Hello again!
Previously, I'd written about how the "verified good dump" of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (US version only) refused to play movies created from save states. I found this out as I was recording "boss run" videos for my YouTube account. Well, this is still true, but I have more information regarding the subject.
As it turns out, all versions of FCE Ultra are unable to replay movies of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse created from save states, not just FCE Ultra X v2.10! Or so I assume. The two versions I tried were v0.98.28-rr and v2.14. Since I never tried to use the US ROM on any versions prior, I can't say with absolute certainty, but I have a strong belief that this is true.
Furthermore, I've tried a number of different ROM dumps that are floating around out there, and every single one of them did the exact same thing; loaded and tried to play the movie, had the graphics explode in strange ways (tile bank swaps and such), the game locks up, and the sound engine locks on the last note played.
Now. My question is "Why does it do this?" Akumajou Densetsu replays movies made from save states just fine, but the US version of the game only replays movies from the very start of the game? I find that incredibly odd. And pretty frustrating, considering I just want the dang-blanged bosses, not the whole bloody Alucard game!
Well...unless something changes, I guess I'll just record the entire Alucard game and chop up the final movie to suit my purposes. As I see it, it's just "one of those things that can't be helped" right now, but I'd love to hear any sort of feedback on the problem you guys might have.
Thank you for your time.
