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

[Keith Courage]

Everything being mentioned sounds like way too much work. Just release the patch the way it is for people to burn CD-Rs. I see no reason to worry about your CD lens going bad since it only costs $25 for a new duo lens shipped and they are very east to change.

[soop]

Everything being mentioned sounds like way too much work. Just release the patch the way it is for people to burn CD-Rs. I see no reason to worry about your CD lens going bad since it only costs $25 for a new duo lens shipped and they are very east to change.

Easy for you to say!  The man with silver fingers and solder flowing through his viens!
I've got no qualms opening up a core unit or a junk CD-ROM, but when it comes to a Super CD or a GT, I don't want to even sneeze on them funny.

[rag-time4]

I would love to see us form up some type of licensing / publishing company for just this reason... Us being anyone interested. I would love if we could legally produce these games and get them out there. I've seen various other ideas that people have had as well, like Nando mentioning plushies and Windy's bomberman ornaments. I cant help but think of how awesome it would be to make and sell some of these things in a legal, high quality manner. There's a dedicated retro market out there...

Also, we wouldnt need rights to the entire franchise, only the particular games that are being worked on. And we may be able to license the rights rather than buy them outright.

It would be cool to do for some sort of PCE game. But it'll never happen with Dracula X, or likely anything by Hudson since Konami now owns it all. You'd have to forget your preference for authentic looking stuff as well, as any professionally released game wouldn't be allowed to use any official logos either. If Hudson in whatever form it exists was allowed to license software to a small group of fans, we'd still have to pay for any of those logos if we we'd be lucky enough to have the option.

I imagine that if we're lucky, it would only cost us with lawyers and business licensing, etc, as little as tens of thousands of dollars. But even if it could be that cheap, I doubt you could convince enough people to pitch in that kind of money for the novelty of a factory pressed disc of something that anyone can put together a nice looking facsimile of for pennies. It's not like we're talking about new original games, a translated copy of an existing PCE game is very nice sitting in the Japanese case, with an English manual tucked inside.

Well, youre right that the costs may be a deal breaker. However, I would love to try to get as far as possible with the idea. Given that Hudson is now part of Konami, Drac X and Ys IV both fall largely under one roof. Starting with these games may lead to building some kind of relationship with Konami, which might make further projects and further negotiation possible.

[GohanX]

I finally got around to usint Turboripper and reripping my Dracula X CD and used the latest patch, and everything works great with no scratchiness. I noticed that my computer at work has a Lightscribe burner, does anyone have the files that were posted earlier in the thread with the CD label and inserts? Keith's CD label is still up, but it's in color so I'm not sure how well that will show up on a Lightscribe disc.

[Keith Courage]

The color on the label comes out just fine in black and white. I've done it and it looks great. Depending on what brand discs you use you might want to burn the label twice for darker contrast.

[Bernie]

I believe I have copies of all the images.  Let me look around and see what I got. 

[Sadler]

I finally got around to usint Turboripper and reripping my Dracula X CD and used the latest patch, and everything works great with no scratchiness. I noticed that my computer at work has a Lightscribe burner, does anyone have the files that were posted earlier in the thread with the CD label and inserts? Keith's CD label is still up, but it's in color so I'm not sure how well that will show up on a Lightscribe disc.

I've still got the original: LINK.

[Bernie]

Ok, I have all the artwork that was posted and linked to before in this thread.  There are tray inserts, CD artwork, and manual covers.  Uploaded to my hotfile account.
https://hotfile.com/dl/155641290/8343e16/dracx_us_art01.rar.html

[GohanX]

Thanks, guys!

[Burnt Lasagna]

It's out!

Check the front page!

[Bernie]

Does this mean its done done?!  Heck yeah!!!

[Sadler]

Completely awesome! Thanks!

[Bernie]

Just burned this to a lightscribe disc that I had made months ago when this project was announced.  I gotta tell ya, this is awesome.  Very good job on everything thus far guys.  That title screen is REALLY NICE too!  May just be me, but it sounds like Death's voice was redone since the last time.  Either way, it's solid!  I love it, and thanks!!

[NightWolve]

Meh, I should've bought a LightScribe drive the last time I had a chance to... I opted for speed instead. That burned Castlevania CD-R makes me jealous!

BL, did you redo everything using SOX and fix the sample rate or ?

EDIT: Oh wow, yeah, round of applause to Tom/tomaitheous/Bonknuts! This is a FULL translation patch with a font hack, a redone title screen, etc.! Just awesome! I did not expect to ever see this! Congratulations!!!

[Burnt Lasagna]

BL, did you redo everything using SOX and fix the sample rate or ?

I was considering that at one point but I decided against it since the previous sample rate/ADPCM tool was working perfectly fine for Rondo of Blood (aside from that stupid volume control thing). Changing something that wasn't broken didn't seem to purposeful, so I didn't bother.