Genesis/Mega-Drive homebrew developers are at it again. For a long time now, retro game developer and YouTuber Pigsy, has been hard at work porting Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the legendary sidescrolling adventure from the PlayStation and Saturn, to the Sega Genesis. Call him crazy, but he’s made some great progress, and now he’s ready to prove it with a playable demo that you can download right now. Pigsy has made a video of the demo, shown above, but also prepared a demo that’s able to run on real Genesis hardware using an Everdrive flash cartridge. You can also play it with an emulator or with the MiSTer FPGA console too.
You can check the description of the video above for the download links, or find them here past the break.
There’s three separate demo ROMs for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for certain conditions. The first one, right here, contains more enemies to fight, but my freeze in certain spots. The second, right here, has fewer enemies, but is less likely to freeze. Pigsy says this isn’t necessarily because of the enemies, but he’s still looking into the cause to fix it. Finally, there’s a demo that’s a bit more stable, which you can download here.
If you check out the demo, tell us what you think in the comments below.
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Looks amazing! I also like Pigsy’s great videos compiling what other homebrewers have in development for the Mega Drive. Really helpful for keeping tabs on what has become a very active development scene!