Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Richter Speedrun in  

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well, Dracula's Hp in inverted castle is quite something. to beat him with Richter you need the knife, then spam the knife item-crash, it's quite hard

I know right? What more would it have taken to allow him to fight the final boss?

Well, if this time was considered canon, technically this is Richter's rematch with Dracula.

Thanks :)

Xbox One isn't any faster - in fact, it may actually be slightly slower... although I'm not 100% sure on that. Basically, the Xbox One just uses some emulation to play the Xbox 360 version. So yes, it is an emulator of an emulator more or less. The Xbox One suffers from more input delay as a result of this.

You now what's going to annoy you more? You thought you beat the game with it's weak sauce ending and realize you ONLY beat half of the game. But this game is old enough... I'm sure you realized that already.

@@jamesloll4601 Yeah I got to that bit. I thought it was a nice surprise. 100% finished is only halfway...but then when it turned upside down it got Megaman difficult. I wasn't prepared to commit myself at the time.

No, unfortunately not. In speedrun attempts I "setup" the trick with that dash attack off of the staircase, holding left the whole time while he is falling down to the ground. That gets Richter into a good position, and also makes him suffer a long (relatively) landing animation. During that landing animation, and starting from holding left still, I basically do a full clockwise circle input on the d-pad pressing jump when the circle motion reaches down-right, which causes slide to come out. Then after completing the circle motion back to left, I press the attack input which will perform the dash attack. So, basically the goal is to perform a smooth combination input during the time that you are locked in place with the fall animation - which ensures that you do not alter your initial positioning by moving left/right. It doesn't have to be done extremely fast because as you wrap down to the crouching parts of the 360 motion you will not be moving (before the slide), as you cannot walk/run while crouched. It just has to be done fast enough for A). Getting into crouch before breaking out of being locked in place by the fall animation, and B). Before the dash attack execution window expires. Meaning, after you press UP in the 360, you have 21 frames to then complete the dash attack input. This means about 1/3rd of a second as the game runs at 60fps. The timing for the attack input is precise. It is a 1-2 frame input. Note that the 360 motion also serves as a timing mechanism for when to press the input - practice is required to get a feel for it. Also, there is variance regarding whether or not it will be a 1 or 2 frame window, which is determined by the exact pixel position you start from. I believe it is more common for it to be a 1 frame window, but performing the trick in the general positioning you get from the "setup" mentioned above ensures that it has a chance to work at all, consistently. I have had big streaks of first try success with the skip using the method I have explained (8+ times in a row). I hope this helps.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xAvusUMaaWo.html I made this tutorial really quickly today. It's not the best, but I think coupled with the long-winded response to you I already made prior it could help with learning. Let me know if you still have anymore questions.

@@BenAuton thanks so much for the detailed explanation and tutorial! It's nice to know that there are people on the internet willing to help others.

No problem. I'm glad I could help.

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I honestly don't really know. If you count randomizer playthroughs then it's surely 1000+ I suppose.

@@BenAuton Man... you seriously love this game, so do I but not to the same degree but not going to kid as likely hundreds of hours in myself. you either enjoy it or you don't. I think I know where we are BOTH leaning. Oh, by the way got the GOD robe by surprise too. Think them STUBORN knights in the clock area but DON'T use special attacks like the acid fog to defeat them, got a feeling no matter what you WONT get the god robe if you don't use standard attacks to defeat them but using that item that allows for extreme fire health recovery head gear makes that easy.

For some frames after an airdash, you are allowed to jump. I think it's like 7 frames or something. Pretty lenient.

Beat the game.

He mentioned speedrun. When you speedrun you can use all the paths and glitch available to the game and it will be considered cannon.

Wtf, is that really a problem for you?