Navy Blue (FC)

Navy Blue

Platform: Famicom Year: 1992 Developer: Use

Navy Blue (ネイビーブルー Neibī Burū) is a video game that is an adaptation of the board game Battleship. You start off by selecting a stage from the bottom left corner of the screen, and can only choose a square on the grid that is adjacent to your base. The goal of the game, like Battleship, is to sink all the opponent's fleet. However, one may choose their fleet, and can buy weapons and items for their fleet, but with the very limited amount of points they are given. As the game progresses, you can select more ships for your fleet, and use more items, but the enemy AI only gets smarter and tougher.

While the game was never released outside of Japan, there was an NES version of Battleship released in North America and Europe.

Screenshots

The title screen. The stage select screen. Setting up my fleet. The board, where most of the game takes place. You sunk my battleship! The victory screen. Part of the ending cutscene.

Music

Navy Blue borrows its entire soundtrack from a previously-released game in the Navy Blue franchise, Kaisen Game: Navy Blue 90 (GB), which was released just a couple years earlier. That game features music presumably by Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, and Masaki Iwamoto. It was presumably arranged for the NES by Masahiro Kusunoki, as he receives a sound programming credit in Hokuto no Ken 4: Shichisei Hakenden: Hokuto Shinken no Kanata e (FC), a game that shares the same sound driver. Kusunoki has also received arrangement credits before.

The music mostly keeps the "militaristic" feel of the original version, but adds rock elements to some of it. Other than that, most of the songs sound note-for-note. It is unknown how Masahiro wrote audio in his sound driver, but it can be speculated that he used either 6502 assembly or Music Macro Language.

The game also features the Stage Start music from Navy Blue 90, but it appears to be unused in this version.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Title Screen	Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto	Masahiro Kusunoki	0:55		Download
02	Stage Select	Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto	Masahiro Kusunoki	1:14		Download
03	Setup	Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto	Masahiro Kusunoki	1:40		Download
04	Stage Theme	Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto	Masahiro Kusunoki	1:53		Download
05	Lose	Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto	Masahiro Kusunoki	0:05		Download
06	Win	Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto	Masahiro Kusunoki	0:05		Download
07	Ending	Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto	Masahiro Kusunoki	3:57		Download
08	Unused	Hitoshi Saito, Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto	Masahiro Kusunoki	0:04		Download

Credits

• Ripper: MrNorbert1994
• Recorder: Doommaster1994
• Game Credits:
  • Uncredited Composer: Hitoshi Saito
  • Uncredited Composer: Junichi Saito
  • Uncredited Composer: Masaki Iwamoto
  • Uncredited Arranger: Masahiro Kusunoki

(Source: Music comparison; Game lacks credits.)

At the final screen of the ending, if the player does a certain button combination, it will take them to a sound test with credits. However, the credits do not list anyone for audio.

Source verification is needed.

Game Rip

Format	Download

Audio Devices

The game uses the 2A03 of the Famicim. It uses Masahiro Kusunoki's NES sound driver.

Releases

Japan Title: ネイビーブルー (Navy Blue) Platform: FC Released: 1992-02-14 Publisher: I'Max

Links

• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/570641-navy-blue - GameFAQs.
• mobygames.com/game/nes/navyblue - MobyGames.