Topic: Chinese Mobile's Castlevanias

[Dark Nemesis]

I think that you can't, but who ever wants them, it can tell it to you and send him the links with a private message!!

[X]

Please direct me there!! The emulator and all the CV mobile roms!!

-X

[Roan]

Please direct me there!! The emulator and all the CV mobile roms!!

-X

Do you want them all?

[Gunlord]

Boy, those cell phone games really *do* look good.

[Sonic_Reaper]

These are all very interesting looking.  If you do some research, you can find .jar files for Castlevania 2:  Demon and Castlevania Reincarnation online quite easily.  The problem is getting a running emulator.  From what I've found on google apparently mpowerplayer is the way to go.  It doesn't run on my computer though, I keep getting a .dll error (I have the .dll file) and it says it can't access my Java folder for the .dll file (it's there).  I'm tempted to put my fist through my sreen and my foot through the tower at these stupid errors, but I'll keep looking for another emulator.

UPDATE:  Got mpowerplayer running ... and it's not what I expected.  Tried looking for some other emulators, but they're more complicated than simply pressing "play", because of the whole java thing.  It's causing me quite a headache, so for now, I give up.

[Munchy]

Konami needs to buy these, take out the inevitable copyright infringements, and release them as a compilation on something.

[Roan]

Sonic Reaper, i use two java emulators (the best ones), Kemulator (v. 0.9. and SjBoy Reloaded. Look for these two emulators on Google, and download it.

And about the other games, you can find it on a Brazilian Forum, named Snk Neofighters. You can look for it on Google, and then enter in the forum page, go to a subject named "Pocket, Celulares & SmartPhones", and after that go to the last page of a topic named "Java Games Para Celulares", and there will be the download link for all of these Castlevania Games, and more.

Munchy, i agree with you. Konami could do it. And man, these games are a lot of better than Order of Shadows.

[Sonic_Reaper]

Thank you Roan.  I've been spending the last three hours playing Castlevania Reincarnation.  Which is very bad because I have two finals I should be studying for tomorrow.  Well, anyways, I've beaten it, so it's now out of the way.  The screenshots are quite deceptive.  The problem with these cellphonevania's is,

a.  the control is usually quite atrocious.  In Reincarntion for example, you can't press two buttons at the same time, so if you want to jump off to either side, you have to first press jump, then either left or right.  Another problem is that you don't hold down for crouching, press down puts you permanently in the crouching position.

b.  the frame rate sucks.  It's quite jittery.

c.  there's no music (I've only played three so far, and only one of them had dedicated music, but it was pretty bleepy-bloopy and annoying after awhile).

So, like I said, the screenshots are really deceptive.  There's no doubt a lot of work went into most of these games, but the platform on which they've been presented, is a waste.  The Castelvania experience just does not translate to the cell phone.

[nsideus]

Munchy, i agree with you. Konami could do it. And man, these games are a lot of better than Order of Shadows.

Order of Shadows came out years ago.  I'd bet the next mobile Castlevania is going to be on the iPhone, and it'll be 10 times better than all these put together.

[Reinhart77]

good point.  oh man, am i gonna have to buy an i-phone now?  i had to buy a new phone in order to play Order of Shadows. 

[nsideus]

You can always just get an iPod touch if you don't want an iPhone.  The newer iPod touches have the same fast hardware as the 3GS iPhone.

[crisis]

I just typed this message with my iPod Touch 3GS