Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Playable Shanoa is a ROM hack for the Nintendo DS that allows players to control Shanoa instead of the original protagonist. The hack features redesigned glyph mechanics, with some glyphs appearing as weapon icons found in the castle and others as soul forms dropped by certain enemies. While balancing may vary, the experience aims to maintain gameplay enjoyment.
Shanoa is playable in Dawn of Sorrow!
Glyphs were recreated to the best of my abilities, within Dawn of Sorrow's limitations. Some come in soul form (enemies that drop glyphs have a "G" in front of their names, **other enemies drop no glyphs/souls**) and some come in weapon form (they're exclusively found throughout the castle and have regular weapon icons. Yes, Ignis' icon is a gun).
Balancing might not be perfect (kind of hard to balance this many changes!), but it's also not super broken, so it should be fun!
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Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Playable Shanoa
By: Abbacchio
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This is a ROM hack of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, please utilize xdelta (https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/598/) to patch this version of the game:
File: Castlevania - Dawn of Sorrow (USA).nds
CRC-32: 135737F6
MD5: cc0f25b8783fb83cb4588d1c111bdc18
SHA-1: 47530FF87E608F88105A314FDF36DC385F8DEC94
SHA-256: 3ddc8b0eac841b6005ff4c38a184b517fa8225ac905aad951b0572850358d8b0
-Soma's appearance and voice is changed to Shanoa's
Enemy information:
-Some enemies now hold Order of Ecclesia glyphs (souls only, "weapon glyphs" are found, not dropped) recreated within Dawn of Sorrow's limitations
-Enemies that can drop glyphs have a "G" added in front of their names. **Other enemies drop no soul/glyph, so don't waste your time trying to farm them** (they can still drop armor/consumables though, NOT weapons).
Glyphs:
-Some glyphs are recreated as weapons and some as souls. Every "weapon glyph" is found in the castle, every "soul glyph" is dropped by enemies with "G" in front of their names.
Glyphs added to the game (in one form or another):
-Confodere
-Vol Confodere
-Melio Confodere
-Secare
-Vol Secare
-Melio Secare
-Hasta
-Vol Hasta
-Melio Hasta
-Macir
-Vol Macir
-Melio Macir
-Arcus
-Vol Ascia
-Falcis
-Vol Falcis
-Melio Falcis
-Melio Culter
-Torpor
-Lapiste
-Pneuma
-Ignis
-Vol Ignis
-Grando
-Vol Grando (this one is just the Frozen Shade soul renamed though, it's already similar enough and it's hard to recreate for complicated reasons)
-Fulgur
-Vol Fulgur (this one is just the Rycuda soul renamed though, it's already similar enough and it's hard to recreate for complicated reasons)
-Vol Luminatio
-Umbra
-Nitesco Union
-Acerbatus
-Globus
-Dextro Custos
-Sinestro Custos
-Fidelis Alate
-Fidelis Noctua
-Fidelis Medusa
-Fidelis Caries (this one is just the Zombie soul renamed though, it's already similar enough and it's hard to recreate for complicated reasons)
-Fidelis Aranea
-Rapidus Fio (just Black Panther renamed, I might update the graphics at some point in the future if I feel like it though)
-Volaticus (no wings for now)
-Dominus Agony (just the Devil soul renamed without the Devil graphics)
-Vis Fio, Sapiens etc. (they're added as Yellow Souls, the golem, lilith souls etc.)
Glyphs currently NOT in the hack, that might be add in the (distant) future:
-Dominus Hatred/Anger
-Cubus
-Luminatio
-Vol Umbra
-Morbus
-Glyph Unions
(v1.4)
-Changed most of the music into Order of Ecclesia music
(v1.3)
-Fixed OP Lapiste damage (it had no iframes)
-Made Dextro Custos feel less clunky
-Changed one voice that was missing (Soma shout when you beat a boss)
(v1.2)
-Changed voices so Shanoa actually sounds like Shanoa now
-Ignis' hitboxes are now much more precise
(v1.1)
-Soma's portrait in cutscenes changed to Shanoa's
-Nerfed Umbra glyph a little bit
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