Lost In Translation/Dungeons & Dragons - Shadow Over Mystara

About The Game
Dungeons & Dragons - Shadow Over Mystara is an arcade video game.

Six characters straight out of the Dungeons and Dragons Player's Manual take up arms in order to rid the kingdom of the evil sorceress Syn and her droves of annoying little Kobolds.

Trivia
The game is based on the famous RPG system "Dungeons & Dragons".

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the name selection screen. If you try, it gets changed to (depending of the character you choose) :
 * Fighter : 'CRASSUS'
 * Cleric : 'GRELDON'
 * Elf : 'LUCIA'
 * Magic user : 'SYOUS'

Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Dungeons & Dragons - Shadow Over Mystara - VICL-2169) on 22/05/1996.

Updates
The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

REVISION 1 :
 * Software version : '960209' ('960206' for the Japanese release).

REVISION 2 :
 * Software version : '960619'.
 * Name BUG corrected (see 'Tips And Tricks' section for more info).

Tips and tricks
BUG : very beneficial trick in some cases but leads to lockups. Choose a character with a 6-character name (Blue Dwarf and possibly 2 others). Press the name button and then erase it and start pressing buttons to put your own letters in. The timer to enter your name will reset as long as you are pressing buttons to enter letters. What happens is that you can continue to enter more letters than the code expects and you begin to over-write the area of memory that contains character information and inventory. Depending on what letters you enter and how many you enter you can continue the game at the beginning of the next stage and already be hasted, invulnerable, invisible, possessing powerful weapons, etc... The character info on screen is all garbled. Once you make it to the first shop you can drag apparently empty inventory items into the trash for large sums of silver. The game will lock up quite frequently though - especially when you pick up items that hold specific places in memory. Try using about 110 "M"s for a name. This glitch was removed with the later revision.

Series

 * 1) Dungeons & Dragons - Tower of Doom (1994)
 * 2) Dungeons & Dragons - Shadow Over Mystara (1996)

Staff

 * Planners:
 * Kenkun Kataoka
 * Malachie


 * Character Designer:
 * Kinu. Nishimura


 * Object Designers:
 * "S" is a Criminal
 * H. Minobe
 * Shinya.M
 * Dway Nishimura
 * Kanako Takami
 * Miwa Shigenaga
 * Toshihiro Suzuki
 * Kako
 * Masayo Tsuiimoto
 * T. Shirahama
 * Ino
 * R. Sato
 * Sagata
 * Masanori Kondo
 * Shinji Sakashita (Shinz.Sakashita)
 * Satoru Yamashita
 * Yosinori Yamamoto
 * Dja
 * Jon
 * Iwasaki Inukichi
 * Jun Matsumura (28)


 * Scroll Designers:
 * Nissui
 * Saru
 * Shake
 * Hisoya
 * S. Kuwatch
 * J. Son
 * Ojiji
 * Takky
 * Iwai
 * Meiko.K


 * Music Composer:
 * Masato Koda


 * Sound Designer:
 * Moe.T


 * Sound Effects:
 * Moe.T
 * Hachi Bee
 * Satoshi Ise


 * Sound Producer By
 * Arcade Sound Team


 * Programmers:
 * O.G.T
 * Kazuo.Yamawaki
 * Motsu
 * Tora&Yume&Hide
 * Ryota Forever
 * K.A.T.S.U.O
 * Knishi-MadDogMc


 * Original Script:
 * Alex Jimenez

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Sega Saturn (1999, "Dungeons & Dragons Collection")