This collection was released back in 2002 and focused on the NES games, at that time Symphony was only 5 years old and still in demand so no real need to start bundling it with other games. If it sells well they may bring Symphony (and Rondo of Blood hopefully) in the future.

MAYBE if they'd released the 2020-or what updated version instead of the EGA-mess, you'd have a point.

Not this way.

This just puts an 18 years delay on GoG-customers.

This is the kind of behavour that leads to software-piracy.

Regardless of how you feel about the situation the games play very well with no graphical glitches or lag so can't really call them a "mess", better wording would be an "incomplete package"

Just checked the collection that is on Steam and that version is missing Symphony of the Night as well (True it has 4 games this collection doesn't have, but then again this collection has two games the other doesn't).

It forces the wrong aspect ratio, so the graphics are stretched and incorrect. In 2020 I would definitely consider this an emulation issue.

I'm playing the games and none of them are stretched and have kept the proper aspect ratio.

Yeah i loaded it up for a few minutes before leaving for work 8 hours ago, not sure why I thought it was stretched.

Guess I just remembered it being fullscreen and assumed it must have been stretched because it's from 2002. Thanks for calling me out lol.

edit: was there a PC version? (Wikipedia didn't show anything about that.) If not, I'm not sure how it'd show up; GOG doesn't do porting themselves, they mainly just focus on getting compatibility fixes.

Maybe it will show up if sales of the Konami titles on GOG are decent, or perhaps a release is in the works.

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For now the only way to play Symphony of the Night (except emulation or real PSX) is the Android Port. It is the newest official version (March 2020 maybe?).

I guess it would be the starting point for an Hypothetical PC Port.

On console (PS4) there was a combo pack of Symphony of the Night/Rondo of Blood, they could port that over to PC.

Well Yes, but for my experience, most of console classics PC Ports used to be based on previous and relatively new android versions (at least in the Square Enix case). I have the opinion that maybe it has to do with complexity or portability of Android to PC etc...

Well in the android version they changed the voice acting (they removed "What is a man?"), so the best version is still the ps1 game. So maybe it's better that we have no port on PC. The ps1 game still works very well with BeetlePSX HW emulator.

I don't know about the ps4, but on PSP the Rondo of Blood was very glitchy, like the music randomly stops playing. So the best way to play it is the original PCEngine game on RetroArch, with the fan translation.

The voices were changed on the PSP Dracula X Chronicles too, is the PS4 version based on that?
I don't remember music glitches when I played it, but I do remember the second fairy familiar being added back in, and I believe some other little things missing from the NTSC version of Symphony.

Ya, it's based off of the PSP re-release so newer voice recordings are used as well as the re-written script so the "What is a man" speech is not present.