Castlevania: Dracula X: Akumajou Dracula XX - Visual Tweaks

This hack provides two visual tweaks:

- Makes the walk animation slower so it is more on par with how it is in Rondo of Blood and other Castlevania games.
- Change the brown colour of the crow enemy to a dark purple, so it looks closer to how it does in Rondo of Blood.

The walk animation in this game was way too fast, and ironically made the character *feel* slower than he really is.

For the Japanese and North American versions of the game, v1.1 adds support for the NTSC-U version.

Akumajou Dracula XX

Visual Tweaks



v1.1, 16th of May 2022



1) General Info

This is a romhack of Akumajou Dracula XX for the Super Nintendo.
It was made for the Japanese version of the game since it is the only non censored one,
though v1.1 adds support for the NTSC-U version of the game.
Untested with other versions.

It provides two visual tweaks:

- Makes the walk animation slower
- Changes the brown colour of the crow enemy to a dark purple colour


This is my favourite Castlevania, but I have no idea what they were thinking with that walk animation speed.
It is way too fast, they probably wanted to avoid the feeling of "foot sliding" of slower animation speeds, but
as a result the fast animation makes the character look like he's struggling, and ironically makes the
walking *feel* slower than it really is. It's probably the main reason why so many people claim Richter is too
slow in this game when in reality, if compared with other CV games, it's really not that much slower.
So I tweaked the animation so it's more on par with Rondo of Blood and other CV games.

As for the crow it looked very uncanny. A dark purple colour makes it look more like what it does in Rondo of Blood.


2) Patching


Made for and tested with these roms:

Akumajou Dracula XX (Japan)
No-Intro: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210222-050638)
File/ROM SHA-1: 28FCB0ACD1C02ADA4E81FC84552B8FF1EEA79420
File/ROM CRC32: AA75FA8

Castlevania - Dracula X (USA)
No-Intro: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210222-050638)
File/ROM SHA-1: 3BDAEAFA81AA17C91A8B42D0FA8C5B26E3FD6B80
File/ROM CRC32: 7C4887E1


Use a patcher such as FLIPS to patch this rom.

Untested with other versions of the game or other hacks.


3) Credits

ASM editing: MetHy aka Ness

Thanks to the S-Mesen devs

Feel free to use this hack in your own hacks, no need to ask me, just a small credit is enough.




Database match: Akumajou Dracula XX (Japan)
Database: No-Intro: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210222-050638)
File/ROM SHA-1: 28FCB0ACD1C02ADA4E81FC84552B8FF1EEA79420
File/ROM CRC32: AA75FA8