Mon, 18 Oct 1999 00:04:45 -0500 (EST) ___ ___ ____ ____ _ ___ _____ _____ ___ _____ ____ _ _ / _| / _ \ | __||_ _|| | | __| | _ \| _ | / _ \ / ___|| || \| | | | / / \ \| |__ || | | | |_ | | | || |_| |/ / \ \| | __ | || || | | | | | |_| ||__ | || | | | _| O | | | || _|| |_| || ||_ || || || | | |_ | _ | __| | || | |_ | |_ F | |_| || |\ \ | _ || |_| || || || | | \___||_| |_||____| || |___||___| |_____/|_| \_\|_| |_|\_____/|____||_|\_| CASTLE OF DRAGON FAQ version 1.0 by Wilson Lau Copyright (c) 1999 Wilson Lau This faq is best viewed in Courier, 10 point font. This faq may be distributed FREELY so long as it remains unaltered. Do not try to sell or in any way profit off this work. Email any changes, typos, etc. to me at darktoshi@yahoo.com Castle of Dragon is (c)1989 Seta USA, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may find this faq and all future revisions at: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dark Toshi's Home Page (me) www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/4610/ ============================================================================= The Story and Objective ============================================================================= A wicked dragon has invaded the kingdom and kidnapped the princess. Only you the brave knight of your castle can save her. As the lone knight set out to rescue the princess, you will engage the enemy first in your own castle, then in the forest, and finally in the enemy's stronghold. ============================================================================= Life/Experience and Continues ============================================================================= The orange bar in the upper left corner of the screen is your life meter. You start off with 16 bars of Health. You only get one life but the meter may be increased to a maximum of 32 bars. Armor also adds another full bar of health so you can get up to 64 bars of health. The blue bar in the upper left corner of the screen is the experience meter. It will increase whenever you kill an enemy. When it fills completely, your life meter will increase (up to 32 bars max). While you have no continues you'll restart the game with the same life meter and weapons as when you died. ============================================================================= Controls ============================================================================= Up : Move up on the map Down : Crouch/Move down on the map Left/Right: Move left or right on screen/map A button : Jump B button : Attack Select : Pause/Resume game Start : Start game/Switch weapons ============================================================================= Locations ============================================================================= The Wenlary Castle : Your castle The Heresy Forest : Home of many foul dark creatuers The Darklarza Castle: The enemy's fortress ============================================================================= Equipment and powerups ============================================================================= Sword: Basic weapon. Medium damage. Used in dragonslaying. Knife: Fast but weak. Can be thrown to hit distant enemies. Mace : Strongest weapon and hits multiple times. Can also hurt you too. Sword Projectile (Orange): Your sword will release a wave projectile for a limited time. Thunder Sword (Blue): Your sword will release a thunderbolt for a limited time. Armor (Blue): Provides another bar of health equal to your current max life. ============================================================================= Four Relics (in the order received) ============================================================================= Four relics, each guarded by the bosses of the four levels of the Darklarza Castle are required to defeat the red dragon. You'll receive them in the following order, regardless of the order of the level picked. Armor : You can fight the dragon but can't hurt it. Shield: You can hurt the dragon now. Sword : You'll take 1/6 the damage from before so you can kill the dragon but it will "resurrect" afterwards infinitely many times. Orb: Prevents the dragon's "resurrection" so you can finally win. ============================================================================= Enemies ============================================================================= Aqua Knight Uses close range attack. Bat Flies in the air. Blue Dragon Lunges forward. Blue Ghoul Moves quickly across the ground. C.F.L.L. Creature from the lost lagoon. Uses close range attack. Chess Knight Hops around. Cockatrice Lunges forward and shoots fireballs. Eye Crawler Moves quickly across the ground. Fairy Not an enemy. Replenishes your energy if you touch it. Fireball Flies in the air. Ghoul Moves quickly across the ground. Green Frog Hops and gets in your way. Green Minotaur Moves quickly across the screen and attacks up close. Green Rhinotaur Shoots a fireball spread. Harpy Flies in the air. Hornet Flies in the air. Jellyfish Flies in the air. Lich Shoots a fireball spread. Lizard Man Uses close range attack. Medusa Shoots paralyze ball. Minotaur Moves quickly across the screen and attacks up close. Mirror Image Mirrors your actions. Orange Ghoul Moves quickly across the ground. Purple Lich Shoots a fireball spread. Red Dragon Breathes fireballs. Uses tail to attack. Red Skeleton Uses close range attack. Rhinotaur Shoots a fireball spread. Skeleton Uses close range attack. W.Armor Knight Uses close range attack. White Knight Uses close range attack. Wyvern Flies and rains fireballs down. Yellow Frog Hops and gets in your way. ============================================================================= Walkthrough ============================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Wenlary Castle (level 1) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll start the level fighting a skeleton. Defeat it by crouching and slashing. Continue forward past the groups of 2 and 3 bats. You'll face a ghoul. Slash it once or twice and jump away. Then slash again. Repeat until its dead. You'll get a sword projectile powerup for defeating it. Now charge ahead past the groups of 2 and 3 fireballs. You'll see another skeleton. Use the sword projectile to kill it. Now continue forward past the groups 2 and 3 bats. You'll now fight 10 white knights who attack you from both sides. Quickly use your sword projectile to kill them. If it ran out already, then just slash the knights. They only take 1 slash to kill anyway. After defeating them, continue ahead past the 3 fireballs. Then you'll see a fairy come down from the sky. DON'T KILL IT! Touch it and your energy will be replenished. Now continue forward and you'll meet the boss of the level. Boss: Lich This enemy uses a spread fireball on you so your best tactic would be to slash the lich until it's dead without worrying about your health. If you grabbed the fairy, it will die before you die. Just make sure you don't take extra damage by touching the lich. You'll receive armor for winning. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Heresy Forest (level 2-3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Heresy Forest 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll start the level fighting a blue ghoul similar to the one you fought in the last level. Use the same hit and run tactic from before. Now continue forward past the groups of 2 and 3 fireballs and you'll face a skeleton. Just slash it and continue forward past the 2 yellow frogs and you'll see a fairy. Heal up and face the boss of the level. Boss: Rhinotaur This boss also uses a spread fireball attack like the lich so just get up close and slash until it's dead. If you healed, you should win. You'll receive the knives for winning. The Heresy Forest 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll start the level fighting an eye crawler. It'll try to touch you so use a hit and run tactic to defeat it. Make sure you crouch and slash because a standing slash will miss it. You'll get the thunder slash powerup for winning. Now continue forward past the groups of 2 and 3 bats and you fight a skeleton. One thunder slash will kill it. Now quickly move forward past the the groups of 3 and 2 green frogs and you'll fight a lizard man. 2 or 3 thunderslashes will kill it. You'll get armor for winning. Up ahead is another fairy. Heal up and you'll fight a lich. Use the same tactic you used on the previous lich. You'll get the sword projectile powerup for winning. Now you'll see a pit with 2 platforms that go up and down. Be careful not to fall in the pit and jump when the first platform is at the lowest position. Now do the same for the second platform, but make sure the platform you are standing on is high enough so you don't miss the second platform. Once you pass the pit, you'll fight an orange ghoul. A few sword projectiles and it'll die. Now continue forward past the green frog and the 3 yellow frogs and you'll face the boss of the level. Boss: Minotaur This guy will charge back and forth across the screen so you'll want to slash it a few times and then jump out of its way and slash it again. Repeat until it's dead. You'll get the mace for winning. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Darklarza Castle ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +------------------------+ | Roof | +------------------------+ | Main hall | +------------------------+ | Final Area | +------------------------+ | Fire pits | +------------------------+ | Caverns | +------------------------+ The castle is divided into 5 areas. You can freely select any level you want. While you can enter the final battle now, you will die immediately because you do not have the 4 items needed to win. The top 2 floors have 2 additional bosses to fight while the lower 2 do not so you might want to enter the lower levels first. Roof ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll start the level fighting an aqua knight. Just attack with the mace. You'll get a sword projectile powerup for winning. Continue forward past the groups of 3 bats and you'll fight a harpy next to a pit. Move to the right side of the screen and use the sword projectile to hit the harpy from afar. If it runs out, then wait for the harpy to get close and use your mace. Continue forward past the groups of 3 hornets and you'll fight another aqua knight. Use the same tactic as before and you'll get armor for winning. Now continue forward past the groups of 3 fireballs and you'll see another pit and another harpy. Like before, just stay on the right side and attack it when it gets close. Continue forward past the bats and you will see some more pits. After jumping onto the second pillar, you'll fight another harpy. Be careful not to get pushed off the pillar and attack the harpy when it gets near. Now continue forward and you'll see another rising platform like the ones in the Heresy Forest. Jump across and you'll see a fairy. Heal up and fight the boss. Boss: Wyvern This monster will fly in the air, raining a fireball spread down on you. It will also land and shoot fireballs too. You can avoid the air fireballs by staying under the wyvern. Your best strategy would be to concentrate mostly on attacking the wyvern while dodging the fireballs whenever possible. You'll get the first relic for winning. However it's not over yet. You have to fight another boss. Boss: Cockatrice This monster will shoot 3 fireballs and then jump forward in a triangular pattern. Just stand in between two fireballs and jump and slash its head with the mace. Be careful not to touch the cockatrice and after 7-9 slashes, it'll die. Main hall ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll start the level fighting a lich. Use the same tactic as on other liches. Continue past the groups of 3 fireballs and you'll encounter 10 white knights like the ones in the Wenlary Castle. Just slash them all and continue forward past the groups of 3 chess knights. You'll then fight an armored white knight. He fights like the aqua knights so just duck and mace him to death. You'll get the sword projectile powerup for winning. Continue past the groups of 3 fireballs and you'll fight another 10 white knights. After the white knights are two more groups of 3 chess knights and then a purple lich. The lich is just like the liches you've been fighting so far so just get up close and mace away. You'll get armor for winning. Now continue ahead past the two groups of 3 fireballs and you'll fight another aqua knight. Defeat him and after the next group of 3 chess knights, you'll face the boss of the level. Boss: Medusa It will charge at you and shoot a paralyze ball when it gets close enough. So don't let it get too close by crouching and macing. You should be able to mace the medusa fast enough so it can't get close enough to use the paralyze ball. After 8-10 hits it'll die and you'll receive the second relic for winning. Like the roof level, you'll now face another boss. Boss: Blue Dragon This monster uses a similar jumping attack like the cockatrice only it will jump 2 short hops instead of one big one like the cockatrice. It might not jump sometimes too. You can easily get 2 or 3 good hits when this happens. Unlike the cockatrice, the blue dragon does not shoot fireballs so it's only damage to you is through contact. Knowing this, just stand a step in front of the dragon. Then, as it jumps forward at you, move towards it, being careful not to touch it. Then when it jumps back, move back. Then jump and slash it in the head. Repeat until it's dead. Fire pits ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll start the level fighting an aqua knight. Defeat it like the other knights and continue forward past the 3 hornets. You'll now see 2 platforms moving up and down above a fire pit. Try jumping on the platform only when it is rising out of the fire so you don't get hurt. While you won't die if you touch the fire, it's better to avoid taking damage whenever possible. After crossing the platforms, you'll face an orange skeleton. Defeat it like you did the other skeletons. You'll get a thunder slash powerup. Now proceed ahead quickly past the 3 hornets and the 3 fireballs and you'll face a purple lich. 2 thunder slashes should do the trick. Now keep moving quickly ahead past the 3 hornets and the 3 fireballs and you'll fight a green rhinotaur. 2 thunder slashes will kill it if you still have it. Otherwise, just get close and attack with the mace. You'll get armor. Now you'll see another firepit and another moving platform. Like the platforms before this, just wait for it to rise out of the fire before jumping. After crossing, there will be a fairy. Heal up and face the boss of the level. Boss: Orange Fishman This guy fights like the lich only it will release the fireballs when it is close enough. Therefore, use the same rapid attack strategy that you used against the medusa. Several hits should finish it off. You'll receive the third relic. Caverns ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll start the level fighting a blue fishman. Use the same strategy you used on the red fishman. You'll get a sword projectile powerup. Now walk forward past the groups of 2 and 3 jellyfish. Now you'll face the creature from the lost lagoon. Let it move halfway across the screen and then let it have a few sword projectiles. 3 should kill it. Now keep moving ahead past the groups of 3 bats and you'll reach a pit. Carefully jump across, avoiding the groups of 2 and 3 jellyfish. After crossing the last pit, you'll fight another blue fishman. Defeat it and you'll get armor. Move ahead past the groups of 3 bats and you'll fight a ghoul. Like the ghouls from before, just mace it to death. Now charge ahead past 3 jellyfish and you'll fight another creature from the lost lagoon. After that, you'll pass a bat and a group of 3 bats before fighting the boss of the level. Boss: Green Minotaur Like its predecessor, this guy moves quickly back and forth across the screen. With the mace, you can hit it multiple times which slows its approach at you so 13-15 hits should kill it Final Area ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you didn't win the four relics from the four levels, then you'll immediately face and eventually lose to the red dragon. If you won the four relics, then you'll enter a hall with mirrors on the wall. When you come to the third mirror, your reflection will emerge and block your path. It mirrors all your moves so whatever you do, it does too. It'll disappear when you have only half your life left without armor. You can slowly attack it or just walk into it and let it damage you by contact. After it disappears, you'll get armor. Then just ahead, you will see 3 fairies. Heal up and switch your weapon to the sword by pressing START until you're holding the sword. Now prepare to enter the final battle. Boss: Red Dragon This dragon is tough. That is if you don't know what to do. First, make sure you have the sword equipped because the other weapons will not hurt it. Second, the dragon uses 2 attacks. The first is a triple fireball breath similar to the cockatrice's attack only its more powerful. The second attack is the dragon's tail which will hit you if you get too close. Third, while you take less damage than without the 4 relics, you do have a limited life. If you lose your armor, the fight is over, so you have to win with 1 meter of life. Begin the fight by getting close to the dragon but at the same time avoiding the tail. While you can't avoid the fireballs entirely, try your best to avoid taking too much damage from them and concentrate on attacking the dragon's head. If you jump too close to its head, the dragon will retract its head. If you're quick, you can get 2 quick hits for every jump. It will take about 13-15 hits to kill the dragon. ============================================================================= The Ending ============================================================================= After killing the red dragon, you're walking in a brightly lit hall of mirrors and then the princess comes out. The screen switches to a shot of the castle much like the one in the introduction with the exception that the skies are now clear. Then the credits play. Staff Producer Sakae Nakamura Director Zensuc Planner/Designer Undead Tamai Composer Sho Sound Editor K. Red Thanks Sayuri M. Kudochan Special Thanks Tomboy Thank you for playing The End ============================================================================= Game Genie Codes (from the World of Nintendo and Gamesages) ============================================================================= PEVPULAP Stop skeletons from fighting GEOGYZPA Enemies and you each fight faster ZPSLONLP Super strong monsters SZVUSNVK No harm from most monster attacks YNOLSYAE Infinite energy NYXKLAGE Super energy ZAXGLAAA Start with knives LAXGLAAA Start with knives and mace EAXGLAAA Start with armor UAXGLAAA Start with armor, knives, and mace ============================================================================= Credits ============================================================================= I found the game genie codes from the following sites World of Nintendo http://www.world-of-nintendo.com/ ============================================================================= Disclaimer ============================================================================= This faq is neither affiliated nor endorsed by Seta USA. It may be distributed FREELY as long as it is NOT modified from its original version (i.e. with credits, disclaimer, etc). You may NOT sell or otherwise profit from this faq. Any changes, comments, suggestions can be emailed to me at darktoshi@yahoo.com Copyright (c) 1999 Wilson Lau.