Unused Sprites | Unused Music

 

Unused Sprites

Someone found these sprites in the Castlevania game pak; they were sent in by Morgoth. They were unused for reasons unknown and left in the pak, uncolored. These items appear to be borrowed partly from Vampire Killer, from which this game was based: (1) You have the different cross, which I've yet to find use for. (2) You have shoes of some kind, which I guess would make you jump higher or move faster. (3) And you have a bible, which had two uses: To decrease or increase the value of hearts. I don't know why they'd use it here unless they planned for Castlevania to have merchants.

The other items have no discernible origin. You have a Metroid-looking thing, which could be a slime or, as a reader has suggested, a basket with two cats. There's a cup, which could have been an energy-replenishment item. And there's an envelope; all I could guess is that this would contain an area map of some kind. Or maybe Dracula needs a pen pal? Who knows? Since there are six items and the game contains six stages, it's not hard to imagine that each stage would contain one hidden item--similar to how the mystic weapons were hidden for Sonia to find in Legends. Maybe, if he were lucky enough to find them, they would offer him special abilities like those afforded to Samus Aran for collecting high-jump boots and the screw attack.

 

Unused Music

The original Akumajou Dracula, for the Famicom Disk System, is different from the later NES version in that it has a name-entry screen and a save function. The music that accompanies the name-entry screen is titled Underground, which is absent from the NES' own Castlevania for obvious reasons. However, the music track is present somewhere on the Castlevania game pak; though, it can only be enjoyed using a specially made audio program (like Meridian or Audio Overlord) and an NSF file (track 54) as ripped directly from a game ROM. That the file is present suggests that Konami might have been considering using a cartridge with battery-backed memory but dropped this function for financial reasons. (This information is credited to http://tcrf.net and was sent in by Christopher M.)

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