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I like how this hack basically restores stuff from the Japanese version into the North American version. Even better is that not only does this hack smooth things out in addressing the slowdown by making it a FastROM, it also gives you options on what you want to patch on top of it - for me I liked the NA whip sound effect better than the JP one. It's pretty cool, give it a shot (...or, whip).

(Played on original hardware with an FXPAK Pro. Similar results will occur with the Super Everdrive.)

This is an awesome restoration and improvement patch! It restores most, if not all, of the original uncensored graphics from the original Japanese version and even the chain whip sound. It even adds the FastROM improvement created by Vitor Vilela that makes the game plays smoothly with less slowdowns. I used to play the Japanese version of this game, but now this is definitively the best way to play Super Castlevania IV! Thanks!

I love the uncensored graphics changes, but unfortunately it is cancelled out by the the ugly text change. The text change should be an optional/separate patch.

UPDATE: The Mod Author added an optional text patch to revert it back to the way it should look and it is glorious.

Now you can have the uncensored graphics with the proper text.

It's so amazing to see this restored and and it looks stunning! Amazing job!! :D

Nintendo is a family-friendly company and their American branch needs to stop acting like 4kids. For example, they need to stop removing religious references as it shouldn't be a big deal anymore. I am happy you understand that problem and fixed it right away with this patch. Nintendo of America is very naive and they pretend to learn their lesson when they really don't. You've fixed what Nintendo of America should have done by bringing back what should have been used in the American version of the original game. Well done!

Since the time it was learned that the American Region was basically screwed over and pretty much babied when it came to the release of Castlevania IV by removing the religious references and even to the point of changing the blood found in the later stages to a green color. Gamers such as myself began praying that one day we might experience the Japanese Version of this game but over here translated and in the American Region. Thanks to the creators of this patch, Now we can experience just that but with the American Release as well. This patch in my opinion is one of the greatest creations ever conceived. The Religious references are all restored, We now have crosses in the graveyard intro scene as well as coffins that no longer look like what appeared to be large octagonal boxes with mouths. In the dungeon stages we can now experience the grim environment of seeing the unappealing green blood now in it's true red form, dripping off the hellish spikes and torture devices giving us the reminder that some poor soul had their life slowly drained out of them as the sharp metal spikes cut through their blood filled veins. Over all the patch now grants us the experience long lost that gamers such as my self have been waiting for since the first release of this back in 1991.

This hack is exactly what it says it is. The minuscule edits done to US/EU versions of Castlevania are restored to their Japanese counterparts. For some reason The font was "uncensored".

Be warned that to use this patch you have to download SCV IV ed from the forums and expand your ROM first. Then you can apply the patch and have it take effect.