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[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

odd. i just tried the code and its not working for me either. I never tried it before. btw I used the latest patch.  another question tho, was a translated instruction manual ever made?

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

I was feeling a Dracula x itch and loaded it up on my psp and Im still impressed with this patch. thanks to all the people who've made games ive finally been able to play after someone went out of the way to do these projects. (Dracula X, Ys IV, Xak 1 & 2, Policenauts, and Night for his Ys work.)

btw was a instruction manual pdf ever translated and made available?

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Anearth Fantasy Stories - Translation Project Thread]

I get out of the hospital and see this? You guys are so awesome, and i cant wait to play anearth and x2. way to lift my spirits! thank you so much.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!]

i dont consider this rambling either, on the contrary its really insightful. sort of a behind the scenes. 

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!]

omg! this and princess crown? these are really exciting times my friends. :-0
i wonder if its the saturn version or psp princess crown?

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Patch Released!]

Hey Night! I hope the holidays treated you well.
I finally finished Ys IV about a week ago. I would play in spurts so that i could savor it. I still cant believe the work you and everybody put into it. its a better product than tti ever put out!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Patch Released!]

i played it completley on my pspgo, it was freakin sweet, well worth the wait!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE commercials are awesome! Video list]

i wonder if and what the dracula x commercial would look like... awesome im sure.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE Engine Fan Issue 08 August 1993 Scan]

wow! this issue has previews of Ys IV & Dracula X! thank you so much for these.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Patch Released!]

Im playing this on my psp, in english! Dub and all!!
I cant believe this is actually happening. Both me and my childhood self who would yearn to understand this game want to thank everyone involved. You guys are freakin rad!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

Richter, Maria, and Alucard are playable characters. Who knows who the rumored 4th was supposed to be, might as well assume Vic Viper.

Could of been this dude...

Richters supposed rival in the canceled 32x game Castlevania: The Bloodletting.
It apparently got canceled because all of the games development staff merged onto SOTN, so maybe they might have planned at one point to have him reprise his role in SOTN.
castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Castlevania:_The_Bloodletting

i knew a bit about this but damn, i didnt know about the other characters. crazy. i wonder if screens of the 32x build ever leaked out.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

Richter, Maria, and Alucard are playable characters. Who knows who the rumored 4th was supposed to be, might as well assume Vic Viper.

in the original psx sotn maria was not playable, and richter was only playable after beating the game and inputting his name, hardly what id call a real playable character. plus when you play as him the game is really dry, boring even.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

heres a sotn proto scan. notice the description.. wonder what they were thinking..?

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[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

Yeah, durrr, I kept looking at it over and over and then could make out Alucard in the review and was like, oh crap, it's just SOTN. I forgot all about some Dracula X opening though, that threw me off. I own the game, but I only beat it once as I recall.

i play it all the time on my pspgo, the revised version on the dracula x chronicles is awesome! i also have some scans from way back when castlevania sotn was called castlevania V, some of them have dark spy photos of the game and wrong info that they thought about the game, about it being a belmont game and alucard was one of other characters you could choose. on another note its sad we never got the port they planned for the sega 32x. but i believe that project turned into another game called castlevania bloodletting which ultimatley turned into castlevania sotn!

thats why im so thankful for this project and the awesome people who made it possible.   i wonder if it would be possible to translate the pc engine version of popful mail and use the audio from the sega cd version. i love that series and both games, even tho the pc engine has extra levels not found in the sega cd so that might be a problem.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

heres the others. these were from gamefan who always had the way of making games look freakin awesome on page. i also have others from the snes dracula x if anyones interested. i noticed i accidentally posted a beta pic of castlevania 4, if it bothers anyone ill remove it.

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[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

the psx scan? oh, thats the beginning of castlevania sotn. the beginning of the game has a recap of the end of drac x, complete with spruced up grafx.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

in the last post theres a dracula x ad, and i also put the snes dracula x previews in there. back before people knew it wasnt gonna be a straight up port.

heres three more that while they arent of drac x they are awesome and have to do with the series.


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[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

lol, great minds think alike night. ive got that one, its a great find too. one thing i like to do when i get a game is to read all about the previews, to get myself revved up i guess. heres a couple more i have. i have some more i need to scan em tho.

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[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

In honor of this awesome project if it's OK with everybody id like to share some scans from my mag collection.

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i have more if anyone's interested. I've loved Castlevania and especially Dracula X since as long as I can remember.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

I didn't see anything about this in the thread but I couldn't skip the German intro scene like on my actual copy of the game. I have to wait for it to go through and reach the title screen.

i used to run into this only when i ran the game for the first time, after that initial time i would be able to skip the intro.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

lol.  No need to prove it man.  Was just an assumption, and a wrong one at that on my part.  But, one has to wonder..  Why did you not rip the actual game with TurboRip, instead of ripping an image file? 

i wasnt offended, no worries!
the reason i ripped from my image was sheer laziness, lol. i had a image id made from my disc when the first patch came out in preperation for the final patch. the actual disc was in my game room and the image was a click away. sheer laziness i tell ya!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

sorry for the bad pics, i had to change the settings onmy phone to lower the quality to fit onto the board.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

Not to be "THAT" guy. But..  I seriously doubt you ripped your own disc.  I thinks you downloaded an image, then mounted it in daemon tools to rip with TR.  But either way, enjoy the game.  

lol, i wondered if someone would ask that. but yes i do actually own the original pc engine version! i also own the snes version, and psp version. i could provide a pic if anyone wants, only thing thats missing is the spine card (which i didnt know about when i bought it many moons ago from guys from turbo zone direct, i actually overpaid for it but treasure it none the less)

btw i forgot to thank you for your help making it for my psp! works flawlessly.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

its working perfectly on my psp. heres what i had to do:

mount the image i made of my disc using daemon lite.
use turborip to make a rip
patched it
mounted the patched image using daemon lite
used turborip to make a psp friendly rip using the /pcep option

I want to thank burnt lasagna and the whole team for a freakin awesome job!, and thanks nightwolve for his always awesome turborip program and great work ive enjoyed as far back as the rigg days. now to get playing!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).]

question: ive had a clean bin/cue i made awhile back from my copy of drac x. i applied the patch successfully, but im not sure how to burn it with image burn. the outputted files doesnt include a cue file so im not sure how to burn this.

after its burnt i want to use turborip to play it with my psp and the pce emu.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys English Dub Project.]

god i hope this comes to fruition. makes me long for the days of rigg.. fun times! 

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

i also got a error when i patched mine, but it plays fine. the title intro sound is a bit scratchy but it doesnt bother me. Try ignoring the error message and mount and play the game.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!]

This is awesome news! I cant wait to finally play this game.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

On an unrelated note, does anyone here know of a good quality scan of the manual for Rondo of Blood, one that is at least 300 dpi?

I don't know if the resolution is sufficient (I am le dumb and don't know how to check), but Video Game Den has a manual scan available.

um..there's no manual here.

if you follow the link, and right click on the manual and save target as,  itll save the manual as a pdf.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

Thank You! & Happy New Years!!

I'm playing this on my psp at the moment and youve done a fantastic job. Thanks again for all your hard work.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

I like the first variation CrackTiger posted. It's perfect, IMO.

Or to put it another way, I want it to be as if I was sitting in Japan playing this in Japanese, except I shouldn't actually have to know Japanese.  Someone playing this in Japan would see Dracula X, not Castlevania.

I don't quite understand the preoccupation with keeping everything super-Japanese.

Both the official U.S. releases of this game (Wii Virtual Console and Playstation Portable) are titled "Castlevania: Rondo of Blood." It makes little sense (to me) to title the translation something different.

propably because the game has and is known as Dracula X, not Castlevania X or any other variant.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

while i love the castlevania series, Dracula X is so badass. As a kid looking through import mags this title screen was classy, atmospheric, and awesome!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

I'm generally of the belief that translations should just translate enough for the user to know what was said.  So I prefer the original audio with subtitles (though in this case I'd imagine hacking subtitles in would be hard).  For logos, assuming we translate them at all, translate them literally, so this should say some variation of "Dracula X: Rondo of Blood".

Or to put it another way, I want it to be as if I was sitting in Japan playing this in Japanese, except I shouldn't actually have to know Japanese.  Someone playing this in Japan would see Dracula X, not Castlevania.

This. although i actually like dubs.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

I think simply "Dracula X: Rondo of Blood" would be sufficient. No point in belaboring a literal translation.

here here!, its almost perfect as is.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

I think the title screen should be in English, but just not the PSP version. Can't you find someone to design you a new version? I'd personally go with Dracula X for the red and Rondo of Blood beneath.

Dont listen to him. ;-)

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

It can be hard to edit?  So.......you're saying there's a chance!!  YEAAAHHH!!

As I said, I was using a save state, not the game itself. So I still don't know how to edit it in the game's memory, but the chance of it happening is not completely out of the question.

I'm also not that big of fan of the PSP's title screen, it looks kinda of cheap to me. What do you guys think ?

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(PCE-CD)

It looks awful. I much prefer the original title screen.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

I meant what game...  

Oh, that I'm not really sure on.

I have been considering organizing a YsIV - Dawn of Ys fandub for awhile now, but have never gotten around to doing it.
About a year ago I got all all the extraction and insertion pointers for the adpcm audio and organized majority of them for when they apear in the game.... just never did the actual dubbing part.

My Brother (the guy who voiced death) keeps telling me "We gotta F*'n do this fandub!". Hopefully I will get around to doing it, after Rondo of Blood!

i know it sounds weird but ive always loved the way the title screen looked untranslated. when it was changed for castlevania chronicles it looked hideous!

I'm keeping the untranslated title screen.

thats so awesome!, that logo is so ingrained in my mind, i remember looking through vid game mags and longing for this game.

i tried playing it again on my psp with castlevania chronicles and i just cant get past the borders..

and another congrats are in order, ive seen word of your  work on various places on the net.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

What ya gonna tackle next? 

After the levels I'll try to do the signs which, in theory, shouldn't take very long at all. Then I'll finish the patch with the boat rower.
Unless cubanraul finds a way to work with the alternate font for the opening, at which case we would work on that also.

i know it sounds weird but ive always loved the way the title screen looked untranslated. when it was changed for castlevania chronicles it looked hideous!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

keep up the great work!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

Can the real copy be harmed in anyway if this is done incorrectly?

nope, its just reading the disc, which is what happens when you play the game.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

i just stumbled upon this. this is so freaking awesome! way better than playing it on my psp with those damn borders.. lol

Did you really laugh out loud after typing that? Because I otherwise can't figure out why it would be there...

sure, why not? i laugh out loud at the oddest, most inappropriate times! lol  :-)

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

youd have to rip your cd to a image with cdrwin, then apply the patch. i believe the instructions are included in the patch.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.]

i just stumbled upon this. this is so freaking awesome! way better than playing it on my psp with those damn borders.. lol

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!]

i cannot express how excited i am for this game!, major thanks to everyone whos making it possible.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Ziria SCD version]

i wasnt even aware there were two versions of this game? also, whats the diff between cd2 and super cd system?  and finally hows kabukiden?

[PC-FX Discussion / help in obtaining zeroigar]

thanks for the suggestions guys, if someone would like to contact me thatd be great!

[PC-FX Discussion / help in obtaining zeroigar]

Please excuse me if this is a taboo subject, but ive wanted to see what my pc-fx can do, and cant afford it on ebay..  is there anyone who would let me download it? or point me in the right direction?

many, many thanks

[Off-Topic / UPDATE]

Just wanted to let people know some of the auctions end today, and ive lowered the prices on some things, as well as added others:

WHITE TIGERZORD MEGAZORD- second season of Power Rangers

Titanus Carrierzord Megazord- Original season of Power Rangers

Pac-Man Plus Marquee

Vintage Disneyland Mickey Mouse & Co Pencil

Power Rangers In Space MORPHER

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZneomegaladon

If anything catches your eye let me know, the prices are not set in stone!
and i appreciate anyone looking!

Josh

[Off-Topic / Selling: various game related stuff]

Hey all-

I've put some things up on ebay, among them are:

5.1 Headphones and decoder



Game Boy Micro

Fat Chocobo Plush from Final Fantasy VII

Original Megazord

Dragonzord

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZneomegaladon

and ive lowered the price on the 5.1 Headphones, theyre pretty good, especially when used with a PS2, or Xbox, and they come with all the necessiary equipment and cables.

if anyones interested in anything let me know. and thanks for looking!

[Off-Topic / FS: CASTLEVANIA SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT OFFICIAL PROMO T-SHIRT]

hey guys,
i tried selling this last month, and succeeded- but the buyer has not paid me, and is ignoring any emails i send, and i need to sell it for bills due at the end of the month.. is there anyone interested in buying?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8271450136&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESO%3AIT&rd=1

as for the auction, i dont understand.. they guy had good feedback, yet his first and only email says he doesnt have the money (he won multiple auctions), then he proposed selling some stuff so he couple pay- but when i contacted him acouple days later-telling him i could wait a couple days for payment, but i didnt see anything he was selling online- well thats when communications ceased.. i dont know whats goin on, but since i need the money now, and posting it again would take over a week for the auction to end, then transfering payment to my bank account, im hoping someone here is interested, if so please contact me at neomegaladon@hotmail.com.

Im sorry if this is considered spam, that is not my intent- if it offends, please remove it. and thanks for looking!
Josh

[added Apr 18 2006 2:33AM]

btw- shipping within the us would be free, and sent via fed-ex 3 day.