SOTN on PC Engine

[sunteam_paul]

I've been playing a bit of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night recently and wondered how the PC Engine would handle the graphics, so I did this quick test.



Not too bad, it would suffer a lot from the reduced palette but I think it would certainly handle it well.

[wildfruit]

Looks good. Could the red carpet be a different red?

[sunteam_paul]

I didn't really fine tune it so I'm sure it could be even better with a bit more effort.

[SignOfZeta]

I think there’s a lot more to “handle” in SotN.

[Digi.k]

might struggle a lot with some of those fancy transparencies and 3D poly effects. Might be able to get it up and running using ARCADE card or a 4000megabit hucard (not an accurate assumption)!

[SignOfZeta]

You might be able to reduce load times to where they aren’t much worse than the PS version if you had the AC but it isn’t going to do much else for you. The audio is going to absolutely suck by comparison, for example.

[sunteam_paul]

I think there’s a lot more to “handle” in SotN.

Of course. Purely from a graphics point of view I think you could get decent results although you'd be looking at some rather harsher contrast. Looking at sprite sheets, the colour count isn't greatly out of the PCE's reach. But it's a fun experiment.

[SignOfZeta]

Sprite sheets don’t contain FX, and that’s the thing about a 32 bit machine from 1994. Not only does it do everything a SNES can do (scaling, rotation, audio FX) it has lighting FX, polygons, texture maps...not to mention 24 channels of ADPCM...kinda hard to get the mystique of SotN with only one scratchy-ass sample at a time.

You could hack Alucard’s castle into Rondo, I’ll give you that.

[Michirin9801]

Looks fine, but I'd rather see Castlevania Rebirth on the PCE...

[Arkhan]

Looks fine, but I'd rather see Castlevania Rebirth on the PCE...

Putting a throwback on a vintage console is an oxymoron.

No.

[Michirin9801]

Looks fine, but I'd rather see Castlevania Rebirth on the PCE...

Putting a throwback on a vintage console is an oxymoron.

No.

The point is that if it is to put another Castlevania game on the system, I'd rather it be a Classic-style one rather than a Metroidvania one...

[Arkhan]

you should probably say that instead next time, then, or use a better example.

like putting Bloodlines on PCE, or CV3.

[Michirin9801]

you should probably say that instead next time, then, or use a better example.

like putting Bloodlines on PCE, or CV3.

Perhaps? But I love Rebirth so why not?

[Arkhan]

because porting a retro throwback to a vintage console is an oxymoron.

are we about to get in an infinite loop here.

[Michirin9801]

because porting a retro throwback to a vintage console is an oxymoron.

are we about to get in an infinite loop here.

Tell that to the people who want to see Shovel Knight on the NES...
But I don't see anything wrong with either...