The Castlevania Thread

[Arasoi]

I do have the commercial game yes, complete/mint etc. There is an even rarer version of the game that was sold from a vending machine in Japan, basically 5.25 discs in a plastic box. I've only seen that up for auction once on ebay, it was with a ton of other X68k stuff. The auction went out of my price range pretty quickly.

It's funny you should mention that particular game, someone payed nearly $1000 dollars for the retail version on Ebay a little while back, sheesh. The retail game is only worth about $120 tops, at least in my opinion.

[RadiantSvgun]

Wow, the 1 or 2 times I did see it, it went for about $70, but I haven't seen it since then.

[Arasoi]

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-X68000-KONA...QQcmdZViewItem

Here's one, but that's a pretty high price to pay for it O_o

[RadiantSvgun]

So thats what it looks like. Apparently the X68k used real floppy disks. B-drive. Reminds me of my crappy Tandy.

[Arasoi]

Yep, the X68k used 5.25 or 3.5 inch floppy drives, but had expansion ports for hard drives. Some of the games could do a hard drive install for quicker load time/no disk switching or whatnot.

*shines the Ed Oscuro signal into the sky for more info*

Funny you should mention old Tandys, I actually was able to get VGA working on a Tandy 1000 by installing an 8 bit compatible VGA ISA board. You apparently can get sound and an old NiC running in them too if the ISA cards are 8 bit, but I didn't try that.

[Arasoi]

More collecting shennanigans!





After a battle with Luxie and a slightly less insane (than myself) rinkya user, I won this nifty blue disk variant of Akumajo Dracula FDS. It's missing the outer sheath that holds the plastic case, but those are pretty easy to get a hold of.

These blue disks are different from the yellow ones in that they have an actual dust cover/sheath over the spot where the disk reads. I know there is a blue disk variant of Dracula 2 as well.

Overall, more than I wanted to pay. But I couldnt be near the computer at it's exact ending time, so oh well. It's a nice item and doesn't hurt my Christmas shopping plans.

[LuxKiller65]

Curse you - as always...

[retro]

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Nice item, never heard of those blue discs. Well, I never interested for FDS except the AD games lol

[Arasoi]

I've read on about 3-4 websites now that those disks were sold to be compatible with a special nintendo fax machine that sent in your high scores to Nintendo for contests. Interesting.

Also, I found a picture of the Dracula 2 blue disk, it was uploaded by Cho Aniki (from the Castlevania France forums) onto a big game list website:

[HYB]

I love you <3.

[Arasoi]

I take it you're a dilbert fan XD



I got one of those tube organizers from work today and it solved the ugly problem of the giant box filled with poster tubes nicely. (except the 3 PAL SOTN thin banner posters, I need to get tubes for those buggers still..)

I think next I need to get some smaller rubbermaid bins and reorganize the smaller items more effeciently.

[mills]

I take it you're a dilbert fan XD



I got one of those tube organizers from work today and it solved the ugly problem of the giant box filled with poster tubes nicely. (except the 3 PAL SOTN thin banner posters, I need to get tubes for those buggers still..)

I think next I need to get some shelves for my collection and some nice frames for all the posters .

fixed

[Arasoi]

No shelves. I'm scared of long term sun damage /fading on box/labels/inserts =(

Anybody pick up the CV figures yet? Mine got sent to the wrong address, I need to go pick them up. From online pictures the paint on the final retail figures looks to be a bit crap compared to the prototypes shown at SDCC =\

Also, you get close mouth variant drac, and "clear" simon which is supposed to be Simon after drinking the invincibility potion. Weird.

[HYB]

Yes Arasoi, I'm a rabid Dilbert fan and prolly the only one in friggin Finland. Everyone thinks it's lame even though it's ingenious.

At least most of my CV posters are sorted out now, I just framed my DXC pak poster. Gonna hang it later.

And variant figures. Aw man I hate that. I was so disappointed when I saw the actual figures. They were gorgeous,the promo pieces but the finished ones do not even compare.

[Arasoi]

You and Lux need to check your PMs =)

Also:

http://page16.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/u19699217

Quite a haul here for auction..

[HYB]

I did check my PMs AND replied XD.

Like I said to Lux I wish I had the chance to bid on yahoo.

With that said,the DXC poster with the two omakes on the side, signed by IGA and Kojima...

They would make me the happiest girl alive. Shit I don't care about IGA but you know my Kojima love.

[Arasoi]

Weird, I never got replies. Oh well maybe the board ate them or something.

I would have figured you would want that signed poster, they had a whole slew of Kojima related comic/magazine ads for sale on there a bit back, they went for a super high price though.

[HYB]

Yeah, I do want it. It's a bit obvious isn't it.

And let me send a reply now since the board is being blerg. Hurhur.

[HYB]

http://cgi.ebay.com/CASTLEVANIA-VIDE...ayphotohosting

This guy has to be one of the most stupid guys I've seen.

I would give him about 200 tops. Maybe a little more. The only thing I want is the whip though, I've been looking for it.

[RadiantSvgun]

http://cgi.ebay.com/CASTLEVANIA-VIDE...ayphotohosting

This guy has to be one of the most stupid guys I've seen.

I would give him about 200 tops. Maybe a little more. The only thing I want is the whip though, I've been looking for it.

Eh, I'd give him 100 at the most. Too much of it is incomplete (box/book,ect)