Castlevania 1 - Hollow Souls (NES) Romhack

This is a hack for Castlevania 1. It features:

Fully edited level design
Better looking usage of the original game’s levels graphics
More appealing and fitting colors
Infinite lives
No loss of the Whip Power and Subweapons when the player die
Lower pitch musics
Less candles overall, but with more of what you actually need
No knife candles
Modified boss fights, focusing on edits on the original ones to make them more fair and reasonable to fight, with some surprises here and there.
The player takes less damage overall (2 of damage on stage 1 and 2, and 3 of damage past stage 3)
More reasonable, fair, engaging and fun difficulty overall.
New types of hidden locations for double/triple shots and Meats.

And More.

Huge thanks to Stake level editor and all the included patches.

Hashes:

Filename: Castlevania (U) (PRG0) [!].nes
CRC-32: 39c879bb
SHA-1: a31b8bd5b370a9103343c866f3c2b2998e889341

File download:

Help about patching:

Most of the files you're about to download need to be applied to your game. Here is a list of utilities that allow you to do this:

Online Patcher: Marc Roblero's online patcher. Works with many different file types.
Floating IPS: NWell-known patcher for applying IPS and BPS files.
Delta Patcher: Used to apply xDelta files.
More Patchers

On most files, you can also press “Patch It”, to apply the patch without downloading the file.