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Regular
Castle Map Inverted
Castle Map
These are the
complete maps of the regular and inverted castles. Finding all of these locations
and filling in all of the spaces will result in getting the best percentage.
By attaining over 180% castle completion, it will allow you to use some of
the codes and tips below.
The Reverse Castle:
In order to enter the reverse castle and thus receive
a good ending, you'll have to do a little extra work before fighting the Richter
boss. If you instead reach Richter too early and kill him, you'll earn a bad
ending and find no access to the reverse castle. To prevent this from happening,
first collect the Silver and Gold Rings:
Now equip both
rings at the same time and head to the giant clock room (where you first met
Maria) in the Marble Gallery. The action will pause and thirteen gongs will
cause the ground to open up beneath you. In the hidden room below, you'll
again meet with Maria, and, by now, she'll be sure that Richter is under something's
control. She'll award you with the holy glasses, which you can then wear during
the Richter boss battle to see the real evil essence. Strike this floating
essence while carefully avoiding Richter and you'll eventually break its control
over him, and this will allow for the real story to continue.
The Sound Test:
It's not every day that we're blessed with a Castlevania
game that offers a way to listen to its music without playing the game. To
do so here, complete a mission with Alucard while attaining over 180% castle
completion; start a new mission in a separate slot and work your way to the
Master Librarian's room in the long library. As an extra option in his selection,
you can now listen to the game's music tracks.
Hidden Elevator:
In the Outer Wall section of the castle rests an out-of-order
elevator that can activated by hitting a switch; however, another of these
elevators exists. To reach it, go into the room in the lower part of this
section--the one guarded by an Armor Lord. Break the leftmost wall and stand
in the crack until you hear a Simon's Quest-like sound. An invisible
elevator will now transport Alucard (or Richter, who can use this trick for
access) to the room below, which will allow you to collect some weapons you
could ordinarily only collect later.
Bat Brothers:
This is sent in
by antiposeur@mindspring.com: This is simple enough. First make sure that
you've collected the bat card and the soul of bat relic. Once you have both,
turn on the bat familiar via your inventory. Normally, a single bat would
join and help Alucard. But if you get the bat familiar up to level 20 and
then transform Alucard himself into a bat while the familiar is turned on,
three bats will join him instead--all of which can mimic Alucard's
bat powers, including fireball and Echo of Bat attacks. If you are struck
during this time, Alucard will go back to regular form, and two of the bats
will fly off.
Twice Scorned:
There is much to
the disdain of speed-based players a period of lag when a ground-based Alucard
swings a weapon; the very stalling between swipes could put a limit on how
much damage Alucard can cause to an enemy that has left itself temporarily
wide-open. Cure this by leaping into the air (using a quick jump, for best
effect) and striking an enemy on the leap's descent--this right before
he hits the ground; then immediately strike again. Alucard will as a result
strike twice in a split second. Use this to quickly cut down minor
enemies or otherwise improve your chances against Galamoth.
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Helping Hand: In the Reverse Entrance, in
the main halls, flea man-mounted skeledragons called Orobourouses clutter
up as much space as possible by bouncing all around, serving as good team
members for the other enemies in this location. But if you'd rather have
one of these on your side, instead, free it from the flea man's
control by slaying the little guy. The Orobourous will fly near your position
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Holy Flame Power:
In the Dracula
X games, Richter could use a flame-whip slash by pushing the item-crash
button while no sub-weapon was in his possession; he has a similar power if
you use him in this game: By pushing the item-crash button without having
a sub-weapon equipped, Richter, himself, will become a flaming entity, as
will his hunter whip. During this long-lasting period, Richter's power and
defense will increase. Though, this power does come at the expense of your
heart-total.
Say Your Prayers:
In the Royal Chapel,
you may remember locating a confessional in the area's lower half. Though,
it's not there just for show; by seating Alucard in the chair to the left,
you can find reward (or pain) in confession. If arriving on the scene is a
blue-cloaked holy person, it'll bestow blessing and then drop for your convenience
a recovery item (like, say, grape juice). If instead a gray-cloaked holy person
arrives, the curtain will close and you'll find yourself at the end of a multi-pronged
assault. For fun, you can place Alucard in the chair on the right and play
the part of good
listener.
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A blue-cloaked holy
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... will supply.
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A gray-cloaked holy
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...will deprive.
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Librarian Secret:
The Master Librarian ordinarily offers you an array
of items at set prices, but his room also contains other rare items you can
get for free. When you're in the Librarian's room, you'll notice that his
chair is placed directly over a narrow gap. Head to the room directly below
this, where you can see the gap's bottom opening. Using your super-jump ability,
launch yourself up into the gap and lift the Librarian up into the air; do
this multiple times and make sure that he doesn't smack into the ceiling before
he lands. If done successfully, you'll receive a Life Vial. If
you do it correctly twice thereafter, you'll receive the Ring of Arcana and
the Axe Lord Armor. Pull it off one additional time after accessing the upside-down
castle to receive the Dracula Tunic.
Stair Master:
The Royal Chapel's entrance area is infamous for its
long stairway, which is swamped by bone pillars and corner guards. While making
your way up is never fun, you can make the reverse trip a joy ride while turning
the tables on the stair-guarding foes. It's simple: When entering the room
from the right, locate the bone pillar with a spiked ball in place of its
upper skull; vanquish the lone skull and then follow the spiked ball as it
bounces its way down the entire stairway, destroying any enemy in its path.
An In-and-Out
Experience: This tip is sent in by Kong: "To
start, you must have the Duplicator and at least a Power of Sire, a Pentagram
or a Bat Pentagram, and you must be in the reverse castle. Go to the reverse
chapel, to the room where the Spectral Sword lurks. Equip the duplicator and,
say, the power of sire and any familiar you want leveled up. When you enter
the room, from a bottom entrance, activate the power of sire; the Spectral
Sword should die along with all of its javelins and shields. Make sure all
shields and javelins die and then quickly go back to the previous room. If
you managed to wipe out the sword and all its components with one activation,
keep repeating the process by going back and forth between the two rooms until
the familiars reach level ninety-nine. Each process should raise the familiars'
experience by twenty-thirty-plus."
Spells:
Below is an image directly from the game, showing the
correct button combinations for each spell. Use these button combinations
at any point in the game to learn the spells (assuming you have the relics
associated with the bat and wolf transformations).
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The
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Play as Richter:
After completing the game with Alucard, attaining the
appropriate percentage, start a new mission and enter "Richter"
as your name. Doing so will allow you play as Richter Belmont, in classic
Castlevania whip-and-jump action. Since Richter is fairly limited, he cannot
enter some of the areas Alucard was able to reach (areas beyond grates). Since
he has no inventory, all equippable goods will be replaced by single hearts;
also, the money collected from candles is useless to our Belmont hero. His
moves are as follows:
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Brandish the
whip!
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Sweeping slide
will floor 'em
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Super jumps become
uppercuts
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Slash your way
through the air
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Play as an Axe Lord:
After completing the game with Alucard, attaining the
appropriate percentage, start a new mission and enter "AxeArmor"
as your name. This will give Alucard special Axe Lord armor in his inventory
that when equipped will allow him to take the form of an Axe Lord from the
Dracula X games. As an Axe Lord, he moves very slowly, and his jumping
ability is sorely lacking; however, his strength is great, and he can kill
bosses quickly--if he can reach them regularly.
Luck Increase:
Start a new mission and enter "X-X!V"Q" (minus
the surrounding quotes, of course) as your name. Alucard will begin the adventure
with 99 Luck; however, the game's doling of such comes at the expense of his
other stats, whose values will now be lower than normal. As a bonus, Alucard
will find himself equipped with the Lapis Lazuli--a luck-boosting gem.
Maria Mode: This
code is only applicable in the The Dracula X Chronicles version of
Symphony. After completing the game with Alucard, start a new mission
and enter "Maria" as your name. You'll begin the adventure in control
of Maria Renard, who plays a bit differently than her Sega Saturn counter
part: She fights by using her bird-tossing technique from Rondo, and her animal
friends now function as both sub-weapons and benefactors of accessibility.
Otherwise, she can air-dash multiple times while in the air.
