FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (XV)

Answers to common questions about Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, including max life, leveling up, and teleporter locations.

Q1 How do I move the right statue by the clock?

A1 Clock Sub weapon.

Q2 I have 200.3%, am I missing anything?

A2 Yes, you are probably missing about 3 rooms. The normal max without glitches is 200.6%, I have 206% with glitches.

Q3 What is the max life?

A3 Well, if you started out with 70 HP the max will be 4903. If you beat Dracula with no sub-weapons or picked one up and under 1 minute you will startout with 80/85 HP and the HP will be couple hundred higher.

Q4 Where is the best place to level up the muramasa?

A4 Do you remember where you fought Scylla? The female cross with 3 headed dog with snake heads? Go there but in the inverted caverns. You will find multiple Dark Octopuses. You are trying to make your stats go down so equip some equipment that you normally wouldn't equip. Then find the knife sub-weapon, equip the Blood Cloak, and Muramasa. Then if you did it right your knife should only take less than 10 HP. Make sure that the blood coming from the octopus is hitting you. That is the fastest way to level up the Muramasa.

Q5 Is there really an inverted Castle?

A5 Yes, when people first played it (1997) they didn't realize there was one. Because they got 85% or higher in the game so they didn't care to get the rest of the 15%. But those who had 30% or more left to discover went around the castle to get the other percentage and accidentally found how to get there.

Q6 What does the gold & Silver ring do?

A6 When you have both of them equipped and you are in the clock room you will activate rooms that you can go to.

Q7 How do you activate familiars or relics?

A7 Relic sub-menu, in menu (press start, third option down).

Q8 When I am in the outer wall and I look through the telescope I see the ferryman. What is that suppose to mean?

A8 It is suppose to tell you that you need the Holy Symbol and that you can breathe or go under water with it.

Q9 When I am in the outer wall (same place as question 8) I see a bird fly by, does the bird actually do anything?

A9 Well, according to my friend who has played this, he says that if you watch for a while the bird comes and goes giving the babies food and after a while the birds will fly out. I don't know if this is true, because I have not seen it.

Q10 How do you Save??

A10 Not to be mean or snide. But this should be a very easy thing to do. You have to find a room with an object floating in the center, press up and it will save for you. On your map (the minimap (the small circular map in the bottom-left corner of your screen), a small map displayed on the HUD (heads-up display — the on-screen icons showing health, ammo and the minimap)) it is labeled with red.

Q11 How do you activate the map?

A11 SELECT.

Q12 What is the point of the Alucart equipment?

A12 When you have the equipment equipped your status will change to Alucart and your luck goes up.

Q13 What is this room with the shape of a key do?

A13 That is a teleporter (a device that transports you instantly to another location). It will teleport you to other teleporters and it is marked orange on the map.

Q14 What is the max time, gold & experience?

A14 TIME: 99:59:59, GOLD: 999,999, EXP: 999,999.

Q15 Where is the best place to train/level up?

A15 Lower than 30 then it doesn't particularly matter where you train. 31-65 the guardians in the inverted clock area are your best choice. 66+ there is this place in the inverted Marble Gallery where you can get a lot of kills and EXP. Get a Dark Shield (look to see where dropped), equip it and put a rubber band on the button that you had assigned the shield to and make sure it stays there, then make sure the Medusa heads hit the shield, leave there all night and you should have 5+ levels. Depending on the level you are from 66-99. If you are level 66 you will get way more levels up than if you were level 90. Level 90 you will probably get 3-5.

Q16 Where do you get the Sword Card?

A16 It is found in Orlox's Quarters, you find it exactly (on the map) under where you fight Orlox in the normal castle.

Q17 Where does each teleporter teleport to?

A17 That is a good question, sometimes I find myself toing around with the teleporter now and then because I forget where I need to go. I will list the area of the castle the teleporter teleports to, and tell you which teleporter is a good choice to navigate to that area of the castle.

• LION= Castle Keep. Close, Royal Chapel & Clock Tower
• DEER= Orlox Quarters. Close, Marble Gallery, Royal Chapel
• HORSE= The Beginning & Alchemy Laboratory
• SNAKE= Abandoned Mine & Catacombs
• SCORPION= Outer Wall, Marble Gallery, Clock Tower, Long Library

This is listed in order, it goes counter-clockwise. If you start at the Lion the next one will be the Deer. If you start at the Snake the next one will be the Scorpion. If you are at the Scorpion you will be at the Lion. If you look at the list above it goes in the order, so like I mentioned above if you are at one just look at the one below it and that is the area you will be next.