********** CASTLEVANIA QUEST: version 2.0 ********** (made with DJGPP+ Allegro )



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THIS PROGRAM IS NESWARE: IF YOU POSSESS THE WHOLE CASTLEVANIA TRILOGY (the NES cartridges, not the roms!), YOU CAN KEEP IT FOREVER, OTHERWISE... YOU MUST DELETE EVERYTHING WITHIN 24 HOURS....
(or Dracula's curse will spoil the rest of your life!!!).
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 list of important files:

CQ2.exe       : this is the game itself, just run it to start playing.
CQ.dat        : the Allegro datafile
user.dat      : it's automatically created by CQ2 and will contain infos like the                                                                                                                                                top-score or the keyboard-configuration. To clear the top-score, just delete                 it! 
config.txt    : this contains info about everything... sound/graph-card config, sound                                                 volume and so on. You can change it a little to get a proper configuration.
CastQuest.txt :game's instructions.   


WELCOME TO CASTLEVANIA QUEST 2.0
Uouff.. well, some big steps have been made since the first release of cq.  
Here are the most important novelties! :
-BUGS FIXED 
-JOYSTICK SUPPORT
-WHIP/WEAPONS POWER-UPS  

Simon can now collect weapons, potentiate his whip. The game looks like a "castlevania
standard", there are the same weapons as the first NES Castlevania, although clocks
are well-hidden and works only when you collect them. The crystal sphere is an inspiration
from the Tiger portable game !!!!!
Many musics have been changed; some of them re sequenced a little bit (like the first stage's
one), others changed into famous castlevania themes (i don't really know, if this is good
or bad, but if you have Allegro's grabber, you can change them...); some themes are totally
by me, but in general they tend to remain near a classical castlevania music.

The game runs ok on dos-mode, a sync routine keeps the speed to a normal level
(actually, I didn't considered this problem when made cq1, since my computer is a
"poor" P100; By the way, there is now a turbo option too, and if your computer is too
slow (rare thing, since a lot of people complained that "cq runs too fast":)!!!, but you 
never know....), you can disable the parallax, without affecting the second background
(Which will scroll at the same speed as the main background.. i.e. is the same screen),
gaining a lot of speed on slow-computer!!!).
But there are a lot of small improvements, all around the game, 3 new stages have been added
(and now every level has at least 3 stages), others have been redrawn; a small menu option  will help you configure your joystick/keyboard; many corrections
have been made on some weird effects, like the "falling whip" or the "big jump" when simon
finished climbing the staircase.  Other things... well.. listing them all would be impossible,
so just play the game and see...

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