Golvellius Shrine

Extras

Herein lies the known extras, flaws, and bugs that Golvellius has to offer.

Sound Test	Image
You can try out all of the great sounds of the game by holding your directional pad (or joystick) to the upper left corner and holding both A and B buttons down at the same time as Kelesis walks into the cave in the opening sequence.

Garbled Graphics in Haidee Forest

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What is that garbled mess in the middle of the forest? If you approach you will find that it is just another cave with a graphical glitch covering it. You can find this screen on the Eastern edge of Haidee Forest.

There was a bugfix released in 2014 by Eric R. Quinn that replaces the corrupted graphics with the original hole. This bugfix patch also includes a fix for the duplicated map flaw in Crawky Forest as described in the next section below. The bugfix can be found HERE and must be applied to an original SMS Golvellius ROM.

Terrain Incorrectly Drawn in Crawky Map

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Take a look at the middle of Crawky Forest in the Maps section. The picture at the right shows a closeup of one screen area that was drawn in the wrong location. It looks like the farthest NE corner location of Crawky Forest was used twice (once in the far NE corner and once in the center). You can see how the river stops and starts again past this square. The trees are cut in a perfect line and the mountains end in a perfect line as well. The Japanese version of the game contains the correct map piece in this section.

There was a bugfix released in 2014 by Eric R. Quinn that restores (what is believed to be) the intended map section. This bugfix patch also includes a fix for the corrupted graphics in Haidee Forest as described in the previous section. The bugfix can be found HERE and must be applied to an original SMS Golvellius ROM.

Valley Sword Resets Game?	Image
Apparently the game will crash and/or reset if you do the following: 1. Purchase Remedia's Shield, then go back and purchase the weaker Aruzasu's Shield 2. Attempt to purchase the Valley Sword after Step 1. This has been confirmed by at least 1 player using a physical SMS cartridge. I have yet to confirm if this is truly a bug.

Invincibility Ring/Invisibility Ring

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The small red ring you find in Fosbus Swamp is referred to as the "Invisibility Ring" 3 different times in-game.

The manual refers to this ring as the "Invincibility Ring."

Both of these names are misleading. The ring allows Kelesis the ability to crush stones with his sword and has nothing to do with invisibility nor invincibility. In the original MSX version of the game, the ring was translated as the "Vanish Ring" because it helped Kelesis "vanish" stones.

Name Translations & Transcriptions	Image
All of the Demons except Fosbus and Golvellius have different names in-game than they do in the instruction manual. The in-game names seem to fit closer with the enemies in the original MSX Golvellius. Enny (in-game) is also referred to as Annie in the manual.