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Lets get back to the root of evil, this game is the prequel to Symphony Of The Night, its the first castlevania using cdrom, and was never release in usa / europe.
There is a SNES port of this game called Dracula X (or Vampire Kiss in pal version), but its nowhere near his big brother.

Summary

  • Aim For Fastest Time
  • Use a Suboptimal Route (Regular Stages only)
  • Takes Damage To Save Time
  • Manipulates Luck
  • First submission featuring mc2 mednafen
  • Emulator used: Mednafen Mednafen-RR revision 249 (mc2)
  • Unofficial Encodes [1]
  • Frames:89962 Lag:xxxx Re-records:31233


Notes



Long story for short: maria should go faster (any% is half done as i wrote this), and shes also faster in the 100% run, so whe wanted a richter run
Richter run start to be different than maria directly after the first boss
The key subweapon seem to be the most powerfull (x2 whip damage...), also richter look like chuck norris and it surely is hilarous to see him key-to-death most bosses (and dracula!)

Ram Watch

Copy/Paste this in notepad and save as watch.wch, then load in mednafen

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00000 00000094 b s 0 hearts
00001 00000098 b s 0 health
00002 00000093 b s 0 weapon
00003 00001E10 b u 0 X Cam 2nd byte
00004 00001E0C b u 0 X Cam
00005 00001E30 b u 0 X Subpixel
00006 00000720 b u 0 y pos
00007 00000CD0 b u 0 y pos
00008 00000D28 b u 0 Y Subpixel
00009 00000742 b s 0 Boss HP
0000A 000012B8 b s 0 Boss HP
000B 00001E10 b u 0 X Cam 2nd byte

Closings

Thanks to paul_t and adelikat, whe worked all together on rondo, and it was realy fun, even tought i made this one on my own side and im submiting alone, whe mutualy helped eatch others well, and it end up very efficient to have 2 extra pairs of experienced eyes :D
A svn was setup to collaborate in making rondo movie(s), you can have a check on it here : http://code.google.com/p/rondoofblood/

arukAdo Canceled because of recent findings, maria been slower than richter, this "entertainement" run doesnt make anymore sences for now, richter will get its own run anyway, eventually if everybody cry out loud enought for stage3/4 over the fastest route... who knows...

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Satoryu wrote:
now that's a shocker. i know 3' is really short, but i thought the Bone Golem fight would outdo that gain.
That is nearly what is happening, yeah Boss is slow as hell and stage3' look all clunky, but it win by about 10 seconds, i have hard to be precise at this point coz i had terrible lag that i must dispose off, and the boss is realy a pain in the ass
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I think there is room for both a maria and richtor runs regardless. And also a 100% run. Also the verdict isn't out on who is faster, as it is looking really close either way. I'll do my best to optimize the crap out of maria!
It's hard to look this good. My TAS projects
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I have a better question. Is it feasible for a non-TAS runner to beat the game with Richter using the key? Hmmm.....
Taking over the world, one game at a time. Currently TASing: Nothing
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Obviously, no The flipback is impossible too, its faster only when perfectly executed, if its sloppy (knell down...) walking goes faster
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The new mednafen (0.8.C) has some fix related to PCE audio tracks. (Current mednafen-rr is forked from 0.8.A, according to the cfg.) I recall that Alcohol makes cue sheets off by 2 seconds. It's manually correctable, but still a bad choice unless you are trying to defeat some exotic copy prevention.
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Oops, I haven't watched this! I'm dead now.
<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do
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Theres a youtube link in submission ;) The next movie is gonna be soon in bench, but it worth to watch this one (good tech quality), its different route than what im picking up now