RondoRecomp v1.2

Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Windows, AppImage for Linux and Steam Deck

Rondo of Blood, recompiled to run natively on Windows and Linux, the Steam Deck included. The downloads contain no game code or data: you need your own copy of the disc. Either disc works: the English fan translation or the Japanese original.

Downloads

Windows: RondoRecomp-1.2-windows-x64.zip. Unpack all of it anywhere you can write to, then run RondoRecomp Setup.exe.
Linux and Steam Deck: RondoRecomp-1.2-x86_64.AppImage, a single file. Make it executable and run it: Setup opens the first time, and after that the AppImage starts the game. It needs glibc 2.35 or newer: SteamOS 3, Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36, Arch, or later.
The file with -update- in its name is for the Windows updater. To install RondoRecomp on Windows, download the plain zip.

Already on 1.0 or 1.1? The game’s start screen offers the update: open Updates and choose Download and install.

In Setup, click Disc zip… for a zipped disc image (or pick its .cue or .chd), or Disc folder… if you’ve already unzipped it. Setup checks the disc, recompiles the game and builds it in about a minute. Then click Play.

On the Steam Deck:

In Desktop Mode, put the AppImage somewhere to keep it, such as your home folder.
In Dolphin, right-click it, then choose Properties → Permissions → Is executable.
Double-click it, and build the game with Setup.
In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, then Browse…, and pick the AppImage.
Back in Gaming Mode, the game is in your library under Non-Steam.

The full steps are in README.txt.

New in 1.2

Stages end with the cheats on. With infinite health on, a stage never ended (#6): at a stage’s end the game counts your health into the score, and the cheat kept refilling it. Health and hearts now count down there as usual, and the next stage starts with them full.
Portable mode. Tick Portable at the bottom of Setup’s window to keep options, saves and save states in a user folder next to the game instead of your user profile (#5).
- Setup offers to copy the ones you have into it. Untick it to copy them back.
- On Linux the user folder goes next to the AppImage.
.chd images stay compressed. The game now reads a .chd directly, so Setup no longer unpacks it: the Japanese disc takes 270 MB instead of 496 MB (#3).
- To shrink an install made with 1.1, run Setup again with your .chd.
Super Castlevania IV moves. Two new options on the Gameplay page, both off by default and off in RetroAchievements hardcore mode.
- 8-way whip and doves: hold a direction as you attack. Richter whips up, diagonally up, and in the air down and diagonally down; Maria throws her doves the same way. Up + Attack no longer throws the sub-weapon then: use the Sub-weapon button.
- Limp whip: keep Attack held after a whip and it hangs from Richter’s hand. The d-pad swings it, and it still hurts what it touches.
- The idea comes from Pizzano’s Super Rondo of Blood hack. This is RondoRecomp’s own version; none of the hack is used.

Download it from Emulation King

RondoRecomp builds on Emulation King

RondoRecomp v1.2

Downloads

New in 1.2