Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI (ROTK XI)

This post relates to the game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI (ROTK XI) playable on PC, that is published by KOEI.

Basically, for PC, there is the Japanese version of ROTK XI, and the Chinese version of ROTK XI. In addition, ROTK XI game has the original version as well as the PUK version. The PUK version is actually a Power Up Kit for the original version of ROTK XI. And you can only play the PUK version after you installed the original version.

Aside from the PC version of ROTK XI, you also have the PS2 version of ROTK XI that is released in North America.

Since KOEI does not release the English translation of ROTK XI that is playable on PC, there are basically two ways to play ROTK XI on PC.

First, you can try to download the PS2 version of ROTK XI files, and then use a PS2 emulation to play the game. Or you can download the Japanese/Chinese version of ROTK XI, and then patch with the English translation patch/es in order to play the game. Either way, you end up playing ROTK XI in PC, in English language.

I won't tell you where to get the files here, but I'll tell the names of the files, and some other things, such as where to get the Japanese-English patch, and the Chinese-English patch. There are also other things involved with ROTK XI, such as the updates, editors, and such. Anyway, I hope that this little bits of information would be useful for die-hard ROTK/KOEI fans that happened to visit my blog here.

Note that I don't condone you downloading the pirated version of KOEI's games. If you are a fan, and a supporter, please buy the original version. You can then install the English patch to the original version in order to play the original ROTK XI game in English..

• In order to play the ROTK XI PUK version, you must have the original ROTK XI already installed inside your system.
  
• There is the ROTK XI original version in Traditional Chinese language for PC.
• There is the ROTK XI original version in Japanese language for PC
• There is the ROTK XI PUK version in Traditional Chinese language for PC
• There is the ROTK XI PUK version in Japanese language for PC
• There is the ROTK XI in English language for PS2
  
• You can install the Chinese-English patch on the Japanese ROTK XI, and the game will still work ok. Additionally, you can install the Japanese-English patch on the Chinese RTOK XI and the game still also work ok.

All the five ROTK XI games out in the market are playable in PC, in English language, provided you know how to play around with a few things.

The English patch for the PC is available in the following sites:

• www.kongming.net
• Cao Shang San11PK
  

At Kongming.net, there are five patch files available, namely:

• JPN-ENG Patch ver. 1.0 (4/12/06; by Huang Ding) for PC ROTK XI original
• JPN-ENG Patch ver. 1.1 (4/22/06; by Huang Ding) for PC ROTK XI original
• JPN-ENG Patch PUK ver. 1.0 (2/1/07; by EzyStyles) for PC ROTK XI PUK
  
• JPN-ENG Patch PUK ver. 1.0 (1/25/07; by therebex) for PC ROTK XI PUK
  
• CHN-ENG Patch PUK ver. 1.0 (1/24/07; Sun Gongli)
  

The better patch out of the five files available at Kongming.net, in my opinion is authored by EzyStyles. However, you must combine EzyStyles patch with the Cao Shan San 11 PK patch.

Note though that EzyStyles English patch is for the PUK version.

Aside from these patches, of course you need to have the original ROTK XI files as well as the ROTK XI PUk version in order to play the game.

There are some variations related to the original version of ROTK XI that can be downloaded from the Internet. I don't really recommend downloading through BitTorrent, because it will take forever. If you got a fast download speed, I recommend direct download instead.

The variations on the file size of the original ROTK XI depends on who is the person or persons that made the file available for downloaded (I guess). There is one that is approximately 348 MB, and it is missing some files. It is missing dialogue, missing movies, as well as some missing scenarios. However, I managed to get the missing files from elsewhere.

The PUK version of ROTK XI is approximately 586 MB

The file size of the original version of ROTK XI is approximately 348 MB, however, there are afew missing files from this corrupted version. There are missing movies, missing scenarios, as wella s missing dialogues. In addition, the ROTK XI PUK version is approximately 582 MB in size. As far as I am concerned, there are no missing files in the PUK version that can be downloaded somewhere through the internet. I found some missing files from the original version that is available in the PUK version, such as the movies, scenarios, and dialogue.

The 348 MB size of ROTK XI is playable on PC, but it is in Traditional Chinese language. This is most notable once you install the game into your system, and there is sub-folder named San11 TC. TC, of course, stands for Traditional Chinese.

The 582 MB ROTK XI that is also playable on PC, is in Japanese language. Again, in order to play the PUK version, all you need to do is just install/replace the files in the San 11 TC with the files and folders in the PUK version.

Well, that's all for now. I hope I give enough information, without giving too much. And in reverse, I hope I give as little information, without giving way too little information.