Now You Can Play The Cancelled Dreamcast Castlevania Prototype
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Earlier this month, it appeared as if
Castlevania Resurrection, a cancelled Sega Dreamcast project from the early 2000s, had somehow escaped the dark confines of a Konami warehouse somewhere. Now, everyone has a chance to play that prototype thanks to gaming preservationists having archived that early build.
This has all been made possible by the folks over at
Sega Dreamcast Info, a French website dedicated to chronicling the history of the much beloved video game console. The site first brought the
Castlevania Resurrection prototype to light weeks ago, and has now made the ROM and associated files available via Archive.org.
Canceled Castlevania Dreamcast Exclusive Gets Released Online
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Countless video game titles just don’t make the cut. For whatever reason, something causes the game to get killed off and it’s a bit of a bummer for fans that were holding out to play the game. Some titles never even get a glimpse into the public eye either, but there are quite a few organizations and individuals looking to preserve video games. We’ve seen a ton of games get released online for the public that was once scrapped or early builds of the project before their launch into the marketplace.
Footage Of Canceled Castlevania Game Shows Up On YouTube
Footage Of Canceled Castlevania Game Shows Up On YouTube
In a new video, an anonymous collector shows off what appears to be a demo of a canceled Dreamcast Castlevania game.
Video footage of a canceled Castlevania game has emerged in the wild for the first time. An anonymous collector posted a YouTube video that exhibits what appears to be a pre-E3 demo for Castlevania Resurrection, a Dreamcast entry in the series that never actually came out.
The footage shows a handful of different areas that the player accesses from a debug menu, all of which are very much in the decrepit castle milieu that the series is known for. It s difficult to tell exactly how the demo plays because the player is controlling it with one hand, presumably holding the camera with their other. However, it very much resembles the early 3D games in the series, particularly Castlevania (N64).
Castelvania: Resurrection did get a closed-door demo showing at E3 in 1999, and the new video shows a pre-release build that contains 5 levels, each of which are accessed separately via a developer’s menu. While it’s left to our imagination at least so far to picture how Victor might’ve looked in the canceled game, Victor has the distinction of being among the last
Castlevania characters that Konami introduced, before scaling back its console gaming plans in the wake of hits like
Metal Gear Solid 4 and
Lords of Shadow 2 during the PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 era.
With a long lineage dating all the way to the original NES, the