Topic: Broke the fearful night of Haunted Castle 3

[Aceearly1993]

Fellow dungeonites thank you again!
I beat Haunted Castle 3! Finally! I can still remember how I was stuck in same area for several months, and how the guide was not available (all over the Internet) until now. Thank you all!

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The game, in total, it was a hard-to-the-core, tough struggle against bugs, glitches, nuts and difficult settings that you must pay care about almost anything. Game over is an important part in this game's circle. (You need to game over in purpose in order to return to save area quickly)
Creepy graveyard area, falling sun, combined with BGM using creepy MIDI instrument, thus gave me a impression which is quite hard to forget.

Player can even transform to a bat even he's just an ordinary vampire hunter named Trevor!
It gave me a strong hit of head canon since Trevor Belmont wasn't available in vampire form until LoS universe. Or it was just some kind of magic spell (like Charlotte Aulin's) altogether.

The game length is long. It even exceeded Simon's Quest in my process of comparison! (game-over-recovery time didn't count, if count it could be nothing but even longer)
When I reached the castle for the first time (It's the era that was without the guide's help, I made one-man crusade since all my friends had no interest in the game and can't help me either)
I thought the castle would be linear and the long struggle would be finally over...but what I thought was wrong. I still had to investigate 3 different part of the castle and cross my road in between the castle and outer area.
The real problem happened when I reached rose garden. I touched some keys on keyboard by accident and encountered a bug, I was not able to swing my whip out... crossed the giant (comically drawn! ) Rose but a closed door blocked my way... I turned to royal chapel but I still couldn't find a way to make progress (I missed a invisible wall! How did I know it was there!?!) then I ran out of heart, it would spent another 100 days to collect enough hearts to be able to defend enemies again... then I turned to check other part in lost garden but I still couldn't find the switch at all. Check 2 days. Nothing. Check 10 days. Nothing. Without a way to get out, I gave up at last and It became a long-time regret till now.


Now my long-time regret had been eased and I must thank you all again. After getting the guide I re-started my unfinished quest. My emotions are no different than the situation that I'm playing a 100% pure new game released in 2016~2017. Everything is so distant but after re-adjusting my control habit and OS it's also that familiar to me. After I get to the area where I originally got lost I think everyone who first play the game would lost there. After that, the game tells me it is still longer than what I originally thought few years ago. And even longer than what I thought using more current, modern thoughts.
It still has a long, 3-part final stage that you can't use recovery items and sub menu, without chance to rest and save, without chance to continue from final stage part 2 of final final stage, and you only have one chance to challenge. Character perish=game over=you lost everything and you must start from the save point in the castle and re-challenge from final stage part 1 all over again. That gave me lots of trouble since all the final stages and final final boss was unexpectedly tough, and I suffered from (possibly) glitch frequently (I encountered both 1 The final final boss ran away from the boss battle room and 2 my character ran away) which is the worst thing I suffered from a video game.

Still, I broke the fearful night and turned back to the light victoriously!
At last. Fellow dungeonites, thank you all!

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Congratulations! 

[FeRcHuLeS]

I wasn´t aware of this game before just played and got fascinated, Do you know the savegame address of this game?? @Aceearly1993, I need to make a backup.

[mgfcortez]

yes this is a great game i'm in the garden now and haven't played in a week cause my psx to usb stopped working
and i got busy with undubbing castlevania radio drama now i got busy with Translating dragon ball sai where Vegeta go's to earth instead of Goku me being a big Vegeta fan i put all my time into this got done with the 1st manga now making a youtube video lol
here's the link to the test video just a few minutes found a girl to play Bulma too so won't be my voice in the full video like in this clip lol but in case any one cares here's the link if not move along 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kh9XG8Xysw&t=0s

 the manga here

http://www.4shared.com/rar/MB98-6F1ba/Dragon_Ball_Sai__Super_Vegeta_.html

but anyway i'll get back to the game but it is hard and the glitch are ruff like when the music starts laying over its self and you can't move without holding down ctrl.
had the game glitch onces and i was lvl 18 then after i died i was lvl 15 lol i reset the game quit when that happen lol and it happen 3 times
then in the catacombs i jumped down the long fall right before the boss and i went threw the wall lol had to restart the game
it may be a little buggy but i love this game so much i do hate that you can't open your menu when you fight a boss if you walk on a boss like the bat and don't have your axe ready you dead then also hate i can't open the menu when i beat a boss and he drops meat cause i have full everything so when i see a big rost it makes me sick to grab it even tho i have a full 3 of them 
anyway not looking forward to that long 3 stage end game you talking about grrr i to lazy to try so hard 
oh well got to beat this bad ass game tho when i do get back to it just don't want to use my keyboard lol 

[Aceearly1993]

Congratulations! 

Thanks!
It's really a tough struggle. I also tried Haunted Castle 2 since it looks like a linear classicvania style game but I can't make progress after stage 5. Hit detection is questionable, it causes blocking bullet of bone pillar unnecessary hard. A living hell to get through.
And I don't think It's possible to turn to windowed mode in 3. In 2 It's possible but very buggy on modern OS.

I wasn´t aware of this game before just played and got fascinated, Do you know the savegame address of this game?? @Aceearly1993, I need to make a backup.

Sorry, I checked the path used to store LC1 save data (named MMFApplication as a.hidden folder under username/Appdata/Roaming I think) but I found nothing that was related to Haunted Castle 3. The game DOES say It's an application built by multimedia fushion as well as LC1 though. Strange.
BTW It does store LC2 demo save data at there if my memory serves me right.

but anyway i'll get back to the game but it is hard and the glitch are ruff like when the music starts laying over its self and you can't move without holding down ctrl.
had the game glitch onces and i was lvl 18 then after i died i was lvl 15 lol i reset the game quit when that happen lol and it happen 3 times
then in the catacombs i jumped down the long fall right before the boss and i went threw the wall lol had to restart the game
it may be a little buggy but i love this game so much i do hate that you can't open your menu when you fight a boss if you walk on a boss like the bat and don't have your axe ready you dead then also hate i can't open the menu when i beat a boss and he drops meat cause i have full everything so when i see a big rost it makes me sick to grab it even tho i have a full 3 of them 
anyway not looking forward to that long 3 stage end game you talking about grrr i to lazy to try so hard 
oh well got to beat this bad ass game tho when i do get back to it just don't want to use my keyboard lol 

Wish you good luck.
I think It's some form of debug function that remains in the  build we got. I also encountered a character warp from final stage part 1 area 1 to part 1 area 2 so I think there must be some debug dips switch to control it.

[FeRcHuLeS]

@Aceearly1993 Oh I see thanks anyway, btw are you the author of this game @mig3 ?? I need to make a savegame backup, Could you help me please?

EDIT: I'd better PM mig3.

[FeRcHuLeS]

I found the savegame at last, this is the address C:\WINDOWS\DRACULA

[Aceearly1993]

I found the savegame at last, this is the address C:\WINDOWS\DRACULA

So this is something interesting. Never notice that, will try to find it out.