CV: SotN - Richter Custom Alternate Costume Hack + Sub-Weapon Swap & Infinite Hearts (All Bosses)

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An all bosses run of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, with a few fan-made hacks spruced in together. I am given full control of Richter with such cheats as unlimited hearts, insanely fast blade dash (very useful for fast traveling) and the ability to swap sub-weapons at any time during the game.

I got a bit bored, and honestly, I had no new ideas for any videos recently. However, I got into a mood of playing some Castlevania, so I went around the Internet searching for some hacks and found a few for SotN. They aren't perfect, considering that the alternate costume hack seems to be somewhat unfinished as some sprite frames weren't fully replaced (Richter's hand when brandishing the whip and cutscene sprites for him during his small talk with Dracula at the beginning of the game) and some of the pixels on him aren't colored correctly and appear as black (such as the gloves), but they do the job fairly well. There also exists a PSP version of this same hack, but I prefer playing the original PSX version because of the quality hack and proper aspect ratio display of the game.
Sub-weapon swapping is really powerful, and also a bit broken. You can spam item crashes with infinite hearts and if you spam the right ones, you can continue spamming more of them even faster. To compensate for Dracula's general lack of any challenge, I used the cheat tool to give him double HP for both of his forms. I also increased the blade dash's speed dramatically, so I can pretty much fast travel around the castle with ease.
There were a few close calls here and there, but I was mostly chill during the run. There wasn't any goal besides defeating every boss in the game that is accessible to Richter, but I also wanted to show off a bit and simply explore the castle again, because damn, SotN has the best castle in a Castlevania game. I will never stop enjoying exploring it over and over again.

Hacks used for the video are:
1: Quality Hack v1.3 [https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3606/] - Used for fixing a few glitches and extending the game's screen to full-screen without any black borders on the top and bottom of it. It also marks every loading room, save room and teleportation room on the map with different colors for convenience and opens the area below at the beginning of the game which leads to a few small empty rooms and a save room. That same area is open in the reverse castle as well.
2: Custom Alt. Costume for Richter [https://castlevaniamodding.boards.net/thread/209/castlevania-sotn-costume-richter-belmont] - Gives Richter Belmont a custom made alternate costume that is accurate to the game's own design of Richter seen in concept art and in some of the moments of the original game. It also apparently changes some other things around, like giving Richter's whip a fire property on hit and changing some hit boxes (sliding doesn't damage enemies anymore). It doesn't change the game too much, but I noticed that Richter was stronger as well as weaker than usual in certain areas. The holy water item crash might've been changed as well, since it deals damage lower but faster than it should.
3: Cheat Tool [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLFfAu6onU] - Used for unlimited hearts, very fast blade dash and sub-weapon swapping. It can be used to do tons of things to your game, including patching various cheats into it or changing shop items and enemy values.
You'll need a patching program that can patch XDELTA files if you want to have the quality hack. The cheat tool patches the game directly from it's menu and the alternate costume hack is an already patched ISO file that you can run with a PSX emulator almost right after downloading. If it's packed into an archive like ZIP or RAR, just use an archive program to unpack it.

Game: Castlevania - Symphony of the Night (1997) [Ran via ePSXe 2.0.5 emulator on PC]







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