2015.03.20
"Castle Of Dracula"
An obscure Korean game has been spotted in Italy, bought and dumped by Caius!
Initially all he had was the title screen and a blurry PCB pic.. It turned
out to be a shameless (and cheap) clone of Plotting.
Castle Of Dracula, this the name of the game, was apparently developed by Yun
Sung in 1994, although the PCB only bears "Escape" stickers and the title
screen displays a laconic "Y.S.E." copyright.
Here are some screens from emulation:
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0001.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0000.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0003.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0004.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0010.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0006.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0008.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0013.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0002.png
http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/cdracula/0014.png
Having played the game a bit, the "so bad it's good" saying rather fits the
clumsy, unpolished production. The game nonchalantly blends a fantasy back
story of sworded heroes and damsels in distress, narrated through interludes
drawn in manga style, with the titular Romanian gothic myth.
Brave enough? A video from the PCB is provided by Caius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW9sZTfF-vk&feature=player_embedded
The "stiff" graphics do hint at a blitter based engine, don't they? Sure
enough... the anonymous PCB is actually a clone of dynax.c hardware. The
Dynax blitter is implemented by an FPGA with a few minor variations in how
the drawing flags and the destination layers are selected.
Sound is also a single M6295 that plays digitized loops in place of the
Yamaha PSGs. Don't listen to it for long or it'll get stuck into your head.
來源：http://www.lucaelia.com/mame.php/2015/Castle-Of-Dracula
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