Uploaded October 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is a challenge run that completes the game using the minimal number of required souls (1 Skeleton, 1 Armor Knight, 1 Golem, 1 Flying Armor, 1 Succubus) without abusing memory corruption. This is my first deathless run, and the only reason I didn't reset on the horrible Succubus drop luck (which lasts over 10 minutes btw) was because I didn't have time for another attempt.
I also had to change my route to account for this since I'm used to getting an armor drop and being able to grab the RPG from boss rush super early. Oh well! My goal was simply to go deathless, and I succeeded. I probably won't do very serious attempts for this, but I would like to improve it again with decent drop luck for the Succubus soul.
This is a challenge run that completes the game using the minimal number of required souls (1 Skeleton, 1 Armor Knight, 1 Golem, 1 Flying Armor, 1 Succubus) without abusing memory corruption. This is my first deathless run, and the only reason I didn't reset on the horrible Succubus drop luck (which lasts over 10 minutes btw) was because I didn't have time for another attempt.
I also had to change my route to account for this since I'm used to getting an armor drop and being able to grab the RPG from boss rush super early. Oh well! My goal was simply to go deathless, and I succeeded. I probably won't do very serious attempts for this, but I would like to improve it again with decent drop luck for the Succubus soul.
![[OBSOLETE] Castlevania: SotN (XBLA) speed run in 19:55](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PDhsLwrWDDU/mqdefault.jpg "[OBSOLETE] Castlevania: SotN (XBLA) speed run in 19:55
WATCH THE NEW RECORD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQzTQ-5rNbs
As far as I know, this is the first console speed run of SotN to be completed in under 20 minutes. This isnt a very good run and is definitely far from being submittable to SDA, but I figured since it was perhaps a bit of a milestone for speed running the game that it might be nice to upload.
This is the world record as of 2/20/2012, but this time will probably be crushed very soon so whatever. If you want to see me do live attempts of this run, follow http://twitch.tv/romscout and check the schedule for when Im doing runs of the game. I missed a skip entirely and messed up a lot, but hopefully you still enjoy this run! Expect a better one soon.")
