Introduction
This is Maxim all bosses run of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance.
I performed a drastic reconstruction of the route and saved
McBobX's current run by a lot of frames with that (due to the difference of emulators, we can't compare their movie lengths exactly though).
Objective
- Emulator used: BizHawk 1.11.6.
- Starts from SRAM.
- Uses warps.
- Aims for fastest time.
- Aims to defeat all bosses.
- Abuses glitches.
About the run
Definition of the goal
To set flags of destruction of all bosses ($000358, EWRAM domain).
We can make a judgement of it with the hatchway to Dracula Wraith's room.
Emulator and core selection
I used BizHawk with mGBA core instead of common VBA to make this run. I think VBA is also okay for now, but BizHawk is seems to be better than VBA in terms of future TASing. That's why I chose BizHawk. As you know, BizHawk supports two cores for GBA emulation: VBA-next and mGBA. It's embarrassing, but I really don't know which core is suitable for CVHoD, so I selected the new one (mGBA) for the present.
Making the SRAM
Due to the change of emulator, there's need to make a SRAM to start this run. I made
a semi-TAS movie at first.
Lua scripts used
I edited Robert_Ordis's lua scripts so as to be available on BizHawk environment and integrated some further functions. It can be downloaded
here. The original scripts can be found in
his submission.
History of the branch
After the publication of current run, several works have been done in Japanese community (nicovideo). However, most works have not been reported to oversea communities, including TASVideos, I guess. So I'll show history about this "Maxim, all bosses" branch including in-bounds run as reference.
It improves Comicalflop & zggzdydp's initial in-bounds run by 2037 frames. He succeeded to construct the new route which doesn't require door-warp glitch.
This run had been a substantial record of the branch in nicovideo for two years.
I had assumed a new route since the end of 2015. Although there are several differences between this submission and the suggestion. This saves Tarion's run by 1 minute.
Then he released this video 3 days later. It seems that his run had been stagnant for a year. His strategies helped the run a lot.
Appendix
in-game maps (using cheat to obtain the images)
Thanks to
Robert_Ordis and gocha
They made useful Lua scripts for CVHoD TASing.
Tarion and Yuzuhara_3
They showed very optimized strategies on every boss battle.
All CVHoD TASers
