Submission #6904: arukAdo's Saturn Castlevania: Symphony of the Night "Pacifist - 1 Touch / 2 Hits" in 15:05.15

Summary

• "Pacifist" Main Objective
• Lowest "Touch" and "Hits" arbitrary Sub-Objective
• Abuses Programming Errors
• Uses Game Reset Sequence
• Emulator used: BizHawk (2.5.1 interim)
• RealTime:15:05.15 GameTime:13:56(last input) Frames:54309 Re-records:57250

Introduction

Explanation

Hits and Touchs

• Touch are interactions with monsters hitbox, without damaging them, one way to tell is that the monster name will appear on the bottom right of the screen when you "touch" it.
• Hits are attacks interactions with monsters, it will in 99% cases result in damage on the monster, sometime monsters are invulnerable on some parts (stone plant), or like golden skulls just immune to any damage on the whole hitbox.

Character choice

• Richter will not work simply because he only have 10 MP, the sword brother spell requires 30 MP and let you get a million $ very fast, the alternative is to collect for hours the 25$ bags until you have duplicator.
• Alucard scenario is a lot more interresting, because it allow for "live" swap of characters to gather the relics, such a run will be display here later, unfortunatly, its not possible to complete it without killing at least one boss, it is by definition inferior because of that.

SRAM Usage

Flaws, Glitches'n'Routes

• Karasuman skip is very easy, you only have to morph into wolf on the first frame of input after the loading, note that darkwingbat gate doesnt start before you move into the room, and I couldnt find any way to glitch myself out aside whats presented here (half blood).
• You cannot see it but the damage (from one of the shuriken hits) on dracula is 9999 and its the maximum, to obtain this you need to have a negative luck value, in this run alucard got 10, equiping a duplicator means -10, so you need 2 duplicators to make this work, dracula got 10000hp so the second hit kills him regardless whats the dmg from it.
• Ive tested to go by medusa, she does hit for 100 under poison with the sword (attack, not touch), but good luck getting half blood with it, looked impossible to me, all her others attacks arent strong enought.
• Im buying 2 flame shurikens, but only use one (ooops), so you can reduce shop time by a whopping 12 frames, also buying leather shield instead iron saves some 7000$.
• The wolf in reverse castle is purely to show off, its probably slower than just go directly with bat, note that the spike dont hurt the wolf somehow (!?!).
• Ive found that there is a good ratio of bat and wolf in the movie overall and im happy with that, despite not been the fastest.
• The bat squeeze at the end is also slower as it wasnt aligned correctly, but the squeeze in outerwall was definitly faster than crossing the door, it is again a case of me trying to show off bugs rather than going stricly for speed.
• The bestiary showing dracula from prologue is something that unlock in any case scenario, even if you dont do the prologue.
• Choosing the other save point in entrance isnt totally arbitrary; it mean you dont have to deal with the skeleton "guarding" the upside savepoint
• Joseph cloak / pink color cape are another "artistic" choice of mine, they arent required.
• The name input ARUKADO and PACIFIST are not necessary of course.
• Having 69HP by the end of the run is totally accidental, you take 1dmg from poison and 130 from the boss, 131 total dmg on 200hp.
• The rerecord count is inacurate, im reusing the any% to make the sram, it is actually ~ 15k.

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