By definition, it's a major skip setup/trick, because it cuts away most of the time of the fastest run without it. Another way to put it is that it improves a run by an order of magnitude. And it's NOT an intended setup/trick, therefore it's called a glitch. So judging by that, there's no way for a run with some sort of Major skip glitch to be slower than the fastest run without it. Because it sounds like a paradox and doesn't make sense to me. However, one can come up with a different type of a major skip glitch that would be faster than the known version of it. If the "game end glitch" run skips the the ending from level 3, and the newly found warp glitch skips from level 1 to the last boss, it'd likely be faster. There's also SRAM glitch, which can do anything, even what the above 2 glitches do, but it is only available if you corrupt SRAM. Finally, there are other types of major skip glitches, that can't be generalized by the 3 terms I mentioned, and we invent new names for them: "box glitch", "stairs glitch", "X-Ray glitch", etc.
I've tried TAStudio out a few times, and never could really get into it. Due to the way it's set up, it's too intrusive into the process to really allow a smooth transition from one method to the other - you're effectively forced to stick with one or the other (I've heard lsnes' movie editor is more of a middle ground, but I rarely use lsnes so that's not seeing use for me either). So, I'm sticking with what I'm most used to (and which I prefer anyway), the traditional method.
@klmz: That's a pleasant surprise. 2 frames? If you can't get it to work it's really negligible. Will you submit it?
Link to video I just found out Koh1fds uploaded this video back in 2014. Killing Dracula with holy water turns out to be 115 frames faster. I'm using zggzdydp's run from March 26 so the new route in Mansion 4 is not implemented. It probably can be easily edited into the new run since the final boss battle seems to be RNG independent. Edit: Saved another 66 frames. The exact location of Dracula doesn't matter after all. You just need to make sure the holy water hits the ground at the right time. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/38276594254582976
Wow klmz, it has been a very long time since you have submitted a TAS (from 2011 I think). Nice to see skilled players come back after a long time to show there skills again. Nice run klmz. Yes vote. Edit: I forgot about Castlevania AoS All Souls run, you were a co-author. All souls run was fantastic btw.
Link to video
EDIT: Well, I shaved another frame off my run, brining me like .02 seconds below him... On stream I actually developed a good number of new tricks the other day, but couldn't get things to work out... I think my best course of action is probably going to be trying to reproduce the guy's run on snes9x to figure out exactly where his actual improvements are and what is just less lag. He's not starting from clear SRAM, which saves him like 5 frames at power on.
Do you know if the room locations are determined at game select or if they are generated after that?
I might be interested in working on the "S Ending" soon enough if this is well received. I assume the other categories aren't interesting enough to warrant separate runs?
looks boring just like I was expecting
The old logo looks much better IMO; more minimalistic with thicker lines and much better for scaling.
Found a faster way to finish 4-2: http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/36139200897916073 Encode: Link to video 41 frames faster.
Since nobody here replied my post after these days I may have second thought about my very own project I got the real console+cartridge; The success rate of 0HP glitch on real console is lower than 1/1000 and I was sucked when they gave me a crash when I was about to leave menu screen after a free travel of a round. Sucks.