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Vampire Savior 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
- Vampire Savior's game system, with recoverable health and Dark Force.
- Donovan, Huitzil and Pyron return to the roster (Phobos in Japan), with their moves, voices, endings and win quotes. The Arrange's character changes and colors are included.
- Dee, the fighter Capcom made for the Arrange, on his own select cell at the bottom of the screen, with his own moves and voice.
- The bottom cell also offers roulette and Shadow, which takes over the defeated opponent after a win. Oboro Bishamon and Jon Talbain's dark form are selectable with Start.
- On MiSTer, the Collection's music plays for the restored scenes and Dee's boss fight, and the arcade music everywhere else.
- Two builds: USA in English, with my own translation, and Japan in Japanese.
Dee in battle.
The Arrange's character select.
New in rc3
- Restored Huitzil's air dashes and floating, and corrected mine contact and missing animations.
- Fixed Dee's jumping light-kick special cancels, repeated teleports and Dark Force sword behavior, and his sword colors when returning from a special move.
- Corrected Donovan's artwork, animations, sword effects and special-move colors.
- Corrected Pyron's special-move commands, animation timing and jumping shadows.
Getting it running
- It needs CPS-2+. On MiSTer, that means a 128 MB SDRAM module 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:
vsavj(Vampire Savior) andvsav2(Vampire Savior 2). - On MiSTer, copy the contents of the kit's
out/mister/folder to the root of your SD card. It holds the core, the ROMs, the music pack and one entry per region, under_Arcade/_Arcade Patches/_Restorations(Japan in its_Japansubfolder). - 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 (
vsavs01for USA,vsavs02for Japan). The kit is my reconstruction code and a short list of byte patches; everything else is rebuilt on your machine from files you already own.
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.
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