ALIVE
Official Title  Alive
Common Title  Alive
Serial Number(s)  SLPS-01527-9
Region  NTSC-J
Genre / Style  Action / Adventure / Interactive Movie

Developer  General Entertainment.
Publisher  General Entertainment.
Date Released  6 August 1998
Disc Number &
Printed Serial Number
DISC 1

SLPS-01527
DISC 2

SLPS-01528
DISC 3

SLPS-01529
Serial Number In Disc SLPS-01527 SLPS-01528 SLPS-01529
Media Disc ID N / A N / A N / A
Number Of Tracks 1
( 1 Data Track )
1
( 1 Data Track )
1
( 1 Data Track )
Approx. Image Size
( Image Format Used )
692 MB
( .bin / .cue )
689 MB
( .bin / .cue )
688 MB
( .bin / .cue )
Approx.Size On Disc MB MB MB
Approx. Archive Size
( Archive Type Used )
515 MB
( 1 RAR File with
2% Recovery )
507 MB
( 1 RAR File with
2% Recovery )
532 MB
( 1 RAR File with
2% Recovery )
Barcode Number(s)
( UPC / EAN )

From the back cover.
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Japanese
Menus and gameplay are in Japanese.

Alive is an interactive movie / adventure game in which the player takes the role of a 20 year old japanese girl accused of murder. At certain times in the game the player must make a decision: Active, Clever, or Escape. The game uses real actors and is divided in 3 cds featuring different endings depending of the player choices during the game.

STORY:
The game takes place in the year 2003 in a futuristic reality and all begins with a terrorist attack that using a bomb makes a building to explode, so the police start to take proper actions. After that the game changes to a sequence where a explosion takes place in the subway and Hiro (one of Atsuko friends) is there, after talking to Hiro she feels that someone is following her and she sees a suspicious man watching her, she talk to the police but they don't believe her, she decide to return to her apartment.

There she finds blood in her bathtub and after that the suspicious man appears and tried to kill her, after making him escape she goes to her bedroom where she finds a corpse. A few minutes later in the TV news she appears killing him, so the police arrives at the building and she has to try escape from them, is a race for her life.

GAMEPLAY:
The game is an interactive movie, there are parts in which the player will have to choose between an active, a clever or a a escape decision, and after that a new sequence of movements will take place, all is about timing since pressing the button or D-Pad will make the action or not, the same for some shooting actions all is about timing. Other parts of the game are more active, like the ones where the player has to hack a card or things like that.

  Manufacturer's description:

It consists of full-length full movies, live-action adventure game where you can enjoy to watch the movies like one. In the near future SF story with elements of theater, or repel the enemy choose the option to leave in the middle of the game, so you can survive to avoid the danger. Some elements, such as weather the storm and press the Action button to match the timing.

  Features:
  • Third person perspective.
  • 2D graphics
  • Prerendered graphics
  • SCI-FI, Futuristic & Mystery themes.
Number Of Players  1 Player
Number Of Memory Card Blocks  5-14 Blocks
Compatible Controllers Tested
( Official Gamepads Only )
 Standard Controller / Analog Controller ( Dual Shock Controller compatible )
Compatible Light Guns
( Official Light Guns Only )
 None
Other Compatible Controllers
( Official Controllers Only )
 None
Special Controllers Included Or
Supported ( Official Only )
 None
Vibration Function Compatible  Yes
Multi-Tap Function Compatible  No
Link Cable Function Compatibile  No
Emulator  ePSXe v.1.7.0
Video Plugin  Pete's OpenGL Driver v2.9 ( internal X & Internal Y= Very High, Stretching mode: Stretch to full window size, render Mode: 2 (Use framebuffer object) text filt = 2 FPS limit= 63, Compatibility=2,3,2; Shader effects= 1 (Fullscreen smoothin))
Audio Plugin  ePSXe SPU Core v.1.7.0
CD-ROM Plugin  P.E.Op.S. CDR Driver 1.4
Game Pad Plugin  N / A
Vibration Compatible  Yes.
Console Bios Used  SCPH7502

  NOTE:   This is not the only possible combination of plugins. There are others that will work (better or worse) for your particular hardware. We provide you with one working set-up so that you may get the game up and running, hassle-free. Testing other emulators/plugins is up to you.
 

 BASIC CONTROLS:
  Choose direction / Move avatar in hacking sequences -  D-Pad
  Active decision -  D-Pad Up
  Clever decision -  D-Pad Left
  Escape decision -  D-Pad Right
  PDA -  Triangle Button
  Shoot -  Circle Button

 


   
 

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 - Disc Cover
DISC 1 DISC 2 DISC 3
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