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GBA "Maxim Version" Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) in 00:24.3 by Joshua Nyer (aka. Comicalflop).
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Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-07-18)
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Read author's comments in submission #1630
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Obsoletes movie #887 (00:26.37)
Rating: 8.1 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Second quest
- Starts from a predefined save
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG

This movie has been obsoleted!

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This is a really, really fast TAS through Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance played with Maxim who is only available after the game is beaten once. Most of the game is glitched through by being stuck in different walls, so it's hard to explain what happened in this; see it for yourself.

This is a 124 frame improvement over comicalflop's previous movie.

Note: This movie starts where the main quest movie left off. We do not usually accept movies beginning from a save. Please read our rules to see our reasons.


N64 Mischief Makers (USA) in 55:04.28 by Joshua Nyer (aka. Comicalflop).
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Download Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2008-10-24)
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Read author's comments in submission #2083
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Rating: 8.1 (22 votes)
- Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Mischief Makers (1997) is one of the rare 2D sidescrollers released for Nintendo 64. The player controls Marina, the robotic maid of a lecherous and absent-minded professor Theo, who has a habit of being kidnapped constantly. The ones who abduct him every now and then are Clancers from the evil Empire. (And make sure to watch out for the plot twist at the end!)

Marina is quite a versatile cyborg. She can boost continuously in the air, ride vehicles, slide and jump like a maniac, and most importantly, shake. Make no mistake, you'll be seeing Comicalflop shake this thing, and even that thing quite a lot in this fast-paced run.

The game is broken down into 52 short areas, each of them having a separate timer. Because of this, the author aims to optimize the movie for shortest in-game time. Each stage is given a rank based on how fast the stage was completed; this run gets all S Ranks.

The game has some emulation errors, such as unnatural amounts of lag in some stages, and graphical glitches. See the author's comments for more details.


GBA "Maxim Version" Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) in 00:26.37 by Joshua Nyer (aka. Comicalflop).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 5 MB, length: 01:59) (currently unavailable)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-06-08)
Read author's comments in submission #1587
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #727 (00:26.95)
Rating: 8.0 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Second quest
- Starts from a predefined save
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG

This movie has been obsoleted!

Click here to see the new movie.
This is a really, really fast TAS through Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance played with Maxim who is only available after the game is beaten once. Most of the game is glitched through by being stuck in different walls, so it's hard to explain what happened in this, see it for yourself.

This is comicalflop's contribution of 35 frames over the previous movie by pirate_sephiroth, which shows how close it is to being optimal.

Note: This movie starts where the main quest movie left off. We do not usually accept movies beginning from a save. Please read our rules to see our reasons.


GBA "Maxim no warps" Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance (USA) in 12:45.68 by Joshua Nyer (aka. Comicalflop) & Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 49 MB, length: 14:26)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-10)
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Read author's comments in submission #2019
Discuss this movie
Rating: 7.6 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Second quest
- Starts from a predefined save
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
Castlevania, again, only this time played with Maxim and without glitching through walls and completing the game intended, unlike the warped run. What constitutes as intended in this run is debatable, since Maxim zooms through the castle faster than Sonic on espresso, and sends shurikens ripping through bosses before they realize they can attack you.

Note: This movie starts where the main quest movie left off. We do not usually accept movies beginning from a save. Please read our rules to see our reasons.


SNES "102%" Donkey Kong Country 2 (USA) in 1:28:24.03 by Joshua Nyer (aka. Comicalflop).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 311 MB, length: 1:30:00)
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-10-28)
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Read author's comments in submission #1320
Discuss this movie
Rating: 7.4 (35 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Items: 100%
- Best ending
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
Donkey Kong's been kidnapped and old Cranky Kong insists that Diddy collect a bunch of coins that say "DK" on them. These goals are sufficiently compatible that Diddy and Dixie decide to get a little bit sidetracked on their rescue plan.

This run abuses a lot of bugs with regard to motion and collision detection. Read the author's submission to learn more.

Note: this movie was recorded with a slightly modified snes9x. A soft reset feature was added to the movie file. A copy of this snes9x can be found in the author's submission, with source code patch.

More movies:
Added [1222] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by klmz in 11:13.12 (2008-11-08)
- obsoletes [995] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by zggzdydp in 14:04.85 (2007-11-19)
- - obsoletes [908] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by zggzdydp in 15:00.38 (2007-07-02)
- - - obsoletes [889] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by zggzdydp in 15:44.15 (2007-06-10)
- - - - obsoletes [728] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by JXQ in 30:43.92 (2006-12-11)
Added [1211] N64 Mischief Makers (USA) by Comicalflop in 55:04.28 (2008-10-24)
Added [1198] GBA "Maxim Version" Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by klmz in 00:23.58 (2008-10-13)
- obsoletes [1056] GBA "Maxim Version" Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by Deign in 00:23.97 (2008-02-18)
- - obsoletes [919] GBA "Maxim Version" Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by Comicalflop in 00:24.3 (2007-07-18)
- - - obsoletes [887] GBA "Maxim Version" Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by Comicalflop in 00:26.37 (2007-06-08)
- - - - obsoletes [727] GBA "Maxim Version" Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by pirate_sephiroth in 00:26.95 (2006-12-11)
Added [1162] GBA "Maxim no warps" Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance (USA) by Comicalflop & zggzdydp in 12:45.68 (2008-08-09)
Added [898] SNES "any%" Donkey Kong Country 2 (USA v1.0) by Arnethegreat in 41:49.02 (2007-06-25)
- obsoletes [478] SNES Donkey Kong Country 2 (USA) by Sami O. in 46:55.35 (2006-02-19)
Added [705] SNES "102%" Donkey Kong Country 2 (USA) by Comicalflop in 1:28:24.03 (2006-10-28)
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