Castlevania II: Simon's Quest -- Any% Speedrun (JP FDS) in 4:03/3:43 loadless [Former World Record]

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Published on July 10, 2020 6:51:12 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5bPkir5tdg

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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987)

Duration: 6:58

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This was an unbelievable run which I got as my second attempt of the first day back after a year or so. I'm not gonna try to beat this any time soon. Good luck to whoever decides to.

This is the Japanese version of Castlevania 2 (known as "Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin") which came out on the Famicom Disk System add-on for the Famicom. It includes a variety of extra glitches useful for speedrunning, which can be used to beat the game in under 5 minutes. Here's a breakdown of the route:

- Buy holy water;
- Go to Veros Town and try to get the Night Gitch. It involves going through a screen transition on the same frame it'd turn night, which skips the text box and keeps the daylight. This saves 7 seconds.
- Take a death off of the eyeball on the same frame as a screen transition. This delays the death and respawns Simon in an unstable, white-textured, glitched version of Ondol Town.
- Hope the game doesn't crash while trying to floor drop down (it's important to not press any buttons on the controller during the loading time or it'll guarantee a crash), then void out to the left. This respawns Simon in a glitch world.
- Navigate through the glitch world to Dracula's castle.
- Attempt the Hexadrop (double floor drop followed by the quad drop).
- Kill Dracula with two frame perfect Holy water tosses (the last active frame of the holy water is glitched and deals 185 HP of damage, enough to kill Dracula in two hits if nailed).

With this run, Night Glitch and Hexadrop are now mandatory for a world record run. This makes it at least 6 mandatory frame perfect tricks (some floor drops during the Hexadrop didn't feel frame perfect so they aren't being counted, but I never really tested that).

Time without loads is 3:43.217. Time without loads is used because the Famicom Disk System has inconsistent loading times, so they are removed for fairness.

I played on Wii Virtual Console. This lost me about a second from a slightly lower framerate, but it was the best option available to me. WiiVC has very short loading times compared to original hardware, keeps the sound intact (unlike an Everdrive/Powerpak on an unmodded NES) and has low input delay (unlike emulator which also emulates the long loading times and disk side switching).

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