One-Up

A One-Up (or 1UP and many other variants of this stylization) is a rare item found in classic Castlevania games. It grants the player an extra life.

Description

One-Ups are generally categorized as hidden items that require certain actions taken by the player to appear. These usually involve destroying a specific breakable wall to find it in item form, inside of secret rooms, destroying certain candles, or can also be gained by reaching a certain amount of Score points. Picking up money bags or coins, acquiring certain valuable items, killing enemies, killing many enemies with just one use of a sub-weapon (triggering the score multiplier), or being awarded bonus points at the end of a level for the amount of time remaining on the timer, or by the amount of HP or Hearts left, are ways to increase a player's score.

Satisfying certain requirements particular to some games will also award the player with an extra life. Some examples include:

• In Castlevania: The Adventure, refraining from hitting the first candle in the game will make one of the candles prior to the second rope to contain a 1Up.
• In Super Castlevania IV, one is housed inside a breakable right wall in Stage 6 in an area after passing the secret room but before reaching the space near the boss (after several Ectoplasm when walking rightward).
• In Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, and its two remakes, Castlevania: Dracula X and Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, the player will receive an extra life if they finish a stage with a full HP bar (note that it's not enough just managing to not get hit by the area boss with an already non-full HP bar). A 1up is always housed inside the engine of the Ghost Ship and is dropped once it is destroyed.

Item Data

Item Data: One-Up
Image	Name - Game   Type - Users Description	Attributes / Consume	Statistics / Sell	Found	Notes
	One-Up (jpn) - Castlevania   Weapon (Hidden Item) - Simon Belmont				[edit]
	1 Up on the Count (1UP) - Adventure   Item - Christopher Belmont				[edit]
	Gives you an extra life to play with.
	1-Up - Dracula's Curse   Item - any				[edit]
	This gives you a bonus life (a big plus!).
	1 Up - Super Castlevania IV   Item - Simon Belmont				[edit]
	Adds a bonus life
	1up - Belmont's Revenge   Item - Christopher Belmont				[edit]
	1-Up - Chronicles   Item - Simon Belmont				[edit]
	Gives you an extra life.
(RoB/DXC)	1UP (Richter) - Rondo of Blood   Item - Richter				[edit]
	Increases the number of remaining lives by 1.			Find: 5. Ghost Ship Drop: Great Armor (Stage 2')
(RoB/DXC)	One-Up (Maria) - Rondo of Blood   Item - Maria				[edit]
	The number of remaining lives increases by one.			Find: 5. Ghost Ship Drop: Great Armor (Stage 2')
	1-Up - Bloodlines   Item - John Morris, Eric Lecarde				[edit]
	Adds one player life.
	1 Up - Dracula X   Normal Item - Richter				[edit]
	Increases the number of lives remaining by one.
	1UP - Legends   Normal Item - Sonia				[edit]
	Increases your remaining lives by 1.
	1-up - The Adventure ReBirth   Item - Christopher Belmont				[edit]

Notes

• While playing as Maria Renard in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, the player can pick up a similar item, although having the form of Richter Belmont, called the "Richter Doll".

Gallery

Artworks

1 Up on the Count from the Japanese The Adventure instruction booklet.

1-Up from the American Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse instruction booklet.

1up from the Japanese Belmont's Revenge instruction booklet.

1-Up from the American Castlevania Chronicles instruction booklet.

1UP from the Japanese Rondo of Blood instruction booklet.

Richter Doll from the Japanese Rondo of Blood instruction booklet.

1-Up from the Japanese Castlevania: Bloodlines instruction booklet.

Screenshots

One-Up from Castlevania.

One-Up from Castlevania.

1 Up on the Count from The Adventure.

Richter's 1 Up from Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles.