Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse: Castlevania 3 Gold Edition

The story is the same. The stages are different with new palettes. The difficulty is high similar to the original, but the secrets around the game may help you to continue. Enjoy!

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Castlevania 3 Gold Edition
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This Romhack is out for a while and is available as v2.00 here:
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=84673

I did get a version of Level-engine himself. All I did to it was playing and I fixed one sprite pointer and removed the debugger modus.
Since I believe that one will confuse people more then it will be a improvement. And when you like it just add it back with reVamp. (Check-box on emulation tab)
Level-engine seems not to care to share it on RHDN but I think it would get much more attention there so I decided to try and upload it there.
I personally have a long history to fail uploades on this side but hey this hack deserves it more then the crap I had in mind to upload sometimes.

Greetings Bogaa

Version 3.0
- Debug removed
- enemy pointer

toDo Testing second quest

v2: Altered several levels to make them a little easier, plus other changes:
- Made Bad River look better in 3-01
- Platforming sections in 5-05 now easier (removed the spikes at the second tilting ledge)
- Spikes removed near Bone Pillar in 6-02 (Cemetery)
- Removed falling blocks in 7-05 (Hall of Pict)
- Hunchback removed behind first Bone Pillar in Waterworks 6-0C
- Winged Demons removed near two platforms to jump across in Chapel of the Elders 7-0B
- Replaced Mummies in 7-0C with pits to jump, easier to reach skeletion knight with a short ranged weapon, added two hearts in Stage 7 Syfa route boss area
- Removed second Axe Knight in Krow Keep, 8-03, replaced with owls
- Cracked wall near Grim Reaper fight to hint that pork chop is there
- No longer have to duck to hit the first Bone Pillar's flames in Guard Tower, 9-01
- Vertical section in 9-02 no longer auto scrolls
- 9-03 vertical area has less/weaker enemies
- Removed Axe Knight in A-02, replaced with pits to jump cross
- Moved pork chop to right wall in A-02, area just before Dracula
- Username now signed on title screen
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A word from levelengine (the author of the romhack/remix):

If you were looking for a romhack of Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse, then you've come to the right place!
After roughly two months of brainstorming and building, I've successfully remixed Castlevania 3 into something different, but it still does have a lot of the
old content unchanged, as the level editor (reVamp) is limited and Castlevania romhacking is largely unexplored.
Fair warning that this game is difficult just like the American version of Castlevania 3 that it was built off of.

If you want to see the official release trailer, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq6Tefso3TM

Disclaimer:
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse/Legend of the Devil Castle is registered/trademarked by Konami (1989-1990).

Orginal:

Rom Name: Castlevania III - Dracula's Curse (U) [!].nes (or what you named it)
CRC-32: c11cb292
MD4: f70e2f663e0731dbc6003682c38407a5
MD5: 2e2b76a4946e4f15aa087af8adcb38b1
SHA-1: a23849136a5501b96e6b1f1e9f7e2f212cd28ffd

Patched:

File: Castlevania 3 Gold Edition.nes (or what you named it)
CRC-32: 0b691f93
MD4: e558ccfd97b7dfdf848d2a36ddfb925c
MD5: 391efd14c5b14a843bf72f7165fd1955
SHA-1: e5ebb03b03ef6f1bba9f61ca4d0cba05bb22bc1f