Posts for CrimsonV

Posted: 9/22/2011 7:49 PM
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CrimsonV
Joined: 9/22/2011
Posts: 2
Thanks for the quick replies, and I apologize if there was already a Castlevania topic in the NES forums, but as a newcomer with newbie questions I just thought I'd post here :p About the boss glitch, that does seem the one that I found in the resource section of the site, but I would have never thought that was the one as it doesn't even mention bosses. I will try it as soon as possible!
Glad to see new blood tackling Castlevania, if you find a way to improve the published run, you're the man.
I think that run does leave some space for optimization, but it's extremely little and I first have to train my skills enough to at least reproduce what he has done in the first place, then I might consider trying something... Who knows. Also, thank you Ilari for the reset fix. :)
Posted: 9/22/2011 7:16 PM
Post subject: Hello, new here! Questions about Castlevania
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CrimsonV
Joined: 9/22/2011
Posts: 2
Hello people, I'm new around here and got interested in TASing after finding one of the introduction videos by adelikat on YouTube. I grew up with my beloved NES, so needless to say that it has caught my attention. I've watched all the four videos and now I think I understand the basics. I wanted to start doing some practice with one of my favourites: Castlevania. There are some things I just can't figure out by myself, though. 1- While watching the world record, I noticed its author managed to kill the first boss with a single hit. I've tried watching it slowed down but I can't seem to understand the logic behind this glitch. I've tried to look for it on the website's game resources but it's not there (that, or I have serious sight problems). It would be neat if someone knowledgeable could explain it to me. 2- Sometimes something odd happens to my movies. When I click on "watch movie from the beginning", after a while it sends me back to the menu, but I can see the movie is still playing and still having the correct amount of frames. Is that a glitch or just me not being very confident with hotkeys and occasionally messing it up? 3- I can't find the RAM address for subpixels (I saw them explained in great detail in the above mentioned video), is it because the character does not have acceleration, so they don't need to be there in the first place? Thanks in advance for your time, and special thanks to adelikat for getting me into all this. It's fun! PS: English is not my native language, so if I made some mistakes show me mercy :)