Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen
Game: Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (DS, 2007)
DQIV-Recompiled: the European Nintendo DS release, built from its decompilation, which lives in the repository itself, and turned into a native Windows program with its own PC layer (window, OpenGL, sound, files). It joins both screens into one 16:9 picture at 60 fps, drawn whole by the bottom camera, instead of the two 30 fps screens the DS alternated; it draws the 3D at the window’s resolution with 2x supersampling and upscaled textures, supports 60 to 240 fps or uncapped, a 50–200% camera zoom, and 16:9 battles with enlarged monsters. It brings back the party chat that the European release removed, in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, lets you play with the Japanese text already on the European cartridge, and, if you provide the Android version’s data file, uses its music and sound effects instead of the DS synthesizer. It also adds quick save anywhere, text and battle speed settings, rebindable controls, and a settings screen in the game’s style. There are no prebuilt releases: a script builds it with Visual Studio and packs the data extracted from your ROM into a single executable. Version 1.4 (October 20) removed tearing with vertical sync on. The repository includes the party chat text: the English lines, taken from the mobile version with the dq4-partychat-patcher fixes, and their French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations.
You needYour own European Dragon Quest IV ROM for Nintendo DS (game code YIVP), as a .nds or inside a .zip; for the mobile version’s sound, also the Android version’s .obb data file (main.xxxxx.com.square_enix.android_googleplay.dq4.obb). To build it, Visual Studio 2022 or 2026 with the “Desktop development with C++” workload and an internet connection the first time. The executable is 32-bit and runs on 64-bit Windows.
- How it gets to PC
- Port of a decompilation
- Console
- Nintendo DS
- Original studio
- ArtePiazza
- Year
- 2008
- Author
- GoldieLeGenie
- Stars
- 70
- Last activity
- 2026-10-25 · 17 days ago
- Latest version
- 1.5 · 2026-10-23
- Language
- C++
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