I m trying to play Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (Akumajou Dracula X - Chi no Rinne (NTSC-J)) but no success. I load the .cue and all I get is blank screen/no sound … can bring up the RetroArch menu and close the game but that is all.
This is a tough one. I recall it took me a while to find a copy that worked. The version floating around with separate audio tracks won’t work. I eventually found a combined ISO file and used this cue sheet:
FILE "Akumajou_Dracula_X_-_Chi_no_Rinne_(NTSC-J)_[KMCD3005].iso" BINARY
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 MODE1/2352
PREGAP 00:03:00
INDEX 01 00:48:65
TRACK 03 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:02:00
INDEX 01 03:04:14
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 00 04:48:48
INDEX 01 04:50:48
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 00 05:51:67
INDEX 01 05:53:67
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 00 07:28:09
INDEX 01 07:30:09
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 00 08:51:61
INDEX 01 08:53:61
TRACK 08 AUDIO
INDEX 00 09:56:35
INDEX 01 09:58:35
TRACK 09 AUDIO
INDEX 00 12:54:60
INDEX 01 12:56:60
TRACK 10 AUDIO
INDEX 00 14:38:28
INDEX 01 14:40:28
TRACK 11 AUDIO
INDEX 00 17:19:05
INDEX 01 17:21:05
TRACK 12 AUDIO
INDEX 00 19:00:58
INDEX 01 19:02:58
TRACK 13 AUDIO
INDEX 00 21:31:18
INDEX 01 21:33:18
TRACK 14 AUDIO
INDEX 00 23:58:69
INDEX 01 24:00:69
TRACK 15 AUDIO
INDEX 00 27:38:51
INDEX 01 27:40:51
TRACK 16 AUDIO
INDEX 00 30:04:10
INDEX 01 30:06:10
TRACK 17 AUDIO
INDEX 00 33:19:56
INDEX 01 33:21:56
TRACK 18 AUDIO
INDEX 00 34:49:29
INDEX 01 34:51:29
TRACK 19 AUDIO
INDEX 00 36:31:49
INDEX 01 36:33:49
TRACK 20 AUDIO
INDEX 00 38:31:50
INDEX 01 38:33:50
TRACK 21 AUDIO
INDEX 00 42:33:12
INDEX 01 42:35:12
TRACK 22 MODE1/2352
PREGAP 00:03:00
INDEX 01 46:48:62I have that .iso also but same thing happens …
Get the bios files.
Load the core, main menu: information -> core information.
I use the 95% english translated one, with separate wav files, and it works here:
FILE "01 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 01 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "02 Akumajou Dracula X.iso" BINARY TRACK 02 MODE1/2048 PREGAP 00:03:00 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "03 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 03 AUDIO PREGAP 00:02:00 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "04 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 04 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "05 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 05 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "06 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 06 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "07 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 07 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "08 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 08 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "09 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 09 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "10 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 10 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "11 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 11 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "12 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 12 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "13 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 13 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "14 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 14 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "15 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 15 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "16 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 16 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "17 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 17 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "18 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 18 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "19 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 19 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "20 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 20 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "21 Akumajou Dracula X.wav" WAV TRACK 21 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "22 Akumajou Dracula X.iso" BINARY TRACK 22 MODE1/2048 PREGAP 00:03:00 INDEX 01 00:00:00
Always check the .cue sheet to make sure it points to the right file.
9/10 times when I have problems with a .cue game it’s because some genius put the first line as
FILE “C:\Games\TurboGrafx\Castlevania.bin” BINARY
Or something like that, when it should just be
FILE “Castlevania.bin” BINARY.
If it’s a version with separate audio tracks, and your not able to find the combined ISO that hunterk is talking about (he knows his stuff) I would say mount the .cue in Daemon Tools and rip the image back to your HDD as a .cue with a single .bin file.
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if you’re using supergrafx to play cue sheet with wav files, it will not work (atm), even if converted to chd at least if using supergrafx. cue/bin/wav should play well in pce_fast. your cue sheet looks OK, your source(if you just downloaded a pre-translated copy) or something is wrong with your conversion(if you prefer doing the translations like i do) could have bad tracks in them.
try to post log and maybe we can see something wrong.
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Downloaded the bios files for retroarch + another rondo of blood Akumajou Dracula X - Chi no Rondo (Japan) (FABT, FACT) and everything works!
Thanks to Ferdog(link provider 
) and to all the rest!
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