About the game
Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth is a Wiiware game which released in 2009. Its story is a remake of Gameboy Castlevania The Adventure, Christopher Belmont started his Battle of the Holy in 1576. The game keeps some classic elements of the original (monster, his whip, ect), and makes more playable with better grafics and music.
The run

Game objectives
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Plays on hard mode
  • Takes damage to save time
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Manipulates luck
Emulater setting
  • use Dolphin 5.0
  • dual core - off
  • idle skipping - off
  • JIT recompiler
  • DSP HLE emulation
  • configure your wiimote, find extension and choose nunchuck. I was careless for this
Tricks I discovered
like other castlevania game, it's possible to cancel crouch by attacking at a proper frame before land from a high fall.
use subweapon while walking: jump, whip, and throw something when just land on.
keep forward when walk off platform: whip when walk off. I almost didn't use this but I still write it here.
invincible man glitch: when hero is near death, try going into a door with enemy's attack, if you succeed you go through with empty hp and it dies. Then he is invincible.
Stage Comment
stage 1: I got a key to unlock a door which is a nearer way to the end. Mid boss fight, I killed the big bat when it attack to avoid it disperse once.
stage 2: There are 3 ways to the end, my choice is the shortest. I played and danced with those skeletons in auto scrolling part to make it looks more interesting.
stage 3: Invincible glitch was uesd, all enemies and barriers were ignored. Later I got meat to restore for the shortcut by damage taking on enemy.
stage 4: The second part of here like a maze, you need 2 keys to unlock a nearer way, my route should be the fastest. Later the glitch came again.
stage 5: This stage is a bit troublesome, enemies are strong that you can't jump over and hero only can take damage 3 times. I can use glitch early but I'll miss a timesaver later, after some tests I kept full health until a long stair and took damage there. I walked a bit to get cross for boss in last part, even if you directly walk to pendulum you still miss its first turn, so I didn't waste time.
stage 6: Dracula battle. About weapon and damage: Subweapon is weaker than whip. You can't cause multiple hits on enemy, for example, an axe and whip hit enemy at same frame, it's only gotten one hurt of them. Then end.
Thanks a lot to fsvgm777 for his encode.

Nach: The jump management and use of enemy damage boost at times looks suboptimal. However, overall this was a good run and got good feedback. Accepting as first run for this game.
fsvgm777: Processing.


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #5572: zggzdydp's Wii Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth in 18:29.40
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encode please
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zoboner wrote:
encode please
I fully concur. I'm really looking forward to watching this.
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scrimpeh wrote:
I fully concur. I'm really looking forward to watching this.
Yeah, i wait impatiently, I'm sure it's very good!
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Sorry, I'm not good at encode at all and I can't visit youtube. I asked someone to encode it.
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Tried to playback, got this message.
Fatal desync. Aborting playback. Error in PlayWiimote: 23 != 7 byte 79
Anybody know what causes this? Running Dolphin 5.0.
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Sir VG wrote:
Tried to playback, got this message.
Fatal desync. Aborting playback. Error in PlayWiimote: 23 != 7 byte 79
Anybody know what causes this? Running Dolphin 5.0.
I'm not a user of dolphin, but maybe it's due to a bad configuration. Try the config' of author's submission texte. Maybe it's solution.
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zoboner wrote:
Sir VG wrote:
Tried to playback, got this message.
Fatal desync. Aborting playback. Error in PlayWiimote: 23 != 7 byte 79
Anybody know what causes this? Running Dolphin 5.0.
I'm not a user of dolphin, but maybe it's due to a bad configuration. Try the config' of author's submission texte. Maybe it's solution.
Yep, because Nunchuck wasn't set to be plugged in, that was the problem. Thanks. Now that I can watch the run, fantastic work. Loved the invincibility glitch. Voting yes.
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Note to other publishers/encoders: I'll be encoding/publishing this one once it gets accepted. Temp encode: Link to video
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Thanks, fsvgm, for the encode! I'm so glad to finally see a TAS of The Adventure: Rebirth, and I was not disappointed in the slightest. The sheer amount of enemies on hard difficulty made the run really entertaining to watch, and the Zombie Belmont tricks and the shortcuts really stood out as well. Enthusiastic yes vote for a great run!
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Excellent & amazing! Bosses fights are very good (eye boss lvl 1 is cool!),in lvl 2 the elevator with all skeletons is terribly entertaining & glitch to become invincible is always made at a good moment and don't wait for obtain a missile & take damages. Stage 5 is very difficult and it's very technic to obtain a good run! I'm glad than you submit this & i have watching this with a lot of interest. Great run, beautiful game & amazing TAS! Easy yes vote. Thank to fsvgm for encode this run.
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This game is quite different from the GB original (see arukAdo's run), and that's a good thing. This game is much more interesting, especially when it's not lagging all the time. Great job!
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
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This is epic. Yes vote. Hopefully someone will eventually TAS Contra Rebirth and Gradius Rebirth.
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Yes vote, well made and loved the first elevator playaround. It's too bad about the invincibility glitch, but I guess you can't NOT use it in an any% TAS.
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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. ---- [3466] Wii Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth by zggzdydp in 18:29.40
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I'm late to the party, but I'll echo everyone else: This was amazing to watch. The sheer number of enemies, hitting bosses with the back of your whip, that first elevator!! Personally, I think this borders on stars quality. Great work, zggzdydp!