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Title: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Dalles on August 20, 2012, 06:29:55 AM
Greetings.

It seems like Vampire is no longer downloadable. Anyone has the 'vampire4.zip' in their collections? I searched for all over google and ended up with one more (1) link, also dead.

Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on August 20, 2012, 02:51:30 PM
Wow that homebrew goes way back.
Umm... I don't have it!  I used to but the drive it was on has passed.

Hopefully someone else here has it.  I have to give my backups a more thorough look to see if we get lucky with the install.
Incidentally, anything that was on the Dungeon (or Hardcore Gaming 101)'s Fileplanet files is inaccessible.

We're gonna have to see if we have backups (Kurt should) and put 'em up on Mediafire or something.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Inccubus on August 20, 2012, 04:11:23 PM
I've been meaning to track that down myself, so hopefully it surfaces somewhere.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Dalles on August 20, 2012, 08:34:40 PM
Lord Fuentes. Thank you very much in advance for the check.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: C Belmont on August 20, 2012, 10:14:09 PM
You can find it here
http://sleepystudios.com/showthread.php?tid=200 (http://sleepystudios.com/showthread.php?tid=200)
I just downloaded it myself so the link here shouldn't be dead
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Lumi Kløvstad on August 21, 2012, 01:20:13 AM
Incidentally, anything that was on the Dungeon (or Hardcore Gaming 101)'s Fileplanet files is inaccessible.

We're gonna have to see if we have backups (Kurt should) and put 'em up on Mediafire or something.

Holy crap. I just downloaded all the soundtracks on the media page just like... 3 weeks ago. Perfect timing, eh?
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Inccubus on August 21, 2012, 02:17:45 AM
Sweet! Thanks for the link!

Someone should totally translate this puppy. Then some one should hack in Sonia as the protagonist and rewrite the script a little.

It's definitely one of the best CV clones of all time. Ranks right up there with Soul of Dracula. One of the things I loved about it was the way the ribbon is animated. I always thought that would have been a great alternative to the classic CV whip animation.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Koutei on August 21, 2012, 02:00:14 PM
Vampire FHD (Full High Definition) now making.

BETA test version (Developer's BLOG, Japanese)
http://chinchilla.xsrv.jp/cgi-bin/diarypro2/diary.cgi?no=523 (http://chinchilla.xsrv.jp/cgi-bin/diarypro2/diary.cgi?no=523)
DL Pass: vampire


Links (Japanese)

-SPRITE- homepage
http://spritesoft.web.fc2.com/ (http://spritesoft.web.fc2.com/)

VAMPIRE -SPRITE-
http://spritesoft.web.fc2.com/game/vam/index.html (http://spritesoft.web.fc2.com/game/vam/index.html)

SPRITE BLOG
http://spritesoftblog.blog110.fc2.com/ (http://spritesoftblog.blog110.fc2.com/)

SPRITE BLOG (OLD)
http://spritesoft.blog100.fc2.com/ (http://spritesoft.blog100.fc2.com/)

Developer's BLOG (NSFW)
http://chinchilla.xsrv.jp/cgi-bin/diarypro2/diary.cgi (http://chinchilla.xsrv.jp/cgi-bin/diarypro2/diary.cgi)


also, it's Fan Stuff.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: X on August 21, 2012, 02:39:06 PM
VAMPIRE is still in the works?? I thought this home brew was abandoned years ago! And I also thought that SPIRIT was gone as well since I'd been trying to locate their web page for a long time.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Dalles on August 21, 2012, 06:53:03 PM
Lord Belmont, Lord Koutei, thank you!
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Inccubus on August 21, 2012, 06:57:22 PM
Awesomeness!  ;D
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Koutei on August 21, 2012, 11:50:52 PM
VAMPIRE is still in the works?? I thought this home brew was abandoned years ago! And I also thought that SPIRIT was gone as well since I'd been trying to locate their web page for a long time.

Yes, This project restarted.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Lelygax on August 26, 2012, 12:34:58 AM
Wow! Thanks Koutei, I've been waiting since 2005 for some update about this project, I've even thinked thats have been canceled  ;D
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: SiFi270 on September 14, 2014, 04:58:49 AM
I am so sorry to bump this, but the new Castlevania book from Hardcoregaming101 got me interested in this game, and all the download links in this thread seem to be 404'd. Is there still hope?
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: crisis on September 14, 2014, 05:10:09 AM
zobek.. lord of the thread-necromancers  :-X
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: EisaKrieger on September 14, 2014, 02:38:18 PM
Then some one should hack in Sonia as the protagonist
Already done.  But I had to fit the replacement sprites into the same dimensions so I may not have done the best job.  And I got Sonia sprites from three different sources and made some slightly different ones look a little more alike.  http://gokuma.voila.net/drac.html (http://gokuma.voila.net/drac.html)  First thing listed under homemade games.

Koutei, if this is your project, just let me know if I should take down the vampire4.zip from my page.

EDIT: Oops, I just saw the dates in late August and didn't realize I was replying to posts from 2012.  I shot the sheriff, but I did not bump the thread.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: theANdROId on September 14, 2014, 06:51:56 PM
Well...now that it's been bumped, necromanced, and otherwise (at least temporarily) revived...is this game still around somewhere?  It looks pretty nice!
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: discoalucard on September 14, 2014, 08:31:11 PM
Well...now that it's been bumped, necromanced, and otherwise (at least temporarily) revived...is this game still around somewhere?  It looks pretty nice!

Here you go:

http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/vampire4.zip (http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/vampire4.zip)

Had to dig it off an old hard drive since all of the Gamespy links went down years ago. It still works on modern Windows platforms, pleasantly enough. I THINK the webpage says there was another revision after this one, but it's disappeared into the ether of the internet.
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: theANdROId on September 15, 2014, 02:17:33 AM
Thanks!
Title: Re: Vampire (CV-like game) down
Post by: Dremn on September 15, 2014, 11:57:07 AM
Holy crap, why have I never heard of this before? Liking the sprite work here!