That's how you made the Final Guard demos so quickly? I should have figured that out according to the incredibly low rerecording count. :/
Boss Rush runs have the problem with goal definitions (realtime? Lv99? OoB into BR? OoB within BR?), and one can even get a ridiculously low time record with memory corruption....
Also, doesn't the Castlevania series match you to a certain level on boss rushes, for the sake of comparative times?
Ok, here's a riddle: what's both unexpected and impossibly cool?
Wow, that's impressive! How did you manage to finish such a long WIP in such a short time? Have you been working on it in secrecy or is it due to the LUA scripts?
I've been thinking of this for a long time: the "less-glitched any%" run doesn't provide much new that the "100% souls" and "glitched any%" doesn't. Could the "less-glitched any%" category of this game be deprecated in favour of other more potential ones such as "Julius all bosses"?
But all that only made the awaited result sweeter, as this first complete all-souls TAS beats the game on Hard mode in less than half an hour without even using glitch warps.
3) two fish (two meats) / axe soul / two stolas
So while investigating RAM addresses for the article I thought I'd write a lua script to show enemy HP and MP values
No. But for some reason, klmz took 130 damage from the Stola's first hit, but only 129 from the second. I did play around a bit and got 129 damage a few times, but the first hit I took was always 130. Same with Shadow Knight, the first hit I took was always 160, but subsequent hits sometimes hit for 159. If you can get a 129/159-hit somehow, the route is possible. Any idea why the damage values differ at all?
I don't understand your black panther example -- AFAICS, each frame, Soma's position just increases by his Y-speed. AIUI, when corner boosting occurs his Y-position will increase by more than his Y speed because the corner is ejecting him (and indeed, this is what I see in the first example). Or am I missing something? (Also, his Y speed ends up at 8:2A but he only descends 8 pix/frame; why not the full 8:2A?)
Ace as always. Are you going to kill Final Guard with Muramasa or Ronginus' Spear?
It's around the same walking distance, but 1 kill less. Would the room transition change due to the new route? Maybe the levelup makes up for the wasted time? Ok, 290hp (Tasty Pie) - 160 (Shadow Knight) - 130 (Stolas) = dead, maybe there's a neat trick to save 1 measly hp? Another idea: could you trigger the first warp by soul instead of levelup? Axe armor throws a pie, gets pwned, releases soul, pie returns and hits you. This might save a bit on the early exp'ing perhaps? Maybe it allows you to suspend after the second fish instead of advancing to the third if the above idea doesn't work out?
Hello everyone! First post here. I think not only the Chaos door, but also Headhunter, Big Golem and maybe other bosses that trick works. And I think if the Blocking Mail is useful? Pro: you don't need to wait to kill some enemies. Cons: have to open the menu to change equipments, get less experience, etc. Oh another small tricks. There is one frame that after defeating the first form of Chaos can hit boss. For example in current all-soul run, press B in frame 88787, you will decrease Chaos' HP by 20 points. You can also press Up+L to perform a hippogryph for fun if 20 damages cannot save time. If you turn left, press Up+B to set a Red Minotaur hitting boss twice.
Isn't skeleton blaze better than backdash for the last trip through the floating garden door?
I hope the SRAM verification movie is going to come with the detailed description.
* all the combined level-up/soul grab screens (flame demon, legion, lubicant, alastor)
Then (if i could work out how to do ratings) a 9.5/8.5 rating because there are one or two possible improvements.
Is it possible to get the glitch with a soul from another monster?
What makes them so tricky to get? Is it just difficult to be in the exact spot when you land the killing blow? Do some monsters make it impossible (other than death/balore, who give up their exp and soul at different times)?
Another glitched level/soul screen! You seem to be developing a strategy for producing them regularly. Do you think you'll be able to get many more in this run?
O_O am I reading this wrong, or does that mean ~750 frames saved between legion and balore? I can see some savings (no laevatain, no rotten meat, fewer pause screens, glitched level up) and some quasi-savings (delayed killer mantle, weretiger, which will cost min. 120 frames later) but damn, that's a lot of frames shaved for such a short section.
Edit: Just watched Kriole's WIP. It is totally amazing. I wish I had that much patience :o What's your secret?
Yrr managed to avoid the HP gain from succubus, but I don't know the details. Does this make it viable to avoid rotten meat?