Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the sequel to Castlevania. The game play shifts from the original to a platform adventure. You control Simon Belmont, a vampire hunter who uses a whip to fight monsters. You must collect items and enter mansions to find the lost body parts of Dracula. Only then can you resurrect him and vanquish him forever. The game itself is a lot of fun, but it suffered such awful translation problems that it's unplayable without a guide. However, there is an unofficial patch that fixes the dialog.

Easy Cheats

Icon	Addr	Val	Cmp	Description
	0031	09	-	Infinite Lives
	04F8	01	-	Invulnerable
	0049	99	-	Infinite Hearts
	0434	04	-	Have Flame Whip
	004A	FF	-	Have All Weapons
	0091	FF	-	Have All Dracula's Parts
	0092	FF	-	Have All Items
	004C	09	-	Infinite Laurels (Use with "Have All Items")
	004D	09	-	Infinite Garlice (Use with "Have All Items")
How do I use these?

North America

Memory Addresses

001C - Currently loaded memory bank
0026 - Game State (0-Active 1-Inventory 2-Pause)
0031 - Lives
003D - Map Value 1
003E - Map Value 2
0037 - D-Pad Pushing (00-Idle 01-Left FF-Right)
0046 - Experience: 99XX
0047 - Experience: XX99
0048 - Hearts: 99XX
0049 - Hearts: XX99
004A - Weapon Bit Flag
	01 - Dagger
	02 - Silver Dagger
	03 - Golden Knife
	04 - Holy Water
	05 - Crystal
	06 - Sacred Flame
	07 - Oak Stake
	08 - Nothing
004C - Laurels
004D - Garlic
004F - Index of quest item selected in inventory
       01 - Rib
       02 - Heart
       03 - Eyeball
       04 - Nail
       05 - Ring
       06 - Crystal
0058 - Map X Chunk
0059 - Map X Position
006A - Simon Y Position
0077 - Dialog writing text row
0078 - Dialog writing text column
007B - Dialog text timeout until next letter.
007C - Dialog text memory offset
007D - Dialog starting column
	Also the dialog timeout to automatically disappear
	Also the option highlighted for Yes/No questions.
0080 - Current Hit Points (x8)
0080 - Maximum Hit Points (x8)
0082 - Sun flag (0=Day, 1=Night)
0083 - Game Time (Days)
0084 - Game Time (Seconds)
0085 - Game Time (Minutes)
0086 - Game Time (Hours) (6-17 Day time, 18-5 Night time)
0087 - Counter for day/night palette shift.
0088 - Counter for day/night palette shift.
008B - Level
0090 - Index of selected weapon in inventory
       01 - Dagger
       02 - Silver Knife
       03 - Golden Knife
       04 - Holy Water
       05 - Diamond
       06 - Sacred Flame
       07 - Oak Stake
       08 - Laurels
       09 - Garlic
0091 - Inventory Bit Flag
	01 - Rib
	02 - Heart
	03 - Eye
	04 - Nail
	05 - Ring
	06 - White Crystal
	07 - Blue Crystal
	6+7 - Red Crystal
0092 - Carry Items Bit Flag
	01 - Silk Bag
	02 - Magic Cross
	03 - Laurels
	04 - Garlic
00FC - PPU_SCROLL (y-axis)
00FD - PPU_SCROLL (x-axis)
0300 - Simon Sprite Frame
0303-0305 - Weapon Frame
0306-030B - Object Frame
0318-031D - Object Palette
0324 - Simon Y Pos on Screen
0327-0329 - Weapon Y
032A-032F - Object Y
0336 - Simon Jumping Work (Y subpixel for floor drops)
0339-033B - Weapon Work 1?
033C - Object Work ?
0348 - Simon X Pos on Screen
034B-034D - Weapon X
034E-0353 - Object X
0360 - Object Work?
036C - Simon Y Delta
036F-0371 - Weapon Y Delta (Signed)
0372-0377 - Object Y Delta (Signed)
037E - Object Work ?
0381-0383 - Weapon Work 2?
0384 - Object Work?
0393-0395 - Weapon X Delta (Signed)
0396-039B - Object X Delta (Signed)
03B7-03B9 - Weapon Index (See List)
03BA-03BF - Object Index (See List)
03D8 - Simon Action
       00 - Idle
       01 - Walking
       02 - Jumping
       03 - Crouching
       04 - Attacking
       05 - Floor Drop (Walking + Attacking bits)
       06 - Damage Boosting
       09 - On Stairs (Standing Still)
       0A - On Stairs (2nd frame of moving animation)
       80 - Dead (First frame)
       81 - Dead (Flying into air)
       82 - Dead (Lying on ground)
03DB-03DD - Weapon Flags
0402-0407 - Object Frame
040E - Movement flag? (00 - when moving, 01 - When jumping or crouching, 11 - When idle)
0420 - Simon Sprite Mirroring
0423-0425 - Weapon Sprite Mirroring
0426-042B - Object Sprite Mirroring
0434 - Whip
	00 - Leather Whip
	01 - Thorn Whip
	02 - Chain Whip
	03 - Morning Star
	04 - Flame Whip
0445 - Whip State
	00 - Idle
	01 - Back
	02 - Middle
	03 - Forward
0446 - Jumping Flag
0447-0449 - Weapon Flags
044A - Object Work?
0457 - Delay between next whip.
045C - Object Work?
046E - Object Work?
04C2 - Set at 1 when up is pressed, set to 0 when down is pressed.
04C5-04C7 - Weapon State
04C8-04CD - Object Hit Points / OR - Index2 (See Table)
04DA - Object Work?
04F8 - Invulnerable Timeout

Weapon Index

01 - Dagger
02 - Silver Dagger
03 - Golden Knife
04 - Holy Water
05 - Diamond
06 - Sacred Fire
07 - 
08 - 
09 - Garlic

Object Index

00 - None
01 - Town Bat
02 - 
03 - Skeleton / Skeleton Warrior
04 - Fishman
05 - Spearman
06 - Gator Men
07 - 
08 - Floating Eye
09 - Bat (Flying)
0A - Medusa
0B - 
0C - Bouncing Skeleton Bone Fire
0D - Bouncing Skeleton
0E - Spider
0F - Winged Devil
10 - Floating Skull
11 - Bat (Swooping)
12 - 
13 - 
14 - 
15 - 
16 - 
17 - Town Zombie
18 - Marsh Spitter
19 -
1A - Spider Silk
1B - 
1C - 
1D - Burning Man
1E - Old Man In Cemetery
1F - Slime
20 - Flying Spike
21 - Horizontally moving platform (Tall)
22 - Horizontally moving platform (Wide) / Vertically Moving Platform (Wide)
23 - 
24 - Sign
25 - Crystal Orb / Bag
26 - 
27 - Clue Book
28 - 
29 - Red Woman
2A - Man
2B - 
2C - Old Woman
2D - Priest
2E - Cloaked Man (Town)
2F - Cloaked Man (Outside)
30 - Enemy Fireball
31 - 
32 - Seeking Fireball
33 - Spider Web
34 - Vertically moving platform (Narrow)
35 - Old Man
36 - Enemy Explosion
37 - Heart / Half Heart / Big Heart
38 - Cemetery Hand
39 - 
3A - Mummy
3B - Harpy
3C - Ferryman
3D - Ferryboat
3E - 
3F - Giant Plant
40 - Leech
41 - Blob
42 - Camilla
43 - Marsh?
44 - Grim Reaper
45 - Camilla Tear
46 - Reaper Scythe
47 - Dracula
48 - Dracula Scythe
49 - 
4A - 
4B - Organ Bag
4C - Dracula Summoning Fire
4D - Dracula Explosion Fire

Object Index 2

18 - Orb (Rib)
19 - Orb (Heart)
1A - Orb (Eyeball)
1B - Orb (Nail)
1C - Orb (Ring)
77 - Golden Knife
42 - Cloaked man selling Chain Whip

ROM Data

00000-0000F - iNES Header
00010-03856 - Not Patterned
03856-03FDF - Empty Data (FF)
04010-07728 - Not Patterned 
04642-04649 - Bit increase table (01 02 04 08 10 20 40 80) Read for most bitwise manipulation.
05B9C - Berkley Mansion Organ
05CE1 - Grim Reaper's Hit Points
05D59 - Delay between Camilla's tears
05FAE - Bodley Mansion Organ
07729-07FDF - Empty Data (FF)
08010-0C00F - Patterned Data (Map Data)
0C010-0CC7F - Not Patterned
0DD06-0FFDF - Empty Data (FF)
1000F-11E8F - Patterned Data (Tile Data)
1043E-???   - Map chunk palette data.
13AF0-1C00F - Mostly Empty Data (FF)
1C010-1F7F0 - Not Patterned
1C960-1CA4F - Password Entry
1E0F0-1E103 - Enemy Movement Routine
1F210-1F23F - Whip Names
1F800-2000F - Patterned Data (Map Data)
20010-40010 - Graphics

Code

Camilla Code

Frame (0306)
Palette (0318)
Camilla Y, X (032A)(034E)
Tear Y, X (032B) (032C)
? (033C)
? (0360)
Camilla Delta (0372), (0396)
Tear Delta (0373), (0397)
? (0384)
? (03A8)

Status (044A) (00 - Rising, 02 - Begin Crying, 03 - Crying, 04 - Spinning, 05 - Idle)

Counter (045C)
When spinning: 00-3F for a full rotation.
When crying: 00-FF

Flag (046E)
0/1 For spinning. Switches each loop.
Counts while crying.

Tear Delay (04DA) (00-20)

Text

Castlevania II has three different text tables, one for the title screen, game, and ending. The sets are all pretty straightforward.

Title

10160-101BF - Title Screen
10360-1042F - Prologue

01=A
02=B
03=C
04=D
05=E
06=F
07=G
08=H
09=I
0A=J
0B=K
0C=L
0D=M
0E=N
0F=O
10=P
11=Q
12=R
13=S
14=T
15=U
16=V
17=W
18=X
19=Y
1A=Z
1B=?
1C='
1D=.
1E=,
1F=-
20=!
36=0
37=1
38=2
39=3
3A=4
3B=5
3C=6
3D=7
3E=8
3F=9
C1= 
EB=©
EC=:

Game

0CC80-0DD05 - Game Dialog

00= 
01=A
02=B
03=C
04=D
05=E
06=F
07=G
08=H
09=I
0A=J
0B=K
0C=L
0D=M
0E=N
0F=O
10=P
11=Q
12=R
13=S
14=T
15=U
16=V
17=W
18=X
19=Y
1A=Z
1B=.
1C='
1E=,
21=<
22=>
36=0
37=1
38=2
39=3
3A=4
3B=5
3C=6
3D=7
3E=8
3F=9
40=!
46=-
5D=? 
71=: 
FE=/
FF=¶

Ending

124CC-127BF - Ending Dialog

01= 
02=/
21=\
C6=A
C7=B
C8=C
C9=D
CA=E
CB=F
CC=G
CD=H
CE=I
CF=J
D0=K
D1=L
D2=M
D3=N
D4=O
D5=P
D6=Q
D7=R
D8=S
D9=T
DA=U
DB=V
DC=W
DD=X
DE=Y
DF=Z
E0=0
E1=1
E2=2
E3=3
E4=4
E5=5
E6=6
E7=7
E8=8
E9=9
EA=?
EB=.
EC=,
ED=-
EE='
EF=&

Japan

In Japan, Castlevania II was called ドラキュラII 呪いの封印 (Dracula II: Noroi no Fūin) which translates to "Dracula II: The Seal of the Curse". It was only released on the Famicom Disk System.

Europe

Links

thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Hacks/SimonsRedaction.html - Castlevania II: Simon's Redaction - A dialog patch to fix all the annoying typos and mistranslations.