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).

IPS patching required.

This is a hack of Aria of Sorrow that changes most part of the map, and the aim is to give completely new experience to players.

Changes
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[li]Most of the map redone. Some new puzzles added. Added a new area like Nest of Evil in PoR.[/li]
[li]Some of the weapons, armors and accessories are changed. Example: Valmanway and Excarlibur.[/li]
[li]Changed some items. Example: Mina's Charm, work like magic ticket and can be used without consuming it. Talk to Mina to acquire this.[/li]
[li]Most of souls are slightly easier to acquire.[/li]
[li]Bug fixes to original game, including shop giltch and death warp.[/li]
[li]Soma's status are changed. Julius is greatly strengthened. The aim is that Julius is super and can be used very easily.[/li]
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Not all changes are listed here, so that players can find out new things themselves.

For some frequently asked questions, view the readme file.

Update
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[li]v1.11: Fixed a bug that Flame Deamon + Giant Bat + Succubus soul combination does not work correctly. Though it is not a major bug, it still makes me feel deserve to fix it. Also a minor map tile fix in Death Arena.[/li]
[li]v1.10: Changed some parts of the game which has confused a lot of players (and is also not satisfied by the author). The main game play remains the same so that players who has already cleared this hack are not necessarily to play this again. This will be the last update for this hack if no major bugs were found.
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[li]A key item can no longer be sold, which will prevent the player from getting good ending.[/li]
[li]Added a tip telling player what is happening when opening the gate in the Underground Reservoir.[/li]
[li]Changed the gfx of sealed boss doors so that players can tell apart them from normal ones.[/li]
[li]Remade a room in the Inner Quarters so that player may not be confused by the fake "exits".[/li]
[li]Changed the text of Hint Card 2 & 3 to make them more clear to players.[/li]
[li]Some other minor changes.[/li]
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[li]v1.01: Fixed a bug that Tsuchinoko soul does not work correctly.[/li]
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No-Intro Entry: Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA)
External Header: No
ROM Size: 8388608 (800000)
UNMODDED CRC32: 35536183
UNMODDED MD5: E7470DF4D241F73060D14437011B90CE
UNMODDED SHA-1: ABD71FE01EBB201BCC133074DB1DD8C5253776C7
MODDED CRC32: 513AF4C9
MODDED MD5: D15C0B9AA1D9D9C28D53BF80DAD08EF0
MODDED SHA-1: 46677C2DCFC76ADAF59CF84896EE9448E93F83A3

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