Castlevania Legends: Castlevania - Legends: Speed Hack

Castlevania Legends: Speed Hack is a fan-made modification of the Game Boy game Castlevania Legends, designed to enhance the character Sonia's movement speed. By adjusting the game's mechanics, the hack allows Sonia to move faster than in the original version without compromising gameplay. Released in 2007, it includes a patch for the Japanese version, which utilizes SRAM for saving progress instead of passwords. The modification aims to improve the overall experience for players using emulators.

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.

Castlevania - Legends: Speed Hack v1.1

2007 Sliver X ([email protected])

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.

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

GB Cores

Time to Beat

Main Story 1h 47m

Main + Extras 2h 0m

Release Date

Feb 9, 2007

17 years ago

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