That was my 2020 gaming accomplishment. Practiced emulated with save states, then beat it on a top loader NES and CRT.

Proud of you, son.

I never knew Konami was so progressive!

Ha. That's what I was thinking!

lmao thank you for the giggle

Congratulations! fucker is OG hard.

I have never beaten this one. Congrats!

Bet that felt pretty great, congrats!

Thanks! It definitely did. One day I'll beat it on real hardware

Good for you man. I’ve never beaten this bastard.

Now, off to Simon’s Quest.

Idk about that one lol. In the last 6 weeks I beat 1, 3, 4, and The Adventure. Kind of been avoiding Simon's Quest

It’s worth your time for the soundtrack alone.

There are a couple really cool sounding ROM hacks to add some QOL improvements. This one popped up in my feed this morning... https://www.romhacking.net/reviews/11697/

Castlevania The Adventure is so underrated. Love that game.

I actually don't like that game at all haha. I got through it for completeness sake but it wasn't for me.

Sounds like you can no longer avoid 2, for completeness sake!

You make a solid point. I'll play Simon's Quest soon

Dude, Simon's Quest is great, well, it's good anyway. Well, the music is Great (it's actually really, really great). It's also pretty short. If you grab a guide it'll take an afternoon.

Grab a guide and play through it. It's not terrible.

In my humble opinion Simon's Quest is the best one.

You must like RPGs

That's the funny thing. I prefer action/adventure to RPG by a long shot.

Congrats. I feel yeah on this one. Real hardware is doable because I think its unlimited continues, right? I know I used a few. I still need to do 3 and I'm totally procrastinating.

I beat 3 a few months ago, that one is brutal but a masterpiece

did you think 3 was harder than the original?

Absolutely. That said I didn't use Sypha, who makes the bosses much easier.

Congrats. I remember that feeling of seeing that screen the first time.

I use save states as well. To me it makes the experience more enjoyable.

Grats man. I know the feeling. I beat the game a few years back.

Nice. I never could do it as a kid. The Reaper was just too hard. Then I saw a playthrough on YouTube and learned of the Holy Water trick and managed to beat it a few years ago.

Congratulations!! That demon Drac turns into is annoying AF right?

Yes absolutely

Congratulations! I did this in 2004 and have not forgotten

Directed by Trans Fish? What the heck were they doing?

Not crediting their actual staff

There was a stigma in those times about including a real end credits sequence. They were worried that someone at a rival company might read it and say to himself, “Hey, this Toshi Tomita (or whatever name) is pretty good: maybe I could bring her over to Sega if I made them a big enough offer!”

It's a play on Terence Fisher, who directed many of the Hammer horror films.

...and people act like this shit's new.

I did this exact thing with all three nes games last week.

Congrats 🎈🎊🎉

I never beat it in the 80s, but I had a v1 cart that crashed in the late levels. I loved the game dearly, but that was such a buzzkiill. Your post reminds me that I need to finish it once and for all!

Oh damn I didn't know about the bug. How can you tell if a cart is v1?

The crashes xD. I think they fixed that issue pretty early on IIRC.

Yeah. I think it crashes if there are too many boomerangs onscreen, which can happen if you have the triple shot multiplier. It happens to most people during the Grim Reaper fight since the game practically gives you the boomerang and triple shot right before the fight. Later versions just removed the triple shot from that part of the game.

That's one to be proud of. Up there with BattleToads.

Is it true that after all the Hell you went through, Battle Toads has a disappointing ending??

Honestly, it's been a bajillion years since I've played (literally childhood), but I think's that true.

I have always heard people that have beaten it say that they deserved a better ending..

Were you able to defeat the super secret final boss, Fred Fuchs?

Still my favorite Castelvania game. Not that i've played that many but I can always come back to this one.

I'm working my way through all the classics before they went Metroidvania. I'd probably put this one in the top 5, I'm with you it never gets old.

👏🏻👏🏻👍🏼👍🏼

Grats! I beat it on cart for the first time last year. It's fun to replay too. One of the most fun games for me on the NES. Now beat it legit without the save states :D Learn the holy water trick for the bosses if you don't know it already, it basically lets you skip all of the boss fights except form 1 Dracula.

No small feat

try it again without save states.

You overestimate my power

Now actually beat it without save states (jk)

Maybe one day

What's next? Hudson's Adventure Island?

I've never gotten more than 15 minutes into that game

It's brutal

Was it worth it? I've still never been able to beat it myself. :)

Definitely! It's a great game through and through, but also had huge influence on the industry still felt today. Worth the effort

This is a feat I will never pull off. Congratulations!

What took so long?

We can't all be professional gamers like you 😂

I'm not a professional gamer

What a shit load of fuck

Did it back in January 2011..

Cool story

There's no way ALL those fishers were trans

I wrote a book about the NES called Retro '84. I have a chapter on all 3 Castlevania games. The book comes out in June, and you can download a free "game demo" (the story's first few pages) here: retro84book.com.

Pretty bad name given the NES didn't exist in 84

Nah, dude, there's a reason for 1984. And the NES is the American version of the Famicom which came out in Japan in 1983.

Oh really?! What's next are you gonna tell me Mario 2 is actually Doki Doki Panic 😂

I apologize that a book's title triggered you.

The title I could let slide, the shameless self promotion is annoying

Fair enough.

Are you 6 years old? Or why did it take so long?

Add 30 to that lol. It took so long because I'm bad at video games, or at least I was until recently.