Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
An extremely useless trick. It's not useful for speedrunning or anything since defeating Shredder is what ends the game so that's where the timer ends.
You can also make him die in the air, it all depends on his current gravity at the time of death.
Still, any reason to upload about this game.
Bonus glitch, if you pause the game right after entering the boss room, the lightning that spawns Shredder in turns red. imgur.com/6kVL1kd
An extremely useless trick. It's not useful for speedrunning or anything since defeating Shredder is what ends the game so that's where the timer ends.
You can also make him die in the air, it all depends on his current gravity at the time of death.
Still, any reason to upload about this game.
Bonus glitch, if you pause the game right after entering the boss room, the lightning that spawns Shredder in turns red. imgur.com/6kVL1kd
![Castlevania: Circle of the Moon [Advance Collection] - Vampire Killer Playthrough (*Archive)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w3VNr-RN_2M/mqdefault.jpg "Castlevania: Circle of the Moon [Advance Collection] - Vampire Killer Playthrough (*Archive)
*NOTE: This is an unedited archive of a live no-commentary playthrough originally streamed on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/bippoernesti), which means there may be deaths, restarts or intermissions/interruptions.
For the viewers sake, I have implemented chapters that skip the grind portions, hopefully to ease anyone who wants to watch it.
Ive been wanting to do this for years, but Im no Gladstone Gander so I knew the farming was going to eat up a lot of time. The farming alone totals almost an hour. In hindsight, since I lucked out on the Strength Ring, farming the Intelligence Ring was unnecessary, and the time saved by using the Double Hearts from Venus + Manticore was probably more than undone by the time spent farming for Manticore, which I only wanted for that purpose.
The stream title became accidentally funnier when I figured out secula is an actual word and it measures time sort of. Its the plural form of seculum/saeculum, which apparently means a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a human being or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population, which is perfect.
The couple times the Advance Collection menu popped up was when my PS4 controller disconnected, which is happening annoyingly often. The D-pad has gotten pretty bad, registering Up inputs when my thumb is nowhere near the upper half of the D-pad, so I was throwing some unnecessary subweapons around.
Stream Date: 2023-02-21
Stream Title: Gimme a secula, Dracula, I need some cards first
Live Notification: Spawncamping the Count.
Stream Description: Normal (Vampire Killer) Circle of the Moon playthrough. There will be some farming in a couple spots for some items/cards and its all up to luck on how long each will take. As for the DSS bug, Ill probably do it at least once just to show it off, but I shouldnt need it otherwise.
This is on the Advance Collection, so if the menu pops up, my controller probably disconnected. Freezing might happen too.
Barring any unexpected interruptions, bad luck or colossal blunders, I would estimate the stream to be about 4-5 hours.
0:00:00 Game
0:07:50 Grind Chapter: Earth Demon - Serpent (C)
0:10:50 Game
0:23:05 Grind Chapter: Slime - Venus (C), Axe Armor - Mandragora (C)
0:27:30 Game
0:45:38 Grind Chapter: Zombie Thief - Luck Ring
0:48:15 Game
0:50:31 Grind Chapter: Heat Shade - Jupiter (C)
0:50:46 Game
0:59:30 Grind Chapter: Thunder Demon - Manticore (C)
1:06:08 Game
1:15:38 Grind Chapter: Evil Hand - Intelligence Ring
1:23:30 Game
1:36:23 Grind Chapter: Were-Panther - Thunderbird (C)
1:48:38 Game
1:59:07 Grind Chapter: Poison Armor - Rainbow Robe
2:07:10 Game
2:18:19 Grind Chapter: Scary Candle - Uranus (C)
2:22:25 Game
2:26:41 Grind Chapter: Arch Demon - Apollo (C)
2:28:30 Game
2:53:27 Grind Chapter: Ice Armor - Neptune (C)
2:57:06 Game
3:44:50 Mini-Grind Chapter: Alraune - Sage Robe (Gave Up)
3:46:42 Game
3:59:42 Final Boss & Ending
4:09:15 Title & Attract Mode")
![Emerald Dragon [SFC] Music - Emerald Dragon Extended](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z9wVfvPk_Jk/mqdefault.jpg "Emerald Dragon [SFC] Music - Emerald Dragon Extended
Posting a few extended tracks to close off this Emerald Dragon streak. This is purely just full self-indulgence.
Other Tracks:
*Emerald Dragon (Prologue)*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xsAOyjCXwU
*Emerald Dragon (Looping Ver.)*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1S_1KE-7X4
*Emerald Dragon (Extended)*
You are here.
*Staff Roll*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiyxZ-rKxrg
*Staff Roll (Extended)*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLhsWI1_TYA
*Field Battle (Extended)*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdUEt0AqzYY
If you wanna see other extended tracks (from other games), check this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsNSJ8GZ47QhsqscmRWKAUd2VYi0RzlOd")
