Castlevania Legends: Reduced Controls (Game Boy) Romhack

This hack removes Sonia Belmont’s ability to control her movement in mid-air, bringing the game more in line with the other Castlevania titles.

Belmont can no longer change direction nor stop in mid-air
(optional) Belmont no longer begins falling again when the jump button is released. WARNING: there is at least one part of the game that could become difficult or impossible as a result.

This is all mostly intended as a joke, but it may be of legitimate interest to anyone looking for an extra challenge, or to players who are used to the usual Classic-vania controls and are tripped up by this game’s. For instance, one player has reported that this patch actually makes it easier to grab ropes.

Hack compatability info: Because this hack is very simple and all patches are short, in-place nops, it’s very unlikely that it will conflict with any other hack.

Hashes:

US/EU ROM (SGB Enhanced):
MD5: 1475824e7262c0d6359f43c287e034a5
SHA256: 56d3dee063b8801704a284bd1bc229b94f15a3a448f485d347f04283d9bd16d7
CRC32: ad9c17fb
JP ROM (SGB Enhanced):
MD5: 6761f77e6daa82120dd7c73adeec777e
SHA256: 8e45c7d6b5498d4048653e92b2a792bb2eea00b2897a7711fb7be1b6bed0534f
CRC32: 4825b25f

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.