Castlevania on DOS - Level 1

[1Koakuma1]

You'd expect it to be better on DOS... o.o

[Bylga]

Best sound track ever! xD

[Wakkajakka]

I always hated how programmers would focus on sounds and music, instead of one or the other. It just turned the games into a cacophony of unrecognizable sound.

[cheetahman91]

The Adlib music sounds so much better than this garbage.

[Retrobensan]

@cheetahman91 or better yet sound blaster, and the General MIDI sound card.

[pollotierrez]

the giant bat looks like shit

[UrielDagda]

AHHHHH! MY EARS!!

[acidocinza]

I like how this version is too cool for a boss theme.

[johnmorisi8]

Oh god, this is the reason why i didn't play castlevania till this year... as a kid this was my first castlevania game. and i was like 0_o "people think this is good?". Now I realize what a mistake I made as a young 5 year old.

[OSDolphin]

This music is why Adlib was invented!

[estlib]

the graphics are okay but the sound... GEEEEEEEZ. do you REALLY NEED SFX? they block the somewhat-half-ass-decent music

[ThePatrickinator]

You may need Adlib because that gives 16-bit music. It would sound better. You must have used PC speakers. In other words, you used the wrong sound file. Adlib would improve the music for this game.

[Julienfun]

What a horrible night to play this version !

[Nightowljrm]

... headache...

[MarioJuniorBR]

2:23 - Simon jumps because he see a flea.

[MarioJuniorBR]

At least, the doors are in this port (and it moves correclty, unlike the NES version), unlike the amiga port.

[MarioJuniorBR]

PLO LOO LOO LOO (whip's sound), BREOBREOBREO (moneybag's sound). Lol. 

[nfistfu]

Depending on which version you have you can get the game to run with adlib sound. And the adlib sound is a MILLION times better.

[bassistguy]

Wow, this would have been better without any sound.

[moviemovies1]

You know, by starting the game by typing in ''CASTLE ADL'' instead of ''CASTLE'' gives you the FM Synthesis version!

[Gamersoma]

OH MY GOD oO

Microsoft Windows 1980? xD Putain musique horrible >_< c'est de la diarhée sonore cette version :O

[fungstupid]

The music was 4 bit ?

[MaverickHunter40245]

Worst butchering of Vampire Killer EVER!

[Tomsthumb]

DOS games was similar to U.S. Gold games in that they where complete shite.

They convert good games into a pile of unplayable nonsense.

Glad there's no more.

[RealSolidSalamander]

Unlimited Software? Yeah, unlimited CRAP! XD

[Kraftwerk67]

Here are the lyrics :

Bipbip bup bup ! Bup , blububu bu bulup ! Bipbip bup bup ! Bup , blububu bu bulup !

... Bup , bup ? Bubububup ! Bip bip bop bobop , Bip bip bop bobop ! ... Bup , bup ? Bubububup ! Bip bip bop bobop , Bip bip bop bobop ! Bup bup bibup bup bup,Bup bup bibup bup bup ! Bup bup bibup bup bup, Bup bup bibup bup bup bup bip bee beep ? BEEP bibibibuubip ! Bup bup bubiib , bu bu bubeep ?

BEEP bibibibuubip ! Bup bup bubiib , bu bu bubeep ? (Loop)

[seturon]

I literally started screaming at the horrid sounds I was hearing. Don't get me wrong, old PC DOS games are awesome, but this is just pain on my ears.

[DevilKnowing]

Bleep Bloop bleep bleep bloop!

[19Szabolcs91]

Wow, this was officially released? Seems like a bad homebrew stuff a beginner programmer slapped together in an afternoon.

[Borin81]

lousy sound older DOS games have? just because this one is badly programmed doesnt mean others are.

[nintendo1889x]

Wow. Just wow. Whoever programmed the music (or lack thereof) was either drunk, high, or maybe he had a rolling pin and had it roll over the keys that made the music.

[babayaga26]

haha, so funny to hear "vampire killer" on a pc-speaker!

[BeastOfSoda]

oh. my. GOD. what did they do to this game? and one wonders why the PC gets few ports.

[MattT1996]

This port really is crap! I say just stick to the NES version.

[AphasicBeing]

Dont you EVER disrespect a classic like this again!...this ROM is making me cry!

[Sarato]

@AphasicBeing

A rom? My good sir, this is the Microsoft DOS version and NOT a rom.

[MrSaturn33]

@Sarato I think he meant that the sound's off, but A: That's not the file's fault B: It's not the file ripper's fault and C: It's not your fault. You have to do some complicated thing with DOSBox, I personally have no idea how to fix it.

[Valis77]

ear rape

[NightbladeEagle]

I played this once - okay to be honest I tried to play cause the Controls screwed up - this Port just SUCKS. Wait you cant even call this a Port this isnt even the Full Game jst a few Levels of it.

[OKStudios]

the music is horrible haha

[TheRoomy]

In terms of a downgrade NES to DOS port, this is INFINITELY better than the Mega Man ones. This is actually playable. I'd still rather play it on the NES way, way more than this, but honestly this is going pretty well. You even walk up the stairs faster than the NES game.  That's actually an improvement. The game even seems easier at a few points.

[e11aguru]

Anyone complaining about the music must not remember PC speaker. This is what all PC speaker music sounded like...unless they used clever programming tricks to force the speaker to do digitized sound.

[sacrisesma]

@e11aguru There are other clever tricks they could have used, like not interrupting the music with the same annoying beeps every time an item is spawned or collected. That's what makes the game a torture to listen to.

[Munchmessiah]

The heart collecting noises...

BOO-BOO-BOO BEEEEEP

[OpenInsanity]

This literally sounds like puke.

[johnidis]

THE....MUSIC....MAKE IT....stoooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooop *dies*

[CFalcon095]

EPIC FAIL

[dosse91]

castlevania is great, but about this port, as AVGN said "if your ears could puke, they would"... probably the worst game music ever.

By the way, I don't think this is the worst port ever... gta 4 pc port is the absolute SHIT... horrible graphics, loads of bugs, long load times and models loaded like 2 seconds before you crash into them with the car

[DantePeeks]

actually no, my commect is on one hand kind of sarcastic and on the other hand my comment should have expressed that i am a stupid computer fanboy =D

[Sarato]

@DantePeeks

I see. Irony isn't really my cup of tea and it really is hard to know when people are ironic when there really exists people that upload comments like the one above and really mean it too.

[POKOHelba]

lmao. when he goes to the castle, it sounds more like"YAY THE CASTLE!" i wonder how the megaman DOS would sound with music=._.=

[powerofktulu]

if you can find the Adlib version than uve basically found the definitive Castlevania

[DJRGR1]

music FAIL lol

[surfingthechaos]

Fuck the PC internal speaker. Adlib FM synth 4 life!!!

[KurakiN64]

2 audio tracks... W.T.F

[maj212212]

lol the music itself isnt that bad it just contradicts with the sfx of the items to make a beeping mess

[RCDeschene]

......

*Hangs self*

[crazyiproshow]

it sounds like beeps...not vampire killer XD

[MiracleKD18]

the limitations of the old PC Speaker.

It had only 1 channel, so no music and sounds effects at the same time. Only one of them.

[TheCheezWizz]

well, you could create the illusion of having more than one channel of sound, but it would be a bad idea for old computers

[CrashManEXE]

I never knew there was a DOS version of this, and that music is really atrocious. Sounds like someone who is trying to guess the music on a Casio keyboard.

Also, this looks very much like an MSX game... and a very bad one just to add. Although, I personally think the DOS Megaman games are far worse.

[t33k00]

sounds like a retarded R2

[death1201]

arghhh my ears!!! =_=

[raycool]

adlib*

[raycool]

use the adilb option, pc speaker sucks

[kingarthur83rd]

FAIL!!!

[Hotshotter3000]

Did this have a sound blaster? If it did, then why the heck use the PC speaker? the PC speaker was never intended to really play music, hence the reason why all PC speaker 'music' was an ear sore.

[Hotshotter3000]

Yes this does have an adlib mode... why not use that? The music is infinitely superior with that option on.

[eunicron]

lol music

[DanielBMS]

What were they thinking? Who could have not realized how horrible the music is? This is epic fail - a PC game that manages to be worse than the NES version.

[TheGreenHillZone]

AAAAAAAAH MY EARS!!!!

[enmity666]

Alright, I've seen enough

[IfTheLightTakesUs]

That's music? Sounds more like screams from a mandragora

[tbcslayer]

i love the music , no really i think im going crazy i want to shot myself right now .

[Krellyan]

Oh my god! What an unholy abomination of an excellent game!

[AssimilateThis85]

What a piece of garbage. Was there even a point to putting in music? It sounds like you pick up noisy items so often there wasn't a need for music. One neat thing was watching Simon fly up the damn stairs. Even I can't run that fast up a flight of stairs.

[Valientlink]

Bleep bleep bop boop bleep AH THE INSANITY

[xjod9]

my ears hurt from that awful music.

ill just stick with castlevania on GBA or NES.

[dragonquest142]

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[watsahappawitchu]

At first, I was just stared at the screen in disgust, but then, I laughed off the pain.

[Verombo]

i like ost of this game<he is so dam good

[pascalbg]

Aw, it hurts my hears :-(

[MrMike0113]

Looks...ahem...awes...no, sorry, i can't even joke about it.

[topkid1988]

nes version is UBER AWESOME

besides this one messes up the song PERFECTLY

it really would win a suky game contest besides E.T. on the atari 2600

[mash587]

Truly, truly horrifying. Reminds me of a really crappy port of Super Mario Brother I once saw.

But still, does this game have unlimited continues like the NES version? If so, then it's automatically better than the MSX or arcade ports. Those things make even the 3D Castlevanias look good.

[Sarato]

Yes, this game has unlimited Continues if i remember right...yeah, it has unlimited continues. But that doesn't hinder this game to suck though. ='(

[Monkerr]

MY EARS!!!

[TheUniqueMaster]

Sonic the hedgehog genesis is a worse 'port' than this one. Even if its more a conversion than a port.

[Yamamanama]

This music deserves a cult following in 30 years.

[TheUniqueMaster]

Aaargh castlevania on drugs is bad for your health *ears explode*.

[showka]

There's no point in playing this port of the game, but let's be fair. Commander Keen was a technological break-through in it's time, and if you want a bad port, look at the PC Ghouls N' Ghosts. This port really wasn't that bad if you consider it in context, and doing BGM with the PC Speaker was damn near impossible so it's commendable they tried as that was one of the best parts of Castlevania.

[Lex5151]

Ahh, the good ol pc-speaker! Konami should have hired some of the demoscene guys to make tunes sound better.

[apakejadah]

They should had hired David Whittaker to do the tunes.

[TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Proof that better hardware does not = better game.

[Jon1522]

im sorry if im not some faggot nerd like you that knows everything about videogames

[Jon1522]

How do you use this DOS thing? I'm having a hard time messing with emulator stuff. Can you post a vid of how to install DOS and play those old games with it?

[Sarato]

It is best played on a DOS emulator. I myself use DosBox and would love to upload more from this game, but the recorder i use doesn't support Windows Vista yet and that's why level 3 isn't uploaded yet.

[johneymute]

the colors looks much better then the nes version but there,re to manny changes in the steel great graphics.

the sounds however is a mess this game uses only 2 channels,so once you grab 1 item etc wich does have a note,the system has to switch the another note and temperatury stops the music and play the note of that item and once done then play on the music from the point were it stops.

[PrinceSteve32281]

EVERYTHING is better on the NES version. LOL!

[Firebrand101]

Holy crap my ears!!

and jebus, the Vampire Killer's reach is insanely long

[faceheadman]

my ears are bleeding!!!aahhh1!!!!

[volzjc01]

the sound makes my ears bleed! seriously!

[SwordfighterRed]

Well, on first viewing, I thought it was pretty bad, but it seems to play both well and faithfully to the original. The sound is the only problem (though Vampire Killer is recreated very well).

[CauchCauch]

Oh my giddy aunt. That sound >_<

[camouflage81]

Hey listen up everybody! There's also adlib sound in this game. At least in the version I have. It's not much better, but you can stand it.

[fanOTHL]

oh good the music is HORRIBLE!!!

[ninjaskater11223]

NOO SIMON IS RUINED NO THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN...fight on Simon.. fight this crappy DOS game.

[ultimategamer1457]

Whoever made this classic into a shitty, fucking port for the PC is nothing more than a real idiot who so stupid, he can't pass Preschool!

[califasio]

mute pleaseeeee

[Iguanaray]

What the FUCK did they do to one of my favorite intro levels ever?

[FallGuy82]

For the love of God, put it on mute.

[gutchman84]

i actually think it's funny how the sound effects interrupt the music on that DOS version of Castlevania

[BECKERvaiMALMSTEEN66]

lol good god that was bad,

[Supadupanerd]

Actually the graphics for it's time were not too bad. Allthough the NES seems to run it in higher res with perhaps more detail. Other then that? Yeah the PC-speaker sound effects were horrid. Would have been better if they dind't try to emulate the music on it.

[MirrorKnight]

My ears hurt now...

[BeholdMyStrength]

Whoever created this game.......they need to get raped by a 2 month old beagle!!! just the way they raped this game!!!

[grimreaperhenrik]

OMFG! The game can only use one soundchannel at a time and therefor sounds horrible, I nearly didn't recognize the music...BAAAAAAAAD GAAAME!

[Sarato]

If you don't recognize the music in this level, then you should see level 3. That one is horrible. Coming soon =)

[camouflage81]

why not use the adlib sound instead? you can choose between adlib and pc speaker in this game =)

[dolores49]

Where can i change it to adlib?

[camouflage81]

I can in the absolute start of the game. "choose sound" it says, or something like that. Then you can choose between pc speaker and adlib card. It's like that in my version of the game anyway.

[protoklown]

That was an assault on the senses. My god...

[CidSilverWing]

You're so right, that port was terrible...

[nighthawk41]

GOD! MY EYES AND EARS HAVE BEEN RAPED!

Literally, it was just unbearable watching the video! I feel sorry for you. I can only imagine what you've been through. If you ever decide to beat your kids because you played this game, while I do feel sympathy for your kids, I don't blame you.

[acidglow]

cool

[Nicpezer]

I think the reason why the music is so bad is b/c back in the apple 2 early pc days. The music came from the internal speakers and I dont think those were capable of playing 2 sounds at once.

[Homie0static]

What a fucking abortion that is. Never show that shit again. What a sackrelish.

[Rocky183]

Sound effects and music sucks, goddamit, they have to stop the music and throw in a lame sound effect on top of it every time you whip a torch.

[df0notfound]

Ugh I forget PCs still don't have built in real sound , rubbish

[halidefox]

Go the PC Speaker.

[darthbane1982]

damn, the music is terrible.  sounds like old Atari.

[Sarato]

You should hear level 3 then. I will upload it in a not too far future if this gets enough good critic ^^

[Khalhys]

Oh, god no! I'd rather see a 4Kids version of Resident Evil 4 (which takes away all the fun) than seeing him on this poor excuse of a great game series (excluding "Simon's Quest). Seriously: although I think I could see the level 3 thing you mentioned for the heck of it; I've had worse; just a mind wound.

[hommeboy85]

yeah, listening to that made my ears cry.