Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Archipelago 2026.07.03

Requires Archipelago 0.6.4 or greater.

Drop cvaos.apworld into your Archipelago install under /lib/worlds. To patch a ROM, drag the .apcvaos patch onto ArchipelagoLauncher.exe.

Canada Day / Fourth of July Update

Additions:

• Adds a Library-to-Forbidden-Area Button Handling option. This turns the button that unlocks the Forbidden Area from the Library into a shuffleable pickup.
• Adds friendly names to the checks (c/o @SchwartzGandhi for writing and @fenrir7732 for review).
• Adds "Oops, All Whips" and "Classicvania Movement" patch options from @Xanthus1

Adjustments

• Adjusts the ceiling/floor-breaking pickups to be progression_deprioritized_skip_balancing instead of progression_skip_balancing
• Quadruples the drop-rates of Devil, Manticore, and Curly souls
• Enables kicking out of single jump (courtesy of Xanthus)

Fixes

• Fixes the build issue reported by Fenrir
• Fixes the 814->80D logic error reported by Cringe
• ROM no longer required by host