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Post by fishboi on Mar 6, 2024 22:17:37 GMT
Having attempted to test this more thoroughly, it looks like there are quite a number of issues here. For starters, attempting to play as Richter with the cheats enabled results in a crash upon hitting the castle entrance sequence. Secondly, the Seiro outfit has no sprites for a few of the moments in the intro, causing it to revert to the classic look for a moment before changing back. Thirdly, Vampire Killer in the remake seems to have been far more compressed than the other tracks, resulting in noticeable quality issues (to be blunt, it sounds like a 240p YT video from 2006) And finally, a number of bestiary elements are bugged, with overlapping text and odd font glitches. I hope having knowledge of specific instances being bugged helps in some way, and I sincerely hope you have a good day.
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Post by Belmont1910 on Mar 6, 2024 23:10:10 GMT
Having attempted to test this more thoroughly, it looks like there are quite a number of issues here. For starters, attempting to play as Richter with the cheats enabled results in a crash upon hitting the castle entrance sequence. Secondly, the Seiro outfit has no sprites for a few of the moments in the intro, causing it to revert to the classic look for a moment before changing back. Thirdly, Vampire Killer in the remake seems to have been far more compressed than the other tracks, resulting in noticeable quality issues (to be blunt, it sounds like a 240p YT video from 2006) And finally, a number of bestiary elements are bugged, with overlapping text and odd font glitches. I hope having knowledge of specific instances being bugged helps in some way, and I sincerely hope you have a good day. Strange. I haven't seen these bugs in my tests. Maybe it's the emulator or some misapplied code... I'll look into it. For those of you who are still following the project, I've been away for a while due to some personal problems. By the end of the month, I hope to be back actively working on the project and finally polishing certain things before adding new ones. Thank you to those of you who still send suggestions for improvement, it encourages me to continue the project 🙂
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Post by grim on Aug 19, 2024 13:23:34 GMT
Hey, friend. Would it be possible for you to reupload the iso? All links are dead and I would love to try this out!
Thanks in advance!
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Post by Belmont1910 on Aug 19, 2024 14:26:06 GMT
Oops, I didn't look at the links for so long that they ended up crashing, well I apologise to anyone who was expecting more updates on the project, unfortunately during this year I've had problems with time and I'm not able to update this hack as I'd like. Fortunately, Sotn's decompilation process is moving forward, so I think it'll be a lot easier now to modify the limited PSP version. The project isn't dead, I'm just having some difficulties at the moment. I think a new version will be released by the end of the year.
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Post by Belmont1910 on Sept 24, 2024 5:00:32 GMT
The main hack has been reupped along with some documentation where I explain the changes and some of the things that have happened and that I'll be doing in a few months' time. Thank you.
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Post by livetheenergy on Oct 3, 2024 17:08:32 GMT
Tried with ppsspp and it doesn't work. Any suggestions? Thank you
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Post by Belmont1910 on Oct 3, 2024 23:03:22 GMT
Tried with ppsspp and it doesn't work. Any suggestions? Thank you The file is not in iso or cso format. Just extract it with rar, and enjoy the game!
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Post by livetheenergy on Oct 4, 2024 10:37:34 GMT
How? Yes it is a zip file, so I replaced the content of DraculaX iso, but it doesn't work. Any clue? Thanks
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Post by Belmont1910 on Oct 4, 2024 15:23:08 GMT
How? Yes it is a zip file, so I replaced the content of DraculaX iso, but it doesn't work. Any clue? Thanks Strange, it works perfectly for me on the emulator. Did you extract and move the Dracula X Chronicles folder to the PSP's Game folder (or your favorite ppsspp game folder)? Maybe it didn't work because you overwrote the content. Try just extracting the file and moving the folder to the games folder.
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Post by dastanovich on Oct 6, 2024 19:42:40 GMT
Been playing this for about an hour. As someone who beat SotN with the Saturn version via Ultimate patch, I really love this patch for using those rendition of tracks, as they either sound superior and/or have better loop points than PSX. However I did notice that all 5 replaced tracks are of really low quality, with their peaks sounding bitcrushed and (I think) a bit louder than OGs. I thought I was tweaking but no, I went to compare the two Entrance themes with 2 ISOs running in the bg and unmodded PSP sounded way cleaner. Then I went to check the Saturn's Sound Mode and yeah, something must've went wrong when you converted these tracks, or your sources must've been not of the highest quality If you plan on fixing this, I think you can either use the Saturn OST you can extract off of the ISO via DAEMON Tools, or use the full OST gamerip in FLAC off of KHInsider, dated May 2020, which seems to be of best quality Also hope you'll replace Master Librarian in a future update. The Saturn version has better and clearer instrumentation imo (and if it's possible, replace Richter's Entrance theme with Bloody Tears RMX 1, cuz RMX 2 is used for the Skeleton King boss in OG, and Maria's with Vampire Killer RMX 2)Also really appreciate the localization fix, as I like to play this series with those patches in mind for consistency. Some stuff does seem to cut off like the last 'e' in Mermaid Statue, so unfortunately it'd be better revert stuff like that to OG names. Out of stuff I'd prefer to be altered RELICS Faerie Scroll > Fairy Book Jewel of Open > Unlock Jewel (istg it's unchanged in the shop) ENEMIES Merman > Fish Man Turnate Table > Poltergeist Dhuron > Dullahan Slant Guarder > Hill Guard Big Ghost > Giant Ghost Artibatirae back to Spittle Bone, since it's already used in all games
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Post by Belmont1910 on Oct 6, 2024 22:10:59 GMT
Been playing this for about an hour. As someone who beat SotN with the Saturn version via Ultimate patch, I really love this patch for using those rendition of tracks, as they either sound superior and/or have better loop points than PSX. However I did notice that all 5 replaced tracks are of really low quality, with their peaks sounding bitcrushed and (I think) a bit louder than OGs. I thought I was tweaking but no, I went to compare the two Entrance themes with 2 ISOs running in the bg and unmodded PSP sounded way cleaner. Then I went to check the Saturn's Sound Mode and yeah, something must've went wrong when you converted these tracks, or your sources must've been not of the highest quality If you plan on fixing this, I think you can either use the Saturn OST you can extract off of the ISO via DAEMON Tools, or use the full OST gamerip in FLAC off of KHInsider, dated May 2020, which seems to be of best quality Also hope you'll replace Master Librarian in a future update. The Saturn version has better and clearer instrumentation imo (and if it's possible, replace Richter's Entrance theme with Bloody Tears RMX 1, cuz RMX 2 is used for the Skeleton King boss in OG, and Maria's with Vampire Killer RMX 2)Also really appreciate the localization fix, as I like to play this series with those patches in mind for consistency. Some stuff does seem to cut off like the last 'e' in Mermaid Statue, so unfortunately it'd be better revert stuff like that to OG names. Out of stuff I'd prefer to be altered RELICS Faerie Scroll > Fairy Book Jewel of Open > Unlock Jewel (istg it's unchanged in the shop) ENEMIES Merman > Fish Man Turnate Table > Poltergeist Dhuron > Dullahan Slant Guarder > Hill Guard Big Ghost > Giant Ghost Artibatirae back to Spittle Bone, since it's already used in all games Thanks for the feedback buddy, regarding the saturn songs, I got them from online uploads, so that's probably why they're in a different quality (the wandering ghosts theme in particular I had a hard time finding, so I didn't have many options). I'll definitely use this tool to get the original songs, thanks for the tip 😀. Regarding the librarian theme, I actually added it at some point, but for some reason the original song was still playing, even though it was in the right file... Anyone who can help would be very grateful. Some names and, above all, tidying up the texts in the library I do plan to do in the near future... But I have no plans to change the names of certain enemies or items to their American counterparts, since many relocalization patches already exist in the following games (AoS, HoD, etc)... I would only do this as a last resort, if I couldn't find a way to extend the number of characters to add the names to. Richter's and Maria's themes are something I'll have to look at in depth when I start working hard on the code. One of my wishes is to add the Guardian theme to Maria's fight, add the extra Saturn themes in some areas to stop the music repeating and, in the case of Dracula X Chronicles, add the Poison Mind separately in the boss rush (in this mod I've combined the former room and poison mind music into one).
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Post by dastanovich on Oct 8, 2024 13:27:23 GMT
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