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David Long
210.1% Score in the Japanese Version
To get 210.1%, go to the Royal Chapel in the first castle. Go to the long vertical place where the confession room (the room with the chairs and you hear the bells) is at your right and the left leads to the large sword. Stand in the left side, but don't go in, equip the sword familiar and do half-circle forward and up-left and hold UP for two seconds then press DOWN + SQUARE (Sword Brothers.)

When the sword is spinning transform into a bat and go to the left doorway. If your timing is right you should go *through* the wall and be able to fly around the castle.

IMPORTANT: To obtain 210% you must have your sword familiar maxed out to level 99 with 99 experience points. If this is not acheived, the cheat doesnt work.
Chris
Alucard's Special Moves
Hellfire (15MP): up, down, down-right, right and square
Summon Spirit (5MP): left, right, up, down and square
Soul Steal (50MP): left, right, down-right, down, down-left, left, right and square
Dark Metamorphosis (10MP): left, up-left, up, up-right, right and square
Tetra Spirits (20MP): hold up for 2 seconds, then press up-right, right, down-right, down and square
Wolf Charge (10MP, must have "skill of wolf", and must also be in Wolf form): down, down-right, right and square
Sword Brothers (30MP, must be using the "Sword" familiar for this to work): down, down-right, right, up-right, hold up for 2 seconds, then press down and square
Wing Smash (8MP, must be in bat form when performing this): hold X, up, up-left, left, down-left, down, down-right, right and then release X
Sandro Rivellino (srivellino@hotmail.com)
Axe Lord Armor
After beating the game once, start a new game and enter your name as AXEARMOR. You'll find a cool new suit of armor in your inventory.
Chris
Belmont's Special Moves
Whip Uppercut: down, up and X
Run: right right, or left left (hold after second press)
Whip Twirl: hold Square, then tap any direction repeatedly
Slide: down and X
Slide Jump: down and X, X again immediatly after the first one
Back Flip: X twice, quickly
Whip Dash: up, down, downright, right and square (Richter is invulnerable when performing this)
Whip Lunge: left, then right and square(or vice versa)
Gambit (gambit9641@aol.com)
Bonus Soundtrack
Put the Castlevania CD into any regular CD player. Play Track 2, and you'll hear a special song.
Ron Zimmerman (sephiroth_9999@hotmail.com)
Effortless Experience Gain
To get effortless experience follow these simple steps:

* play through the game like normal until you get your bat familar.
* at this point go back to near the start of the game where the zombies keep coming out of the ground.
* then all you do is stand on the step on the stairs where the zombies can't reach you and turn your bat familiar on. Just make sure that you are far enough away that the zombies won't hurt you if your familar misses one of them.
* The bat familar will kill most of the zombies that appear, also make sure you are looking in the direction of the zombies or the bat will not hit them.

The best part about this trick is that the familar will kill the zombies and both he and you will get the experience making this absolutely simple in gaining levels. In three hours my bat went from level 2 to level 60!
Galedrake@aol.com
Easy Familiar Experience
Ok, easy way, but a bit time consuming, to get experience for all your familiars. I believe you have to have it beaten once first. but I may be wrong.

As you start the game, go through like you normally would.¿But this time, don't but alot from the librarian.¿Only get the Jewel of Open, and 1 or 2 Library Cards.¿ The proceed with the game.

Once you get in the inverted castle, keep going and get AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE. Once you get 500,000 go back to the librarian, and purchase the Duplicator.¿Then go BACK to the inverted castle, and equip it.¿By this time, you should have at least ONE of the Power of Sire items.¿Equip that as well.¿Voila, you have an infinite supply now as long as you have the duplicator equipped.

Now go to the room in the inverted¿church thing (forgot the name off hand), and enter the room with the big sword that is surrounded by spears and shields.¿Use the Power of Sire, then leave the room, and go back in, use it again, and so on and so forth.¿Within an hour I had ALL my familiars powered up to 99/99.¿
Sandro Rivellino (srivellino@hotmail.com) and sephroth@pacbell.ne
Enhanced Luck
After beating the game once, start a new game and enter your name as X-X!V"Q. You'll start with 99 luck and the Lapis Lazuli item, but your strength and hitpoints will be reduced.
Code King2000 (thekiddies@hotmail.com)
Extra Options
At the name select screen, enter your name as AXELORD then go to the Settings screen.
Rob Ledrich (agis@bright.net)
Fiddle with the Logo
When the words NOW LOADING are on screen, you can manipulate them with the d-pad.
DarkMatter (av836@lafn.org)
Heaven Sword Special Attack
You can get Heaven Swords as a rare item by killing the Cloaked knights (flying knights that toss their swords at you).¿If you have two of these, equip one in each hand and press both square and circle to activate the special attack.
Adam Williams (ham-2rt@dircon.co.uk)
Music Select
To gain access to the excellent soundtracks, complete the game (fully, with over 190%) with Alucard and restart a brand new game with Alucard (do not cover over the old one). When you get to the Librarian, simply walk up to him and a music select option will appear with the 'buy/sell' box.
Demonslayer (DemnSlyr@aol.com)
Get the Holy Glasses and all Four Endings
To get the Holy Glasses you need the gold ring (after beating the Succubus in Nightmare, located in a side path in the long tunnel to the underground) and the silver ring (in the hall of spikes in the tower, you need the Spike Buster armor from the underground.) Take these to the clock tower and equip them. You'll get a L-O-N-G sequence before it lets you go down. Follow the path to find Maria, she'll give you the Holy Glasses.

Endings

1. Simply go to the castle tower and defeat Richter without meeting Maria. Alucard will escape the destroyed castle and say a few things before going back to his eternal sleep.

2. Get the Holy Glasses and defeat Richter. Maria will have also escaped and tell you she's continuing her search for what happened to Richter.

For the 3rd and 4th endings, do this first: Get the Holy Glasses and equip them, but DON'T kill Richter. Instead, attack the green orb above him until it shatters. From here you'll go to the inverted castle.

3. Defeat Dracula with anything below 200% and you'll see Maria and Richter waiting for you outside the castle. Maria will decide not to follow Alucard and will return with Richter.

4. Get AT LEAST 199.1% and defeat Dracula. The others will be waiting, but Maria will decide to follow Alucard and try to help him cope with what he is.
Sandro Rivellino
Play as Richter in the Japanese Version
After beating the game once, start a new game and enter your name as RICHTER. You can play now as Richter Belmont.
Drac Man and Eaton
Secret Rooms
Here are the locations of some of the secret rooms in the game.

Room 1: Outer Wall
When you enter the stage from the Marble Garden, go down to meet an Armor Lord. Beat him and go to the left. Hack the wall on the left wall to get a Pot Roast. Stand in the Space for 20 seconds and you will go into a room with items

Room 2: Alchemy Lab And Necromancy Lab
In the Alchemy Lab, hack the wall in the first room going up. Inside is a Heart Max-up. The one in the Necromancy lab of the inverted castle is in the same spot.

Room 3: Colossem and Reverse Colossem
In the room with Blade Soldiers and Blade Masters, go to the first pillar, face left and use a few axes to reveil a passage.

Rooms 4 and 5: Orlox's Quarters and Akmodan's Chamber
The first room is in the room with the Sprit Sword. Go to the right to find a dead end, hack the wall to get some good items.

The second one is later in the stage. When you are in courtyard with the Vahalla Knights, go down to the ground and proceed left. Proceed left until you are in a room with the bridge. Hack Every part of the wall until you reveal the room. Do the same in Akmodan's Chamber's (Orlox's Room in the Inverted Castle)

Room 6: Clock Tower and Reverse Clock Tower
In the room before the Birdman boss, Hack the right wall at the top of the room.

Room 7: Pit to the Catacombs
Use the Demon Familiar to flip the switch after the Cerberas Boss to reveil a room. Do the same in the inverted castle.
Rick G.
Beating Galamoth
Here is an easy way to kill Galamoth. First find the Alucard Shield and the Shield Rod. Equip them both before you take him on. As soon as he starts to stand up, activate the Shield Rod combo (Square+Circle). When you stop flashing, run toward Galamoth so only the Alucard Shield is touching his leg. Great deals of HP will be taken away from him. I tried this and ended up killing him in 8 seconds!
BLaCK BeNGAaL
Librarian's Secret Stash
To get the librarian's secret stash under his chair you must have the super jump relic. After you have obtained this item go to the room under his. There will be a narrow vertical space that (when you jump into it) will lead to a Life Max Up.

Now jump repeatedly without touching the floor, but make sure the librarian's chair goes back on the floor. If this is done correctly you will first get the Ring of Arcana. If you contunue to do this you will then obtain the Dracula Tunic and after that the Axelord Armor will follow.
M.Krzak
True Hellfire
There is an interesting effect if you cast the Hellfire spell, (up, down, down-right,right and square) then press and hold UP, AFTER the teleport, but BEFORE the three fireballs go off. It shoots TWO of the black fireballs demonstrated by Dracula in the opening scene. As far as I can tell, it does no more damage, and costs the same, but it DOES punch through targets rather than be absorbed.
Kunoichi
Explore an Inverted Castle
If you defeat the possessed Richter Belmond in Dracula's Keep, you'll see the ending. But what you may not realise is that this is the 'bad end', and you've only seen half the game! To get to the real ending:

First, make sure you've gotten both rings from Maria. The first you recieve after defeating the Succubus in the 'Nightmare' stage. The second is past the hall with all the spikes in the Cathedral (you need the SpikeBuster Armor from the Catacombs)

Equip both rings at once in the room with the big clock, and the floor will open. Down in this 'lair' Maria is waiting for you once again. She'll give you a vital piece of information.

Once all this is done, then go to Dracula's Keep and meet Richter. He'll attack you, but you will now be able to see a green orb floating above him. Attack the orb, but _don't_kill_Richter_ (hint: the Sword Companion will serve you well here) After a bit of attacking, the orb will break open, revealing everyone's favorite loathesome 18th/19th century warlock: Shaft! (daaaarn right! right on, bruthaman!)

This also breaks Shaft's spell, freeing Richter from the spirit of Dracula. Alucard will tell Richter and Maria to escape while they can as the clouds swirl and open up, revealing a mirror-image of the Evil Castle! Shaft escapes into the Inverted Castle, and of course it's Alucard's duty to chase after him!

But just when you think you know the layout already, you find some crucial elements of the castle have been rearranged, it's stocked with bigger and badder enemies, and even the music has changed!
Jedi Knight MCA (JediKnMCA@aol.com)
The Shield Rod Trick
If you have the Shield Rod you can do this trick. Equip the rod and any shield. Then, all you have to do is hit the left hand button and the right hand button (normaly the O and Square buttons) simultaniously and you will do a special move that has to do with the shield you have equiped. Every shield does something different. Experement with different shields to find out which one you like. Also, when you are equiped with the shield rod if you press back, foward, then attack Alucard launches a star from the rod. It must do something besides look really cool, but I haven't messed around with it that much to find out.
*Master Rogh* and The Heartburn Kid
Beat Doppleganger Easy
Okay, for players who have a hard time with Doppleganger (the Alucard look-alike), hit him so he lands in a corner, and repeatedly jump at him and attack. He will reliably jump into your blade repeatedly. This works on both the Light and Dark Castle Doppleganger.

OR

Before you fight the doppleganger in the second castle, equip the Medusa Shield. Hit the doppleganger with the Medusa Shield, and he will turn to stone. Attack him mercilessly with your weapon until he turns back to flesh, then use the shield on him again.
jonnysb25
Cheat: Infinite Gold

If you're interested in making the max amount of money in the game (999,999), try the following. Just be sure that as you attempt this, you have at least one sellable gem or jewel in your inventory, like a Diamond. It must be unequipped. You must also have access to the Sword Brothers spell (via the Sword familiar).

Now, head to the Library, and go to the location of the Librarian, the game's only merchant. Stand next to his desk and cast Sword Brothers (Down, Down-Right, Right, Up-Right, Up (for two seconds), Down-Attack). If executed correctly, you can then talk to the Librarian as the spell is being cast.

Doing this will glitch the game, allowing you to access your inventory from the Librarian's own menu. Now, remember that unequipped jewel or gem we mentioned earlier? Equip it from this menu, then go to sell that very jewel or gem. However, it won't be sold. Instead, it will duplicate 255 times in your inventory, which you can then sell to the Librarian for massive amounts of gold, including the maximum amount of gold (if you have the patience).
Unlockable: Play as Richter (American Version)

The cheats page makes mention of playing as Richter in the Japanese version of the game, but you can play him in the American version as well. Simply beat the game as Alucard, then in a new save slot, give “RICHTER” as the character’s name.
ultimate dragon
Special Moves with Swords
You can do special moves with a few of the swords if you press the right button combinations. For example, with the Alucard Sword, press DOWN, DOWN-FORWARD, FORWARD, and then ATTACK to perform a teleporting slash.
Ultimate Castlevania
Hint: Keep Alucard's Items
For this cheat to work, you must first do the "Enhanced Luck" cheat by typing X-X!V"Q as your profile name at the beginning of the game.

After the "Prologue: Bloodlines" scene, at the beginning where you'll play as Alucard, go to the room. Just before the room where you'll be confronted by Death and he takes away your items. The room with two wolves in it. Kill the first wolf and jump over the second one. Stay where you are with Alucard facing the next room (it doesn't matter whether you get wounded or not just jump over the second wolf and stand still). Wait for the wolf to attack you. If you do this right, the wolf will send Alucard flying across the next room completely skipping Death and preventing him from taking Alucard's original items. Do not go back to meet Death or you will lose your items.
Erin Wintergale
Hint: Mablung Sword Combo
This cheat works just the same as that of the Shield Rod Combo, basically replacing the Shield Rod with the Mablung Sword. The only good thing this thing does is that the Mablung Sword has a higher attack damage and bonus def. compared to the Shield Rod, not to mention faster to use.

You can get a Mablung Sword if you keep killing the Poltergeist in the Anti-Chapel of the Reverse Castle, the big floating sword with spears and sheild as back-up. It's quite rare, so I suggest you equip at least one Ring of Arcana to obtain one.
mr_shaggz
Hint - Jewel Sword
The Jewel Sword is one of the most usefull weapons in the game.With the Jewel sword you have the ability to occasionaly turn your enemies into saleable jeweled rings.How often they become jewels and what type of jewel they become is detemined by your luck.(note.This is a very helpful way to purchase the coveted duplicator)There are 2 ways you can obtain the Jewel Sword as follows.

Destroy the discus lord that is positioned just below the entrance of the first castle several times, eventually he will drop a Jewel Sword.(Note.Make sure to wait until he has completely dissapeared as the items from a discus lord will not show up until he has completly dissapeared)

In the area just past the zombies in the entrance right above the merman(this is the only place you see merman in the game), there is a big rock that you can break open on both sides to enter it. In order to reciece the jewel sword you must first break open both sides of this rock, then you must go through i t once as a bat, then once again as a wolf. This should open up a hidden door in the wall of the bottom left of that area.(right next to the merman)In the room of that opened door will be the Jewel Sword and a Life Apple. The Life Apple is only useable if you have the fairie card on.
Hint - Hidden Room
When you start a new game, there is a little trap door next to the castle door that closes. Richter seems to be the only character who can duck into it by doing a Hellfire motion (UP, DOWN, LEFT, SQUARE) or by dashing to the door before it closes.

The room has nothing of interest on the PSX version.

Submitted by Jonathan Seymour (MCHSI)
V742
Hint: Slightly Better Stats

The beginning of SotN pits you against Dracula in a battle that’s theoretically impossible to lose. However, if you manage to defeat Dracula in a short time and without taking a single hit, you will begin the game with Alucard having slightly stronger statistics, including a minor boost of five hit points.