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Ficou incrível, fiquei "triste" quando abriu o balão de fala e eu gritei "Die Monster" e não foi a mesma frase que eu já estou acostumado hahaha. Que mod incrível! Trabalho bem feito pra nós, muito obrigado!

Thank you for this version. It looks and plays amazing. Transparency instead of dithering in original and faster loadings among many other changes does the job. This is the ultimate Saturn SOTN indeed!

Wow, thank you so much. Paul your dedication to improving SOTN releases has been amazing.

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG FOR THIS

Fantastic news at the start of 2024!!!

Hello Meduza Team! I am covering this on my channel soon and was wondering; the water in the underground areas are still the mesh transparency. I'm sure there is a reason for this and I'd love to know. I ask because the water in the beginning of the castle is a proper transparency. Could the same effect not be used underground? Or perhaps a similar technique that was used for the chat boxes? Anyway, awesome work on this and hope to bring many more people your way soon!

I just finished this last night and it is wonderful work. Just have a few suggestions for the next version and questions about design. Let’s start with the bugs: Music stops at second ferryman sequence for some reason now. Fairies don’t speak english in the dark room. Since there is a dialogue flag for each, it would be great if the Fairy got the original line from the PSX version and the pixie gets the line from the PSP version. Pixie Song is still in Japanese. Not sure if this is possible since I know there is only one flag for it, but it would be amazing if we could get the fairy to sing the english song and leave the pixie singing japanese. I think I tested something similar to this a long time ago with copying flag properties to different objects but can’t remember. Skull Lord at beginning of second castle is glitched out. He’s completely transparent for some reason. Keep up the fantastic work! Absolutely love it.

Патч обновлен до версии 1.1. Список изменений можно найти в файле "Readme". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The patch has been updated to version 1.1. A list of changes can be found in the "Readme" file.

Privet moi drug! Greetings from Texas! Thanks so much for translating AND improving this game for everybody! Now it is even better and differs more from the PSX original in it's own special way on the Saturn now using that amazing PSP script! You guys ROCK! Fixing transparencies has GREATLY improved the graphics in this game,. the lighting is on point too now and colors are sharp and really pop! No more darker colors on Saturn! Spasibo!

the new translation goes SO HARD OH MY GOD

Congratulations on this amazing work. I'd like to ask if it would be possible to keep the game with Japanese audio as well, if that's possible. thanks

The voices from the PS1 version would have been better. But I understand you went with the PSP script. Everything looks amazing though thanks!

Great work!🎉

This is an unbelievable improvement over the original!

Even though they craped up on the dubbing, the changes they made to the game (such as the translation of subtitles and special effects) were very good.

Thank you folks so much for this project, been something I've been following for awhile with high hopes! I look forward to playing soon.

Looks amazing thanks Team Meduza

thank you so much for your hard work on this. Mad props!

Absolutely superb! Really GREAT job!

Bit of a heads up: I Just found out via the SegaXtreme Message Boards that the team that was doing the Princess Crown fan translation have stopped working on it altogether, and have no intention of sharing the work they’ve done. So, if you’re looking for another Saturn Project to tackle, that might be one to keep an eye on.

I'd rather have the original Japanese audio. Other than that, incredible work!

So cool. Thank you for your hard work!

Only recently got into patching Saturn games, and this is really fantastic work, works beautifully on a Saroo with a fast SDXC Card and 4MB Ram extension.

Big W! It's been an amazing year for Castlevania

so many people have been dreaming of this, the all of the weird additions of the saturn without quite so many drawbacks. astounding!

Very cool! I will definitely be trying this, thanks!

Very nice job. But do you plan to make a version using the ENGLISH TEXT (PSP) and the JAPANESE AUDIO? I really enjoy the original JP voices a lot more.

Thank you for your efforts! Looks Amazing.

Parabéns pelo trabalho incrível que vocês fizeram. Um dos melhores trabalhos de tradução. Gostei das melhorias que vocês incluíram nesse patch. Eu fiz um vídeo sobre o jogo com a patch aplicada, upei e programei a estreia para quarta-feita (10). Desejo muito sucesso e prosperidade para vocês! 🙏

Oh hell yeah! Thank you many times over

Thank you so much for this

I miss you, I love so much your work Thank you!

Лучшие! Спасибо огромное! Что тут ещё скажешь :)

Guys guys, the ps1 dub cannot be put in as there is no recorded dialogue version of Maria fight in the castle center.

The QoL changes are awesome, been really enjoying them quite a bit. I was just wondering if we could get an option to patch in the original "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" into this hack? I was gonna ask for a version with the original PS1 dub of "What is a man?!", but the PSP dub is growing on me, slowly, but it is.

Hot damn i guess i'm playing sotn again with this version now

Looks good. I wish the original Richter outfit were there though.

Looks like it's time for me to play Symphony of the Night again

Gran trabajo jefe, quizá en un futuro puedan reemplazar las voces de psp por las de psx es todo, soy jugador en español pero con inglés me conformo gracias por su labor.

Aaaaw yeaaaah

Great work :) Thank You.

that's really impressive! any change to give us the og weird engrish translation as an option? thanks guys!

I've been playing this version for a couple hours now, and it's fantastic, brilliant work. I do have a few points of feedback and some ideas, not sure if all of these are even possible or if there's technical limitations involved, but they are worth an ask. I've noticed some of the text is poorly aligned, and when I picked up the Faerie Orb, the text was just straight up not in the box where it was supposed to be. A lot of item labels and the money pickup label don't seem to be properly sized for the text box. Borders on nitpick since playability isn't affected, but it is absolutely within the realm of a visual bug. These are all my suggestions: Would it be possible to replace Mist with a dedicated subweapon button and use the PSP controls for Mist transformation? Outside of that, I'm totally fine with the controls as they are. I would prefer more PS1-like mappings, but the big thing is a dedicated subweapon button would be nice. For the record I've been playing through Beetle Saturn, so my control scheme is pretty much the default Beetle Saturn controls. If I change the mappings in the emulator configuration menu, I end up screwing up the menu controls in the process, so there's not much I can do without creating menu issues. This is minor but I do feel like the transition back to the game after pausing or opening the map is too long, but I understand that the menu being remotely fluid is a minor miracle, so I can totally understand if there's no way to fix that. I wonder if it's possible to "un-stretch" the game with a custom viewport to make the game closer resemble the PS1 version visually. The strange wideness of the game is the one issue I see people bring up as not being fixed by the patch. I'd prefer the Japanese or English PS1 VA and dialogue over the PSP dialogue, that being said I do know the PSP dialogue is somewhat more accurate to the Japanese script than the original English script, but the PS1 script is just iconic to me. Honestly, I think the best call would be to have multiple branches, but I also understand how much of a nightmare for updating the patch that would be, so again, I understand if that's too much to ask.

I noticed that Alucard's Hellfire, Dark Metamorphosis and Soul Steal spells are extremely hard to pull off. Did the command input changed? I have no problems doing Richter's Blade Dash, as it's the same input for Hellfire. I had to buy the Spells from the Librarian just to fill up the Spells list.

Thank you very much to you and your team, but why don't you use the original English translation? ): Or japanese audio with English text?

Can you guys please make a version that doesn't replace the japanese voices? I know a version to add the PS1 english voices surely is something you guys won't like to work with (even tho is amazing, since the psp version voices sounds cringe)

Наконец-то, теперь сатурновская версия действительно самая лучшая. Раз такое дело, то перевод на русский, случайно, не планируется?)

What's the possibility of having both EN and JP dubs in the game, or having some option to switch between EN and JP voices?

This is great and all but the Richter's sprites when talking to Dracula, turned back into its Rondo of Blood version. Also would prefer every voice in the game to be dubbed in English as well as there would be inconsistencies.

Works fine on ly saturn but doesn't detect my 4MB ram cartridge (action replay). Any solution for this plz?

I'm gonna go FERAL this is amazing (I wish it were possible to patch in the cheesy SoTN voice acting but alas, I won't complain bc I've been wanting to play this version for years)

Funny how the cutscene uses the english dub, but some of the voiced clips in battle sound effects still use the JP dub.

Man you got source code? How did you do this!?

AWESOME! LETS FUCKING GOOO!

Phenomenal work as always!! Is there anything from the "Extended" version of the patch that is missing here? Saturn Shiro basically said there was, though no mention of specifics. It looks to me like everything has been carried over and only built upon, right?

Thank You

I really want to play this. Sotn is my all time favorite game and i actually have it on multiple platforms including the the saturn version. Ive played it using my action replay but now that this patch is available, is there a way for me to play this patched version on my authentic copy with my saturn, and if there is, how?

Olá boa tarde foi otimo essa melhoria que você fez na versão sartun, posso dar uma sugestão? O castlevania sotn mobile lançado para Android para fazer as mágias ficaram mais fáceis e melhores no caso basta apenas executar a magia uma única vez e ela fica salva na tela bastando apenas um click para executa-la pode fazer algo parecido na versão sartun ?

I get the following error... "File "Akumajou Dracula X - Gekka no Yasoukyoku (Japan) (2M) (Track 2).bin" not found!" I can't find a rom that has track 1 and 2 bin files.

The GUI looks ok but the game looks horizontally stretched (or vertically squished idk). Why is that?

Sup guys, I just recently got the Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight Ultimate (PSP Script) (English Patched) for Saturn from CDRomance but it wont load at all. it only plays some spoken japanese audio from the Saturn system menu screen. What am I doing wrong? help from anyone would be apprecated! I am running on a MiSTer FPGA on the Saturn core

Nice

Awesome! What differences does hard mode have?

Does it runs well on RetroArch?

how can I play this?

Wish I could play this, but I'm not on windows and don't know how to apply the patch without it. The .BAT file doesn't work on linux. Edit: it managed to get it working by running the bat file through the Wine Explorer. It won't work any other way. But now the map screen is broken? It's supposed to be Start then L, but nothing happens. Playing this game without a map is a nightmare.

Красавцы!

That surely is an improvement from the original Saturn version? Theoretically, is it possible to have the PSX voices and text? I know that PSP is the better version, closer to the original, but there is something in that corny lines that makes me love it. DIE MONSTER!

Can someone point me to where I can download a patched version of the game so I don't have to patch it myself (not lazy, just don't know how to do it).

Is it normal for the music to only come out of the left speaker in a stereo setup? The sound effects are fine, but the music has only been on the left speaker for me. At least on my MiSTer anyway.

Is there a way to improve frame rate? Especially on boss life max up animations?

Many thanks for this amazing work. Dumb question: How can I acess The map? I didn't figure out.

@meduzaTeam,I'm looking forward to this. I'm running into an issue on Windows 10, where when I run the batch file it outputs a bin file with file size of zero. do you have any pointers or suggestions how I can fix this? great job on patch. I was ignorant and only knew the PS version, but when I heard read the dialogue changes I was so happy, It felt so much more grown up.

Is there some way for you to upload the Vandal Hearts 2 romhack but without advanced mode?

Can I play this on my original Saturn? It,s a 64 pin model 2 with Racketboy Modchip. Not sure so I thought I,d ask.

Is it just me or the display frames are messed up on the first part of the video?! 0:00

Fantastic !!

Whenever I patch the game, it only plays the sound test for the game. How do I fix this?

Hi, i've tried the Extended version converting it to play it on my PS4 with HEN and it runs normally but when i discovered the ultimate edition i did the same process but the game crashes, does anyone tried this version converted for PS4, if so, did someone found the solution for it ??? Thanks to Meduza Team for this amazing work and give back this game it's original content for all of us. God Bless Meduza Team 🙏🏻💥

Dumb question: how do you access the inventory?

Привет Медуза,а сколько тебе лет?

Please provide an optional Japanese audio patch. The PSP version which this translation is based even had dual audio.

I'm so curious here as a late gamer Is there a difference from Saturn versions or others PS1 games that are remastered or ported to psp or PS2 and others ?

Ok but when's the OG script?

great job, i prefer an Undub version with japnaese vocies, maybe in the future. But Ithink tah removing the black bars broke inmesion. You can see the clouds above in the intro, but if you open the secret stairwell it looks bad, i dont know if i making myself clear. sory english is not my first language

has anyone tried this with saroo and check if 4M ram feature works on this hack? because i can't and i don't see any difference (it slows down the same as config it without the ram) the game id that saroo config needs is supposedly the same as original so maybe other people should check it out

Death bug work?

Is there a chance we can get patches that keep the Japanese dub, and keep the black bars on the top/bottom of the screen? This is marvelous work, but the lack of black bars outright breaks certain screens, showing random empty spots at the top and bottom revealing the background, and it looks kinda bad when that happens. And the English dub in cutscenes with Japanese voices in gameplay is kinda jarring.

what is the best core/emulator and optimal settings to run it? I'm getting a lot of slowdowns with 4mb ram enabled and 8 threads (Retroarch, Sega - Saturn Yabause core), running on a POCO F1.

Is it possible to replace voice sound effects with the English lines too?

Top!!

Как скачать на андроид?

How about a version of the patch that's compatible with the Polymega console? Thanks for your hard work.

Hello, does anyone have the link to the game in bin cue?

can you make a video how to install this ? i donot know how

Does this patch work with the Polymega?

Dear Meduza team, is this footage captured from an original sega saturn console? I have the game burned to a CD running with the 4M expansion and the game still has slowdown in certain places. Not talking about the map or regular loading, but running up the stairs with Richter in the Prologue and killing the Werewolves as Alucard in the beginning both bring noticeable slowdown compared to this video. Is there something I’ve done wrong? I’m using a Saturn model 2, Pseudo Saturn Kai to play burned disc, and the 4M cart which does in fact work.

can you give us the option to play the game with a Japanese Voice Language patch i respect your work and the early version you did years ago, i rather have the original PSX bad english dub over the PSP english Dub or play it in japanese then hear the PSP english Dub

Does this work on Mednafen emulator? The game itself opens fine for me, but I can't control anything. The other games are just working fine.