Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse an action platforming game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This game is known in Japan as Akumajou Densetsu.

A new feature added for this game, there are three bosses that the player can recruit: Grant DeNasty (a pirate who can climb walls and is an expert dagger user), Sypha Belnades (a magic user, with various types of magic sub-weapons and a staff) and Alucard (Dracula’s son, who uses Fireballs and can change into a bat). Do note that you can only have ONE of these people on your team, and if you want a different one you have to exchange him/her for your current party member.

Another new feature is the “Choose Your Path” feature. After each stage, most of the time you are given a choice between two new stages to go to next.

This hack overhauls Alucard so his fireballs are better. Plus a few other small changes. See readme for full list of changes. Patches for both US, and Japanese versions of the game.

Version 1.9 Added Grant skip to falling block stage plus a few other small changes.

Version 1.8 Adjusted delay on Fire Spell, and Alucard Fireballs. Few changes to the hard mode patches.

Version 1.7 Made hack more customizable like my Improvements hack. Added a few small features. See Readme for details.

Version 1.6 all Subweapons are stored in lanterns like Bloodlines, and COTM do. A Few bugfixes.

Version 1.5 Added easy, hard mode for US patch. A few other small changes.

Version 1.4 updated Japanese patch weapon damage, and monsters life.

Version 1.3 slightly better Alucard Fireballs.

Version 1.2 added an Akumajou Densetsu harder mode patch.

Version 1.1 Alucard damage, and some monster's life adjusted for US patch.

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Database match: Akumajou Densetsu (Japan)
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