Castlevania on NES is notorious for its difficulty, the battle against Death in particular.

In order to rebalance the game, this hack makes the following changes:

• A multiplier is hidden on the way to Death. This was unavailable on the first loop in the unmodified game
• Player damage has been reduced by 1, which means that in the last levels, the player can sustain 5 hits before dying instead of 3.
• Pork chops now give 8 units of health instead of 6.
• One pork chop is hidden before the battle against Dracula.

An alternative patch is provided where the player loses 3 health units by any hit instead of 2, 3 or 4 depending on the level. Compared to the unmodified game, this means that level 1 and 2 are more difficult, 3 and 4 the same, 5 and 6 less difficult.

Finally, a bonus patch is included, that fixes the hitbox of the spike traps in stage 2.

• Database match: Castlevania (USA) (Rev A)
• Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20180803-121122)
• File SHA-1: 7A20C44F302FB2F1B7ADFFA6B619E3E1CAE7B546
• File CRC32: 856114C8
• ROM SHA-1: 3DCB69A8C861C041AEB56C04E39ADF6D332EDA3A
• ROM CRC32: B668C7FC