Castlevania COTM Hugh Baldwin Hack

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Hello, I would like to showcase my work on a new hack I have been working on called Castlevania COTM Hugh Baldwin Hack, for many years fans always wondered why Hugh Baldwin was not made unlockable playable character despite him already being programed into the game with attack and everything, I was one of those fans and had to suck it up and live with it until recently I ran across a hacker named Pemburu Vampir who was working on it, I asked him to teach me everything he knows and he did and now I'm here finally brining this hack to fruition! I've so far replaced 80% of all Nathan's sprites with that of Hugh, some of the sprites had to be edited by me to match nathan's since Hugh in comparison to Nathan simply does not have no where near the amount of sprites Nathan does and thus some sprites required work to actually fit right. Nathan's whip has also been replaced with a longer version of Hugh's sword, for those that prefer the whip it can still be used through the right DSS cards that give you the powerup version of whips such as the flame and ice whips for example. I also changed the pause menu picture to one of Hugh from a fanart on tumbr (special thanks to fuckyeacastlevania) and am now currently contemplating how I'm going to change the name from Nathan to Hugh, well without further delay here are the images and videos in order, the first video is when I only had 50% of the project done and the second video is what I currently have at 80% so enjoy.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2RRs78KOw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQYj-7OxLcM

[Lilinda]

Will he have any advantages/disadvantages compared to Nathan?

[MathUser2929]

Looks like the right person is doing this hack. Glad you can do all the stuff you wanted to this hack. It would be preferable if you completely edited out the whip, but if you ain't got the skills to do that I completely understand.

So are you redoing the cutscenes or are you gonna cut them out completely? I hope you cut them out. A proper alternate character game usually does that I think.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Looks like the right person is doing this hack. Glad you can do all the stuff you wanted to this hack. It would be preferable if you completely edited out the whip, but if you ain't got the skills to do that I completely understand.

So are you redoing the cutscenes or are you gonna cut them out completely? I hope you cut them out. A proper alternate character game usually does that I think.

Thank you.

Well I edited out the basic none powerup whip since I felt that by nature Hugh is a sword user and should have his main focus as a sword, so the whip was edited out to be a longer version of Hugh's sword. And his sword is still used with certain powerups related to projectiles so ice shoots out of it as well as fire and other things. The only things where the whip remained present where the powerup versions of the whip that changes the whip to a ice whip,flame whip,rose whip etc and the reason why I left those intact where for those that prefer whip combat, I wanted to appease both sides that would want the sword AND whip combat, but the sword is still the basic weapon by default.

As far as the cutscenes goes, I'm currently brainstorming a way to tackle it, it would be a good idea to remove them completely but I would not know how to go about such a thing.

Will he have any advantages/disadvantages compared to Nathan?

So far its purely aesthetic, Hugh is just been pasted over nathan and nathan's basic whip has been removed in favor of a sword, I would love to come up with a way to differentiate the 2 gameplay wise by giving him certain disadvantages and advantages but how should that be handled?

[waleed_743]

Your doing a great job you know from many years I was looking to play with Hugh Baldwin but no hack at all they made fighting castlevaina game  I think it was made by a guy called sario  I am really happy that somebody taking interest in this 😍💜 your a life saver is it hard to make his own story what happens with him in the castle keep it up it's just a suggestion 

[ArkthePieKing]

Gotta agree, this is looking pretty great. Keep up the good work amigo!

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Thanks, glad you guys enjoy it, I plan on wrapping up work on this mod before the week is over, you will get your hands on it yourself soon.
January 31, 2016, 05:27:41 PM - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)
update,

Hack has been released, be sure to check it out in the rom hacks section of the forum,

Also here is one final video I've made showing some of the changes and polishing I did before release, enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBjEOyiRSE&feature=gp-n-y&google_comment_id=z132fxli3oaqip3ud220jdfitzufuzoos04

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

- UPDATE -

Ok here is a update to my Hugh Baldwin hack that will finally get weird of the weirdness of having 2 Hugh Baldwins within the game, so now you have Nathan Graves replacing Hugh's ingame and battle sprites so you can now battle Nathan Graves himself (although with Hugh's movset), enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXwMsuqK3Q

[MathUser2929]

Hurrah, I wanted to see what happened after that guy took off tho into the catacombs. I guess I'll have to wait to see what the transition is like.

[Faz rank 4]

Thanks for your work

[MathUser2929]

You got almost 700 downloads since you uploaded it in January. Congratulations! I can see your hack is popular.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

You got almost 700 downloads since you uploaded it in January. Congratulations! I can see your hack is popular.

Yea thanks, I think it have 600 downloads on my mediafire links alone outside this site so its is popular, I think the reason why people are so interested in it is that while Circle of the moon is a good CV game 1 major flaw it had was that it did not offer a second playable character like so many other metroidvanias did, Hugh Baldwin was perfect for a second playable character and many (including myself) back when we first played it thought once we beat the game we where going to get to use him but sadly that was not the case, having him playable even though its not perfect is long overdue and I think fans have been waiting for this for a while.

[Faz rank 4]

Not only game did not give us Hugh, but it offers 4 more Nathans who I had enough from my 1st playthrough