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CastleVania III Dracula's Curse: The Aroused Vampire
(2001, 625k, no preloader)
This extremely fun movie, rated DCTP-MA for cursing and machoore theemz, chronicles an almost message-boardesque argument between Sypha and Trevor, and the ensuing fling the Mystic Warlord of Warakyia gets into with Dracula afterward!

This is the COOLEST CastleVania 3 movie I've come across, and to be honest, I stumbled onto this work quite by accident. I enjoyed it so much when I found it in the Fall of 2001 (and still do), that while building this section, I asked the creator himself, Teflan_Dan, if he could bless me by allowing DCTP to host it here, and so, there you have it.

You MUST see this to know where I'm coming from, as it is without a doubt, one of my greatest inspirations for FlashyVania.

CastleVania III: Trevor's @*@$()^%!
(1-12/5-8-2002, 91k, no preloader)
Watch Trevor's frail attempt to avoid some daggers, and watch it again!

This is one of my early demos, initially whipped up in 12 minutes of early January to see if I could do...something. Not that impressive, but you can see I was on my way.

I wonder who was tossing them...

Blow up SLOGGY!!!
(5-15-2002, 61k, no preloader)
Here's where you freaks out there fulfill your final fantasy of becoming Lord Bejesus Alucard Cripes, who obliterates Slogra by endlessly lobbing sticks of Dynamite at him.

Or can you...?

Another small demo, this one applies Anapan's rip of the awesome, complicated flameup sprites of CastleVania: Symphony of the Night; at the time, a fresh novelty in the spriter circles.

If Gaibon is Gay...then Richter is a NOT Wuss!
(5-17-2002, 234k, no preloader)
Gaibon's little secret...

This short FlashyVania, of humble beginnings in the Autumn of 2001 as a demo of Gaibon transforming into the second form of Dracula in Rondo, grew up in the following seasons to be an exposé of the Blue Gargoyle Bat's 'little' secret. (With a slightly pretentious opening and closing...)

Randy Solem's professional opinion when this premiered at one Flash trading post, again I quote: "wow...3 and a half seconds of sh-t."

Hope that S-H Dash Tea was enjoyable.

ParoVadius: The Trailer!!!
(6-17/6-19-2002, 346k, no preloader)
ID4 shock! Contra III shock!
This Summer, the Game is Over...

Here's where it started to get serious... Four days before the big release of ParoVadius, and the last night before said release further endangered an already ramshackle sleep schedule, I made and released this trailer for ParoVadius. The total working time for this was about six hours. This parodying teaser follows the explosive introduction to Contra III: The Alien Wars nearly to the frame. I had the opening on VHS for reference.

ROAD TRIP!!!
(6-17/18-2002, 507k, no preloader)
Test the Road with Slogaibon and Galamoth!

I figured out a way in Flash 5 to mimic some of that stretchy road perspective effect seen in stage 2-B of Contra Hard Corps. It was two days before ParoVadius' release, so I threw in Slogaibon and a recently reconstructed Galamoth into the mix, grabbed the nearest available Guilty Gear X tune, and away we go! BASE!

The things you consider while scrubbing your scalp in the shower, know what I'm sayin'...?

Superobscure
Shooting Game Parody
ParoVadius
T H E  M O V I E ! ! !

(a.k.a. ParoVadius)
(6-20-2002, 3,762k, includes preloader)
When STAC attacks, Slogra, Gaibon, and Team ParoVadius get set to kick some!

For its moment, this, Superobscure Shooting Game Parody ParoVadius, was my Flash masterpiece, exhibiting everything I knew how to do. It's also a very audience-specific ultraparody, combining elements of CastleVania, Gradius, and Parodius (& Thunderforce V and Contra Hard Corps.) for the 6-minute prologue of what would have been, one lost day in history, a nice saga of Stage Episodes about Slogra and Gaibon's quest to destroy the terrible STAC... When originally writing its description on 7-24-2002, the future of ParoVadius was uncertain. At present (5-26-2008), a handful of scripted episodes tell exactly what will happen up to a certain point. If only I could lock myself in a basement for two weeks... :]

As a select few at The CastleVania Dungeon's forum(planet) may remember, there wasn't always a lot riding on the success of this movie...

After ParoVania grew beyond being just a simple demo of Anapan's Rocketslogra drifting around Master Librarian's animated mountainscape and wiping out Galamoth (see above), I set out to make huge changes within the realm of CV (&VG?) Flash and earn great notoriety…alas, the dual ambitions of ParoVadius were fulfilled only slightly.

I mean, take Rand's Dancing Mario Part 2, size it up to ParoVadius for technique, foulness and originality, and you'll see what I'm getting at.

As for the other (read: stupid) goal, media coverage,...no, you didn't hear about a "...horrible, disrespectful 9|11 parody" on the news, and no, DCTP got not much more notice, and neither did I get any work opportunities out of ParoVadius' release... But, at least,...

"you are still a f ucking pus sy and no one will ever beat me in vg flash"
I did nail him for all time on this one, though...

[As of 2003, maturity has occurred and that hatchet has been long buried;
this is shown here purely for historical context.]

ICVD Frashtro
(7-13-2002, 383k, no preloader)
The family-specific Flash introduction for the Inverted CastleVania Dungeon (once known as Planet CastleVania II [presented by Darkred Prelude]).

In keeping with the logo of ICVD at the time, I followed Konami's Japanese CastleVania: White Night Concierto site (then recently released) as the intro's basis, a link to which lies within. The life of the link, however, is up to them. With my severely limited knowledge of Japanese, I added a small, romanized message in case Konami of Japan ever found out about us. It intends to say:

Twinbee's Princess Meloura will give you a billion dollars if you can understand why I included that last line in English... >:D

...since I'd rather not make any changes to tailor the movie as just a presentation for DCTP, daring to click on any of the links presented will warp you to the ICVD forums and site. Maybe. Be wary. Be very vewy wary.

CastleVania III DCTP!!!, Osama's Curse (2001 no Chi Hakyoku)
(7-24-2002, 374k, no preloader)
The opening of CastleVania III told to the tune of The Terrorish.

That was when it all began...

One of my first bits of Flash in the aftermath of the WTC tribute deluge was a parody of the opening story to CastleVania III: Dracula's Curse, only with a current events twist. The first thing I actually attempted when I got back into Flash was a story scroll (for DCTP's splash page), and now that I had all the MADD SKILLZ behind me as a result of working on the previous treasures, I could sand down the corners of Osama's Curse, no problem.

Fwoopy!
(6-2002, 8-19-2004, 2,162k, includes preloader)
Following a routine razing of Warakiya, Trevor once again faces off against the Skull Knight...and gets it.

At last, we have here a long-in-the-making FlashyVania adaptation of Thomas Otting's similarly titled funny. On the second day of working on Fwoopy!, I managed to rip over 20 perfect sound effects from Super Mario Bros. 3 (between silences in the Fortress theme). Only four were ever needed. After progress on this became work (I overproduced it, of course), I decided to give it a rest for a while, going back to work on ParoVadius.

During a creative blitz two summers later, I returned with purpose to see it through to the end. I've even injected TO's original comic into the mix, just as it was planned. Take that, 3-month DVD turnaround!

After ParoVadius
(9-11-2004, revised Spring 2008. 1,387k, preloader 4-2008 Revision, )
Thanks to Slogaibon and Firebrand, Konami World is saved!
...but which of our heroes scores the girl?!

At this time, ReVival of ParoVadius (a project to repair the flaws of the original) wasn't going anywhere, and since I was riding the creative wave of this period (see above), I figured I'd have some fun with ParoVadius' ending; an obscure MP3 inspired its soundscape. With my girlfriend of the time and my friend of all time cast as the characters, I joined them in making this my first fully voiced and voice-directed Flash movie.

Eric: "-irebrand comes out and says,---"
Jason: "Oh YEAH, the ASS, you gotta love the ass!"
E: "EXACTLY like that!!!"
J: "There you go."
E: "Do it again."
J: "D- I JUST DID IT!!! [chuckles]"
E: "Well yeah, but...but you see the problem is, not only was I saying something when you started in on it [Jason cracking up],...it's...it'll be hard to trim, but you have to say more than once, cuz, what if it...sounds better the fifth time?"
Jason: " '...the fifth time...' [chuckle] Jesus, alright..
E: "This is what voice acting is...!
J: "Right, I know. ...it's a pain in the ass.
E: "Yeah!"
J: "[Firebrand voice] ..it's a pain in my ass..."

This 2008 revision features a MAKING OF section that explains a hell of a lot more. Check it out!

ParoVadius RESET
(7-2-200V, 7-27-2006, this version, 5,765k, preloader)
When a mysterious menace threatens the peace of Konami World, Slogra and Gaibon rise for revenge! The first chapter of the remastered, refreshed, RESET version of ParoVadius!!!

Some time after ParoVadius' release, I began to notice its flaws, and over the following season I set to work on fixing them. At two points further on, I meant to wipe out ParoVadius entirely by telling new, "true" stories; Shin ParoVania and NEMESIS: Nightmare from Our Side were two attempts. Before the latter, however, was the two-part ReVival of ParoVadius. ReVival of ParoVadius: Former Part was to cover everything from the beginning up until the point Slogaibon leaves the doomed castle (and drags the rest of the movie along with him). RoP: Latter Part would've covered everything thereafter to the grand conclusion.

Over the course of three years I intermittently made repairs here and there. However, it wasn't until March of 200V that re-production commenced at full speed, when trying to redesign ParoVadius villain STAC lead to the birth of an entirely new...villainess, and a whole new attitude towards my goal. ReVival of ParoVadius was now ready to RESET.

Unlike the original, ParoVadius RESET was executed almost entirely in secret, and done for nothing more than my own personal ambition of completing the project. I am quite proud of this result.

Skull Knight "MISSED!"
(3-8-2006, 635k, preloader)
What would happen if Trevor, Sypha, and Grant borrowed Alucard's misting ability?

Not so much a CV Flash movie as it is a test of Flash 8 capabilities (I still use 5). It was lots of fun to do, though! And that CastleVania: Dawn of Sorrow BGM rocks HARD.

ParoVadius pRESET
(7-20-2006, 1,108k, preloader)
Fair warning for the WorldWide: ParoVadius will RESET soon at a Flash portal near YOU!!!

ParoVadius RESET was completed without the intent to release it beyond its home of DYNAKYRIS (my Flash site). About a year later I figured, "Why not? All most people know of ParoVadius is its flawed 2002 Version. They're missing out on the better one." Thus, I put this together to trail the unleashing of RESET by a few weeks. In truth, this is the last scene of ParoVadius ZERO, the chapter preceding RESET. Since ZERO's inception (as START) in the Summer of 200V, the scene had always been intended to double as RESET's trailer.

PAYBACK TIME!
(8-22-2006, 1,229k, preloader)
Slogra and Gaibon put an end to The Internet's favorite dancing fruit. And they feeeeeeeeeel good!

Shortly after I released yet another ParoVadius beta to The CastleVania Dungeon's message boards, site advisor Andy told me that he had found the greatest thing ever: in my eyes, a waste of Dotcom dedicated to hosting someone else's Flash vid of a screwilly-pixelled banana doing pelvic thrusts to an irritating, but catchy tune about "Peanut Butter Jelly Time." Greater than my impending masterwork?! "Oh, hell no . . .," scoffed my engorged ego of the time.

Josh "FunkDOC" Ballard suggested I tie in my response to the fruit video with ParoVadius somehow. Indeed, featuring stars Slog & Gee bringing the pain, PAYBACK TIME! was originally titled "ParoVadius: The End of Peanut Butter Jelly Time," a la The End of Evangelion. I did work on this bit with much fervor during its brief initial construction in Spring of 2002, but it eventually hit The Shelf to rest for four years until I pulled it down and wrapped it up.

Respect Gaibon.

Trevor VS Skull Knight
As learning and technique goes, I really first started to become most productive in Flash with the Trevor VS Skull Knight thing.

In the grandest scheme of all, after the two meet and speak with each other, the Skull Knight and Trevor would be slugging it out, and then, just as Trevor is about to deliver the final blow, a shot is heard...a fireball blasts Trevor's arm off, and Slogra intervenes to save his friend. Trevor escapes, and Skull Knight confesses to Slogra, "I will never be as strong as you..."

Yes, there are shadows of Megaman X parody here, folks. >:D

Unfortunately, as far as the work on these files go, I've either gotten to the point either where Trevor uppercuts and trips the Skull Knight, or the Skull Knight slices up Trevor, Ukyo Tachibana style, in a seperate movie.

ParoVadius Trailer
This more intimate (...just because I planned to give it classical background music, it's intimate? o_0) trailer to ParoVadius, created on May 29th and last edited on the 30th, was intended to give everyone a taste of what to expect from ParoVadius once it hit. This is completely different from the Contra III-style trailer, as it summarizes the same story in the finished movie as a classical version of Evergreen plays in the background.

There was something, though, that this never-finished trailer made well on...

"COMMENCE TAKEOFF . . .

I I 0 0 I I
SUMMER"