game, Akamatsu instead cited Maze of Galious, another platform-adventure game by Konami that features puzzle solving. It was eventually converted to cartridge on the NES in North America on December 1, 1988, and in Europe on April 27, 1990. There are functional differences due to hardware differences between the FDS and cartridge. The FDS version features a progress saving feature, commonly seen on FDS games due to the rewritable floppy disk. The NES version instead uses a password function to return to specific sequences from the game. The FDS medium has a data storage limitation of of slow access, whereas bank-switching techniques and solid memory costs allow cartridges to have comparable data space with much faster access. The developers used the space to improve the music quality for the game, adding percussion samples and re-arranging the melodies to take advantage of the technology. Other changes were made to correct several grammatical and spelling errors in the translation, although the rendering of the protagonist's name as "Simmon Belmont" in the game's endings stayed. Most of the original artwork for Simon's Quest and other early Castlevania games was lost during the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995. Simon's Quest has seen several re-releases. On November 16, 2002, the game was included on Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra in North America, a PC collection of the Konami NES games via emulation. It has been re-released on other consoles through Nintendo's Virtual Console service. Simon's Quest is exclusive to the North American and European versions of the NES Classic Edition, a miniature replica of the NES featuring many built-in games. It is also a part of the multi-platform Castlevania Anniversary Collection, a 2019 compilation of past Castlevania titles, and Simon's Quest has the distinction of being the only game in the collection that was released in Japan using the North American version instead of its Japanese counterpart. Audio The game's soundtrack was composed by Kenichi Matsubara, who later created music for the Castlevania arcade title, Haunted Castle. "Bloody Tears" has since become a recurring song in the Castlevania franchise. The album Akumajō Dracula Famicom Best was released on March 20, 1990, with the catalog number KICA-1005, and a bonus sticker. It was reprinted under Akumajō Dracula Best Vol. 1 on September 23, 1998, with the catalog number KICA-7901. It included the FDS version of Simon's Quests music, with three bonus tracks from the NES