CHINMOKU NO KANITA - THE SILENT SERVICE
Official Title  Chinmoku no Kanita - The Silent Service
Common Title  Chinmoku no Kanita - The Silent Service
Serial Number(s)  SLPS-02788
Region  NTSC-J
Genre / Style  Simulation / Strategy

Developer  Kodansha.
Publisher  Kodansha.
Date Released  28 September 2000
Disc Number &
Printed Serial Number
DISC 1

SLPS-02788
Serial Number In Disc SLPS-02788
Media Disc ID N / A
Number Of Tracks 6
( 1 Data Track &
5 Audio Tracks )
Approx. Image Size
( Image Format Used )
712 MB
( .bin / .cue )
Approx.Size On Disc MB
Approx. Archive Size
( Archive Type Used )
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.

The Silent Service is a manga series by Kaiji Kawaguchi. It was published in Kodansha's Weekly Morning manga magazine from 1988 to 1996 and collected in 32 tankobon volumes. The series was adapted into an anime TV special and OVA series by Sunrise. The first two episodes of the anime were later spliced together and released in North America as a single volume. The rest of the series remained untranslated.

The manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1990.

STORY:
During the cold war, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force jointly developed a nuclear submarine with the United States Navy. On its maiden voyage, the captain of the submarine declares the submarine to be an independent state, "Yamato."

Things don't start off so well. A Japanese submarine collides with a Russian sub, sinks, and implodes. All hands are apparently lost. Investigations are launched and it is quickly discovered that the destroyed sub had no one aboard. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Japan have collaborated to build a state-of-the-art nuclear submarine, the Seabat. It will be part of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet but will have a Japanese crew. But on its maiden voyage, Captain Kaieda and his crew go rogue!

This of course sends the rest of the world scrambling. The U.S. wants the sub recovered, so does Japan. In the meantime, neither country wants their exact connection to this project to be revealed. Things get even more complicated when Captain Kaieda declares the sub an independent nation.

Captain Kaieda has a counterpart in the Japanese Self Defense Force, Captain Fukumachi. Fukumachi is more reckless than Kaieda, so he got passed over for command of the new sub, and he's just a little bit bitter. As a result, he's on a somewhat personal mission to return the Seabat to Japanese control.

The idea of a captain of an atomic submarine declaring independent sovereignty is not completely original. For example, a British man named Paddy Roy Bates declared a nation called Sealand in 1967 after occupying an abandoned navy fortification off the British coast.

The Silent Service is generally regarded as one of the rare Japanese comics that covered the unparalleled scale of realistic international geopolitics with a commercial success.

Chinmoku no Kanita - The Silent Service is a mix between a simulation & a strategy game.

The game features 4 game modes:
- Practice
- Dramatic
- Complete
- Situation

The game features also a galley mode that can be unlocked playing the different game modes.

In this game, Captain Kaeda's amazing maneuvering ability is fully implemented along with sinking submarines used to destroy (sunken) ships. There is also the "Passive Sonar System," which operates by detecting noise. Enjoy creating your original "Yamato" and making it grow with points that you gain. There are 70 actual types of ships, and 300 ships that appear in the game. The battle scenes are speedy, and they develop at a quick pace. The tactics are based around wire-guided torpedoes and harpoon missles. Positions are tracked by sonar.

  Manufacturer's description:

Yamaguchi popular cartoon maritime fleet of silence. The simulation faithfully reproduces the world of strategy. Fully equipped and can experience a simulation of the hit rate Sairentosonashisutemu affect detection of noise can boost the performance of the Yamato the story progresses. Nuclear submarine, "Yamato", operate the fight against the world.

  Features:
  • First person perspective.
  • 3D graphics
  • Cartoon graphics
  • Cold War & Anime themes.
Number Of Players  1 Player
Number Of Memory Card Blocks  1 Block
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  ePSXe CDRom Plugin
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:
  Move between actions -   D-Pad
  Cancel action -  X Button
  Menu actions / Select action -  Circle Button
  Map -  Square Button
  Sonar -  Triangle Button
  Options menu -  Select Button

 


   
 

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Res. - 300 dpi
File Size - 82 KB
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