Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - Small Improvements

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - Small Improvements is a ROM hack that serves as simple modifications that add attributes to equipment and skills, change music track names, etc.

Checkout the readme file for a complete list of changes made.


~Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - Small Improvements~

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Made by Masked Dedede.

These patches serve as a simple modifications that add attributes to equipment and skills, change music track names, etc.




*Changelog*

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[January 28th, 2021]:

- Version 1.0, initial release.

[January 30th, 2021]:

- Version 1.1, made the High Potion and music name changes into separate patches.


*Changes*

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1. [Gameplay changes]:

- General: allow skipping events with Start, even if you haven't beaten the game once yet.

2. [Enemy changes]:

- Death: added weakness to Holy.
- Legion: added weakness to Slash and Fire.
- Balore: added weakness to Slash.
- Chaos: added resistance to Poison, Curse, and Stone.

3. [Item and equipment changes]:

- High Potion: changed HP restoration from 400 to 200.
- Vjaya: added Slash attribute.
- Balmug: added Curse attribute.
- Dainslef: added Curse attribute.
- Gungner: added Slash attribute.
- Pitch Black Suit: added Dark resistance.
- Orlox's Suit: added Dark resistance.
- Dracula's Tunic: added Dark, Fire, Ice, and Lightning resistances.
- Eversing: added Ice resistance.
- Death's Robe: added Dark, Poison, Curse, and Stone resistances.
- Crimson Cloak: added Fire and Ice resistances.
- Black Cloak: added Fire, Ice, and Dark resistances.
- Red Scarf: added Ice resistance.
- Flame Necklace: added Fire resistance.
- Satan's Ring: added Dark, Poison, and Curse resistances.
- Skeleton Beam: added Holy attribute.
- Holy Water: added Fire attribute.

3.1 [Item and equipment description changes]:

- High Potion: "Restores 400 HP." --> "Restores 200 HP."

4. [Music name changes]:

- Castle Corridor --> Ruined Castle Corridor.
- Top Floor --> Demon Castle Top Floor.
- Inner Quartes --> Phantom Palace.
- Study --> Demon Castle Study.
- Floating Garden --> Forgotten Garden.
- The Arena --> The Purgatory Arena.
- Forbidden Area --> Sacred Cave.
- Hammer's Shop --> Hammer Company.
- Formidable Enemy --> A Formidable Foe Appears.
- Last Battle --> Final Desicive Battle.
- Throne Fights --> Battle for the Throne.
- Battle with Chaos --> Battle Against Chaos.
- Prologue(Theme of Mina) --> Prologue (Mina's Theme).
- Credits --> Staff Roll.
- Black Sun --> The Black Sun.


*Credits*

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- LagoLunatic, for making patch that allows event skipping on a first playthrough and for making the DSVania Editor hacking tool.

- The Castlevania Wiki, for the names of the music, equipment attributes, enemy weaknesses and resistances.


Database match: Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20180816-092117)
File/ROM SHA-1: ABD71FE01EBB201BCC133074DB1DD8C5253776C7
File/ROM CRC32: 35536183