Dracula II - Noroi no Fuuin, a FDS game, or better known as Castlevania II for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Dracula II mostly has technical differences which distinguishes itself from the NES counter-part. Namely the FDS saving system which Castlevania II does not have. Also, Dracula II uses the FDS expansion sound channel, where Castlevania II uses DPCM for the drum samples instead.

The differences I have stated are the reasons why I wish to translate Dracula II to English, as well as the technical difficulties in hacking the game. I have decided to name the game, Dracula II - Accursed Seal, which has a mid-English type style for the title name.

This game as I had stated has been difficult to hack and I have had some assistance with some of the issues of the game. I will state some of the items that needed to be hacked and dealt with below in the first update.

Update History

07-06-2009 - This is the first public update for the project, Dracula II - Accursed seal. The following has been done, or needs to be done. I'd say, the current percentage complete would be about 45%.

• Checksum (assistance by rveach)
• Font compression (assistance and tool by D--)
• Title screen graphic tile compression (Tool by rveach)
• Text window expansion (assistance by rveach)
• Sub-string/dictionary encoding and expansion
• File expansion
• MAC0 inserted
• MAC1 not inserted
• MAC2 inserted - not completed
• MAIN text completed
• Title screen - not completed
• Title screen design - completed (By Thaddeus)
• Ending - not completed
• Script dumps translated (By Steve Martin)

Patch Release Download

None as of yet.

Project Contributors

• rveach
• Derrick Sobodash
• Thaddeus
• Steve Martin

Bonus Material

Dracula II NSF