The legendary Castlevania 3 soundtrack has had an 8BitStereo Revamp and is updated with better quality, text, tracklist and visual background! It's much better! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsCpiq-H1tG-hoE.html

31 years later... Aquarius still stands out in my mind as clear as the day I played C3.

I liked 0:00 - 27:30 the best.

One of my favorite video game soundtracks ever.

"Aquarius" and "Riddle" are just sick. I freaking love this game

I've finally beaten this game after 59.5 hours and I can't stop listening to this phenomenal OST!

This whole OST still gives me the damn chills. I would go ahead and say they are my favorite set of compositions ever made for a videogame. People will go ahead and say Megaman 2 or something is their favorite for the NES, but this just has so much more variety and complexity than that. Megaman 2 is something like 80s rock and metal and that's all there is. Castlevania 3 to me is more inspired by classic movie music and 70's prog rock. It's got dissonance, tension, groove, and some of the best melodies in videogames. It has it all for me.

I would argue 'Clockwork' may be the most perfect complex NES track ever. It really sounds like if a clock could be musical in its workings.

Love that "Rising" theme. So short and so sweet.

Best of the original trilogy by far. This one gave me the most joy as a kid. Different playable characters!? Heck yeah!

I think castlevania 3 has the BEST FUCKING ENTRY SONG EVER of the first 3.It even competes with castlevania 4 with simons tune. Even a game as hard as this, it ends up being nostalgic for me when i didn't play it as a kid.I was wholly impressed with the music. I really like the forest, and i really like this song and a couple others too.

My question to the composers has nalways been, did they know they were on the cusp of a video game music revolution when the Castlevania and Simon's Quest came out, cause with this game's soundtrack, they really pulled out all the stops. One of the greatest musical scores. It's like, ok, we're hired to compose music for a friggin 8bit video game but we're gonna put in all of our musical creativity and bloody tears (see what i did there) into this project cause maybe in one day in the future people will call us geniuses.

Honestly probably one of my favorite nes soundtracks ever.

Best Castlevania ever made!!!

A time when they cared about epic game covers, i know it made me wanto own all nes games in the world

Me and my old school mate used to play this game. My mate was not skilled like as I do, so I completed this game. He was glad when we completed. We were only 12-13 at that time. Now I am 36 years old man.

I like listening to this and then the famicom version. So badass!

One of the best video game soundtracks ever made

This is one of my personal TOP 20 overall best, "stands-the-test-of-time" NES game soundtracks.

I would be lost working on my covers without your wonderful stereo separation. Thanks wiiguy!

Classic. I remember listening to and liking Demon Seed over and over again when I was a kid. I also liked Epitaph, but it was kinda scary with the laugh mimic in the background.

Mad Forest and Stream are the best tracks new to this game.

so awesome... my first game with contra...and 27 years later stillgives me goosebumps...

When Konami didn't used to suck

Clockwork has such great complex musical qualities and is amazing

Dropped a tear ! I want my childhood back!

Prelude really has a 1980s sword and sorcery cinematic quality to it. Just that opening. I can see the barbarian on horseback, clad in steel and fur, looking off the cliff top at the castle in the distance before the film title fades into the screen in a cool looking font above the castle in the sky.

Man NES sound and music was so amazing...I guess the nostalgia is insane as this was literally my entire childhood. Whenever I hear any NES music I'm literally transported back in time when I was a kid and everything I went through. I remember my grandma dying & the way I coped was playing Castlevania 3. Insane that a video game can help you get through hard times in your life but its true. Miss the 80s!!!

Not all heroes are cursed. This is fantastic thank you

The beginning of stage 1's theme gets me fuckin pumped

Just bought Dracula's Curse, and holy shit these tracks kick ass! Mad Forest, Aquarius and Dead Beat went straight to my god tier castlevania tracks

The song that plays when you make it to the stairs is so great (overture). I remember the first time beating this game. This game rocks.

Man, Demon Seed has a sick groove

Love that Demon Seed track...would love to hear a hip hop instrumental mix of that

Clockwork is a theme that i have always kept presente in my mind since the day I heard it in the early nineties! these and megamans themes never leave me

They really did a hell of a job with this games soundtrack. with just the bleeps that 8bit nintendo can give out this sounds better than alot of 16bit snes games

Demon Seed and Rising music are both my favorite.

Every Track on this OST is fucking Epic. Thanks WiiGuy

I love both the MSX and NES soundtracks. Both have their merits.

I want to hear the mad forest again, because it is that good.I hope the future castlevanias use it, as it is underrated.I like demon seed too, its very catchy.

Que de souvenirs inoubliables. Ce jeux est tellement bien réalisé et toujours aussi agréable à jouer^^

The Aquarius theme always gave me the feeling of being the ultimate vampire slayer!

the way Aquaris kicks in at 15:19 after Nightmare just demands your attention hearing this whole ost again is amazing it's like beating the game all over again without all the heartache and anger of dying over and over lol thanks for the uplaod can't wait for it to get to the dracula tunes

man thank you so much for posting this great album, 1 of the best soundtracks ever made..this is my own tribute, hope you might liked.. & BELMONT CLAN FOREVER!!

I'm listening to this through earbuds and it sounds honestly amazing. I remember my younger brother playing this game when we were kids- the way this sounds is the way my memory of this game fools me into thinking it sounded when we played it back then. The work you put into this makes hearing this music a whole new experience. Great job!

Help, I cant stop playing this music! Its my housework theme right now.

You have to spend so much time playing this game,the soundtrack get carved with fire forever in your life

Man when I was a kid and I heard 9:40 Rising at the start of the level I was like "here we go" and got all psyched :D

I just found all your postings... I love it so much thank you one thousand times over for posting all of these great soundtracks with such great detail!

This soundtrack is amazing. I'm consistently amazed with what they got out of the hardware.

This is the apex of NES musical composition.

best days of my life back then,still love.

Back when absolutely everything in gaming was pure art...

Is anyone else adding the sound effects in their head - In particular the first boss music. The scream is the best - eewwweeerruuuuaaaahhh

Thank you for posting these! They sound so crispy good!

awesome soundtrack,love castlevania 3 dracula's curse. all 3 games for the nes was magic. man i just want to play them all so bad now. what a amazing game series, and you know it was magic in them days when konami was behind it fun days.

The "Aquarius" theme looks familiar to me. I think Apioeus made a remix of that theme and put that remixed theme in his SM64 hack: mario's nightmare v1.1

This is actually sort of like what the Famicom version sounds like; it has that deep, reverb-like quality to it.

Now we just need someone to upload a stereo version of the Famicom version.

I only played this (and the other old Castlevania games) when they were put on the Wii but I do entirely feel this is easily one of the best NES games ever. Like the Mario 3 of hard games, even including being what people wanted the last numbered release to be, and then some.

+WiiGuy's 8BitStereo Hola WiiGuy. Es un gusto por fin saludarte. Espero que entiendas el español porque vi que en uno de tus videos le contestaste a alguien que te escribió en español. Este es mi primer comentario en KZfaq y decidí hacerlo aquí puesto que este es uno de mis 3 juegos favoritos de NES en todo sentido (gráficos, jugabilidad, historia y especialmente música) y sentí la obligación de agradecerte todo el trabajo que has hecho con la música de éste y de todos los juegos de NES que has subido a KZfaq, dándole ese ECO un excelente incremento de calidad de audio que yo, desde hace aproximadamente 20 años que juego en NES, he deseado que tuvieran estas melodías. Además quiero agradecerte por poner en cada uno de tus videos un link de descarga para coleccionarlas y escuchar cada una de las melodías por separado. Me encanta también que incluyes las melodías no utilizadas en las versiones finales de los juegos. Hasta el momento ya he descargado más de 40 de tus soundtracks (TODOS los primeros de tu Playlist 1 en orden) y mi meta es descargar todos los que subas a tu canal (creo que ya tienes alrededor de 400 videos subidos). Sobre este video, todas las melodías se oyen excelentes con ese eco, y noté que en las músicas: Rising, Stream, Dead Beat, Nightmare, Aquarius, Pressure y Dracula Battle 1 y 2 se escuchan muy claramente algunos sonidos que casi no se escuchan en sus versiones estándar y que les dan una forma completamente diferente de escucharse a estas melodías. Sin embargo, LAMENTO MUCHO que a todos los links de descarga no le pongas ese ECO tan genial, pues el sonido de algunas melodías de las descargas se oye demasiado NORMAL. También he notado que a veces los sonidos agudos se oyen bien pero los sonidos graves se oyen muy suaves. Otras veces (principalmente en los juegos de Sunsoft) los sonidos que emulan a los tambores no tienen el punch que se oye en un TV estándar (hay otras personas que ya te lo han dicho). Además en unas cuantas melodías has disminuido el volumen antes que termine el 2° loop. Y por último, en el soundtrack de Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge el volumen de la descarga es demasiado bajo. He visto que re-subiste los soundtracks en el 2014 y que planeas hacer versiones extendidas de estos, así que quiero pedirte que en el futuro, cuando re-subas estos soundtracks, corrijas estos errores para disfrutar al máximo de esta maravillosa música. ¡¡¡¡Muchas Gracias!!!! y ojalá contestes mi comentario.

Perfect, absolutely no problem with this soundtrack, and finally i can find that awesome echo effect i've been looking for..

-- Here's a Playlist for Mobile Users, Made By WiiGuy -- 0:00 Prelude (Opening) 1:42 Prayer (Intro) 1:54 Beginning (Block-1) 3:43 Boss Battle 4:54 Block Clear 5:00 Destiny (Path Selection) 5:19 Clockwork (Block-2) 6:52 Mad Forest (Block-3) 8:30 Anxiety (Blocks-4A & 7) 9:40 Rising (Block-5A) 10:40 Stream (Block-6A) 12:03 Dead Beat (Block-4) 13:41 Nightmare (Block-5) 15:19 Aquarius (Blocks-6 & 7A) 16:50 Demon Seed (Block-7) 18:25 Deja Vu - Vampire Killer (Block-8) 19:33 Riddle (Block-9) 20:41 Pressure (Block-A) 21:09 Overture (Dracula's Room) 22:15 Dracula Battle 1 23:01 Dracula Battle 2 23:42 All Clear 23:52 Encounter (Spirit Meeting) 24:13 Epitaph (Password) 24:59 Evergreen (Ending) 26:05 Flashback (Cast) 27:17 Life Lost 27:20 Game Over

Great news to Castlevania 3 fans, an animated series is considered and it will be awesome. It'll be primarily focused on THIS game's storyline and... it'll be awesome!

este es el mejor juego de castlevania de todos, viejo o nuevo. su dificultad, sus jefes, su soundtrack. Todo es perfecto. Este es de los juegos que deberían tener un remake.

Remember me the most beautiful of my childhood.....❤️

no seriously this thanks comes from a hardcore Castlevania lover fan,, it tried to show you 1 of my covers from CV but for some reason it was impossible for me to video respond you? don't know what da hell is wrong, but truly all my love to this sacred series & to your channel for posting this ^ ^

I’ve heard a lot of 8bit NES soundtrack music. Yours are the best. Yep, def subscribing! :)

funny how the last two tracks are the most common in the game...

i just cant believe it.23 yrs later and i know all these tracks like yest. which ones my favorite? cant say,but im really takin a shining to "dead beat" but...that aquarius,sooo beautiful.

9 people never had a childhood

Mad Forrest was always my favorite track. Nightmare use to scare me so bad that I couldn't play it at night! LOL

I've always said that Konami is one of the kingpins of the NES soundtrack, along with Sunsoft, Tecmo, Taito and others. But here it shows that conversion to the American version was middling. Yes, the Japanese version with 3 extra sound channels make music sound impressive but lacked effort here, because I have heard many issues that made using the two channels that come by default on the NES, and really take full potential, but lacked more work here. I like both versions, but I lean more to the Japanese version.

Rising will always be the most forgotten Castlevania banger

I concur. Please do it, Wiiguy! While it would be cool to have it by Halloween, as I like to listen to Castlevania during that wonderful day, I think we can all wait patiently because it'll be worth it.

One of these days, you're gonna get paid for all this hard work.

I can't be unheard The Amazing Brando! Not like I am not an amazing Brando, but I mean the other one...

I came here because 2:04 was in the intro of Jontron's Howling II review and though i watched it a bunch and the tune was always so catchy i never searched it up until now, I'm glad I did all of this is just awesome music.

1:54 Whenever I hear this I think "New & Improved Castlevania!"

That bass tho...

Thanks a lot for this. Perfect essay writing music for me.

Both NES version & VRC6 version are great, in different style

9:40 👍🏾

I just played this game last night on my Famicom and got to Dracula but couldn't beat him great series!

One of the Best nes games ever made....hands down.

悪魔城は、これまで世界で行われた最高のサウンドトラックを持っています！

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Sounds really good! Nice work!

Akumajou Densetsu would sound BEAUTIFUL in this format. if this is already amazing, just thinking of that VRC6 chip pleases me.

I needed this....brings tears to my eyes hearing this FUCKING PHENOMINAL MUSIC...in Stereo!!!!! Thank you!!!!!

7 people fell under Dracula's Curse...

Click to WIN! 1:54

I seen a lot of MIDI files on this game and most of them have all the themes except for Epitaph, there was one that was loaded but soon became the center of controversy over who created it, they took it down it was rather good

This might be the best overall soundtrack to be made on the NES. And I've listened to over 100 of them at this point. Shadow of the Ninja, Contra, Super C, Shatterhand, MegaMan 2, MegaMan 6, Batman, and the original Castlevania are all contenders, but I think Castlevania 3 takes the cake here. Incredible stuff to behold, really. EDIT: Add Journey to Silius and Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight to the list.

Before I unpacked the game brand new, I remember reading the instruction booklet and was thrilled the game had a music playlist built into the start menu. I listened to all those tracks before playing the actual game. Konami, simply put, rocks!

This is awesome, thanks so much, also for the download link!!

You bring me back to childhood, thank you very much! *o*

QUE BONITOOOO!! GOODD!!! SUPER CLASIC

Me sacaste un suspiro!!

15:19 my Childhood