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Name: | Castlevania: Symphony of the Night |
Console: | Playstation (PSX) |
Release Date: | 1997 |
Publisher: | Konami |
Genres: | Action-adventure, Platform |
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a platform-adventure video game developed and published by Konami in 1997. It is the sequel to Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and features Dracula's dhampir son Alucard as the protagonist. Its initial commercial success was limited – particularly in the United States where it was not strongly publicized – but it was critically praised, gained sales through word-of-mouth and eventually became a hit. GameRankings and Metacritic list its approval score for the original PlayStation version at or above 93%. It has since been re-released on several gaming consoles and is now usually considered a sleeper hit and a cult classic of video gaming. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was an important milestone of the Castlevania series. It moved the series away from the standard level-by-level platforming formula of older titles and introduced a new style of non-linear gameplay with a sprawling map and role-playing game-like elements, that nearly all of its 2D successors continued. |
There are two components for playing a psx Castlevania: Symphony of the Night rom on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the psx OS and software.
The second component is the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night rom itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest Retroarch – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading Retroarch, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the RetroArch-1.7.5-x86-setup.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night rom. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Retroarch and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .exe file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.
Emulator | Console | Platform | FileSize | Emulator |
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Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 0.2MB | Download |
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Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 192.5MB | Download |
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Playstation (PSX) | Wii | 0.4MB | Download |
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Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 33.3MB | Download |
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Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 1.1MB | Download |