When Simon throws the five pieces of Dracula into the fire at the end of the game, those items don't disappear from his inventory. Often times the player will defeat Dracula whilst holding the count's Rib in his hand and usually not notice.
This is killing me: what the hell does Dracula's ring do in Simon's Quest? Presumably, it has some kind of function since the other four parts do (eye: seeing hidden objects in breakable blocks; nail: whipping through breakable blocks so that you don't need the otherwise fairly useless holy water equipped; rib: shielding you from fireballs; heart: gaining passage to a new part of the map from the ferryman), but what is its function? Does it have some subtle effect on your stats or...what??
Aside from being needed to resurrect Dracula, it has no purpose. At least all the guides I've read have never suggested it does anything. Might be theories that it increases heart drop rates or something, but most people are pretty sure it doesn't do anything.
I just read at a wiki on the game that wearing the ring is what allows you to break through the enchanted wall in front of the castle ruins, where as the magic cross is what allows you to actually enter the ruins themselves. But can you get through if you wear the ring but don't have the other four parts?
