PS1 Books - Dracula X: Gekka no Yasoukyoku

The PS1 Books version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night recycles the very same Japanese manual. Scans provided are by Simon Belmont; the sender, Morgoth, explains the extra page included with the front and back covers: "The extra page not found in the original manual supposedly tells us about how Maria is playable in this version. It has not been confirmed yet if this is in fact true. The rest of the manual is the same, obviously."

Frequent fan fiction author Sam Mills and Kurt Kalata tell us this:

"In the first paragraph, I think it's saying (that the Librarian will) teach you something about this special version.
In the second paragraph, he speaks of a mysterious room inside Dracula's castle. In front of a gate that looks like a keyhole, press up on the control pad. It mentions warping, but I'm lost from there. It says something about a 'transformation' and maybe walking through stuff? It also mentions a 'madouki' - or, 'evil machine' (side note - there was one of these in Chrono Trigger, but it was called the Mammon Device or something like that).
Third paragraph translates roughly to this: 'Do you know there of a good person inside the evil machine? This is really a place of origin. You can call for help by turning it ON. But make use of this magic only when not good. Each time you use the restoration magic of protective power, you possess hand in hand, it is magic of (something) good. Very useful indeed.'

Fourth paragraph mentions Dracula X : Chi no Rondo. It says you'll become 'futari.' I'm not sure if that means 'another character' or a 'second character.' But it says if he told you the name, all the fun would be taken out of it. Then he mentioned getting 100 percent and putting something in at the file select screen. I think this could just possibly be suggesting how to find the second castle and play as Richter, perhaps. Maybe? It wouldn't mentioned the PSOne stuff otherwise..."
Sam adds: "But it still leaves questions: The 'gate that looks like a keyhole' is obviously a warp room, but to where? And is there something that needs to be done? Where does it take you? I translated one word following that phrase that I think is 'garden.' Could it be the hidden garden from the Saturn game?"

Front Cover

Extra Page

Back Cover

(Contributed by Simon Belmont - http://www.tekhacks.net/bored/cvc.php)

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