Topic: Castlevania AOS Genya Arikado Hack [RELEASED]

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

- Update -


Well here is a bit of news/updates concerning this hack, as of a few days ago I finally got the remaining sprites from Julian and replaced 95% of Soma's sprites with them and thus the hack is nearing completion.

One obstacle I ran into is that weirdly enough Aria of Sorrow for some odd reason separates all the weapon animations/sprites separately from Soma, the only weapons that are a part of soma's basic sprites and animation or the regular and short swords, all the other weapons have to be edited manually be me to match Genya Arikado since the arm itself is attatched to each individual weapon which is a pain lol.

Like say for instance your using a gun or whatever and when you use it soma's old arm is going to pop up simply because its a part of the gun sprites and thus has no bearing on replacing all of Soma's sprites.

Anyways, while editing these weapons I decided to edit the Ronginus spear to give it some characteristics from the Alucard Spear, here are some images with filter and without filter,






I'll be releasing a video of his hack in motion really soon, once that happens that means the hack itself will be released within a day or 2 after the video's release so stay tuned.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

- Update -

Well here is another bit of news, I decided to mess around with Soma's transformation powerup and thought it would be a good idea if it appeared as if Arikado was tapping into his original vampire side (Alucard) to transform and thus I changed his hair white and gave him a more sinister red aura, have a look.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Cool. 95% done!

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Cool. 95% done!

yep.

Once I edit some of these other weapons and try to find a way to change Soma's portrait to Genya Arikado's I will be ready to post a video and then release this hack.

[zangetsu468]

What does he do that Soma doesn't?

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

What does he do that Soma doesn't?

Are you asking have a changed core gameplay elements and features to give him new abilities?

If so than sadly I am not advanced enough to hack this game in a manner to where I can give him new abilities Soma did not have.

I plan to give him some new things appearance wise to distinguish him from Soma such as his new transformation look and new Ronginus spear (both Alucard inspired) which I posted a pictures above, I'm going to do some more weapons edits and edit some other things to give it something new other than simply Genya sprites replacing Soma sprites and thats it. but as far as new gameplay features thats out of my expertise.

[Jop]

I like the change you made.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

I like the change you made.

Thanks a lot Jop!

I'll be posting some more pictures of the edits to some of the weapons I'm making later, I'm even thinking about changing some of his familiars into the ones from SOTN, I just have to find a some good sprites for them on the net first.

[zangetsu468]

Are you asking have a changed core gameplay elements and features to give him new abilities?

If so than sadly I am not advanced enough to hack this game in a manner to where I can give him new abilities Soma did not have.

Guess you could say, he's a hack... *waits for drumroll*

That was terrible in my mind before I even wrote it. 

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Guess you could say, he's a hack... *waits for drumroll*

That was terrible in my mind before I even wrote it. 

Do you know of a hacker around here who can change core gameplay elements within Aria of Sorrow by any chance?

[zangetsu468]

Do you know of a hacker around here who can change core gameplay elements within Aria of Sorrow by any chance?

I don't I'm sorry.
But I always wished that Genya was a playable character so thanks for this

[FanOfDracula]

hey yeah! this great!  You can also change one Soma´s transformation for the gargoyle that Alucard becomes sotn? please xD

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

hey yeah! this great!  You can also change one Soma´s transformation for the gargoyle that Alucard becomes sotn? please xD

Thanks, and yea its like you read my mind lol , I thought it would be a great idea to replace one of the transformations with Alucard's gargoyle form from SOTN but I could not find a resized sprite for it online so I just gave up on it since resizing it made it look like crap, but since you have a version already the right size than I'll definitely add it to the game.

EDIT

After checking the sprite you provided it is closer to the ideal size but is still a bit to big, think it can be resized down to 64 x 64?

[FanOfDracula]

63 x 69 is good? for the wings.... i wait you serve  xD

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

sorry it has to be 64 x 64 since that is the exact size as the other transformation sprites, if its to big it won't fit correctly sadly.

Is there a way to make it 64 x 64 without removing what you have done with the wings?

I like what you have done with them and would like for it to stay.