What a Horrible Night to have a Curse - Castlevania Homebrew

I'm finally revealing my homebrew project. I started this back in December 2017.

This is based mostly on the 2nd Castlevania game, Simon's Quest. This was a favorite game of mine growing up. The idea is to collect Dracula's body parts in the 5 mansions to resurrect him for a final battle to end a curse on the land.

This will be available to play at the Pinball Life Open House Thursday and Friday. I will then bring it over the Expo on Saturday. It is using P3 hardware and running skeleton game framework. Thank you for looking.

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#2 4 years ago

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As someone who loves the Castlevania series EXCEPT Simon’s Quest - this is a version of Simon’s Quest I WOULD want to play! Congrats!

#3 4 years ago

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Nice work. I'll have to check it out Thursday!

#4 4 years ago

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Badass.

#5 4 years ago

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Does it use the NES chip tunes?

#6 4 years ago

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Quoted from benheck:
Does it use the NES chip tunes?

I am using music from CV2 and most sound effects too. I did borrow some sounds from CV1 and CV3.

#7 4 years ago

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Very cool thanks for sharing.

#8 4 years ago

wildertronix

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This is awesome, Im a huge fan of the franchise. Keep up the solid work!

#9 4 years ago

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Following!!!
Simons Quest was definitely a different take after the first one but I enjoyed it immensely!

#10 4 years ago

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I love castlevania and this looks like fun

Great job

Now I can think of the pinball and the avgn episode when I think of Simons quest

#11 4 years ago

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Castlevania 2 was my favorite of the series. The game looks great so far, and the music alone would be incredible in a pinball machine.

Can't wait to see some videos of it in action!

#12 4 years ago

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Great choice of theme! Looks fun.

#13 4 years ago

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Great job indeed!

#14 4 years ago

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Loaded up for PBL tomorrow.

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#15 4 years ago

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Great job! Hopefully a video soon.

#16 4 years ago

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Really cool. What a great game to use for a theme. I've had my own similar ideas for a Contra homebrew with a co-op feature.

Have fun and good luck running it at PBL.

#17 4 years ago

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Looks great!

Can't wait to check it out at Expo.

Are those ramps from Ironman?

#18 4 years ago

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Quoted from mwiz:
Looks great!
Can't wait to check it out at Expo.
Are those ramps from Ironman?

Left ramp is Iron Man. Right is Star Trek. I wanted ramps with different depths.

#19 4 years ago

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Cant wait to check this out on Thursday! What an awesome theme to choose. Castlevania will go down as one of my all-time favorite franchises. This looks fantastic!

#20 4 years ago

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Awesome I've always wanted to see (hear) a pin with a chip tunes soundtrack.

#21 4 years ago

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Looks awesome! Can’t wait to play it !

#22 4 years ago

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Silent assassin, you’ve been quietly killing shit for quite sometime.

#23 4 years ago

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Looks fantastic!
Remember us when you’re famous

#24 4 years ago

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Great looking pin, and great BDM song too.

#25 4 years ago

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One of my dream themes.
Nice work, gotta see play footage.

#26 4 years ago

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Amazing!!!

#27 4 years ago

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Looks very nice, and glad to see it will be there Saturday for me to check out!

I like how your playfield volume is exactly as deep as your layout needs. Lots of cabinets are designed super deep in the back, without actually using all that space.

#28 4 years ago

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Huge fan of the series. Castlevania:SOTN is still my favorite video game ever made. Excellent theme choice. Maybe we will see someone tackle Mega Man next.

#29 4 years ago

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I dig your taste in theme selection. I'm surprised they haven't come out with a Movie about it yet.

#30 4 years ago

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Quoted from V4Vendetta:
I dig your taste in theme selection. I'm surprised they haven't come out with a Movie about it yet.

There is a fantastic anime series on Netflix.

#31 4 years ago

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This thread inspired me to go download the DejaWolf CV1 remake I had heard about long, LONG ago.

Dug the anime series, but it did not feel like "Castlevania" to me. WTF is up with all the cursing?

#32 4 years ago

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looks awesome, thanks for sharing

#33 4 years ago

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Very cool HB project! Following...

#34 4 years ago

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So clean

#35 4 years ago

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CV sitting next to a great game.

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#36 4 years ago

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I have to just say this looks amazing and the layout looks like tons of fun...congrats on the awesome work!

#37 4 years ago

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fuck yes!

Love it. Any video of it in action?

#38 4 years ago

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I'm sure someone will get video of it by the end of this weekend.
If not I'll try to make it happen.

#39 4 years ago

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OP
Quoted from Jeewiz13:
CV sitting next to a great game.[quoted image]

Awesome! I am going to be hanging out there most of the day .

#40 4 years ago

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Quoted from Rdoyle1978:
This thread inspired me to go download the DejaWolf CV1 remake I had heard about long, LONG ago.
Dug the anime series, but it did not feel like "Castlevania" to me. WTF is up with all the cursing?

It's a show about vampires and curses and shit...so, why not? It's for adults, not kids. It's a great show. The only thing that didn't feel Castlevania to me was the music...but then in season 2 they busted out some classic Castlevania score during a big action scene...I was so happy!

#41 4 years ago

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Very cool man,love the theme

#42 4 years ago

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This game plays great. I love the theme. Hopefully someone will buy the white wood an d makes the game

#43 4 years ago

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What a nice job. The ramps are a perfect fit but I couldn't tell which games they came from since the rest of the layout does so much else to give it a unique touch.

#44 4 years ago

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Is there a video somewhere?

#45 4 years ago

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Awesome! I almost went with this as a theme when i did my Flash Gordon > Ghostbusters re-theme many years ago. This looks even cooler. Love the CV franchise, especially 3 and SOTN. Fans should check out the recent Bloodstained games which are spiritual successors to those old 'vanias.

#46 4 years ago

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Very cool! 'Hope you bring it to SFGE, I'd love to play it!

#47 4 years ago

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Quoted from Rarehero:
It's a show about vampires and curses and shit...so, why not? It's for adults, not kids. It's a great show. The only thing that didn't feel Castlevania to me was the music...but then in season 2 they busted out some classic Castlevania score during a big action scene...I was so happy!

Yeah, I mean it's not a big deal - but I wanted to share that show with my kid since we're such huge fans of the CV games, and I was like "ooook.... maybe in a couple years" . Anyway I thought the 2nd season was great, VERY important to hear the actual game score in there!

#48 4 years ago

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Quoted from Rdoyle1978:
Yeah, I mean it's not a big deal - but I wanted to share that show with my kid since we're such huge fans of the CV games, and I was like "ooook.... maybe in a couple years" . Anyway I thought the 2nd season was great, VERY important to hear the actual game score in there!

It's kind of the reverse of the 80's. Remember when all the R or not-totally-for-kids movies got turned into cartoons? Rambo, Robocop, Little Shop of Horrors, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Teen Wolf, Toxic Avenger, Police Academy....

#49 4 years ago

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Quoted from Rarehero:
It's kind of the reverse of the 80's. Remember when all the R or not-totally-for-kids movies got turned into cartoons? Rambo, Robocop, Little Shop of Horrors, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Teen Wolf, Toxic Avenger, Police Academy....

Haha that is 100% right on

#50 4 years ago

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