Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow is an action role playing game for the Game Boy Advance.

Aria of Sorrow brings us back to the Action-RPG stylings that started in SOTN. You play as Soma Cruz, someone who is lead to Dracula’s Castle and finds out that he has the ability to control the powers of demons.

Not only do you have an equipment system allowing you to get new weapons, armor and such, but you also have the Soul System. This system allows you to gain the powers from all the various demons you will fight in Dracula’s Castle. There are four types of souls you can get: Bullet Type (those that give you a sub-weapon like ability, costing small amount of MP), Guardian Type (those that call upon the demon itself to give you an ability, costing lots of MP), Support Type (those that just add to your stats or give you an ability, but do not cost MP and are always active) and Ability Types (those that add special abilities, like Double Jumping).

There are two patches.
One is for Castlevania: Akatsuki no Minuet(Japan), the other is for Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow(USA). Except language, the two versions are same.

This hack did many things. First, this hack changed the configuration of monsters for all rooms, just like the images showed! The number of monsters is increased. Second, this hack changed the route of game. Third, this hack changed all weapons, just like the images showed also. Not only graphics but also properties. Of course, this hack changed many graphics of souls by the way. Finally, this hack increased the difficulty of the game by fixed some numerical value.

The Japanese Version:
name "Castlevania - Akatsuki no Minuet (Japan).gba"
size 8388608
crc 284E3092
md5 146AE198A3D42A66733B9E0EF3EC11EB
sha1 0E086345F3BEF45611C252ADF1F4D1FBE642F2C1
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The USA Version:
name "Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA).gba"
size 8388608 crc 35536183
md5 E7470DF4D241F73060D14437011B90CE
sha1 ABD71FE01EBB201BCC133074DB1DD8C5253776C7
flags verified

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