Castlevania is an action platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Known in Japan as Akumajou Dracula ("Demon Castle Dracula"), this game is about a clan of vampire hunters known as the Belmonts hunting down and killing Dracula himself.

You play as Simon Belmont, and fight your way through Dracula's castle (known in English as "Castlevania", a portmanteau of Castle and Transylvania, har har). You have many weapons at your disposal. Your main weapon, the Vampire Killer whip has somehow been passed down through the Belmont clan for generations. You can get power ups for that (essentially changing it from a leather whip, to a short chain, and longer chain whip). You also have many sub-weapons, which require hearts to use. These include a knife, throwing axe, holy water, cross boomerang and stopwatch (which freezes all enemies on screen). You can only throw one of these in a certain period of time, unless you get the "II" and "III" powerups.

This hack completely changes the level-design of the original Castlevania.
It's mainly targeted towards speedrunners because now it's absolutely necessary to exploit damage boosting in order to beat the game.

The challenge is high but there are many secrets on the way to help you out.

The zip file contains three difficulty levels:
easy, normal and hard

Happy vampire hunting!

Castlevania (Europe)

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File CRC32 60811001
ROM MD5 B14BC3C5DBFAADD4AEE35FB533400B14
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