[TAS] NES Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse "Sypha path" by zggzdydp in 26:31.88

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see http://tasvideos.org/3360M.html. TAS originally published on 2017-04-02.

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord).

This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version.

This movie takes the path that recruits Sypha. There's also a Grant path (http://tasvideos.org/1979M.html) movie and an Alucard path (http://tasvideos.org/3357M.html) movie.

This is an improvement of 1:18.69 over the previous movie (http://tasvideos.org/763M.html), thanks to improved usage of Sypha's ice spell and overall better optimisation.