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 patch simply alters the graphics in the end credit sequence to read 'Simon Belmont', his official English name, instead of 'Simon Belmondo', his official Japanese name.

The download includes patches for all four regional releases of the game on the NES:

- Japanese NTSC 'Akumajou Dracula' (CRC32: 93F0488C)
- Original American NTSC or PRG0 (CRC32: 39C879BB)
- Revised American NTSC or PRG1 (CRC32: 856114C8
- European PAL (CRC32: 9A3CF4D6)

Also included is a special variant of the patch that also updates several of the enemy names in the end credits to their current and slightly more accurate English translations:

- Frankenstein - Franken (since at least CV3)
- Hunch Back - Flea Man
- Armor - Armor Knight

... if that sort of thing really interests you, of course.

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