Rondo of Blood Thread

[Bonknuts]

, I plan to use this for my play-through.

lol, are you serious? you need video help for the play-through of dracula x?

:edith:

sory, was already discussed  :oops:

I always like 100% completion but on second thought I'll play through a couple of times on my own.

yeah who wouldn't 100% complete drac x anyway? only a retard wouldn't. oh wait...

 Lol - that response/post/pic actually made me laugh. I cringed when I saw Tats make that comment. But you took it in good sport. I give prop's for that.

[Nando]

there needs to be a sprite art only thread!!!

I have a selection over at my site (most ripped by Awack). http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Sprite_Sheets/Sprite_Sheets_Index.htm

I need to do some more.

NICE!

[Dyna138]

Yeah definitely one of my favorite pc engine games and one of the best Castlevania games ever made. Back when this game first came out I had no idea of its existence being too young and clueless about importing, never mind not owning a turbo CD or duo to play it on anyway.

When I got back into collecting for the TG16 I bought a Duo from TZD and one of the first games I picked up was Rondo.

The ship level is also my favorite stage in the game. The fight against Death on top of the ship is epic.

[johnnykonami]

The first time I played this, my friend showed it to me.  It was a weird situation, we were in high school and hanging out afterwards in a local derelict mall.  On the upper landing they had food court tables and electric outlets, so he had his duo with him, which he hooked up and ran the inputs to a Turbo Express via the TV tuner.  Weird!  But the game was awesome so I promptly imported at 1993 import prices ($90/$100 if I remember right).  Glad I bought it when it was new, I think it would be hard to get nowadays.  But in it's place are a boatload of other cool games I didn't buy that are equally hard to get now.

[Tatsujin]

Glad I bought it when it was new, I think it would be hard to get nowadays. 

todays drac x price minus inflation = about half what you've paid back in 1993.

[johnnykonami]

That was just the cost of importing games back then.  I don't have any regrets about spending that much on a game as good as Dracula X, though I wouldn't pay that much nowadays.  Got it brand new, too, something you'd be hard pressed to find now.  I traded for a lot of my other games on newsgroups (rec.arts.video.game.trading or something like that, anyone else remember that?) and on the turbo mailing list, so the rare expensive import was just an occasional thing.  Got plenty of good deals on other games since then too so I'm sure it all works out in the end.  I am much older and wiser now and I can't even imagine spending $100 bucks on a single game!

That also reminds of when US Saturn games were stupid expensive too, I remember paying like $70+ for Legend of Oasis.  Now I won't spring for anything over $5 on Steam.

[Tatsujin]

That was just the cost of importing games back then.  I don't have any regrets about spending that much on a game as good as Dracula X..

can't say anything against that. In fact I would even pay $2000+ for that game, if it's the only way to be played on original hardware. back then as well today.

just wanted to point out that it is neither hard to get nor expensive today

and seeing all the peeps bitching around how expenive it is, when in fact it absolutely isn't, but easily spending $100+ on every nextgen crap that comes not even near a drac x in 1000 years. for a game of that calibre it's like a steal.

[johnnykonami]

That was just the cost of importing games back then.  I don't have any regrets about spending that much on a game as good as Dracula X..

can't say anything against that. In fact I would even pay $2000+ for that game, if it's the only way to be played on original hardware. back then as well today.

just wanted to point out that it is neither hard to get nor expensive today

and seeing all the peeps bitching around how expenive it is, when in fact it absolutely isn't, but easily spending $100+ on every nextgen crap that comes not even near a drac x in 1000 years. for a game of that calibre it's like a steal.

Oh I was just guessing.  Having owned it for 20 years now I never had a reason to check prices on it.  It's just a good game, and I don't consider it particularly rare either.  Still, looks like people are asking ~$90 or so on ebay still, not that it's the cheapest or most trustworthy source out there.

[Tatsujin]

yeah, but 90 to 120 is about what it's going these days, depending on the condition and completeness, which is more than fair imo.

it's not a rare game by any means, there where made plenty of 'em (in fact it was konami's most expensive video game production at that time). it's just a such good and quality loaded game that not many peeps are willing to part with it, which causes an artificial shortness.

[bob]

i admittedly just paid $98 for a pretty excellent condition one.
well worth it.  its just that good.

[toymachine78]

I paid 102 for mine back in Oct, which I thought was a great price compared to what others were going for in similar condition.

[geise]

Sounds about fair toymachine.  I got mine as an xmas gift in 93 from my family, but they got it from Die Hard Gamers Club for around $69.99 I believe.

[GohanX]

i admittedly just paid $98 for a pretty excellent condition one.
well worth it.  its just that good.

I agree! Hopefully I'll find a copy soon...

Although I did make a heck of a nice bootleg using the English translation complete with case, tray insert and all that jazz. I can't get the lightscribe on this computer to work so I had to use a plain paper label. Thanks to Fragmare for making those in English!

[Bonknuts]

Sounds about fair toymachine.  I got mine as an xmas gift in 93 from my family, but they got it from Die Hard Gamers Club for around $69.99 I believe.

 I ordered mine from Die Hard, IIRC. Die Hard and Japangames (though they were in Canada) were the two places my friends and I ordered from. I remember it being ~$80 shipped. That included shipping and the "COD" charge. That was in 1993, IIRC.

[Black Tiger]

Sounds about fair toymachine.  I got mine as an xmas gift in 93 from my family, but they got it from Die Hard Gamers Club for around $69.99 I believe.

 I ordered mine from Die Hard, IIRC. Die Hard and Japangames (though they were in Canada) were the two places my friends and I ordered from. I remember it being ~$80 shipped. That included shipping and the "COD" charge. That was in 1993, IIRC.

I believe that it was called Japan Video Games who advertised in EGM and were located in a mall in the Toronto area. I bought most of my PCE imports from them, including Drac X for $150 shipped (maybe $100 U.S. at the time). I actually asked them for help getting through at least a couple PCE games, completely independant of placing an order. I was surprised how friendly and helpful they were and appreciated that they actually played through games like Kabukiden. They were the complete opposite of TZD. They only potentially negative experience (not sure if it was them or the other place I ordered from), was when I ordered Snatcher and Last Armageddon and they called back to say they were sold out of LA, but they could send another RPG instead. It was Cyber City OEDO 88. :/