How Speedrunners BROKE Castlevania's Scrolling - Behind the Code

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Published 2022-12-16
Technical dive into how to use the NES controller to break level loading in Castlevania.

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Castlevania Speedrunners on YouTube:
SBDWolf - youtube.com/@sbdwolf8965
jay_cee - youtube.com/@ClumsyCougarBait
shockra_tease - youtube.com/@shockra_tease77

Scrolling Discovery - youtube.com/@InfoManiac742

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All Comments (21)
  • @Purpzie
    I know it's just a small thing compared to the other work it took to create this video, but thank you for including captions. I have minor speech processing problems and captions help a lot. Youtube's automatic captions sometimes don't work.
  • @Sixfortyfive
    Most of the time I'm letting Youtube run in the background while I focus on other stuff. These videos are a small minority where I basically drop everything I'm doing once I see one pop up on my feed.
  • @eien86
    As co-author of the current TAS of the game, I salute you sir. We extensively used this glitch througout the TAS in many crazy ways but, although I have a good idea as to how to exploit it, I never really understood the inner workings of the glitch. Please keep these videos coming!
  • @SBDWolf
    I love the visualizations. I think this is an excellent way to show exactly how this glitch works. Great work! Happy to have been part of this.
  • @matt4193
    8:16 tell that to the Digimon World devs, checking every frame if a digimon meets the requirements to evolve haha
  • Wow! This one took a long time to research and assemble. Thanks to Kosmic for the suggestion. I know we didn't dive into syntax or create any Game Genie codes this time around, but I found the topic fascinating and felt like Behind the Code was still compatible with it - even if I only showed some of the major code on a single slide. This video was made possible thanks to some amazing knowledge from SBDWolf and trisk. Thank you both so much for your patience and fast communication with me. Thanks to both of you and jay_cee for letting me use footage from your speedruns. Goodness knows I can't perform the scrolling glitch on a whim! Checkout these guys on Twitch! Tell 'em I sent ya. SBDWolf - www.twitch.tv/sbdwolf trisk - www.twitch.tv/tr1sklion jay_cee - twitch.tv/jay_cee jay_cee's World Record run (10m 45s 283ms) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r2u95rfGnQ Hope everyone is having a great day. Thanks for watching.
  • I love this channel so much. Your breakdown of the code is so easy to understand and presented with enough context that pretty much anyone could grasp it.
  • Thanks so much for creating this! These visuals are perfect representations of the more abstract concepts of the glitch. This will for sure be my go-to video to recommend for anyone wanting a more granular understanding of how this glitch works. Fantastic job!
  • Just WOW. I love watching speedruns and sometimes I cannot comprehend what happens when they start firing their glitch sorcery. Great job explaining this particular one!
  • @GamingManual
    As a fellow deep-dive channel, this content is truly invaluable. Fantastic breakdown and explanation here!
  • @yogidemis8513
    Crazy after all these years I'm just learning about this. Crazy how people figure these things out. I still remember buying this game the first day it was released at Toys r Us.
  • @heitortremor
    The editing really is marvelous on these videos. The visuals are always there to explain what's happening behind the scenes!
  • @kri249
    Another brilliant video to demonstrate why I love this channel. As someone who initially knew nothing about computers, programming, or code this channel has really sparked my fascination and motivated me to learn more about it within the last year and a half. And the BTC series has made me appreciate the design that has gone into my childhood games more than the games themselves. Keep up the awesome work.
  • @Pezmage1
    Man I love these videos so much. It's so cool to see behind the curtain on the games I played as a kid. I have zero programing experience and it's still presented in a way that I can follow what's going on
  • @psinjo
    gotta give props for the extra work it takes to not only show off the trick, but actually build in extra things into the rom to show it off to help people understand better, the color swapping really helped me understand, great work!
  • @jayjasespud
    A better explanation of frame rules than that common bus analogy alone.
  • @thebearup
    I love the warnings about technical content. Bro that's the whole reason I'm watching the video :)
  • @Wakka9000
    Visualisation is superb and helps a lot! Good job!