Rondo of Blood English Patch (PSP to TurboGrafx-CD).

[MottZilla]

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

[dairugger]

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.

[DragonmasterDan]

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

Axelord

[Burnt Lasagna]

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 devlopment staff merged onto SOTN, so maybe they might have planned at one point to have him reprise his role in SOTN.
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Castlevania:_The_Bloodletting

[dairugger]

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 devlopment staff merged onto SOTN, so maybe they might have planned at one point to have him reprise his role in SOTN.
http://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.

[cubanraul]

@cubanraul: Heya BTW! I made the connection that it was you from years ago that had originally started the project. Didn't know you were on this board! Has it really been ~8 years since the project began? I just read the ReadMe and was reminded of that history, back when you came to me for help, man, I guess I did also encourage you, but at the same time, I thought it was technically a waste of time, would likely never get anywhere, nobody would ever be able to (nor want to) do a font-hack for the opening text, etc. yet here we were are today with essentially a fully completed patch (of course, in large part thanks to Konami!!)! Wish I hadn't played this game so much to where I'm pretty sick of it, though the patch did motivate me to play it through one more time at 68%. I didn't save Maria on that run, but I'll try again at some point. Anyway, congrats!

@NightWolve:  Hi, been a really long time.  As of this month it has somehow been a full 8 years since it started.  You helped me see that the process of working on this is what makes it fun and not just the end result.  Because of how much time I've spent with this game it is by far my favorite of the series. 

[Keith Courage]

I finally downloaded the 1.01 patch for this. I had been using the 0.95 patch up until now. I like all the additions and it's some amazing work by everyone. The only thing I don't like over the 0.95 patch is the voice for the first Enemy(grim reaper). The voice sounded much better in the 0.95 patch that you originally had up. In the new patch it sounds like some guy yelling down a hallway. Then again, he only has two lines so I guess I can live with it  

[Spooniest]

In the older patch it was Burnt's brother doing the voice...the newer one is actually the sampled voice from the PSP version.

[Keith Courage]

Maybe it sounds funny cause the audio was designed to come out of those tiny PSP speakers. The recording of Burnt's brother actually sounds more professional in my opinion. Anyone have any idea on how to paste that part back into the patch?

[esadajr]

I just tried the patch last night on my Duo R. This is excellent, thanks for your hard work translation team.

[Muyfa666]

Burnt Lasagna: Was the last two snippets of audio (from page 26) ever inserted?

[Burnt Lasagna]

I haven't gotten to that yet. I've basically focused all my project interest on the Ys IV English dub project, so revisiting an old project just doesn’t happen often.

Though I will try and look at this issue sometime down the road.

[Burnt Lasagna]

~very small update~

The patcher has been updated to fix some issues same users were having.
The main difference is that it now uses a small program NightWolve wrote to check the files sizes (used in the Ys IV Dub patcher), instead of having to rely on batch commands. I also removed the MD5 checker, because it ended up causing more trouble than it was worth.

Also, the Rebook audio was slightly tweaked to be more in sync (uses the same start point as the original PSP files).

(Sorry, haven't quite gotten around to fixing that issue with Death and Dracula )

[Keith Courage]

I thought I'd post some info for people trying to burn this and thinking of using lightscribe in order to make a cool label. In my experience lightscribe discs are more difficult for pc engine based CD drives to read. I can get regular Sony CDRs to read on about 90% of all consoles I test. However, Lightscribe only works on about 50% of the systems I test and I have tested 3 different brands of lightscribe. So basically stay away from the lightscribe cause even if it works it may over work your CD lens.

I test all the systems I sell and repair this way. This is how I have been able to test so many DUOs and CD drives.

[spenoza]

This idea that your CD lens can get overworked is, as far as I can tell, bunk. The only thing that works "hard" in the PC Engine CD assembly are the motors that move the CD and move the lens. Those could get a little more wear and tear from constant speed adjustments and restarting, but the laser and lens don't get worn out. So yes, a poor CDR could put extra wear on your unit, but it would put wear on the motors and gears and moving parts, not on the electronics.

This post came off a little more grumpy than I intended. Sorry about the tone. I stand by the content, though.