Welcome to the Quartz Arcade! Here you can find information on most of the Sailor Moon video games that seemed to evade the grasp of North American moonies for many years. Sailor Senshi Sanctuary features an archive of all the cartridge based Sailor Moon games for the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo), Famicom (NES), Game Boy, Game Gear, and Mega Drive (Sega Genesis).
These are the emulated versions of the games, if you really don't know what emulation is, basically emulators allow console video games to be played on your computer. Two basic things are needed to play these games: an emulator (a program that simulates the hardware environment), and the ROM image (a duplicate of the program contents of a game) to play. I know there has been a lot of controversy about emulation and emulators over the years, and if you have any problems or questions, just e-mail me. I think everyone should have the chance to play these great games, that's why The Quartz Arcade exists. I used to offer offsite links to the emulator downloads but as it looks like many of the official sites no longer have active download links, I have also hosted the emulators here.
Okay, enough with the disclaimer, on to the games! As with the image galleries, please do not direct link to these files from other sites or forums - my bandwidth isn't free and I generate zero revenue from SSS. If you would like to link to The Quartz Arcade please link to this page or to the Sailor Senshi Sanctuary main index. Thanks! If there is too great a spike in my bandwidth usage I will be forced to remove the downloads once again, please don't spoil it for everyone else.
I want to make special mention that the foundation of SSS hosting Sailor Moon games, and most people even knowing about the Sailor Moon console video games years ago, was all thanks to the long lost and mostly forgotten "KatC's Emulated Sailor Moon Games" page at "KatC's Home." Just before the turn of the last millennium KatC's GeoCities page was THE place to go to learn all about Sailor Moon video games. Anyone else remember the days when personal webpages almost always had a section helping others to make their own webpages? Anyway, KatC had the best archive of video games and fun applications for your computer related to Sailor Moon. Archive.org has a very small amount of KatC's site archived (click here, offsite link) but it really doesn't do justice to how cool that page was. KatC, thank you for introducing me to Sailor Moon console games years ago and reminding me how cool the 'web once was!
Emulators (the programs that run the games)
Super Famicom / Super Nintendo
Snes9x v1.53 (Windows) - Should run all Super Famicom games hosted here but the newer builds, such as this one, may have glitches during the intro of the Sailor Moon RPG. This is accurate to how the translation patch operates on actual hardware. If you get an error message when attempting to run the emulator, download the latest DirectX runtime from Microsoft here. (offsite link)
ZSnes
v1.51 (Windows) - Runs most games fine but the Sailormoon S fighting
game may not work properly and the SailorStars puzzle game will not load,
possibly due to Sufami Turbo compatibility issues.
Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis / Game Gear
Fusion
v3.64 (Windows) - Incredibly featured Mega Drive / Genesis / Game Gear
emulator. Plays everything Sega of the era so it will run both the
Mega Drive and Game Gear games.
Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System
Nestopia
v1.40 (Windows) - Incredibly accurate and robust Famicom / NES emulator.
Game Boy
Visual
Boy Advance v1.7.2 (Windows) - Plays the entire Game Boy family of
software and should run all Game Boy games hosted here, go with a stable
build (such as this v1.7.2) for your operating system.
ROM Images (the games to be run)
Super
Famicom
Panic
in Nakayoshi World
While not a Sailor Moon game on its own, the manga versions of Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon make an appearance in this arcade style action puzzler. |
Mega
Drive
|
Sailor
Moon Side Scrolling Game
(Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon) Mega Drive port of the first Super Famicom game. Somehow both better and worse at the same time but plays fine. |
Famicom
Game
Boy
Game
Gear
Although
you can find emulation archives of these games here, I encourage you to
find the actual cartridges. If you think the emulated versions are
fun, wait until you play the real thing! Updates to this page will
be made as emulation technology progresses and as more games are available.
Questions,
comments, suggestions?
Well
then, e-mail me!
This
page is in no way affiliated with DiC, TOEI, Bandai, Naoko Takeuchi,
or
any other company holding copyrights to Sailor Moon.