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Castlevania - Legends: Speed Hack

By Sliver X

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Castlevania - Legends: Speed Hack screenshot 1

Castlevania - Legends: Speed Hack gameplay screenshots.

About this project

One of the things that put me off about the Gameboy CV games was the slow walking speed of the protagonists. While I understand this was due to the old school Gameboys blurring very badly when ANYTHING moved, in the age of emulation it’s just a pain in the ass.

Therefore, I hacked Castlevania Legends so Sonia moves faster than usual.

In v1.0, Sonia moved as quickly as when Burning Mode was activated. Due to complaints, I slowed her down a little (By using a different method to hack her speed), so Burning Mode still provides a speed bonus along with its other benefits.

There is also a patch for the japanese version of the game as of v1.1. The most notable difference is that it uses SRAM instead of passwords.

Original game requirements

Castlevania - Legends (U) [S].gb
CRC32: AD9C17FB
MD5: 1475824E7262C0D6359F43C287E034A5
SHA-1: 91A8E49BF6EAC5FE62EC2CC5E6DECBD08CE9B515
SHA-256: 56D3DEE063B8801704A284BD1BC229B94F15A3A448F485D347F04283D9BD16D7

Creator credits

Sliver X: Original Hacking
Hacking

RELEASE 1.1

Readme & instructions

211readme.txt

Castlevania - Legends: Speed Hack v1.1 2007 Sliver X (panicus@gmail.com) http://panicus.googlepages.com What it is Makes Sonia move faster. Probably blurs on the old brick Gameboys (There's a reason why the GB CV games are so slow!), but for emulators it's sweet. Important The patches are meant for the following ROMs: Akumajou Dracula - Shikkokutaru Zensoukyoku (J) [S][!].gb Castlevania - Legends (U) [S].gb Usage of any other ROM version may cause issues and incompatabilities.

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Castlevania - Legends: Speed Hack v1.1

2007 Sliver X (panicus@gmail.com)

http://panicus.googlepages.com

What it is
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Makes Sonia move faster. Probably blurs on the old brick Gameboys (There's
a reason why the GB CV games are so slow!), but for emulators it's sweet.

Important
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The patches are meant for the following ROMs:

Akumajou Dracula - Shikkokutaru Zensoukyoku (J) [S][!].gb
Castlevania - Legends (U) [S].gb

Usage of any other ROM version may cause issues and incompatabilities.

How?
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The previous iteration of this hack made Sonia move as fast as when "Burning Mode"
is enabled. However, some people have told me that it's too fast, and cheapens one
of the aspects of Burning Mode.

Since I had recently hacked Belmont's Revenge to have faster character speed, I
thought of checking Legends to see if it shared common routines for determining
this with that game; turns out it does, which lends creedence to the idea that
Belmont's Revenge and Legends are based on the same engine.

So now Sonia moves faster, but not as fast at in v1.0. Burning mode will still give
her a speed boost on top of the upped attack power and invunerablitity.

Changes
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v1.1: Toned down Sonia's speed slightly. Added a patch for the japanese version of the game.

v1.0: Initial release.

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