Intro & Launcher - Korean PC Bootleg - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

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Published on November 6, 2021 5:32:39 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc_k5WNL_uI

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

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Here's some footage of me launching autorun.exe from a bootleg version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night released in Korea in 2002. I mostly just wanted to "preserve" the MIDI rendition of Dracula's Castle playing on the launcher for easier listening, as some MIDI players seem to omit certain instruments. The rotating Castlevania logo is named "c_logo02.gif" (filename visible in footage) on the disc. The background music is named "X.mid" on the disc.

This release uses version 1.5.2 of ePSXe and scph1001.bin (which is named incorrectly on the disc, amusingly, requiring a name change) to run the North American version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I recorded this footage using a Windows 11 virtual machine to avoid any resolution changes during recording.

FYI, I couldn't get the game to run straight from the disc or with tweaking, so I verified which version of the game it was using by renaming misc.odd so it had a .bin file extension, then prepped it for use on my PlayStation 3 (which has HEN installed on it). The game is an unaltered version of the North American version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

You can find the disc's contents and some high-quality scans of the packaging and disc at Archive.org by searching for Castlevania Symphony of the Night PC Korea. You can find out more about how I acquired this game and how I tested it here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-pc-korea.509799/

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