The Simon's Quest is the only one of those variants I've seen before. I dunno where it was though. It was in my not collecting days so I didn't think much of it.
The Simon's Quest is the only one of those variants I've seen before. I dunno where it was though. It was in my not collecting days so I didn't think much of it.
Dracula: The constant villain of the series. His usual tactics include breaking a number of wine glasses and transforming into his true form.
The fact that they have no price on them suggests that they are display only versions, or late prototypes with non final covers. Pretty sexy!
I recently put up a little website inlcuding mah CV stuff. Some new stuff is included.
Klick
Maybe some of you want to take a look. And yes, the site is very poor, but it fulfils its purpose ^^
A superb collection, most especially the odd/rare promo items.
Ooh mama retro, marry me.
Dracula: The constant villain of the series. His usual tactics include breaking a number of wine glasses and transforming into his true form.
One collectible that I have never seen complete in a collector's hands is a boxed Playchoice 10 Castlevania PCB with it's original sticker/placard:
The boxes are plan white boxes with "Nintendo Playchoice" printed on them, and the game name in generic print on the box face above that.
They're super rare to find on Ebay complete, though the boards do pop up now and then (scalped chips from NES carts are more common, these IMO are not collectible at all)
here's a preview of a performance I did at magfest 6 of a castlevania arrangement. I was on drums, kareshi is on piano, and pingo is on bass. Full video coming soon! download here http://www.sendspace.com/file/2auobg
Last edited by mills; 01-12-2008 at 01:30 AM.
What is that, scalped chips from nes carts?Originally Posted by Arasoi
Well, only some NES games made it to Playchoice (not a huge amount of them) but the Playchoice boards for many of the games are compatible with chips from other NES games. So what you often see is Ebay sellers selling Playchoice games but they are only the chips from an NES cart and not a real original Playchoice board.
Since the boards are not entirely generic, and have an identifier on them for what game they came with I don't really consider the chips collectible at all, just useful for a Playchoice machine owner who wants more games in his unit for cheaper.
I see... and is there an east way not to confuse real Playchoice boards with NES boards? Now I'm scared, I hope my Playchoice 10 isn't a fake one!
There should be a little sticker on it that says Castlevania on the front of the PCB somewhere, if it is an original one. If it doesnt have that, it still might be OK and maybe the sticker came off.
Some recent items, not too many surprises though. It's nice to see all the NECA figures lined up at least.
How's the Nintendo Power cartridge? Anything different compared to the normal game? BIOS menu? Different copyrights? Nice vinyl, wish I had one (lolz).
It is indeed a nice vinyl, a good friend of mine gave it to me for Christmas =)
By Nintendo Power cart did you mean the Dracula XX download on the SFC cart, or the Playchoice 10 CV1? They are both identical to their retail counterparts, Playchoice 10 of course has an extra monitor with game information tacked on.
I meant the Vampire's Kiss cartridge, that's the name of those carts basically, that's why I didn't mention the title. So nothing different, not even a boot menu?
http://kotaku.com/346759/rumored-new...i-connectivity
Purportedly these screens are from the new DS Castlevania game.. but they just seem off to me, that portrait looks photoshopped in, the sprite looks like a Charlotte edit, spotlight on the Castle, etc etc..
Thoughts?
My thought is.... Where's Julius?
www.famicomshop.com -best place for famicom stuff. Run by a DP member.
Radiant's Ongoing Ebay Auctions
Heres something for collectors (Lux!)
http://page18.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w19234104
Another SF flash cart, but this one has the little sticker for DXX on it, as well as Bubble Symphony, or whatever. Pretty cheap too.
I saw those pictures a few days ago, I was going to post them myself but I didn't get around to it. I know there are a number of castlevania homebrews/hacks that people are working on that use graphics and sprites from the DS games, so who knows. I highly doubt that the first thing we would see of a new Castlevania game would be a few lame random screenshots. Konami would be cool about it and drop cool hints left and right, probably release the title of the game first, then some decent screens.
I downloaded the ISO of Drac X Chronicles. The game so far is frustrating me, the bats are pissing me off. I just need to spend more time with it.
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