Topic: Rondo of Blood unused boss or miniboss

[FlyingMudBlock]

I've been playing around with tile viewers and mednafen's debugger and found this boss(or mini boss) on stage 1's data:

the background color was already black by default so no way around it, sorry.
i showed this first to a good friend of mine i know here and he was amazed by this little finding of mine.

so... what do you think of this little beast?

PS:
this is NOT fanart.

[Flame]

Seems more like it might have been the boss if you took the lower path in stage 1. Looks very much like that could have been it. I always thought that water serpent was sort of a weird boss. the underground area itself felt weird IIRC. wasn't there a random dead end to the left when you drop down?

[FlyingMudBlock]

Yes there was

[darkmanx_429]

Radical. Can I use that sprite?

[FlyingMudBlock]

Radical. Can I use that sprite?

no need for permission, everybody can use it.
i only ripped it, so no need for those silly credits and permissions.

[Nagumo]

Wow, it's awesome to see something completely new, yet at the same time very old content like this, especially if it's from RoB. Looks really gorgeous. Why did they never end up recycling this one?

[FlyingMudBlock]

Wow, it's awesome to see something completely new, yet at the same time very old content like this, especially if it's from RoB. Looks really gorgeous. Why did they never end up recycling this one?

maybe they forgot about it for a long time and never minded it.

[X]

Interesting boss. Maybe it could have been a proposed boss for the secret stage after you finish off Dracula thus gaining access to it. But who knows? Maybe they ran out of time in development or it wasn't convincing enough. It looks pretty bulky and cumbersome so maybe a half boss then?

[VladCT]

It looks kinda unfinished, so maybe it's the former.

[Chernabogue]

Very interesting find!

[theplottwist]

I love the sprite. A tad stiff, though, but we'll never know what the devs had in mind.

[C Belmont]

Looks to me as though you forgot to give the boss his neck, isn't that what the circular parts on the top left would be for.
The extra boss in Dracula X chronicles was a hydra as well so maybe they had this fellow in mind when they added it.

[knightmere]

This  boss reminds me of Crocomire from Super Metroid.

[Dremn]

Holy crap, great find!

[darkmanx_429]

no need for permission, everybody can use it.
i only ripped it, so no need for those silly credits and permissions.

Well, I dare say that you are the first person to uncover this sprite and assemble it, that is why I asked.

I would of asked regardless.