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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse | |
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Developer(s) | Nintendo |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Series | Castlevania |
Platform(s) | Virtual Console, NES |
Release date(s) | NES JP December 22, 1989 NA September 1, 1990 EU December 10, 1992 Virtual Console JP April 21, 2009 NA January 12, 2009 EU October 31, 2008 |
Genre(s) | Platform |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Input methods | Wii Remote, GameCube Controller, Classic Controller |
Compatibility | 5 Perfect |
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In Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, known in Japan as Akumajō Densetsu (悪魔城伝説, lit. Devil's Castle Legend), take on the role of Trevor Belmont, forefather of Simon, and battle Dracula in a time long before the events of the first two Castlevania games. In addition to his trusty whip, Trevor has a power never before seen--the ability to transform into one of three different companion spirits that he meets at various points in his quest: Syfa, a young vampire hunter capable of powerful magic; Grant, a ferocious pirate who can climb on walls; and Alucard, forgotten son of Dracula, able to shoot fireballs and transform into a bat. Lead on with bravery as you overcome 17 levels of never-ending horror. Use an assortment of weapons (some specific to each character) as you choose which path to follow in your fight against Dracula and his army.
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
Demanding Due to Safe Texture Cache
This game requires the use of the Safe Texture Cache setting, and as such can be very demanding. Texture cache can be manually set to 2048 in the INI to get twice the performance without any glitches.
Configuration
This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse 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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- Nintendo (Developer)
- Nintendo (Publisher)
- Castlevania (Series)
- Japan (Release region)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- 1989 (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)
- Untested
- Virtual Console games
- NES games