0:02 I can just imagine in the prologue before Simon walks into the castle that he's thinking "I'm going to get through this son of a bitch in 10 minutes."
Holy shit dude. These speedruns are something else, I tell ya. There just isn't that twitch reflex anymore. Just pure control over something as seemingly cumbersome as Castlevania 1. I knew of a few of these tricks like using knockback to phase through higher platforms to get to them quicker and that little trick to pass the under-passage in stage 1... but what the hell are you doing to those bosses!? You killed the Bat in like 1 god damn hit!! How does that trick work? I also admire how you've mastered the timing on that whip. Even in the bleakest of moments, you're able to keep it together and coordinate your presses precisely on-time to crack that whip as fast as it can be. Simply incredible.
Lol twitch reflexes is the last way i would describe the clunky ass controls of this game, so idk what you mean by that exactly. Games nowadays require much more quick reflexes. But i too would like to know what the hell hes doing to drop those bosses. I hate that theres some glitch like that lol. Wanted to see him beat them legit, but whatever, it probably wouldnt look like anything special anyway.
the block at the bottom(which has a pot roast) should not be taken unless you really really REALLY need it. otherwise you can't get back out (i reached this boss and got the roast right away and had no subweapons and still beat them) they are very easy
Such an iconic speedrun. Despite being almost 8 years old, the strategies for the level 1 bat kill, cave skip, and Dracula fight are actually a tad harder than today's strategies (which are already mildly hard to learn/do consistently). Really shows kmac's skill level in this game.
Nice one. I can BEAT Frankenstein WITHOUT A Sub Weapon. Went through the game 4 TIMES!, couldn't beat Dracula on The 4TH Time. STAGE 74!!!! I love this game...I LOVE this game so much. Started playing it in 1988(I was 13). Want to get The Box Art as a Tattoo. Like James(The Angry Nintendo Nerd) says..."Castlevania..it Never stops..I talk about it all The Fucking Time...!!" This game brings SO MUCH joy to my life. Thanks for listening folks....
i beat frankenstein without subweapons as well :P i was playing it online so it ran quite slow though. accidentally jumped on frankenstein (and then accidentally jumped on igor later on) but still got him :) also beat the pair of mummies the "hard way": hit the lowest block to get the pot roast and no safety block afterward. with no sub-weapons
+Pepsi Man Pepsi Man YOU are The Man by The way. If you EVER make it to SPATS BAR in Berkeley California I WILL CHALLENGE YOU to a Game of Castlevania. WINNER GETS $30.00 CA$H. I LOVE CASTLEVANIA.
Wow 8:11, literally an inch away from this great run being completely spoiled. The surprise, random secondary weapon drops in this game are one of the biggest threats when it comes to speed running the original Castlevania.
I had a childhood friend that played this one everyday it seemed. I myself could never beat it. Those NES games didn't have memory cards like the Playstation systems have.
Maybe a silly question, but...What did you do to kill the first boss with just one hit? I didn't got the trick. Just stay in the stairs and hit him with the whip?
why isn't this on the website........on the SDA site its 12:06 by Fuckdoc. Plus that first boss, you can do that if you have two enemies on the screen like with the mummies on level 3 with the boomerang. With just the whip though how is that possible. Please explain.
It will be on the SDA site soon. It is still going through the process of being published. Also, to answer the question about the critical hit on the bat. If you deal damage to an enemy in the same frame as Simon takes damage, it does a large amount of damage to the enemy. As seen in the Dracula fight as well.
kmafrocard yes I am familiar with the critical hit, its a frame perfect hit. Im not trying to debunk this, but its been debated that its a TAS only trick for the bat. Dracula can be done fairly easily. Just never seen a non TAS of it on the bat.
Harold Rhea It's 1st try success rate is extremely low. When I was doing attempts, I would get it maybe 1/10. During practice for the trick, I would be able to get it 1/2 the time before I ran out of health. It is very difficult to pull off, but not impossible. The hardest part of being able to do it somewhat consistently was the setup in getting the bat to swoop down towards Simon. I was able to the bat to swoop down towards Simon every time at the beginning of the fight (albeit the delay whether it be immediate, 1 seconds, 2 seconds, etc is Random.) If not setup properly, the bat at times will fly to the left side of the screen. I use a visual cue as to where the bat's head is over the pillar in the background to press B
kmafrocard I just tried this for about an hour, I don't know if I am pressing way to soon or early. For practice im using my wiiU for save state before the bat. (better than doing the level over 897398457 before I fail.) I'd be happy with a 10% ratio, but I can't even get one. I might post a video response to this and maybe you can point out what im doing wrong lol. I just started running this game seriously. I posted a 14:39 on my channel first attempt. (lots of room to improve, and not be anti passive on Dracula) The set up for the bat is awesome, works everytime to get him there, just can't hit it at the right moment.
It's a bug that takes 6 hit damages from the last boss and kills the other characters one shot. Trick is you have to hit him the moment when you get hit. Very hard to do the timing.
After years of off and on gameplay I can finally reliably get to Death, but...no good. Always kills me with his first move before I even have a chance to do anything.
I think there is a weird damage glitch when fighting bosses. I found this out when fighting Dracula recently. If you take damage at the exact time you hit the boss it does some crazy massive damage to the boss. It looked like he took the hit and hit the bat at the same time. The bat is pretty weak to begin with so the damage boost KO'd the fool. When you do it with Dracula it takes off closer to 4 damage.
+XenoMorphic It's a glitch where the game knows you got hit, but it knows the boss got hit at the same time, the nes can't process this so it kills the boss to reduce lag. This works on this boss only because the game doesn't need to process much during the fight, where as the other bosses take a lot more processing power. So the nes thinks that it's processing more than it needs to. So like I said to reduce lag it kills the boss.
+нεяshεy ツ Does it work on certain other bosses too to a lesser extent? I seem to have halved the Frakenstein monster (boss 4)'s health once without using the holy water or anything, just the whip... But I don't remember the exact circumstances.
the same as the bat trick, critical hit, if you hit an enemy and you get hit at same time (same frame) the enemy takes alot more damage, the reason why the bat boss died with 1 critical and dracula need 2 crits and some more hits is because dracula has much more hp than the bat boss. i should tell you tho, crits are really hard (almost impossible) to perform, ive been playing castlevania for alot time and honestly my time in the other 5 levels is pretty close to his but in the last level i always fuck up because i take much more time in dracula then him. thats why he gets 11.48 and i get like 12.48 :/
It astounds me how you just breezed through the game like this. Playing honestly, I can't get past Frankenstein's monster. How did you do Dracula? It's like if you allow yourself to get hit at the right time, you do triple damage or something?
MrTonyhawk44 it's a glitch that is based on you hitting the enemy at the same time you are getting hit by the enemy. You do 16 damage instead of 1. And enemies, well boss enemies, have 15 health, ergo, 1 hit kill. That's why the bat boss gets killed in one hit.
this run kinda upsets me because it shows that, with all of these items you could use in the game, very few of them were actually useful at all. my favorite items were the Throwing Axe and the Holy Water, just because they were able to kill bosses so quickly. i wish the other items in the game saw more use, but with the way simon is controlled, and the nature of how enemies operate in the game, it just feels so mediocre. of all the items that are by far THE most useless, it's definitely the dagger, followed by the stopwatch, although even that's more useful than the dagger ever will be! i was surprised to see you beat the mummies so quickly though. i think i used holy water to beat them? or actually, this was the only time where the daggers were useful at all. i used holy water on that frankenstein guy.
First live is a bug that takes 6 hit damages. Trick is you have to hit him the moment when you get hit. Very hard to do the timing. Same for the first boss. It takes 6 hits to die, so it dies one shot. Second live is not really hard. And he kills it.
Yeah, some of the stuff, the getting hurt to get to different places stuff, that's legit, but some of the "beating bosses in one hit" stuff seems pretty sketchy.
reefchiefer not with the whip, but if you stand really close to a foe and use a power like throwin dagger then it will turbo. There can only be one dagger on the screen at once but when u r close to your target it will only apear briefly mayby not at all and then the turbo can work.
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0:02 I can just imagine in the prologue before Simon walks into the castle that he's thinking "I'm going to get through this son of a bitch in 10 minutes."
He have done enough vampire fighting shit
*10 MINUTES LATER*
Simon: SEE I TOLD YOU!!!!!!
I love the sound of when the time is converted to points
Meeee tododododododoodododo(supposed to be the sound of time turning to points :) )
This just blew my mind. It's really incredible when you see something beaten so fast by someone else when it took hours for me. :)
I’ve always loved this game even as far back as a kid in the 80’s and watching this speed run is super fun. I salute you.
Holy shit dude. These speedruns are something else, I tell ya. There just isn't that twitch reflex anymore. Just pure control over something as seemingly cumbersome as Castlevania 1. I knew of a few of these tricks like using knockback to phase through higher platforms to get to them quicker and that little trick to pass the under-passage in stage 1... but what the hell are you doing to those bosses!? You killed the Bat in like 1 god damn hit!! How does that trick work?
I also admire how you've mastered the timing on that whip. Even in the bleakest of moments, you're able to keep it together and coordinate your presses precisely on-time to crack that whip as fast as it can be. Simply incredible.
Lol twitch reflexes is the last way i would describe the clunky ass controls of this game, so idk what you mean by that exactly. Games nowadays require much more quick reflexes. But i too would like to know what the hell hes doing to drop those bosses. I hate that theres some glitch like that lol. Wanted to see him beat them legit, but whatever, it probably wouldnt look like anything special anyway.
Wow... Unreal, freaky good. After seeing this, I can't believe i have never got a critical hit on a boss... even by accident.
You're nuts!! Fantastic! 😁😁 Always loved this one back in the day! Well done! 🙂👍
You played the greatest role in this story man!
I wanted to see how the mummies were done, and I'm speechless
the block at the bottom(which has a pot roast) should not be taken unless you really really REALLY need it. otherwise you can't get back out (i reached this boss and got the roast right away and had no subweapons and still beat them) they are very easy
and by the way the way they were killed so fast is because of a glitch that cause damage to be dealt to enemies every frame when they overlap
congrats! glad you got it after all that hard work
Such an iconic speedrun. Despite being almost 8 years old, the strategies for the level 1 bat kill, cave skip, and Dracula fight are actually a tad harder than today's strategies (which are already mildly hard to learn/do consistently). Really shows kmac's skill level in this game.
I don't knwo what hapoened to the Bat fighr, tbh
Makes fun to watch almost every perfect step. Respect! Good work! :- )
That was really satisfying to watch.
Congrats on the world record!
Those credits were pretty bad though, I bet they never thought the series would go on as long as it did.
Finally some closure.
Wow. Just watched your SDGQ run. That bat glitch, awesome. Glad to see it live.
*SGDQ, and where is the run? I'm searching and searching and all I can find live is Funkdoc's runs...
Wow, the boss fights were plain incredible... Nice job ! Also, 8:11 scared me a little :)
Nice one. I can BEAT Frankenstein WITHOUT A Sub Weapon. Went through the game 4 TIMES!, couldn't beat Dracula on The 4TH Time. STAGE 74!!!! I love this game...I LOVE this game so much. Started playing it in 1988(I was 13). Want to get The Box Art as a Tattoo. Like James(The Angry Nintendo Nerd) says..."Castlevania..it Never stops..I talk about it all The Fucking Time...!!" This game brings SO MUCH joy to my life. Thanks for listening folks....
i beat frankenstein without subweapons as well :P i was playing it online so it ran quite slow though. accidentally jumped on frankenstein (and then accidentally jumped on igor later on) but still got him :) also beat the pair of mummies the "hard way": hit the lowest block to get the pot roast and no safety block afterward. with no sub-weapons
+Pepsi Man Pepsi Man YOU are The Man by The way. If you EVER make it to SPATS BAR in Berkeley California I WILL CHALLENGE YOU to a Game of Castlevania. WINNER GETS $30.00 CA$H. I LOVE CASTLEVANIA.
I've beaten Frankenstein without subweapons 1 time. I respect you for doing it. We are brothers forever!
Is it supposed to be hard to beat him without a sub-weapon?
Grats man! Well-deserved.
One hell of a run! Good job!!!
Lmao you are a Castlevania playing SOB. Fucking impressive. I salute you.
Congrats man! Great job
Wow 8:11, literally an inch away from this great run being completely spoiled. The surprise, random secondary weapon drops in this game are one of the biggest threats when it comes to speed running the original Castlevania.
if you hit enemies with the same subweapon 10 times a cross or a shot multiplier appears :P
Really?? I have to try it!
I had a childhood friend that played this one everyday it seemed. I myself could never beat it. Those NES games didn't have memory cards like the Playstation systems have.
this is amazing holy crap
Maybe a silly question, but...What did you do to kill the first boss with just one hit? I didn't got the trick. Just stay in the stairs and hit him with the whip?
Well done man!!! 😃
HEART OF FIRE FOR THE WIN @7:30
An orange man tries to go right as fast as possible
why isn't this on the website........on the SDA site its 12:06 by Fuckdoc. Plus that first boss, you can do that if you have two enemies on the screen like with the mummies on level 3 with the boomerang. With just the whip though how is that possible. Please explain.
It will be on the SDA site soon. It is still going through the process of being published. Also, to answer the question about the critical hit on the bat. If you deal damage to an enemy in the same frame as Simon takes damage, it does a large amount of damage to the enemy. As seen in the Dracula fight as well.
this trick is awesome, you almost 3 hit Dracula's first phase....
Is it a new trick ?
kmafrocard yes I am familiar with the critical hit, its a frame perfect hit. Im not trying to debunk this, but its been debated that its a TAS only trick for the bat. Dracula can be done fairly easily. Just never seen a non TAS of it on the bat.
Harold Rhea It's 1st try success rate is extremely low. When I was doing attempts, I would get it maybe 1/10. During practice for the trick, I would be able to get it 1/2 the time before I ran out of health. It is very difficult to pull off, but not impossible. The hardest part of being able to do it somewhat consistently was the setup in getting the bat to swoop down towards Simon. I was able to the bat to swoop down towards Simon every time at the beginning of the fight (albeit the delay whether it be immediate, 1 seconds, 2 seconds, etc is Random.) If not setup properly, the bat at times will fly to the left side of the screen. I use a visual cue as to where the bat's head is over the pillar in the background to press B
kmafrocard I just tried this for about an hour, I don't know if I am pressing way to soon or early. For practice im using my wiiU for save state before the bat. (better than doing the level over 897398457 before I fail.) I'd be happy with a 10% ratio, but I can't even get one. I might post a video response to this and maybe you can point out what im doing wrong lol. I just started running this game seriously. I posted a 14:39 on my channel first attempt. (lots of room to improve, and not be anti passive on Dracula) The set up for the bat is awesome, works everytime to get him there, just can't hit it at the right moment.
Sick!! One of the best games ever.
i need the health an inv.. codes... please !!!! i tried 5 ... not working
WTF happened at 1:32? One hit on the stairs and the bat boss dies?!?!?
that's what I'm wondering
He was still invincible after the potion.
had to use some kind of cheat
It's a bug that takes 6 hit damages from the last boss and kills the other characters one shot. Trick is you have to hit him the moment when you get hit. Very hard to do the timing.
I'm doing a normal playthrough for first time and I am stuck at that stupid grim reaper.
Well done!!!!
After years of off and on gameplay I can finally reliably get to Death, but...no good. Always kills me with his first move before I even have a chance to do anything.
This used to take so long to try and beat
1:31 Anyone know what he did there? It looks cool.
I think there is a weird damage glitch when fighting bosses. I found this out when fighting Dracula recently. If you take damage at the exact time you hit the boss it does some crazy massive damage to the boss. It looked like he took the hit and hit the bat at the same time. The bat is pretty weak to begin with so the damage boost KO'd the fool. When you do it with Dracula it takes off closer to 4 damage.
if you take damage at the same time the boss does,it does HUGE damage
+XenoMorphic It's a glitch where the game knows you got hit, but it knows the boss got hit at the same time, the nes can't process this so it kills the boss to reduce lag. This works on this boss only because the game doesn't need to process much during the fight, where as the other bosses take a lot more processing power. So the nes thinks that it's processing more than it needs to. So like I said to reduce lag it kills the boss.
+нεяshεy ツ Does it work on certain other bosses too to a lesser extent? I seem to have halved the Frakenstein monster (boss 4)'s health once without using the holy water or anything, just the whip... But I don't remember the exact circumstances.
goldengrat10 Yes
That...was...AMAZING XD
11:32 what? How did he take off so much health there?
the same as the bat trick, critical hit, if you hit an enemy and you get hit at same time (same frame) the enemy takes alot more damage, the reason why the bat boss died with 1 critical and dracula need 2 crits and some more hits is because dracula has much more hp than the bat boss. i should tell you tho, crits are really hard (almost impossible) to perform, ive been playing castlevania for alot time and honestly my time in the other 5 levels is pretty close to his but in the last level i always fuck up because i take much more time in dracula then him. thats why he gets 11.48 and i get like 12.48 :/
I tried doing it before you commented and had a super easy time doing it on Drac, but it wasn't really worth it because I was still getting hit
LOL, THAT'S FASTER THAN I CAN BEAT SUPER CASTLEVANIA 4 ON SNES.
How did he... I mean HOW!.. I mean what?
it's just insane!!
It astounds me how you just breezed through the game like this. Playing honestly, I can't get past Frankenstein's monster.
How did you do Dracula? It's like if you allow yourself to get hit at the right time, you do triple damage or something?
if you and a boss take damage at the same time,the boss will take a huge amount of damage. simon's health will go down normally.
and against the pair of mummies,if they overlap,they will both take damage every frame
This is the run!
When you apply for Guinness world record ?
1:30 wait wtf
Did he just telefrag the bat
NEVER FEAR SIMON BELOM IS HEAR TO CLEAR THIS SHIT IN 10 MINUTES
ñe este wey se paso el castlevania en 13 minutos y yo todavia sufriendo con el juego >:v
nada aqui :'C
nada aqui no me importa >:V:
Pure stroke of genius.
chapeau !
Was the Bat 1 hit wonder a trick I did not know about?
It IS a trick...and if you didn't know about it, then yes....yes it is a trick you didn't know about.
Really ***** I was wondering why I made the comment about not knowing about the trick of being a one hit wonder. Thank you for clearing it up
jfliguy did your douchbag-alarm go off? cause mine is going off ;)
***** you are douche!
I'm REALLY not, I'm just sarcastic. I was trying to answer the question. Reported both of you for harassment. Have a nice evening gentlemen.
AVGN would be impressed by your talent.
AVGN: NO HES FUCKING HACKING
Young link The best link That definitely does not sound like something AVGN would say.
can you explain how to glitch the boss ? im starting learning Cv1 ...
i mean the bat one
MrTonyhawk44
it's a glitch that is based on you hitting the enemy at the same time you are getting hit by the enemy. You do 16 damage instead of 1. And enemies, well boss enemies, have 15 health, ergo, 1 hit kill. That's why the bat boss gets killed in one hit.
Perfection
Wtf just happ at first bat boss lmao
Lol sorry if it’s late but he did a crit by attacking at the same time the bat did
Why did you lost your whip on stage 11?
this run kinda upsets me because it shows that, with all of these items you could use in the game, very few of them were actually useful at all. my favorite items were the Throwing Axe and the Holy Water, just because they were able to kill bosses so quickly. i wish the other items in the game saw more use, but with the way simon is controlled, and the nature of how enemies operate in the game, it just feels so mediocre. of all the items that are by far THE most useless, it's definitely the dagger, followed by the stopwatch, although even that's more useful than the dagger ever will be!
i was surprised to see you beat the mummies so quickly though. i think i used holy water to beat them? or actually, this was the only time where the daggers were useful at all. i used holy water on that frankenstein guy.
The extremely low % of people good enough to set speed run world records do not define what weapons are useful to normal people.
That's true. I was just talking about strategy.
It seems like you're doing double or triple damage to Dracula. How?
according to some other people,when you and a boss get hit at the same time,more damage is dealt,never played this but that's what they're saying....
How does he keep going invisible to?
Did this guy use Tools?
wow..just wow 😲
Wait, how did you beat the first Dracula so fast.. He was fine with it like 5-6 whips? WTF?
First live is a bug that takes 6 hit damages. Trick is you have to hit him the moment when you get hit. Very hard to do the timing. Same for the first boss. It takes 6 hits to die, so it dies one shot.
Second live is not really hard. And he kills it.
Why did Dracula took so much damage?
This game has a fucking Critical hit system for somd godforsaken reason.
1:32 WHAT????
GJ!!
how'd he kill the first boss so fast?
That's called a critical strike. You must deal damage to the bat at the same frame as he does damage to you dealing one shot damage on him.
Admiral Ackbar thanks ackbar
Admiral Ackbar NO it's a trap!
It looks like glitching to me but i'm not saying it is
Napalmburns It is a glitch
i have castlevania,2,3,4 & bloodlines. the five best old school castlevania games..and i am good at them..but u put me to shame
Awesome run! Congrats!
His speed run notes can be found here: speeddemosarchive.com/Castlevania.html
Yeah, some of the stuff, the getting hurt to get to different places stuff, that's legit, but some of the "beating bosses in one hit" stuff seems pretty sketchy.
Sketchy in what way? It's a glitch, but uses zero cheats or help from outside tools.
its a tas try not cheating and using save and load and turbo buttons i think kmac are the best 12.30 speedrun
@Arthur de Lima Machado ok sorry
Zer0 B0re glitch at 5:23 :D
turbo button?
Black Desert Special button som controllers have. Holding down a Turbo butten simulates extremely fast button mashing.
turbo does not help in castlevania.
reefchiefer not with the whip, but if you stand really close to a foe and use a power like throwin dagger then it will turbo. There can only be one dagger on the screen at once but when u r close to your target it will only apear briefly mayby not at all and then the turbo can work.
You beat the game at 11:55 not 11:48.
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Wtf
actually it was at 11:59
He started timing it from when he was able to move (almost ten seconds in).
I think the timing should begin upon pressing start.
9:40
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This angers me!!!
Wtf? 😲😵😵
que final tan pedorro D:
Play it properly.