Difference between revisions of "Castlevania"

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Castlevania is a wonderful platform action game. You control Simon Belmont, a vampire hunter who enters Dracula's mansion in order to kill him. You must venture through several areas, fighting monsters and bosses at the end of each.

Easy Cheats

Icon	Addr	Val	Cmp	Description
	002A	64	-	Infinite Lives
	0045	40	-	Infinite Hit Points (Spikes still kill you)
	005B	FF	-	Invulnerable
	0070	02	-	Have Chain Whip
	0071	63	-	Infinite Hearts (Must turn off at the end of a stage)
	DA2F	82	-	Infinite Hearts except for Watch (Code Hack - Don't have to turn off at the end of a stage)
	DAC8	80	-	Infinite Hearts for Watch (Code Hack - Don't have to turn off at the end of a stage)
	0064	02	-	Have Triple Shot
	015B	09	-	Have Boomerang
	015B	08	-	Have Dagger
	015B	0B	-	Have Holy Water
	015B	0D	-	Have Axe
	015B	0F	-	Have Watch
	015B	0A	-	Have Cross (Crashes on certain enemies)
	0042	99	-	Infinite Time (Must turn off at the end of a stage)
	A2B8	00	-	Infinite Time (Code Hack - Don't have to turn off at the end of a stage)
	9B90	F0	FB	High Jump
	9B90	E0	FB	Higher Jump
	9B90	A0	FB	Mega Jump (May fall through floor)
	003E	02	01	Run Fast (Turn off at doors)
How do I use these?

North America

Memory Addresses

001A - Remove Invincibility Flickering (Must Disable when entering Doorways and for Intro or game will freeze!)

002A - Lives

002E - Camera X Position x1
002F - Camera X Position x256

003C - Movement Direction (00 - Idle, 01 - Right, 02 - Left)

003F - Map Y Position
0040 - Map X Position x1
0041 - Map X Position x256
0042 - Time: xx99 (00-99)
0043 - Time: 99xx
0044 - Display Hit Points (00-40)
0045 - Set Hit Points To

005B - Invulnerability Timeout

0064 - Shot (00 - Single, 01 - Double, 02 - Triple)

0070 - Whip Strength (00-02)
0071 - Hearts (00-63)

00F7 - Controller 1 Poll

00FD - Camera X Position (Same as 002E)

0141 - Multishot flash timeout

0159 - Player Frame

015B - Weapon
	00 - Nothing
	08 - Dagger
	09 - Boomerang
	0A - Cross (Not normally used)
	0B - Holy Water
	0C - Axe (Red) (Not normally used)
	0D - Axe (Blue)
	0E - 1Up? (Not normally used)
	0F - Watch

01A9 - Boss Set Hit Points To
01AA - Boss Hit Points (00-40)

031C - Player Frame

0354 - Player Y Position On Screen

038C - Player X Position On Screen

0450 - Moving Backwards Flag

0488 - Jump Counter

04DC - Player Y Delta

0584 - Controller 1 Poll (0 - Idle, 1 - Right, 2 - Left, etc.)

056D-057A - Items disappear timeout

071C - Invincibility Status (8E = Invincible with 005B for timeout)

07FD - Score: 99xx00
07FE - Score: xx9900

A2B8 - Infinite Time (code hack, don't have to turn off at end of level)
DA2F - Infinite Hearts except for Watch (code hack, don't have to turn off at end of level)
DAC8 - Infinite Hearts for Watch (code hack, don't have to turn off at end of level)

951C - E9 = Move Forward While Swinging Whip

971B - 8F = No Knock Back When Hit

9B90 - Jump Delta (FB - Normal, F0 = 1.5x Normal, E0 = 2x Normal)

Code

Time

A2B5:A2 42     LDX #$42       ; Offset for time.
A2B7:A9 01     LDA #$01
A2B9:20 46 CA  JSR $CA46      ; Subtract from the offset location.

Text

The Castlevania text tables skip the less used letters like Q and X. The title table ignores even more.

Title

E5=A
E6=B
E7=C
E8=D
E9=E
EA=F
EB=.
EC=H
ED=I
EE=J
EF=K
F0=L
F1=M
F2=N
F3=O
F4=P
F5=\
F6=R
F7=S
F8=T
F9=U
FA= 
FB=W
FC=Y
FD=,

Game

D0=0
D1=1
D2=2
D3=3
D4=4
D5=5
D6=6
D7=7
D8=8
D9=9
E0=A
E1=B
E2=C
E3=D
E4=E
E5=F
E6=G
E7=H
E8=I
E9=J
EA=K
EB=L
EC=M
ED=N
EE=O
EF=P
F1=R
F2=S
F3=T
F4=U
F5=V
F6=W
F7=.
F8=Y
F9=Z

Japan

In Japan, Castlevania is called "Akumajou Dracula" (Demon Castle Dracula). Most of the offsets are the same as the US version.

Famicom Disk System

A Famicom Disk System version of the game was also released in Japan. The offsets are similar to the US version.

Europe