Here's my final Dark Castle submission.
This movie is 1 minute 43 seconds (6192 frames) faster than Dan's movie. I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks. Somehow I'm able to avoid the unavoidable flying creature. I also go through a wall and jump through stairs. I take damage to save time, but you don't notice it because the game is so bad. I aim for the fastest time, but you probably don't notice that either. This is a pacifist movie, because no rats were harmed.
Compared to my previous submission, this movie is 3 seconds (183 frames) faster. Every room was improved because I understood that jumping is not the fastest way to move. Believe it or not, the fastest way to move is to stop: walk-stop-walk-stop-walk-stop-walk-stop-walk...

Truncated: Improves on an existing version, so I'm accepting it. No need to wait.
Percentagewise, is this the biggest improvement we've ever had between two versions? 62,8% of the time of the previous movie has been improved away.
Phil: I am going to encode it.

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I think about it to vote yes, or wait, that you will submit a faster one. LOL Ok, vote yes. Looks glitchy, how you walk now with the stoping and walking.
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Hahaha!! I love this game. I keep wondering why they built a platform for the black knight that could be loosen by pulling leavers though? =D Wonderful moving way you invented. :) Cheers. A definite YES-vote.
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At the risk of seeing yet another submission for this terrible game... ... couldn't you stop-walk at 38:00 instead of jumping?
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Now that you asked, I'll confues you. Jumping forward is only slightly slower than stop-walking. I can be 8 frames faster at the switch by stop-walking, but my position will be different. Then I jump to the rope and grab it on a slighlty different height. Notice that to get through the upcoming wall, Link must be positioned very precisely on the rope. (Any lower or higher would cause him/her come crashing down.) Let's see... Oh damn, Link refuses to go through the wall unless I adjust his/her height by doing some extra super movements at the switch or on the rope, thus (inevitably) losing more than 8 frames. It turned out that making those jumps to the switch gets Link to the correct position. Any other way of moving is slower because Link moves so badly. In other words: The unit of climbing is different than the unit of grabbing. Dark Castle requires frame precise movement even when played in real time. The thing is that the animation is not frame precise. Moving has never been this hard in a video game.
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His name is Link? What an insult to other video game characters named Link. Well then, I hope this is the last time that I ever feel forced to vote yes for a run of this hilariously bad game.
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Heh, I really have no idea what the name of that character is. In any case, this is my FINAL Dark Castlevania submission, trust me! :)
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Aqfaq wrote:
I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks.
Hahaha! Indeed, this game is horrible. "Hero"'s name is stolen and Black Knight thingie is rip-off from Donkey Kong. Still, movie is fast. Time to vote yes.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [482] Genesis Dark Castle by Aqfaq in 01:00.75
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Bloody terrible. You're being carried off to your death at the end but the ending happens first and frees you from harm. Music sounds like a direct midi cross over they didn't bother to check for inconsistencies... and after listening to the sound effects for a minute I would worry for anyone that actually played or enjoy the game for longer. The 'bleh's' from the dark night as he threw empty beer mugs (?) at you was funny though. Horray.
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Bloody terrible.
But the AVI quality is very good!
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You're right. This game does suck.
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Aqfaq wrote:
But the AVI quality is very good!
It had better be! This game has about as much on-screen movement as Pac-Man.
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JXQ wrote:
Aqfaq wrote:
But the AVI quality is very good!
It had better be! This game has about as much on-screen movement as Pac-Man.
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Huh. They ported this game to Genesis? I remember playing this game in black and white on a Mac Plus back in the 80s. I don't know how they managed to take a black and white game from 1986 and make its graphics and sound worse by porting it to the Genesis, but it looks like they managed it. Wow. :)
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Ha, it's improvable...
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