Is the original Castlevania here or on the NES, the same as put into the Play Choice 10 cabinets?

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Is the original Castlevania here or on the NES, the same as put into the Play Choice 10 cabinets? Or even the stand alone Castlevania cabinet? I saw one in an arcade. Not sure if it was an official cabinet or not. It was not a Play Choice 10 for sure.

[Spooniest]

Playchoice 10 had a front-end (that's a program that is for loading other programs) that also had a timer built-in (separate from the game timer...when it ran out you had to put in another quarter to continue). Its palleting was also different, so no it's a different version. I don't think it is otherwise appreciably different than the NES version.

VS. Castlevania was the Arcade Version you were talking about, and no, it's not in this collection either. It has less time given for each stage by default, and there is a different title screen, coin-op mechanics, and a slightly different alternate pallette as well.

The one in this collection is one of the straight up NES versions, and the Japanese Version is the Famicom* Version of Akumajo Dracula, which has a difficulty selection (Normal is what the USA got; Easy has no knock-back and reduced damage).

*Regular Famicom, not the Famicom Disk System Version.

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Originally posted by Spooniest:

Playchoice 10 had a front-end (that's a program that is for loading other programs) that also had a timer built-in (separate from the game timer...when it ran out you had to put in another quarter to continue). Its palleting was also different, so no it's a different version. I don't think it is otherwise appreciably different than the NES version.

VS. Castlevania was the Arcade Version you were talking about, and no, it's not in this collection either. It has less time given for each stage by default, and there is a different title screen, coin-op mechanics, and a slightly different alternate pallette as well.

The one in this collection is one of the straight up NES versions, and the Japanese Version is the Famicom* Version of Akumajo Dracula, which has a difficulty selection (Normal is what the USA got; Easy has no knock-back and reduced damage).

*Regular Famicom, not the Famicom Disk System Version.

Thank you for your in depth reply. Yes I think I do recall it having the VS on the cabinet. But besides those minor changes, was everything else the same? Like monsters and their placements. Same difficulty and scale, etc.? I was also wondering why I was breezing through Castlevania 1, when normally I would be fighting the timer. I guess I know why now. ^^!