Castlevania: SotN (XBLA) any% no OoB speed run in 29:16

[romscout]

@AkumajoRockman it's the quarter circle forward attack special for the wolf after you have all the wolf relics and then just a well timed jump at the right spot on the staircase while holding forward. This allows for the perfect speed and trajectory to barely skip over the trigger for the Richter battle while staying in-bounds. Because you skip the trigger, the game acts the same as it does when the Richter battle has been finished, so the cutscene plays when you get there.

[NWNisFUN]

Impressive !! Maybe the black wireless controller isn't as bad once you get some muscle memory going on the fingers. I use it myself because I can't really find anything as sturdy.

[heroteen16]

what do you think is the easier part of Speed Running Sotn? the first castle or the Second castle?

[romscout]

@heroteen16 The 2nd castle is way easier than the 1st castle simply because the 1st one has way more shield dashing (which can be physically painful when done this fast), more spots where you can get bad luck, and almost all of the big tricks in the run. The 2nd castle just has one little spot where you can get super bad luck, and I happened to get that luck in this run. :p

[heroteen16]

@romscout yeah i noticed, you got sandwiched between the huge skull and the bone throwers :<

[graffitilee85]

Wow very nice

[romscout]

@XameriwannicaX 1. I have a video on my YouTube demonstrating how I shield dash. I'm thinking of making another updated tutorial that's more concise, but it's there if you want to see it. You can also watch the AGDQ SotN race where I am mashing like that live in front of many people, I upped that too. 2. This is on XBLA, you can see the XBLA border and the leaderboard, and this has way less lag than the game would have on a PSX emulator. I'm too lazy to do any video editing to my runs anyway.

[romscout]

@XameriwannicaX oh and in addition to the last comment I just made with stuff for you to watch, you can also go to my justin tv account (romscout) and view my SotN recordings, where you can actually physically hear me pushing the buttons.

[RaZor921]

Nevermind, I figured out what I did wrong. I wasn't supposed to turn into a bat.

[RaZor921]

I have a question. Now that I've completed SoTN, I decided to try out some glitches. I've been trying to do the Richter Skip, and I've skipped the entire fight, but then I'm stuck as a bat.

What am I doing wrong?

[Rheinmetall1]

Congratulations for the record. I love this game!

[NinjahNizz]

Gratz dude, looking forward to the sub 29:xx that's sure to come at some point

[Luchtenstein]

Gratz on sub 30!

A couple of really minor mistakes but I think this is pretty unbeatable at the moment!

[themettking]

*Does the Joker slow clap*

Nice going, I hope to see more awesome runs of games in the future.

[BaronOfBacon]

Still chopping time off of this game's run? Geez. I remember when ~36:xx was considered to be decent.

[Timewasta]

Great time! One thing I noticed is that you didn't mist--> bat at the end of the hallway at 27:13. Did you just forget it at the time?

[romscout]

@Timewasta I didn't forget, I think my controller was revolting against me because I SWEAR I pushed the mist button there and it was just like "no".

[tinymchugecrane]

look at romscout beastin'

[MegaUltraJMan]

Why the fuck are you playing this Super Nintendo game you nerd, go back to Portal 2!

[Rheinmetall1]

@MegaUltraJMan You got to be kidding.

[Luchtenstein]

@Rheinmetall1

He was kidding, Jman knows Romscout.

[MarkSoupial]

good job, though

[MarkSoupial]

also, of course this happens after my time is gone. called it.

[MarkSoupial]

oh my...

[keenan150]

Great job!

[puwexil608]

Awesome!

[PerpetualAscent]

wow.

congratulations.

[cumlordronpaul]

congrats romscout

[BenLeeRules]

first view douche block!

Anyway, very nice got 4 seconds better than your goal! :D