Topic: Castlevania: Symphony of the night HACKED! I bet you thought I had quit? ;)

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Sorry for the LOOOOOOOOOOOONG silence on my blog (it has been about 12 days since I updated it), but I placed another update up just now. Everybody please feel free to check it out.

NOTE: If anyone has any artistic skills here and wants to contribute to the hack/remake, please feel free to send me a U2U here saying so, and detailing what kind of skills you have. Seriously committed people only please. 

[KaZudra]

Sorry for the LOOOOOOOOOOOONG silence on my blog (it has been about 12 days since I updated it), but I placed another update up just now. Everybody please feel free to check it out.

NOTE: If anyone has any artistic skills here and wants to contribute to the hack/remake, please feel free to send me a U2U here saying so, and detailing what kind of skills you have. Seriously committed people only please. 

For the Maria Sprites, is it okay If I redraw some of the Saturn sprites to fit the PSP version?

[Esco]

Sure, that is a great idea. But first let me see a demo of what you have gotten done so far please (via U2U).

Also in the future, please U2U me for stuff related to development of the hack like this. I want to avoid stuff like that being placed in here, and keep it on the down low at first. 

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New post added to the blog: and this once comes with a nice, shiny, video! Enjoy!

[Inccubus]

Sweet! That looks great, and vastly superior to the original!

[Esco]

I put up a new post on the blog; this one talks about the start/load file screens. Check it out peoples.

[VladCT]

Since it's going to use the original main menu, are you going to use an external config for keyboard/controller configuration and such?

[Sonic_Reaper]

For the Maria Sprites, is it okay If I redraw some of the Saturn sprites to fit the PSP version?

This was already done by myself for Anapan's Castlevania Online.  And it's ALL the Saturn sprites resized to the PSX resolution.

[Pemburu Vampir]

This was already done by myself for Anapan's Castlevania Online.  And it's ALL the Saturn sprites resized to the PSX resolution.

I want to see it.

[Esco]

This was already done by myself for Anapan's Castlevania Online.  And it's ALL the Saturn sprites resized to the PSX resolution.

I could greatly use this. Can you U2U me a link?

[Sonic_Reaper]

Well, here they are.

I no longer had the original file.  I had to dig through some old boxes for old back-up CDs, and found the images in a folder, though all separated.  It took an hour to assemble them again, so while you don't have to credit me if you use these, since they aren't my original sprites anyway (just resized and edited), at least some acknowledgement in the form of a special thanks or similar would be appreciated.

Maria's original magic effects are included, though some don't have the correct palettes.  And, of course, some of the animations aren't the greatest, but it's obvious they used a different artist, and they do seem a little rushed, not to mention somewhat inconsistent with the original frames here and there.  But I digress.  It's ~300 frames or so and 7916 pixels wide  .  I've laid the image out so that the maximum size of each frame is obvious, where the colors change.  I hope that is more helpful in disassembling them.  And as I far as I know, the frames should be organized by individual animation.

http://imageshack.us/f/193/allframes.png/

[Esco]

Well, here they are.

I no longer had the original file.  I had to dig through some old boxes for old back-up CDs, and found the images in a folder, though all separated.  It took an hour to assemble them again, so while you don't have to credit me if you use these, since they aren't my original sprites anyway (just resized and edited), at least some acknowledgement in the form of a special thanks or similar would be appreciated.

Maria's original magic effects are included, though some don't have the correct palettes.  And, of course, some of the animations aren't the greatest, but it's obvious they used a different artist, and they do seem a little rushed, not to mention somewhat inconsistent with the original frames here and there.  But I digress.  It's ~300 frames or so and 7916 pixels wide  .  I've laid the image out so that the maximum size of each frame is obvious, where the colors change.  I hope that is more helpful in disassembling them.  And as I far as I know, the frames should be organized by individual animation.

http://imageshack.us/f/193/allframes.png/

Wow that is an excellent job that you did there! It is way more than I expected. I don't suppose you know where to find DXC sprites for maria (like her animal attacks and crashes?).

Of course, I will give you credit for your help. What you just did I am sure took a lot of work, and I greatly appreciate it.

EDIT: My most recent blog post has been updated with some new info and 2 new pics. Check it out peoples.

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Another blog post has been put up: this one is about languages and pad/keyboard support

Also in reference to people requesting japanese voice support (cut and pasted from the blog):

As for Japanese voices, well to be blunt I have had SEVERAL people volunteer to help; thus far none of them have produced anything. I know that several of you out there want to have the option to use these, but I personally do not care about them. So with that being said:

If you guys want japanese voice overs included I will need a SERIOUS volunteer to do the following:

   

• Be able to understand both japanese and english; this will be necessary for the 2nd and 3rd tasks
•     Be willing to match up the Japanese dialogue with the american text: I know what clips go where, but the text speed would have to be programmed to match the speech like in SOTN. So in other words the text types out with it's equivalent dialogue. This is very easy to do, but somewhat time consuming. The volunteer would be provided everything that he/she needs. They would then just run the program, and note at what point on the display timer for the sound each bit of text should be typed out at, sentence by sentence (word by word would take too long, IMHO).
• Lastly, there will be a few sound clips from judgement (maybe 10) that I will need matched with their English equivalent. The same for the PSP version (maybe about 5 here).

Let me make this clear: if I do NOT receive a volunteer to work with the Japanese voices, I WILL NOT BE DOING THEM!


I am willing to take extra steps to make fans happy; but people will need to help me a little with it.   

EDIT: Also I don't remember who asked about Richter's portrait in the intro, but I managed to find one and tweak it in a way that I actually felt matches up with the other portraits pretty good:

[KaZudra]

gives me a good idea, how about Ditching the Blue Mullet Richter and use Uzo's Chronicles Sprites and Serio's Symphony Sprites and have a Chronicles feel all around?
aaand I can see if I can whip up some cleaner portaits to replace the old ones (since the coloring and stuff looks a little off)

[Esco]

gives me a good idea, how about Ditching the Blue Mullet Richter and use Uzo's Chronicles Sprites and Serio's Symphony Sprites and have a Chronicles feel all around?

BWA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

........... oh wait...... you were serious? Nah I'm good. Thanks for the offer though. 

aaand I can see if I can whip up some cleaner portaits to replace the old ones (since the coloring and stuff looks a little off)

They look gorgeous as is..... if anything the one I edited (posted above) might be the only one that needs a little touching up to match the rest.