need_help_with_castlevania andru235 hey all, i've been playing castlevania one on the nintendo, and i'm really digging it but i can't get past the first torch. the timer keeps running out. i have asked and asked, in the nicest of tones, but that belmont guy won't heed any of my advice. he won't even look me in the eye, the coward. i suspect he is rather insecure about himself. or perhaps he is hiding something. so i wrote him a letter, trying to boost his confidence, but then i realized i didn't have an address, and couldn't figure out how to attach my scanner to the nintendo. i tried threats, but he didn't even flinch. i told him, "if you don't want to fucking DIE after five minutes, why don't fucking WALK to the right for a fucking change?" but the harsh talk seems to have only intimidated him further. next i tried coaxing. i read him selections from _chicken_soup_for_the_soul_ and _how_to_win_friends_and_influence_people_; he was nonplussed. not even pleading seems to help. "please, oh, dearest sir," i have repeatedly asked, "will you grace me, humble gamer that i am, by walking to the right, even just a little? oh, even the distance of one little block will do. please? oh, please? i'm begging you!" i asked about this game at another forum, thinking perhaps there was something wrong with the game, but several people told me that the game was perfectly fine and that it was *i* who had something wrong with me. people can be so unnecessarily mean sometimes, you know? i mean, all i want is some advice on a stupid nintendo game and someone accuses me of being a total imbecile. sheesh. however, amidst the insults, someone said did say something whip-related. but i think they were lying? for i tried both cool-whip and ready-whip, and neither did a thing. frankly, i wasn't surprised - ol' belmont didn't seem like he would be into that sort of thing, anyway. someone else said something about jumping, so i jumped and i jumped. soon the basement neighbor called and asked me to be quiet, which i took as a good sign, so i kept right on jumping. when the police came, i tried to explain that i was jumping for a REASON but they wouldn't listen to me, and i was arrested and convicted of antimony. i was released some time later, and i was still feeling determined to play "castlevania one" for the nintendo. so i nosed around at another website, and there i found some hints about ducking at the enterance to level two. so upstairs i went, ducking like a mad man. i felt grateful that i was such a pro at ducking, thanks to many years of responsibility. i ducked at the enterance to the second floor for many hours. at one point the neighbor came home and asked why i was ducking at the top of the stairs, so i told them that i was playing castlevania one for the nintendo. apparently they have never heard of castlevania because they hurried away without saying another word. when i went inside to see if there was any change, i was disappointed to see that the game had returned to the title screen. i am learning not to trust all the lies on the internet. since nothing else seemed to be working, i confered upon this belmont fellow the title "maximus pontifex," but still he would listen to nothing i said. he didn't even *thank* me. at last, exasperated and running out of patience, i offered to make him proconsul of thrace, but even that got no reaction from him. finally, time ran out, and i simply couldn't bear to continue. next i will try bribery, since *anyone* can be bribed, i hear. but i'm kind of short on cash, so any other help would really be appreciated. any suggestions? 051013 ... stork daddy jump and whip. jump and whip. 051014 ... Doar hooray for jumping whips! 051014 what's it to you? who go blather from