Submission #5096: gstick's GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance "Maxim, all bosses" in 05:47.68

This is Maxim all bosses run of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. I performed a drastic reconstruction of the route and saved McBobX's current run by a lot of frames with that (due to the difference of emulators, we can't compare their movie lengths exactly though).

To set flags of destruction of all bosses ($000358, EWRAM domain). We can make a judgement of it with the hatchway to Dracula Wraith's room.

I used BizHawk with mGBA core instead of common VBA to make this run. I think VBA is also okay for now, but BizHawk is seems to be better than VBA in terms of future TASing. That's why I chose BizHawk. As you know, BizHawk supports two cores for GBA emulation: VBA-next and mGBA. It's embarrassing, but I really don't know which core is suitable for CVHoD, so I selected the new one (mGBA) for the present.

Due to the change of emulator, there's need to make a SRAM to start this run. I made a semi-TAS movie at first.

I edited Robert_Ordis's lua scripts so as to be available on BizHawk environment and integrated some further functions. It can be downloaded here. The original scripts can be found in his submission.

After the publication of current run, several works have been done in Japanese community (nicovideo). However, most works have not been reported to oversea communities, including TASVideos, I guess. So I'll show history about this "Maxim, all bosses" branch including in-bounds run as reference.

It improves Comicalflop & zggzdydp's initial in-bounds run by 2037 frames. He succeeded to construct the new route which doesn't require door-warp glitch.

Sadly, he deleted the two videos, but they are still available as a comparison video encoded by ISMin.

It improves McBobX's current run by 1175 frames.

This run had been a substantial record of the branch in nicovideo for two years.

I had assumed a new route since the end of 2015. Although there are several differences between this submission and the suggestion. This saves Tarion's run by 1 minute.

Then he released this video 3 days later. It seems that his run had been stagnant for a year. His strategies helped the run a lot.

in-game maps (using cheat to obtain the images)

They made useful Lua scripts for CVHoD TASing.

They showed very optimized strategies on every boss battle.

Samsara: Yessssssss. Judging!

Samsara: Accepting as an improvement to the published run.












feos: Pub.