Castlevania The Arcade (2009) 4K/60FPS Full Game ENGLISH ALL SOUNDS WORKING! Konami LongPlay

Full playthrough of Castlevania the arcade game for your viewing enjoyment, rendered in 4k, audio and text in English with all sound effects working, no graphics glitches on the last level! This game looks pretty good in 4k, especially the last boss battle! If you enjoy arcade game playthrough videos in 4k, hit the sub button! I left the attract mode in because it's got the story intro in it... so watch the intro short story part before the gameplay.
I managed to fight the werewolf and the mask lady twice in this run through. Not sure if there's any other bosses I missed?
This was a pretty rare arcade game before this release, big thanks to everyone who was involved in preserving this one and tinkering to get it running. Video Game Esoterica, Argon etc. This game is awesome.... you need a fast cpu and gpu to run it well, if you have slower hardware you'll get more lag in the controls and it makes it way harder to play. The more responsive your mouse inputs are, the more accurate you can play.

[@IamNster]

Can we just take a sec to appreciate how... pleasant Dracula is in this game? He's usually so angry and brooding, but in this game, he's just like, "I'm glad you made it this far! Wanna fight, bro?"

[@gnarlycupcakes]

Based dracula takes a minute to apologize for his minions

[@ArcadeStriker]

The sorta iffy lipsyncing makes me thing that its a case of a poorly dubbed over English voice instead of the original Japanese dub which very likely was much more dramatic and fitting of Dracula. The craziest thing though is that this is a *2009* game, so a case like that at that point is ridiculosu to think about lol

[@awesomebrand6122]

I dont think there actually IS a Japanese dub for this game, the language settings only seem to change the text. It just is what it is.@@ArcadeStriker

[@IamNster]

​@ArcadeStriker tbh its not even that. It's really the delivery. I'm used to Dracula having an firmer, menacing, delivery. This delivery is just very... chill? It's kinda delivered in a cocky "this fight is beneath me", sort of way. It's kind of an interesting take on the character now that I think about it.

[@DrNoBrazil]

Terrible casting ...

[@Jamieberigan]

Judging from the gameplay this could have theoretically worked on the wii or even the ps3 and Xbox 360. Gotta say though the soundtrack is overall a banger

[@arcadestuff]

It would have been prime for the Wii, that console literally had the controller this game uses!

[@jrsomethingnumbers9704]

Damn I never thought this would actually be playable. I thought it'd be lost to time like the prototype of Resurrection, but Castlevania fans can find anything it seems lol

[@mikethecurious2489]

Man, Konami as a missed opportunity to put in the west.

[@kylepowell9841]

I know, right?

[@knightofarkronia9968]

I wonder if the franchise as a whole is more popular in the West than in the East?

[@doomslayer1984]

@@knightofarkronia9968 By east I take it you mean Japan. As the franchise is barely known outside of Japan in Asia.

[@jaimetheone9150]

This made me want a souls-like castlevania game.

[@enochvaughn]

I just want to say thanks. I honestly never thought I would get a chance to see this game🤘

[@glock16]

This is fucking unreal, I never thought I would see these visuals so clearly.

[@arcadestuff]

It does look really good at 4k!

[@Ratmus1]

I have played this in an arcade. good times.

[@knightofarkronia9968]

Thank you so much for uploading this!

[@jordanwhite352]

Holy shit! I randomly searched for this again and I'm so happy that now we have direct feed footage of this game. I thought this was something that would get lost in time so I'm so incredibly happy!

[@arcadestuff]

The game was dumped and you can play it yourself now! So it’s been “preserved”, so to speak.

[@Rassenomatjutut]

No one knows the identity of the Vampire Hunter, but I've assumed him to be Simon Belmont, because the events of Arcade Akumajou Dracula mirror the events of Simon-featured titles such as Cv1, Haunted Castle and SCv4 from which also many music tracks come from. He looks more like young Julius Belmont, though.

[@dommoore6180]

It'd be nice to have this confirmed, if only for the huge nerds like me who care to have details confirmed or expanded on.

[@user-jm6hh7op3w]

Excellent Gameplay, I've never seen this Castlevania arcade game before with its unique LED light-whip motion controller!!! I think Konami could have ported this over to the Wii or Wii U consoles?

[@ironrex6979]

I’m still pissed they never ported this on PlayStation Move nor Nintendo Switch. I bought a Wii for Judgment. I would of bought a Move for this.

[@jordanwhite352]

Or VR.

[@jeanwelsch8798]

Great Game thanks for releasing it 👍🏻

[@arcadestuff]

I didn't release it, i just made a video of it! All credits to other people who preserved this one!

[@ThePageofRage]

Yeah, give the bosses attacks that take off 80% of your health per hit, that's super fair. :P

[@Xetzki]

Someone needs to vr mod this or rebuild it for the Wii cause I never thought I see the day this be completely found

[@dommoore6180]

Was just thinking how this game got the theme and tone of Castlevania so right at a time when all the games being made completely missed that theme and tone for anime drama and fantasy instead. Then I watched the credits and saw that besides an "and IGA" credit Igarashi had nothing to do with this game. So that tracks...

[@SENTRYXX]

A CASTLEVANIA 3D collection: Arcade,PS2,N64 AND Wii

[@josepruslie3598]

I've just got this error [01:28:52] Cannot read memory at address 0x0072508C [01:28:52] Cannot read memory at address 0x00725090 after pressing P1 or P2 start button. Any clues how to fix it?

[@drewjbx228]

thanks for sharing, does 2 player work for you? The 2nd player controls Player 1

[@arcadestuff]

I didn't try player 2 sorry, but i've read that it can work. Check out Emuline, there's a thread on there about it, you might be able to get help there.

[@JasonMeeks79]

Is there a link to the latest build that works available? I seen a discord , but not much available as old files and no help setting up

[@seanwalker8279]

I didn’t know this existed😲😲😲

[@arcadestuff]

It hadn't been dumped until very recently, it was known that it existed, there was videos of the machines etc. It's a really cool game.

[@kamelidir2374]

Problem in game, black screen when iam Start level? No picture why?

[@phorchybug3286]

Kinda cool

[@playx2701]

😱OH 🤩wow 😍👍🏻💖

[@garystinten9339]

What controllers are people using to play with?

[@KamenProwler]

I'd imagine Wiimotes and PS Move controllers are prime candidates for this game.

[@rgm4646]

Given the size of this game, it was probably what...2 dollars to play? So im guessing about 8 to 10 bucks to beat it back in the day.

[@KebaRPG]

Probably a Dollar; per Credit... Though based on a previous showcase I saw lots of the Mini-Bosses and Bosses have Highly Technical Windows required for Parries and Counters in order to avoid Damage. Thus leading to many Game Overs.

[@Mody_emad601]

How did you fix the graphcal glitch at the final boss?

[@garystinten9339]

I hear there is a 4g patch for this game..

[@Mody_emad601]

@@garystinten9339 where do I get it and how to use it? It will be really nice of you if you know if you don't it's fine

[@garystinten9339]

@@Mody_emad601 I was told to google for it.. but I can take a peak

[@TheRetroMantic]

The game keeps crashing during stage 4.

[@thecrapato]

hi how did you get the sound to work? thanks

[@arcadestuff]

Check that kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJamfJqXg6ecpdU

[@RaWr0wKeY]

@@arcadestuff How did you? wont let me check the video

[@arcadestuff]

@@RaWr0wKeY Try it now.

[@KoruKinshi]

Sooooo how do i get this???

[@Bolmetheuz]

is teknoparrot can emulate this?

[@arcadestuff]

Jconfig can, for free.

[@skellybones5119]

This should be on wii

[@jemandjemand2362]

too bad they couldnt even animate a whipuse in this game. looks nice but not overwhelming, the music is lit

[@garystinten9339]

Well it was translated to English from Japanese.. so maybe it would be better to speak to a rom hacker who might implement that into a hacked rom.??

[@freakyfornash]

I just got this fine game on my home Arcade One system recently! It works mostly well, save for the fact that I often have trouble with getting the game's ending to load whenever I play it from start to finish. Either the end credits can't be seen, or it crashes on me. I CAN however get it to properly load if I play the game from the final part where you fight the two end bosses, but have to do so without the powerups which I previously earned beforehand though.

[@arcadestuff]

I had this issue, try the 4G mem patch, google 4GB patch, this might help, especially if you are runnig it at a higher resolution that default.

[@freakyfornash]

@@arcadestuff Cool, thanks! I'll look into that too!

[@garystinten9339]

​@@freakyfornashdid you end up patching the game and if so, how did it turn out?

[@freakyfornash]

@@garystinten9339 I tried, but couldn't get the game to load afterwards though.

[@garystinten9339]

@@freakyfornash you'll need to read through a forum or find a KZbin video