Topic: Rondo of blood for PC ( did anyone else know about this?)

[Esco]

I happened to be searching around for a better way to play rondo of blood than using that damn cd with an emulator, and I happened to find this:

Rondo of blood for PC: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X2P2ZS50

It is literally an EXACT copy of the original game. According to the thread it just takes the original source for the game, compiles it in mednafen, and voila: instant rondo of blood, PC engine perfect for the PC. Here is a link to the thread: http://snesorama.us/board/showthread.php?t=20398&page=2

I just played thru the game: it is literally EXACTLY like the PC engine, except that the non cd music has it's volume equalized with the cd music, so it doesn't sound overly loud anymore.

[Claimh Solais]

Hoh-lee shit. Nice find, Esco. O:

Now I don't need to download a PCE emulator. Last one destroyed my comp.

[Pemburu Vampir]

I use Ootake to emulate that pc version of RoB and it works great.

[Inccubus]

I knew about this. Had the pleasure of trying it out too. Now what would be great is if we could hack in a proper stage 5' and maybe upgrade the non cd music. It's untranslated too, right? Not that there's much to translate.

[Claimh Solais]

Wow. Just played it, and its a flawless port of the game. It's quite amazing. I just beat the game (going the alternate path) as Maria (course, went through stage 2 to unlock her as Richter)

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Yeah we've been known (the older members of the forum).
We even know the guy who helped create the executable.  His name is Sliver-X.

[Gemini]

Wow. Just played it, and its a flawless port of the game.

This is not a port at all, it's just the entire ISO of Rondo+mednafen made into an executable form so that it would play as-is on any PC. It's basically the same imbNES (NES emulator for the PlayStation) does when you have only one game in the list and it boots as if no emulator is running in the background.

[Arma]

cool, maybe now I can play it my piece of junk Pc. It's been a long time since I played with Richter in this game, Maria sucks. Low endurance.

[uzo]

Recompiling the source? What source? The game is already compiled data. You don't leave source code on a sales copy, or any copy really.

All it is, is a self contained emulator and ISO. Nothing fancy, and as Jorge said super old news.

[Claimh Solais]

This is not a port at all, it's just the entire ISO of Rondo+mednafen made into an executable form so that it would play as-is on any PC. It's basically the same imbNES (NES emulator for the PlayStation) does when you have only one game in the list and it boots as if no emulator is running in the background.

I call anything like ISOs, ROMs, etc. etc. a port. Cuz, that's kinda what it is. ^^

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Except it ain't that.

[Claimh Solais]

I'm aware. ^^

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I don't think it's nice to misinform others who might not know the difference, though.  Bad form, Peter!

A port has been designed, from a programming standpoint, to use the calls and programming of a foreign hardware than the one it was designed for.  Things like porting the SNES FInal Fantasy IV to PSX.

Rondo of Blood for PC is an emulator with an ISO attached to it.  It's just emulation.  It's using PC hardware to try and perfectly emulate the PC-Engine SuperCD-ROM2 hardware architecture, through software.  The ISO has never been 'ported'.  Savvy?

You can call it whatever, but you would be wrong. And someone might listen to what you say and perpetuate the wrongness.  It's better to be informed.

[Claimh Solais]

Alright. I'll call it emulation from now on. ^^

[Esco]

Wow, some of you guys sure like to nitpick shit that doesn't matter. Lol, don't you know that you are wasting good gaming time like that?