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☆NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) in 11:20.5 by Phil. Côté & Joshua Horst (aka. Morrison).
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-26)
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 31 MB, length: 12:45)
Download from mirror site (www.dailymotion.com)
Read author's comments in submission #1609
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #694 (11:34.12)
Rating: 8.2 (28 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
The original Castlevania is set in the year 1691. Simon Belmont must fight his way through the castle and destroy Count Dracula.

This TAS is about 13.6 seconds faster than the previous version by the coauthor of this movie, Morrison.

In this joint effort by Phil and Morrison, thorough optimizations are carried out at all levels of magnitude in order to get the maximum completion speed as well as lots of score points in the process.

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More movies:
Added ☆[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 [673] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 12:51.6 (2004-01-12)
- - - - - - - - obsoletes [674] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 13:15.55 (2004-01-10)
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