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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest | |
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Developer(s) | Konami |
Publisher(s) | Konami |
Series | Castlevania |
Platform(s) | Virtual Console, NES |
Release date(s) | NES NA December 1, 1988 EU April 27, 1990 AUS 1990 Virtual Console EU/AUS October 19, 2007 NA October 29, 2007 JP October 28, 2008 |
Genre(s) | Platform |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Input methods | Wii Remote, GameCube Controller, Classic Controller |
Compatibility | 5![]() ![]() Perfect |
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See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is an action-adventure platform game produced by Konami. It was originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America in 1988. It is the second Castlevania title released for the NES, following the original Castlevania. Set sometime after the events of the first installment, the player once again assumes the role of vampire hunter Simon Belmont, who is on a journey to undo a curse placed on him by Dracula at the end of their previous encounter. With Dracula's body split into five parts after his defeat, Simon must find and bring them to the ruins of his castle to seal and defeat him.
Problems that may occur with any NES title on Dolphin are listed below.
DirectX with NES Games
Most NES games suffer strange graphical issues when using the DirectX backend with some graphics drivers; notably NVIDIA. This is a driver bug.
As of 5.0-4869, the D3D driver bugs can be worked around by setting Ubershaders to Exclusive/Synchronous (Ubershaders). It's unknown what exactly is going on with the driver that's causing Exclusive Ubershaders/Synchronous (Ubershaders) to work properly.
This seems to have been rectified at some point, though it's unclear what resolved it.
Problems
This title does not have any additional game-specific problems.
Configuration
This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Castlevania II: Simon's Quest since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
Testing
This title has been tested on the environments listed below:
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Revision | OS | CPU | GPU | Result | Tester |
4.0-8445 | Windows 7 | Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 | Works OK. Requires EFB2RAM. | JMC47 |
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- Konami (Developer)
- Konami (Publisher)
- Castlevania (Series)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- Australia (Release region)
- Japan (Release region)
- 1988 (Initial release year)
- Platform (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Single-player only (Game mode)
- 1 (Players supported)
- Wii Remote (Input supported)
- GameCube Controller (Input supported)
- Classic Controller (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Tested On (Release): 4.0
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): NVIDIA
- Tested
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- Virtual Console games
- NES games