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NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) in 32:35.57 by Hans Olsson (aka. Walker Boh).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 121 MB, length: 34:19) (currently unavailable)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-02-01)
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Obsoletes movie #287 (34:11.98)
Rating: 7.2 (31 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG

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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the story of Simon Belmont's horrible weekend without sleep. Two years after defeating Dracula, Simon is physically weakened by Dracula's curse. Simon must gather Dracula's remains and incinerate them at the ruins of Castlevania in order to end the curse.

The timeunit count for this movie is 03:01:17, which is 4 "hours" better than the previous version, and almost 15 "hours" better than the first released version. The actual movie is now improved by 96 seconds, because of better implementation and a new warp.
It also abuses the falling-through-floor glitch, which is insanely difficult to perform.

There are several items that are required for the completion of the game, and you can't buy them without killing a certain amount of monsters; thus, this movie has some running back and forth in order to collect hearts. There's also the factor that shops are open only at daytime and monsters are twice as evil at nighttime...

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Added [1119] NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) by zggzdydp in 29:45.02 (2008-06-07)
- obsoletes [933] NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) by zggzdydp in 32:08.22 (2007-08-03)
- - obsoletes [290] NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) by Walker Boh in 32:35.57 (2005-02-01)
- - - obsoletes [287] NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) by Walker Boh in 34:11.98 (2005-01-23)
- - - - obsoletes [282] NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) by Walker Boh in 35:00.98 (2005-01-16)
- - - - - obsoletes [4] NES "no glitch" Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (Europe) by Bisqwit in 38:53.0 (2004-03-05)
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