Originally written by Rob Ledrich (agis@bright.net) and posted on his
CV web page, and updated by Kurt Kalata (kkalata@worldnet.att.net).
Rob's Castlevania Page: http://www.bright.net/~agis/castlevania/index.html
The Castlevania Dungeon: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/3138
Thanks goes to Burnie on pointing out the effect of the Eyeball, and also
correcting the bit about the garlic.
Controls-
The directional pad moves Simon, the A button makes Simon Jump, the B button
makes Simon whip or talk to villagers, the Start button brings up the
subscreen. The subscreen has four main windows. The bottom window is for
your usable items. If you have an item selcted here, press Up and the B
button during the game to use that item.
Subscreen-
Top window is for information such as Time, Hearts (which is money and weapon
uses), Experience, and your Level. The second window contains your type of
Whip and icons of the Silk Bag and Cross, if you have these. The third
window contains items that can be held, but not actively used, such as the
Count's body parts. The usable items go in the fourth window.
Items-
White Crystal
Location: In Jova, talk the man that is dressed in grey
Price: 50 Hearts
Use: Allows you to see the floating platfoms at the beginning of Berkeley
Mansion
Heart Usage: N/A
Blue Crystal
Location: Town of Aljiba
Price: Trading your White Crystal
Use: Powers of white crystal, plus shows hidden passageways beneath lakes.
Heart Usage: N/A
Red Crystal
Location: Town past the river
Price: Trading your Blue Crystal
Use: Powers of white and blue crystal, plus summons tornado at right place.
Heart Usage: N/A
Holy Water
Location: In Jova, go throught the door on the same ledge as the man that is
dressed in grey
Price: 50 Hearts
Use: Can break through certain walls, does as much damage as the Leather Whip
to monsters
Heart Usage: None
Thorn Whip
Location: In Jova, go through the door halfway up the town on the left side
Price: 100 Hearts
Use: Does double the damage of the Leather Whip
Heart Usage: N/A
Chain Whip
Location: In the third door in Veros
Price: 150 Hearts
Use: Does double the damage of the Thorn Whip
Heart Usage: N/A
Morning Star
Location: in the town of Ondol
Price: 200 Hearts
Use: Better than Chain Whip
Heart Usage: none
Flame Whip
Location: Beneath the lake past Bodley Mansion, talk to the main incased
in bricks
Price: Free
Use: Best whip in the game
Heart Usage: none
Dracula's Rib
Location: In Berkeley Mansion
Price: Free
Use: When selected on the subscreen, Simon will hold the Rib in front of
himself like a shield
Heart Usage: N/A
Dracula's Heart
Location: in Rover Mansion
Price: Free
Use: Show to river man to get across water
Heart Usage: N/A
Dracula's Eyeball
Location: in Brahm Mansion
Price: Free
Use: Allows you to see hidden scriptures in walls
Heart Usage: N/A
Dracula's Nail
Location: in Bodley Mansion
Price: Free
Use: Break certain blocks with whip (like holy water)
Heart Usage: N/A
Dracula's Ring
Location: in Laruba Mansion
Price: Free
Use: None (??)
Heart Usage: N/A
Sacred Flame
Location: On Dabi's Path
Price: Free
Use: Throws a fireball and when it hits the ground, fire shoots up. Good
for fighting blobs.
Heart Usage: 1
Diamond
Location: The cliff past Brahm mansion, talk to the man
Price: None
Use: Use as a weapon, bouncing crystals
Heart Usage: 1
Garlic
Location: In various towns
Price: 50 Hearts
Use: Drop and enemies will be caught until it dies. Also summons cloaked
figures at various points.
Heart Usage: N/A
Laurel
Location: In various towns
Price: 50 Hearts
Use: Makes you temporarily invincible, good for walking through swamps
Heart Usage: N/A
Dagger
Location: In the first door in Veros
Price: 50 Hearts
Use: A VERY short range weapon, and rather weak
Heart Usage: None
Silver Knife
Location: In Camila Cemetary, right of Aljiba
Price: A piece of Garlic
How to Find: Has a larger range then the Dagger. Toss Garlic in the cemetary
and a person will show up and give it to you.
Heart Usage: 1
Golden Knife
Location: Brahm Mansion
Price: None (kill Grim Reaper)
Use: Dagger that flames when collision with enemy
Heart Usage: 2
Cross
Location: Laruba Mansion
Price: None (kill Vampira)
Use: Required to get in Dracula's Castle
Heart Usage: N/A
Silk Bag
Location: Camilla Cemetary (left and down of town past lake)
Price: A clove of garlic
Use: Allows you to carry more laurels
Heart Usage: N/A
-Quick tips:
If there's an empty room in towns, try to break either the floor or right
wall to see if there is any hidden rooms. Do this very often.
Also use holy water to check for hidden blocks/traps.
When faced with blocks floating on lakes, jump when the block is at
the highest point. It will propel you upwards and give you the force you
need to reach the next block.
>From the start, go right and then down the stairs. Talk to the man in the
grey robes and buy the White Crystal from him. Go to the bottom of town and
leave by going right. Fight Werewolves and Skeletons in the next screen until
you get one hundred and fifty hearts, it should become night while you are
doing this. If it does, go into town (it's the town of Jova, by the way) and
fight Zombies. When you have enough money go back into town and go into the
door next to the guy who sold you the White Crystal. Buy Holy Water in here.
Leave this room, go to the bottom of the town, work you way to the left and
look for a door above you. Go in there and buy the Thorn Whip.
Leave the town of Jova and go right three screens. On the third screen go
down the stairs you come to, then keep going right. This brings you to the
town of Veros. Try to have at least two hundred hearts by the time you get
here, if not just go back and forth in between Veros and Jova until you have
enough. In this town you can buy a Chain Whip for one hundred and fifty
hearts and a dagger for fifty hearts. Be sure to get both of these! Next,
go back to the left, up the stairs and then go to the right. You're at the
mansion. This is Berkley Mansion.
Notes on Berkley:
You need to hold the White Crystal or else the elevator will be invisible.
Just head straight up. When your reach the top and move right, check the
blocks on the elevated platform with holy water. They are fake, so jump pretty
far. Head right, and search for that guy you see walking by the spike pits.
Buy an Oak Stake. Head down, and check the floor for pits. There's one trap
here, you can tell by the fact that background is a column. Jump over it, and
throw the stake at the orb to get the Rib. Head left, drop down through the
trap and head left to the exit.
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How to get Dracula's Heart
After getting the Rib from Berkeley Mansion, head back to Veros. Once in
Veros, go to the right, go up to the top and then go right on this screen.
This is Dabi's Path. On the next screen, in the bottom left wall is The
Sacred Flame. You have to go to right to get to the floor of the screen,
the throw Holy Water on the steps and go left, throw Holy water on the wall.
>From here, go right four screens. You should now be in Aljiba.
Try to have at least one hundered hearts before you come here. Look around
town and buy some Garlic and some Laurels. Go one screen right and drop some
Garlic on the ground. A guy will appear, talk to him and you'll get a Silver
Knife. Go back to town and talk to the man in grey at the top of the town,
he'll trade your White Crystal for a Blue Crystal. Go two screens to the
left and go down the stairs. Go to the edge of the lake, select the Blue
Crystal and crouch. After a few seconds. the screen will scroll up a little
bit and it will be safe to enter the lake. Now you're at Rover Mansion
Notes on Rover Mansion:
Just head up the stairs and go right, but when you find blocks to jump
on, intentionally miss (that is, drop down.) You should land on a column
above water. There's a group of blocks here that is fake, so jump right
through. Keep going to the right and buy the Oak Stake. Go back left a
bit and head up the stairs. Just follow the linear route until you
reach the orb. Then head back the way your came. Easy, huh?
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How to get the Eyeball
Time for a BIG Hike back to the beginning. From Jova, go left until you
reach a guy on a boat. Select the Heart, then talk to him. After crossing
the river, continue left, past the Brahm Mansion until you reach the cliff.
Someone will give you a Diamond there. Go back to the Brahm Mansion.
Notes on Brahm Mansion:
This mansion is so incredibley easy and linear. Just head upward, go right
when you reach the top, go down the stairs and head left. Go up a little
bit to buy the stake, then go all of the way down. Go right and face
the Grim Reaper. Just use the Sacred Flame in moderation, along with
some good old whipping. If you've gone ahead and found the Morning Star
or Flame Whip, this will make the confrontation very easy. Get the Golden
Knife he leaves you when you beat him, and head into the next room to get the
eyeball. Run past the Reaper and exit the way you came.
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How to get Dracula's Nail
After you get the Eyeball, go back across the river to the right without
holding the Heart. Then recross to the left without having the Heart
selected. Go left, and look for the knight in this town. Trade your
blue crystal for his red. Keep going left, then down when you get to the
stairs. You are now in a graveyard (Camilla Cemetary). Go all the way
to the left and at the edge of the graveyard, and use garlic. A guy will
appear and give you a Silk Bag. Go back up the stairs and continue left
until you get to Ondol. They have a Morning Star here for two hundred hearts.
Buy it.
Continue Left until you come to a cliff. Select the Red Crystal, walk up to
the cliff and duck for a few seconds (you don't have to hit your head on
anything). Go in the mansion that you appear in front of.
Notes on Bodley Mansion:
Head upward (and watch for a fake floor) and then go to the right. Take
the upper route both times, and look for a hidden wall. Now, head down
and go to the right (you'll need to break some bricks.) Walk past the
area with the hanging bodies and go down. At the bottom, there's a hidden
wall in the bricks on the left, just jump up or try to find it with holy
water. Buy the stake from the person, and then fall down through the fake
floor just beyond the cloaked man. Go down and head into the room with
the orb, and get the Nail. Go back left, up, and then left again to
the next screen. Take the upper route, and then jump off, looking for the
hidden passage in the bricks. You're now at the beginning of the mansion,
so just walk right out.
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How to get Dracula's Ring
After solving Bodley mansion, go to the left, when you get to the lake,
select the Red Crystal, and duck for about 5 seconds. Go down and head left.
First take the lower route, jumping on the bricks. You'll find a man hidden
in blocks that will upgrade your Morning Star to a Flame Whip. Go back,
go up and break down the bricks, and keep heading left. Don't bother going up.
After more traveling and some wading through muck, you'll find the last
mansion, Laruba. (Note: to get back to the area of the game before you
traveled via tornado, head left from Larbua Mansion. You'll end up jumping
off that precipice right near the town of Aljiba.)
Notes on Laruba Mansion:
Not too difficult, just head in an upper-right direction. Go up when
you reach the next screen, and at the top, take the lower route to buy
the Oak Stake. Head back and take the upper route this time. Go right,
head down, and faced with the choice, go right. Now, when you reach
the bottom, you can go left and cross the spike pit to get your Laurel
supply refilled, or go right to reach the boss.
The boss is Vampira, a crying mask. She'll give you a Magic Cross if you win.
Duck just inside the door to avoid her fireballs (pretty easy). Using
the Golden Knife and whipping her will do well.
After you get all of the parts, go all the way to right, up, and right
again, past Bodley. Keep going until you come to some stairs. Take the
bottom path (the upper path is a dead end.) When you get to the wall of
stones, select the Nail and whip them (holy water works too). Now you're in
Castlevania. This is easy, there's no enemies and everything is linear.
Whip him when he appears, don't jump into him, and use laurels.
After enough hits, he'll die. Gee, the Count was really wimpy in this
adventure, wasn't he?
******ENDING INFORMATION!! READ IF YOU WANT INFO!!!*****
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Now you'll get one of three endings depending on your time: in the best
ending, everything is color, Simon is standing by the grave, and Dracula's
hand comes out at the end. The middle ending is black and white. The bad
ending is color and Simon is by the grave, but the text describes that he
dies.
The End!!
4/26/97
c. 1997 by RL and KK. You may distribute it but give credit where credit is
due. This FAQ is NOT intended for commerical use. No altering of this FAQ
will be permitted and is not for profit.
