How Castlevania Became a Broken Speedrun

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On May 15th, 2024, SBDWolf became the first ever person in real time to complete a Credits Warp in the very first Castlevania game. This allowed him to shave multiple minutes over the previous world record! This is absolutely mindblowing considering that this record was already highly competitive and optimized. So today, let’s dive into how Castlevania became such a broken speedrun!
HUGE Thanks to SBDWolf for not just making this entire video possible, but fully helping me with it!
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Music Used:
0:00 - Intro
Super Castlevania IV - Bloody Tears
0:59 - A Trip Back in Time
Castlevania - Wicked Child
Castlevania - Heart of Fire
4:13 - Scroll Glitch
Castlevania Rondo of Blood (PCE TG16) - Divine Bloodlines
5:58 - Glitch Worlds
Castlevania - Vampire Killer
6:52 - Newer Discoveries
Castlevania Dracula X Vampire's Kiss - The Nest
Ninja Gaiden - In Hiding - Pursuing the Nightmare
11:06 - A New Credits Warp
Super Castlevania IV - Beginning
12:21 - A Quest for a Human Setup
Metroid - Quick Escape
14:15 - What Finally Worked
Mega Man X4 - Storm Owl Stage
Super Mario Kart - Rainbow Road
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@SBDWolf 26 дней назад

I'm personally very happy that this game has an ACE that also happens to be RTA viable. It's not the kind of thing that's generally particularly interesting to grind runs for, but I don't think that's the point of this kind of exploit. I just find it extremely cool that something like this is possible, that the game has developed to such a point that this exists. To me, that's wonderful. I had a lot of fun finding this exploit. It was a very difficult puzzle to piece together and it took a few days to get it to even work after beginning my recent investigation, but seeing it become possible and then human-viable was gratifying in a very unique way. Thanks for taking up interesting in this neat little development to Castlevania, Storster! You were fantastic to work with.

@furiousbr 25 дней назад

Congrats SBD! This is awesome, also made me feel like when it happened to SMW, it's so good...

@SBDWolf 25 дней назад

@@furiousbrThank you very much Furious!

@ntma 5 дней назад

GG again, boss! just saw the Karl Jobst video on this and found this one. I knew you were a wizard, but damn this was complicated

@SBDWolf 5 дней назад

@@ntma haha thank you!

@ntma 5 дней назад

@@SBDWolf yw! thanks for the runs

@paulnewton2284 25 дней назад

I don't get why so many people are hostile to the idea of a credits warp. As far as I know, every game that has an ACE credits warp basically immediately segregates that trick into a new category, so it's not like the former Any% routes vanish when an ACE credits warp is found. And for this one in particular, there's still a decent amount of standard gameplay.

@anonymoose2474 23 дня назад

Credits warps can be annoying when people invalidate "slower" categories. Look at Pokemon "beatable in 0:00". They're also both really unfun to play and watch. Like you said, this one has a lot of standard gameplay though, I think this one is interesting

@CassiusStelar 22 дня назад

@@anonymoose2474huh? Where are you hanging out in the internet where people make fun of someone that doesn't do the credits warp?

@anonymoose2474 22 дня назад

@@CassiusStelar everywhere. People generally are attracted to the faster category. People look at Pokemon and say it's beatable in 0:00

@CassiusStelar 22 дня назад

@@anonymoose2474 i have never heard anyone ever say that, only the opposite. "You shouldn't be using glitches in a speedrun, oh it's disrespectful to beat Ocarina of Time in 4 minutes through the Smash Bros Demo, you aren't taking your time and having fun and playing the right way"

@anonymoose2474 22 дня назад

@@CassiusStelar yeah I have heard that too. Everyone either wants fastest or 100% though. It's the middle categories which get no attention

@universalperson 26 дней назад

This is like a weird sequel to Summoning Salt's video

@LunaticJ 26 дней назад

I bet Jeremy can pull this off

@SpitefulAZ 26 дней назад

I bet Todd Rodgers will do it first. 😅😂

@mageius 26 дней назад

Most likely this will become its own category. But it's amazing to see something like this be found in such a classic game.

@Matthew6418 22 дня назад

Was about to comment this. The old speedruns wont be obsolete.

@dr4gonblitz 26 дней назад

Fantastic vid and I am so happy that there are people documenting huge gaming achievements like this

@piratebear3126 26 дней назад

Pokemon glitch explanations were my gateway into following speedrunning, so I always am excited when another game gets the ability to just write code that says you win. Reminds me a lot of the Pokemon Gold and Silver’s coin case ACE glitch.

@n1t_ 26 дней назад

Another completely nerdy speed run explained? Heck yeah

@k.s.nichols4060 26 дней назад

I know precious little about programming and I am old, so I love NES games, but I love watching these kinds of videos. Sadly, I'll never play Castlevania again.

@fahkyew7776 26 дней назад

@@k.s.nichols4060 Why not?

@Opry99er 23 дня назад

Silly. Todd Rogers accomplished this feat in 1983

@gameglitchguyg3559 23 дня назад

I was essentially gonna comment the same thing 😂

@Redhotsmasher 23 дня назад

By starting the game in second gear. :P

@twipplo 26 дней назад

you’re one of those people who are able to make interesting videos on any game, including games i have no interest in, and i love that, if there’s a video and it’s by you, then i know it’s gonna be fun to watch

@fengengao 25 дней назад

Lovely video. The way you explain things is very clear, and after your videos I end up understanding more about game code.

@BananaGatorProds 23 дня назад

2:25 Absolutely missed opportunity for the creators to call it NESQuick

@SerranoSalazar 17 дней назад

Underrated comment

@embeddedjune6373 20 дней назад

beautiful commentary video!! I really enjoyed it thanks!!

@Hau5test 22 дня назад

Speedrunning is insanely cool

@OvercookedOctopusFeet 13 дней назад

I am always in awe at the genius levels of dedication and ingenuity 'speedrunners' possess. I'm a player that gets extremely irritated when a game throws a 'timed section' at me, so the idea of trying to play quickly makes absolutely no sense to me. But still, the superhuman skills of speedrunners blows my mind 🤯

@troyheymanwhatsup2996 25 дней назад

Somehow, Palpatine has returned

@Bowowze 24 дня назад

i think this needed more proper in depth explanations as to what was happening and how it was performed. i couldnt really understand how anything was actually executed.

@headman82 22 дня назад

This kinda reminds me of Metroid, where you use door jumping to get in glitchy rooms.

@FatalVisionTV 17 дней назад

I think the best I've ever done in castlevania is like 14 minutes and change without using glitching but once I started seeing 10 minute times, I kinda fell down the whole speedrunning rabbit hole. It's seriously fascinating that this stuff exists and how much has been discovered. Makes you wonder what HASN"T been found yet.

@1stCallipostle 25 дней назад

I'm gonna be honest chief. I'm walking out of this still very much unsure of how it's actually performed

@charlottecorday8494 18 дней назад

Oh he doesn't play for the Kansas City Chiefs

@Typical.Anomaly 26 дней назад

Save data on Castlevania? Is that an FDS thing only?

@bigbangbot-SuperSqank 26 дней назад

Yes. It was removed in other versions to cut costs.

@grandmastermario3695 6 дней назад

I just beat soul caliber 2 well blindfolded in under 1 minute IGT

@kfin45 26 дней назад

Nice job

@gamevidsnstuff5805 5 дней назад

That is seriously crazy.

@Akuretaki_Nikolay 25 дней назад

Gg's !

@AxelAlexK 25 дней назад

Super interesting. This is probably my favorite NES game and it's crazy interesting how deep people have dove into the game.

@2ndBreakfassst 14 дней назад

Interesting video, well done! You quickly glossed over "using a modified file name to trick the game into thinking the player is perform up + down inputs". Im curious if you can elaborate on that, as it seems to be a cornerstone of the setup.

@pi20p 20 дней назад

i was not ready for that voice change

@kohl1999 18 дней назад

I was in grade school when the NES came out and have really fond memories of Castlevania, Metroid and Kid Icarus. I have to hand it to these speed runners; none of us kids back then would have thought to do such odd things in the game; we basically played them in a very straightforward manner. I think the fanciest I ever got was using the hit bump in Castlevania to get knocked up and skip areas.

@FatalVisionTV 17 дней назад

That's about the extent of all I know how to do myself. I get people telling me all the time to do critical hits and bat bumps and it'll knock my time down by minutes. I'm pushing old fart territory, so I'm just... WTF are you talking about? lol

@hitmangfx7162 20 дней назад

Cookie Monster approves this run

@sylleryum 26 дней назад

Very good

@fzig16 23 дня назад

Does anyone knows what kind of filter/palette was used on the snes lion's king gameplay at 7:06 ? It looks awesome, even better than original hardware on a good crt.

@SBDWolf 22 дня назад

I don't recall using a particular filter or palette. This was on an original Super Famicom using S-Video, through a Retrotink 2x, and into a $20 hdmi capture card. Might've messed around with the saturation/contrast/brightness/gamma etc. slightly.

@floating__eye 13 дней назад

Jokes on you - I never take off my thinking cap

@gamesmasteruploader4863 26 дней назад

Storster your videos are always fantastic, thank you

@kilroy987 11 дней назад

Here's a really long video explaining how the speedrun was cut down so far.

@grandmastermario3695 6 дней назад

Sbd wolf is awesome hes ran so many games

@shawnio 26 дней назад

I have to say, sometimes I feel like alot of the time I spent online was a waste, videos like this sustain me. this was cool

@Scrimsion 26 дней назад

I love warping all space time and reality in my speedruns

@jsbmx2039 26 дней назад

I kinda understood this

@2funnyrockrs 23 дня назад

I love the videos ❤️

@thesuperjacobshow8151 21 день назад

The travesty is that this video is twice as long as the speedrun.

@jmtradbr 26 дней назад

Soon enough all any% games will be like this

@Jma952 26 дней назад

Yeah, it’s kinda lame too :/

@eessndjd 25 дней назад

Oh HECK yeah! I'm a sucker for credits warps

@marinamoraes6174 26 дней назад

I bet next someone can do a Battletoads ACE /j

@daveyjones7391 26 дней назад

I’d be here for it! Loved that game as a kid!

@eessndjd 25 дней назад

It already existed before this comment lol

@Controllerhead 25 дней назад

Castlevania credits warp! Amazing! Another classic goes down. Hats off to all of the people who hunted and performed this. Incredible work! If i had to guess, the Famicom Disk System runs games from RAM in the same address space that cartridges run code from ROM so it has alot more viable RAM area to work with.

@LordOfCrabz 12 дней назад

Billy Mitchell did it faster! He is the Video Game Player of the Century after all!

@johnbcardin 26 дней назад

Wait… is Tas pronounced “TAS” or is it pronounced “TAS”?

@tylerwebb2495 25 дней назад

It’s pronounced gif

@SpitefulAZ 26 дней назад

What are TAS again

@ijhtw 26 дней назад

I'm a simple gal, Storster posts and I watch ❤

@Nirakolov 26 дней назад

I wonder if the scroll glitch works in 8 Eyes

@dantedeloden 25 дней назад

why does it say rondo of blood on the Gaming tab part, at first i was like wait this isnt cv1? not that im opposed to rondo of blood, ive watched every speedrun and tas of every game probably from nes to n64. i was just more curious that CV1 was the ACE execution run. glad it was lol

@Storster 25 дней назад

Think it may have flagged that title just cause of the music track from that title in the video, i’ll see if i can switch it lol. Thanks for pointing that out

@dantedeloden 25 дней назад

@@Storster no problem thanks for the video. loved it lol

@an0therdimensi0n99 26 дней назад

wat

@NotBroihon 26 дней назад

5:55 🤓 that's actually still called an overflow. Underflows are issues with floating point precision. Nitpick over. Great and interesting video!

@SBDWolf 26 дней назад

I was the one who called it that and that ultimately made that get into the script. Seems like wikipedia supports what you said. However I feel like I've generally heard the term underflow being used whenever a number wraps around from its minumum possible value to its maximum. I wonder if that usage is actually common or if it's just my impression. Well, TIL.

@NotBroihon 25 дней назад

@@SBDWolf again, no shade! It's a common "mistake". I'm just a 🤓 a**hole with a reverse engineering background. The term "integer underflow" is only incorrect from a technical point of view because an underflow by definition is just something different. However, everyone knows what you mean so it's really a non issue.

@SBDWolf 25 дней назад

@@NotBroihon Yeah I get that. Thanks for the tidbit!

@nat_cat2923 26 дней назад

fuck yeah

@joepassineau240 26 дней назад

heck yeah

@TheBeethooven 24 дня назад

Great video as always Sis ❤

@songsan807 22 дня назад

Even as a Castlevania fan I don't think I would try this hack. I don't think the original programmers of this game foresee the Internet, TAS, and emulators to jump to the credits. This was a time where once you launch the game, there are no updates or bug fixes. Still a masterpiece after so many decades.

@musicgardener2142 26 дней назад

the rACE is over. Great! :)

@SushiElemental 26 дней назад

Thanks for 111 videos! Here's to the next 111! 🥳🎉

@robinswiththestuds 26 дней назад

Hell yeaaaa

@kiml4491 26 дней назад

Juicy speedrunning content to procrastinate to? Dont mind if I do!

@katepuddings2 26 дней назад

wowie!

@stormlord1984 25 дней назад

I hate major skips in speedruns. Bypassing part of the stage? Cool. Bypassing whole stages? It's not fancy and it's just boring. When a game speedrun moves to major skips, it's a dead speedrun for me. That said, the quest to find the hack, sbdwolf's research and attempts, and the video themselves are superb. Extremely interesting. Fantastic work and video from both!