1378: Castlevania NES \\ I try Castlevania! = oo (Steam ROM in Mesen) (Playthrough 1/2)
2Playing Castlevania for NES, extracted from the Steam version of Castlevania Anniversary Collection and played in Mesen.
I used this Steam version ROM extraction guide to access the ROMs: https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Project/wiki/Castlevania-Anniversary-Collection
They've been altered to remove mention of Nintendo from the opening screens.
My Castlevania playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzM6KlxivQ4Idb8De6IBYTfY
0:00 - start
0:33 - playing
6:25 - cool map
13:45 - statues & demon monkeys
21:46 - wrap!
Supposedly these are like early revision ROMs or something and maybe prone to crashing semi-randomly? I dunno, hasn't crashed yet, if it does I guess I'll just load the last Mesen autosave and try to keep going. : P
I first bought the Anniversary Collection on PS4, but even though M2's logo is shown at startup and they usually do pretty solid emulation work, the available screen sizes and aspect ratios are kinda messed up (no full-height sharp display option, and I think their "pixel perfect" and "4:3" options are swapped around sometimes or something? I dunno, anyway it's not good; there's also some annoying color shimmer or something going on). And only one save slot.
Trying to sort out the screen settings from that, Googling accidentally led me to the mention of extracting the ROMs from the Steam version, so I just did that instead, woo! And I got farther faster so far, but maybe that was just me having had more practice.
When I tried this game as a kid it seemed hard, and stiff compared to I dunno probably Mario or whatever it was I was playing. As a young working adult I was buying PS1 and GBA Castlevanias (and eventually the PC Engine Castlevania, Rondo) but not really playing them. I had too many games. : P
Well, I seem to be enjoying this game so hopefully I can get through these early ones--the ones from the Anniversary Collection--and have a good time with them. I still have Castlevania Chronicles for PS1, with its two remixes of Castlevania 1, so maybe I'll give that a shot if I still want more after the Collection. Then there's ANOTHER remix of one, Arcade Archives Vs. Castlevania on PS4, so I could try that too if I'm not sick of it yet by then. ^ _^ (It's even harder, I think I read.)
4/18/23
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