Castlevania Practice and Test Rom

Original game : Castlevania

Platform : NES

Author : bogaabogaa

Release date : 19 July 2022

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.1

Modifications : P

Downloads : 518

ROM Information

Database match: Castlevania (USA) (Rev A)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20180803-121122)
File SHA-1: 7A20C44F302FB2F1B7ADFFA6B619E3E1CAE7B546
File CRC32: 856114C8
ROM SHA-1: 3DCB69A8C861C041AEB56C04E39ADF6D332EDA3A
ROM CRC32: B668C7FC

Hack description

Converted the ROM to MMC5 since UNROM does not support SRAM

Features: In game menu when pressing START (pause)
- reset to beginning of the current level
- level Select (press A to lunch)

- game mode (only one can be active at a time)
- 00 "off" (no mods are loaded)
- 01 "scroll gl" glitch practice (info in read-me)
- 02 "timer fra" (frame-counter does also lag with the game)
- 03 "pos viewer" shows xPos and yPos of the player
- 04 "loop mode" does save gear and cam options to SRAM and reload as you spawn
- 05 "stair fnd" does find stairs and displays them on screen. Room color encoded
- 06 "beer" does make the player jump to the top of the screen when pressing select
- 07 "map sta" select goes to map. Pressing left/right tries to put Simon in stairmode. (likely to crash the game)
- 08 "zoom fa" does fake scroll to show the whole nametable. Press hold select.
- 09 "door find" will display doors active color encoded

- give all (refill everything)
- game loop (switch first and second quest)
- slow motion (lags the game to observe what is going on)
- color mode (set intensive color or black/white)
- give items.. (does what it claims)
- place holder will load some sound when pressing B and exit the menu

clear SRAM:
- Holding A and B at title-screen. Will reload the code to SRAM that could be damaged after a crash

The old version still available and is more for hacks who like to test there levels. This one is aimed to be a game trainer.

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
bogaabogaa	Hacking	ASM

Reviews

Some Small Bits of Info	Morinis	2020-06-02	Version 1.0
People twisted my arm into looking at this so here I am. The pro's Provides basic information Helpful to those that want to get an idea but explanation is lackluster Offers some variety to choose from Small list of details on what to do as it holds your hand to a certain degree The con's Lacking a lot of information (to me at least) Parts of it feels like a cheap advertisement or to force someone to join a server to get the rest of the information on how to do this (not everyone wants to do that) Notes To the Author If you want to help people in the Castlevania hacking/modding communities you should start sharing an information dump onto a personal open website or ROM hacking/modding forum place as Discord is like Facebook to thousands of people as they refuse to use it due to privacy concerns that it can offer on open servers. Be more respectful and think next time instead of attempting to make it feel as if people have to join a server not only for a head count but to acquire more information on how to do this. Websites are a lot better to share resources at as I learned the hard way. Just make sure nothing is plagiarized :)

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