This hack modernizes the control scheme of Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge to make it less frustrating to people used to tighter controls by giving the player more control while jumping.

Complete list of changes:

• Belmont can now turn around and stop in mid-air.
• Belmont regains control during knockback.
• (optional) V-Cancel: when the jump button is released, Belmont immediately starts falling again; this allows the player to make smaller hops if desired. (There’s also a “vcancel-only” patch which provides only this change and none of the others.)
• (optional) Inertia: when adjusting velocity in mid-air, Belmont only accelerates slowly (rather than changing direction instantaneously).

Similar to the Castlevania Improved Controls hack here, or the Castlevania: The Adventure Improved Controls hack here.

Compatible with the Subweapons patch located here.

Also compatible with the Speed hack located here.

You can use Lunar IPS to apply the hack to your Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge ROM file.

• US ROM:
• MD5: 7c65e9da405d2225d079f75e56276822
• SHA256: 17570ceec1b22153604622c4412d048dd8f7ccb4626daf9ddea96de8a062dbf2
• CRC32: 8875c8fe
• JP ROM:
• MD5: 2be2472951eb4e25ab0c70fdee298130
• SHA256: 1e09b8dd7032db157a422d0b69cc6a384036a4ef560b08f5deed39a2fe0e21f8
• CRC32: 7582ae14
• Konami Gameboy Collection Vol. 4 (EU) ROM:
• MD5: f3414d53473e2cc43347774cc5f40495
• SHA256: 9c19f5d5e94ec9c2215d7d5505cfbb6d13b256143723c641a41b314ad19572b3
• CRC32: 8800f1c9