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
Official in-game languages:
  • 日本語
  • English
  • 한국어
  • 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) [1]

    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 [9]
    70
    75 [10]
    50 [11]
    75 [12]
    70 [13]
    Sega Saturn
    71
    Based on
    6 reviews
    Sega Retro Average 
    Publication Version Score
    Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
    83
    [9]
    Fun Generation (DE) NTSC-U
    70
    [14]
    GamePro (US) NTSC-U
    75
    [10]
    Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
    73
    [15]
    Joypad (FR) NTSC-J
    80
    [16]
    MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-U
    70
    [17]
    Next Generation (US) NTSC-U
    25
    [18]
    Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
    71
    [19]
    Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
    73
    [20]
    Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
    50
    [11]
    Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
    75
    [12]
    Ultra Game Players (US)
    70
    [13]
    Sega Saturn
    68
    Based on
    12 reviews

    Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean

    Saturn, US
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    Cover
    AlbertOdyssey Saturn US Disc.jpg
    Disc
    Albertodyssey sat us manual.pdf
    Manual
    Saturn, JP
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    Cover
    AOGaiden Saturn JP Disc.jpg
    Disc
    Saturn, JP (Shokai Press Gentei)
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    Cover
    AOGaiden Saturn JP Spinecard Genteiban.jpg
    Spinecard
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    Disc
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    Jewel Case
    Saturn, JP (Satakore)
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    Cover
    AOGaiden Saturn JP Disc Satakore.jpg
    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

    Track list

    1. [data track]  
    2. CD Warning message (special) (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

    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
    ABSTRACT.TXT TXT (Abstract) 820 About this game.
    ALB_ABS.TXT TXT (Abstract) 820 About this game.
    ALB_BIB.TXT TXT (Bibliographiced) 147 Series History
    ALB_CPY.TXT TXT (Copyright) 45 Copyright
    BIBLIOGR.TXT TXT (Bibliographiced) 147 Series History
    COPYRIGH.TXT TXT (Copyright) 45 Copyright


    References


    Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean

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    Main page | Magazine articles | Reception | Promotional material | Technical information


    Books: Albert Odyssey Gaiden: Legend of Eldean Hisshou Kouryaku Hou (1996) | Albert Odyssey Gaiden: Legend of Eldean Koushiki Guide Book (1996) | Albert Odyssey Gaiden: Legend of Eldean Perfect Data Book (1996) | Prima's Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean Unauthorized Game Secrets (1997)

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