The glitches required to save time are quite difficult to get right. I think it would be sensible to have a category without the glitches, considering the time difference is quite big.

Cheers!

Happened to me once on stream.

Super! Well done!

No worries!

I'd like to volunteer in order to lighten the load. Instead of having only one mod. I DO NOT have exp moderating speedruns. I have only done one myself. But what I do have is time to learn, and time to review speed runs, as well as exp playing the game.

Greetings @TheBelmontSteaks,

Totally understand. I myself came across the game only recently. Then found out about the dmg issue quite quickly by pure luck. I have played the so called original Japanese version until the doll house stage. It is incredibly difficult not to die up until that point. Nevertheless it is quite exciting to spread the knowledge with others and possibly have a new category, for this amazing game.

Cheers!

The version of this game floating around is not the original Japanese version. More information here

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/11476

and here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/t7znk6/akumajou_draculacastlevania_x68000_original/

I imagine it would be close to impossible to get similar times using the original version of the game for x68000. So perhaps another category could be created, one for the original and another for the easy hack which everyone has clocked their time on.

Cheers