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Originally Posted by BlazingAbyss
I wonder if they meant to say " Thrashed in the Cave" instead of " Thrashard. The only other example I could find for "Thrashard" was a track on the albulm, " Thrash Zone" by D.R.I. Perhaps it's supposed to be a portmanteau of "thrash" & "hard?" |
The track titles were created for
KICA-7615 in 1993, probably by Keizo Nakamura and Hiroshi Kobayashi. And that's what we have to go back to to understand what the title means. The
original X68000 version of the piece is clearly inspired by thrash metal. So it really is a portmanteau of "thrash" and "hard", possibly taken from the D.R.I. song. The connection became less clear with Sota Fujimori's genre change for his PlayStation arrangement.
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Originally Posted by Cypher
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Typical Engrish...
There's no "v" in Japanese so they use "bi" instead.
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I think this may have factored into the title being misspelled as CASTLEBANIA here. This game began Koji Igarashi's attempt at pushing the Western name on Japanese players. But it wasn't until Harmony of Dissonance that the title got the katakana spelling キャッスルヴァニア, making it clear even to the Japanese that it's "va". Then again, they still confuse ヴァ for "ba" sometimes, so it's not like it helped a lot.
Then there's also the fact that they wrote
the Japanese logo of Castlevania Chronicles in German fracture font as ℭ??????????, but their "v" is so extravagant it could easily be mistaken for a "b". Moreso if you're Japanese. I think both of these led to the CASTLEBANIA mistake.
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Originally Posted by LuxKiller65
Is there any way to confirm the "2nd pressing" with V instead of B came out between 2001/23/05 and the 2003/05/22?
I understand it must be, since there is no other difference, code, date etc.
But I am wondering, it could be a late reprint even if it doesn't mention this anywhere. I suppose it would be illegal to do so (e.g. reprint this album in 2005 without changing the necessary information), but the fact that this album can still be purchased brand new from a couple of places makes me wonder if it was reprinted much later than 2003/05.
Another explanation could be that it was printed in much larger quantities after the B/V error was fixed, unlike albums like CotM/HoD and AoS/DoS which were definitely small prints (thank you konamistyle as usual).
Any information or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I do appreciate this OST very much, even though it's partly a reprint, and partly the same tracks with different MIDI sounds + a remixed OST.
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The earliest photographic evidence (I could find) of the reprint with the CASTLEVANIA fix is Judge Ito's scans submitted to VGMdb in mid-2009. The spelling fix must've affected the CD prints as well per the descriptions, so it wasn't a simple paper print swap. Even though some elements such as the barcode are placed differently on the reprint obi, the text is the same, so that won't help either.
Discogs lists some codes from the CDs but it's unclear if it's the CASTLEBANIA or the CASTLEVANIA print, or if comparisons would help at all.
Luckily, we have dedicated fans such as Kurt Kalata: His soundtrack page on Castlevania Dungeon detailed the spelling fix as early as
August 13, 2002. Judging by the archived pages, it seems he noticed this after April 15, 2002 and most likely in June or August 2002. While this doesn't solve the mystery completely, this should confirm that the CASTLEBANIA version went out of print by mid-2002 at the latest.
Should we have separate album entries for both prints even if they use the same catalog number?