Anayo wrote:Aw, man! Castlevania has got to be my favorite NES game. The weird thing is, I didn't even grow up with it. I had a second hand NES with Super Mario 3 in 1995, but the first time I played Castlevania was 20 years later on my CFW PSP. I love it to death, though. I'm nowhere close to beating the whole thing without using save states, much less without dying. I've watched about 2 minute of your run before running off to work, but I want to watch the rest when I'm off about 10 hours from now.
The first CV game I played was 4, so the difficulty of the first game gave me much grief at first. I finally made it to the boss of level 4 and thought that was as far as I would ever get in the game. I put it down for many years. Then, my friend and I started to play it full steam and developed strategies for it. It's definitely my favorite NES game, and it's one of my top favorite games of all time.
Sarge wrote:Great run! I've never come close to a no-death run in this one, but I can consistently beat it now, anyway.
Thanks! After getting to the point where beating it is no big deal, it's not a big leap at all to doing a no-death run.
Sarge wrote:I also learned a few tricks: picking up the crown in level 2 through the screen transition, the fact that you could stand on the axe knights while they were in stun-lock, and that last bit of meat in the wall in level 6.
I'm proud to have found that crown trick. I posted about it
here, along with the invincibility door glitch that I found.
As for the meat in level 6, that has always been part of my strategy for clearing that room. I go for the meat even if I haven't taken a hit yet, on the assumption that I WILL take a hit before collecting it.
I didn't bother to get every secret.
This video does a good job at showing all of them. Not widely known is that the second round adds more secrets.
Usually when I play the game I like to go for a high score, but I skipped a bunch of things I usually do so the video would be shorter. Though I think I might record my extra life trick for level 1 and post it.
Sarge wrote:As far as recording, I'm not sure how I'd handle it. My only videos were done with the AVI recording feature in FCEUX, and I take the 256x240 and bump up the resolution to 768x720 with 256-pixel padding on the edges using ffmpeg. I'm still trying to learn the sweet spot in recording quality and file sizes, though. Your video is much sharper than mine have turned out.
That's how I did the Little Magic Walkthrough videos, I just used a SNES emulator to record 240p AVI. Your Contra video looks just fine though.
