/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7143814
Wait, what? I know Captain N could be pretty goofy with its sprite interpretations sometimes, but how in the hell did they get that Sypha Belnades is an old man?

It just be a bannable offense to use a trip just to be an attention whore. Filtered.

>>7143979
>trip

>>7143973
Speculation I have is that they didn't even have the game, and were only faxed maybe a copy of the text from the manual with no illustrations or anything. Things that point this way include the fact that the Poltergeist King (a character mentioned in the manual but not in the game) is important to the episode's story, and a moment (the only moment, in fact) Simon whips a candle and a boomerang comes out-- but the most literal interpretation of this is animated.

>>7143973
manual says that she's a man + stereotypical wizard/magician look because of the spells, apparently

I'm just going to leave this here.

>>7144001
>Chad Belmont vs virgin leatherboy

what did the N stand for

Here's your Ridley bro

>>7144001
>posting effeminate nuSimon
wtf are you even doing?

>>7144005

OH NO NO NO NO NO

>>7144089
>his skin blisters when blasted with grotesque attacks
what did they mean by this

>>7144089
>yeah, but that's just a bad western localiz--

>>7144094
He dies in a few hits compared to Trevor.

>>7144018
This is actually pretty close to his original design in the NES manual.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgJsCU4XcAALiWc?format=jpg&name=900x900

>>7144096
to be fair, that could a 80s style anime girl, I don't read moonspeak

>>7144089
>>7144096
>sypha is a cute trap

>>7144018
Comic Captain N was better than the cartoon.

Granted, that's a pretty easy hurdle to clear, but I loved their characterization of Samus.

>>7144096
looks like a girl to me desu

>>7144001
But Captain N literally had the best interpretation of Simon. Imagine a Castlevania game where the starring Belmont is required to fight Dracula because of his bloodline but he himself is a neurotic clean freak and a skilled but somewhat cowardly egomaniac. It'd be a riot and a nice breath of fresh air from all these sad brooding vampire hunters that is every single other character in universe of vampire fiction.

>>7143995
This is very likely. The material DIC got back then was super thin. The reason why the koopalings had different names in the Mario 3 cartoon was because they worked on the show before the game had come out. There's also a theory that Mega Man was green in Captain N because the tint on the shitty 80s TV set was off so the sprite looked green.

>>7144018
Samus was great, too. She behaved more like you'd expect of a bounty hunter. Underhanded and snarky and she constantly tried to sexually assault Kevin.

>>7143995
>Speculation I have is that they didn't even have the game, and were only faxed maybe a copy of the text from the manual with no illustrations or anything

except the extremely blue tinted wizard kind of implies the exact opposite - that the only aw gameplay footage and no manual

>>7144106
reverse trap, the idea was Sypha hid the fact she was a girl because of the times, even the netflix show uses that excuse

>>7144210
It was like Samus, deliberate misdirection. Even if they did play the game as research, they'd have had to have beaten it to find out Sypha wasn't a man. And the game is bitch hard.

>>7144106
Yeah, and Pol Chuds hate it.

>>7144246
>castlevania 3
>hard

funny joke anon

also game genie was a thing as well as interns vhs recording the game

>>7144286
>also game genie was a thing
Not when Castlevania 3 came out it wasn't. By the time Game Genie would have been available the Captain N scripts would have likely been written already.

>>7144296
>Castlevania 3 US release date: September 1990
>Game Genie US release date: July 1990
>OP's cartoon: 1993

>>7144304
Yeah, well, fuck you m8.

>>7144286
there were in-house memory editors for cheating at video games used by a lot of magazines and stuff way before the Game Genie too

>>7144304
I don't think those dates are right. 1993 is way too late for Captain N. That show is from 1989. If anything they would have been stuck with Japanese versions of the games.

>>7144330
>S03E03
>Title: Return To Castlevania
>Original air date: September 28, 1991

I’m just going to tell you to fuck off tranny

>>7144210
>Sypha hid the fact she was a girl because of the times
huge mood ngl

>>7144278
Traps were made for Big Nazi Cock

>>7143973
I know that in the cases of Megaman and Simon the artists weren't handed many guides or resources other than the games themselves. So they kind of had to fill in the gaps. Heck, the reason Megaman is green is because one of the artists played the game on a TV where the colors were off. That and poor communication between studios.

Fil Barlow explains a lot on his art post of original concepts for the show. Heck, it would original star the kid from Paper Boy

https://www.deviantart.com/filbarlow/art/Before-Captain-Nintendo-there-was-Buddy-Boy-312281346

>>7144089
>Grant DaNasty was actually a ghost pirate
I could have sworn he was just a dude with weird wall climbing power

>>7144089
>caries a big stick
O-oh my

>>7144532
I think it's a mistranslation, when you meet Grant in-game he's been cursed and turned into this weird ogre thing and when you defeat him he turns back to a normal human.

>>7144246
Come on this is clearly a game about a trans woman's journey to self-acceptance, she even has a boymoder hoodie

>>7144018
>Ridley
>the pirate boss from Metroid
It makes absolutely zero sense for Samie to say that. Either he’s the boss of the space pirates or he’s from zebes, but he’s not from Metroid, he steals Metroids

>>7144565
kek

>>7144567
>t. has never seen an episode of Captain N

>>7144567
It's because Captain N writers decided that "Metroid" rather than Zebes is the name of the planet. I don't think metroids ever even appeared in the show.

>>7144415
Based Kid Icarus complaining about the forswearing of the classical pantheon.

>>7144389
Nazis get the pill

>>7143995
>>7143996
Chances are, they went with the manual of Dracula's Curse at the very best case scenario for reference, and considering than more then often, Konami's English manuals made their own bullshit aside from the game's main localization, which was always another issue of its own.

So of course it leads to whatdahfuckness like these.

>>7144096
Post the translation you faggot!

>>7144737
It's called having a phone with the Google translate app on it. (Like me, except I'm too lazy to get off the couch to get mine)

>>7144764
Got your back. The translation is as good as you'd expect, though:

>Cipher Vernandez
> There was a death theory at the Bose Eastern Orthodox Church, but at the end of the forest block
> To
> Captured by the boss "Cyclobs". Cipher is just like Vampire Hunter, just like Ralph. Basically, it is an attack with a holy wand, and the movement speed and JUMP ka are the same as Ralph. Attack ITEM has flames, cold,
> There are Lightning bolts, etc., which are quite powerful and can attack at a long distance. Instead, the equipment that protects you is weak, so the damage received from the enemy is large.
> It is.
> The point will be the first win.

>>7144776
>Ralph

HIDDEN CHARACTER CONFIRMED

>>7144776
fuck machine translation
>Though rumors swirled among the Eastern Orthodox Church that she* was dead, she was captured by the Cyclops boss at the end of the forest area. Sypha [pronounced 'saifa' here] is a vampire hunter like Ralph [Trevor]. Fundamentally, she attacks with a holy cane, with movement speed and jump strength the same as Ralph. With attack items including Flame, Cold, and Lightning Bolt, she is a quite strong character with the ability to attack at range. In exchange, her defensive equipment is weak, and she takes high damage from enemies, so getting the first strike is the key point.

*As is not uncommon with Japanese text, no gendered pronouns are used at all. You can replace the "she" above with "he" and it would be just as accurate. As others have stated, the character is canonically female and always was, with her sex disguised as male until the end of the story.

>>7144587
They did, though there's a bit of a "wut" to them. In the story board's for the first episode, Kevin is wrapped up in the tentacles of a horde of Metroids.

>>7144983
The look is accurate to the instruction manual illustration for them, which gave them tentacles rather than claws. However--

>>7144985
--they're completely redesigned. Also, I was mistaken, as it wasn't the first episode but the first episode of Season 2, "Gameboy".

>>7144987
Character model of "Metroid". You'd think that'd be it, but--

>>7143814
That Netfucks Castlevania was pozzed and shitty

>>7144989
In Season 1 episode "Metroid Sweet Metroid, Kevin encounters and defeats a large green alien in Mother Brain's lair-- an alien he defeats first by freezing it, and then firing missiles at it.

>>7144993
This creature is labeled "Protoplasm" on its model sheet... which you'll notice is the wording used to describe Metroids in the original manual as shown prior!

>>7144146
>le parody
Point to one example when this wasn't extremely shit in practice.

>>7145000

>>7145004
A game numbnuts.

>>7145015
Parodius

>>7144415
Looks even worse than what we got.
Why are cartoons so shit.

>>7145019
Despite the name it's really just the same game with cutesy/sexy designs.
If that's what you mean by parody sure, but that's not what your original post indicated.

>>7143973
You do realize that Sypha wasnt revealed to be a woman until the end of CV3, right? It wasn't common knowledge like it is today.

And I'm going to laugh at you if you think the animators sat through and played CV3 before working on the show.

>>7144648
Yeah, the test boosting pill

>>7144018
>WE’LL BE REMODELING YOUR

>>7145015

>>7145015
Conker's Bad Furday

>>7146417
But that game does suck.

>>7144987
>>7144989
>>7144993
>>7144995
Good grief. Think of how much better this show could have been if they actually played the games.

>>7143973
The Captain N production team didn't really give a fuck about anything.

>>7144089
>>7144106
>>7144541
>>7144278
>>7144389
>>7144648
>>7145172
I fucking hate you people.

>>7144089
well yeah
her name was obviously supposed to be Sophia Fernandez

>>7147521
You learn to ignore the brainrot meme spammers after awhile, anon.

>>7147521
Just don't give em' (you)s
That's what incentivizes it

>>7147578
>Saifa
>Sophia

I mean, there's already a pretty standard way to import the name Sophia into japanese, and that ain't it

if anything it was probably supposed to be "Cypher", as in disguised

>>7147521
Why yes, I too hate people who post primary sources.

>>7144038
>effeminate
Besides clothing and face, these arms can break Dracula in half

>>7144001
SOUL vs SOULESS

>>7145004
>and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound
that didn't age well.