This is really old tech. Nothing new about it. But... it's presented phenomenally. 👏 👏 👏 I stayed for the entire video even though I knew about the glitch. Lol
One of the best videos regarding glitches and game mechanics I've seen in a good while: * Well explained. * Well edited. * And doesn't waste the watcher's time with random ramblings.
Its not stretched, SOTN is widescreen by default. It puts black bars in-game on the top and bottom of the 4:3 output. I zoomed in the footage to cut the bars out, but the aspect ratio was not changed.
There's also a glitch at the start of the Alucard part that allows you to slide back past the drawbridge. You'll fall into a little room under the first flagstone. I haven't done it in years, however, and lack details on it anymore. I am happy to have been able to add at least two tips on GameFAQs for SOTN; the shield for Dracula and the Chessagrimm, IIRC.
Yup, you either backdash or duck and slide, I can't remember. In the original playstation version you would fall below the drawbridge and you could go right one screen into a cave. It was an unfinished area so you'd get stuck there. Of course, these are memories from the 90's, could be skewed after this much time. There's also a shield rod glitch that teleports you through walls.
@@neogalfordyou can also do it with the heart refresh and duplicator to fall below the floor and slide under the stone to a glitched save room. Was supposed to be an additional area but was cut. It was added to the Saturn version.
I know like actual serious tricks in this game, theres a way to get the dog and trick jump across the clock tower area, get into and through the clock tower and then farm muramasa way before the castles flipped. I have a file with this done on it and am powering it up down by the mermen.
@@_Tizoc_ There used to be a partial tutorial on here years ago, u gotta make these specific jumps, but then u gotta get thru the clocktower underleveled as hell escape that get to the dudes who drop it farm and survive all that and go back to a savepoint, i have this done on a legit file lmfao. Its doable, then u bring it down to the mermen ad farm blood and get it strong. For me it took maybe, an hour of trying ? it didnt take that long but i could see someone taking long, it all depends, and theres no like quick saving atleast for me did this on my ps2 with a memory card and still got the file, im jus leveling the sword up lol. When i show people the file who play they get confused.
Ancient SOTN sage here: Just wanted to add a trick in the Library when using the wolf jump, mist, down kick combo. You do NOT have to wait until the bat if you cant pull this off, when i was young i figured out you can switch between Mist, Wolf, and Alucard over and over again while holding the direction you want to travel. You will gain about a pixel or two of distance each time so long as you dont turn into the same thing in a row, you have to stagger wolf and mist with alucard between them. It lets you infinitely fly early on, just slowly. Nobody mentions this, i assume because its not a modern Speedrun strat, and never made it onto the popular rumormill. Its useful in a couple places besides the library obviously, but it cant do long distance easily due to mana concerns
Last summer I had covid, and whilst I was in quarantine, I found out I had this game downloaded on my old PS3. Spent my entire time out of work playing this beautiful masterpiece that came out like 25 years ago. This video was very informative and I enjoyed watching it.
Fun story. The glitch where you can skip the Death scene in the PSP Dracula X Chronicles version is way easier than the one shown here haha. All you have to do is enter and in the very microsecond you are in, backdash ASAP and then re-enter the room and BAM! Alucard inventory still intact lol EDIT: You also don't have to unequip the stuff either haha. Just backdash out of the room and inventory is still intact hahaha
Yep. That's right. However, the so called "money glitch" (use Google) don't work in the PSP/PS3/PS4/PS5 versions. You will not be able to buy the $500.000 Duplicator (search Google) easily. You'll have to do some money farming, if possible. 😉
Always appreciate the effort you put in, I can tell it’s a lot harder to show your own footage. Much more effort than just reading a glitches list off a wiki. Keep up the great work.
Really, full of surprises! I really wish the producers would have a little consideration for the fans and release a new remastered version of all Castlevanias for consoles and PC! There are a lot of good games stuck on old platforms that are not backwards compatible!
I actually never knew the Shield Rod/Alucard Shield combo was unintended, I always assumed it was intended that it dealt ridiculous damage if things came in contact with you.
Although I admitedly already knew all of these because I'm a sotn nerd myself, the video was reeeeeally well presented, and really well explained, with easy to understand inputs, terms and graphical queues. This might've inspired some casuals to learn more about the game, even if it's not to actually "speedrun" it. I myself don't actually speedrun it, but these techniques come really handy after you beat the game several times like me, but can't stay away from the game XD. Great work!!
Here's another glitch for you to reach 201.1% of progress (A few save rooms that were discarded from the game, but they didn't deleted them, and I see no much people know about them) [Make sure to copy this in another part to not lose it when you click the time tag :) ] BIBLE INCOMIIIIIIING Requires Basically the Relic Skip (22:05) items and knowledge: -Minimum 2 Heart Refreshes (One in each hand) -Duplicator -Library card Now do: - Go to the beginning of the map in the entrance, the very first room where we start the game. - Calculate the same way of the video the part where the camera start following Alucard in the entrance of the next room, and walk a one or two steps away of the room (The camera should move just a little, not necesary to be just a pixel). You must be looking in the opposite direction of the door - Now Backward dash one time and inmediately after pressing that button, press any of the heart refresh you have equiped. It will pause the movement with the animation, but you will still be moving after it. -While the animation is on, activate the other hand Heart refresh, It won't summon inmediately, but once the first is over, you will see how you go back one or two frames, and it will activate the next animation. And while that animation is on, activate the other one, and so until you see the camera doesn't move anymore, but you can do it a few more times to be sure. -After that, let the backward dash animation finish, If you did it correctly, make another backward dash, and instead of going to the next room, you should be falling inside the ground. -Once you managed to do that, convert to bat, make sure to be on the bottom, and right there, fly to the next room. -This will make you go between the two rooms multiple times (Basically this will happen there 23:47), you try to press Left so you should appear again below of the ground in the first room -But now, you will press Left and you will be able to move very slow like this 23:43 -And voilá, after flying a little, you will be in what seems like a glitched save room. You can save there, there's no problem, is just a visual giltch. The next room is just a little cave that goes up, and when you reach the top, you will be under the initial spot where you start the game, where there's a stoned Trapdoor that opens automatically when you touch it, and you will be back in the normal map So, you might be wondering: "what is the library card for?". It's for the inverted castle version, since thar trapdoor is totally sealed, once you enter, you can't exit other way than that. And the process is almost the same with a little one difference I'll explain: -Same process of the Backward dash & ♥Refresh, but in the buttom of the screen (The roof) -Once you make sure it worked, go back up (as a bat or however) just before entering the room and do a backward dash in the opposite direction, you should fall inside the wall instead of going to the next room. -Now transform to bat, go up over the top of the screen (Your wings should be slightly seen), and go to the opposite room, the game will make this hell again 23:47. And press Right to end in the first room again, but over the top this time. -Now the difficult part :). Go to the right, but you must stop in a very specific point. You will be seeing a little of your wings over the top of the screen, the ground, and right under it, some (I think It's called) shrubberies (I don't speak eng, srry!), two bigs, and a lot of small ones, the first big near of the castle beginning, next to a lot of smalls, and then the other big one. You will fly right before reaching the second big one. (A little further could cause to fail, and even further you will just see the room, but won't enter, you will be pushed back) -Once in the place, Wing Smash a few times (I think 2 or 3 are enough) and you will appear inside the room, but it's reversed, so you will be falling, so after the wing smash you will be transform automatically back to Alucard, so transform again to bat, and that's all, you will be able to fly around that reversed cave and the save room (That again, will look glitched, but you can save ther just for the merit) -Finally, and as I said, you will be trapped there because the exit is blocked by lines of code XD. So use the library card to go back safe to the normal castle Aaaaaand that's all, thanks for your patience ^_^
I've literally played through this game at least once since it was released in the united states, it IS the best castlevania of all time and I honestly wish they would've made it so much bigger, the castle now seems so small even with the inversion
For clarification, for those who arent Street Fighter fans, @22:55, this direction conbination is in one sweeping/sliding motion and should only take a fraction of a second, so practice and do it quickly.
Clicked on this expecting to get the "map completion" and other well-known glitches and instead got an exhaustive way to exploit and cheat the entire game. How have I played this game countless times for literally 25 years and NEVER heard of any of this?? lol Thanks for an amazing video!
Thanks to this video, I've finally got my answer to my long ago question, "HOW TF DID I GET TO THE INVERTED CASTLE WITHOUT THE HOLY GLASSES!". I've played this game with my brother when we little kids, in the early 2000s. We thought we finally beaten the game, but didn't know where to use the fricking gold and silver ring, not knowing that it was supposed to be equipped in the clock room in the marble gallery, not in the CLOCK TOWER map. Then one day I tried fighting Richter again, but instead of a fight, Maria walked in and I went to the other room and went to the inverted castle. We didn't have access to the internet back then to consult other people on how we did this, and even when I got to use the internet to ask on neoseeker, No one had an answer for me. Again, Thanks to this video for finally giving me an answer to my childhood question!!!
Pretty good explanation for the beginner. Very clear and detailed. I’m sure you may know, but more glitches and ways to beat the game have been demonstrated by DragonBlitz, the foremost speed runner of the game, using both 360 and PSX versions. Some glitches you could cover next time (that DragonBlitz always does) are RSL Death Skip via Neutron Bomb/Level Up, Summon Spirit/Level Up, and Heart Refresh; zipping through the floor of the Long Library and use Wing Smash chain to exit the LL, or even the potion invincibility to pass through the spikes to get to Maria for the Silver Ring (used in 200.6% speedruns). Just in case you have more advanced players watch your video 😊
This game means so much to me and my siblings and seeing this kind of content for our gem is the best. Thanks for putting this well edited and great video together. Easily one of the best videos I have watched on TH-cam.
A day when I poop is an absolutely amazing day !! Oh, you don't believe me ? How do you feel when you hold it in too long ?? ..... Yeah, that's what I thought.
This video has been popping up in my feed for a few weeks. It's 6:00am and I've been up all night but had to watch it this time. Castlevania: SotN is my favorite game of all time. I have every iteration of the game you mentioned in the video and was about fifteen years old when it was released. I bought it for the original PlayStation with money I earned mowing grass. I think I also purchased Tekken 3 and Final Fantasy VII around that same timeframe. What a time for gaming man. For me, SotN is the best all around gameplay/soundtrack combination and I know what kind of bold statement that is with the likes of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Mario, Sonic, all the other Castlevania games and many more. I had no idea about some of these glitches and this has prompted me to start a new playthrough ASAP. I've always known of the luck code and not getting hit in the first battle as Richter. I can't wait to keep Alucard's gear! Thanks so much. What an amazing video for my favorite game.
There is a second version of the infinite money glitch, and it's fairly easy to pull off. It also can be done even if you've previously spoken to the Librarian. You'll need the following; Sword Card, Max 50mp or more, and of course a jewel to sell. The Sword Card is hidden in Olrox's Chambers. Go to the Librarian's room and get as close to him as you can before triggering the shop menu. Have the Sword Card active, then do the command for the spell "Sword Brothers". [ D DR R UR U (hold a second) D+Attack ]. As the spell executes and the sword yells "Gather Brother Soul Blades" while spinning and making afterimages, enter the shop. You can test if it worked by opening your sub-screen while in the shop. If you can, it worked. The rest of the glitch is exactly the same as if you used the Fairy. EDIT: One more thing, it can be done on your first playthough, though sadly the Duplicator won't be available for purchase.
Kudos to you for the format of this video, I love retro game (SOTN is one of my favorites) and watching all this glitches was very entertaining, I think your explanations were on point and really descriptive for what was happening. The Reverse Shift Line + Wing Smash for the Relic Skip was amazing
Yeah but you only get it in endgame. The Chakra is where it's really at cuz you can get it relatively early in the first castle from the discus lord in the catacombs.
Fantastic video! It's a little bit of a bummer that the Sword Brothers OOB glitch wasn't touched on, because that was the very first glitch I ever learned as a kid and it's still my favorite to this day!
Man.. I can't even begin to think about how many hours were needed to figure this stuff out. Very cool. Have to say though... SOTN is a God tier game! Spent many the months trying to beat it, and roaming around aimlessly. haha The good old days of no internet!
The game don't take long to finish,the map is not that big(its very stange that you were wondering aimlessly)..on a causal play,it generally takes 7-10hiurs to complete both castles.
This game just dripped with style, and will forever stand as one of the pillars against any argument claiming that 3D is inherently superior to 2D; to say nothing of the incredible gameplay! Watching your great video about all the glitches I never knew about as a kid has been a joy, kudos!
I read this comment before getting that far into the video, so if I hadn't already played these games you would have been the one to casually spoil the twist :p
Dude, when you started showing the Luck code at the start I thought "no big deal, pretty sure I know every single glich in this video". But at the end, you earned a new subscriber.
Wow...I have played and beaten Castlevania Symphony of The Night many, many times. I have had my copy of Symphony of The Night since 1998 and I have many other versions of it as well. I knew about the Death skip and while I have done it before...I just can't bring myself to really use it. Every time I start a new game I just want to enjoy the combat and exploration but these other glitches are very interesting indeed. I will be trying them tonight on my original PSX copy while I play on a PS3 to ensure everything works. As far as the Richter battle skip, wouldn't it be easier to fly over the block as the bat? Have you tried this before? You know what...I bet the bat form is to big vertically and probably clips the invisible block. I may try with the bat and see if I can trigger the battle skip tonight. This video was absolutely fantastic! You have just taught this old dog some new tricks and I can't wait to try them. I'll still playthrough in a semi-normal fashion but I'm going to try all kinds of wall skippery while I'm at it. ;)
Love the explanation more than the glitches, and how you put the exciting song right after you finally get in the save room. The coders and developers should check your channel often.
I remember I used to exploit the mist into wolf transformation to reach higher places but never occurred to do the drop kick without thinking it was an exploit at that time haha, great video
I bought this the moment it release on PS1, what a masterpiece. The weird part is when I got home the disk inside the case said Castlevaina, but it was some sort of pc cd rom. I took it back and exchanged it for a real ps1 game. To this day I wish I would have figured out what the hell it was, but I was just a kid and didn't think to keep it.
OMG I FREAKING DID EVERYTHING! It took quite a few tries, but not as many as I thought it would. So incredibly fun trying this out and not as hard as it looks one bit. Just a bit of patience and practice. Thanks for this and I love watching all your vids!
Mist form is so complicated and confusing, I'm not sure I'll ever understand what it's for 😔 If only the game would ever tell me where it could pass... perhaps over and over... with an incessant pop-up...
One of my favorite glitches i found on gamefaqs as a kid is the sword familiar sword dance glitch, where in certain areas you could just fall of the border of the room transition and explore outside the castle, you could do that for a lot of spots of the map, getting something like 200.6% map completion in the end, it was really fun to pull off
Awesome glitches Phobia, tragically I lost my copy of this awesome game many years ago, however it was a blast to play, truly a privilege to have, thanks for the memories!
Question, while explaining the save room skip, you where hit in bat form by a guardian. You took no damage and an image of a hit human form alucard flew out... What causes this?
I'm not one to try glitches a lot but this is crazy amazing. Not surprised someone found these exploits in a 25 year old game. I remember buying SotN at Babbage's the year it was released.
I have never known that box before the castle top for ending check ! It is amazing to see such old classic still has cool followups like this! (I am not a TAS/speedrun guy)
Discovered your channel and am loving all your videos! Would you possibly be interested in a video on metroid prime? That game is full of crazy glitches
Cool, I’ve heard about some of these glitches. However, I’ve never seen a concise guide on how to perform them. Some of these glitches I have never heard of. Good stuff.
I love this game, because I imagine that Alucard's character/abilities are from a completely different game. He is so OP in SoTN, it's like having the Quake-guy with the rocket/rail all that and playing in Halo.... you'd be a complete unstoppable wrecking machine....like Alucard in SoTN
3:25 not sure if he mentions it down the line but time is also a factor in your starting stats for Alucard. The best possible stats to get, requires no damage & complete Richter's part in under a minute. This is not possible on your 1st playthrough as you cannot skip the cutscene with Dracula. Only possible on replays. While it may seem near impossible to pull off, it has been done before by players. A YT search can show how it is done.
To further elaborate, using either subweapon (cross/holy water) gets you basically the same stats, except MP: Holy water - 80HP / 25 MP / 60 HEARTS / 13 STR / 12 CON / 13 INT / 12 LCK Holy Cross - 80 HP / 30 MP / 60 HEARTS / 13 STR / 12 CON / 12 INT / 12 LCK If you use no subweapon and defeat Dracula without being hit however: 85 HP/55 MP/14 STR/13 CON/13 INT/17 LCK These are the stats if you can pull off a no damage/under a min win.
I just did the Relic Skip with just one Wing Smash. I turned into bat as you said, but I hold up for less than a second to "unstuck" myself from the ceiling and recover normal bat speed still out of bounds. Then I used Wing Smash only once while holding up left. When Alucard was forced into human form again I was between the two rooms. Kept holding up left until I got dropped into the save room. I wish I had recorded it, but I assure you it worked.
Technically you only need to be in a Wing Smash while transitioning into the Save Room. The problem is that you have no idea where the transition is from the room below, so its simpler to just Wing Smash the entire length. You're not wrong though.
@@PhobiaSoft Upon further testing I found out that doing the Wing Smash right above the clock left to the golden clock in the center of the room is 100% consistent. (Also found out that the "unstucking" I mentioned earlier was an accidental Wing Smash lol)
I remembered playing this when I was young. I didn't know where to find the bat , double jump and other stuff but I managed to finish the game. I only had wolf and mist form and I used that to reach the other side of the collapse staircase, where Richter is waiting. I switched back and forth from mist to wolf and gradually move left while in the air. However, the ending felt forced and unsatisfying. Years later, I picked up the game again but didn't finish it. I'm now considering playing it again for the fun of it and to see what other secrets and locations I can discover.
"What is a glitch? A miserable little pile of exploits!"
Happy Halloween, let me know if you want to see more Castlevania in the future 🧛
i just want more "you" in the future
I would love to see Aria of Sorrow next
yes more vania content! lets show konami that SH isnt their only ip and we dont want nft
Hell yeah let's see some AOS next.
Greatest statement ever!
Take my sub :)
This man just decided to wake up one day and teach all of us how to casually speedrun SotN. Literal pro gamer move
Ahaha this is one of the reasons I love Sotn. The Glitches are almost a part of the gameplay. Infinitely replayable.
This is really old tech. Nothing new about it. But... it's presented phenomenally. 👏 👏 👏 I stayed for the entire video even though I knew about the glitch. Lol
no, videos like this requires specific planning and tons of replays, almost like a project.
*Pro gamers beat games for real. They don't cheat.*
@ColbyePresents yeah no, that just isn't true
One of the best videos regarding glitches and game mechanics I've seen in a good while:
* Well explained.
* Well edited.
* And doesn't waste the watcher's time with random ramblings.
* I agree
indeed
hell yeah
ok but why is the screen stretched?
Its not stretched, SOTN is widescreen by default. It puts black bars in-game on the top and bottom of the 4:3 output. I zoomed in the footage to cut the bars out, but the aspect ratio was not changed.
I'm surprised no one is talking about how Phobia created a whole set and costume just for the end of the video, and it's badass!
Great indeed, though I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't throw the cup in the last second. :-)
no, that's just his gaming chair
@@MiCkEBIOS I thought about it, I just didn't wanna clean up sticky cranberry juice from the floor 😂
@@PhobiaSoft What is a cranberry stain? A sticky little pool of fructose! But enough talk! Have a juice!
@@sokkyu golden 🤣🤣👌
There's also a glitch at the start of the Alucard part that allows you to slide back past the drawbridge. You'll fall into a little room under the first flagstone. I haven't done it in years, however, and lack details on it anymore. I am happy to have been able to add at least two tips on GameFAQs for SOTN; the shield for Dracula and the Chessagrimm, IIRC.
Yup, you either backdash or duck and slide, I can't remember. In the original playstation version you would fall below the drawbridge and you could go right one screen into a cave. It was an unfinished area so you'd get stuck there. Of course, these are memories from the 90's, could be skewed after this much time. There's also a shield rod glitch that teleports you through walls.
@@neogalfordyou can also do it with the heart refresh and duplicator to fall below the floor and slide under the stone to a glitched save room. Was supposed to be an additional area but was cut. It was added to the Saturn version.
I know like actual serious tricks in this game, theres a way to get the dog and trick jump across the clock tower area, get into and through the clock tower and then farm muramasa way before the castles flipped. I have a file with this done on it and am powering it up down by the mermen.
@@profo4544how long will that take?
@@_Tizoc_ There used to be a partial tutorial on here years ago, u gotta make these specific jumps, but then u gotta get thru the clocktower underleveled as hell escape that get to the dudes who drop it farm and survive all that and go back to a savepoint, i have this done on a legit file lmfao. Its doable, then u bring it down to the mermen ad farm blood and get it strong. For me it took maybe, an hour of trying ? it didnt take that long but i could see someone taking long, it all depends, and theres no like quick saving atleast for me did this on my ps2 with a memory card and still got the file, im jus leveling the sword up lol. When i show people the file who play they get confused.
I love how the way this video is edited in a way its like a story that goes full circle. It's so satisfying!
Ancient SOTN sage here:
Just wanted to add a trick in the Library when using the wolf jump, mist, down kick combo.
You do NOT have to wait until the bat if you cant pull this off, when i was young i figured out you can switch between Mist, Wolf, and Alucard over and over again while holding the direction you want to travel. You will gain about a pixel or two of distance each time so long as you dont turn into the same thing in a row, you have to stagger wolf and mist with alucard between them.
It lets you infinitely fly early on, just slowly.
Nobody mentions this, i assume because its not a modern Speedrun strat, and never made it onto the popular rumormill. Its useful in a couple places besides the library obviously, but it cant do long distance easily due to mana concerns
It's largely impractical, which is why it's not mentioned. Sure, it's possible, but there's other easier and more practical techniques.
@@roetemeteor almost like that's exactly what he said at the end.....
In 1998, I used this glitch to fight richter and did not know the existence of the inverted castle 😂
Insanely well put together walkthrough, man. I had no idea there were so many glitches/exploits!
This was such a well written, well made video and it deserves all the attentions, great work sir
Last summer I had covid, and whilst I was in quarantine, I found out I had this game downloaded on my old PS3. Spent my entire time out of work playing this beautiful masterpiece that came out like 25 years ago.
This video was very informative and I enjoyed watching it.
Fun story.
The glitch where you can skip the Death scene in the PSP Dracula X Chronicles version is way easier than the one shown here haha.
All you have to do is enter and in the very microsecond you are in, backdash ASAP and then re-enter the room and BAM! Alucard inventory still intact lol
EDIT: You also don't have to unequip the stuff either haha. Just backdash out of the room and inventory is still intact hahaha
yep just tried it. emulating Dracula X chronicles psp on my phone. It totally works. thx.
You don't even need to backdash. Just press left immediately after you enter.
Yep. That's right. However, the so called "money glitch" (use Google) don't work in the PSP/PS3/PS4/PS5 versions. You will not be able to buy the $500.000 Duplicator (search Google) easily. You'll have to do some money farming, if possible. 😉
Always appreciate the effort you put in, I can tell it’s a lot harder to show your own footage. Much more effort than just reading a glitches list off a wiki. Keep up the great work.
I for one know Phobia's pipeline would be MUCH faster if there were a "glitches list off a wiki" he could pull from for research 😉
The amount of passion and replay that was needed to learn all these is incredible.
I never knew the shield rod and Alucard shield magic effect was so powerful. Been playing this game since the 90s and still go back to this day! 🦇
Me too
Mablung Sword will work too.
The most glorious game ever. 🏆
Really, full of surprises! I really wish the producers would have a little consideration for the fans and release a new remastered version of all Castlevanias for consoles and PC! There are a lot of good games stuck on old platforms that are not backwards compatible!
@@hackjuniordf agreed!
I actually never knew the Shield Rod/Alucard Shield combo was unintended, I always assumed it was intended that it dealt ridiculous damage if things came in contact with you.
Although I admitedly already knew all of these because I'm a sotn nerd myself, the video was reeeeeally well presented, and really well explained, with easy to understand inputs, terms and graphical queues. This might've inspired some casuals to learn more about the game, even if it's not to actually "speedrun" it. I myself don't actually speedrun it, but these techniques come really handy after you beat the game several times like me, but can't stay away from the game XD. Great work!!
Here's another glitch for you to reach 201.1% of progress (A few save rooms that were discarded from the game, but they didn't deleted them, and I see no much people know about them)
[Make sure to copy this in another part to not lose it when you click the time tag :) ]
BIBLE INCOMIIIIIIING
Requires Basically the Relic Skip (22:05) items and knowledge:
-Minimum 2 Heart Refreshes (One in each hand)
-Duplicator
-Library card
Now do:
- Go to the beginning of the map in the entrance, the very first room where we start the game.
- Calculate the same way of the video the part where the camera start following Alucard in the entrance of the next room, and walk a one or two steps away of the room (The camera should move just a little, not necesary to be just a pixel). You must be looking in the opposite direction of the door
- Now Backward dash one time and inmediately after pressing that button, press any of the heart refresh you have equiped. It will pause the movement with the animation, but you will still be moving after it.
-While the animation is on, activate the other hand Heart refresh, It won't summon inmediately, but once the first is over, you will see how you go back one or two frames, and it will activate the next animation. And while that animation is on, activate the other one, and so until you see the camera doesn't move anymore, but you can do it a few more times to be sure.
-After that, let the backward dash animation finish, If you did it correctly, make another backward dash, and instead of going to the next room, you should be falling inside the ground.
-Once you managed to do that, convert to bat, make sure to be on the bottom, and right there, fly to the next room.
-This will make you go between the two rooms multiple times (Basically this will happen there 23:47), you try to press Left so you should appear again below of the ground in the first room
-But now, you will press Left and you will be able to move very slow like this 23:43
-And voilá, after flying a little, you will be in what seems like a glitched save room. You can save there, there's no problem, is just a visual giltch. The next room is just a little cave that goes up, and when you reach the top, you will be under the initial spot where you start the game, where there's a stoned Trapdoor that opens automatically when you touch it, and you will be back in the normal map
So, you might be wondering: "what is the library card for?". It's for the inverted castle version, since thar trapdoor is totally sealed, once you enter, you can't exit other way than that. And the process is almost the same with a little one difference I'll explain:
-Same process of the Backward dash & ♥Refresh, but in the buttom of the screen (The roof)
-Once you make sure it worked, go back up (as a bat or however) just before entering the room and do a backward dash in the opposite direction, you should fall inside the wall instead of going to the next room.
-Now transform to bat, go up over the top of the screen (Your wings should be slightly seen), and go to the opposite room, the game will make this hell again 23:47. And press Right to end in the first room again, but over the top this time.
-Now the difficult part :). Go to the right, but you must stop in a very specific point. You will be seeing a little of your wings over the top of the screen, the ground, and right under it, some (I think It's called) shrubberies (I don't speak eng, srry!), two bigs, and a lot of small ones, the first big near of the castle beginning, next to a lot of smalls, and then the other big one. You will fly right before reaching the second big one. (A little further could cause to fail, and even further you will just see the room, but won't enter, you will be pushed back)
-Once in the place, Wing Smash a few times (I think 2 or 3 are enough) and you will appear inside the room, but it's reversed, so you will be falling, so after the wing smash you will be transform automatically back to Alucard, so transform again to bat, and that's all, you will be able to fly around that reversed cave and the save room (That again, will look glitched, but you can save ther just for the merit)
-Finally, and as I said, you will be trapped there because the exit is blocked by lines of code XD. So use the library card to go back safe to the normal castle
Aaaaaand that's all, thanks for your patience ^_^
This game keeps on fascinating gamers over 2 decades after its release. What a masterpiece! Thanks for the vid. :)
Finished this game a million times, and I feel so dumb for not knowing about these exploits :/
I've literally played through this game at least once since it was released in the united states, it IS the best castlevania of all time and I honestly wish they would've made it so much bigger, the castle now seems so small even with the inversion
For clarification, for those who arent Street Fighter fans, @22:55, this direction conbination is in one sweeping/sliding motion and should only take a fraction of a second, so practice and do it quickly.
Holy crap that advert of mario drinking the milk unlocked memories of watching that as a young kid I had forgot all about
Right??
Your Richter skip is SO much easier than the other one I've seen and tried for forever. Cool video!
Clicked on this expecting to get the "map completion" and other well-known glitches and instead got an exhaustive way to exploit and cheat the entire game. How have I played this game countless times for literally 25 years and NEVER heard of any of this?? lol Thanks for an amazing video!
Thanks to this video, I've finally got my answer to my long ago question, "HOW TF DID I GET TO THE INVERTED CASTLE WITHOUT THE HOLY GLASSES!".
I've played this game with my brother when we little kids, in the early 2000s. We thought we finally beaten the game, but didn't know where to use the fricking gold and silver ring, not knowing that it was supposed to be equipped in the clock room in the marble gallery, not in the CLOCK TOWER map.
Then one day I tried fighting Richter again, but instead of a fight, Maria walked in and I went to the other room and went to the inverted castle. We didn't have access to the internet back then to consult other people on how we did this, and even when I got to use the internet to ask on neoseeker, No one had an answer for me.
Again, Thanks to this video for finally giving me an answer to my childhood question!!!
if someone ever asks me "what is foreshadowing" I will simply give him the link to this video
The infinite money glitch can also be done with the sword familiar, but of course you do get that later in the game.
The sword brothers glitches could basically be their own video, since it branches into map glitches and such too.
Pretty good explanation for the beginner. Very clear and detailed.
I’m sure you may know, but more glitches and ways to beat the game have been demonstrated by DragonBlitz, the foremost speed runner of the game, using both 360 and PSX versions.
Some glitches you could cover next time (that DragonBlitz always does) are RSL Death Skip via Neutron Bomb/Level Up, Summon Spirit/Level Up, and Heart Refresh; zipping through the floor of the Long Library and use Wing Smash chain to exit the LL, or even the potion invincibility to pass through the spikes to get to Maria for the Silver Ring (used in 200.6% speedruns). Just in case you have more advanced players watch your video 😊
DragonBlitz left a comment here and I felt a little star-struck 😅
Them "updating" the voice acting was so sad
Yuri Lowenthal as Alucard isn’t one of the best choices.
Stop having an opinion 😠
@@ethanpease5936you're right, it's the worst.
Gay asf. Why I have an original ps1 with an original copy.
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This game means so much to me and my siblings and seeing this kind of content for our gem is the best. Thanks for putting this well edited and great video together. Easily one of the best videos I have watched on TH-cam.
A day when Phobia uploads is a good day
A day when I poop is an absolutely amazing day !! Oh, you don't believe me ? How do you feel when you hold it in too long ?? .....
Yeah, that's what I thought.
This video has been popping up in my feed for a few weeks. It's 6:00am and I've been up all night but had to watch it this time. Castlevania: SotN is my favorite game of all time. I have every iteration of the game you mentioned in the video and was about fifteen years old when it was released. I bought it for the original PlayStation with money I earned mowing grass. I think I also purchased Tekken 3 and Final Fantasy VII around that same timeframe. What a time for gaming man. For me, SotN is the best all around gameplay/soundtrack combination and I know what kind of bold statement that is with the likes of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Mario, Sonic, all the other Castlevania games and many more. I had no idea about some of these glitches and this has prompted me to start a new playthrough ASAP. I've always known of the luck code and not getting hit in the first battle as Richter. I can't wait to keep Alucard's gear! Thanks so much. What an amazing video for my favorite game.
Appreciate you mate, I'm happy you clicked!!
There is a second version of the infinite money glitch, and it's fairly easy to pull off. It also can be done even if you've previously spoken to the Librarian.
You'll need the following; Sword Card, Max 50mp or more, and of course a jewel to sell. The Sword Card is hidden in Olrox's Chambers.
Go to the Librarian's room and get as close to him as you can before triggering the shop menu. Have the Sword Card active, then do the command for the spell "Sword Brothers". [ D DR R UR U (hold a second) D+Attack ]. As the spell executes and the sword yells "Gather Brother Soul Blades" while spinning and making afterimages, enter the shop. You can test if it worked by opening your sub-screen while in the shop. If you can, it worked.
The rest of the glitch is exactly the same as if you used the Fairy.
EDIT: One more thing, it can be done on your first playthough, though sadly the Duplicator won't be available for purchase.
Kudos to you for the format of this video, I love retro game (SOTN is one of my favorites) and watching all this glitches was very entertaining, I think your explanations were on point and really descriptive for what was happening. The Reverse Shift Line + Wing Smash for the Relic Skip was amazing
One of my all time favorite games. A timeless classic.
Of course let us not forget Crissagrim, the biggest non-exploit exploit in existence.
I never found that weapon during the time I had the game, truly unfortunate!
Yeah but you only get it in endgame. The Chakra is where it's really at cuz you can get it relatively early in the first castle from the discus lord in the catacombs.
26:08 just like Soma in the castle's throne on Aria of Sorrow. I can hear that unforgettable scene's music!
"I am the Dark Priest called Shaft" Me: "You're damned right!!!!"........lmfao :P
Fantastic video! It's a little bit of a bummer that the Sword Brothers OOB glitch wasn't touched on, because that was the very first glitch I ever learned as a kid and it's still my favorite to this day!
Yes this was an old glitch i have tried and confirmed myself that made me able to go beyond 200% on my save file
What is a glitch? a miserable little move of secrets...
The best game, the best story, the best ost of MY LIFE!
very well put together. nice explanations, I feel like I could do it myself after a few attempts at each. you sir, got my like
Till this day this game still has me in aww. It just one of those classics you keep coming back to!
Thanks for vid!
This is what the Internet was made for, freaking love finding these gems of videos
Man.. I can't even begin to think about how many hours were needed to figure this stuff out. Very cool. Have to say though... SOTN is a God tier game! Spent many the months trying to beat it, and roaming around aimlessly. haha The good old days of no internet!
oh man i can still remember the struggle to reach max level. the grind is real. also trying to get crissaegrim.
The game don't take long to finish,the map is not that big(its very stange that you were wondering aimlessly)..on a causal play,it generally takes 7-10hiurs to complete both castles.
This game just dripped with style, and will forever stand as one of the pillars against any argument claiming that 3D is inherently superior to 2D; to say nothing of the incredible gameplay! Watching your great video about all the glitches I never knew about as a kid has been a joy, kudos!
Everything about this video is so well done and informative. Thank you for keeping it so concise yet engaging!
17:15 me expecting an actual answer... actual answer was to press the gas but harder now. 🤣
I can't believe you would just casually spoil that Arikado is Alucard! It's one of, if not THE biggest twists in gaming!!!
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25 years late
@@RhizometricReality It's only been 19 years! Don't make me older than I am :,(
I read this comment before getting that far into the video, so if I hadn't already played these games you would have been the one to casually spoil the twist :p
@@gabbagoo9774 release date, March 20, 1997.
March 20th 1997 was 25 years, 7 months and 16 days ago
Dude, when you started showing the Luck code at the start I thought "no big deal, pretty sure I know every single glich in this video". But at the end, you earned a new subscriber.
Great video Phobia looking forward to more.
Wow...I have played and beaten Castlevania Symphony of The Night many, many times. I have had my copy of Symphony of The Night since 1998 and I have many other versions of it as well. I knew about the Death skip and while I have done it before...I just can't bring myself to really use it. Every time I start a new game I just want to enjoy the combat and exploration but these other glitches are very interesting indeed. I will be trying them tonight on my original PSX copy while I play on a PS3 to ensure everything works.
As far as the Richter battle skip, wouldn't it be easier to fly over the block as the bat? Have you tried this before? You know what...I bet the bat form is to big vertically and probably clips the invisible block. I may try with the bat and see if I can trigger the battle skip tonight. This video was absolutely fantastic! You have just taught this old dog some new tricks and I can't wait to try them. I'll still playthrough in a semi-normal fashion but I'm going to try all kinds of wall skippery while I'm at it. ;)
Years later I'm still learning something new in this game
amazing, i'm always thinking (after those videos) who take the time to discover such glitches
Great Vid :)
Was about to make a suggestion for you to do a reaction of this vid in one of your muramasa runs. 😅
Thanks Blitz!! Your videos were a big help in conducting research for this game, happy to have given some entertainment back!
Love the explanation more than the glitches, and how you put the exciting song right after you finally get in the save room.
The coders and developers should check your channel often.
Fantastic job!!!!
I couldn’t stop watching!
Mind was blown!
man this video is so great that the details is so well, keep it up bro
Simply AMAZING! Great video!
I remember I used to exploit the mist into wolf transformation to reach higher places but never occurred to do the drop kick without thinking it was an exploit at that time haha, great video
Hands down the greatest game of that console generation
Absolutely. My fave videogame ever.
26:11 = "I have witnessed....PERFECTION"
~Meatvalley or something, maybe, probably
I bought this the moment it release on PS1, what a masterpiece. The weird part is when I got home the disk inside the case said Castlevaina, but it was some sort of pc cd rom. I took it back and exchanged it for a real ps1 game. To this day I wish I would have figured out what the hell it was, but I was just a kid and didn't think to keep it.
I hope Castlevania gets rebooted for PS5 / XBOX / Ect...
Same
This is the best explanation of SOTN glitches I've ever seen. Thank you.
thanks for Amazing video
Terrific video! One of the best I've seen on the subject, very clear and easy to follow. I look forward to trying these again now, so thank you!
Earned a sub from me; this is amazing
OMG I FREAKING DID EVERYTHING! It took quite a few tries, but not as many as I thought it would. So incredibly fun trying this out and not as hard as it looks one bit. Just a bit of patience and practice. Thanks for this and I love watching all your vids!
New Phobia video got me like 🥵
and also, how the heck does mist can pass?
Mist form is so complicated and confusing, I'm not sure I'll ever understand what it's for 😔 If only the game would ever tell me where it could pass... perhaps over and over... with an incessant pop-up...
Great vid on glitches, easy to understand as well.
More phobia content? Yes please
This video deserves more likes and views! Awesome video man! Thanks
Alucard isn't Soma. He's Arikado.
No, WE are Soma when we meet him again :P
@@PhobiaSoft Ha! I had to listen to it again to realize it had that meaning too. English is a funny language. My apologies
@@Upāsaka_11 Its all good! I was actually a little worried that it might be misinterpreted that way, but it was too late to change it 😅
@@PhobiaSoft Tbh it is confusing. I thought you were implying he's Soma as well, until I read this comment. I'd just cut the "as Soma" part out.
One of my favorite glitches i found on gamefaqs as a kid is the sword familiar sword dance glitch, where in certain areas you could just fall of the border of the room transition and explore outside the castle, you could do that for a lot of spots of the map, getting something like 200.6% map completion in the end, it was really fun to pull off
CASTLEVANIAAA
Awesome glitches Phobia, tragically I lost my copy of this awesome game many years ago, however it was a blast to play, truly a privilege to have, thanks for the memories!
Book jump is too hard
This was such a well made video. One of my favorite bands is called Phobia and I also love Castlevania so TH-cam suggested it
elden ring when????
When you make it. So hurry up.
Elden Ring just got a new patch this week, so covering it is still really difficult, but I'm looking into it
@@drago28 w h a t ?
BRO'S A PROFESSIONAL GLITCHOSOPHER 😱🤯😧😳😩
i did the leap stone skip too but wolf + dive kick and jump to platform.
also with clock too with timing.
Question, while explaining the save room skip, you where hit in bat form by a guardian. You took no damage and an image of a hit human form alucard flew out... What causes this?
The Talisman! It goes in an accessory slot and has a chance to negate damage on getting hit. Good eye!
3:48 Just like what always happens to Samus lol
So.. just curious, why can't you just fly over the Richter invis-block glitch with the bat? Does the wing clip the box? Why specifically the wolf?
The bat is too tall
I've a question! Why do we need the wolf to jump past the invisible ending check box when we can just fly over it with the bat?
The bat is too big!
I like how this is laid out like a playthrough. Most glitch videos just jump from glitch to glitch with not much of an order to them
Literally looked up glitches to play faster, and he showed me how to speedrun it without even looking up speedrun routes. What a legend
Great video. Great production. Non irritating voice. Subbed.
The luck name 'glitch' can also be used in Rondo of Blood, it opens up every level, letting you skip right to Dracula
I'm not one to try glitches a lot but this is crazy amazing. Not surprised someone found these exploits in a 25 year old game. I remember buying SotN at Babbage's the year it was released.
I have never known that box before the castle top for ending check ! It is amazing to see such old classic still has cool followups like this! (I am not a TAS/speedrun guy)
Discovered your channel and am loving all your videos! Would you possibly be interested in a video on metroid prime? That game is full of crazy glitches
I would absolutely cover Metroid Prime one day, I love that game. I still need to do Zero Mission and Dread as well.
Cool, I’ve heard about some of these glitches. However, I’ve never seen a concise guide on how to perform them. Some of these glitches I have never heard of. Good stuff.
Amazing video. Such detail and glitches/skips that I haven't known of and this is my favorite game.
I love this game, because I imagine that Alucard's character/abilities are from a completely different game. He is so OP in SoTN, it's like having the Quake-guy with the rocket/rail all that and playing in Halo.... you'd be a complete unstoppable wrecking machine....like Alucard in SoTN
No way, i've never thought you will upload about Castlevania SotN.
Great Content, keep it up!!
Its a fantastic game!
3:25 not sure if he mentions it down the line but time is also a factor in your starting stats for Alucard.
The best possible stats to get, requires no damage & complete Richter's part in under a minute. This is not possible on your 1st playthrough as you cannot skip the cutscene with Dracula. Only possible on replays.
While it may seem near impossible to pull off, it has been done before by players. A YT search can show how it is done.
To further elaborate, using either subweapon (cross/holy water) gets you basically the same stats, except MP:
Holy water - 80HP / 25 MP / 60 HEARTS / 13 STR / 12 CON / 13 INT / 12 LCK
Holy Cross - 80 HP / 30 MP / 60 HEARTS / 13 STR / 12 CON / 12 INT / 12 LCK
If you use no subweapon and defeat Dracula without being hit however:
85 HP/55 MP/14 STR/13 CON/13 INT/17 LCK
These are the stats if you can pull off a no damage/under a min win.
I just did the Relic Skip with just one Wing Smash. I turned into bat as you said, but I hold up for less than a second to "unstuck" myself from the ceiling and recover normal bat speed still out of bounds. Then I used Wing Smash only once while holding up left. When Alucard was forced into human form again I was between the two rooms. Kept holding up left until I got dropped into the save room. I wish I had recorded it, but I assure you it worked.
Technically you only need to be in a Wing Smash while transitioning into the Save Room. The problem is that you have no idea where the transition is from the room below, so its simpler to just Wing Smash the entire length. You're not wrong though.
@@PhobiaSoft Upon further testing I found out that doing the Wing Smash right above the clock left to the golden clock in the center of the room is 100% consistent.
(Also found out that the "unstucking" I mentioned earlier was an accidental Wing Smash lol)
When I first jump into the wolf I always blocked on the wall, I can't even passed through death. Pls give me some tip
Just came across your channel and I dig it, great work.
Incredible video. I've been playing since the 90s and didn't know about these
I remembered playing this when I was young. I didn't know where to find the bat , double jump and other stuff but I managed to finish the game. I only had wolf and mist form and I used that to reach the other side of the collapse staircase, where Richter is waiting. I switched back and forth from mist to wolf and gradually move left while in the air.
However, the ending felt forced and unsatisfying. Years later, I picked up the game again but didn't finish it. I'm now considering playing it again for the fun of it and to see what other secrets and locations I can discover.