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| NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) in 11:34.12 by Morrison. |
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FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-10-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 21.92 MB, length: 13:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1305 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #524 (11:41.17) Rating: 8.1 (29 votes)
| - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform
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This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie. The original Castlevania is set in the year 1691. Simon Belmont
must fight his way through the castle and destroy Count Dracula.
Morrison's Castlevania TAS is about 4 seconds faster than
Phil's previous version. Like the precedent movie, 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)
- (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.
The improvement consists mostly of new weapon strategy, and of
systematic utilization of the multiple-targets-multiple-damage glitch,
which enables enemies to receive damage at a much faster rate than
is normal ― even to share the pain of the player character.
Note: Although this run's time is listed as 7 seconds faster than
the previous time, it is partly because of a way to end the input
a few seconds earlier than before as opposed to reducing the length
of the movie as a whole. Thus, the movie file is 7 seconds shorter,
while the AVI is only 4 seconds shorter.
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