Castlevania The Arcade Is HERE! Play One of the Rarest Castlevania Games NOW!

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Published on May 24, 2023 10:00:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4o3OxQkt6Q

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Castlevania: The Arcade (2009)

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Considering it is the 35th anniversary of the Castlevania franchise...what better way to celebrate than to do a massive retrospective on every mainline game ever released from Konami. From the NES 8-bit originals to the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, PS2, Xbox and beyond! Because Castlevania is retro gaming royalty and it's only fitting we pay it some tribute!

But what about Castlevania: The Arcade? The Konami arcade exclusive arcade game that is rarer than gold? Well...why not!

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Castlevania: The Arcade is a massive arcade cabinet released in 2009 by Konami that is near to impossible to find. I have a PC PCB that can run it but I've never found the image...until now! And wow...it just runs on Windows 10 with a few tricks. Video Game Preservation for the win! and now it comes with CONTROLS! Because what is a game if we can't interact with it!

All levels are now playable but there still is an issue loading in certain levels on certain systems. One machine will load all the levels in the game...where another one will still have loading issues. Very organic issue and probably due to this being pc gaming in an arcade box that targeted certain hardware specific to the era of now retro pcs. Odd to think all the hardware would now be considered retro!

So please send bug reports to me via my Discord Server! Link below!

Note: control patch is on Archive along with the game. Can't link here but join my Discord! and please read ALL THE README FILES. THEY TEACH YOU HOW TO RUN EVERYTHING. DONT GO SKIPPING STEPS. There is an executable for Controllers/Lightgun and Wiimote...AND an executable for mouse. So read everything :)

But if you ever wondered what it would be like to mix Castlevania from Konami with The House of the Dead from Sega...now you will see :) or you could just go play Vampire Night from Sega on PS2...kinda the same concept except earlier lol

But as far as rare video games are concerned it doesnt get much rarer or more obscure than this! Video game history and video game preservation all rolled up into one delicious Dracula sized bite!

Thanks to my Discord forum members Dremcast and powergyser for helping make this video possible today! Join my discord if you want to help!

Join the discord if you need help to get controls working. Link below! Also you’ll want to look for “Castlevania the arcade (extracted)” on that archive site.

Questions? Comments? Just leave them below and I will do my best to answer each and every one of them!

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