Castlevania Advance Collection
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| Original games | Konami |
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| Konami | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | September 24, 2021 |
| Reception | |
| OpenCritic | 83 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Scrolling, Side view |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Action, Metroidvania |
| Art styles | Anime, Pixel art |
| Themes | Supernatural |
| Series | Castlevania |
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Castlevania Advance Collection is a singleplayer scrolling and side view action and metroidvania game in the Castlevania series.
General information
Availability
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Not available in United States store. | |
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Games list
This compilation includes four selected classic titles from the Castlevania series:
- Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (originally released on Game Boy Advance in 2001)
- Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (originally released on Game Boy Advance in 2002)
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (originally released on Game Boy Advance in 2003)
- Castlevania: Dracula X (originally released on SNES in 1995-96)
- The games are playable in US, Japanese, and European versions.
- The ROMs from this collection can be extracted to be modified[1] or play externally with other emulators, but the GBA ROMs lacks audio.[2] The audio however can be restored for the GBA ROMs with this patch.[3]
- The original soft reset method (pressing A + B + SELECT + START at the same time, on GBA buttons) has been disabled.
- Control remapping for keyboard is limited in this collection.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1552550/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %APPDATA%\Castlevania Advance Collection\savedata\ |
| Steam | <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\1552550\remote\ |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1552550/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| Steam Cloud |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | Choice of pillarboxed or stretched 3:2 (Dracula X is 4:3). Menus are in 16:9. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | Window is freely resizable but locked to 16:9 aspect. | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | Alt+↵ Enter to toggle. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS | |||
| 120+ FPS | Causes the game to run too fast including audio. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| DualShock 4 controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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| Generic/other controllers |
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| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| French | Only Aria of Sorrow has French language option when booting the European version. | |||
| German | Only Aria of Sorrow has German language option when booting the European version. | |||
| Japanese |
Issues fixed
Slowdowns and choppy sound
| Force game to use only one CPU core and set the priority to High[4][5] |
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Other information
API
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3-4160 | Intel Core i3-6300 |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 500 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) | DirectX 9.0 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2 GB of VRAM |
| Sound (audio device) | DirectX 9 compatible | |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1552550/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1552550) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Tutorial: Modding ROMs in Castlevania Advance Collection - last accessed on 2023-04-05
- ↑ Verified by User:Sehieb on 2021-09-30
- ↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2022-04-17
- ↑ The solution works on both Anniversary and Advance Collection as confirmed in this thread - last accessed on 2023-04-05
- ↑ The solution works on both Anniversary and Advance Collection as confirmed in this thread - last accessed on 2023-04-05