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Castlevania II SRAM hack

Original game : Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

Platform : NES

Author : Matrixz

Release date : 31 March 2011

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : T, O

Downloads : 2606

ROM Information

Castlevania II - Simon's Quest (U) [!].nes - GOODNES 3.14
CRC32: A9C2C503
MD5: 1B827C602C904D8C846499C9F54B93E0
SHA-1: D6B96FD98AE480C694A103FE9A5D7D84EEAFB6F7
SHA-256: F045D72683D3156555ECCBB56090888F03A15E5B25E59DB49DCA7A87330472D3

Hack description

This hack replaces the password options with simple Save and Load options. What it saves is the same information contained in a password.

Save at Game Over:
Choosing SAVE will write the game progress to SRAM. It will return to the Game Over screen until you choose CONTINUE.

Load at menu screen:
Choose LOAD and it will start the game with the progress you saved.

Technical info: The 16 bytes that describes the password is saved and loaded to/from SRAM at $6000-$600F.

There are two ips files, "cv2SRAM.ips" for NTSC roms and "cv2eSRAM.ips" for PAL.

Screenshots

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
Matrixz	Hacking

Reviews

YES! YES!	clovervidia	2012-07-08	-
This might just be the greatest patch for Simon's Quest. I mean, you could save in the FDS version of Castlevania (Akumajou Dracula) AND Castlevania 2 (Dracula 2), so I think it's about time we could save too. And yes, the passwords are really long, so this patch is totally worth it. Now if only we could get saving support in other games (I'm looking at you, Metroid).