Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein

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Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein

System(s): Sega Dreamcast

Publisher: Capcom (Japan, US), Virgin Interactive (Europe)

Developer: Capcom

Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Dreamcast Arcade Stick, Visual Memory Unit

Genre: Fighting/Taisen Kakutou (対戦格闘)^[1]^[2], Action^[3]

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1999-12-09^[2]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e^[2]	T-1204M
US	2000-04-12^[4]^[5]^[6]	$39.9939.99^[7]	T-1207N
EU	2000-08-25		T-7003D-50
DE	2000-08-25		T-7003D-50
ES	2000-08-23^[12]		T-7003D-50
FR	2000-08-25		T-7003D-50
UK	2000-08-25^[8]^[9]	£39.9939.99^[10]^[11]	T-7003D-50
AU	2000-10-03^[13]	$79.9579.95^[14]

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Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein, known as Star Gladiator 2: Nightmare of Bilstein (スターグラディエイター2 ナイトメアオブビルシュタイン) in Japan is a 3D fighting game released for the Sega Dreamcast by Capcom. It is a sequel to Star Gladiator, an earlier fighter which bypassed Sega consoles.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein	Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein
English (US)	Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein	Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein
Japanese	スターグラディエイター2 ナイトメアオブビルシュタイン	Star Gladiator 2: Nightmare of Bilstein

Production credits

Director: Satsuma Ikeda, Terada Takayoshi
Main programmer: Hiro
Demo Programmer: Hero Hero, S.K♥Sigeru Kato♥
Player Programmer: Hero Hero, HIRO, S.K♥Sigeru Kato♥, ♨Masaki Kataoka♨
Programer: Yoshihiro Shindome, Kohei Akiyama, Chabin Type M, Yuichi "Okaz" Kagawa, Fuku 2
Obj-Effect: Shiba-H
Obj-Motion: Naoki Fukushima, KEN, Tsuru, Masaki Yamanaka, Masayuki Maeda
Obj-Texture: Nakatani, Kuratani Eiji, Michiru
Background Design: Takahashi Yasuto, Kohama, Mishima Takuji
Sound Director: Hiroaki "X68K" Kondo (Cipher)
Sound Effect: Moe.T (T.Kitamura)
Main Music Composer: Anarchy Takapon (Takayuki Iwai)
Sub Music Composer: Cyber-T (Tetsuya Shibata)
Official Art Works: MCF, Inoda.Keigo, Daichan
Title Design: Shoei
Instruction Card: Sakomizu
Voice Actor: Secret♥
Super Special Thanks: ☃Tatsuya (Dai) Nakae☃
Special Thanks: Neo-G(H.Ishizawa), Erik Suzuki, Dan Okada, Chris Tang, Steve Lee, Chiakis
Producer: Noritaka Funamizu, Kouji Nakajima
Executive Producer: Yoshiki Okamoto

Consumer Version Staff

Main Programer: Iwasaki Yuichi
Programer: Onuma Masaomi, Ishii Hiroaki, Nabeta Masayuki
Tools: Sugiura Daiske, Ogawa Yosuke
Obj-Charcter: Uchiumi Naoki, Kaburagi Soichi, Tani Fujitaka, Murakami Ryohei, Watanabe Shinji
Obj-Effect: Kumazawa Takeo
Icondot,Sprite: Nakashima Takashi
Data Convert: Ishiyama Akifumi
Special Thanks: Ikeda Kazuo, And Capcom All Staff
Presented by: Capcom Co., Ltd.

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #1999-39ex: "1999-39 extra (1999-12-24ex)" (1999-12-10)

Print advert in GamePro (US) #139: "April 2000" (2000-0x-xx)
also published in:

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #130: "May 2000" (2000-04-04)^[15]

Print advert in Next Level (AR) #15: "Abril 2000" (2000-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

576 Konzol (HU)

64

^[16]

Ação Games (BR)

80

^[17]

Arcade (UK)

PAL

25

^[18]

Consoles + (FR)

NTSC-J

70

^[19]

Consoles + (FR)

PAL

70

^[20]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

25

^[10]

Dreamcast Monthly (UK)

NTSC-J

80

^[21]

Dreamcast Monthly (UK)

PAL

50

^[22]

DC-UK (UK)

PAL

50

^[11]

Digitiser (UK)

50

^[23]

Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel (FR)

PAL

40

^[24]

Dreamcast Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

63

^[25]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

NTSC-J

65

^[26]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

54

^[27]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

74

^[28]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

64

^[29]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

NTSC-U

88

^[30]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

NTSC-J

88

^[31]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

78

^[32]

Fun Generation (DE)

NTSC-J

60

^[33]

GameFan (US)

NTSC-U

81

^[34]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[35]

GameWEEK (US)

NTSC-U

42

^[36]

Hyper (AU)

PAL

77

^[14]

Incite Video Gaming (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[37]

Joypad (FR)

PAL

40

^[38]

Joypad (IT)

NTSC-J

40

^[39]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC-J

79

^[40]

Mega Fun (DE)

NTSC-J

52

^[41]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

25

^[42]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

40

^[43]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[7]

Playmag (FR)

PAL

35

^[44]

Revista Oficial Dreamcast (ES)

PAL

50

^[45]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

79

^[46]

	60
Based on 35 reviews

Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Manual Inlay

Dreamcast, EU
Cover
Disc Inlay

Technical information

Main article: Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

GD-ROM (JP)

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

GD-ROM (US)

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

GD-ROM (EU)

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

2000-06-12

GD-R

Page

External links

Capcom USA webpage: Dreamcast
Sega of America webpage: Dreamcast
Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

References

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↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 http://sega.jp/dc/990705/ (Wayback Machine: 2014-08-03 22:51)
↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software_l.html#tab01 (Wayback Machine: 2020-02-01 22:57)
↑ http://www.capcom.com/xpml/game.xpml?gameid=500011 (Wayback Machine: 2000-09-30 15:00)
↑ http://www.sega.com:80/pc/catalog/SegaProduct.jhtml?PRODID=188&CATID=71 (Wayback Machine: 2003-09-23 06:53)
↑ http://www.ebworld.com/ebx/categories/newReleases/morenr-DC.asp (Wayback Machine: 2000-06-21 08:01)
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "May/June 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 86
↑ http://www.chipsworld.co.uk/detProd.asp?ProductCode=2994 (Wayback Machine: 2002-11-14 13:54)
↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/300724/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-23 23:00)
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 Computer & Video Games, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-16), page 112
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 DC-UK, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-02), page 72
↑ http://www.centromail.es/top/ficha.asp?codmail=14961&codprov= (Wayback Machine: 2001-09-17 04:10)
↑ http://www.futuregamez.net:80/outnow/dc.html (Wayback Machine: 2001-07-31 23:17)
↑ ^14.0 ^14.1 Hyper, "November 2000" (AU; 2000-09-27), page 79
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 99
↑ 576 Konzol, "December 2000" (HU; 2000-xx-xx), page 45
↑ Ação Games, "Fevereiro 2000" (BR; 2000-xx-xx), page 34
↑ Arcade, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-11), page 85
↑ Consoles +, "Février 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 106
↑ Consoles +, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 118
↑ Dreamcast Monthly, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-17), page 92
↑ Dreamcast Monthly, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-03), page 78
↑ Digitiser (UK) (2000-09-05)
↑ Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel, "Septembre/Octobre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 71
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "1999-39 (1999-12-17,24)" (JP; 1999-12-03), page 20
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 5" (UK; 2000-01-27), page 78
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 12" (UK; 2000-08-10), page 64
↑ Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2000" (US; 2000-02-08), page 144
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 157
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 228
↑ Famitsu, "1999-12-17" (JP; 1999-12-03), page 30
↑ Fun Generation, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-19), page 96
↑ GameFan, "Volume 8, Issue 3: March 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 13
↑ GamePro, "March 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 104
↑ GameWEEK, "January 31, 2000" (US; 2000-01-31), page 16
↑ Incite Video Gaming, "March 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 109
↑ Joypad, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 159
↑ Joypad, "Febbraio 2000" (IT; 2000-0x-xx), page 105
↑ MAN!AC, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-05), page 46
↑ Mega Fun, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-05), page 78
↑ Next Generation, "March 2000" (US; 2000-02-xx), page 89
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-03), page 74
↑ Playmag, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 139
↑ Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Marzo 2000" (ES; 2000-0x-xx), page 56
↑ Video Games, "08/2000" (DE; 2000-07-05), page 108

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[:File:CVG_UK_226.pdf_p112-10] 10.0 ^10.1 Computer & Video Games, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-16), page 112

[:File:DCUK_UK_13.pdf.E2.80.8E_p72-11] 11.0 ^11.1 DC-UK, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-02), page 72

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[:File:Hyper_AU_085.pdf_p79-14] 14.0 ^14.1 Hyper, "November 2000" (AU; 2000-09-27), page 79

[:File:EGM_US_130.pdf_p99-15] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 99

[16] 576 Konzol, "December 2000" (HU; 2000-xx-xx), page 45

[:File:AcaoGames_BR_148.pdf_p34-17] Ação Games, "Fevereiro 2000" (BR; 2000-xx-xx), page 34

[:File:Arcade_UK_23.pdf_p85-18] Arcade, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-11), page 85

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_097.pdf_p106-19] Consoles +, "Février 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 106

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_104.pdf_p118-20] Consoles +, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 118

[:File:DreamcastMonthly_UK_06.pdf_p92-21] Dreamcast Monthly, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-17), page 92

[:File:DreamcastMonthly_UK_12.pdf_p78-22] Dreamcast Monthly, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-03), page 78

[digitiser2000-09-05-23] Digitiser (UK) (2000-09-05)

[:File:DLMO_FR_06.pdf_p71-24] Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel, "Septembre/Octobre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 71

[:File:DCM_JP_19991217_1999-39.pdf_p20-25] Dreamcast Magazine, "1999-39 (1999-12-17,24)" (JP; 1999-12-03), page 20

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_05.pdf_p78-26] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 5" (UK; 2000-01-27), page 78

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_12.pdf_p64-27] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 12" (UK; 2000-08-10), page 64

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p34-28] Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34

[:File:EGM_US_128.pdf_p144-29] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2000" (US; 2000-02-08), page 144

[30] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 157

[31] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 228

[32] Famitsu, "1999-12-17" (JP; 1999-12-03), page 30

[:File:FunGeneration_DE_49.pdf_p96-33] Fun Generation, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-19), page 96

[:File:GameFan_US_0803.pdf_p13-34] GameFan, "Volume 8, Issue 3: March 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 13

[:File:GamePro_US_138.pdf_p104-35] GamePro, "March 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 104

[:File:GameWEEK_US_2000-01-31.pdf_p16-36] GameWEEK, "January 31, 2000" (US; 2000-01-31), page 16

[:File:InciteVideoGaming_US_4.pdf_p109-37] Incite Video Gaming, "March 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 109

[:File:Joypad_FR_100.pdf_p159-38] Joypad, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 159

[:File:Joypad_IT_02.pdf_p105-39] Joypad, "Febbraio 2000" (IT; 2000-0x-xx), page 105

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-02.pdf_p46-40] MAN!AC, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-05), page 46

[:File:MegaFun_DE_2000-02.pdf_p78-41] Mega Fun, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-05), page 78

[:File:NextGeneration_US_63.pdf_p89-42] Next Generation, "March 2000" (US; 2000-02-xx), page 89

[:File:ODM_UK_11.pdf_p74-43] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-03), page 74

[:File:Playmag_FR_50.pdf_p139-44] Playmag, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 139

[:File:ROD_ES_03.pdf_p56-45] Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Marzo 2000" (ES; 2000-0x-xx), page 56

[:File:VideoGames_DE_2000-08.pdf_p108-46] Video Games, "08/2000" (DE; 2000-07-05), page 108

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Contents

Versions

Localised names

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References