README.md

SotN-RandomStartRoom

SotN-RandomStartRoom is tool for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night running under BizHawk.

Features!

• Random start room
• Experimental: Randomize start equipements
• Richter Vs. Dracula (Final Boss)
• Richter Vs. Richter

Requirements

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (SLUS-00067) NTSC-U

• BizHawk 2.7 or higher

  • Windows users must download and run the prereq installer first.

• Optional, but add cool stuff and increase speed to RandomStartRoom.

  • Python 3.10 or higher and make sure you select Add Python to PATH
  • psutil 5.9.0 or higher
  • pywin32 303 or higher
  • requests 2.27.1 or higher

Installation

Download SotN-RandomStartRoom-v#.#.#.zip and extract all to your BizHawk folder.

File structure should look like this:

BizHawk
└───Lua
│   └───PSX
│   │   └───SotN-RandomStartRoom
│   │   │   - RandomStartRoom.lua <- is main script
│   │   │   - LICENSE
│   │   │   - README.md
│   │   │   - resources
│   │   │     └───...

How to use RandomStartRoom

1. Start Symphony of the Night under BizHawk.
2. If you used SotnRandoTools start this tool before RandomStartRoom.lua
3. Open Lua console under BizHawk and open/run RandomStartRoom.lua
4. On game Symphony of the Night go to gamesave.
5. On dialog window of SotN-RandomStartRoom press "OK" button.
6. Now start new game.

Known issues.

• Random start equipment for hands and body does not work immediately! Work after enter in the settings.

Recommended cool tools

• SotnRandoTools
• SotN Randomizer

Cheers!!!