Any% - Blob Boost tips, how to increase success chances

Any% Glitchless Speedrun Tutorial

While Glitchless isn't as difficult to learn and fine tune as Any% speedruns, I still have decided a video guide/tutorial will help speed up the process.
https://youtu.be/4CiFJhRg1Mw

Castlevania 2 Any% Glitchless Visual Guide

Hello, everyone. I've recently taken an interest in running Any% Glitchless but, due to the route and no in-game map, I was having a difficult time making my way without getting lost. It's a lot easier for me to reference a map than scrub through a 40 minute video while attempting to figure out where I am and what I'm supposed to be doing. With this guide, a player that's completely new to CV2 can jump right in and complete the game. I'm not saying this is the be-all-end-all Any% Glitchless way to run the game, I'm far too new to CV2 to make such a claim. I think it's a good start for someone wanting to dive in and get their bearings. I'll update the guide as I become more familiar with the game and learn new strats. I *think* I've fixed all the typos. Big thanks to twitch.tv/seamlesslink for explaining the route and making sure I've got it marked correctly. He's the brains behind this map, I just clicked a mouse a whole bunch of times. 



Here's a 1920x12000 guide


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Here's a 1280x8000 guide


https://i.imgur.com/AYoPVzX.jpg
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It's very phone/screen friendly. Just scroll down as you progress.

Happy whipping,
-MTK

CV2 any% Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotJKlE4aX01in7CJQstwReZ60qkKxQvP

Made by Shikaroxen, covering just about everything we know in the game up and through to all of 2017.

Edit: Just updated link, directing to full playlist of all parts.

Dracula II - Noroi no Fuuin - Any% Tutorial

https://youtu.be/Yx8TsGs5ATw

Timestamps:
00:00 - LOADING
01:30 - Holy water floordrop setup
04:00 - Eye dboost glitch
08:40 - Glitched area to Dracula
14:50 - Drac's castle floordrop setups & frames for quad drop
18:40 - Terrible quick kill explanation (explained the first throw, forgot to explain the second)

Fix "Unknown World Record" for main categories in Livesplit

Due to the way that the categories are set up for CV2, it's a bit tricky to get the world record to show up properly in your splits.  Here's a quick guide to get it working:

Open the category you want to set and  select "Edit Splits..."
Select "NES" as the Run Category ("Famicon Disk System" if you are running an FDS category)
Click on the "Additional Info" tab above where your splits are
Select the correct Region and Platform
Select the actual category you are running from the subcategory list 
Click OK
Livesplit should now load the correct world record from speedrun.com

How to Set Up the Practice Rom

Video on how to set up the practice rom and what you can do with it

https://youtu.be/ARExEin-ReM

Updated Any% Tutorial (2021)

Updates from Xenkaroshi's tutorial from 2017, these strats were added:
- Faster lizardmen grind
- Nail Mansion exit strat
- Squerc single-crit setup on Dracula

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxwRbymz5OM

Burb

xenkaroshi

freeland

SBDWolf

Billick

MTK426

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

Nintendo Entertainment System

Xbox One

SketchDeluxe

FeldmanAcrossTheHall

stevenqbeatz111

USA / NTSC

Everdrive

PowerPak

FDSStick

FDSemu

Emulator / Bizhawk

Emulator / fceux

Wii VC

Magic Wild Card

Wii U VC

3DS VC

Everdrive N8 Pro

Any% Glitchless

Any%

Any% No Wrong Warp

100%

100% Glitchless

All Mansions (No Save Corruption)

Nt Mini Noir Core

Low%

FDS Method

Sub category

Castlevania

Practice Rom Available

Was it a get Golden Dagger tutorial there?

Salamander Farm Timing?

FDS glitch not glitching

I made an Any% Glitchless Visual Guide

Damageless Category - Question

FuriousPaul

Canight

Sathdresh

thenesmaster

bigdaddydrums

tundra83

kcr_

SeamlessLink

KenMastersWetDream

Ylikki

Name	Author
Any% - Blob Boost tips, how to increase success chances	SBDWolf 3 years ago
Any% Glitchless Speedrun Tutorial	freeland 3 months ago
Castlevania 2 Any% Glitchless Visual Guide	MTK426 2 years ago
CV2 any% Tutorial	xenkaroshi 4 years ago
Dracula II - Noroi no Fuuin - Any% Tutorial	Burb 5 years ago
Fix "Unknown World Record" for main categories in Livesplit	Billick 1 year ago
How to Set Up the Practice Rom	freeland 2 years ago
Updated Any% Tutorial (2021)	freeland 2 years ago