General info

Surprise! They never expect the Spanish Inqui Spear dude!
Movie goals, in order of importance:
  • Uses a suboptimal character: Spear dude (or Eric Lecarde)
  • As fast as possible
  • Does not take damage, because it doesn't save any time
  • Does not hoard enough crystals
Plays fine in Gens 9.5, and probably others.
This run is 3 minutes 57 seconds faster than Dan_'s 31:39.
For all info, tricks, and level notes, see the Whip guy submission.

NesVideoAgent: Hi! I am a robot. I took a few screenshots of this movie and placed them here. I'm not sure I got the right ROM though. (I tried Castlevania - Bloodlines (U) [!].gen, which was the closest match to what you wrote.) Well, here goes! Feel free to clean up the list.

mmbossman: Accepting this, alongside its companion.
ShinyDoofy: Processing...


Post subject: Bloodlines Runs Comparison
Experienced player (614)
Joined: 4/24/2005
Posts: 612
Since both Bloodlines runs finish within nearly 5 seconds of each other, I decided to do a special encode which plays them side by side at the same time: RapidShare link (I don't own web space, sorry). Spear Dude's run on the left and Whip Guy's run on the right so naturally, I set up the audio channels that way; down-mixed their original audio to mono and then combined them to Stereo. This way, it'll be less of a mess to hear/see (not that it really is... Who am I kidding, yeah it is). I set this all up with AVISynth. This is the script I used:
A = UnalignedSplice(
\ AVISource("S1.avi"),
\ AVISource("S2.avi"), 
\ AVISource("S3.avi"), 
\ AVISource("S4.avi"), 
\ AVISource("S5.avi"), 
\ AVISource("S6.avi"), 
\ AVISource("S7.avi"), 
\ AVISource("S8.avi"))
\ .Trim(0,112684)

B = UnalignedSplice(
\ AVISource("W1.avi"), 
\ AVISource("W2.avi"), 
\ AVISource("W3.avi"), 
\ AVISource("W4.avi"), 
\ AVISource("W5.avi"), 
\ AVISource("W6.avi"), 
\ AVISource("W7.avi"), 
\ AVISource("W8.avi"))
\ .Trim(0,112172)

C = StackHorizontal(A,B)

D = KillVideo(A).ConvertToMono()
E = KillVideo(B).ConvertToMono()

F = MonoToStereo(D,E)

AudioDub(C,F)
I encoded this with X264 in MediaCoder but I didn't really emphasize on quality settings, not really my department (THE BACKGROUND IS MOVING, THE BACKGROUND IS MELTING). Maybe a proper encode is in order... I was going to YouTube-ize this but it looks bad even if I resize it myself. There seems to be some desyncs in audio/video when I play this back in Media Player Classic but everything else I've tried syncs fine (VirtualDub, Windows Media Player). I wonder if it's a rendering problem with MPC... Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to see both runs go head to head, frame for frame. It ended up being kind of neat, in my opinion.
Editor, Reviewer, Experienced player (979)
Joined: 4/17/2004
Posts: 3109
Location: Sweden
Well, I enjoyed it, but I'm biased. :) I had huge video/audio desynch in WMP, but it plays fine in VLC.