I have the "Dracula Best" soundtrack from Konami, which contains the music from Castlevania 1, 2, and 3. I had always assumed that they "prettied" it up a bit from the original games, as the music has more instruments and depth than what is presented in the NES games.

You can't have extra sound on the castlevania game, but if you do the resistor mod, you can get MMC5 sounds. Then just hack your own MMC5 engine into castlevania and your good go.

(No this isn't easier, but maybe someone should try it? )

Wow.

Clips for comparison

I almost don't want to believe that the Famicom version's music is real

I can't believe they wasted the pins on the "expansion port" but didn't allow for the extra sound chips.

ugh. we have triangle wave for our bass sound. they have... bass. damn it. they have a few extra channels as well. AND they have sound envelopes that go beyond the 4 cycles we have.

i hear a lot more than 4 channels and a samples (using vrc6 or 7?). oh, the tragedy.


(http://www.shauninman.com/assets/... for reference)

Japan always seems to get the best shit. It's not fair

Penis size over real bass.  We win.

^ +1

I'm surprised few people knew this. I learned of it back in the mid90s when doing my NES hack/rom shenanigans. The VRC6 with Castlevania 3 has a few more sound channels going for it, and those 2 pins you speak of allow that to relay out of the system. Many famicom titles sounded like the NES, but those who had a custom chip VRC or whatever, it spanked the crap out of what we got which sucks.