Dracula's Castle

Dracula's Castle is a starter stage in Super Smash Flash 2 from the Castlevania universe. It was first available in demo v0.9a and is based on the same stage from the defunct mod Project M. It is a home stage for.

Layout
Dracula's Castle consists of a large center platform with three soft platforms floating above the center platform. These three platforms gradually shift positions as time goes on.

A bright red moon appears in the background on the right side of the stage, with dark skies with clouds storming across the horizon and a shadowy castle in the center. The stage also has an ominous red glow effect.

Music

 * The main track is titled Castlevania Retro Medley, a rock remix/medley of Simon Belmont Theme, Vampire Killer, and Bloody Tears from Super Castlevania VI, Castlevania, and Castlevania ll: Simon's Quest. Arranged by Alex Chernabogue Mourey
 * The alternate music track is a remix of Proof of Blood from Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. Arranged by Alex Chernabogue Mourey.

Tournament legality
This stage is considered to be a counterpick in competitive play. It is long, and has moving platforms that alter the layout of the stage a lot, producing at least a few variations that are very strong for campy characters. Despite this, the stage is considered to be balanced enough to warrant being legal, though it is not balanced enough to be a neutral stage. It should be noted, however, that the stage is currently banned in online play due to lag created by the stage's various graphical effects adversely affecting the outcomes of online battles.

Origin
Dracula's Castle comes from the Castlevania series. It is the lair of Dracula, the main antagonist and sometimes final boss of the series, and it is the place where particularly the whole events of some Castlevania  games take place. In said games, it houses an army of Dracula's supernatural minions. The castle tends to collapse when Dracula is defeated but somehow appears completely restored in later games, even the ones where Dracula has not yet revived himself. In SSF2, Dracula's Castle is a gimmick-less stage with no notion of the constant threat it usually represent in the Castlevania games, aside its gloomy atmosphere and the bloody Moon in the background.

This specific instance of Dracula's Castle is itself from a fighting game, Castlevania: Judgement. In fact, before it was famously adapted into Project M, the stage started life as a direct 3D model rip from Judgement.

Trivia

 * Prior to Beta 1.1, turning off stage hazards with the hazard switch would prevent the three soft platforms from moving. This was changed due to Dracula's Castle being the only legal stage in tournament play where hazards were turned on.
 * Dracula's Castle was revised in version v3.6β of Project M to look different, now being ambiented as a -themed stage called "Delfino Secret".
 * In Project M, Castlevania ' s series symbol was a whip; in SSF2, this was changed to a cross. Both items are used as weapons in the Castlevania series.