Castlevania AGA Updated! An Amiga Remake of OG Castlevania!

[@beingsupersonic7499]

I’m not an Amiga person (although I did enjoy playing Lemmings with a mouse at my friends in high school) but what a fantastic effort and result this is.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’m not really an Amiga person either. Just because I didn’t grow up with it. But there’s a lot to love and discover

[@beingsupersonic7499]

@@VideoGameEsoterica Defo. Especially with these sort of fan games

[@studiokadaver]

Awesome! 👏The world needs more Castlevania!! I’ll have to try this on my A1200 & MiSTer.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Enjoy it :)

[@chryoko]

Impressive port ! ❤

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s def shaping up!

[@dantemendes8041]

Thanks for the amazing video! It's worth saying that the Castlevania we got in 1990 for Amiga was so underwhelming (inferior to 8-bit original) that it created a false impression of the Amiga capabilities for many newcomers, so, something must be done for justice to our beloved system. Resulting in this re-imagined port which aims to be a proper 16-bit game. Amiga was great as a hardware but also complex due to 16-bit: many studios providing the games were mostly in the 8-bit mindset, which resulted in many underwhelming titles that didn't fully used the system's capabilities and many titles were "rushed for Xmas". Also the studios' funding were just a tiny fraction of what the classic console studios in Japan got. I took notes and I'll discuss it with other developers using the same tool (kinda worried about that crash, something I never saw happening and I don't have a MiSTer FPGA to try to reproduce). Thanks again and have a great weekend!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Yeah it was just a super lazy port. If you need more help bug hunting lmk. Who knows on the crash 🤷🏻‍♂️ strange things happen sometimes. Ghost in the machine

[@nocturnalag7695]

Wicked child doesn’t sound too different from the x68000 version at all and sounds pretty good here. The game as a whole looks pretty good too and appears to play fairly smoothly. Looking forward to trying it someday.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def worth playing at some point :)

[@PM-xc8oo]

Nice. Always good to have more Castlevania though I have to imagine that the change to knockback makes it considerably easier. Still very cool. I also thought it was a Castlevania Chronicles remake until you got to the second level.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

The knock back lessening def eases up the knockback deaths

[@ichrius]

This looks great. Thanks for sharing.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Happy to do it

[@MarginalSC]

The Killing Gameshow is probably one of the best looking Amiga games.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haven’t heard of that. Will have to look it up

[@psquaredish]

IMO the best looking Amiga games are Agony, Lionheart, Elfmania, Super Stardust, Banshee, Reshoot R, Reshoot Proxima 3, Ruff N Tumble, Kid Chaos, Mr Nutz, Premiere, Starush, Disposable Hero, Ultra Violent Worlds etc. I genuinely think the Amiga has the best game library of any retro system.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’ll have to check some of them out

[@kramerdesign9443]

Some slightly more off the beaten path Amiga games: Rodland D/Generation Buggy Boy Deuteros Hunter Virocop Wiz n Liz

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’ll check them out!

[@MasterRBertLink]

I wanna see an Amiga port of CastleVania II: Simon's Quest!!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’d play that

[@kramerdesign9443]

Could do a sprite swap for the Amiga and do Castlevania II: Simon the Sorcerer

[@SingleMomInYourArea]

​@@kramerdesign9443yes please 🙏

[@METR0lD]

The new Simon sprite is so much better! It was just a recolored Richter before in previous builds.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

When are they going to give us the best protagonist in all of Castlevania…Maria! I don’t care if it’s not canon

[@Zaxth]

Stuff to play on Amiga? Cannon Fodder, Battle Squadron, Dune (For the soundtrack better than Adlib imho!), Skidmarks, Moonstone, Super Frog, Lionheart. Turrican 1 through 3. There's more, but that's off the top of my head.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Dune is a classic. Movie, book and game

[@Zaxth]

@@VideoGameEsoterica Couldn't agree more!, the amiga game was the first time I ever heard about it, I was 9 or 10 at the time. It was almost a religious experience for my young mind.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Dune sticks with you no matter how you first encounter it

[@simon41978]

It looks genuinely awesome. Does it work in direct video mode?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

That I haven’t tried yet

[@rosstee]

My top Amiga game recommendations: Apidya Turrican 2 Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe Lemmings The Chaos Engine Battle Squadron Lionheart

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Some of those I’ve played. Turrican / Lemminfs /Chaos Engine. The rest I’ll check out

[@rosstee]

Cool, like to hear your thoughts. The first three in the list are my top 3 on the machine.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Amiga is my one blind spot in retro. Just something I’ve never gotten into

[@rosstee]

@@VideoGameEsotericaI grew up with it, was very popular in the UK and Europe. So many games with great music and nice graphics. Some solid arcade ports like R-Type 1&2, Rainbow Islands, Rodland, New Zealand Story etc. Psygnosis and Bitmap Brothers games were beautiful though some were style over gameplay. Huge variety though, and I’m sure the Amiga had more games than the 16bit consoles combined.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def a UK special vs a N American thing

[@GzegzolkaDA]

Interesting project, I am sure that music could be much better, now it sounds too simple. I hope those small issues You have mentioned can be fixed in future versions.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’m sure a lot of the issues will be ironed out since this is still WIP

[@sunderark]

Going to be honest the levels in the music seems a bit off. I wonder if the MisTer settings are correct.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Hard to say when it comes to Amiga as I do not have a firm grasp on what Amiga should do as I’ve never had one

[@crnppscls]

I love that the Amiga still has and active dev community but is this worth playing over chronicles on the ps1 or x68k ?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def worth playing if for the Amiga soundtrack alone

[@Jamesatighe]

Looks pretty amazing but if I could pick one issue it would be the knock back. For it to be a true Castlevania it needs to proper knock back. Simon’s just getting pushed back really fast. Not the arching from the original. Looks soooooo good though. Amazing work from the dev!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Maybe it could be an option in figure builds

[@Jamesatighe]

@@VideoGameEsoterica yeah I think it could be an option. As many people might like the new style knockback.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

@Jamesatighe the more options the better

[@rayg8792]

wow looks gr8

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s def fun and good looking

[@brinkofdeath]

Benefactor is a great game for the amiga that is rarely mentioned. Also if you like pinball you should check out slam tilt, it's amazing.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’ll have to check it out

[@TheMikeyb86]

I'm fairly new to MiSTer and Amiga. I have Amiga AGS, how do I add this game to my MiSTer and play?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s been added to the Amiga vision pack so you can grab that

[@TheMikeyb86]

@@VideoGameEsoterica Thank you kindly, good sir.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

👍

[@jd213_]

I couldn't figure out how to load the .lha file in MiSTer when I downloaded a previous version of this game, I guess I should've tried the .hdf one...

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def an easier version to use

[@brinkofdeath]

lha is an archiving format that is pretty common on the amiga, like zip on windows.

[@rednight2476]

This is a rewrite of the original Amiga port of Castlevania which was a lazy Atari port and not very good, and a diservice to both the platform and the source material. Here's some pretty good Amiga games Agony SWIV Apidya Hybris Cannon Fodder Banshee Worms Stardust Chaos Engine Lemmings

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Good old Worms. Spent dozens of hours on it in my life

[@rednight2476]

@@VideoGameEsoterica It started as an Amiga program and was an exclusive for years.

[@seethruhead7119]

Does it work on Analogue Pocket?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haven’t tried yet but I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t

[@amiga_vision]

Yes. This exact build is included in the latest version, released on 06.06.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Thanks for answering 👍

[@TexasHollowEarth]

K240 and anything from Cinemaware 😎👌

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Always good stuff

[@novelezra]

Know what pisses me off? A lot of development teams struggle to capture the mood and atmosphere of certain games. But one series that is consistently represented with exactly the mood and art style its known for is Castlevania. And yet Konami are doing nothing with it. Give a budget to people like this guy and we could have a Castlevania Rebirth 2 on Switch and it would be incredible. Like, this is on an Amiga and the sprite work is basically all I want from a CV game! Come on Konami, you're killing me here 😭

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Konami has all but given up at this point in time

[@MarginalSC]

Konami only approves projects from the lowest bidders

[@ViegasSilva]

Christopher 🐝

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

😂

[@Ragesauce]

FIRST!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

First to the vampire party