Dream of Waking

Cave Story

Cave Story (Dokutsu Monogatan) is an awesome action – platformer for PC along the lines of Metroid and recent Castlevanias but with a lot more plot and story. In short, it’s totally awesome. What’s not totally awesome about it is getting it. It’s freeware but it’s all in Japanese. AeonGenesis made an English translation patch but it’s just that; a patch. So you have to get the game from the Japanese website and then get the English patch, and work it’s magic to get to play the game. Well I’m lazy and I can’t read Japanese so I don’t really give a damn about having the option to play the game in Japanese by not applying the patch. So here’s a ZIP file with exactly what you need to play Cave Story in English with no patching.

Cave Story – English

Open it up, drop the folder somewhere, open that folder, run DoConfig if you need to, and then run Doukutsu and that’s it! You’re playing an awesome Metrovania on your PC. It’s playable with your keyboard if you’re a toolbox but a really good controller (such as the Logitech Dual Action) will only set you back $20 and works perfect for this and a ton of other games. And here’s the links to the sites I got Cave Story from and the patch.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/storehouse.html

http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=cavestory