Castlevania: Castlevania - Death Counter

Castlevania: Death Counter is a ROM hack of the original Castlevania for the Nintendo Entertainment System, transforming the life counter into a death counter. Players start with zero deaths, which increases with each failure, up to a maximum of 99. The modification encourages players to minimize deaths while retaining infinite lives. A new skull icon signifies deaths, and the UI is adjusted accordingly.

This hack repurposes the life counter in Castlevania into a death counter. You begin the game with zero deaths, and each time you die the counter increases by 1 (up to 99). This effectively gives you infinite lives but more than just a simple cheat code, it also modifies the in-game UI to help players keep track of deaths and encourage trying to have as few deaths as possible.

[Changes]
- Repurposes the lives counter as a death counter.
- Death counter starts at 0.
- Dying increases the counter.
- Getting extra lives (either from points or the hidden 1up) plays the jingle but has no effect.
- Added a little skull icon to the UI to indicate deaths instead of lives.
- At 256 deaths the counter loops back to 99 to prevent a Game Over caused by an overflow.

[Name]
"Castlevania [Death Counter].ips" v1.0

[Author]
Binarynova

[Date]
March 14, 2022 (PI DAY!)

[Description]
This hack repurposes the life counter in Castlevania into a death counter. You begin the game with zero deaths, and each time you die the counter increases by 1 (up to 99). This effectively gives you infinite lives but more than just a simple cheat code, it also modifies the in-game UI to help players keep track of deaths and encourage trying to have as few deaths as possible.

[Installation]
Use your favorite IPS patcher to apply this patch to the US (Rev 1) version of the game.

[Changes]
- Repurposes the lives counter as a death counter.
- Death counter starts at 0.
- Dying increases the counter.
- Getting extra lives (either from points or the hidden 1up) plays the jingle but has no effect.
- Added a little skull icon to the UI to indicate deaths instead of lives.
- At 256 deaths the counter loops back to 99 to prevent a Game Over caused by an overflow.

Database match: Castlevania (USA) (Rev 1)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 7A20C44F302FB2F1B7ADFFA6B619E3E1CAE7B546
File CRC32: 856114C8
ROM SHA-1: 3DCB69A8C861C041AEB56C04E39ADF6D332EDA3A
ROM CRC32: B668C7FC

NES Cores

Time to Beat

Main Story 3h 0m

Main + Extras 5h 0m

Speedrun Avg 0h 18m

Release Date

Mar 14, 2022

2 years ago

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