Vampire Savior 2 Arrange is one of the arranged editions in Capcom's 2005 PlayStation 2 Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection. It never had an arcade release. This backport rebuilds it as a CPS-2 game.
Back in August I wrote that the Arrange modes lean on code and memory the CPS-2 doesn't have, which made backporting them a much harder prospect. They needed more memory than the original hardware had, so they run on CPS-2+, an extended CPS-2 system for MiSTer and HBMAME (more on that below).
What's in it
- The whole cast: Vampire Savior 2's game system, with Jedah as the final boss, plus Jon Talbain, Rikuo and Sasquatch (Gallon, Aulbath and Sasquatch in Japan) with their Vampire Hunter 2 move sets. Every fighter is selectable.
- Dee, the fighter Capcom made for the Arrange, on his own select cell, with his own voice.
- Pyron becomes an ordinary opponent.
- NIGHTMARE, a ninth difficulty in the operator menu. At NIGHTMARE, win the secret Oboro Bishamon fight and Dee is waiting.
- B.B. Hood's spoken intro against Jon Talbain is back, from the original Vampire Savior.
- The music is the arcade game's own.
- Two builds: USA in English, with the same translation as my Vampire Savior 2 release, and Japan in Japanese.
- On the bottom cell, press Down to spin the roulette, Start five times for Shadow, or Start seven times for Marionette.
- Hold Start while confirming Bishamon for Oboro Bishamon, or Jon Talbain for his dark form.
One select screen for every fighter, Jon Talbain, Rikuo and Sasquatch included.
New in rc1
First public release.Getting it running
- It needs CPS-2+. On MiSTer, that means a 128 MB SDRAM module (a smaller one isn't enough) and the CPS+ core, which the kit includes. On a computer, it needs HBMAME with the CPS+ driver. It doesn't run on the standard jtCPS2 core or in stock MAME. The CPS-2+ page explains how the extended system works.
- You need your own Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection (Japan) PlayStation 2 disc image, and your own Japanese arcade romsets:
vhunt2,vsav2andvsavj. - The kit reads the Arrange edition from your disc image, combines it with your romsets, and writes out the finished sets for MiSTer and HBMAME (
vsav2s05for USA,vsav2s06for Japan). It ships only my own code, translated text and layout, plus the CPS+ core with its source and licenses. - On MiSTer, each game image is about 92 MB, so it takes longer to load than the original game.
This is a release candidate. Bug reports and suggestions are welcome right here. Tell me which build you ran and what you saw.
Fan work, unaffiliated with Capcom.
