afaik there are 5 versions of Vampire killer.

I guess we can make a dozen more cracked versions! (But who cares?)

i mean 5 version released by konami, no cracked version!

Ah, I'm glad you mean that. Any idea about the differences?

Manuel: do you mean the differences between the original Konami cartridges and the cracked disk versions? Maybe we can give you a tiny hint: cartridges are a bit more thick than disks are

Now seriously: does anyone know the differences between the original ROMs? Is the ROM multiversion (different titles on Japanese/European machines) or are there separate Japan and Europe releases? I would like to know that too.

hmmm actually the crashing of my old disk version bothers me
the thing its actually about is that:

disk version (japanese version of vampire killer) freezes and resets when i walk off the screen.
on both my msx2 nms8245 64k rom 256k ram computers

but the weird fact is that my japanese cartridge version of vampire killer that i recently bought gives the same problem.
freezes randomly but often when i walk of the screen unto the next screen in exactly the same way as the disk version does.

Let me point out that NMS8245 has the following:

- 128 KB RAM
- 128 KB VRAM
- 32 KB BIOS
- 16 KB EXT BIOS
- 16 KB DISK BIOS

Note that 128 KB RAM + 128 KB VRAM is *NOT* 256 KB RAM.

i only mean the original konami cartridge there is one version that crashes on a philips MSX2.
And there are as i said before (at least) 5 different original versions released by konami.
I got this information from Konami Guru bifi!
dunno about cracked versions.

THen it seems that that particular crack was quite good, and from the same ROM version as your cartridge

Hmm, about the diskversions: I have had a diskversion that I played on a 128KB 8250, complete with music, no gamemaster, from start till end several times. Later I got a version with a trainer, allowing me to give myself 255 energy (which made the energy bar 'walk' out of the screen ). That also worked completely fine. I ran both version on my 8245 with 256KB, also without problems.

However I felt guilty so afterwards I bought the cardridge a few years ago

So, if there really were 5 versions of cartridges, what are the differences between them ?
Can it be that the crashing problem on specific MSX models was solved in later versions ?

yes some version do not crash as you can read in message above!
they all are little bug fixes.

okay i just ordered the european cartridge of vampire killer online lol
lets hope this one doent crash hehehe.
if it does i will eat my shoe hahaha
its the one with the pretty simple lable.
the cartridge label looks less pretty but if this one plays its fine for me ^^

From the legal point of view, as long you own the cartridge, you can use any disk version you want.
I think there should exist some that will work for you.
Am I right ?

yup i know if i own the cartridge version i can use any disk version i want ^_^
but for some reason i want to own a vampire killer cartridge that doesnt crash on my msx.
and since it seems that unfortunately the first version i bought crashes on my system and other versions dont i decided to order the european release of the game. ^_^