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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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A gray-cloaked holy
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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. If you're in
his little desk room, you'll see that his chair is placed over a narrow gap.
Head to the room directly below this, where you can see the gap's bottom opening.
Using your super jump, jump into the narrow gap and lift the Librarian up
into the air--do this multiple times and make sure that he doesn't hit the
ceiling before landing back in place. If you do this correctly, you will receive
the Ring of Arcana. If you do it correctly twice thereafter, you'll receive
Axe Lord Armor and 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."
 Become
a Gargoyle: When Alucard comes in contact with a
yellow Medusa Head or the petrifying skull attacks of a Stone Rose, a
stone curse becomes of him. However, there's a small chance that either
of these methods could lead to Alucard becoming a giant stone gargoyle--a
rare but useless opportunity this turns out to be, as nothing special
comes with being a gargoyle. After pushing the directional pad back and
forth, Alucard will shake away the pebbles as he does for a regular stone
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Metal Gear Mind Probe: This
tip comes to you from ray_e1x3@lycos.com: This is related more to the Metal
Gear side. If you have a Symphony save on your memory card when
you play Metal Gear Solid, there will be a minor difference in the
gameplay: When you reach the telepathic Psycho Mantis boss, it'll tell you
how many times you've saved your game, how many items you have, and how you
are doing overall; then it'll probe further into your unconscious and say,
"I can see into your mind. You like Castlevania, don't you?" Other
such characters will also show the ability to read off of your memory card
and react accordingly.
Liberal Media: Symphony
of the Night is filled to the brim with so much depth that it spills over
to even the game's very media. By taking the game's CD, placing into your
PC's CD-ROM drive, and attempting to listen to it with a media player, you'll
receive a message from Alucard (or the voice actor, in this case): "As
you can see, this is a Playstation black disk. Cut #1 contains computer data,
so please--don't play it. But you probably won't listen to me, anyway, will
you?" It will then play a unique jingle (an unnamed tune measuring in
at four minutes) that has mixed in a little Dracula's Castle. (Contributed
by Hyderman.)
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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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:
