this is so unfair omg... why the f#%$ do i have to prove and argue about every detail but this other guy can just do whatever he wants without explaining s#%&?! this is biased af... ok whatever... seems the good cause always has to go the longer way, sigh... you called for it, so better prepare for a whole assay about basically nothing. well, where do i start...? basically there are 3 versions of the game that can be compared to each other and those are the JP, US and EU versions of the original gameboy release of the game. im not sure about any in depth details on those but to my knowledge only the title screens and maybe the lag pattern can be/are different, but nothing significant for the run itself (to current knowledge). now listen closely! EVERY other version, no matter on which platform and appearence, is NOT COMPARABLE to any of the original versions stated above! anything other than the 3 GB versions are different games and behave differently! i have no freakin idea how this issue is still a thing but for the sake of avoiding another discussion going downhill for no reason, i will try to even explain this nonsense again for you: the konami collection on gameboy color, that includes a similar game to castlevania the adventure, loads objects and screen backgrounds in a different way than the original game. for the unknowing eye this doesn't look like too much of an issue, but there is a huge ass catch for this specific game! the thing is, castlevania the adventure is a very special game that seems to be developped in a way that purposely uses loading times aka lag frames for it's processing to asure a fluid gameplay, that is btw the reason why it is so damn slow... this is all done on purpose and it affects basically all aspects of the game's tasks, like character movement, object loading times, button checks, graphic updates on screen and even the audio. now back to the issue, let's take the konami collection on GBC as an example. that version seems to work different than the GB version and actually takes about 80% LONGER to load every screen initially, but therfore there are less loading times during the screen (or room) itself. this would not be any problem if the game itself wasn't based on this almost specific amount of lag, because by basically squeezing all loading times into the initial loading of a game section, the absence of loading time during the characters traversion through the section/screen/room the gameplay itself is sped up and does run faster obviously. while on paper this might sound like something positive for you now, in the case of this game it is definitely not. due to the speed up in the gameplay (which is not actually a speed up, only a lack of lag) the games whole behaviour changes since as i told you, every object and action and audio now loads faster and thus has a different timing (which was not intended in the original game!). it is hard to notice the gameplay differences just by watching the video, if you have no experience in this game, but if you listen closely, you will notice how the sound is heavily stretched and squeezed when you watch the konami collection. this is just the audio cue though, but the gameplay itself is also greatly affected by this lack of lag during every sceen, mainly because candles and other objects now don't have to load or update as much as in the original game and this make the whole strategy during each section different, because the actions of the player and the enemies on screen do also change up the amount of loading. so let's say in the original game the optimal way to process through a room would be to whip a candle to make it unload and then walk on... in the konami collection it might be optimal to just walk through the screen while ignoring the candle alltogether, since most of the loading was already done before the room was shown (in the added 80% of initial loading time). now you could say the total time with the added 80% in the beginning might still be shorter than the quicker loading of the original game but added gameplay time during the screen... the thing is, in the original game you can greatly reduce your lag DURING a screen but in the konami collection there is almost no way to readuce any more of the already reduced lag, which just means the gameplay itself is unable to save loading time, because the game already preloads everything in every screen initially. TL:DR so the conclusion is that the konami collection is set to a specific amount of lag (yet still very variable) per played section of a TAS speedrun, while the original game also has the option to reduce it's lag by moving in certain ways within the gameplay's possibilities. meaning: the konami collection is linear af and the original game can be optimized greatly (which adds a whole lot more of interesting gameplay to the run, just saying...) furthermore there are even some minor things in the konami collection that make the watchability worse than in the original. i already adressed the very unnatural sound speeds of the konami collection, but there is also no visual hit detection on any enemy in the game, which in my opinion makes it looks cheaper than it should. and before anyone argues with colors... guess why i used the gameboy color emulation to make this TAS... it's not as detailed but it looks way better than in just black and white. and also the boot up of the console takes less time than the regular gameboy boot up. and to close the circle on this insult of a request, how about you tell me why the konami collection even has a right to exist as a showcase on this site in the first place? i wanna hear any reason that makes it superior to the original game? your turn... (not sure if i managed to bring my points across here, as i said im still pissed from the last two times i had to deal with this shit here. plus it is so late here that it's early again, meaning i have been up all night, so maybe my reasoning isn't on point at the moment.)