Topic: So what's the rarest castlevania game out there?

[Oralox]

question above ^
and im looking forward to buying it! 

[X]

It used to be Rondo of Blood, but now that's available with the DXC. I'd guess now it's the haunted Castle arcade game.

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[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Not counting the Game.com games?
I'd say either Haunted Castle (the physical arcade cabinet - not the Playstation 2 remake) or Vampire Killer for the MSX.

[Sindra]

I'd say the physical copy of Rondo of Blood in its original case with the spine card is still pretty rare. I'm still on the lookout for a good copy with the spine.

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[Nagumo]

That shit is so rare, it's not even for sale.   

[Oralox]

I'll pay one jillion dollars for that!
Futurama Jillion Dollars LMFAO

[Thunderbrand]

The orig. Haunted Castle cabinet is pretty hard to find. Rondo and X68000 were very rare but both got the Chronicles treatment. Original Vampire Killer discs are still pretty rare.

I'd love to find the Bloodlines Beta. Only a handful ever existed though.

[X]

I'd love to find the Bloodlines Beta. Only a handful ever existed though.

Is there a rom of this Beta somewhere?

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[VeteranVk]

Since I had the chance to play Haunted Castle a few years back on an actual cabinet, and I never played Vampire Killer on an MSX, I'll say Vampire Killer.

[Dark Nemesis]

Sadly, there isn't a rom from the beta version of bloodlines....

[Thunderbrand]

Sadly, there isn't a rom from the beta version of bloodlines....

Wish there was. Once in a VERY blue moon you'll see a copy of the actual Beta cartridge on ebay but it's big $$$. There was some discussion on the board here a long time ago about this game and we were all guessing as to how many copies actually exist. Not many at all that's for sure...

[Harrycombs]

If one of those beta cartridges goes on sale again, someone better make a ROM of it.

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And yeah, that is by far the rarest.

[Oralox]

all these posts and no one mentioned this

[Thunderbrand]

This page makes it sound like there was only ONE copy of the Bloodlines Beta ever produced, but that can't be true. But if it were, then that would be the rarest CV game ever. Still, I know there's a handful of these out there but tracking one down wouldn't be easy.

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/2/bl-beta.htm