Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra enters the GOG Preservation Program

By Liam Dawe - 4 Sep 2025 at 9:14 am UTC

More classics are being kept alive for modern platforms, with GOG putting Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra into their Preservation Program.

This pack contains five games including Castlevania, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Contra and Super C. All of them now have the GOG promise of it being "the best version of this game you can buy on any PC platform".

Nice to see. The last time I spotted more titles being added to the GOG Preservation Program was back near the end of July with the likes of Heroes of Might and Magic and more games. This time since it's only one game, they didn't do a big announcement but they did post it official to Reddit that I saw.

Check it out on the GOG store.

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In case you missed it GOG also just recently expanded their one-click mod program with more popular big mods.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Proton, DRM-Free, GOG, Misc, Retro, Wine

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eev 2 days ago

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"The best version of this game you can buy on any PC platform" is a HUGE technicality. What this is is a very old release of these games in a collection that had shoddy emulation and a subpar port to PC back in 2002. GOG fixed up this specific release to solve compatibility issues with current Windows, but not anything else, you get a better experience out of either emulating them yourself or buying Castlevania/Contra Anniversary Collection on Steam, which are much better done collections by M2 and include more games from each respective series overall.

The GOG Preservation Program is a marketing stunt, when they do well it's great (See Alpha Protocol, Resident Evil and Dino Crisis) but most games simply get wrappers to solve basic incompatibilities and then get slapped with the label to make them more appealing on the store. I suggest practicing caution with their Preservation Program releases and looking into if other stores or platforms you have on hand don't have better options, which you can easily find for Castlevania and Contra on any current console or PC through Steam thanks to the anniversary collections I already mentioned.

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Shmerl 2 days ago

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In case anyone needs, I made a script for extracting individual games including a hidden Jackal game from it:

https://gist.github.com/shmerl/202332219bebb5e5135ad41140f8f6d5 [External Link]

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