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Manipulates luck
Abuses glitches in the game
118 frames, ~2 seconds, faster than precedent run.
Level 1: Main improvement comes from removing lag and especially beat the boss ~ 30 frames faster.
Level 2: Most improments is by reducing lag at stage 6.
Level 3: No more very and very annoying sound at begginning of this level.
Stage 8, before anyone asked me that question, I answer you. When Simon take the stairs, it looks like that I've lost time by shaking him but in fact, it is faster by 1 frame. :P (Note that it is only useful at this place throughout the game)
The bosses, mummies, strategy in Famtasia was almost perfect. However, I did managed to beat it by 8 frames even though the randomness wasn't in my favor.
Level 4: Stage 10, it lags where Famtasia doesn't. So, I lost 8 frames there and there's nothing I could do to prevent that. :( However, that's what I had expected when I started doing this run with FCEU and in fact, I am lucky that it doesn't have lag in precedent or later stages.
Stage 11 is crazy.
Stage 12, Some people will think that crouching Simon isn't a wise move but in fact, it managed to pass the dragon bone 2 frames faster because it prevents awful lag.
The boss is faster by ~10 frames.
Level 5 and 6: There's not pretty much improvements. They were almost perfect.
In overall, I used extra hearts more wisely. Reducing lag and accuracy ++ at bosses are what makes the most improvement in this run.
Except for mummies, strategies for beating bosses were already the best.
Also, I finish the game with 202170 points, + 21000 more than precedent version. There's some places that I could obtained more 4000 or even 8000 points but there was lag.
I would also thank nesrocks for finding memory address for bosses' energy. It is rather useful.
And thanks to Genisto for helping me doing the almost perfect first version.
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Voting yes for many reasons:
-Faster than previous run
-You are going for a good high score at the same time
-entertaining with those jumps, shortcuts, plus the high score thing
-it obsoletes a famtasia run ;)
I'm currently recording (and encoding after that of course) you run so that Bisqwit and everyone else who can't get it work can see it. Plus in my oppinion it definitely is publishworthy so I'll be hitting two flies with one shot :)
EDIT: When the game starts all over again after the credits, is the difficulity the same or is it harder?
EDIT: When the game starts all over again after the credits, is the difficulity the same or is it harder?
there's more monsters, and i think at least in the US version, the damage taken is as high as it is in later levels in earlier levels (or am i thinking of CV3?).
OH! and theres a MOA head hidden in level 2 (stage 5 or 6, the one with medusa heads and lifts; before the hangars/ceiling spikes)... at least i think there was... maybe it was just a flashing statue?
in any case, im happy to see it improved... sorta. i dont see a reason in DLing it until the AVI is made, since its overwelmingly accepted. scoring is never a high priority unless that IS that type of game, so meh to that. glad its higher and all, but its no biggie. congrats Phil. :D
EDIT: When the game starts all over again after the credits, is the difficulity the same or is it harder?
there's more monsters, and i think at least in the US version, the damage taken is as high as it is in later levels in earlier levels (or am i thinking of CV3?).
In fact, there's more enemies and all of them do twice damage. Ex. An enemy that does 4 damage now does 8.
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scoring is never a high priority unless that IS that type of game, so meh to that. glad its higher and all, but its no biggie. congrats Phil. :D
Meh. Well, I didn't sacrifice any time doing that. Imo, doing sub-goal, highest score, taking no hits, etc..., when it is possible, makes movies better.
As the guidelines suggest,
Do something unexpected.
* If something usually does not happen, make it happen.
* Do not sleep. You are supposed to be the master of the game, not the slave of the game.
Be interesting.
* If you have the choice, try to do things in a more impressive way than the easy way.
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[524] NES Castlevania by Phil in 11:41.17
The one thing I have to commend you on in this movie over the prior is not the score, but the heart management.
In the prior version, you ended with 0 hearts in all levels except the last one, which you ended with 5 I believe. This time you ended EVERY level with 0 hearts which shows you took much more careful consideration of heart use.
I would also like to see this considered for all Castlevania III runs. I can't remember which it is offhand, but one of them ends with 0 and one does not.
Bravo.
