Castlevania (1986/7) 100% Secret Treasures | Wranker 4K NES Real Hardware Playthrough | NESRGB

Full playthrough of Castlevania, released in 1986(J) and 1987(U) for the Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System respectively, played on the original console with Tim Worthington's RGB MOD. An all time classic, Castlevania is a short but hard game, with a steep learning curve. It's a short game, but incredibly engrossing, and I had a great time playing this one. Be aware, this video has a copyright claim, any ads inserted is done so by the copyright holder.

I use this channel to upload my gameplay footage used in my retrospectives. If you are interested in lengthy, in-depth reviews of retro games, check out my main channel ‪@TheCriticalWranker‬

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*******Timestamps*******
Stage 1 00:00:23
Stage 2 00:02:25
Stage 3 00:03:47
Boss - Phantom Bat 00:04:14
Stage 4 00:05:04
Stage 5 00:05:58
Stage 6 00:07:36
Boss - Medusa 00:09:45
Stage 7 00:10:22
Stage 8 00:11:42
Stage 9 00:13:01
Boss - Mummies 00:14:01
Stage 10 00:14:48
Stage 11 00:16:09
Stage 12 00:16:57
Boss - Frankenstein's Monster, credited as "Frankenstein" 00:17:34
Stage 13 00:18:13
Stage 14 00:20:07
Stage 15 00:23:04
Boss - Death 00:24:23
Stage 16 00:25:03
Stage 17 00:25:35
Stage 18 00:26:55
Final Boss 1 - Dracula 00:27:16
Final Boss 2 - Cookie Monster 00:28:55
Ending 00:29:48

******* Notes on this Video *******
This playthrough was captured on real hardware. I have RGB modded my NES with Tim Worthington's RGB board, and the output is stunning, if it wasn't for the tiniest amount of interference, this could be passed off as emulation. Please excuse the slight "jittering", it comes from the frame lock V-Sync of the Retrotink, and is necessary to avoid drop outs in the video signal.

The gameplay is upscaled by the Retrotink 5x, and recorded in 4K, using the M.2 Avermedia 4K Live Gamer capture card.

I upload these playthroughs, mainly for real hardware footage preservation, which is why I use no watermarks or overlays. Feel free to use it as you wish, all I ask, is you don't just reupload it in full. Credit to my main channel would be greatly appreciated, but not required. Youtube, obviously bit-crushes video and audio while compressing, so if you want the raw footage of this video, contact me. While the video is 60FPS, and my NTSC NES runs at 60hz, 90's consoles rarely maintained a high FPS, any slowdowns in framerate are genuine, and due to the consoles hardware.

******* PC used for capture *******
Ryzen 9 7950 X3D Processor
Asus ROG X670e Extreme Motherboard
Geforce RTX4090 24GB
128GB DDR5 RAM
Avermedia 4K Live Gamer PCI-e Capture Card
Minor editing done using Adobe Premiere