Battle of the Ports - Castlevania (悪魔城ドラキュラ) Show
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Opening Music - AmIEviL - "Castlemania" ocremix.org/artist/4281/amievil
Closing Music - Just Coffee - "Vampithrillic" ocremix.org/artist/15047/just...
I love the closing theme. It has such an awesome 80's synthpop sound to it. Just what I'm in to.
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Time Code
00:00 - Start
00:28 - Famicom Disc System
02:14 - Famicom
04:09 - IBM Compatible PC
05:53 - Amiga
08:05 - Commodore 64
09:52 - MSX2
10:58 - All versions running side by side
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That music at the end is fantastic.
Isn't it! I love the 80's synthpop vibe. I've added a link to the track in the video description
Agreed, it is both faithful to the original and playfully and masterfully enhanced.
@@RetroCore you forgot to cover the SFC reimagining and PSX remake
This game has one of the best video game soundtracks of all time too! Sounds like my childhood!
Fact: Simon's name is pronounced in a French way, in which it is "See-mohn".
Oh, and the MSX2 version was meant to be saying "Vampire Killer".
Vampire Killer was only the Euro name for the MSX 2 version. The Japanese version is the same as the Famicom, Akumajou Dracula.
@@RetroCore Yeah, "Vampire Kiss" is a misspeak.
@@RedRanger2001 Exactly. Maybe he got it mixed up, as that is the European title for CV: Dracula X/Akumajō Dracula XX.
Amiga developers porting Japanese games: Was that supposed to be an Enya song? I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be an Enya song. Let me just make that an Enya song...
If Enya is good enough for Lord of the Rings, it's good enough for my Amiga port!
At least they didn't steal demoscene music or try to make electropop versions of the songs. Small blessings.
It's witch craft I tell you 😁😁😁
Apparently Just Coffee decided that just naming his remix "Vampire Thriller" was a little too on the nose.
A big nostalgic monocle in my eye for the MSX2 version.
Thanks for another in-depth comparison video.
I love the Castlevania series. The Music Remix at the end was Amazing
I've put a link to that Awsome track in the video description.
There's also "Intellivania" the homebrew port for the old Intellivision. and is is quite good!
Great as always Yakumo. Also released this week earlier than usual. Maybe I would have included the X68000 Akumajo Dracula here too (this would have also forced you to include its PS1 conversion) because it's a semi-remake of sorts and even though to some of their different levels here and there, it's not that far off to compare it from its original roots as battling out SNES Vampire's Kiss with Rondo and its PSP remake. Different thing is Super Castlevania IV because of being a totally different game (some of the X68000 levels actually come from there) But I respect your decision. It's fine like this way too because of being enough versions already to compare.
I wonder which is better, the dusty meat you find in the walls of an old castle, or the meat you find when knocking over a trash can in Streets of Rage.
I mean, it's called "wall meat" for a reason. Clearly that is the superior aging process.
Wall all day long. No flies on wall meat 😁
I know Battle Of The Ports is meant for the main commercial releases but recently someone created a homebrew port/clone called Intellivania. It is shocking not only how faithful it is to original Castlevania on weaker hardware but he added many improvements to the engine. For example when your health gets low the outer window of the play area will flash red to remind you that you're a hit or two away from loosing a life. They also added a feature where when you use the stopwatch, a numbers counter will flash the numbers above you letting you know how many seconds you have before the ability stops. I understand the context that the programmer did this with modern coding techniques but with that being said it puts the computer ports from back then to shame. The Commodore port was good but for 16 bit systems like PC and Amiga back then there's no excuse with the amount of power they had.
10:13 The European name of the MSX2 version is actually Vampire Killer. And in Japan, Vampire Killer is the name for Castlevania: Bloodlines. Confusing, isn't?
just to add to that, the Japanes versions of Harmony, Aria and Lament are all named Castlevania (with again different sub titels) as opposed to Demon Castle Dracula like every other game, it wouldn't be until Lords of Shadow where they would again re name it to Castlevania in Japan
Yeah. You are right. Probably that mistake comes because of having dealt with the real Vampire's Kiss last week in the Rondo of Blood Battle of the Ports episode.
Oh yeah. I originally played Castlevania on the NES back around 1990 I recall, but by 1994 I had another C64, and played it there. Both were fun in their own way, though I have fonder memories of the NES version. These days I have the Castlevania Collection for the PS4 and the Switch Lite. A good thing too, since I can switch to the Japanese versions of all those games (and take advantage of that Easy Mode you mentioned...the US didn't get that).
My eldest sister is a huge fan of the Castlevania series of games, and I wouldn't be surprised if she still owns this in some capacity. She turns 69 in August, but she still likes the series.
Wow, 69 and still gaming. Nice 👍
The MSX2 version was actually called "Vampire Killer" in the West.
Also, you forgot the X68000 version. :P
Vampire's Kiss is actually the European name for Dracula X SNES.
Ah, that's right.
Another great video, and thanks for posting on Friday, as I wouldn’t have had time to watch on Saturday.
Yep, lucky this week.
That intro and ending music
I always thought that Castlevania was the console home port of haunted castle. Castlevania is one of my favourite series even tho I am a Sega guy.
Nope, totally different game.
Great vid! Keep up the good work.
Yeah the DOS port was definitely in the "Hey! This is acceptable, I'll gladly take it!" pile back in the day(PC gamers had to deal with what we got back then). Even has a Tandy 1000 mode. I recently played the C64 version from start to finish, and yeah. That's a pretty darned good port too!
I can't stand how they butchered the music, the SID deserves better. ;.;
@@BastetFurry This is true.
But at least there is music an sound effects at the same time. Given the amount of C64 games that ask you to pick between music and sound effects, I'd take the slighty flawed c64 Castlevania audio over that crap any day.
sid tunes could been better with better instruments choises, even cutted down some channels. its does works as intended, that is most important.
Im do wonder why they used a ltos of white palete and does not seen they used that much upoer 8 color palette (where there is many grays in thee). howover there is some limits with those colors throught.
But gameplay is nice. that the matter.
This has a lot of ports, but then the sequels II, III, and IV only appeared on Nintendo consoles.
You have to admit, it's almost as if Novatrade KNEW it was a shitty port with that "Wall of Blame" stunt at the end.
And notice that they knew not to give you enough space for “piece of crap.”
lol, yep. They knew for sure.
novotrade was a hungarian dev, got contracted by western publishers for quick and cheap ports. they were very talented but as you could see in castlevania you got what you paid for...
Castlevania is a game that if you screw up, you REALLY screw up. So much of it requires split second timing, and Simon moves kind of slow to begin with. If the controls are unresponsive, the whole thing falls apart. Seems like they knew they needed more time and money to get out a better version of the game, and threw in that bit of self deprecation to say "hey! YOU do better when the publishers are breathing down your necks saying they wanted a finished version yesterday."
@@mightyfilm The DOS and C64 Ports turned out just fine, so Novatrade had no excuse.
That was Konami's MO back in the day: sprawling, mazelike games that have you hunting for keys, so it's not far off for that to be the release on the MSX2.
Quite true.
Alright. I've been waiting for this one. Great job.
Great video as always!
Thanks!
I played the emulated version found on Castlevania Anniversary Collection for the Xbox One.
Here's hoping they come out with a volume 2 collection, that includes the Gameboy Advance and DS games.🤞🤞🤞🤞
Saw your reply on my previous comment on your Rondo of Blood video, so here I am! Never played the famicom disk system version... i wanna play it haha..I wouldn't bother with the Amiga version, thank you for letting us know how shitty it was. Played the MSX one a few years back and it was annoying but I almost finished it. Just realized that the original version came out the same year my wife was born😁
Easy mode also reduced damage regardless of stage to only two blocks. My fiend growing up and I loved easy mode lol.
surprised at how good the c64 and IBM ports are, despite the issues. the team behind it did a good job on them.
The IBM Castlevania music sounds like they belong in a John Carpenter movie.
A great video +++
Unbelievable how bad the Amiga version was. It should and could have been the best of all versions. Such a shame!
I've been playing the x68000 version for the last 2 weeks, its so good. I hope this series will come back as a hardcore Japanese action game, go back to its roots. I don't care for the SOTN style of games.
Great stuff young lad. Thanks.
Thanks for the young 😊
@@RetroCore You and me both.
Kinda wish the disk system version of castlevania 1 was included in the castlevania collection instead of the famicom version, of just have both of them.
Didn't know until today that a C64 of Castlevania ever existed!!
Taking NES sound chip to new heights
If only Akumajo Dracula/Castlevania N64 was here. Then it’d feel more complete.
Different games.
wasnt castlevania 4 a complete remake of the first nes version thats what gaming magazines said back in the day but it was a different game
Nah, it's no think like it.
LOL the best thing about the Amiga version was the title screen, all down hill from there. I like the c64 version too, not bad.
The Classic NES Series: Castlevania for the GBA had a save feature not found on the NES version and the developers had to rescale the resolution to fit the wider GBA screen but that was done via emulation. There were two Castlevania NES ports for the arcade: PlayChoice-10 and Vs. Castlevania, and one Castlevania version for J2ME/Java Mobile.
Amazing I really thought the msx version was a direct port and used to love listening to it's music while my dad and brother took turns trying to beat it back in the day 😂😂
The C64 port seems pretty good for the hardware it's running on. Great video!!!👍👍👍
The original Castlevania has aged surprisingly well for being the first in the series. Obviously, the FDS and NES/Famicom versions are the best, but the Commodore 64 port looks to be really close in terms of graphics and gameplay. The music, though in the correct spots, doesn't sound all that nice imo. After that is the IBM PC version, which moves a little choppy but seems to have the same enemy patterns, and the music is actually pretty nice with an Adlib/Soundblaster 16 or Tandy 3-voice chip (yes it's compatible with the tandy chip, that's how I played it in DOSBox).
And then there's the turd Novotrade put on the Amiga. I wouldn't say Novotrade only made bad games (The Lost World: Jurassic Park was a decent Mega Drive game near the end of its lifespan, and Kolibri on the 32X is also quite an interesting game), but they were very hit or miss, and this was DEFINITELY a miss.
Kolibri, Jurasic Park and Ecco are all awful games IMO.
Didn’t think anything could get worse than the IBM Compat. “music”.
Then, I saw the Amiga gameplay..
Fair treatmement for the C64 version. I've seen reviews nitpicking flaws that aren't even there, made by people that don't know what the limits of the machine are. It's not the NES game, but a decent approximation nonetheless. The C64 version was the only one I played back in the day, and I loved it. It's also not very well known because there is no PAL version officially, probably because a game without a cassette version wouldn't have sold in the UK. Thankfully I had a disk drive and a Final Cartridge III (they were more common in continental Europe), so I rarely had to deal with cassette tapes nonsense. To me it is one of the very few side scrolling action platformers worth to be played on the C64 along with Giana and the two Turricans (and yeah, I don't care about Hawkeye, Flimbo's Quest, Creatures or any other euro-platfomer like the Dizzy or Monty games..) Sure it looks like a primitive prototype compared the NES game, but I wouldn't trade more polished visuals with lack of gameplay (that could have been a very likely outcome on the C64 if they had focused more on the graphics).
Yeah, the C64 version while not perfect is pretty good for the system. I do think they could have done a little better with the music though.
@@RetroCore But there is no choosing between music and sound effects. Having both at the same time on a C64 it's almost glorious 🤣
"I've seen reviews nitpicking flaws that aren't even there"
Apparently, it didn't have enough style over substance for those fanboys :p
LOL, the music in the IBM version sounds like it's a knockoff trying to avoid copyright infringement.
Late to the party. Fantastic work, Mark. NES version for me.
No worries. This actually went up a bit early as I was busy Saturday morning.
Me too..later still..agreed..NES/Famicom version only..and we can save progress these days with emulation..now which cheap Chinese handheld shall i use for this game?
heh i was surprised with the ms dos with adlib version of this game port too. but there is 3 more computer ports though.
so it will be 4 computer ports in total.
Sadly Easy Mode got removed in the US and EU release on the NES. Yeah, Nintendo Hard forms the character, but it would have made a small part of my childhood less frustrating. ^^'
Fun to see Mark die the Medusa head knock back death that I must have fallen for a hundred times. See 7:40
Iirc easy mode was an addition for the 1993 japanese regular famicom release, so it wasnt really removed in the original western version
@@billcook4768 Wait, just a little bit after 7:40 he dies of CLIMBING THE LADDER, whole shit is the amiga version broken.
Featuring Homer Dante from Castlevania series.
And the Arcade port with bigger sprites? ("Haunted Castle")
You the maaaaan, Mark!
A shame it didn't get ported to the Genesis/Mega Drive. We did get Castlevania: Bloodlines for the Genesis. I believe Konami published games for every Sega console post Master System/Game Gear, except the 32X.
Disk System is the ideal version. I remember playing it on the NES growing up and its near identical to Disk System. PC is a mostly weird one like most ports of NES offerings at the time. Amiga is absolutely the drizzling shits. C64 is several steps up from Amiga despite being weaker hardware. MSX2 looks similar to if a Master System port happened.
I do like the disc system version but that easy mode on the Japanese cartridge release was quite welcome.
im gonna be honest; that amiga intro theme is awesome
Yeah, the tune is fine. Sadly the rest of the game isn't 😕
@@RetroCore do you own the sharp x68000 version? that one looked amazing
I like that you use the term IBM Compatible PC now. I feel that just saying MS-DOS is a bit too generic, since there were other platforms like the PC-98 and FM Towns that can run versions of MS-DOS but use different software.
Well, in this case the game was not made for Dos which is why I used IBM compatible. I've used this term in the past too.
i just looked into my old (crashed) HDD recovering files.
Mr. do you still host the old retro core episodes?
i used to download all of them ... now there lost
They're all on TH-cam besides the Tokyo Game Show 2005 because Konami had it taken down.
The older shows are also stored on Archive.org
@@RetroCore Cool
Care to make a playlist out of them?
since I'm lazy and my wrist is hurting scrolling all the way back to 2003'ish :D
Oh man that Amiga port, I don't know how (or why for that matter) but I somehow managed to beat it a couple of years ago. How they could mess everything up this bad is a work of art too I guess. I'm an avid fan of the Amiga, but I would in no way try to defend this turd!
It took me 3 hours to beat Dracula, because on top of the broken controls the boss itself was completely broken as well. Every time he teleports he flashes for a brief second so you could get out of the way and land a shot on him, right? WRONG on the Amiga port! Even when he flashes he still hits you and he always spawn right on top of you so you had to take a forced hit like 9 out of 10 teleportations.
The only way to beat him was to just wait for that one lucky run when he doesn't teleport on top of you too many times so you have some health left for the second phase which was just a plain endurance race because it was literally impossible to run underneath him when he jumps so you had to hope he would die before you did. And to top it all off he looks goofy as heck too :p Great video as always Mark!
I have a friend who is a pixel artist (He lives out of this) and he is a BIG BIG fan of Castlevania. Everytime he talks about Castlevania, I Just show him a pic of the last form of Dracula in the Amiga version, and he goes like "You do that because you know it really hurts me, right?"
They gave the game to a couple of 12 years old to draw, I am pretty sure. And probably a temp worker had to put the music at the right parts in 5 minutes before the disk went to mastering.
At leat Amigavania has the one banging intro track!
You included the MSX2 version because you knew the comments would chastise you if you didn't... but then you SLANDERED it, which is going to get you a whole DIFFERENT kind of negative comment storm! ;)
...Well, probably not, as your opinion is sadly quite a common one. But as someone who considers the MSX2 version of Castlevania to be not only the best version of the game, but one of the best Castlevania games out there, period, I do at least feel compelled to comment in its defense!
It's a VERY DIFFERENT game from anything else in the series, but if you're into Metroidvanias or other exploratory platformers, it's a game with some absolutely BRILLIANT level designs, and stands as the true predecessor to Simon's Quest (which is, unsurprisingly, my favorite Castlevania game on the NES/Famicom, and another of my favorite overall games in the series). It controls well (if you're using a controller, anyway), and a lot of the gameplay elements in it are fairly brilliant -- sub-weapons replacing your whip but not using hearts suddenly makes the dagger an incredibly valuable item to find, and the added threat of losing the cross or axe if you're unable to catch it on the rebound adds a risk/reward mechanic to the game that helps increase tension and ensure that you don't spam attacks willy-nilly.
On top of that, the game also includes some delightfully devious trolls designed to kill unobservant or overzealous players -- a bottomless pit at the top of a tower that you'd certainly know about if you actually used the map item you were given mere minutes prior, a fake door key designed to lure you to your doom if you go after it, and a dungeon area that requires breaking blocks on one side before circling back around to the other side lest you find yourself hopelessly trapped.
The stages are also larger, more expansive, and more fun to explore than in the NES game, where they're just linear romps from point A to point B with absolutely no branching paths or deviations. And exploring is the key to winning, since the items you find -- the hourglass, the wooden shield, etc. -- can spell the difference between success and failure when you face off against the stage boss.
In the end, the game really plays to the MSX's strengths, much as the Famicom version plays to its system's strengths, and I think it can serve as a good litmus test for those who are considering buying an MSX. If you like what Castlevania on MSX does, then you NEED an MSX in your life, as there are lots more games just like it -- I should know, as I own most of them, and they're just about all I play these days. ;)
So, yeah -- to be clear, I'm not criticizing you for speaking your opinion! Your opinion is your own, of course. But I would at least encourage you to give Castlevania on MSX another look at some point, with an open mind -- and I would encourage your viewers, if they're reading this, to give it a try sometime as well. It just might be the missing link you've been looking for all these years, and could easily find its way near the top of your rankings among series entries if you're anything at all like me!
Funny thing, this is the only post that is upset about my opinion of the MSX2 game.
Yes, I do own and I do enjoy my Panasonic MSX2 as well. Even made a video about it years ago. But I don't enjoy Castlevania on the MSX2.
@@RetroCore Yeah, that's fair. I mean, like I said, I know my opinion isn't a popular one. But I also can assure you the game has its hardcore fans, particularly in Japan -- though even in Europe, in the MSX community, I've seen some people talking about how this is one of their favorite MSX games. So it is by no means a universally panned game or anything -- it just wasn't to your taste. And is, admittedly, nothing like any other Castlevania game except MAYBE Simon's Quest to an extent.
I just felt compelled to comment, because I legitimately and unironically LOVE the MSX2 version of Castlevania, and I feel it's more of a misunderstood game than anything else. If you can put yourself in the right mindset for it, it's a veritable masterpiece.
This guy just hates every MSX game. Same thing with Gradius, he slandered it too. But hey, he can't even say the name right and show images just from the 1st part of the 1st stage, I bet he hasn't even played the game. I guess is too difficult for him not going just straight ahead.
@@valrond I mean, I love Gradius, and the MSX version plays fine, but it is probably one of the worst versions of Gradius out there. It's an impressive effort for the time and the hardware, but given the choice, I'd play a better version of Gradius, so I can completely understand that.
Castlevania on MSX, though, is just... a completely different game. It's not a game being held back by technical limitations, but a game which embraces those technical limitations and turns them into strengths by utilizing them for an alternative gameplay experience.
Either way, I'm not going to fault anyone for disliking either game, as opinions are opinions. I just wanted to come to MSX Castlevania's defense a bit, because personally, I think it's a masterpiece. It's one of the defining games on the MSX, as far as I'm concerned, and a prime example of why I love the system.
But that's just MY opinion!
It already gets wrong by calling the MSX2 version a port. In fact, the MSX2 version of Vampire killer/Castlevania is actually the ORIGINAL game, despite coming 1 month after the FDS release. Both versions were developed on parallel, but according to an old interview with Akihito Nagata, the MSX2 version was the leading platform, the FDS system version was more like a turn down version due technical and market reasons, therefore it was released a month earlier.
Great vid, Sir! Amiga Castlevania is wank! LOL! YEP.
Been watching the TV animation show of Castlevania on the Net of Flix and I'm enjoying it. On season 4 now.
The MSX review hurts direct in my childhood
The arcade port Haunted Castle is from Castlevania series?
That's also a different game, though it is part of the series.
@@robertanderson9447 Yeah, but it's a mix of Castlevania 1 and 2 due to the reoccurring music and enemies. Though it seemingly would kinda be a unique rendition of Castlevania 1 due to the enemies, without Death.
FDS marginally beats regular Famicom version because FDS has a Save feature. Would love to see Konami port MSX2 version to modern consoles though.
Think I played this first on the Amiga, seeing as the NES wasn't too popular in the UK. I was not impressed! Luckily I'd forgotten all about it by the time Super Castlevania IV came out.
"load of cr" on the Amiga Castlevania high score entry made me laugh more than it should have
But I don't blame you, everything in that version just looks off
msx2 for the win with SCC patch is sound amazing :)
Good Job 👌 The NES version it's Best one
Wait What About GBA Version
That's just emulation of the NES version.
You missed the ultimate port...the Sharp X68000 version
Different game.
BOTP on a Friday....that means I actually have to talk to the Mrs on Saturday.....
Lol, sorry man.
have you tried the intellivision version yet?
nope, didn't know there was a homebrew version for that system.
@@RetroCore its called intellivania
Huh. Went back and replayed the DOS version after watching this, and slight jank aside? Still a decent time! Then control is very responsive!
Yep. It is reasonably good for a PC platform game of the time.
@@RetroCore That save and load feature is icing on the cake though.
I'm not a Castlevania fan really, I have the Commodore 64 and NES versions at hand, C64 version is a lot better than I thought it would be. Ever tried Metal Gear on C64? Terrible NES port, they should of done the MSX2 port of Metal Gear on the Commodore 64 MSX version is good.
Konami games on non Japanese home computeres were handled by Konami of America, which actually never coded any games and just outsourced them.
And they didn't give a fuck about quality control, obviously. They were very hit and miss on the C64 and IBM-PC, but the developers they hired to do Amiga versions *ALWAYS* fucked up, no matter what.
I guess this coupled with the fact the Amiga wasn't the sucess the C64 was on the USA made Konami drop the Amiga market very quickly, while still keeping doing C64 releases.
I've not played the C64 version of Metal Gear but I have heard it is pretty poor.
@@RetroCore Metal Gear on the C64 is a NES conversion, the MSX version is good and the NES version is bad. They should of created the MSX version for the Commodore 64 as that would of sold more and got high scores in magazines back in the day. If you have played Metal Gear on NES and MSX then you know what I am talking about. Try the C64 version if you can.
Nice to see the C64 turn in a great port, though DSi back then were excellent.
Is that Novotrade as in the Ecco the Dolphin developer? Does this mean you're not a fan, Mark?
Isn't the X68000 port missing?
Nope. Different game.
Such a shame the original Castlevania was never ported to the Atari ST or Amstrad CPC
Look at the Amiga version.
Do you really wanted a ST port?
Your reply cracked me up Rafael! 😂
Thank god, those machines did not gat a butchered port like the Amiga did.
Those users should be thankful such an abomination was not inflicted upon them. 😉
did you just use NTSC for the C64 version?
Yes. Playing in PAL runs the game too slow.
The C64 was a correct port but why did Simon cut his hair? xD
That Amiga version is just painful to watch. Can't even imagine how frustrating it would be to play that one!
I think they just published it in the USA. As a french player, I never saw it on a shop or even a review on a magazine. I'm proud to say : Europe was spared by this curse!
It was very horrible to play.
It plays worse than the video may show, I can guarantee that. What Mark says about "jumping on the ladders" is really, really awful, and the mentioned delay in the controls is indeed horrendous, I don't think I could name a game with worse delay than that.
There's also the fact the movement of the main character is very blocky. The scroll is kinda smooth, but the movement is blocky. I dunno how they managed to fuck up this so badly. I can barely code anything on Amiga and I am pretty sure if I was paid to do a port of Castlevania, I could do better.
6:26 you could jump on stairs no way
10:12 Vampire Killer not Vampire Kiss
Quite impressed with the c64 port tbh. Expected much worse
I'd take the C64 over the DOS port. Neither one is bad... it's just that I prefer the C64 one's smoother scrolling. As for the Amiga version, it's hard to believe that train wreck is from the same studio that put out Ecco The Dolphin.
Damn. That jerky sprite movement on the Amiga version! I could excuse that on an early PC port, but the Amiga had the hardware for smooth scrolling and movement. That's just sad.
I was an Amiga owner and fan, but I'm no fanboy. I call it like I see it.
And if you compare this to on the Sharp X68000, it's just shameful! That _Wall of Shame_ is wholly appropriate!
Yes, I know it's not really the same game. But it goes to show what can be achieved on a similar 16 bit computer. Sure, the X68000 is more powerful than the Amiga, in many ways. But the Amiga is a lot closer to the X68000 than it is to the NES.
I was expecting to see the ps1 Castlevania chronicles and sharp x68000 port in here because I guess it’s considered a different game
Yep, very different games.
Hmmm. The difference with Famicom and PC, was exactly the difference between horrible gaming and smooth gaming....
Back at the day, I didn't see it (not talking about this particular game, but all the other ones...)
But it's clear as hell to me, today! :D
I wish somebody would tackle collection ports on Switch and such. I'm mostly curious about input latency.
They're just emulation if they're dowoad titles. Virtual Console style.
@@RetroCore Right, but emulation can be done poorly too. For example, Mega Man collection is really bad on Switch. Basically unplayable. Very unresponsive. Castlevania seems to be a little better, but I'm not sure.
The (first) Mega Man collection is bad cuz they got Digital Eclipse on it and it sucked.
What happen with this couple week there so many Castlevania related stuff keep popping out in my Watch list, from Romhack, Leaked Castlevania 3D Prototype, new Castlevania Fan games and then this.
Its vania mania season I guess.
Hall Of Fame:
LOAD OF CR 0027550
LOL!!
Where is the x6800 version?
Different game.
Castlevania chronicles X68000 ports is missing from your video
Different game.
@@RetroCorehmm I thought you'd go by what technically went by the name: Akumajo Dorakyura in Japan since they all are retellings of Simon Belmont's first adventure.
However Super Castlevania IV English territories is a sequel but in Japan is a straight Remake
@@RetroCore BTW MSX2 is called Vampire Killer. Vampires Kiss was Dracula X on SNES on Europe
I found a link to the whole Tandy 1000 version of the Soundtrack. Sounds much better than the Adlib version. Due to the similar sound hardware, this is probably how it could have sounded on the Sega Master System/Mark III as well th-cam.com/video/lCRGzQk0yXE/w-d-xo.html
That's not too bad. It's easy to tell there are sound channels missing but overall it's quite good. Better than the Amiga for sure 😁
@@RetroCore True dat!
1:33 - What about food found in trashcans in Final Fight or Streets of Rage? :)
As Amiga fan, im sad to see so many arcade/NES port being so butchered. Games like Castlevania Chronicles, Super Castlevania IV and Haunted Castle were technically based on CV 1 too "Was there some kind of law back then, that required each system to have their own version of CV1?" to quote SomecallmeJohnny.
Hmm, I'd go with wall. Keeps the flies away from the food 😁
What about the new Intellivania on Intellivision? I know it is not official but you have to add it.
I don't follow Intellivision so I didn't know about it.
@@RetroCore Try it if you can. Amazing.
It's sad, when the C64 was better than the Amiga.
It often happens.
It is called vampire killer not kiss
Surprised that the MSX2 version/Vampire Killer is here. Then again, you had XX in the Rondo video, but those two versions of Castlevania have even less in common imo.
Also PC speaker supremacy
What about X68000 and Haunted Castle?
different game.
Easy mode?! Ha! "Have at you!!"
Why in the Amiga version , Simon looks kinda choppy when moving?
Missing sprites/frames or something?
Probably because he is.
I consider Castlevania to be the first great 3rd party game made available for the Famicom/NES. Every 3rd party release before it seems to pale in comparison to the quality of Castlevania