Topic: Spritework Request & Showcase Thread

[Mikepjr]

Anyone know where i can get better quality assets from this thread from?
https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=9249.msg201977#msg201977
Parasitus: Ninja Zero assets.. almost seem lost to time.
The images posted in that thread have lost their quality.

[Wecoc]

Here's some sprites I dabbled with.

I quite like what you've done here. They look more cohesive in general. Maybe Yoko and Charlotte are still a bit too bright compared to the others in the same set (compare, for example, Yoko with Jonathan), but it's hard to say... I'd suggest potentially reducing and unifying the palette.

I tried polishing some Saturn's sprites a bit, but I'm not great at animating, so I don't think this will go further than a simple "study".
If anyone wants to tackle these, please go ahead.



I've always found Saturn's sprites subpar compared to the rest of SotN's graphics, so I may try to do the same with a few more, since we have so many rips here...

[BLOOD MONKEY]

I've always found Saturn's sprites subpar compared to the rest of SotN's graphics, so I may try to do the same with a few more, since we have so many rips here...

These look quite nice, especially the added depth on the imp.

simon nes sheet with special moves n stuff
tried to stay as close to / in the spirit of the CV1 style and animations as I could, but kinda ended up with something a little higher fidelity out of necessity

version without the alignment guide

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some gifs







and a lil direct comparison

[VladOfWallachia]

Those are some pretty smooth looking animations.

[theplottwist]

These are mockups I made imagining what a Belmont's Revenge remake could look like. This is not a real game.

The images are on the spoiler tag. Use CTRL plus MINUS keys to zoom out and see the images better in case they are too big on your browser (use CTRL plus 0 later to return the zoom to normal).

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Initial map screen. This remake would have more like a Simon's Quest/Order of Ecclesia approach to the world and exploration. Reaching the castles is no longer a matter of selecting them. You gotta work your way to them.



Rock Castle



Crystal Castle





Plant Castle



Cloud Castle boss







After defeating the four castle spirits, Dracula's Castle resurrects. The dark fog it spreads changes certain areas in the map.



Dracula's Castle entrance





Christopher meets Soleil in the underground ritual chamber









Christopher frees Soleil but Dracula escapes. Different from the original game, the spirits are brought by Christopher since he's using them as abilities. So Dracula snatches them right away from him, causing Christopher to lose the abilities he had.





The Demon World



Meeting with Dracula









Christopher is unfortunately aging, and Dracula gains the upper hand. But all is not yet lost.







This remake would reimagine the standard battle with Dracula in the original game, as this game's second phase. However, it would rewrite canon a little to make more thematic sense -- Soleil is now here to form the vampire hunting duo with Christopher that the plot of the original game only teased us with.







The battle is over



Bonus: All cutscenes are localized into Japanese as well















I hope you enjoyed. Special thanks go to:
Junki Sakuraba for the portrait artworks.
Nob Ogasawara for the Japanese localization.
ButiaAzul for the crystal shield I used as reference for the sprite

[BLOOD MONKEY]

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These are mockups I made imagining what a Belmont's Revenge remake could look like. This is not a real game.

The images are on the spoiler tag. Use CTRL plus MINUS keys to zoom out and see the images better in case they are too big on your browser (use CTRL plus 0 later to return the zoom to normal).

(click to show/hide)

Initial map screen. This remake would have more like a Simon's Quest/Order of Ecclesia approach to the world and exploration. Reaching the castles is no longer a matter of selecting them. You gotta work your way to them.



Rock Castle



Crystal Castle





Plant Castle



Cloud Castle boss







After defeating the four castle spirits, Dracula's Castle resurrects. The dark fog it spreads changes certain areas in the map.



Dracula's Castle entrance





Christopher meets Soleil in the underground ritual chamber









Christopher frees Soleil but Dracula escapes. Different from the original game, the spirits are brought by Christopher since he's using them as abilities. So Dracula snatches them right away from him, causing Christopher to lose the abilities he had.





The Demon World



Meeting with Dracula









Christopher is unfortunately aging, and Dracula gains the upper hand. But all is not yet lost.







This remake would reimagine the standard battle with Dracula in the original game, as this game's second phase. However, it would rewrite canon a little to make more thematic sense -- Soleil is now here to form the vampire hunting duo with Christopher that the plot of the original game only teased us with.







The battle is over



Bonus: All cutscenes are localized into Japanese as well















I hope you enjoyed. Special thanks go to:
Junki Sakuraba for the portrait artworks.
Nob Ogasawara for the Japanese localization.
ButiaAzul for the crystal shield I used as reference for the sprite

Really excellent stuff. Huge step above any of the Rebirth titles imo. Definitely think Belmont's Revenge has a huge amount of untapped potential.

In less exciting news, I've ripped all the inventory assets from SotN with labels in mostly alphabetical order. Really looked around for clean rips of the head, armor, cloak, and accessory pieces but there just wasn't anything complete or with accurate colors. Everything here is a direct texture rip from the game. Not to brag or anything but this was done using my legit 100% completion files (every single inventory slot filled) for the 3 major different versions of the game.

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version with transparent background

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The reason I needed those is because of the more exciting thing I've got to share.

After Richter suffers a grave injury fighting Shaft, the brave Maria vanquishes Count Dracula. However, three years later, she mysteriously vanishes. When Richter's search leads him to the same castle he saw crumble 5 years prior, he knows it's time to finish what he couldn't last time.
This has been my project for some time now, but it's been slow burning until the past month or so. It'll be what Dracula X is to Rondo more or less. As it stands, my current goal is to fully redraw the SotN map in mostly GBC restrictions, while imagining it as an alternate-universe take on the original game. Long term goal, if I don't move on from this at any point, is to turn it into a fully playable game. Richter focused campaign mode with the castle fully explorable; revised Underground Garden with the addition of a Castle Shoreline area; Rival to replace Doppleganger fights with small cutscenes (sent by the Church after being convinced that Richter failed due to his own weakness and not Shaft just being OP.); Inverted castle to be compressed into an area like Chaos from AoS but more as a mini-metroidvania map instead of a straight shot level. Probably less items and enemies and bosses.
The GBC restrictions are something I put in place both to challenge myself to redraw the game and to add limits to what I can do. Don't wanna spend forever doing this, and creating assets in GBC size and restriction is kind of a breeze compared to PS1 size and color restriction. Here's some of the work I've done so far.




last one in a spoiler cuz it's big.

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[BLOOD MONKEY]

Ripped Simon's sprites from Chronicles since none of the rips online had correct colors or all of the poses.
Some notes; On the "Original" side, the bottom-most sprite is exclusive to the X68000 release. For the downward attack animation, the Original has 3 unique frames from the diagonal animation while the Arranged version has only 2. The whip sprites used during the wind-up of downward and diagonal attacks display incorrectly in-game but stored correctly in the tilemap; I kept the version in the tilemap.