Havoc SEGA Mega Drive Complete Soundtrack CD
13PAL 50Hz
Havoc and Captain Havoc in PAL regions, known in Japan as Captain Lang (キャプテン ラング, Kyaputen Rangu) and in North America as High Seas Havoc, is a video game that was made for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by Data East in 1993. It was also released in the arcades running on a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis based arcade cabinet. For whatever reason Data East didn't publish their game in PAL regions which caused the game to be delayed there for a year until Codemasters published it in 1994.
The PAL version is optimised in audio and playing the Japanese and USA versions also have optimised audio for 50Hz with no region locking, so even if you don't like the PAL version with the cut level, importing the USA or Japanese versions has you covered.
Each level apart from the first two and last one have two acts. The Cape Sealph level was removed from the European PAL version for unknown reasons, but there is a game genie code that lets you play that level in the PAL version as it's still there in the ROM.
The story is about an anthropomorphic pirate seal named Havoc (Lang in the Japanese version), his young sidekick Tide (Land in the Japanese version), a girl named Bridget, and an evil walrus pirate named Bernardo. Bernardo is looking for Emeralda, a gem with powers that can cause whole armies to be toppled. A map shows where Emeralda is located, and Bernardo is looking for the map. Havoc and Tide discover Bridget unconscious at a beach. When she wakes up in a dwelling, she instructs Havoc to keep her and the map safe. Havoc hides the map in a cliff. After Bernardo's henchmen kidnaps Bridget and Tide, Havoc sets off to rescue them.
The sound driver that this game uses was later stolen by ''pirates'' and went on to be used in hundreds of Chinese unlicensed games for the Mega Drive.
On Wikipedia it is noted that the game received generally positive reviews when it first came out. Quite different to what i'm hearing all over the internet in that this game is none other than a Sonic The Hedgehog clone poorly made with slippery controls and a very harsh difficulty, the last part is true, the game really does start raping the player when the player reaches the psychokinesis Wolf which is the second last boss. Luckily we can play this game with a few invincibility game genie/pro action replay codes which make the game a breeze to run through.
MUSIC COMPOSERS: Emi Shimizu (清水 絵美 Shimizu Emi)
Masaaki Iwasaki 1993.
SOUND DRIVER: Data East Custom 68k.
AUDIO BITRATE: 384 Kbps.
All tracks are arranged in my own personal running order.
TRACKS: ♫
1. Going On An Adventure (00:13)
2. The Chase (03:40)
3. The Deck Battle (07:11)
4. White Frenzy (10:24)
5. Bombing Attack (14:01)
6. Lonely Journey (17:06)
7. Sometime Somewhere (21:07)
8. Otarucean's Music Box (25:00)
9. Perplexing Dungeons (28:26)
10. Watch Out For The Giant (32:15)
11. Cold Paradise (35:57)
12. Cheer Up! (39:33)
13. Like A Gale (43:20)
14. Aim For The Peak (47:17)
15. Farewell - The End (49:56)
16. Sea Of Deep Sorrow (52:46)
17. Prologue (55:20)
18. Lightning Speed (56:51)
19. Huge Pirate Boss (59:10)
20. Crisis (01:01:48)
21. Pirate Fleet Menace (01:04:36)
22. Final Confrontation! (01:07:15)
23. Havoc's Theme (01:09:58)
24. Fanfares (01:12:17)
Recorded from an original PAL High Definition Graphics - Stereo Sound model 1 VA5 SEGA Mega Drive console through the front headphone jack and carefully transferred to an audio recordable CD-R disc and played back in the SEGA Mega-CD 2 attachment.
Originally recorded onto disc in June 2013.
Enjoy!