There are many other known good dumps on this page as well, which are also very much worth checking out.
Lastly, here is a link to a known good dump of the original Japanese CD, in case you want to do the whole process from scratch, in case a new version of the English patch ever comes out or something (unlikely). Here is a link to the original English translation patch in case you want to do this whole process from scratch for some odd reason: Here is a link to the original prepatched files that I used to create this version: Here is a simple guide to get you started with the basics: Here is the URL for RetroArch: Setting up RetroArch the best way possible is no easy task (understatement) but there are a lot of great guides out there that make the task easier, and it is very much worth the effort for the spectacular end results you can achieve. The other great thing about RetroArch is that it will work on nearly every Operating System that is in common use today (even some strange ones you would never think about), which sets it apart from just about every other emulator out there. It is totally to your taste!Īn example of just how advanced and powerful xBRZ really is and what it can do for an old classic pixelated retro-game can be seen at its home page here:
You get to choose how you want your game to look. That is what is so great about RetroArch. My shader of choice for this purpose is xBRZ, but that choice is completely up to you. With shaders, you can either make the game look really retro with scanlines as though it was being played on an old CRT monitor (a good example of this kind of shader would be crt-royale-kurozumi), or as I prefer, fix it up to make it look as though it was a totally modern game release! The reason I like RetroArch so much is because of the very high quality shaders you can apply to any game. This game looks, sounds (CD quality music) and plays spectacularly in RetroArch using the "PC Engine SuperGrafx (Beetle SGX)" Core/Emulator. It's important to note that you have to actually burn the disc, and then re-rip it using a program such as ImgBurn, as just mounting it virtually and then ripping it from a virtual drive simply won't work for some odd reason.Ĭongratulations, I just saved you the hours and hours that I had to spend researching and figuring all of this all out the hard way. cue format that the emulators will tolerate. My solution was to take the prepatched game commonly available on the internet and burn it to disc and then re-rip it using ImgBurn to a standard. I tried getting the prepatched game and it didn't work in RetroArch, then I tried getting the unpatched game and patching it myself, but in order to use the patch, you have to convert the files into a weird, non-standard format that emulators don't like, or else the patch won't work. The good news is that this great retro game has been translated 100% into English, but the bad news is that there doesn't seem to be any prepatched version available anywhere on the internet that will work with RetroArch and some other emulators without major problems/errors.
The only problem is that most people that weren't born in, nor live in, Japan don't read or speak Japanese, so even if you could somehow obtain a copy (not easy), you wouldn't know what was being said and so the game would be very difficult to play. The good thing about the TG-16 is that there were no region locks so you could play any game on any system (oh, for a simpler time.).
This is it! The famous Castlevania game for PC Engine TurboDuo/Turbografx 16 that we in the English speaking world never got to play back-in-the-day, unless of course, you imported it from Japan. This game is considered by most hard-core Castlevania fans to be the best, or at the very least, one of the best Castlevania games ever released for any gaming platform and chances are very good that you've not ever had the opportunity to play it, but now you can! This is "Akumajou Dracula X - Chi No Rondo" AKA "Castlevania Dracula X - Rondo Of Blood" (the real version, not the crappy SNES remake) fully translated into English and converted into a format that is playable on RetroArch and other PC Engine TurboDuo/TurboGrafx 16 emulators.