Submission #3236: arukAdo, Bablo, Cardboard & scrimpeh's SNES Super Castlevania IV in 29:38.08

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
baseline
Snes9x
106685
60
128384
Unknown
Akumajou Dracula (J).smc
Submitted by arukAdo on 8/1/2011 9:50:33 PM
Submission Comments

In order to set free teh castlevania from a horrible curse, we vanquish da terrible count once again, hopefully the 7 next years will be more sunny (erh wait wha...?)

Summary

  • Abuses Programming Errors
  • Takes Damage To Save Time
  • Manipulates Luck
  • Emulator used: Snes9x-rr (1.43 v17)
  • Length:29:38 Frames:106685 Re-records:128384


Introduction


Here is the longest awaited obsoletion on the site, it took 7 years to brake the curse, and 4 talented tasers; arukAdo, Cardboard, Bablo and scrimpeh.
Originally started by Cardboard and Bablo, they tased up to Stage 3-3 and then lacked interrest/time (pretty much like all preceding attempts), thats where the two of us took over.
We end up beating Phil and Genisto's old movie by 01:37.62 (~20 seconds are from removing the dance after beating dracula).
Bablo and Cardboard did decide to use the jap rom, the stage8 is red(blood) instead green and some other small details are uncensored in this version (boobs for exemple), the timing have near no difference, I believe this rom choice should not be an issue.
Im not sure if the run sync on others version of snes9x, we tryed to beat their movie but with not much success so we decided to just keep going with what we got.
For a list of tricks, both old and new, please refer the Game Resources page


Improvements


A little table to recap the improvements over last movie, first collumn is the total frames won in the stage, second show how many lag frames was removed, third is the difference for bosses.
Full excel spreadsheet is available on google, it detail any rooms and lag as well.
StagesTotalLagBosses
Stage1212474
Stage22194430
Stage387962104
Stage474247-31/2
Stage522-2no boss
Stage622623-24
Stage7325-31
Stage813069-60
Stage92982710
StageA59628-54
StageB2561740/102/84/283

Worthy to mention that the biggest improvement in a single room is 4-4 with 660 frames, second place goes to A-1D with 526 frames.


Stages Review





DarkKobold: Judging.

DarkKobold: Guess I was wrong. Accepting!

Brandon: Publication underway.
Last Edited by adelikat on 9/22/2023 5:09 PM
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