Use no
souls: Enter NOSOUL as a name and start a new game.
Use no
items: Enter NOUSE as a name and start a new game.
Play
as Julius Belmont: Successfully complete the game with a good ending. Then, enter JULIUS
as a name and start a new game.
Play as Julius Belmont in the
normal game, complete it, and you will be able to play as him in Boss Rush
mode.
Language
select: Press L + R + A + B + Select +
Start during game play. A menu will appear, allowing you to change
the text display to English, French, or German. Note: When you select the
language, the game will reset automatically, without saving.
Alternate
ending sequence: To see the true ending, obtain three of the souls described in
the books Flame Demon, Succubus, Giant Bat. Then, battle the first Graham
equipped with the three souls. After the two battles, the castle will
recognize Soma as Dracula and will let you continue to battle Chaos in Chaos
Realm. To get there, go to clock tower (with look-alike rooms). Those rooms
are like three floors, and if you go to another room, it looks alike. To go
the sealed door, go room to room by going right. Once you get to a different
room with Rippers and those flying things, go down and find the room sealed
with mist. Julius is inside. After the fight, you will be able to battle
Chaos in Chaos Realm. Defeat it to end the game.
To see the best ending, equip
the three souls as described above, then defeat both Bosses after defeating
Graham.
To see the good ending, equip
the three souls as described above, then defeat the first Boss after
defeating Graham, but lose to the second Boss.
To see the bad ending, do not
collect the Flame Demon, Succubus, or Giant Bat souls.
Hard
mode: Successfully complete the game with the "Good" ending.
When you start a new game, you can choose either the normal or hard
difficulty.
There are new items in hard
mode, such as:Kaiser KnuckleDeath's RobeDeath Sickle.
Boss
Rush mode: Successfully complete the game to unlock the "Boss
Rush" option under the "Special" menu at the title screen.
You are timed on how long it takes you to fight through all the Bosses from
the game. Items are obtained depending on how long it took to defeat all the
Bosses. Each can only be obtained once. A Potion is the reward if you get a
time you got once before.
Sound
mode: Successfully complete the game with the "Good" ending
to unlock the "Sound" option under the "Special" menu at
the title screen.
Hint:
Defeating the Balore: While fighting the Balore, when his hands go away and he starts
the lasers, equip the Medusa Head Soul. This will allow you to freeze in
mid-air, directly next to his eye. The fire from the laser will miss you.
This way, you can smash away at his eye very easily until he is defeated.
Hint:
Defeating Iron Golem: Use the Killer Mantle Soul. The Iron Golem will go down very
easily.
Hint:
Defeating red minotaurs: To defeat red minotaurs easily, equip the Killer Mantle Soul.
This will kill them in one attack.
Hint:
Hippogriff ability: After defeating the Iron Golem, walk to the right wall and attack
it with your sword to break it down. This reveals a passage to another room.
In this next room you will find the Hippogriff ability.
Hint:
Easy money: After defeating Julius Belmont, you can enter the Chaotic Realm.
About two save rooms inside the Chaotic Realm, there will be a place that
resembles the area before you first fought the "Manticore". There
will be a lamp that will always drop an enemy called Mimic which looks like
a blue money bag. Mimic's Soul ability gives you money every time you get
damaged. The amount of damage you get is the same amount of money you
receive. Keep killing it to get its soul. Once you have Mimic's soul, go
outside of Chaotic Realm and warp to "The Arena". Save and rest at
the save room and equip the Mimic's soul. Go to the elevator and choose your
torture room. The middle one is recommended as it is faster for you to lose
life. Be sure to always visit the save room whenever your life is too low.
Use this method to get the Soul Eater ring that costs 300,000 (allows you to
acquire souls with ease). This is the best way to get fast money.
Hint:
Easy experience: When you are in the Chaos Realm, equip your Roginus' Spear and
the soul Erinys. When you encounter a Shadow Knight, kill him. You will gain
roughly 3,300 experience points per kill. If you are near a door when you
kill him, enter and exit to encounter the Shadow Knight again to keep
getting experience.
When you get to the Chaotic
Realm, go to the room where there is a Demon Lord and two Erinys. Keep
killing them to get about 4200 experience points in this area. Also, there
are coffins here. Hit the one on the upper right to always get 500 gold.
Keep entering and exiting the room to repeat the process.
Hint:
Defeating Graham: You need the weapons Death Scythe and Silver Gun for this trick.
In hard mode when you encounter Graham, equip your Death Scythe in the first
encounter with the soul Giant Bat. Keep hitting Graham with your scythe, use
the Giant Bat soul when necessary to dodge his attacks. When he moves to the
center and makes his meteors revolve around the room, equip the Silver Gun
and move to the far right. This way, you will not get hurt. Keep shooting
him until he goes down. When he goes to his ultimate mode, equip your scythe
again and keep low, striking while holding Down. Slide when necessary
to avoid the laser at the top. Killing Graham this way will result in
minimal damage and a fast kill.
Hint:
Shoot fireballs: When you have the Fire Demon, Giant Bat, and Succubus souls
equipped, you can shoot fireballs as a bat just like Alucard from Castlevania:
Symphony Of The Night.
Hint:
Jump forever: You must first obtain the Ability Soul from the Hippogryph. It
allows you to perform a high jump if you press R while in mid-air. It
is obtained very late in the game. There are some rooms in the castle that
are immense and have high, hard to reach places. If you want to reach them
without using the Giant Bat Soul, either alternate by pressing A to
jump then R to shoot upward, or just continuously press R.
This ability does not require magic, so your character can keep doing it
forever.
Hint:
Alternate jump: When you are standing on the ground (or an enemy), instead of
jumping then pressing L to use the Hippogryph/Hippogriff ability, you
can simply hold Up then press L. You will perform a vertical
jump reminiscent of the Lancers in the Final Fantasy series of games.
Hint:
Stop time: Go to the Inner Quarters and go down the hallway where Chronomage
(the rabbit with the stopwatch) is located. Kill the Chronomage then keep
entering and exiting until you get his soul. It lets you stop time, like the
Stop Watch sub-weapon from the original Castlevania. Note: You must
have the Galamoth Soul to prevent Chronomage's stop watch ability.
Otherwise, you will be sent back to the last room that you were in.
Hint:
Attacking enemies above you: When you get the Hippogryph Soul (which allows you to do a super
jump in mid-air), hit the bottom of something while still going upward to
ram into it. If you do this when an enemy is above you, damage will be done
to it. This is useful for attacking enemies with having to confront them.
Hint:
Restore HP and MP: Whenever you talk to Mina, she will refill your HP and MP.
Hint:
Transform into Dracula: Defeat Graham with the Flame Demon, Giant Bat, and Succubus souls
equiped. When you defeat him, you will transform into Dracula. Note: There
is a "Dracula's Tunic" in the next room.
Hint:
Pass the large waterfall in the lower section of the castle: Equip the three God-like spirits (Curly, Devil, Manticore) which
should be in the blue spirit section, also Undine in the orange section to
stand on the water. Get enough distance between you and the waterfall then
transform into the God form. If you gave it enough room, you will go through
the waterfall, pick up the Armor, and enter a small new section of the
castle.
Hint:
Chaos Ring: Have 100% of all the souls, then go to the Chaotic Realm. At the
room were you find the first Alastro (the invisible creature with the big
sword), go to the room that is on the top left corner. You will find the
Chaos Ring, which gives you unlimited MP while equipped.
Hint:
Claimh Solais sword: To the left of the sunken ship in the Forbidden area is a room
with a few fish heads that appears to be a dead end. Break down the wall to
the left to gain access to a secret room. Inside is the Claimh Solais, one
of the best swords in the game.
Hint:
Rare Ring: Once you have acquired the Giant Bat Soul, go into the lowest
right torture room. Go all the way to the right and use the Giant Bat Soul
to squeeze through the crack in the brick. In the next room is a ring called
the Rare Ring. It has the same effect as the expensive Soul Eater Ring.
Hint:
Toy duck: In the arena of the bath of Lilith and Sucubus, go up above the
save point (the only one in the area ), then go right to see a toy duck.
Hint:
Tsuchinoko: Tsuchinoko can only be found in one room in the castle. It is the
room to the left after the Golem Boss room. Keep entering and exiting the
room until you see it lying on its tummy, and not digging. Note: The
Tsuchinoko Soul is very useful; it gives you a big discount at the shop.
Hint:
Double soul activation: Equipping the Bat and Giant Bat Souls simultaneously will
activate both Souls when just one is used. In addition, if you do not have
the Succubus Soul or the Flame Demon Soul, you can still do heavy damage,
while looking for hidden areas and breakable walls.
Hint:
Stronger Julius Belmont: If you are playing as Julius Belmont, you can increase your
strength by collecting the floating object after defeating Bosses. He will
grow stronger if you have 92.0-99.4% of the map completed. Note: When you
fight Graham, instead of 84 damage per whip you will now do about 96 to 102.
Hint:
Boss Rush items:
Completed too slowly: Simple
potion
Less than four minutes: Valmanway Sword
Four to-five minutes: Positron Rifle
Five to six minutes: Excalibur Sword
Completed quickly, but already had the items above: Simple potion
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