuki Kato, Hideo Yamamoto, Tatsuo Mori, Izumi Imazeki, Miyuki Kawakami
  • Printing: Kazuyuki Watanabe, Mamoru Goto, Tatsuya Sakurai, Kenichi Oshika
  • Marketing & Sales: Masaru Aoyanagi, Makoto Kawashita, Hirokazu Yokochi, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Special thanks: Etsuko Masuda, Akie Hattori
  • Boss: Masato Kawai
  • Executive producer: Kiharu Yoshida
Source:
In-game credits (JP)

Overseas version

Japan Staff
  • Main Program: Ganchan
  • Field Program: Hiroaki Atsumi
  • Battle Program: Hiroya Matsugami
  • System Program: Akihiro Asada
  • Event Program: Ganchan
  • Menu Program: Akihiro Asada
  • Opening demo Program: Hiroya Matsugami
  • Title logo Program: Hiroaki Atsumi
  • Tool Program: Ganchan
  • Chief Designer: Yoshiaki Iwata
  • Town Map Design: Ichi, Tadashi Kozima, Noriaki Kitamura
  • Town Character Design: SP Taka, Takeshi Koshino, Kazumasa Yoshihara
  • Field Map Design: Tadashi Kozima
  • Battle Design: Yoshiaki Iwata
  • Battle BG Design: Sayuri Miyazaki
  • Battle Character Design: Kazumasa Yoshihara, Maya Himeno
  • Event Design: SP Taka, Takeshi Koshino
  • Event demo Design: Noriaki Kitamura
  • Assistant Designer: Nobuhide Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Tanigawa, Ai Tashita, Masaaki Sato, Chiharu Kaneko, Maki Fukunaga
  • 3D modeler: Yoshiaki Iwata
  • Original Character Design: Hiroyuki Karashima
  • Illustration: Toshiyuki Kubooka, Akari Funato
  • Music Composer: Naoki Kodaka
  • Sound Director / Sound Program / Sound Effect: NAO
  • Sound Effect: Kengo Sakurai, Atsushi Takada
  • Violin: Yayoi Sakiyama
  • Flute: Yoko Niwa
  • Oboe & English Horn: Kaori Miyazawa
  • Guitar: Shigeru Watanabe
  • Percussion: Masato Nishimura
  • Keyboard: Wataru Iwamoto
  • Synthesizer Programing: Naoki Kodaka
  • Recording Engineer: Masato Nishimura
  • Recorded at: Music Farm Studio
  • Scenario Writer: Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
  • Scenario Supervisor: Tatsuo Mori
  • Technical Support: Akito Takeuchi
  • Boss: Masato Kawai
  • Executive producer: Kiharu Yoshida
USA Staff
  • Producer: Victor Ireland
  • Programmer: Tim Trzepacz
  • Sound Editing: Bill King
  • Translation: Akiko S. Peterson, Zach Meston, Victor Ireland, Tim Trzepacz
  • Voice Actors: Kathy Emma, Keith Lack, Wilson Smith, Katie Staeck, Jenny Stigile
  • Playtesting: Bonnie Shirley, Eric "Pottle" Brewer
  • Manual Design: Don Shirley
  • Sales: Kelly Knight
Source:
In-game credits (US)

Track list

1. [data track]  
2. CD Warning message (00:14) 
Japan 警告メッセージ
3. Prologue (with Narration) (03:28) 
Japan プロローグ
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
4. Opening 1 (with Narration) (03:51) 
Japan オープニング1
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
5. Title (01:08) 
Japan タイトル
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
6. Main Theme 1 (02:48) 
Japan メインテーマ1
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
7. Main Theme 2 (03:50) 
Japan メインテーマ2
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
8. Aria (00:47) 
Japan アリア
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
9. Estarant (01:31) 
Japan エスタラント
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
10. Mysterioso (02:11) 
Japan ミステリオーソ
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
11. Sailing (00:22) 
Japan セーリング
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
12. Solitude (02:16) 
Japan ソリチュード
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
13. Serenade (02:19) 
Japan セレナーデ
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
14. Game Over (00:12) 
Japan ゲーム・オーバー
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
15. Fin 1 (00:37) 
Japan フィン
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
16. SUNSOFT LOGO (00:16) 
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
17. Main Theme 2 (Short) (01:54) 
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
18. Main Theme 1 (Short) (02:36) 
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
19. Main Theme 1 (Short) (01:40) 
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
20. Main Theme 1 (Short) (00:55) 
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
21. Mysterioso (Short) (02:02) 
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
22. Mysterioso (Short) (01:34) 
Composed by: Naoki Kodaka
Running time: 36:31

Magazine articles

Main article: Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #95: "June 1997" (1997-0x-xx)
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Print advert in Ultra Game Players (US) #99: "July 1997" (1997-06-24)
also published in:
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-02: "1996-02 (1996-02-09)" (1996-01-26)
also published in:
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-06: "1996-06 (1996-04-12)" (1996-03-22)
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-13: "1996-13 (1996-08-09)" (1996-07-26)
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-14: "1996-14 (1996-08-23)" (1996-08-09)
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
83 №98, p50[8]
70
75 №108, p121[9]
50 №1996-13, p221[10]
75 №, p12[11]
70 №100
Sega Saturn
71
Based on
6 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
83
[8]
Fun Generation (DE) NTSC-U
70
[12]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
75
[9]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
73
[13]
Joypad (FR) NTSC-J
80
[14]
MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-U
70
[15]
Next Generation (US) NTSC-U
25
[16]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
71
[17]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
73
[18]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
50
[19]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
75
[11]
Ultra Game Players (US)
70
[20]
Sega Saturn
68
Based on
12 reviews

Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean

Saturn, US
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Cover
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Disc
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Manual
Saturn, JP
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Cover
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Disc
Saturn, JP (Shokai Press Gentei)
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Cover
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Spinecard
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Disc
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Jewel Case
Saturn, JP (Satakore)
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Cover
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Disc
Saturn, KR
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Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Saturn
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
633,487,680 1996-07-06 CD-ROM(JP) T-1507G, T-1514G, T-1517G V1.003
Sega Saturn
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
645,377,040 CD-ROM(US) T-12705H V1.010
Sega Saturn
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
645,377,040 CD-ROM(US) T-12705H (Alt) V1.100

References

  1. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "July 1997" (US; 1997-0x-xx), page 55
  2. Game Informer, "August 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 23
  3. GamePro, "August 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 59
  4. Game Informer, "September 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 68
  5. Game Informer, "October 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 11
  6. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 61
  7. Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-03 (1996-02-23)" (JP; 1996-02-09), page 8
  8. 8.0 8.1 File:EGM US 098.pdf, page 52 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:EGM US 098.pdf_p52" defined multiple times with different content
  9. 9.0 9.1 File:GamePro US 108.pdf, page 121 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 108.pdf_p121" defined multiple times with different content
  10. File:SSM_JP_19960809_1996-13.pdf, page 225
  11. 11.0 11.1 Saturn no Game wa Sekai Ichi~i~i~i!: Satamaga Dokusha Race Zen Kiroku, SoftBank Publishing, page 14 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SnGwSISDRZK Book JP.pdf_p14" defined multiple times with different content
  12. Fun Generation, "10/97" (DE; 1997-09-10), page 88
  13. Game Informer, "September 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 54
  14. Joypad, "Septembre 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 73
  15. MAN!AC, "10/97" (DE; 1997-09-10), page 46
  16. Next Generation, "October 1997" (US; 1997-09-23), page 174
  17. Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 17" (JP; 1996-08-02), page 188
  18. Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 20" (JP; 1996-09-20), page 62
  19. Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-13 (1996-08-09)" (JP; 1996-07-26), page 225
  20. Ultra Game Players, "September 1997" (US; 1997-08-19), page 82