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Title: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Reinhart77 on December 22, 2009, 10:32:36 PM
(hope it's ok to have new thread for this)
Looks like the ball's rolling on getting ROB on Virtual Console outside of Japan. Slowly anyways.  Heading for Australia, hopefully the US eventually.

http://www.destructoid.com/castlevania-rondo-of-blood-coming-to-virtual-console-158537.phtml

I don't play it much on PSP, but I know I'd play it a lot on Virtual Console.  I wonder if they'll at least put in subtitles? 
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 23, 2009, 12:01:00 PM
FUUUUUUUUUUUU—

Why the hell Australia and not over here? Seriously, Konami.

I already have the Japanese VC version on my Wii anyway, but I'd like to pay for the game and have the English voice acting.
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 23, 2009, 05:26:23 PM
Yeah what the hell?!  Is this going to be like Terranigma or something?
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: uzo on December 23, 2009, 11:05:50 PM
That's a shame if it is Australia only. I'd like to buy it myself, to play fullscreen on my TV.
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: shelverton. on December 24, 2009, 12:20:56 AM

Australia usually means Europe too.. which would make me oh so happy.  :D
But Castlevania is still more popular in US than anywhere else, so I doubt Konami would make this PAL only.
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Munchy on December 24, 2009, 03:08:57 PM
Now before you guys raise your pitchforks, this is exactly how Mega Man 9 was discovered, and it was released everywhere. Sometimes this site just gets the trademark first.
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: MeSako on December 27, 2009, 03:24:04 PM
Australia usually means Europe too.. which would make me oh so happy.  :D
But Castlevania is still more popular in US than anywhere else, so I doubt Konami would make this PAL only.

Then there would be at least TWO happy guys in Europe then :D
And about popularity.. I love Castlevania just as much as every Castlevania Loving American all togheter :P
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: The Last Belmont on December 31, 2009, 12:23:08 PM
FUUUUUUUUUUUU—

Why the hell Australia and not over here? Seriously, Konami.

I already have the Japanese VC version on my Wii anyway, but I'd like to pay for the game and have the English voice acting.

I just hope that when they do eventually dub it it's a quality dub.
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Reinhart77 on December 31, 2009, 01:39:19 PM
if it's virtual console instead of wii ware, which i believe it is, i would expect minimal or no changes from the original Japanese.  no dub, and perhaps no subs either.  do they ever do any translations on the "import" titles?
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Bloodreign on December 31, 2009, 10:47:16 PM
I wouldn't mind having the old voice acting in the game, there's a certain charm to it unmatched by the recent updated voice acting in Drac X Chronicles.
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 31, 2009, 11:23:58 PM
Having the option to choose between both would be nice (I can't imagine the audio files taking up much space—they sound so crappy), or having English subtitles for the Japanese and original German intro.

It won't ever happen that way, though.

I just wish there were no regions when it came to downloadable content. (Well, regions in entertainment should disappear, period, but whatever.) If I want to download Japanese Virtual Console games, I should be allowed to do so, legally and officially, on my US Wii.
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Profbeanburrito on January 01, 2010, 08:35:33 AM
I wouldn't mind them putting the DXC English dub in the VC release as long as they sync up the voices a little better, so that Richter isn't still talking while Dracula is moving his mouth!

But that probably won't happen and it'll probably be Japanese with English subtitles
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: Abnormal Freak on January 01, 2010, 12:07:11 PM
I doubt they'll even do the English subtitles, which is kind of a bummer. DoReMi Fantasy wasn't translated at all. Oh well. I think for Sin and Punishment they may have changed the menu text into English, though.

I just want the game over here already. That and arcade Splatterhouse. Japan gets so many cool downloadable releases...
Title: Re: Rondo of Blood in Australia Virtual Console
Post by: The Last Belmont on January 01, 2010, 01:15:21 PM
if it's virtual console instead of wii ware, which i believe it is, i would expect minimal or no changes from the original Japanese.  no dub, and perhaps no subs either.  do they ever do any translations on the "import" titles?

True but I wouldn't dismiss the option completely it's such a highly anticipated release.

I wouldn't mind having the old voice acting in the game, there's a certain charm to it unmatched by the recent updated voice acting in Drac X Chronicles.


Yeah I agree they could just sub the original game be easy. Which would allow us to understand what exactly is going on. The pieces of the plot that can't be gleened from the video.