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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

Castlevania II Any% Glitchless Tutorial

I wanted to add the glitchless tutorial since we lost Freeland's tutorial in the twitch highlightacalypse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a86ifDkXDk

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)

FDS Any% Basic Tutorial

Should be good enough to get you going on runs, but I don't cover really advanced strats, like quad drop. Mainly wanted to make something to help explain the Dracula fight, since I couldn't find any good resources for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJmt7Ks6CmUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJmt7Ks6CmU

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

Lizard Grind Tutorial

This is the lizard grind tutorial.  It is actually Part 1 of my 16 part CV2 speedrunning tutorial.  You can move from part 1 to part 2 and so on, and learn the whole run through these vids if you'd like.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h9bAtFePbs

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

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I made an Any% Glitchless Visual Guide

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Name	Autor
Any% - Blob Boost tips, how to increase success chances	SBDWolf 6 years ago
Castlevania 2 Any% Glitchless Visual Guide	MTK426 5 years ago
Castlevania II Any% Glitchless Tutorial	Sathdresh 1 year ago
CV2 any% Tutorial	xenkaroshi 7 years ago
Dracula II - Noroi no Fuuin - Any% Tutorial	Burb 8 years ago
FDS Any% Basic Tutorial	WhiteHat94 2 months ago
Fix "Unknown World Record" for main categories in Livesplit	Billick 4 years ago
How to Set Up the Practice Rom	Gelöscht 5 years ago
Lizard Grind Tutorial	Opry99er 4 months ago
Updated Any% Tutorial (2021)	Gelöscht 5 years ago