Retranslated prologue from Akumajō Dracula X: Gekka no Yasōkyoku

[wnxchampion]

Whoa, now my life is complete. I've never heard the jab dubbed one before, But seriously WAKAMOTOULA?!

[XxBigWheel104xX]

EPIC RE-TRANSLATION, which may lead them to do voice overs, yes?

[sharker102]

@XxBigWheel104xX maybe they can even do voice overs of my penis

[bogulmon]

Waka-Waka-Wakamoto!

[ThePepsilegend]

the same evil japanese voice in almost every game every anime

like oda nabunaga from sengoku basara and cell from dbz

[spike007980]

Wanna know what's crazy? I prefer this translation and nic work on blade dashing. Perfect stats for Alucard I presume?

[HelloMelonbread]

I'm sorry, all I can hear is Norio Wakamoto here and picture Johnny as Dracula. The castle isn't filled with enough little girls though.

[efphraim1]

A real fight is when you dont use that silly slash move, or any subweapon or fire whip, and all that without losing HP.

[Loader2K1]

I seriously hope a fan translation of the Saturn version is in the works.

[geminimewtwo]

@Loader2K1: not by us, anyways.

[AznWallRunner]

"Which one of our claims is true? I shall give you the answer, along with death's embrace! BUUUUURRRRUUUUAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!­!!!"

[ryumishima44]

OMG!!!!!

No more Shit English voices!!!!

Thumps up for you

[nfani0]

Isn't the first thing Richter Belmont says "Horobi yo!" which translates to "Perish!" instead of "It's over!"?

[geminimewtwo]

@nfani0

It's not a literal translation, or we would have kept shit like "Die, monster!" instead. "It's over" serves the same purpose as "Horobi yo", even if it's not a 1:1 translation.

[sexypadri]

I.... can´t... resist...... WHAT IS A MAN? xD,

[Aleryn27]

Woo! Thanks for the upload of the Japanese dialogue, and the alternate translation!

[BuffaloSpencer87]

Wow, I recognize the way the voices sound from the original rondo, even when I don't speak Japanese. The Japanese VA's really did a great job of recreating that final dialogue in Rondo...

[diegowsanchez]

do you know where i can download the full game??  akumajou dracula x gekka no yasoukyoku??? i want to download it!!!!!

pleaseeeeeeeeeeee

do any1 know????

[geminimewtwo]

Go buy it. No piracy here.

[diegowsanchez]

loll

then tell me where can i buy it!

i cant find it anywhere!!!

:/

[geminimewtwo]

eBay.

[diegowsanchez]

can u find me the link???

i only found the game soundtrack and the english version :/

[Dragonslayer9]

@diegowsanchez Or PSN

[geminimewtwo]

@Dragonslayer9: I doubt he really wants to buy a copy. Downloading is much cheaper, isn't it?

[davintheraven]

In all fairness to the Saturn version, some of the "added" material (and I stress SOME) was actually based on deleted material from the PSX version. Three examples:

1) The Underground Garden was a "finished" version of the secret save point near the castle entrance,

2) the Half-Fairy's song (with the aid of the Lyrics Card),

3) Copper Armor (in the inverted Garden) - a monster shown in very early screenshots in EGM who never appeared in the final game, but reappeared in the Saturn game.

[ngomez0077]

If there's anything Castlevania has ever taught me, it's that theological discussions can only come to a conclusion through VIOLENCE!

[Loader2K1]

@ngomez0077: You can also find those in fight anime/manga.

[ichimarusama2]

He's the voice of leleuch in code geass yes he's.

[ichimarusama2]

jejeje excuse not want to disturb this great castlevania in Japanese but the voice of Count resembles that of leleuch jajaja

[geminimewtwo]

No idea who "Leleuch" is. The voice actor for Dracula is the legendary Norio Wakamoto.

[EmanuelHoogeveen]

Lelouch Lamperouge is the main character of Code Geass - but I'm sure he meant to say Dracula's voice resembles that of Charles zi Britannia, who is indeed voiced by Norio Wakamoto :)

[geminimewtwo]

Then ALL YAIRU BURRRRRITANIAA!

[ichimarusama2]

Ja las voces en japones están geniales aunque ese dracula parece decir Leleuch jaja parece la voz del rey de britania o la sera?

[geminimewtwo]

Please, only English.

[zavlin]

any links to a list of differences between the two? is it mostly just the translation or was any content different?

[geminimewtwo]

Nope, no lists of differences (never thought about making one of the English retranslation). The translation is indeed different, and it also offers all the stuff that was removed from the US release, like the last 2 familiars (Nose Demon and Half-Fairy).

[belmontzar]

@geminimewtwo

Exactly. Id kill for a version of nocturne that left everything alone and was ONLY translated and subtitles. that would leave me my Decent Maria Renard and good voices XP lol some one has to do this.. oh and while your at it.. put rondo of blood on american Virtual console.

[geminimewtwo]

I'm not sure I'm following you (especially the part about Rondo). This version leaves everything exactly as it was in the original, and it's all translated and with "subtitles".

[belmontzar]

@geminimewtwo

o.o Oh my god are you serious? Im sorry.,. I was being earlier.. I was referring to things that seem impossible at the moment.. Does this need an emulater? Or can it be downloaded for computer use? Oh my god I need to play this.. OH stupid question.. is Saturn Maria in this too? please tell me she is!

[geminimewtwo]

You can play it on real consoles or emulator, it works great on both. As for Maria, she isn't in this version. She never was, at least.

[belmontzar]

well that sucks.. dang.... any hope of a saturn translation?

[geminimewtwo]

The Saturn version is pretty bad, so if anybody's ever gonna work on that, it certainly won't me. :p

[belmontzar]

personally the saturn version is the only one I ahve played, anf the ps1 version sounds like it is missing too much... like Maria and stages.

[geminimewtwo]

The Psx version doesn't miss anything, actually. All the Saturn extras are pretty weak and don't go along very well with the rest of the game. Plus, it has to many flaws I wouldn't even consider it a masterpiece, unlike the Psx version. Not even Koji Igarashi liked what KCEN did with that shabby porting.

[belmontzar]

Lol what flaws? I have watched and seen alot of videos of symphony and see more problems with that game than the Nocturn one. The saturn port is a more complete game, with two extra areas, two boss fights, All characters unlocked from the beginning, heck it even sounds better. Its possible that older systems for some run slower, but my Saturn runs the game faster than a few of my ps2 games. What flaws are you talking about anyway? I have been playing it for years, and haven't seen any.

[geminimewtwo]

The Saturn port is not more *complete*. The original was complete already, otherwise IGA would have added stuff with new revisions (like he did with Maria on the PSP). All the new extras don't make it more complete in any way, but quite the opposite. They are so cheap they make the game look worse instead of better.

The flaws are: noticeable slowdowns, gfx downgrades, horribly stretched sprites, some sound samples played at a wrong frequency, additional and pointless loading times.

[greatmahoo]

More content does not a better game make.

[Lymmar]

Do you have any idea how much worse this makes the US intro to this game look? Some of the worst voice acting/diologue ended up in one of the best games in history. This, this is just fucking rad right here.

[Shoe3003]

Dracula's voice actor in the US version was actually pretty talented, if you ask me.

[KuroiKensai]

Hi, Gemini!

Now I am playing your P2:IS translation - it's was a great, when I've found it! Thanks A LOT!! ! I am kinda fan of Castlevania series, but not finished this one due to it looks horrible on emulator and I was waiting till I was be able to play it on PS2.. So I want to ask - what is difference between this one and real eng release? Are there really BIG diffrences? Cos I am from Ukraine and it is kinda hard to understand retran., original was simpler in language.. Should I improve it?))

[geminimewtwo]

A few lines might be a little more difficult to understand because we didn't use common English, but some sort of dialect from 1800. Still, it's pretty close to modern English and it shouldn't make you suffer too much with a vocabulary. Menus, on the other hand, have regular English in them so they should be just fine for you.

[Brawlerthehedgehog]

excuse my ignorance, this patch is for PSone or Sega Saturn version?

[geminimewtwo]

For Playstation, the one that doesn't blow ass.

[annihilator675]

It's Lelouch's dad. lol awesome

[davintheraven]

I just got the patch to work and I am very impressed! Excellent work. Bravo!

[EmanuelHoogeveen]

I found this video because I wanted to show my friend what the voices are meant to be like. But I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the excellent retranslation - I had a lot of fun playing the game, and the end was actually pretty touching :) Keep up the good work!

[davintheraven]

Excellent! Are you planning to re-translate the REAL Monster Dictionary, too? I did most of that for a site ages ago and was highly disappointed by the piss-poor name swaps used in the US version for almost all of the monsters & weapons.

[geminimewtwo]

We aren't really planning anything now that the translation has been released for over a month. :p And yes, we did replace the half-assed names used by Konami US with the real ones. This is probably the only translation that has actually got right the trasliteration for ヴァルマンウェ (Val Manwë).

[davintheraven]

It was funny how the 3 Tolkien references got changed:

1. the wolf アンフアゥグリア (Anfauglir from The Silmarillion) to Warg

2. the sword オルクリスト (Orcrist from The Hobbit) to Luminus

3. the sword グラムドリング (Glamdring also from The Hobbit) to Dark Blade

For a lack of an ability to translate many of the other names, Konami USA plugged in lots of other Tolkien names, many that don't fit the descriptions. I'd love to see more videos of your patch.

[davintheraven]

Yeah, it's always been the Val Manwë ("Power of Manwë") to me. Not this "Crissaegrim" crap. Crissaegrim isn't even a sword - it's a mountain range where the giant eagles live in Lord of the Rings. See what I mean by misplaced Tolkien references...

[SestrenNK]

Awesome.

[GiGaGolfFCB]

It's best voice ^0^

[radabon]

Nice... but I think Dracula's "full" name should be arranged differently. How about "Vlad Tepes Dracula"? Since "Tepes" is, for the purposes of the game, Alucard's surname and not Romanian for "Impaler" it could still work, with Dracula being a moniker or title ("Son of the Dragon/Devil").

[megamiun]

No "What is a man"? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

xD But this patch seems to be really good

[xnamkcor]

10/10 for actually fighting Dracula and not using Hydro Storm.

[YarrMateys]

it's pretty nice, and i see you used the hidden, better palette for richter rather than his regular eye-damaging rondo one.

i hope you're not planning to leave the title untranslated btw.

[geminimewtwo]

There's no hidden palette there. That's the regular one.

[YarrMateys]

whoa. oops, i didn't realise the palette looked so different on a hd monitor. didn't play sotn on it yet.

still, i was talking of the one that uses 0,48,248 0,0,176 and 0,0,80 as blue colors as opposed to 0,96,248 0,0,248 and 0,0,96 that's hidden in f_game2.bin.

as far as i can tell it starts on 406a0 offset in that file.

[CyberDragon10K]

This is going to be a patch file for the PSX JP version's ISO, correct? Looking forward to it regardless. And finally, a proper translation! ^^

[borisdzu]

Your words are as empty as your soul.

Gamers ill need a translator such as you!

[Daggerhart]

Nice :)

[Jadicegirl]

I didn't much care for the PSP voice acting at all. Granted, it's pretty certain that much of the voice acting in the Playstation version of this game is wooden at best, ridiculous at worst, but I heard some of the dialogue in the PSP redub, and thought it was awful.

But the original script for this is excellent, thanks for posting it.

[Iheartmecha]

Awesome! I'm really looking forward to this patch!

[Rodyon]

Nice work, i allways liked the japanese voice acting, now ill be able to understand it!

Any chance for a Saturn Version translation?

Keep up the good work!

[geminimewtwo]

Forget the Saturn version, it's utter crap.

[DarknessSavior]

Awesome job Gemini, tom, et. all.

Question: When Dracula changes forms, are you planning on putting some subtitle up for what he says, much like you did for the beginning of ToP PSX?

~DS

[geminimewtwo]

Nope. All spoken lines coming out of nowhere will not have subtitles. I think I know how to trigger them, but it'd be a hell of a work. Think of committing suicide: that's how much hell it is.

[DarknessSavior]

Sad, but alas, I recall you telling me how crappily coded Konami games were.

I shall await your translation. Until then, I'm going to play the PSP Version. >.>

~DS

[Trucidation]

Waaay better than the atrocious official "translation". Of course, that was more of a localization than anything, to appease local tastes. But still, I can't believe people would prefer that. It's a fucking Japanese game, if people can't get their heads out of their asses and need everything to be americanized then sucks to be them. That Chaap poster on the gamespot forums for one. Idiot. Nobody's FORCING them to like this.

Keep up the good work, dude. This is excellent stuff.

[MechagirlSachiko]

Well, each translation has its good and bad things.

The first US dub is, well, cheesy to boot, and you get some laughs at how pathetical their conversations are. The second one has a bit more feeling in the characters voices... But THIS translation has both sentiment in the character's voices (Since they are the original Japanese ones) and loyalty to the script to boot. Thus, this one wins by miles.

Now, if only fandubbers were able to put quality voicing in this translation... But alas.

[ignatz20xx]

Good stuff. VERY different from both US dubbings. I definitely approve of this translation to Dracula and Richter shown here. Have you translated other bits of dialogue from this game?

[geminimewtwo]

The whole game is already translated, tho many things are not reinserted yet. There are also timing issues to fix, as speed and pauses in the text have to be corrected manually to match spoken dialogue.

[tehshingen]

I await this awesome patch. It will be worth the wait, if only so I don't have to listen to "BEHOLD MY TRUE FORM... AND DESPAAAAAIR!" at the end.

[fffff1]

"the greed of you men"

[AkuBeoulve]

Wow, great job there dude.

Cant wait for the patch.

[highwind99]

The best translation in SOTN opening!!!It is 1000% better than the original english one!!!

[flamer2113]

Honestly, this is a Very Well done translation of the script. I am half Japanese and, I can understand what is going on here. Thnak You, for taking the time to re-translate the script. It's ashame not many fans of CastleVania are aware of the dialogue nor can accept it.

[geminimewtwo]

This man sure knows his translations!

[ngomez0077]

ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!

[Paptimus909]

Dude, I can't complain about "miserable little pile of secrets" being missing. Your translation is at least a million times better than the PSP slop!

[Jennero]

Awesome! Love the timing on the text with the voices.

[MasterAlucard84]

VERY!

NORIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[andrewmarsh1]

Seriously. Nice Work!