User Files from Challenger

Thanks to user Akuma (for showing which holes that glitch can be worked/crashed).

BizHawk 1.13.2 was used this time (some PC problems with me).

1009 frames ahead. Next stages will be worked.

The previous 2 WIPs were uploaded on another location. So, this is the third WIP of Castlevania pacifist run.

Another stage done + half of stage 13.

NOTE: The movie is actually the published run, but imported from FCEUX to BizHawk.

The input file may be 252 frames shorter than the submitted movie, but it takes a long amount of waiting (~1050 frames) to reach the ending (the sword can't deliver that "instant kill" in that position).

Since I warped to level 8 with less glitched graphics, this is still possible to follow where are going between rooms.

But this stage suffers with a lag nearly every room. I improved one room, changed a strategy in the room after the exit door, and accidentally forgot 6 frames to improve.

I finished this stage, but...starting the next level, the "X minutes left" pops up all the time. How annoying. Probably I need to verify more or probably risking with a even more glitched room 8 (which can't see almost nothing).~

EDIT: It seems that the message pop up starts somewhere during that warp setup. So, probably stage 8 has also suffered.

Needs a certain position to do this. Otherwise...

Well, I know most of this stage since I played this game for years and watched the old run.

- As soon as you enter the 3rd room (because you need to "see" a "enemy"), exit the game, enter again, and then pull off glitch in the 1st room.

- Now warped to level 8, but you can't see almost nothing, and the kill cheat now works.

Improvements: 3 frames saved stage 7; optimized 1 frame on the stairs of stage 8; 5 frames saved on the second-to-last room of stage 17, and the remaining were from the stage 18 (dracula).

Not final version yet.

103 frames ahead to the published run, but 2 frames were lost during the stair transition for some reason (I also tried to adjust the input, but wasn't able).

Desyncs on stage 17, thanks to different RNG.

I tried to optimize even more, but only saved 4 frames than the previous WIP.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that desyncs at the start of stage 13 (due to different RNG, again).