Topic: Akumajou Dracula X Gekka no Yasoukyoku (Saturn Version) - The right and wrong

[Claimh Solais]

Or that.

Hope he's not one of those guys that just ignores anything you ask him.

[uzo]

It was an attachment. And yes that's the one he posted.

The reason I don't have all the frames is because effects and other things got in the way of them. I don't have a tile rip or anything of them. It's almost complete, but yeah still needs some.

[uzo]

OK here is a more comprehensive post about what I did;



Basically what I did was do two NitM rips. One of normal Richter, and one of the alt costume. Note; Original costume NitM version did NOT have to be cleaned up, because it is only used as a reference to the size distortion. Then I basically just shrunk them one by one based on the original sprites.



As you can see here I have three example poses of each. Because they did not redraw the Richter sprites, and simply cheaply resized them, you'll notice there are some duplicate columns of the same pixel pattern. Essentially this is making a double line. Now notice, when they went and edited the alternate costume, they did so AFTER the resize. This means the double lines are usually obscured by the edits, so we need the original costume resized as references. What I did was pretty much just remove one of the two columns, usually depending on what looked best per frame.

This is the mother sheet with all the poses I had done;


And so, this was the result;



And for the finalized gif with palette etc;

[Claimh Solais]

Wow. That's a simple process.
Thanks for the sprites.

Also, the NitM outfit doesn't look too bad when it's not Saturn Fat.

[Pemburu Vampir]

The Saturn fat Richter looks better than the rescaled ones IMO.

[Pemburu Vampir]

Hope he's not one of those guys that just ignores anything you ask him.

Reminds me of an unresponded question I asked in the SotN hacked thread.

[Claimh Solais]

Saturn Fat Richter looks fat. It's hard to take him seriously.

[X]

All this talk of Richter sprites got me thinking of that one sheet I found. Don't know who did it and I might have snagged it off Anapan's website before it died. It was a properly pixelated Richter SotN outfit sheet. Not complete but this one blows the Saturn version out of the water. Once I find where I put it then I'll email it to whomever wants to put it up here. As for the Saturn game... I do think it's interesting though poorly executed in the end. I was really hoping that for the PSP version we could get those new areas and items but without the silly enemies. And personally I felt all the new areas were just too short. They should've been longer and more involved, now that would have been something. As for Maria, she's a wonderful addition to the game to play and her powers reflect that of her Rondo days, however I find her to be extremely underpowered and this makes for a much too difficult get-through.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

There's one FRAME of Richter that looks great, that's unknown.
However, I know that Sonic Reaper (sonic_reaper on these forums) has made sprites based on that Richter.


and

which is based on
<-----(Konami's official)
and expanded upon like this:

and

(Apologies to Sonic Reaper if he did not want me to show these; these were given to me a long time ago so I don't know whether this is a secret by now)

Actually, I'm not sure whether it was him who gave them to me, but I know he's worked on at least one of the images above, so I'm still giving credit.

On a personal note, these sprites are way better than Serio's, in my opinion.

[uzo]

Konami's Japanese SotN website had a single frame of an accurate to art Richter sprite. Sonic Reaper used that as the basis for his Richter edits.

Serio's game has a Richter edit in an attmept to make him accurate to the art.


And then there is the fan game project I lead. I'll let the screen shot do the talking.

http://www.dimondsoft.com/castlevania/screens/CVWT-NewRichter.jpg

That's all of the SotN Richter art accurate attempts I've seen myself.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Yeah I just put up that one sprite, haha.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

The Richter sprite above looks MUCH more accurate then the Saturn version or even Serio's version.

[Pemburu Vampir]

The Richter sprite above looks MUCH more accurate then the Saturn version or even Serio's version.

I agree. They look very cool too.

Uzo's Richter sprite seems like it was edited from Alucard's sprite.

[darkwzrd4]

Konami's Japanese SotN website had a single frame of an accurate to art Richter sprite. Sonic Reaper used that as the basis for his Richter edits.

Serio's game has a Richter edit in an attmept to make him accurate to the art.


And then there is the fan game project I lead. I'll let the screen shot do the talking.

http://www.dimondsoft.com/castlevania/screens/CVWT-NewRichter.jpg

That's all of the SotN Richter art accurate attempts I've seen myself.

Nice screen shot, but why is he holding a sword?  Shouldn't he be wielding the whip?

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Looks like it is a action replay character modifiing code that lets you replace Jonathan with Richter in POR.

That way he can use swords as well as whips.