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

[Sadler]

OK, spent some time playing with lightscribe today following the advice in this thread. Using the dark setting and burning the label 4x gives a pretty good result! I was careful not to move the CD between label burnings and the result isn't blurry at all. The contrast is pretty decent!

[Bernie]

That looks excellent Sadler.  And all one has to do is basically "restart" the lightscribe process, without touching the disc?  I dont want to mess it up.  I have some discs coming, and I plan on doing this.

[roflmao]

Dang, that looks great.  I ought to replace my computer's CD drive with one capable of lightscribing.  That looks WAY better than sharpie scribbles!

[Sadler]

That looks excellent Sadler.  And all one has to do is basically "restart" the lightscribe process, without touching the disc?  I dont want to mess it up.  I have some discs coming, and I plan on doing this.

Thanks! Yeah, that's exactly right, just don't touch the disc between lightscribings. The software I'm using automatically ejects after every time it prints the label, so I just had to be gentle when closing the drive.

[Sadler]

Dang, that looks great.  I ought to replace my computer's CD drive with one capable of lightscribing.  That looks WAY better than sharpie scribbles!

It does look better that sharpie labels for sure, but I fear the picture might be a little misleading. It's pretty good, but you can definitely see radial artifacts from the light scribing. Definitely good enough for me, but still not as good as having a label printed directly on the CD.

[Burnt Lasagna]

*update*
We just got some help with inserting an English title screen into Rondo of Blood and that tomaitheous!
Here is a quick example of what he's got cooking.


You can follow the conversion about this on romhacking.net.
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,13549.0.html

[MotherGunner]

Hey Burnt, do you have pics of the other inserts/manual you can share?

[Burnt Lasagna]

Hey Burnt, do you have pics of the other inserts/manual you can share?

I'm not really sure if it's okay with pemdawg if I can share those yet (the guy doing the manual translation and the new packaging).
I'll ask him about it though. 

[ParanoiaDragon]

That's a bummer about losing the slashing of the X, ah well, I'll live.

[Burnt Lasagna]

That's a bummer about losing the slashing of the X, ah well, I'll live.

I'm thinking were gonna have a separate patch on the website that just swaps back the original title screen.
Since there seems to be a pretty even split between people that would like it changed and people that want the same.

[Burnt Lasagna]

*update*
More progress from tomaitheous.

[munchiaz]

any of u guys plan on selling one of these with the game manual and tray art? That would be really cool

[Burnt Lasagna]

*update*
tomaitheous is now done with the title screen!
Here is an update post I made on romhacking.net

Awesome work tomaitheous!
One thing I noticed though is that the copyright information is now pink (was originally red). Not really an issue but odd none the less.

I'm thinking about replacing the ADPCM for the Slash with the sound of a church bell ringing (like the title screen to Clock Tower: First Fear).
I've also (finally) decided to look at the file structure for Castlevania The Dracula X Chronicles and found out that all the ADPCM clips (with a few exceptions) are just laying there in AT3 format! Now I can use a direct rip from the PSP dub instead of having to use the audio from YouTube videos!

I’ve also found the ADPCM clips for the character select screen in the PC-Engine version. Sadly when I said there were a few exceptions to the AT3 files, this was one of them (the other thing being the dialogue for Death but that’s not really an issue). I was able to record the dialogue though by silencing the Redbook AT3 file for Kyrie Eleison (the menu music) then recording the voices from there without the music deluding anything.

So the next release of the patch, aside from everything tomaitheous has been doing, will also have better audio quality and have the character select screen dubbed.

reyvgm: I can’t seem too located where the signpost graphics are. If anyone else wants’ to hunt these down then by all means, be my guest.
I’ll try and get a screen shot for you of both signposts. I believe the translation the PSP version had for the first signpost in stage1 was "ALJIBA" not sure on the second sign though.

for better context follow the thread on romhacking.net
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,13549.0.html 

[Sadler]

That's awesome! Can't wait for the next release of the patch! How's the manual translation coming? I'm not sure how you feel about this, but I'd be willing to pay for having some CD professionally pressed once the patch and all associated packaging are complete.

[Chuplayer]

That's awesome! Can't wait for the next release of the patch! How's the manual translation coming? I'm not sure how you feel about this, but I'd be willing to pay for having some CD professionally pressed once the patch and all associated packaging are complete.

I know how I feel about this, and I feel good about it.