Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge

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Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Capcom, Virgin Interactive Entertainment (EU)
Developer:
Original system(s): Capcom CPS-2
Sound driver: SCSP (1 track)
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Saturn
JP 		¥6,8006,800 T-1202G
Sega Saturn
US 		$64.9964.99[4] T-1208H
Sega Saturn
EU 		T-7009H-50
Sega Saturn
PL
Sega Saturn
BR 		193296
Non-Sega versions

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Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge, known as Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers' Revenge (ヴァンパイア ハンター) in Japan, is the second game in the Darkstalkers versus fighting franchise by Capcom. It was followed by Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire.

Though uncredited in-game, music porting for the Sega Saturn version was handled to some extent by Sega's own Teruhiko Nakagawa with Tatsuya Kouzaki handling miscellaneous data porting.

Gameplay

Characters

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 Demitri Maximoff
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 Jon Talbain/Gallon
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 Victor von Gerdenheim
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 Hsien-Ko/Lei-Lei
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 Lord Raptor/Zabel Zarock
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 Morrigan Aenslaed
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 Anakaris
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 Felicia
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 Bishamon
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 Rikuo/Aulbath
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 Donovan Baine
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 Sasquatch
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 Huitzil/Phobos
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 Pyron

Versions

The Saturn version of Night Warriors is a close match to its arcade counterpart, but uses slightly fewer frames of animation during normal play. The full set of graphics do exist on the disc, however, and will be utilised if a hidden "animation mode" is set to "full". The catch is that the missing frames will only be rendered if the player and opponent are using the same character.

Loading screens are also introduced on the Saturn due to its use of disc-based media and the game is more susceptible to slowdown in busy scenes.

Due to the differences in screen resolution between the two systems (384x224 in the arcades versus 352x224 on the Saturn), all of the Saturn's graphics are stretched slightly in the horizontal axis, and borders are added at the top and bottom. Perhaps the biggest side effect of this change is the titles and menus, where the logo doesn't quite fit on screen.

Localised names

Also known as
Language Localised Name English Translation
English Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
English (US) Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
Japanese ヴァンパイア ハンター Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers' Revenge

Screenshot

Main article: Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge/Comparisons.

Magazine articles

Main article: Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #81: "April 1996" (1996-xx-xx)
also published in:
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Artwork

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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
80 [9]
80 [10]
80 №377, p29
90
95 [11]
91
90
89 №43, p42-44
100 [12]
94 [13]
80
94 №64, p98-100
90 №80, p44-46
91 [14]
90 [15]
89 [16]
Sega Saturn
 89
Based on
16 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
576 KByte (HU)
92
[17]
Consoles + (FR)
93
[18]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
75
[2]
Edge (UK)
80
[19]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
76
[20]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
80
[21]
Fun Generation (DE) NTSC
90
[22]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
92
[11]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
82
[23]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
90
[4]
Hobby Consolas (ES)
90
[24]
Intelligent Gamer's Fusion (US) NTSC-U
100
[25]
Joypad (FR)
92
[26]
LeveL (CZ)
71
[27]
MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-J
83
[28]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
83
[29]
Maximum (UK)
100
[12]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
90
[30]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
85
[31]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) NTSC-J
94
[32]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
94
[33]
Next Generation (US) NTSC-U
50
[34]
neXt Level (DE)
80
[35]
Player One (FR)
94
[36]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
83
[37]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
90
[38]
Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL
91
[39]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
90
[40]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
89
[41]
Total Saturn (UK) PAL
91
[42]
Total Saturn (UK) PAL
91
[43]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-J
86
[44]
VideoGames (US) NTSC-U
90
[45]
Sega Saturn
 87
Based on
33 reviews

Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge

Saturn, US
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Cover
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Disc
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Manual
Saturn, EU
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Cover
Saturn, JP
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Cover
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Spinecard
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Disc
VampireHunter SS jp manual.pdf
Manual
Saturn, BR
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Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Saturn
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
495,521,712 CD-ROM (EU) T-7009H-50 V1.001
Sega Saturn
✔
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
497,622,048 1996-01-28 CD-ROM (JP) T-1202G V1.000
Sega Saturn
✔
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
495,507,600 CD-ROM (US) T-1208H V1.001

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
VH_ABS.TXT TXT (Abstract) 431 About this game.
VH_BIB.TXT TXT (Bibliographiced) 40 Title
VH_CPY.TXT TXT (Copyright) 59 Copyright


References

  1. ↑ Computer & Video Games, "October 1996" (UK; 1996-09-09), page 53
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Computer & Video Games, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-09), page 62
  3. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "April 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 64
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 GamePro, "May 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 66
  5. ↑ http://www.tectoy.com.br/releases/index.htm (Wayback Machine: 1998-06-25 19:48)
  6. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 48
  7. ↑ Next Generation, "June 1996" (US; 1996-05-21), page 6
  8. ↑ GamePro, "June 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 30
  9. ↑ Computer & Video Games, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-09), page 62-67 (62)
  10. ↑ Edge, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-04-05), page 68/69 (68)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 4: April 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 14
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Maximum, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-05-30), page 124
  13. ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-03), page 66-71 (66)
  14. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-04-24), page 76/77 (76)
  15. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-04 (1996-03-08)" (JP; 1996-02-23), page 223 (225)
  16. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine (readers), "Final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 9 (11)
  17. ↑ 576 KByte, "Október 1996" (HU; 1996-xx-xx), page 34
  18. ↑ Consoles +, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 102
  19. ↑ Edge, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-04-05), page 68
  20. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 31
  21. ↑ Famitsu, "1996-03-08" (JP; 1996-02-23), page 1
  22. ↑ Fun Generation, "05/96" (DE; 1996-04-10), page 56
  23. ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 9 No. 5 May 1996" (US; 1996-04-xx), page 62
  24. ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Noviembre 1996" (ES; 1996-xx-xx), page 84
  25. ↑ Intelligent Gamer's Fusion, "Volume 2, Number 8: April 1996" (US; 1996-02-27), page 82
  26. ↑ Joypad, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 56
  27. ↑ LeveL, "Únor 1997" (CZ; 1997-02-01), page 83
  28. ↑ MAN!AC, "04/96" (DE; 1996-03-13), page 44
  29. ↑ MAN!AC, "06/96" (DE; 1996-05-08), page 60
  30. ↑ Mega Force, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 60
  31. ↑ Mega Fun, "05/96" (DE; 1996-04-xx), page 41
  32. ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-03), page 66
  33. ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "August 1996" (UK; 1996-07-05), page 75
  34. ↑ Next Generation, "June 1996" (US; 1996-05-21), page 119
  35. ↑ neXt Level, "Mai 1996" (DE; 1996-0x-xx), page 64
  36. ↑ Player One, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 102
  37. ↑ Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 8" (JP; 1996-03-29), page 54
  38. ↑ Sega Power, "July 1996" (UK; 1996-05-09), page 44
  39. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-04-24), page 76
  40. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-04 (1996-03-08)" (JP; 1996-02-23), page 225
  41. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 11
  42. ↑ Total Saturn, "Volume One Issue Three" (UK; 1996-11-29), page 48
  43. ↑ Total Saturn, "Volume One Issue Four" (UK; 1996-12-29), page 39
  44. ↑ Video Games, "4/96" (DE; 1996-03-20), page 90
  45. ↑ VideoGames, "June 1996" (US; 1996-05-21), page 60


Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge

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Darkstalkers/Vampire games for Sega systems
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (1996) | Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (1998) | Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service (2000)
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