Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is an action role playing game for the PlayStation.

This game in the Castlevania series departs from the designs of the others, and takes the series into an RPG approach.

Known in Japan as Akumajou Dracula X: Gekka no Yasoukyoku (Demon Castle Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight), this game takes place after the first Dracula X game (specifically, "Dracula X: Rondo of Blood"). You play as Alucard, a returning hero from the third installment of the series on the NES. Alucard is Dracula's son, who had gone into a deep sleep for many years until he was awakened by the return of Dracula's castle.

As Alucard, you have a large number of equipment to choose from (daggers, one-handed swords, two-handed swords, fist-type weapons, rods, as well as armor, shields, capes, helmets, accessories, and usable items).

Alucard has many techniques at his disposal. First, he has a large set of spells (about 10 or so) that he can perform by using his MP (one of the three main statistics, in addition to HP and Hearts). He can transform into a Wolf, Bat, and Mist (each of which has a few abilities of their own). He also gets familiars of varying types (demons, faeries, and even a sentient sword) to help fight his enemies.

The game itself is huge. The amount of ground you have covered in the castle can be viewed on a Metroid-style map that takes up just about the entire screen when it's full. There is also a separate area after the castle which is just as big. There are plenty of secret areas for you to find as well.

This hack brings some quality fixes to the original version of the game for PlayStation.

Main features:
- Removed black bars on the top and bottom of the screen (ingame, menu, final scene);
- Updated the tile maps of all locations to increase the visible area of the screen;
- Unlocked and finalized rooms under the hatch (at the entrance to the usual and reverse castles);
- The positions of some menu items have been changed (expanded backgrounds & frames, etc.);
- Impossibility to leave the castle through the gate by playing for Richter;
- Impossibility to keep the initial equipment of Alucard (avoiding a meeting with Death, using the trick with a wolf, is no longer possible);
- Impossibility of going outside the castle in the location of "Royal Chapel" (in the form of a bat);
- The loading rooms on the global map are now highlighted in white;


Changes in v1.3:
- Activation of stereo sound mode by default.
- The previously missed loading room on the global map is highlighted in white.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night [SLUS-00067] (NTSC-U only)
CRC32: acf987e8
Patch format: PPF
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