A new patch for the Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night swaps in the English script and voiceovers from the PS1 version to an existing patch that used the PSP version’s localization.
Rafael “DraculaX350” Silva released his patch Sunday on his blog. It’s a ZIP file, downloadable via Mega.NZ, that contains an executable .BAT file as well as readme PDFs in English and Russian. The files are edited versions of ones that came with Meduza Team’s Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight Ultimate patch, so named because of the game’s original Japanese title.
Silva spent all last year inserting a Portuguese translation into Meduza Team’s patch before setting about making changes for English speakers starting early this year. At first, he fixed a couple bugs in which the Fire Shield and Fire Spell were the wrong colors, and the quantity of items in the inventory menu was overlapping with item names.
On the left are screenshots from Meduza Team’s original patch. On the right are screenshots from DraculaX350’s edit of the patch.
He also reverted a change Meduza Team made to playable protagonist Richter’s sprites during the game’s prologue section in which his alternate costume was seen rather than the classic outfit he has in the game’s original Japanese version.
But Silva didn’t stop there. He addressed a complaint some people had with Meduza Team’s patch — namely, that it used the retranslated script from Castlevania’s PSP port — by swapping the script and voiced lines to the original PS1 localization.
This video demonstrates the switch to the PS1 script from the PSP script.
He also changed the title screen so it resembles the PS1 localization’s title screen.
Silva’s patch retains the slew of changes and improvements Meduza Team made, including adding translucency to many objects, giving direct access to the global map and speeding up load times. While the newly edited patch doesn’t have Meduza Team’s blessing, its leader Paul Met didn’t publicly discourage it, either.
This story originally appeared on Sega Saturn SHIRO!