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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: The CastleVania Adventure speeds up briefly.

« Last post by LuxKiller65 on Today at 01:19:41 AM »

You wish the game were that fast all the time, don't you? WHO DOESN'T?

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General Castlevania Discussion / The CastleVania Adventure speeds up briefly.

« Last post by Eric Roman on Yesterday at 02:37:51 PM »

While reviewing a VHS tape of game endings/battles I was reminded The CastleVania Adventure runs a little quicker just as the Primary Evil is knocked out and just before the victory tune kicks up. 

Anyone figure out why that is?

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Castlevania Tribute Board Game Kickstarter

« Last post by GuyStarwind on December 05, 2023, 07:36:58 PM »

Yeah, I was just talking about the Dracula's Curse game. Still cool though.

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Off Topic / Upping my postcount.

« Last post by Eric Roman on December 05, 2023, 01:10:43 PM »

Cuz it’s about to hit 444.  That’s 4000 from 4444, which is the unluckiest number in the Japanese language. 

Means DETH•

😎😎😎

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Off Topic / Re: Explains how we got to such a divisive Internet experience.

« Last post by Eric Roman on December 05, 2023, 01:07:33 PM »

What’s an edgelord?

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Fan Stuff / Re: Simon's Curse, metroidvania game based on Simon's Quest

« Last post by Wanhus on December 05, 2023, 05:59:11 AM »

Hiya mates! How are you doing?

And as always saves SHOULD be backwards compatible!
From version 0.73 onwards you dont have to move savefiles from old version folder to new version folder. Sorry for that.

Download at itch.io!: https://metzgermade.itch.io/simons-curse

Update v0.74 D05.M12.Y2023

-added balloon pod level 1 spore die animation

-added tutorial

-minor improvements to certain location

-minor changes to several sprites

-minor changes to another certain place

-fixed missing zombie die animations from day time swap

-fixed owls not in view during day time not despawning

-fixed missing indicator for certain thing

-fixed spike/trap hit boxes (again)

-fixed incorrect shadows in veros church

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Off Topic / Re: Explains how we got to such a divisive Internet experience.

« Last post by Abnormal Freak on December 04, 2023, 07:39:02 PM »

We were a bunch of trolls posting the nastiest shit we could, chasing everyone off that we could.

But how fun it was. Maybe our edgelord habits and exclusivity were childish, but there was a real sense of community there. I felt it on all the boards I used to post at. A gathering of like-minded individuals discussing common interests. Good luck finding that on social media, especially where you're likely to be called problematic just for making a joke.

Haven't watched the video yet, but internet communities generally aren't as enjoyable as they once were. The internet as a whole has a lot of things stacked against it now, like how every search engine is ruled by sponsorship, making it nigh impossible to draw up any good results. Even when searching for specific keywords right down to the exact descriptor of a website you visited but foolishly didn't bookmark, Google et al. still make it a chore to find. YouTube is the same—once a place to find coverage on just about every subject, now the algorithm feeds you whatever garbage was bought and paid for. It's just wholesale suckage now on the dry teat of commerce, where people aren't customers anymore but willing consumers. F that noise.

People used to have websites with niche content and interesting ideas. Those virtually don't exist anymore.

I know this smacks of old man yells at cloud, but I stand by social media being an utter cesspit where the pursuit of ideas is dead.

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Off Topic / Re: Explains how we got to such a divisive Internet experience.

« Last post by Darkmoon on December 04, 2023, 05:57:23 PM »

We were a bunch of trolls posting the nastiest shit we could, chasing everyone off that we could. I don't think the internet has gotten more divisive. I think it's just spread out more.

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Hardcore Gaming 101 / Re: What game(s) have you been playing lately?

« Last post by comeau on December 04, 2023, 05:15:54 PM »

Recently did a run-through of the Streets of Rage Remake project (v5.2), having never played the originals. What an incredibly tight fangame. It's really a crying shame that Sega hit them with a DMCA.

I've also been revisiting some old games via Fightcade - namely Heritage for the Future, and I'm planning on doing a co-op runthrough of Shadows over Mystara with a friend of mine via Fightcade as well.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: I know the feeling.

« Last post by comeau on December 04, 2023, 05:11:20 PM »

Though, I have to say that I disagree with you calling the original PSX SotN script bad. I really like it (definitely more than the redub), but to each their own I guess.

I think over the years, in light of more information on the original Japanese scripts for a lot of PS1 era games like Panzer Dragoon being butchered in localization, I just found that Blaustein's work in general has aged incredibly poorly. But that's neither here nor there. I will invite you to look into how he kinda recklessly messed around with things in his scripts, esp. in things like Metal Gear Solid.