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PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) in 23:17.78 by arukAdo.
Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-08-14)
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 50.89 MB, length: 27:45)
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Submission #2326 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.3 (20.5 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (1993) is an important milestone in Castlevania series and a predecessor to the even more successful Symphony of the Night. This game was ported two years later to the SNES as Dracula X.

In this installment of a popular TV show, a miserable little pile of secrets known as Richter Belmont is once again called to have it at a savior mankind needs so ill. Armed with his trusty key and a question mark nicknamed 'Vampire Killer', he makes sure no candleholder remains standing in Dracula's castle. Eager to just get it over with, he plows through without as much as a slightest regard to his purple-haired girlfriend and some other people still imprisoned there. It seems what little time one has to spare in a TAS is best spent moonwalking and yelling at the screen, anyway.

A slower version of this run taking only the regular stages is available here. Due to this movie being faster, that submission was cancelled, yet there are arguably more entertaining moments in the cancelled submission (the author recommends stage 4 in particular).


PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) "Maria version" in 24:21.75 by adelikat & arukAdo.
Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-12-29)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 56.71 MB, length: 29:10)
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Submission #2506 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #1335 (24:23.47)
Rating: 7.1 (13 votes)
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- Uses a suboptimal character
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
After having been resurrected by dark priest Shaft, Dracula set out to destroy Richter Belmont's home village and kidnap some of the important characters for him to rescue. One of them is Maria Renard, a 12-year-old vampire huntress who is used as the player character in the second half of the movie after getting freed by Richter.

Despite her prepubescent age, Maria is faster and stronger than Richter, and one can only guess how she managed to fall a victim to kidnappers in the first place. Unfortunately, all of her speed advantages become nullified by a lengthy cutscene following her release, making this TAS slightly longer than the Richter version.

This is a 2.5 second improvement to the previous movie.


PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) "100%" in 38:26.12 by adelikat & arukAdo.
Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-12-28)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 86.50 MB, length: 43:09)
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Submission #2504 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.0 (15 votes)
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- 100% completion
- Best ending
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Contrary to the other Rondo of Blood TASes on the site, this one not only goes through the hurdles of saving three useless villagers from their prisons (with some of said prisons even resembling their regular habitats), but also plays through all the picturesque levels just to prove that Maria isn't really a suboptimal character. No videogame character fighting dark priests by stoning them to death with small white birds should ever be called suboptimal.

If you want to see a shorter run through the game, we suggest watching these: Richter any% in 23:18, Maria any% in 24:22.


PCECD Double Dragon II: The Revenge (JPN) in 11:57.73 by arukAdo.
Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-12-29)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 35.97 MB, length: 17:09)
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Submission #2507 — Author's comments
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Rating: 5.9 (11 votes)
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- 2 Players
- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Fighting
Rather different from both the NES version and arcade versions of this game, this version of Double Dragon 2 features higher resolution graphics much closer to that of the SNES iterations of the series. Notably, many of the glitches present in the NES version are absent here, yielding slower yet arguably no less entertaining gameplay.

PCECD Kaze Kiri: Ninja Action (JPN) in 15:31.62 by arukAdo.
Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-02-14)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 37.08 MB, length: 20:13)
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Submission #2556 — Author's comments
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Rating: 5.6 (10 votes)
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- Best ending
- Uses easiest difficulty
- Genre: Action
In this obscure title for an obscure platform, our ninja hero must fight his way through a horde of enemy ninja who attack from every angle in order to rescue the girl.

Join arukAdo in this exciting adventure as he slices through his enemies and their defenses like a hot chainsaw through fresh butter (and beats up the girl too).

An alternate version of this run which plays on hard difficulty can be found here. The only difference between difficulty levels is enemy hit points, which is normally grounds for playing on the easiest possible difficulty (to improve speed and entertainment).

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