If you have that .nfo file sitting on an old hard drive, delete it. Not out of moral duty, but because the current GOG version actually lets you enjoy killing Satan without having to pray your rat-transformation doesn't trigger a segmentation fault.
Yet, the -RELOADED version persists on abandonware sites, a digital vampire refusing to die. It serves as a time capsule of a specific, broken moment in 2014 PC gaming—when the Scene was racing against corporate DRM, and quality assurance fell by the wayside. Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2-RELOADED
By: RetroWare Reloaded
Forums exploded. "RELOADED fix #2?" asked a desperate user on a defunct Russian board. "No," replied a moderator. "This is the Castlevania curse. The game doesn't want to be played." Unlike later Scene releases (looking at you, CPY ), the original RELOADED crack did not unlock the Armor of the Shadow or Dark Dracula costume packs. More critically, it failed to bypass the "Pre-order Alucard Spear" gate. This wasn't a dealbreaker for most, but it highlighted a rift in the Scene: RELOADED had prioritized cracking the executable while ignoring the .dat verification for the Revelations DLC. If you have that