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I mean, there are no ads, but I only made it deep into the first level. This can absolutely change with updates for the better or worse - whether Konami will do it or not is doubtful IMO. This seems to me like a quiet, lazy promotion.
The activities in case you use something like App Manager are few, and there are no trackers or permissions it requests or anything, fairly benign. The activity labeled Check Data is to reload a previous state if you previously quit the game prematurely? And the activities labeled Kiyaku are for the terms and conditions (that’s the Japanese word for them). It doesn’t have DRM or license verification.
The manual just explains the controls and is an overlay on top of the gameplay screen, it’s not the original NES manual.
I couldn’t figure out how to pull the NES ROM out, I think it’s part of the .so library they’re using.
I wouldn’t play this with just touch controls, but you may try. It has a single save-state system so you can brute force actions even with touch controls if you want.
Thanks for checking. Sounds actually not that bad after all, at least from the side of what Konami gave. With the exception of the manual, if its not really the real manual. Maybe some builtin cheats to enable and disable would have been nice. For me, I am not using he PlayStore at all. So its not something I would try out myself. But its so interesting to me that Konami didn’t forgot its roots, after being possessed for years…
Maybe this free version is so that people install and then get recommendations about other Castlevania and Konami games from the PlayStore. Otherwise, I’m not sure why Konami did that, because for hardcore fans they probably already have a way to play the game.
I mean, there are no ads, but I only made it deep into the first level. This can absolutely change with updates for the better or worse - whether Konami will do it or not is doubtful IMO. This seems to me like a quiet, lazy promotion.
The activities in case you use something like App Manager are few, and there are no trackers or permissions it requests or anything, fairly benign. The activity labeled Check Data is to reload a previous state if you previously quit the game prematurely? And the activities labeled Kiyaku are for the terms and conditions (that’s the Japanese word for them). It doesn’t have DRM or license verification.
The manual just explains the controls and is an overlay on top of the gameplay screen, it’s not the original NES manual.
I couldn’t figure out how to pull the NES ROM out, I think it’s part of the .so library they’re using.
I wouldn’t play this with just touch controls, but you may try. It has a single save-state system so you can brute force actions even with touch controls if you want.
Thanks for checking. Sounds actually not that bad after all, at least from the side of what Konami gave. With the exception of the manual, if its not really the real manual. Maybe some builtin cheats to enable and disable would have been nice. For me, I am not using he PlayStore at all. So its not something I would try out myself. But its so interesting to me that Konami didn’t forgot its roots, after being possessed for years…
Maybe this free version is so that people install and then get recommendations about other Castlevania and Konami games from the PlayStore. Otherwise, I’m not sure why Konami did that, because for hardcore fans they probably already have a way to play the game.