Pretty Solider Sailormoon (Remake) for Dreamcast Released!

[InsaneDavid]

This has been in development for awhile. A mod of the freeware Beats of Rage game engine, BSSM (Remake) is basically the original Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Super Famicom game dropped into the BoR development environment. Check it out and get your download from the DCEmulation thread below....

http://www.dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=73786

The file will be a zipped .cdi image, burn it with either Discjuggler or Alcohol 120%, pop it in your Dreamcast, and you're ready to go.

Shortly there will be a Pretty Solider Sailormoon Plus mod made with new cinematics, unlockables, an all new US voice cast, and more.

This is only the beginning in what has been proposed as a long line of Sailormoon BoR projects.

[Nez]

Is sailor moon popluar with DC developers or somthing? I can't fathome why they be making a slew of em let alone one.

[poloplayr]

Cool! Thanks for the link.

[InsaneDavid]

Is sailor moon popluar with DC developers or somthing? I can't fathome why they be making a slew of em let alone one.

With how TOEI basically let the rights to video and broadcast of Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon die in the US and Japan, even though their are companies that were / still want to make money off the license (Tokyopop, ADV, etc.) since their is demand - it's up to fans to continue to deliver content. I don't want to get into the insanely moronic path that TOEI went down to kill the BSSM franchise all because they wanted to push all resources into the Pretty Guardian Sailormoon live action TV series (which was never well received in Japan and honestly there was never any kind of American market in it). Let's just put it this way, they found a way to kill off an anime juggernaut that was going through a fourth very strong revival both inside and outside of Japan - by being lazy and sitting their with their hands up their asses. Remember, there's still an entire season of Sailormoon (BSSM SailorStars), two specials, all the Sera-Myu live action musicals, etc. that have never had official US releases. Even though Tokyopop's (formerly Mixx) translation of the Sailormoon manga was their very first fortay into manga translations, and is at best considered "decent", they still translated it all and a demand for reprinting it surfaced over the summer. However they no longer have the rights to do so for the above mentioned reasons - no one has the rights anymore, they've all be reverted back to Miss Takeuchi. With that also any translation of the manga that Sailormoon was born out of, "Codename is Sailor V", went out the window too.

Anyway, there are many BoR mods planned for Sailormoon, all lead by the same team, of which I'm a consultant for.

Proposed mods are as follows:

Pretty Soldier Sailormoon (Remake) - remake of the Super Famicom BSSM game, what this post is announcing the release of.
Pretty Soldier Sailormoon Plus - a full remix of the Super Famicom BSSM game with reworked levels, new cenematics, new English voice cast, unlockable characters, new attack implementations, a completely reworked core gameplay structure - it's Sailormoon, plus.
Pretty Soldier Sailormoon R (Remake) - remake of the Super Famicom BSSMR game, again, to be accurate to the SFC original but in BoR.
Pretty Soldier Sailormoon R Plus - a full remix of the Super Famicom BSSMR game with reworked levels, new levels, new cinematics, new English voice cast, unlockable characters, new attack implementation, completely reworked core structure with additional enhancements, etc.
Pretty Soldier Sailormoon Destiny Revival - a COMPLETELY NEW BSSM beat-em-up game that takes place after the final season of Sailormoon (SailorStars). This is to be a commercial quality BoR event, and has been in development now for a LONG time and still has a ways to go. It will exceed the standard of the best BoR mods and shatter the notion of what can be done with BoR, becoming not just a mod, but a game in its own right.

There are also plans for an S, SuperS, and Stars game - all of which would be original creations (since beat-em-ups for those series were never made) set in their respective story arcs.

We're trying to bring a little something more to the table with the advanced SM mods other than "punch, punch, kick - move to the right." I mean, the industry doesn't seem to care about quality in beat-em-up's anymore when crap like Spikeout is released.

[ventrra]

Proposed mods are as follows:

Pretty Soldier Sailormoon (Remake) - remake of the Super Famicom BSSM game, what this post is announcing the release of.
Pretty Soldier Sailormoon Plus - a full remix of the Super Famicom BSSM game with reworked levels, new cenematics, new English voice cast, unlockable characters, new attack implementations, a completely reworked core gameplay structure - it's Sailormoon, plus.
Pretty Soldier Sailormoon R (Remake) - remake of the Super Famicom BSSMR game, again, to be accurate to the SFC original but in BoR.
Pretty Soldier Sailormoon R Plus - a full remix of the Super Famicom BSSMR game with reworked levels, new levels, new cinematics, new English voice cast, unlockable characters, new attack implementation, completely reworked core structure with additional enhancements, etc.
Pretty Soldier Sailormoon Destiny Revival - a COMPLETELY NEW BSSM beat-em-up game that takes place after the final season of Sailormoon (SailorStars). This is to be a commercial quality BoR event, and has been in development now for a LONG time and still has a ways to go. It will exceed the standard of the best BoR mods and shatter the notion of what can be done with BoR, becoming not just a mod, but a game in its own right.

There are also plans for an S, SuperS, and Stars game - all of which would be original creations (since beat-em-ups for those series were never made) set in their respective story arcs.

We're trying to bring a little something more to the table with the advanced SM mods other than "punch, punch, kick - move to the right." I mean, the industry doesn't seem to care about quality in beat-em-up's anymore when crap like Spikeout is released.

Sounds like a good plan to me. There are a couple of other suggestions I'd like to add though. There was a PC one-on-one fighting game(whose name escapes me: Moon Fighter, perhaps) that would probably translate fairly well. Perhaps a remake of the arcade game in MAME would be in order since the Dreamcast really can't handle it.

[InsaneDavid]

There was a PC one-on-one fighting game(whose name escapes me: Moon Fighter, perhaps) that would probably translate fairly well.

It was unlicensed and would be a bitch to rip sprites from.

Perhaps a remake of the arcade game in MAME would be in order since the Dreamcast really can't handle it.

We've all agreed that the Sailormoon arcade game was designed terribly and porting it would just be a waste of time. The only reason there are going to be the two Super Famicom "remake" games (Sailormoon and Sailormoon R) is that they were being used as proof of technology works to build the enhanced versions (Sailormoon Plus and Sailormoon R Plus) off of. Think of it as Virtua Racing, was a development game, it was good enough that AM2 figured they'd polish it up and release it anyway. The "Plus" releases ARE going to be different than the "Remakes."

Additionally using the Super Famicom games as the base means that there are a LOT of games to rip sprites from and rework sprites off of, including the Super Famicom Sailormoon fighting and puzzle games.

[kainemaxwell]

What awsome news!!