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.

Update Version 1.5:
-Change some annoying level layout like the moving spike in level 2 stage 06, and change some enemy placement.
-The clock now cost 5 hearts again (why was it 15 in the first place?).
-Edit the Gallery so that each level has exactly 4 image representing them (Except level 6 & 7).
-Change some background to look more pleasing in the eye and not distracting.
Also, thanks to the youtube channel
"The Videogame Anthologist" for doing
a commentary on this hack. Don't worry,
your voice was heard :)

Castlevania Shattered Memories is a hack
that change the level layout and some
minor things to make your trip toward the
gravity defying Dracula's Chamber more
enjoyable. Below are the complete list
of the changes:
-Completely changes the level layout and make necessary changes to the level layout that wasn't changed. For example: There is a room in level 2 where if you jump and get hit by a medusa head, you will land on the platform above you. I lowered the platform below so you can't do it anymore.

-Your whip upgrade is permanent, even after you get a game over.

-No knockback

-Move the location of breakable blocks.

-In the original Castlevania and Castlevania 3, the further you get through the game, the enemies inflict more damage than previously. In this hack, it's reversed, so the further you get through the game, enemies inflict less damage.

-Food now restored all of your health.

-There are invisible stairs scattered across Dracula's ever changing castle, with some of them letting you skip certain part of the level.

The patch is an .ips file, so use
Lunar IPS or something of it's kind to
patch the hack.

If you have trouble getting through this
game, you can read the "Hints" text file
included with the patch. Also included
is a Gallery folder, containing footage
of Dracula's chaotic castle and his servants
that lurk within the wall of the castle.

Try this hack if you like the gameplay of
the original Castlevania, but find it too
hard.

Database match: Castlevania (USA) (Rev 1)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 7A20C44F302FB2F1B7ADFFA6B619E3E1CAE7B546
File CRC32: 856114C8
ROM SHA-1: 3DCB69A8C861C041AEB56C04E39ADF6D332EDA3A
ROM CRC32: B668C7FC