Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin: Castlevania: Rondo of Ruin

Castlevania Rondo of Ruin is a Castlevania Portrait of Ruin romhack aiming to modify most of the games content. There is a new story, new items, sprites, weapons, music, and most of the games areas are modified in both small and big ways. Set 5 years after the events of Symphony of the Night, join Richter Belmont, Maria Renard and their companions as they work to unravel what has caused Castlevania's early return to the world of humans.

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Castlevania - Rondo of Ruin
By: Fat T-800 Albert
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This is a ROM hack of Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin. In order to apply the patches provided,
you will need to first make sure you have the correct dump of the original game and the
required patching software.

File: Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin (USA).nds
CRC-32: 96DF4C4D
MD5: 2EDD57540CAE45842FBD19C45A4214F9
SHA-1: 382602E3615B2282EEAD584014125E71B5B0F033
SHA-256: 1174A36FD91F79E95E90B76AA1268AF8FC09F69C04CC8E5B4FF791E872254ABD


Xdelta UI:
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/598/

MultiPatch:
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/746/

Xdelta Patcher:
https://kotcrab.github.io/xdelta-wasm/
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Sources:

https://castlevaniamodding.boards.net/thread/538/castlevania-rondo-richter-adult-maria
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6099/
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Notes:

It is highly recommended that you play this hack with a joypad or controller for the best experience.
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Changelog:

v1.1.0 - February 10, 2023
Fat Albert:
- Various sprites (weapons, characters, enemies etc.) adjusted and improved
- Various new character, enemy, weapon and icon sprites added
- Some items have been relocated
- Spikes hardcoded collisions improved
- Slide Jump ability added for Maria
- New weapons added for Maria (Heaven Sword & Familiar Sword)
- Maria's tomes are now jump cancellable (except Divine Guardian)
- Various stat changes to some weapons and items
- Overhauled shop items
- Adjusted shop prizes
- Made a few map adjustments and fixes
- Various bugs fixed
- Minor text corrections
- Adjusted Richter's sub-weapon SP requirements
- Frog & Dove Morph movement speed increased
- New sound effects added for few weapons, events and quests
- Glyph weapons attack speed slightly increased
- Maria's spells are slightly tweaked for better viability
- Various balance tweaks done for Dual Crushes
- New Dual Crush added: Holy Beam
- New food items added
- Couple new hints added to TALK option
- Couple enemy stats and placements adjusted
- Spin Kick and Tackle inputs made easier to perform
- New version of Don't Wait Until Night added

Masked Dedede:
- Various fixes/additions to text
- Various test playthroughs
- Mämmi icon

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

Darren Zcon:
- Richter's improved greatsword swing sprites

Serio CVF team:
- Claimh Solais weapon sprites

Darian64:
- Stella and Loretta portraits

v1.0.8 - May 4, 2022
Fat Albert:
- Made a few item and sub-weapon/spells adjustments
- R.Axe, R.Boomerang, and R.Firebomb added for Simon
- Adjusted a couple sprites
- Made a few map adjustments and fixes
- Various text corrections
- Adjusted audio in Sandy Grave's theme
- Couple enemy stats and placements adjusted
- Made a few small stat changes to some weapons
- Added new save file emblems

Masked Dedede:
- Updated Simon's in-game icon

Serbagz:
- Various text corrections and additions

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.7 - January 25, 2022
Fat T-800 Albert:
- Adjusted multiple sprites
- Fixed a couple bugs
- Made a few map adjustments and fixes

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.6 - January 20, 2022
Fat T-800 Albert:
- New version of Richter added
- New sprites for SOTN tailcoat Richter added:
(Pushing, Holding Up 2nd variant, Jumpkicks, Stabbing)
- Replaced song in Sandy Grave
- Made a few item and Subweapon / Spells adjustments
- Adjusted a couple sprites
- Fixed a couple bugs
- Old Axe Armor mode is now Elite Axe Armor mode
- OAA's stats adjusted
- Simon's stats adjusted
- Various text corrections made
- Added whip dangle ability for Simon
- Various stat changes to some weapons and items
- Adjusted shop prizes
- Made a few map adjustments and fixes

Serio:
-Creator of SOTN tailcoat Richter sprites from Serio's Castlevania Fighter/CVF

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.5.1 - December 17, 2021
Fat T-800 Albert:
- Fixed OAA not being able to go through small holes

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.5 - December 15, 2021
Fat T-800 Albert:
- Made a few item and sub-weapon/spells adjustments
- Adjusted a couple sprites
- Made a few map adjustments and fixes
- Various text corrections
- OAA's stats increased
- OAA mode is unlocked along with other side modes
- Made a few stat changes to some weapons
- Replaced song in Forgotten City
- Couple new hints added to TALK option
- Couple enemy stats and placements adjusted

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.4 - November 28, 2021
Fat T-800 Albert:
- Made a few item adjustments
- Fixed a couple bugs
- Adjusted a couple sprites
- Made a few map adjustments and fixes
- Adjusted shop prizes
- OAA's 2nd subweapon changed
- Made a few small stat changes to some weapons

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.3 - September 6, 2021
Fat T-800 Albert:
- Made a few item adjustments
- Fixed a couple bugs
- Adjusted a couple sprites
- Made a few map adjustments and fixes
- Fixed a few character sounds
- Edited the in-game credits

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.2 - August 11, 2021
Fat T-800 Albert:
- Various balance adjustments were done across the board
- Adjusted damage output and health of some middle and late game enemies
- Various stat rebalances with body, head, and leg armors
- Adjusted Richter's sub-weapon SP requirements
- Adjusted shop prizes
- Couple animation improvements
- Various text corrections made
- Made a few weapon stat changes
- Added three new weapons for Maria
- Added a new sub-weapon called Arsenal Rain
- Fixed a few softlocks
- Various map edits and fixes to some areas

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.1 - August 3, 2021
Fat T-800 Albert:
- Various balance adjustments were done across the board
- Increased the damage output of early enemies, adjusted damage output and health of late game
enemies, and slightly nerfed Andras' damage output
- Various stat rebalances with body, head, and leg armors
- Adjusted Richter's sub-weapon SP requirements
- Few weapon stats changes
- Added three new items
- Fixed Toad Morph charge
- Made further map edits to some areas

NOTES:
Specifications on item and enemy balance would be appreciated, thank you!

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

v1.0.0 - July 29, 2021
Fat T-800 Albert:
- Initial release

DeadSkullzJr:
- Made a few adjustments to the ROM image
- Added a custom game icon

Database match: Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin (USA)
Database: No-Intro: DS (all) (v. 20210227-111036)
File/ROM SHA-1: 382602E3615B2282EEAD584014125E71B5B0F033
File/ROM CRC32: 96DF4C4D