• FCEU 0.98.15
  • In order to watch this movie, you need the PRG1 or Konami Classic Special Version edition.
  • 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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I don't remember the original run being this fun, good work there, i loved the backwards hopping
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Wow, you're a real score hog in this one.
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Uh, I bet this is most awesomeincredeble run! Can't wait to see it.
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I never noticed how the scoring worked until this run, but you take advantage of the multiple-hit bonuses really well. Overall this was very fun to watch. My only question would be in Level 4, do you happen to know how much time going over the top of the rock formation in the first part of the level saves? It seems like you have to wait a while before to get hit up there, and again to catch the platform afterwards. Yes vote!
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JXQ wrote:
My only question would be in Level 4, do you happen to know how much time going over the top of the rock formation in the first part of the level saves?
Excellent question, first of all, it doesn't lose any time. How much time is saved!!? I don't remember(Me and Genisto, and probably Bisqwit as well, have tested it with Famtasia but it's been long time of that). I think it makes the right platform appear quicker which makes you save you some time. But maybe not. If not, then it's not faster. I didn't tested it in this version.
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Third try (after Internet seems to crash here). Vote Yes. I like the item drop manipulation, that you get what you want and need.
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MattyXB: I'm pretty sure which items appear is quite static.
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Yes vote! It was fun and entertaining run and it was faster than the old one which was Famtasia run.
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Phil Cote strikes again. Never imagined this could be improved but you proved me wrong as always. Yes vote.
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Nach wrote:
MattyXB: I'm pretty sure which items appear is quite static.
From candels yes. But I mean from enemies, forget it to write again after it has not work the first time to post. I think this is manipulated or I am wrong? I mean most the Stage with the birds which drop the fleaman. The fleaman drops cruz and invisible jar all the time. So I think this is manipulated, because I never see so much from this items in one place before.
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Awesome. Absolutely loved how you went for score unlike in some previous versions where most of the candles were just ignored.
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So excess jumping doesn't slow you down?
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Well, this version is 2 seconds faster....
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
So excess jumping doesn't slow you down?
No, you're confusing CV with CV 3 where it effectively slows you down.
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Looked good. Do you plan to improve your Castlevania 3 run?
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Or do a run with Grant where you play the rest of the levels?
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What did you DO to those poor bosses! Yes vote, of course.
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I don't know why, but this run is constantly desynching towards the very beginning, no matter which version of the ROM I use - after the whip powerup is collected, a group of three enemies arrives, the player attempts to jump over them and lands in the middle taking a hit, and it's all downhill from them. I've tried several different versions of the rom (PRG1, KC), and even though the checksum matches, the desynchs still occur.
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You should try with a newer verion of FCEU.
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Sabikage: That exact problem is when using blip's version. As Phil says, use newer.
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Edit: I am ashamed to exist. Sorry for whomever I caused problems by claiming this run desyncs on me. I had some cheat code activated from some old debugging session, and I didn't realize it was there. This movie plays and completes now properly -- even in the FCEU version I've been using for ages without any of Nitsuja's patches. In other words, I did not need to upgrade for this movie. I just needed to disable the cheats.
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That did the trick, thanks. Edit: I'm using the version 0.98.15 now; previously I was using 0.98.12, aka blip's patched version.
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Good improvement. more score :). i was entertained, and enjoyed watching this. Very much Yes. Great job Phil
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Bisqwit: Are you sure those mappers are also applied for the linux version?