Oh hell yes it was. Awesome level designer and awesome remake.
Hmm... I wonder how you went about this when all the sets were much too cute to do this.
Capcom released 4 stage themes strictly by internet. 2 of these can be reasonably adopted for castlevania stages. The Halloween stage pack and the Ghosts and Ghouls stage pack.
A few fans simply recreated stages from the original Castlevania, but I was trying to make a more abmitious Castleroid design. Where Megaman starts out the stage stripped of all his powers including his megasuit (essentially he gets downgraded to become Rock). By exploring the Castle, he can reclaim his megasuit, slide, powershot and boss weaponsob to clear the obstacles throughout...
Strictly speaking the stage design rules wouldn't allow such a concept (multiple bosses, upgrading rock, etc..) but I figured out a way around that by breaking the stage down to multiple sections. The complete "master" stage only exists on paper, but each each section would appear as a self contained "stage" on Capcom's network.
For example... When a player downloads the first "stage" of my Castleroid...
Rock enters the castle and begins fighting his way toward a partyball boss. Along the way the player notices obstacles that can't possibly be cleared without boss weapons (that Rock can't use without his Megasuit). So a player that doesn't know that my "stage" is part of a larger design thinks.. WTF?
But what if that partyball boss actually held the megasuit inside --like a piniata? So when you kick it open it looks like you clear the stage --but what if that boss chamber actually represented a "save point" --and thus a starting point for the next "stage". And this time the player starts with the Megasuit...
Again I never finished my Castleroid design, as it proved very very difficult to implement all these ideas... If I can get some time off before the OoE arrives maybe I'll take another shot at it....
BTW --I actually DID finish another stage that I'm very proud of(spent 6 months on it) Seeing as how this is a thread for megafans I can post the download info for anyone that has Megaman Powered Up.