About the game
The game is a sequel of Akumajou Dracula Chi no Rondo on PC-Engine. In 1797, the vampire hunter Richter Belmont was controled by evil force, Dracula's son Alucard must save him and defeat his father again. Japanese version named 悪魔城ドラキュラＸ 月下の夜想曲.
About the run
Goals
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programme errors
- Manipulates luck
- Uses a password
- Emulator used PCSX v006
- Colors Dracula
Tricks & glitch
At prologue battle, if holy water and item crash hurt Dracula simultaneously, he loss HP heavily. And you can get a heart refresh if spend all of your hearts.
Big toss, if a enemy hurt half or more of your HP, you would be tossed very long distance. I think everyone knows this.
Edge travel, stand next to screen side, move to make the screen roll and game-pause simultaneously (use heart refresh, level up, etc), you can move over the screen.
Wlof glitch, dash to a slope as a wolf, jump at a proper moment when you close it, you would sink into the slope.
Infinite wing smash, enter the smash command repeatedly during wing smash.
Shield skill, equip Mablung Sword (or Shield Rod) and any shield, press square and circle. I used Alucard Shield skill that kill last bosses in couple seconds. So, Dracula was colored!
Description
I used a password to unlock luck mode. In the mode, the hero has less HP, so big toss is easier to do. The mode is better for glitch run. There is a little waiting times in clock room in castle center, I played with a flea man to make it not too boring. Some bosses were killed quite fast, in fact I manipulated lot critical on them, thanks pirate_sephiroth gave me memory adress. Before go to invert castle, I did normal dash there because I didn't have shield, equiping shield would spend more menu time.
note 2: possible improvement, I manipuleted 6 Manna prisms, but they seem not very enough, so I think that using the waiting time to get more would save several seconds more, perhaps.
Suggested screen shots
Thanks to
- mobile_suit for his awesome speed run.
- pirate_sephiroth for his help and memory adress.
- arukAdo for his help and encode.
- mz for his great work on emulator development.
hope you enjoy
adelikat: I think accepting this run is a no brainer. Congratulations on having such a ground breaking TAS :)
Okay, now that I got that out of the way. Great TAS. I like the speedruns on SDA that have been done with SOTN for a while now, and this was something I never thought was possible.
Having said thus, I noticed that this video TAS is slowing my computer down quite a bit when I run it, lagging up switching browsers, opening and moving windows, scrolling on websites and explorer, etc. I'm using VLC and my computer was ordered and put together from high-end parts only last month, and I've never had it run this slow. Is there something up with the encoding?
