Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse cheat codes (for NES)

[final kaoss]

Passwords

When it asks for your name, type "HELP ME"

0= empty square, 1= Heart, 2= Cross, 3= Chain Whip

Stage 3-01 Stage 5-06 Stage 8-01

2 0 0 3 1 3 0 0 0 3 2 0
0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 2
0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0

Enter your name as HELP ME

C= Cross, H= Heart, W= Whip, B= Blank Square

CBBW BHBH BBWB BBBB Stage 3-1
HWBB BCBH CBBB BBWB Stage 5-6
BCBB HBBB BBCB WHBC Stage 6-1
BHBB BBBB BWHB CHBH Stage 7-1
BWCB BBCC BWBH HBBB Stage 8-1

In the table below, H= Heart, C= Cross, and W= Whip.

C--W
-H-H Stage 3-01 Grant
--W-
----

CC-W
-H-- Stage 4-0A Sypha
H---
----

-C-W
---- Stage 5-0H Sypha
--W-
WW-C

HW--
-C-H Stage 5-06 Alucard
C---
--W-

-W-W
---- Stage 6-0A Trevor
----
CW-C

-C-W
C--- Stage 6-0A Sypha
-W--
CW-H

-C--
H--- Stage 6-01 Alucard
--C-
WH-C

--W-
--CW Stage 7-0A Trevor
---W
H---

-WH-
--CW Stage 7-0A Sypha
-W-C
C-W-

-H--
---- Stage 7-01 Alucard
-WH-
CH-H

-WC-
--CC Stage 8-01 Sypha
-W-H
H---

-WW-
--CC Stage 8-01 Trevor
-W-H
C---

-C-W
H--- Stage 9-01 Sypha
-W--
WC-C

----
W--- Stage 9-01 Trevor
--W-
WC-H

-H--
H--- Stage A-01 Alucard
--H-
CC-H

----
W--- Stage A-01 Grant
-WC-
CC-C

---W
H--- Stage A-01 Trevor
-WW-
CC-C

-H-W
H--- Stage A-01 Sypha
-W--
CC-H

WW-W
-C-W Quest 2, Stage 1 Sypha
C-W-
---H

Enter your name as erik then input the following.

blank,blank,blank,cross,
cross,blank,blank,blank,
blank,blank,blank,blank,
heart,cross,blank,cross.

You'll be at the end of the game all alone with just your whip.

[final kaoss]

Sound test

At any point during the opening story, hold A and B then press Start twice. Press Up and Down to select the music, B to play it, and A to stop it.

[final kaoss]

Red Tower 1up

Red Tower 1up: (After the Ship stage if you went that way) Just before the second door, you'll see two spiked spinning platforms. Spin the one closest to the left wall without falling through. Fall thru the second one and you'll have a safe jump to the lower left corner, where a 1up is hidden in the wall.

[final kaoss]

Boss tips

Cyclops Strategy: When running away from it, jump as you go to prevent him from charging you.

Skull Knight King (the second one, NOT the one on the first level): It will only take damage when you hit it while one of his bones is flying around. Stand in the lower right and keep whipping it. The bones won't hit you as much if you stay here.

Grim Reaper: Throw boomerangs at him while whipping the flying projectiles. When he's in a corner, each boomerang will hit him twice. Against the giant head that appears when he dies, stay on the left and use the blocks to jump over it when necessary.

"Evil Twin" Boss: When you transform into your 'spirit' partner, it has to turn into the same person. As it reforms, you have a clear shot. You have to be quick about changing back and forth though. It takes a while, but it's the safest way to beat him.

Final Boss: For the first two forms of Dracula, just whip as fast as you can. To avoid the shots from the third form, stay four blocks from the right, so the ground won't pick you up, and dodge to the right when he fires at you. Just use axes to hit him in the head.

[final kaoss]

Clock tower trick

This trick only works when you have the pirate when you first fight him and beat him you have to go back down the clock tower on the first stairway when you must be Simon and reach the far bottom of it (when Simon's feet are together and look like they are off the bottom of the screen) you do not have to keep holding down when doing this just make sure it is the far bottom. When it is the far bottom, press select to change into the pirate before you reach the next level. You then go back up. Then (if it worked) that the stairway will be lengthened past its appearance and will become invisible keep walking up the stairs and see what happens all sorts of strange worlds if you try going back down the stairs it will be even stranger it also works on the pirate ship stage, first stairway and the jumping toad stage, first stairway (this ones the best) once it warped me.