Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: Castlevania - Symphony of the Night - HardType

This is a hack of Castlevania SOTN which rebalances the difficulty. This includes adjusting enemy strength, enemy HP, weapon stat adjustment, removing more powerful (cheap) weapons, and adjusting spell attributes. All the changes are mentioned in the included Read Me.

Patch is in PPF format, BIN/CUE format for the game image seems to work fine.

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Castlevania - Symphony of the Night - HardType v4.8

This patch is a difficulty and re-balance modification for the PSX NTSC-U version of Symphony of the Night.

Enemy HP and Attack have been increased. Some enemies have higher Defense and Resistances. Equipment and special attacks have been re-balanced. Removed Mablung drop. The Duplicator has been removed from the game. The Mablung is available from the Master Librarian after defeating Dracula. Added an optional patch to remove experience from enemies.

Note: The Mablung can cast shield spells.

v4.8 Changes
tweaked the blood cloak, sunglasses, and walk armor

v4.6 Changes
another minor alteration to dracula and galamoth's hp

v4.5 Changes
minor alteration to dracula and galamoth's hp

v4.4 Changes
tweaked akmodan ii, beezelbub, death, galamoth, and dracula
reduced the mp cost of most shield spells
slightly weakened the blood cloak and walk armor

v4.0 Changes
added mp cost to katana warp attacks
tweaked mp cost shield spells
altered defence and holy resistance of some bosses

v3.6 Changes
altered the crissaegrim
restored crissaegrim drop
slightly reduced mp cost of alucard shield spell
increased dracula and galamoth's hp

v3.4 Changes
increased holy resistance of most reverse castle bosses
buffed most normal castle bosses
tweaked the marsil and heaven swords

v3.1 Changes
reduced dracula and galamoth's hp

v3.0 Changes
buffed reverse castle bosses
re-balanced mp cost of shield rod spells
replaced the duplicator with the mablung in the shop menu
altered the vorpal blade
restored vorpal blade drop
re-balanced two-handed sword, katana, and club special attacks
cleaned up some text
partially dummied out the tactics menu

v2.2 Changes
galamoth's lightning attack deals non-elemental damage

v2.1 Changes
vorpal blade removed
tweaked duplicator

v2.0 Changes
re-balanced mp costs on special attacks
re-balanced attack of katanas
re-balanced attack of fists
re-balanced attack of two-handed swords
re-balanced defense of shields
altered vorpal blade
altered tyrfing
altered ring of varda
altered duplicator
clubs set to two hands (disables shield rod spells)
mablung removed (disables shield rod spells)
crissaegrim removed

v1.0 Changes
altered all enemies



File: Castlevania - Symphony of the Night (USA) (Track 1).bin
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