If you watch really closely, the "Lizard's Tail" room is loaded for a few brief frames, but the graphics are all glitched up. Maxim is not entering a wall, getting stuck, zipping up then warping to a very far away place; rather, he is whip launching constantly, and it just so happens that he has enough speed (36 pixels per frame) to pass right through the room (but not warp past it.) The door to the Living Armor is a raising door; normally, you cannot glitch past those because the current room will freeze your current position; in other places of the run you can see this happening. However, Maxim is going so fast (because he had enough room to attain 36 pixels per frame) that he is in the next room before the "freeze Maxim"action can take place. I hope that explains things.

I see. Thanks for explanations. Voting Yes.

This kind of nonstop energy in a run is rare and a sight to behold indeed. If we still do that run starring thing, I suggest this be starred.

I got motion sickness and a slight headache from watching this run. Well done! This gets my vote!

This would make the eighth different Castlevania run for the GBA, outside of the obsoleted ones.

While I'm fine with people voting no because they didn't like the run, I don't really get this logic. There's three Castlevania games for the GBA. Eight runs isn't that excessive. It's a bit like saying "This is the sixth Mega Man run for the NES, outside of the obsoleted ones."

I don't really get this logic. 8 runs / 3 games is not the same as 6 runs / 6 games, right? Anyways, I don't think that "having too many movies" is a terrible thing. This is a good fast movie (albeit a bit repetitive) that embodies much of what TASvideos is about to me: speed, glitches and route planning.

A year ago you PM'ed me about this run and I didn't think you'd really go ahead and bother making it. It's not as bad as I thought it'd be. Seeing Maxim blaze through the castle this fast is kind of neat. The boss battles are as boring as I feared though.

That's really a great run. When I saw the test run by ljffdb2 long ago, I told myself, wow, that's an amazing route! How can he think out of it?! Now, thanks to the two great player, this perfect movie was finally finished. I love the speed. It's a feast of seeing. What a pity. I'm not able to vote, or I'll doubtless click the yes.

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I like this run but I disagree with the "no warps" description, since you clearly use a door glitch to warp to another room and you use that flying backwards move to pass through certain rooms at warp speed. How about "defeats all bosses?" As I recall, Maxim doesn't even need to fight all the bosses to fight Dracula, just a select few. So you went out of your way to lay waste to every serious monster in the castle and then destroyed Dracula himself (what's left of him).

I like this run but I disagree with the "no warps" description, since you clearly use a door glitch to warp to another room and you use that flying backwards move to pass through certain rooms at warp speed. How about "defeats all bosses?" As I recall, Maxim doesn't even need to fight all the bosses to fight Dracula, just a select few. So you went out of your way to lay waste to every serious monster in the castle and then destroyed Dracula himself (what's left of him).

'm a little fuzzy on the restriction of the wall sink glitch. Making it so that it's ok to go through a wall, but not to get stuck in the wall just seems odd to me.

Well as far as I understood the restriction was not really to disallow going through walls or being in walls, the restriction was not to perform warp glitches (which involves being in walls). I think that it is not to arbitrary.

The "defeats all bosses" category would not work well for this run, as you can use wall warps to get to each boss extremely fast, as was already mentioned (and seen here). Given that the wall warping is a very specific and definable glitch involving being transported to far away places, while the other techniques shown in the run involve using very fast speeds, I believe that the category is appropriate. Also, I'm not sure if the door glitch that you refer to is the one explained by Comicalflop 8 posts above yours, but if it's not, I'm sure he or zggzdydp can help explain it further. However, I do not have much knowledge of the game and it's physics, so I can only go off of what others have told me.

Let's see.... About the best way I can describe it is this: There are 3 types of what you would call "warps". -Door Warps (backdash through a door, and warp to a middle area of that level.) -Wall Sinking (where you whip launch into the wall, and zip up, and warp to extremely far away places seemingly at random.) -Going through walls with whip launching. Door warps were used very infrequently, and only to prevent back tracking. They cannot warp you to really far away places. Wall sinking was avoided entirely. Going through walls was done once, because there was enough room to reach over 36 pixels per frame speed. Now, here's the reasoning for what's included and what's not. Mostly, it's: "any warp that allows instant, direct access to Dracula is not allowed." And that's pretty much it. Door Warping cannot allow instant access to Dracula, since you can only warp into the same level and only after you've visited it once. It's used to save backtracking only. Going through walls is nice and all, but YOU DO NOT WARP AT ALL. (see my above post with the pretty pictures.) You can't use this method to get to Dracula, since all it does is skip past rooms fast without opening the doors. It's fast, but not warping. Wall Zipping is essential to the Warped Maxim movie, and thus is not used. An "All bosses run" would use Wall Zipping, to get from one boss to the next as fast as possible. It would more closely resemble the Bosh Rush, which is what this movie is not supposed to be. If you could get inside the walls and zip and warp, why not go directly to Dracula? I hope this answers your questions. Any more that rise up, I am always free to respond to.

What I like about this movie: — Extreme speed. Applied at nonlinear environment, map traversing look great. — Some of the more spectacular boss fights. What I didn't like: — Extreme repetition. Maxim's attacks and characteristics never change, so he's dramatically overpowered compared to every single boss in the game. The bosses are either beaten too fast, or just the same way as others (spinjump-shuriken-sword). — The warping restrictions are at best arbitrary. You don't go through walls, but use other kinds of glitched warps. Go figure.

My suggestion for recategorizing the two published Maxim runs: * This run: simply "Maxim" (or "Maxim version" if you prefer a longer name) * The other run: "Maxim warp glitch" The encodes may need updating if the movies are recategorized, though.