Topic: Video of Castlevania IV Beta

[Nagumo]

In case anybody is still interested in how the beta looks like, you can see the first level here. It's run on an emulator:

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I must say that I'm slightly disappointed. Though I wasn't sure what I was expecting.   

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Fluttershy - Dr. Fluttershy expected that

This.

I still remember that failtastic ad that looked like it used Beta Footage.

"Fight across a bridge, THROUGH A ROOM! and a STABLE!"

[Dark Nemesis]

I have seen this video, but i don't understand if he is making the replica for the snes emulator or for gamemaker. Anyway, i like beta stuffs and i'm searching my self to discover any, but until now, i don't have any luck......

[K.G. Morder]

Best beta of all time will probably always be Sonic 2.

[Sumac]

I am nost sure, if I getting the point of this.
Besides, how he can recreate demo version of the game, if there is no leaked version of the demo. If anything the end result will a SCV4, but stripped out of some things, to make it feel incomplete.

[Nagumo]

I think he owns the beta himself. Also, people are just curious how the beta looks like, so I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to play it on an emulator.

[uzo]

There's no way he has the beta. He'd dump the ROM instead of going through all this trouble. You can already tell there's major difference sin how the beta's level were than this.

I call major bullshit. It looks like shit too.

[Nagumo]

The beta levels seem very similiair to me actually. In the tv commercial you can see a glimpse of the level that is shown in the video and it looks exactly the same. Also, it looks indeed like shit but since we're talking about a beta that doesn't really say much about its legitimacy. 

I have no idea how one makes a ROM of a game so I don't know if it makes sense what this person is doing.

Also, what's up with those weird samurai enemies?         

[Sumac]

I have no idea how one makes a ROM of a game so I don't know if it makes sense what this person is doing.

To make ROM one must have original cart with the game. Then dump its contents into PC via special device.
It means in order to have ROM of the game, "beta recreator" should have beta cart in his possesion. Which I doubt, he does.

Personally, I 'd like to play in beta version of any Castlevania. Especially the ones that were never released or drastically changed, like Bloodlines, CV64, CV32X and Ressurection.

[C Belmont]

Looks to me as though the sprites have just been taken straight from the youtube video of the beta.

[K.G. Morder]

"remaking" a beta....

what.

Thats not how that works...

Looks to me as though the sprites have just been taken straight from the youtube video of the beta.

Seems like that. Im pretty sure, beta or not, Konami would never allow it's Simon sprite to look that shitty under like, the threat of death or something.

[beingthehero]

Wow. That looked pretty dumb.

[Sumac]

So that's why Simon and some other stuff looks so ugly...I didn't watch thus video carefully, but certainly, sprites gave me a strange impression. As if them, or video as a whole, was very blurry and discolored.

[Super Waffle]

Pretty sure the background randomly changing to Windows Vista is not part of the authentic beta experience.

[Nagumo]

I suppose it's possible that he is only using the tv commercial as a reference for recreating stages. It shows quite a lot from the first stage. The sprites he used seem of about the same quality too. Not sure how he is planning to do the others.