If you want to watch more of me and Jupiter exploring the crazy glitches in this game, I have a bonus video of us going through the Any% Nuclear speedrun that beats the game in under 3 mins here on my patreon page: www.patreon.com/posts/90140895
That's mad❤ Can you pls do GHOST N GOBLINS ? Love that game so much and always Die 1st stage.. 2nd Max 😂 40 fkng years trying to play fairly and legit.. Emulation sucks as I don't have PC to configure properly
LOL! I fucking love that. Dracula trying to save humanity by keeping a man locked up in his castle who is walking nuclear explosion. Him and all his minions sacrificing their lives to keep him contained.
@@MerlinCross13You basically have to be at speedrunner level just to beat La Mulana. Speedrunning LM itself is like competing in Olympic archery while running a marathon.
We have some of the silliest glitches in LaMulana, often found by mashing together "What if we do this while doing this other thing and maintaining this game-state- oh! That makes you walk through walls and room transitions, neat!". Super happy to see halgo pop up here. :)
Ah, that explains it. As we all know, La-Mulana enjoyers are all clinically deranged, so it only makes sense that a La-Mulana player would use their dubiously-violent archaeology skills to unearth the secrets of nuclear fusion in a completely different game.
Nah, the Castlevania side thought they depleted all the glitches. The La-Mulana side, on the other hand, said "you guys gonna break this?" and didn't wait for an answer.
Funny you say that, pannenkoek just found out how to get the same star in 0 A presses in 6 real time minutes. Unfortunately no more parallel universes tho
@@liljon042 But we have funny out of bounds platforms (Well technically the platform creates a floor so it's not really out of bounds, it's more like it being where it shouldn't be)
Being a GBA game, there is no floating point here. If the game needs higher precision than whole numbers, it will use fixed-point numbers (sometimes mistakenly called "subpixels" by speedrunners who don't know better.) Because your player's position is stored in fixed point, you cannot move outside the range of the data type. And fixed-point almost universally has a lower range than integers - as some of that range is traded for extra precision after the decimal point. So SM64-style parallel universes wouldn't exist.
It's really cool to see this insane glitch getting some publicity. It's not every day a game gets completely shattered in this way, and this videos presentation is so well done!
7:25 I stopped the video after Jupiter said "What's gonna hit you?" and then I think of the moment that it happened in my run, I unpaused the video and I see it in the video lmaooo Amazing video, keep up with the quality castlevania content and thanks for sharing this glitch with a large audience!
This was absolutely insane. Circle of the Moon was my first Castlevania game when I was a kid and seeing stuff like this is mind blowing to say the least lol
So is Nathan really Oppenheimer? Really wild category, thanks for the video explaining all the madness. Edit: Also that one of your Patreon supporters is Nuclear Dracula is perfect for this video lol.
I just think there are two categories. 1. Abuse everything to finish the game as fast as possible, or in as a funny way as possible. 2. Best possible time playing by the rules, enjoying the intended mechanics.
a similar thing happened with terraria recently with transmutation and its surrounding glitches. it didn't just break the game's progression, it completely tore apart the game's engine. building precise structures and manipulating item IDs through multiplayer glitches to spawn thousands of the most powerful items in the game easily. the discovery of transmutation reduced the any% time from around an hour to around 5 minutes, if i recall.
I always watch glitchless categories if I’m just watching casually because I find just watching incomprehensible flashing screens and inputs somehow end the game in minutes to just be frustrating, but I adore explanation videos like yours that let me actually understand the skill and work that went into it. Kudos!
Circle of the Moon is in my top 3 of the series, I absolutely adore it. This video was great -- entertaining, informative, well edited and well presented by both of you, and genuinely made me want to go back and play a (casual) run of the game again. Thanks for what you do; I've been addicted to the SotN Tournament videos but I love your scripted/edited content as well.
I love the tone you took on the voiceover. Like a Barbara Walters expose, it has a serious undertone that i really do appreciate. Especially when saying "big bone".
As a non-speedrunner, I'd like to say I LOVE glitches. It's one thing to see a game played normally, and sure it's really impressive seeing it played super well, but seeing the programming being pushed to its limits and still somehow holding together enough to still let the game be beatable is so cool! It's like the player and the game itself are really pushing themselves.
Normal Belmonts: trudge slowly through the castle, fighting Dracula's minions in order Nathan Graves: becomes Death, destroyer of worlds, and starts phasing through walls to annihilate everything with his mere proximity
Technically this is like casting a holy-light spell on yourself, and just beaming anti-cursed energy everywhere you go. Which explains why it cannot destroy boxes, because boxes are not cursed or evil. So its a divine-aura spell.
I've seen a lot of SR tech from many different games, and this might be the most insane and awesome non-TAS thing I've ever seen. Props to Halgorithm and the community for discovering it!
I remember spending a whole night before gba collection just committing to learning apollo cause on a stream jupiter asked random viewers to try it and it was SO INCREDIBLY HARD and now due to the collection theres so many cool new glitches to learn Q.Q YET much easier thank you both for showing us all these incredible tricks. turned cotm into a pure platformer lmfao.
It’s crazy I first met you 2 years ago and you were so accessible and fun to talk to. You’re still at it finding new tech and banger content. 🔥🎉 Legend.
if we played this on the actual GBA, the CPU would smell like burnt marshmallows i found really funny how the entire graphics of the game is suffering for this little guy walking around waving his arms on a circular motion hitting whatever gets in front of him
This video is just incredible. I played Cotm when I was about nine yo and it struck me in its complexity and weirdness, and now I just restarted playing and enjoying it again like when I was a child. This brand new discovery hyped me into enjoying it even more. Man I love your channel
In my opinion, glitches and glitchhunting are the cherry on top of a good game. They keep the comunity alive and if you don't patch them out can become kind of like memes
I remember seeing this speedrun a while back and I had no idea what was going on... but I was thoroughly entertained by everything insta-melting. Thanks for covering what was going on in the run! This route is what speedrunning is all about!
Circle of the Moon was the first Metroidvania-style Castlevania game I played. It's an odd game compared to the others, but it holds a special place in my heart.
Question: what the _heck_ was that Spyro clip in the intro? Was that a real glitch or just video editing and if it _is_ a real glitch, is there a video on it?
Fun video! Well deserved sub! Also makes you wonder just how many techniques like this in old games are still hidden behind some obscure combination of seemingly unrelated mechanics
I think that sub section of TH-cam forgets it can truly be argued almost no one loves a game more than the people who speed run these games decades after their release….. Also being a walking nuke is the most insane thing I have ever seen in a speed run 🤣
I just imagine the xharacter is running full speed doing all of this screaming as loud as he possibly can and everyone else just hears a distant scream until it's to late. Also this should be titled as "power of the sun RUN!"
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If you want to watch more of me and Jupiter exploring the crazy glitches in this game, I have a bonus video of us going through the Any% Nuclear speedrun that beats the game in under 3 mins here on my patreon page: www.patreon.com/posts/90140895
That's mad❤ Can you pls do GHOST N GOBLINS ? Love that game so much and always Die 1st stage.. 2nd Max 😂 40 fkng years trying to play fairly and legit.. Emulation sucks as I don't have PC to configure properly
I did beat it as a kid.. But it feels even more of a hassle today 😁
This doesn't affect the glitchless category of the speedrun so it's irrelevant if people approve of them or not anyway.
The story of the heroic Dracula trying to contain the living nuke that is Nathan Graves
Nathan rolled in the school of nuclear physics by a birdbrain for immediate results.
And failing.
@@sintheemptyone8108
Unexpected Touhou reference, but also, expected.
Bruh, a story about Count Dracula trying to battle a walking abomination that wipes away all life like a nuclear wave would be pretty awesome
LOL! I fucking love that. Dracula trying to save humanity by keeping a man locked up in his castle who is walking nuclear explosion. Him and all his minions sacrificing their lives to keep him contained.
The real reason Nathan and Circle of the Moon isn't canon. He ended not only Dracula but his entire timeline.
Jupiter REALLY got me with that joke about Nuke not working on Death- great editing, you really sold the moment and got a good rise out of me xD
This shows what the gameplay would be like for Julius in the Battle of 1999. Which explains why we have never gotten that game.
He turned Castlevania into an enemless platformer game!
This is actually beautiful.
No box nuking. Of course not.
I'm saying it again,, send these people to NASA so we can finally have a damn warpdrive or something...
Honestly, I wonder how long it will take for Karl Jobst to make a video about this.
"now I am become death the destroyer of vampires" the guy who discovered this glitch probably.
My le Glitch...
It le kills monsters?...
This is explains why we never see the Baldwin or Graves families in chronologically later games.
Poor Nathan sterilized them and himself.
Meh, it was too much power anyways. Better not risk any descendant of this Technique get power-hungry.
Nuclear man reminds vampires and creatures of the night that mankind holds the power of the sun in their hands.
*a muffled shout of "Taiyo!" echoes in the distance*
Circle of the Moon: "Well, we've capped how things can work."
La-Mulana: Crashes through the window with the Secret of Life: nuclear power.
Part of me went "OF COURSE The La Mulana runner found a new way to break the game"
@@MerlinCross13You basically have to be at speedrunner level just to beat La Mulana. Speedrunning LM itself is like competing in Olympic archery while running a marathon.
We have some of the silliest glitches in LaMulana, often found by mashing together "What if we do this while doing this other thing and maintaining this game-state- oh! That makes you walk through walls and room transitions, neat!". Super happy to see halgo pop up here. :)
Killed Dracula so hard he made the game non-canon
🤣🤣🤣
Hugh: “You only beat that monster because you had my father’s whip!”
Nathan: *chuckles* “Oh, you;re wrong, Hugh. I have a much greater power now…”
It's not enough to destroy them normally, man's gonna erase their DNA.
Quite literally
"I... am... Atomic."
@@tempo3704no no no
I
AAAAMMMM
THE ALLL RAAANGE
𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓬
Ah, that explains it. As we all know, La-Mulana enjoyers are all clinically deranged, so it only makes sense that a La-Mulana player would use their dubiously-violent archaeology skills to unearth the secrets of nuclear fusion in a completely different game.
Someone: Richter is the most powerful vampire hunter
Nathan: Hold my beer
Bro not even Julius can compare to this
Nathan is now a cosmic entity
Speedrunners legalized nuclear bombs
Sponsored by the glitch government.
Shadow wizard mode money gang
shadow magician money gang
swag magician
Nathan standing on the edge:
What a mess we made
I'M NUCLEAR
I'M WILD
I'M BREAKING UP INSIDE
"A room of broken mobs, defiled"
Funny thing is, the glitch starts exactly on the edge of the first platform of the game ROFL
I understood that reference!
DEEP INSIDE, THE NEW SPEEDRUNNING TIMES
I love all of the "wait, what?" "Oh yeah I should explain that" moments
Castlevania speed runners will nuke an entire castle, rending all its occupants into naught but dust, and say “nah my movement could be better”
Nah, the Castlevania side thought they depleted all the glitches.
The La-Mulana side, on the other hand, said "you guys gonna break this?" and didn't wait for an answer.
"Theory wiill take you only so far." -J. Nathan Gravenheimer
They won't understand it until they've used it.
You think this is impressive? just wait till speedrunners discover traveling between parallel universes in 1/half A Press
He stole your content! At 18:40, JupiterClimb literally called your name!
Funny you say that, pannenkoek just found out how to get the same star in 0 A presses in 6 real time minutes. Unfortunately no more parallel universes tho
@@liljon042
But we have funny out of bounds platforms
(Well technically the platform creates a floor so it's not really out of bounds, it's more like it being where it shouldn't be)
1 divided by half
Being a GBA game, there is no floating point here. If the game needs higher precision than whole numbers, it will use fixed-point numbers (sometimes mistakenly called "subpixels" by speedrunners who don't know better.)
Because your player's position is stored in fixed point, you cannot move outside the range of the data type. And fixed-point almost universally has a lower range than integers - as some of that range is traded for extra precision after the decimal point.
So SM64-style parallel universes wouldn't exist.
The Summoning Salt of Castlevania does it again, another banger
just saying, in case you're not working as a professional voice actor, consider becoming one.
@@claimhsolais3466Literally sounds like a 90s/2000s cool surfer dude
It's really cool to see this insane glitch getting some publicity. It's not every day a game gets completely shattered in this way, and this videos presentation is so well done!
as the nuclear birb from touhou, i approve this method of speedrunning circle of the moon.
*_"Gods have angered you."_*
@@sintheemptyone8108lmao
thank you okuu, very cool
"Now here with death, the nuke doesn't work on him, so you have to fight him normally.. And he's dead..."
This is my favorite kind of speedrun: Play the game with a ridiculous glitch at your disposal.
Can't wait to see the Nuclear TAS version.
Skeleton is the most OP character of Castlevania, confirmed once again 💀😎
Duplicator + Power of Sire is the non-glitch exploit that comes closest to that nuclear fusion...
but now that we have vial stacks...
"A vampire hunter?
NATHAN THE RADIOACTIVE VAMPIRE HUNTER!?"
14:09 after more then 20 years Nathan Bateman has had enough and forces himself to be the strongest Castlevania character.
7:25 I stopped the video after Jupiter said "What's gonna hit you?" and then I think of the moment that it happened in my run, I unpaused the video and I see it in the video lmaooo
Amazing video, keep up with the quality castlevania content and thanks for sharing this glitch with a large audience!
This was absolutely insane. Circle of the Moon was my first Castlevania game when I was a kid and seeing stuff like this is mind blowing to say the least lol
So is Nathan really Oppenheimer?
Really wild category, thanks for the video explaining all the madness.
Edit: Also that one of your Patreon supporters is Nuclear Dracula is perfect for this video lol.
I'm not surprised it was discovered by a La-Mulana speedrunner considering the kinda stuff you have to do just to beat La-Mulana casually.
It is humorous how he just becomes a screen-sized hitbox
A screen-sized damage cap hitbox
Nathan: a problem, officer?
Dracula: What that bottle?
Nathan: its the unmatched power of the sun, officer.
(Muffled Screams)
I just think there are two categories.
1. Abuse everything to finish the game as fast as possible, or in as a funny way as possible.
2. Best possible time playing by the rules, enjoying the intended mechanics.
This reminds me of the idea of humans developing such ridiculous technology that supernatural creatures just give up
"This is 100% about movement at this point"
Ah yes, my favorite genre of Castlevania, nuclear powered racecar driving.
So Nathan is now a walking Subterranean Sun now. got it
"I'm nuclear, I'm wild
I'm breaking up inside"
Great vid, I finally understand the inner workings about this glitch xD
La-Mulana created all the life on earth, makes sense a whole undead castle would be allergic to Mother's power... :p
Oppenheimer: Circle of the Nuke
a similar thing happened with terraria recently with transmutation and its surrounding glitches. it didn't just break the game's progression, it completely tore apart the game's engine. building precise structures and manipulating item IDs through multiplayer glitches to spawn thousands of the most powerful items in the game easily. the discovery of transmutation reduced the any% time from around an hour to around 5 minutes, if i recall.
"This is Cerberus--that *was* Cerberus."
Now none of the GBA series hosts a protagonist that can't destroy the World.
That rare W where a RTA is faster than the previous TAS
This is Cerberus, that was Cerberus. I guess radiation would kill Dracula since the sun is radioactive. Nathan Drake is a Glowing Ghoul.
I always watch glitchless categories if I’m just watching casually because I find just watching incomprehensible flashing screens and inputs somehow end the game in minutes to just be frustrating, but I adore explanation videos like yours that let me actually understand the skill and work that went into it. Kudos!
damn, can't believe speedrunners figured out how to put Utsuho Reiuji into Castlevania
this was AMAZING hahahaha what a revolutionary glitch!
There is something engaging about having a bald old man with a military uniform explain how great the new nuclear bomb strategy is.
so thats what the oppenheimer movie was about...
they said i could be anything, so I became a bomb - Nathan
Castlevania before : Killing dracula with religion and skill .
Castlevania now : One short nuclear visit .
This was insanely entertaining
Link: *gets ISG*
Nathan: hold my dungeon wall chicken.
OP-enhheimer
castelvania fallout of the moon
Circle of the Moon is in my top 3 of the series, I absolutely adore it. This video was great -- entertaining, informative, well edited and well presented by both of you, and genuinely made me want to go back and play a (casual) run of the game again.
Thanks for what you do; I've been addicted to the SotN Tournament videos but I love your scripted/edited content as well.
I saw the title and immediately knew this was gonna be a good video
I love the tone you took on the voiceover. Like a Barbara Walters expose, it has a serious undertone that i really do appreciate. Especially when saying "big bone".
As a non-speedrunner, I'd like to say I LOVE glitches. It's one thing to see a game played normally, and sure it's really impressive seeing it played super well, but seeing the programming being pushed to its limits and still somehow holding together enough to still let the game be beatable is so cool! It's like the player and the game itself are really pushing themselves.
Normal Belmonts: trudge slowly through the castle, fighting Dracula's minions in order
Nathan Graves: becomes Death, destroyer of worlds, and starts phasing through walls to annihilate everything with his mere proximity
Technically this is like casting a holy-light spell on yourself, and just beaming anti-cursed energy everywhere you go. Which explains why it cannot destroy boxes, because boxes are not cursed or evil. So its a divine-aura spell.
I've seen a lot of SR tech from many different games, and this might be the most insane and awesome non-TAS thing I've ever seen. Props to Halgorithm and the community for discovering it!
I remember spending a whole night before gba collection just committing to learning apollo cause on a stream jupiter asked random viewers to try it and it was SO INCREDIBLY HARD and now due to the collection theres so many cool new glitches to learn Q.Q YET much easier thank you both for showing us all these incredible tricks. turned cotm into a pure platformer lmfao.
It’s crazy I first met you 2 years ago and you were so accessible and fun to talk to. You’re still at it finding new tech and banger content. 🔥🎉 Legend.
if we played this on the actual GBA, the CPU would smell like burnt marshmallows
i found really funny how the entire graphics of the game is suffering for this little guy walking around waving his arms on a circular motion hitting whatever gets in front of him
Creepypasta writer:
"Write that down! Write that down!"
How fitting is it that this glitch was discovered not long after Oppenheimer came out?
This video is just incredible. I played Cotm when I was about nine yo and it struck me in its complexity and weirdness, and now I just restarted playing and enjoying it again like when I was a child. This brand new discovery hyped me into enjoying it even more. Man I love your channel
I know the arena is completely optional even on a regular run but does the anti-magic curse of the arena can kill the nuke? Just out of curiosity
In my opinion, glitches and glitchhunting are the cherry on top of a good game. They keep the comunity alive and if you don't patch them out can become kind of like memes
I can already hear the geiger counter sound in a "something about castlevania circle of the moon" video
this speed run is basically anime mf's going outside for the first time
Oppenheimervania
Oh hey you say "Game Boy Advanced" with an extra D too
Hey call this DemonCore%
knowing a la mulana speedrunner found the glitch makes so much sense why it took so long to find the glitch, considering what la mulana is like. :v
Halgorithm is amazing at finding the most insane glitches out of nowhere.
I remember seeing this speedrun a while back and I had no idea what was going on... but I was thoroughly entertained by everything insta-melting. Thanks for covering what was going on in the run! This route is what speedrunning is all about!
Nuclear Fusion also possible in Dwarf Fortress unless it was patched out
Sounds like there's a fun history behind that
Can't believe you uploaded Oppenheimer to TH-cam
Nathan: Normal mode
Gradius: Fighter mode
Fireball: Magician mode
Crossbow: Shooter mode
Dagger: Thief mode
Lamulana: Artificer mode
While I do like the game, most certainly, I did hated some of the rooms so it was very satisfying seeing them just explode as he comes in.
I love this dude Summoning Sa...
WAIT A MINUTE?
Circle of the Moon was the first Metroidvania-style Castlevania game I played. It's an odd game compared to the others, but it holds a special place in my heart.
Question: what the _heck_ was that Spyro clip in the intro? Was that a real glitch or just video editing and if it _is_ a real glitch, is there a video on it?
Castlevania: Nuke of the Moon
Finally, a weapon that surpassed Metal Gear.
Fun video! Well deserved sub! Also makes you wonder just how many techniques like this in old games are still hidden behind some obscure combination of seemingly unrelated mechanics
Left side gaming. Love these informative videos.
Hmm... Never heard of this game before. Looks cool.
I want to see someone do a codewalk to uncover exactly how this glitch happens.
I think that sub section of TH-cam forgets it can truly be argued almost no one loves a game more than the people who speed run these games decades after their release….. Also being a walking nuke is the most insane thing I have ever seen in a speed run 🤣
I just imagine the xharacter is running full speed doing all of this screaming as loud as he possibly can and everyone else just hears a distant scream until it's to late.
Also this should be titled as "power of the sun RUN!"