Fans of Castlevania, rejoice! It has been revealed that Hudson of all publishers is bringing Castlevania: Rondo of Blood to the Wii's Virtual Console some time soon. The game has been rated by the ESRB, so is ready to hit the Wii at any time.
Rondo of Blood was the tenth Castlevania game in the series, originally created for Japanese PCs. The game arrived to the West in its current form for the PlayStation Portable in 2007, and the title of the Virtual Console version would indicate that this is the ported version. If you want to know what it plays like, then you don't know much about Castlevania.
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CASTLEVANIA RONDO OF BLOOD [ESRB]
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10:20 AM on 01.25.2010
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The wording of "the title of the Virtual Console version would indicate that this is the ported version" is confusing, though, and may make Castlevania fans take pause. The first "port" was to SNES as Dracula XX (Dracula X in America), which couldn't compare. The second port was to PSP alongside the 2.5D remake, but this emulation had various issues with slightly fuzzy sprites and poor sound. What this version would be is the original Turbo Duo (a.k.a. PC Engine, not "Japanese PCs") version that was only released in Japan. Judging by the standards of Virtual Console emulation, this should play perfectly due to being the original, unlike the PSP emulation or the American SNES port.
Nonetheless, this is great news as Rondo of Blood is my favorite Castlevania.
Other previously Japanese-only titles I've downloaded from the Virtual Console came with no translations at all (which is pretty stupid in my opinion) but I would expect the same from this. If it is just the Turbo-Grafx CD game it will likely be unchanged but that's okay, I played the Japanese version and there is still English text in the menus so you can get around easy enough. The only issue is you will not understand any of the characters dialog.
Wii. You've been so good to me lately. Thank you.
But that's wrong, as the first Castlevania game was made for NES (and was almost immediately remade for MSX and Arcade). Dracula X was originally made for PC Engine CD (a.k.a. the Japanese Turbo Duo, an upgrade of the Turbografx-16).
From Wikipedia: "The PC Engine was a collaborative effort between the relatively young Hudson Soft (founded in 1973) and NEC."
Rondo of Blood was the tenth Castlevania game in the series, originally created for Japanese PC Engine, otherwise known as the Turbo Duo.
Fixed.
Anyone?