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PSX Castlevania - Symphony of the Night (USA) in 20:18.63 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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Rating: 8.5 (49 votes)
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- Heavy glitch abuse

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Castlevania - Symphony of the Night is not only the first installment of the Castlevania series on PSX but also the very first PSX TAS to be published.

Follow Dracula's son Alucard and see how he glitches through the castle on a quest to end his father's life.

If you prefer the main character to have muscular bare arms, and to pray to the rain gods to defeat bosses, you may enjoy the Richter version.


GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) in 14:04.85 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-11-19)
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Rating: 8.1 (23 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- N/A
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG

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The first quest completion time of this fast paced game got nearly cut in half thanks to Juste's ability to sink into walls when going at very high speed. Please, don't try this at home!

This is a 56 second improvement over the author's previous movie.

However, if you still think there is not enough zipping through walls, make sure to see the second quest completed in less than half a minute!

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Come follow on the adventure through a castle that contains no less than eighty clashing colors in each room! Be amazed as Juste Belmont, Simon's grandson, has to do the usual vampire hunting despite looking nothing like his grandfather (or a man at all). Question his motives when he takes time out of his rescue mission to decorate the basement he will soon destroy! Feel the pain as Juste struggles to understand that there actually are two castles!! (Ouch my brain!)


GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) in 15:00.38 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG

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The first quest completion time of this fast paced game got nearly cut in half thanks to Juste's ability to sink into walls when going at very high speed. Please, don't try this at home!

This is a 44 second improvement over the author's previous movie.

However, if you still think there is not enough zipping through walls, make sure to see the second quest completed in less than half a minute!

Selected quotes from JXQ:
Come follow on the adventure through a castle that contains no less than eighty clashing colors in each room! Be amazed as Juste Belmont, Simon's grandson, has to do the usual vampire hunting despite looking nothing like his grandfather (or a man at all). Question his motives when he takes time out of his rescue mission to decorate the basement he will soon destroy! Feel the pain as Juste struggles to understand that there actually are two castles!! (Ouch my brain!)


GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warp glitch" in 12:06.73 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-12-15)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform

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An improved movie of Aria of Sorrow, using warping glitches to travel in- and outside of the castle with extreme speed.

This time it's played on Normal difficulty level, unlike the previous version by pirate_sephiroth. There are several reasons for this choice — you might want to read the discussion threads for this game for more details. Considering the inability to skip in-game dialogues (which is only possible on Hard mode), the route was also changed accordingly.

Like in the previous movie, you may notice the author stopping for a brief moment before making the final blow to some enemies. This is due to luck manipulation, which is one of the main speed factors for all speedruns of this game.


GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim no warps" in 12:45.68 by Joshua Nyer (aka. Comicalflop) & Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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Rating: 7.6 (24 votes)
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- Forgoes warps
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Castlevania, again, only this time played with Maxim and without glitching through walls and completing the game intended, unlike the glitch-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.

GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) in 15:44.15 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG

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The first quest completion time of this fast paced game got nearly cut in half thanks to Juste's ability to sink into walls when going at very high speed. Please, don't try this at home!

However, if you still think there is not enough zipping through walls, make sure to see the second quest completed in less than half a minute!

Selected quotes from JXQ:
Come follow on the adventure through a castle that contains no less than eighty clashing colors in each room! Be amazed as Juste Belmont, Simon's grandson, has to do the usual vampire hunting despite looking nothing like his grandfather (or a man at all). Question his motives when he takes time out of his rescue mission to decorate the basement he will soon destroy! Feel the pain as Juste struggles to understand that there actually are two castles!! (Ouch my brain!)


GB Castlevania II - Belmont's Revenge (USA) in 25:05.7 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform
In this second outing for Castlevania on the Gameboy, Simon's ancestor Christopher must defeat 5 castles, rescue his son, and destroy Dracula yet again. Featuring exceptional boss strategies and clever damage management the author dominates this handheld game.

This is 34 seconds faster than the previous version due to optimized details and boss fights and some new strategies.


GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "Julius version" in 04:51.98 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 21.10 MB, length: 06:57)
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- Forgoes time-saving damage
- Second quest/Post game-completion
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform

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Those who greatly dislike that Aria of Sorrow's main character isn't related to the Belmont clan whatsoever can safely relax, because the powerhouse known as Julius Belmont enters the stage in the relatively short run of this Castlevania installment.

Julius is only available to those who have completed the main quest, but unlike Soma Cruz, Belmont can't go through walls or use other fancy tricks like that. Being very upset about it, he hops around the castle madly, producing almost inhuman sounds with every jump.

The improvement of 61 seconds came from these new movement techniques and better boss fights.


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

SNES Legend of the Mystical Ninja, The (USA) in 24:52.37 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- 2 Players
- Takes damage to save time
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja is the first Super Nintendo game in the Ganbare Goemon series, based on a noble thief in Japanese folklore.

This run improves on the previous run using new tricks and glitches such as the scroll abuse glitch, which saves a large amount of time.


NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) in 29:45.02 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
If science fiction is to be believed, the ultimate evolution for biological beings is to discard the physical body and become an entity of pure energy. For video game characters, it seems to be the ability to zip through walls. In this latest TAS by zggzdydp, Simon Belmont joins the league of characters possessing this ability.

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

This movie is 2 minutes and 23 seconds faster than the previous effort by the same author. We recommend to read his comments for explanations on how this improvement was achieved.


SNES Ganbare Goemon 2 (JPN) in 35:32.05 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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Rating: 7.0 (17 votes)
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- 2 Players
- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
This popular Japanese series features a character who fights with a smoking pipe and giant killer robots. For some reason, it's not terribly popular elsewhere.

The author thoroughly abuses the 2-player option to glide through the game with ease. This movie contains some of the most accurate robot boxing currently available.


N64 Castlevania - Legacy of Darkness (JPN) in 14:00.97 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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Rating: 6.9 (22 votes)
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- Genre: Platform
Legacy of Darkness is the second Castlevania game on the N64. This quick run uses the gun slinging Henry, who is available from the start in the Japanese version.

Henry's objective is to rescue 6 children found in 6 stages within a specified time.


GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) "warp glitch" in 05:22.95 by Cardboard (?) & zggzdydp (?).
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- Demonstration
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform

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When played normally, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon is a rather long game, in which exploration, leveling up, and killing bosses in order to gain access to different items or portions of the castle is necessary. However, series of glitches involving DSS combos throw all these aspects of gameplay out of the window, allowing the player to warp directly to Dracula and kill him humiliatingly in just over 5 minutes.

This movie is a joint venture between Cardboard & zggzdydp, in which 11.2 seconds were saved over the previous version by OgreSlayeR.


NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) in 32:08.22 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Heavy luck manipulation
- 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 03:01:08, which is 9 "minutes" better than the previous version by Walker Boh. The actual movie is 27.35 seconds faster because of significant improvements in two mansions.
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... Hence, there is some necessary waits that may appear as sloppy, but are not.


Genesis Sunset Riders (USA) in 10:00.47 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- 2 Players
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
An action-packed wild-west shooting game converted from the arcades. It doesn't have all the levels and characters of the original, but makes for an interesting movie nonetheless.

In this run enemies blindly spray bullets at the main characters, naturally missing every shot as bad guys generally do. (Heroes, no matter where or when, can be assumed to have plasma shields.)

This version by zggzdydp is about 27 seconds faster than the previous movie due to various scattered improvements, most notably the 3-2 boss fight.


GB Castlevania II - Belmont's Revenge (USA) in 25:39.7 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform

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In this second outing for Castlevania on the Gameboy, Simon's grandfather Soleiyu must defeat 5 castles and destroy Dracula yet again. Featuring exceptional bosses and clever damage management the author dominates this handheld game.

N64 Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (USA) in 2:04:49.35 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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- Genre: Adventure
Mystical Ninja, otherwise known as Ganbare Goemon, is one of Konami's longest-running series, yet remains mostly localised to Japan (thanks in part to cultural differences; the series is very Japanese). This is the first of three games for the series released for the N64.

What begins as a quest to investigate an attack on a castle quickly evolves into a race to stop a plot to transform Japan into... a giant stage.

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Added [1478] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warpless" by Kriole in 20:58.62 (2010-03-03)
Added [1459] N64 Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (USA) by zggzdydp in 2:04:49.35 (2010-02-10)
Added ☆[1428] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "100% souls" by Kriole in 28:01.58 (2009-12-27)
- obsoletes [456] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) by Atma in 27:45.57 (2006-01-11)
Added ☆[1363] PSX Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night (USA) by arukAdo & pirate_sephiroth in 19:01.63 (2009-10-16)
- obsoletes [1246] PSX Castlevania - Symphony of the Night (USA) by zggzdydp in 20:18.63 (2009-01-24)
Added [1362] N64 Castlevania - Legacy of Darkness (JPN) by zggzdydp in 14:00.97 (2009-10-15)
Added [1275] PSX Castlevania - Symphony of the Night (USA) "Richter version" by pirate_sephiroth in 05:41.73 (2009-04-16)
Added [1250] GB Castlevania II - Belmont's Revenge (USA) by zggzdydp in 25:05.7 (2009-01-29)
- obsoletes [937] GB Castlevania II - Belmont's Revenge (USA) by zggzdydp in 25:39.7 (2007-08-07)
Added [1247] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "Julius version" by Cpadolf in 04:38.9 (2009-01-24)
- obsoletes [1127] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "Julius version" by zggzdydp in 04:51.98 (2008-06-17)
- - obsoletes [508] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "Julius version" by Atma in 05:53.17 (2006-03-20)
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 (2006-12-12)
Added [1200] SNES Ganbare Goemon 2 (JPN) by zggzdydp in 35:32.05 (2008-10-13)
Added [1198] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim Version" by klmz in 00:23.58 (2008-10-13)
- obsoletes [1056] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim Version" by Deign in 00:23.97 (2008-02-18)
- - obsoletes [919] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim Version" by Comicalflop in 00:24.3 (2007-07-18)
- - - obsoletes [887] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim Version" by Comicalflop in 00:26.37 (2007-06-08)
- - - - obsoletes [727] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim Version" by pirate_sephiroth in 00:26.95 (2006-12-11)
Added [1168] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) "glitched" by Cardboard in 05:21.58 (2008-08-11)
- obsoletes [996] GBA Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon (USA) "glitched" by Cardboard in 05:21.93 (2007-11-19)
- - obsoletes [966] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) "warp glitch" by Cardboard in 05:22.95 (2007-09-25)
- - - obsoletes [324] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) "warp glitch" by OgreSlayeR in 05:34.13 (2005-04-22)
Added [1162] GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim no warps" by Comicalflop & zggzdydp in 12:45.68 (2008-08-10)
Added [1140] Genesis Sunset Riders (USA) by zggzdydp in 10:00.47 (2008-07-06)
- obsoletes [511] Genesis Sunset Riders (USA) by Highness in 10:27.15 (2006-03-25)
Added [1129] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warp glitch" by klmz in 06:46.2 (2008-06-18)
- obsoletes [1024] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warp glitch" by zggzdydp in 12:06.73 (2007-12-15)
- - obsoletes [695] GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warp glitch" by pirate_sephiroth in 12:17.5 (2006-10-09)
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 Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (Europe) "no glitch" by Bisqwit in 38:53.0 (2004-03-05)
Added [1099] SNES Legend of the Mystical Ninja, The (USA) by zggzdydp in 24:52.37 (2008-04-23)
- obsoletes [205] SNES Legend of the Mystical Ninja (USA) by JuanValdez in 32:11.15 (2004-10-08)
Added [1093] GBA Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon (USA) by Cardboard in 21:40.22 (2008-04-07)
- obsoletes [821] GBA Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon (USA) by Cardboard in 21:51.08 (2007-03-22)
- - obsoletes [800] GBA Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon (USA) by Cardboard in 22:01.98 (2007-02-22)
- - - obsoletes [538] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) by OgreSlayeR in 22:44.32 (2006-05-14)
- - - - obsoletes [322] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) by OgreSlayeR in 23:43.37 (2005-04-17)


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