Vampire Savior

English restoration

Release candidaterc1Capcom CPS-2

Game: Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Japan 970519)
Hardware: Capcom CPS-2
MAME set: vsavj
Version: rc1
Updated: 2026-09-22

Screenshots

US board: Forever Torment's blood is green on the US board. It's red again, as in Japan. — Forever Torment's blood is green on the US board. It's red again, as in Japan.

English Restoration: Forever Torment's blood is green on the US board. It's red again, as in Japan. — Forever Torment's blood is green on the US board. It's red again, as in Japan.

Hsien-Ko's ending, with the seven pages the US board dropped back in.

One of the win quotes the US board dropped, in English.

US board: Auto guard is there from the start, as on a Japanese cabinet. The US board hides it until the operator turns it on. — Auto guard is there from the start, as on a Japanese cabinet. The US board hides it until the operator turns it on.

English Restoration: Auto guard is there from the start, as on a Japanese cabinet. The US board hides it until the operator turns it on. — Auto guard is there from the start, as on a Japanese cabinet. The US board hides it until the operator turns it on.

US board: L.Rapter becomes L.Raptor. — L.Rapter becomes L.Raptor.

English Restoration: L.Rapter becomes L.Raptor. — L.Rapter becomes L.Raptor.

About this patch

Vampire Savior wasn't the same game everywhere. The export boards recolored Jedah's blood purple and Forever Torment's green, cut a few gory touches entirely, and defaulted to sweat instead of blood. Their English script dropped fourteen win quotes and 47 ending pages. Even the damage values differ: in places the export boards hit a little harder.

The English Restoration is the Japanese board, in English. The blood is red again, everywhere it was in Japan. All 241 win quotes and every ending page are here, translated from the Japanese: where Capcom's English said the same thing it's kept, and everything else is newly translated, including the pages the export dropped. The fights run on Japan's damage values and Japan's computer difficulty.

Out of the box it's set up like a Japanese cabinet: blood on, Auto guard selectable at the select screen, one coin one credit. The operator menu and the Western character names stay as the US board has them, and Lord Raptor's name finally reads L.Raptor instead of L.Rapter.

It's a USA build that runs in MAME, HBMAME and on MiSTer. The Japanese board already has everything above, so there's no Japan build for now.

This is a release candidate.

What's changed

All 241 win quotes from the Japanese game, in English, including the fourteen the US board dropped
Every ending page from the Japanese game, in English, including the 47 the US board dropped, with Japan's page timing
The dialogue before the final battle with Jedah, checked line by line against the Japanese and revised where Capcom's English strayed
Red blood: Jedah's attacks (purple on the US board), Forever Torment's guillotine and well (green), and hit blood on by default
Lord Raptor's blood spray in his bite throw, and the paper notice in Bishamon's Togakubi Sarashi finish, both cut from the export boards
Japan's damage values and computer difficulty
Set up like a Japanese cabinet: blood on, Auto guard selectable, one coin one credit
Lord Raptor's name spelled right

Compared with the boards

How the English Restoration compares with the Japanese and US boards.

	Japan	USA	English Restoration
Language	Japanese	English	English
Win quotes	241	227	241, translated from the Japanese
Ending pages	All	47 dropped	All, translated from the Japanese
Hit blood out of the box	Blood	Sweat	Blood
Jedah's blood	Red	Purple	Red
Forever Torment's blood	Red	Green	Red
Lord Raptor's bite-throw spray	Yes	No	Yes
Auto guard at the select screen	On	Off until the operator enables it	On
Damage values	Japan's	Higher in places	Japan's
Computer difficulty	Japan's	Export's	Japan's
Character names	Japanese	Western	Western

Spot a difference we missed?

A restoration is only as complete as its list of differences. If the Japanese version does something this one still doesn't, whether a line of text, a scene, a screen or a small detail, please let us know. Anything you find goes into the next release.

Downloads

Patch kit for MAME, HBMAME, MiSTer and original hardware

vsav-restoration-rc1-ips.zip (66 KB)

SHA-256: aac555d589e1f85d2b491f806a60061a1218c332e7e0683bdf0b4f64c0ebd920

MiSTer MRA only

vsav-restoration-rc1-mra.zip (35 KB)

SHA-256: 300bf225c4f02abec7cb7b7e8e8fa18c07987f20aaf1c636d02baafc2a2924c8

You need your own dump of Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (Japan 970519) as the MAME set vsavj.zip. Each zip includes a readme.txt with full instructions.

Merged, split and complete sets work, including nested or renamed ROMs. Use --rompath /path/to/roms to search a collection (repeatable), and --check to check inputs before building. ZIPs and extracted folders need no extra software; 7z archives require 7-Zip. QSound can stay in your emulator's ROM path; valid firmware already embedded in a source set is kept in complete outputs.

How to apply

unzip vsav-restoration-rc1-ips.zip -d vsavj-patch
cd vsavj-patch
python3 apply.py /path/to/vsavj.zip --out-dir out

The script checks every file against the checksums below, applies the patches, checks the result, and writes the files for every platform in one go:

out/mame/vsavj.zip
out/hbmame/vsavru.zip
out/mister/_Arcade/_Arcade Patches/_Restorations/Vampire Savior The Lord of Vampire (USA) [English Restoration].mra

MAME and original hardware. Put the zip from out/mame/ ahead of the stock set in your MAME rompath (it keeps the name vsavj.zip), or burn its ROM files. MAME reports checksum warnings for the patched ROMs. That's expected, and the game runs normally.

HBMAME. Put the zip from out/hbmame/ in HBMAME's roms/ folder next to your stock vsavj.zip. It loads with no checksum warnings. The HBMAME set definition (vsavru) is generated with the restoration; an upstream submission is pending, so for now you add it to your own HBMAME build.

MiSTer. Copy the _Arcade folder from out/mister/ to the root of your SD card, and keep the stock, unmodified romset at games/mame/vsavj.zip (split MAME sets also need qsound.zip). You need Jotego's jtcps2 core, which update_all installs. The MRA applies the restoration in memory as the game loads, so nothing on your card is modified, and it keeps its own settings and saves under vsavru. The MiSTer-only download holds the same MRAs, ready to copy.

Any IPS patcher. Apply each file in ips/ (Flips, Lunar IPS, …) to the ROM file of the same name and re-zip the set yourself.

Changed ROMs

File	Size	Original CRC32	Patched CRC32
vm3.13m	4.0 MB	fd8a11eb	25b89bee
vm3.15m	4.0 MB	dd1e7d4e	7c4ed97c
vm3.17m	4.0 MB	6b89445e	05295327
vm3.19m	4.0 MB	3830fdc7	e90b3fee
vm3j.03d	512 KB	2a2e74a4	87184d16
vm3j.04d	512 KB	1c2427bc	fc2d5b8e
vm3j.07b	512 KB	a38aaae7	b3cbf9a8

Related projects

Vampire Savior 2, the Japan-only follow-up, translated into English
Night Warriors 2, its twin, Vampire Hunter 2, translated into English

Notes

MAME shows checksum warnings for the patched files. That's expected; the game plays normally. HBMAME with the matching set definitions loads them without them.
Fan work, unaffiliated with Capcom. The patch contains no ROM data; you need your own dump of the Japanese set.