Sakura Wars (サクラ大戦, Sakura Taisen) is a dramatic adventure game developed by Sega and Red Company (now Red Entertainment) as the first installment in the Sakura Taisen series. It was released in 1996 for the Sega Saturn, in 1999 for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers and in 2000 for the Dreamcast. An enhanced remake was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2003 as part of the.
In the demon world, Winged Sakura, humans gifted with a rare ability to form contracts with any living being, are used as tools of war. A contract can unseal any power within a living being and turn them into a powerful creature. Incarnated into a world of demons, you find yourself caught up in a middle of a demon civil war.
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Sakura Wars
Sakura Wars
2000
Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die
2001
Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?
2003
Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens
2005
1Availability
2Game data
5Audio
6Issues unresolved
7Other information
8System requirements
Warnings
SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
This game is not playable in English (see Localizations for supported languages).
Sakura Wars is a singleplayercinematic camera and isometricadventure, strategy and visual novel game in the Sakura Wars series.
It was released as Sakura Taisen (サクラ大戦) on September 27, 1996 for Sega Saturn console, and later on May 25, 2000 for DreamCast console in Japan. PC received port from DreamCast and released on August 18, 2000 in Japan while China and Taiwan version was released on August 18, 2001 as Ying Hua Da Zhan (Simplified Chinese: 樱花大战, Traditional Chinese: 櫻花大戰). An updated port for Windows XP compatibility was released on February 20, 2003 in Japan. The game was ported to PlayStation 2 on February 27, 2003, while PlayStation Portable released as Sakura Wars 1 + 2 combo pack on March 9, 2006. The only western release of Sakura Wars was made available in Russian version knows as Voyny Sakury (Войны Сакуры) on January 11, 2006. A PC Premium Edition, which includes all first four games of the Sakura Wars series with updated higher resolution FMVs and sprites compared to the original releases was released on September 21, 2006, while the DVD version of Sakura Wars which the Premium Edition used was sold separately on January 25, 2007.
SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Version differences[edit]
Game data[edit]
General options menu
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
System
Location
Windows
<path-to-game>SAVEkey.dat[Note 2]
Save game data location[edit]
System
Location
Windows
<path-to-game>SAVEINDEX.DAT[Note 2]
Video[edit]
Graphics feature
State
Notes
Widescreen resolution
No resolution options. Runs at 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
In-game hub sections and non-FMV Sequences are capped at 60 FPS. Cursor updates at a lower rate.[3]
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Input[edit]
Keyboard input options menu
Controller input options menu
Keyboard and mouse
State
Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Known as Cursor Speed (カーソル速度/游標速度)
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Audio[edit]
Audio feature
State
Notes
Separate volume controls
Music is always set to on, only Sound can be turned on/off.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Localizations
Language
UI
Audio
Sub
Notes
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Japanese
Russian
Russian retail version only
Issues unresolved[edit]
First Edition runs without correct texture color on Windows 10[edit]
The game loads properly, but unable to display any pictures aside cutscenes, even with compatibility set.
Poor framepacing on newer CPUs and operating systems[edit]
World War 1
In-game performance is very inconsistent and can rapidly fluctuate.[4]
Other information[edit]
API[edit]
Middleware[edit]
No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements[edit]
First Edition[edit]
Windows
Minimum
Recommended
Operating system (OS)
95, 98
Processor (CPU)
Pentium 166 MHz
Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM)
64 MB
128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
200 MB
1.4 GB
Video card (GPU)
640 x 480 16-bit resolution DirectX 7 compatible
Other
4x CD-ROM drive
XP Compatible Pack Edition[edit]
Windows
Minimum
Recommended
Operating system (OS)
98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)
Pentium II 300 MHz
Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM)
64 MB
128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
1.4 GB
Video card (GPU)
640 x 480 16-bit resolution 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device)
DirectSound compatible
Other
4x CD-ROM drive
War & Sakura Mac Os X
Premium Edition and DVD Edition[edit]
Windows
Minimum
Recommended
Operating system (OS)
2000, XP
Processor (CPU)
Pentium II 300 MHz
Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM)
64 MB
128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
1.4 GB
Video card (GPU)
640 x 480 16-bit resolution 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device)
DirectSound compatible
Other
4x DVD-ROM drive
Notes
↑SafeDisc retail DRMdoes not work on Windows 10[1] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
↑ 2.02.1When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
War & Sakura Mac Os Download
↑Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
↑Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
↑Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-07-26
Tested with Premium Edition using Rivatuner and by using mouse controls, and controller.
