Topic: Castlevania AOS Genya Arikado Hack [RELEASED]

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

- UPDATE -

The hack has now been Released!

Original thread post has been edited to include a new gameplay video and a download link for the IPS patch, please be sure to share your thoughts on the hack, enjoy.

[FanOfDracula]

oooh man i loviu!! jajajaja ok no, but thanks for thiiis!! thanks thanks jajajaja xD, and latter send you the pm for the others sprites... i fixed the sizes of pixels in one or two weeks, no problem DarkPrince, thanks man 

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

The pause menu still has Soma's pic instead of Genya's.
How does the dialogue change now that one is Genya?

[theplottwist]

The pause menu still has Soma's pic instead of Genya's.
How does the dialogue change now that one is Genya?

The two Genyas in the intro is what I'm awaiting to see getting solved

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

The pause menu still has Soma's pic instead of Genya's.
How does the dialogue change now that one is Genya?

Unfortunately the way I changed the pause menu pic in my previous hack using the LZ77 tool with the Hugh Baldwin hack doesn't work with Aria of Sorrow the same way and thus I was not able to change the pic, as for the dialogue I never knew how to change ingame dialogue within the game anyway, but if you know of a way I'd be more than happy to learn and add such features.

oooh man i loviu!! jajajaja ok no, but thanks for thiiis!! thanks thanks jajajaja xD, and latter send you the pm for the others sprites... i fixed the sizes of pixels in one or two weeks, no problem DarkPrince, thanks man

No problem, glad you enjoy it.

The two Genyas in the intro is what I'm awaiting to see getting solved

There aren't two genyas, I removed the other so its only one ingame.

[theplottwist]

as for the dialogue I never knew how to change ingame dialogue within the game anyway, but if you know of a way I'd be more than happy to learn and add such features.

If I can chip in here, you can do that with an any hex editor of your choice. All the text in Aria is saved as ASCII data inside the RAM, so you can simply open the ROM in the hex editor, and write on top of the text whatever you wish and it'll appear in the game.

Beware the text sizes, though. Everything you write must be more or less the size of what is already written, due to how the code for paragraphs is handled. I never discovered how to edit that. It basically reads like a period, but it's an hex command that, if you move around, screws all the rest.

There aren't two genyas, I removed the other so its only one ingame.

What...? What happened to the other Genya o.O ?

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

If I can chip in here, you can do that with an any hex editor of your choice. All the text in Aria is saved as ASCII data inside the RAM, so you can simply open the ROM in the hex editor, and write on top of the text whatever you wish and it'll appear in the game.

Beware the text sizes, though. Everything you write must be more or less the size of what is already written, due to how the code for paragraphs is handled. I never discovered how to edit that. It basically reads like a period, but it's an hex command that, if you move around, screws all the rest.

What...? What happened to the other Genya o.O ?

Ok I will look into that, in the meantime I still am trying to figure out how to change the ingame portraits in AOS besides using Lz77.

And as far as what happened to other Genya he has just gone.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

- UPDATE -

I'm now working on some updates for the hack, for one I decided to edit the name and the description for the old souls that I replaced with the SOTN ones such as the sword familiar,alucard shield,demon familiar,and faerie familiar, and the Devil/Gargolye form.

I also changed the name of the Flame Demon soul to Hellfire and the Demon Lord soul to Dark Inferno.

The original post download link has been updated with these new changes as well, be sure to download the new version.

Here are some images of the new names and descriptions.







Something else I plan to do is change the story of Aria of Sorrow, something along the lines of a "what if" type of story where Soma never showed up and Genya Arikado (Alucard) was forced to take action instead.

[zangetsu468]

So if Soma never shows would Alucard fight Graham only or would he fight Chaos?
How about an alternate where Soma doesn't defeat Chaos and Alucard has to fight him?

[Shiroi Koumori]

So if Soma never shows would Alucard fight Graham only or would he fight Chaos?
How about an alternate where Soma doesn't defeat Chaos and Alucard has to fight him?

The first option is better for me. Let Alucard fight both, just for fun gaming reasons.
As for the second one, if Soma doesn't defeat Chaos, aren't we going to the default bad end where Soma becomes Dracula?

[zangetsu468]

The first option is better for me. Let Alucard fight both, just for fun gaming reasons.
As for the second one, if Soma doesn't defeat Chaos, aren't we going to the default bad end where Soma becomes Dracula?

Well as far as I'm concerned, if Soma never shows up or makes it to the Throne Room then Graham is runner up so he would face Chaos from my perspective.

Chaos could destroy Graham, then Arikado would have to fight Chaos. Since he has Dracula's Bloodline it could be argued he could enter the
Chaos Realm.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

I'm open to ideas, and the reason why I think it would be possible for Arikado/Alucard to fight both Graham and Chaos is the fact that it has been hinted at in the continuity before that there is a possibility for Alucard to become the new Dark Lord even if he is not one of the candidates simply because he shares the blood of Dracula and also has been taught the Dark Arts from him as well, so its entirely possible that if Soma never showed up or something happened to Soma and Arikado started to intervene physically such as battling monsters and gathering souls that Graham would start to see him as a serious threat due to who Arikado in fact is.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

- UPDATE -

I'm here to give a bit of a glimpse of what is to come, I finally figured out how to change all of Soma's dialogue portraits to that of Genya Arikado,




Special thanks to caminopreacher for the assistance, I'm still trying to figure out how to change the pause menu portrait which is a lot trickier.

Afterwards I will start work on the storyline rewrite.

[MooMilk]

Would you consider doing regular Alucard? Since the game is SOTN like anyway I think a hack to play as him would make sense. Anapan8 made a hack some years ago but it was pretty choppy and unfinished.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Would you consider doing regular Alucard? Since the game is SOTN like anyway I think a hack to play as him would make sense. Anapan8 made a hack some years ago but it was pretty choppy and unfinished.

Yes I would do a regular Alucard hack, I actually asked for some sprites to be made here,

http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,3650.1695.html

But no one answered my requests there, I then sent a message to my friend Jop and FanofDracula, Jop handled the sprites for my future Alucard hack (which is nearing completion) while FanofDracula agreed to make the sprites for the regular SOTN Alucard, the only problem is that FanOfDracula still hasn't gotten around to doing them, I talked to him a few months back and he said he got busy with other things and it would take longer than expected, I haven't heard from him since then.

But if you know anyone who can get a sprite sheet for me that matches up to soma's height and animation wise then I would definitely do it, but I don't feel comfortable asking Jop to take on another job like this since he has already done it twice for me.