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I think Simon classic should stick to how he's supposed to be. You can switch to powerful Simon to progress. A test of skills or something.
Hello everyone, I've recently decided to try patching up the three NES Castlevania games so I can actually enjoy playing them, they've never been my thing and I've never had the patience to make it past the first couple levels in any of them. My main gripe was always the controls (I refuse to play with the default controls/knockback system) so I'm happy to see hackers have fixed this issue with their improved controls ROM hacks.
However, I've ran into a bit of a roadblock trying to combine them with patches that they are supposedly compatible with but in each case they seem to break the other hack.
With the original Castlevania, I'm trying to play with both "Improved Controls" and "Ultimate Castlevania". I'm using the correct GoodNES ROM that Ultimate Castlevania calls for and according to the readme, the base Improved Controls patch is supposed to be compatible. However, applying it breaks the stairs. If I try to apply the patches in the opposite order, the ROM breaks completely. :/ I've tried to patch using the "hack" compatible patches and that similarly just breaks the ROM.
In Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, similarly I'd like to have both "Improved Controls" and the excellent Re-translation hack by Bisqwit. Again, I'm using the correct GoodNES ROM it wants and, as the Improved Controls readme states I'm applying the Re-translation first and then the compatible IC patch. What happens is that any text pop ups including the status screen are completely garbled. Similar to the problem with the first game, I've tried applying various patches in different orders and nothing works.
In each case, the patches work fine by themselves - I'm using Lunar IPS to apply - but when I try to apply both, nothing wants to play nice.
Any help here? Has anyone else found success? This is killing me, it seems like for the first time I might be able to actually enjoy both of these games.
EDIT - I wasn't entirely sure if this belonged in here or General Discussion, if I've ran afoul my apologies to the moderation team.
Additionally I bring back the idea of removing permanent Elf penalty. Have it only apply to using temporary ones.
I've downloaded different sources for my base ROM, I've even downloaded a prepatched ROM. And have checked the checksums on all of them, they're all correct.
It seems this is an issue with Drastic? Can someone else who is playing on Drastic confirm this? I don't have anything else to test my ROM out, it's actually triggering my OCD.
It works fine for me. I gave a piece of armor resistance to curses and it both decreased the damage I take from Killer Dolls *and* stopped me from getting cursed.
The only way I can reproduce the error you get is by not adding the overlay. Otherwise the patch applies successfully for me. You must not be adding the overlay correctly somehow.
