SOTN (Dracula X) Saturn patch for Sega Saturn
Copyright Konami 1998
Copyright Knight0fDragon 2020 (Parts not owned by Konami)
This patch is provided for non-commercial use only, and
is free for personal use.
If you have paid for this, ask for your money back.

V1.021
Fixed palette issue with Alucard
Fixed Skeleton breaking game on Outer Wall
Fixed Areas locking up on certain emulators
Changed Ctuhlu to Devil
Familiar screen fixed

V1.02
The moment everybody has been waiting for,  the cross over from translation to improvements.

In this patch, you will find the following updates:
All ending freezes have been fixed.
Beezlebub freeze has been fixed.
After defeating Dracula the first time with Richter, the title of CASTLEVANIA appears.
All time text has been fixed and is formatted correctly.
Cloak Setting has been fixed.
Sort Item has been fixed.
Advice is renamed to Voices and now displays the names of the actors of the Japanese hidden voices.
Death's scrolling text has been fixed the first time you meet him.
Some graphical glitches have been fixed.
Fixed item names and descriptions.
Richter portrait has been fixed.

Known bugs.
If you have 10+ items, the number may go beyond allotted space.
Mario holy glass fight is unskippable.

Things to do for the improvement portions of the next build.
Quick access to map.
Fix slowdowns.
Add shadow to text.
Figure out the Shukuchi boots and see if it can be unlocked.
Add in a Richter sprite that matches good Richter portrait and not the evil one.
Add English Voices.
Add PSP text.
Expand text size to allow exact PSX translation.


Started a KanBan over at Trello, all bugs and features could be reported at https://trello.com/b/5JHk8T92/castlevania-dracula-x .


This version is now a safe version to start repros.  Even though I do not recommend selling this translation patch, I know
people are going to do so regardless, so please mark version 1.2 on the label, credit me for this patch, show people where they can go for updates,
update a non translation patch with a translation patch available for free, and offer disc only versions for people to update.






V1.00 - Special Contest Build
Here is Dracula-X, now known as Symphony of the Night.

This patch translates most of the game from start to end and in in a fairly playable state.

Along side of it is the patching program.

The program if very easy to use.

Just open up the patcher.
Load an original disc into your disc drive (preferable) or load an image via a virtual drive.
If you do not want to take the virtual drive approach, you can select a CD image providing it is in a valid format.

Select your drive or image via the button on top.

Click the Add Patch button, and locate the Dracula-X.ssp file.

If you want to region free patch, then click on region free.

Choose the type of CD image you want to output with the radio buttons.

Finally, click Build Image, and save in your desired location.

For further info, please see the on going thread.
V0.99
Merry Belmontmas!
SOTN Beta is now out, and along with it comes a brand new patcher for everybody to use, to make Saturn patching
hopefully easier.

In this version, almost all of the text is translated that I can find.

Special thanks to TrekkiesUnite118 for the translated and updated Trumotion videos.

Hope you enjoy, V1.00 will be out in time for the Saturn homebrew contest, so please
report any issues asap.


Known issues:
Voice still not supported.
Translation still loosly based on PSX
Sub Menus will show hidden text
Red boxes may not fill up areas





V0.81
Fixed items crashing game issue.  Will display "Obtained."  Need to update my text writing routine to handle
Obtained <Item Name>

V0.80
Happy Halloween.
Thank you for trying out the alpha build of SOTN on Sega Saturn
This version has most of the items and enemies names translated,
as well as some of the story translated.
This patch is loosely based on the PSX translation version.  The final version will contain the PSP version.
I currently need a lot of saves to go through the different aspects in the story line.
If you see an issue, please provide a save file (not a save state) with details as best
as you can as to what the issue is.

Known issues:
Later story and ending text not translated.
Alucard's name at the ending not translated.
Locations may be wrong and wrap. This requires an 8x8 font routine to be written.
Some gates messages may be wrong and wrap. This requires an 8x8 font routine to be written.
Entering a new area still has Japanese text.
Stat screen has Japanese text.
In game menu options are not aligned for English and may not all be translated.
Outer wall elevator switch still has Japanese text.
Title screen not converted to SOTN.
Speech pauses and text may not align in certain places.
Some speeches may have the last line cut off. (This requires a new patcher)
First meeting of Death has translucent effect.


If you would like to buy my a coffee to say thank you,  McDonalds coffee is
my preferred choice. You can't beat it for $1. If you would like to donate,
you can send via PayPal to knight0fdragon@gmail.com.

