and Mothrayas and Rolanmen1's Mega Man ZX WIP also helped a lot.
In my opinion, Enemy/AI manipulation becomes luck manipulation when entropy gets involved, i.e. there is no visible correlation between what the player does and how the enemy reacts. Especially, without TAS tools, an unassisted runner should not be able to reliably get a desired outcome in those cases. However, games in which you can easily predict an AI's behaviour should not be considered luck manipulation. In the example I used, the enemy's spawning Y position is directly tied to the player's Y position. No entropy involved at all.
Sorry for the late response on this; I only just got around to finishing watching. In the vertical scrolling section in the last level (28:07 in the YouTube encode), you stand on some of those crumbling blocks and it seems to cause an awful lot of lag. Could this be avoided by using an alternate descent, or is the lag just a coincidence and nothing to do with the crumbling blocks? If it instead has to do with other activity, maybe killing the skull enemies could help reduce lag there? There's also one last jump right at the end of the game that looks superfluous, like input could maybe have ended slightly earlier. I may be misunderstanding the sequence of events there though. Otherwise this run looked decent, but I have to say that the NES Castlevanias limit your movement options so much that I'm not really a fan of taking away more opportunities for damage-boosting, let alone the more varied protagonists that the various other branches allow for. That's more of an entertainment complaint than an execution one though.
I remember having so much trouble beating the sunken city even on the normal mode! Does the water rise at the same rate in normal and hard modes?
This is a quite interesting case. There are differences between the Japanese Hard Mode and the Western Hard Mode: http://tcrf.net/Castlevania_III:_Dracula%27s_Curse#Second_Quest From my viewpoint, the Western Hard Mode is harder than the Japanese Hard Mode. By the way, as you may know, the "AKAMA" code does not work in the Japanese version. However, there's another way to access Hard Mode immediately, which does work in the Japanese version
Not enough lethal precipitation or ULEULEULE, extremely disappointed.
* Update I want 1.00 to final version, but there is small possibility to update. * When a critical bug is found.(ACE(Arbitrary Code Execution) and so on.) * When Engrish-English translating text is sent to me by the cooperator. (Last contact : March of 2014) * When too idiotic glitch is found.
Unfortunately, it seems to be impossible to trigger it anywhere else, and because screen scrolling is deactivated, you get stuck at this point without being able to proceed:
