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NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) in 11:43.13 by Phil Côté and Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).

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- Takes damage to save time
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Platform

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This is Genisto's and Phil's joint effort at Castlevania - 26 seconds faster than the previous version by Bisqwit. Also features a higher final score.

This movie uses several techniques for speed:

(Ab)using monsters as a platform for shortcuts
Optimized usage of weapons
Luck abuse for items (Ⅱ and Ⅲ) ― nearly impossible to duplicate
(Ab)using the main character as a critical hit weapon at bosses
Using bottles to restrain and pass through enemies

And standard optimizations such as not using stairs when jumping is possible.

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[901] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Phil. Côté & Morrison in 11:20.5 (2007-06-26)
- obsoletes [694] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Morrison in 11:34.12 (2006-10-09)
~~- - obsoletes [524] NES Castlevania (Konami Classic) by Phil in 11:41.17 (2006-04-11)~~
~~- - - obsoletes [3] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Phil & Genisto in 11:43.13 (2004-04-27)~~
~~- - - - obsoletes [636] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 12:09.22 (2004-04-03)~~
~~- - - - - obsoletes [654] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 12:23.1 (2004-02-28)~~
~~- - - - - - obsoletes [672] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 12:41.25 (2004-01-15)~~
~~- - - - - - - obsoletes [674] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 13:15.55 (2004-01-10)~~

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