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Fan Stuff / Re: WALLACHIA: REIGN OF DRACULA

« Last post by Belmontoya on February 20, 2023, 12:05:28 PM »

Maybe back in the day before Marvel went WOKE. But not right now. I wouldn't trust them to produce anything solid and worthy of the title Dracula.

I've seen comments around the internet of people claiming Wallachia is woke because it has a female protagonist. This term woke means nothing to me I think it's been mostly made up to make people needlessly angry. A lot of current marvel movies haven't been that great, but the werewolf movie is cool. I think they've just lost the charisma of the original avengers cast and they're struggling to find their footing still.

I saw that movie too. The only Werewolf by Night I have read are the two crossover issues with Dracula, where we get to see Dracula vs the Werewolf. I am interested to delve into WbN at some point, but right now I'm focused on ToD.

I haven't heard anything about Marvel bringing Dracula back, but at least we have Renfield and another Nosferatu remake on the way!

Dude, I've been following Robert Eggers knowing he was planning to make this movie for a very long time. I am beyond stoked for the nosferatu remake! Bill Skarsgard as the vampire is going to be incredible!

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

« Last post by Wanhus on February 20, 2023, 11:06:01 AM »

New Major update!
Download from itch.io: https://metzgermade.itch.io/simons-curse

Updated v0.52 D20.M2.Y2023

- New: three zones added

- New: two enemies added

- New: lost castle and its boss revamped/remade and finished

- New: Simon has knock back when hit by enemy

- New hidden secrets added

- New enemy death animations

- New music added

- New: alternative end affecting moments added

- New NPC's

- New decoration objects added

- Aljba improvements

- Added better and new effects to two unmentioned whips

- UI and shop control improvements

- Loading save fade to black effect

- Window centering after screen size change and on launch

- Various graphical improvements

- Yes No owerwrite question when starting new game on save

- Adjusted some enemy stats

- Fixed ingame screen size change crash

- Fixed leafs falling in sync

- Fixed simons corpse moving sometimes when dead

- Fixed music stopped playing in inventory after repeat loop

- Fixed Carmilla mansion correct door

- Fixed Red Une death animation

- Fixed several background sky textures not moving

- Fixed issue with boss musics not playing

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Fan Stuff / Re: WALLACHIA: REIGN OF DRACULA

« Last post by VladOfWallachia on February 20, 2023, 09:15:18 AM »

Very cool! I'm not super familiar with Marvels version of monsters but I saw that Werewolf by Night movie and it was surprisingly good. It would be cool to see a live action marvel Dracula too!

I saw that movie too. The only Werewolf by Night I have read are the two crossover issues with Dracula, where we get to see Dracula vs the Werewolf. I am interested to delve into WbN at some point, but right now I'm focused on ToD.

I haven't heard anything about Marvel bringing Dracula back, but at least we have Renfield and another Nosferatu remake on the way!

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Fan Stuff / Re: WALLACHIA: REIGN OF DRACULA

« Last post by X on February 20, 2023, 08:42:22 AM »

It would be cool to see a live action marvel Dracula too!

Maybe back in the day before Marvel went WOKE. But not right now. I wouldn't trust them to produce anything solid and worthy of the title Dracula.

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Fan Stuff / Re: WALLACHIA: REIGN OF DRACULA

« Last post by Belmontoya on February 20, 2023, 07:41:49 AM »

Rachel Van Helsing, great grandaughter of Abraham Van Helsing. She usually uses a crossbow, but she was using a regular bow during that issue.
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Very cool! I'm not super familiar with Marvels version of monsters but I saw that Werewolf by Night movie and it was surprisingly good. It would be cool to see a live action marvel Dracula too!

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: A question about Akumajo Dracula X68000. Revision difference or hack rom?

« Last post by zangetsu468 on February 19, 2023, 02:55:54 PM »

Good. These points seems pretty much valid.
Until the day somebody actually digged the 1-hp-damage version in one possible official release, I have no choice but to detect such "revision" as romhacks.
Still pretty fun to tank through. Reminds me the easy difficulty in Chronicles Arranged mode.

Plottwist: Every game is a romhack…..

Pun intended

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: A question about Akumajo Dracula X68000. Revision difference or hack rom?

« Last post by Aceearly1993 on February 18, 2023, 05:58:59 PM »

Good. These points seems pretty much valid.
Until the day somebody actually digged the 1-hp-damage version in one possible official release, I have no choice but to detect such "revision" as romhacks.
Still pretty fun to tank through. Reminds me the easy difficulty in Chronicles Arranged mode.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: A question about Akumajo Dracula X68000. Revision difference or hack rom?

« Last post by LuxKiller65 on February 17, 2023, 06:53:34 PM »

Shameful! Thanks for the research.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: A question about Akumajo Dracula X68000. Revision difference or hack rom?

« Last post by theplottwist on February 17, 2023, 09:06:13 AM »

I will not claim to be an expert or an authority on this subject but, relatively recently, I ALSO had to find the answer to this subject and arrived at a conclusion.

X68K roms where Simon is taking ANYTHING different from 2 bars damage in Stage 1, Loop 1, are hacked, and there are numerous ROMs with different damage numbers across different stages. To get to this conclusion, I watched gameplays done on real hardware, and someone on the Shmup forums fired up their own factory-protected copy of the game and also made sure to check that Simon is supposed to take 2 bars damage. This is what they concluded from playing their copy:

Stage 1 = -2 HP
Stage 2 = -3 HP
Stage 3 = -4 HP
Stage 4 = -4 HP

The stage 3 damage count onwards aligns with this playthrough found on Youtube, which the user claims to have captured on real hardware. Here's another on NicoNico whose user also claims to have captured on real hardware where the damage on Stage 3 onwards also aligns. Here's one more video on Youtube where you can see the ACTUAL hardware itself hooked to a TV, and you can see the player taking damage on earlier levels confirming Stage 1, 2 and 3 damage scales.

Again, I'm not an authority and this was kind of a quick research at the time. But this all seems to align with the actual original mode on Castlevania Chronicles. Since I could not confirm if other revisions of the game were released, and since a more recent revision should be the basis for Chronicles' original mode but there seems to be no difference between it and the ones played on real hardware, I concluded those must be romhacks.

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Fan Stuff / I have potentially written a new Castlevania fanfic. Maybe? Possibly?

« Last post by Super Waffle on February 17, 2023, 07:38:06 AM »

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14199545/1/Theoretical-Mandalorian

I'm not sure if this counts.