Important Links
DSVania Randomizer — Releases for LagoLunatic's DSVania Randomizer.
Castlevania Randomizers Discord — Join for race pings, tournament announcements and coordination, and general randomizer discussion for all handheld Castlevania games.
Portrait of Ruin Speedrun.com page — A helpful resource, if you want to learn some speedrunning movement or follow some (randomizer race viable) tutorials.
Emulation Rules
We recommend using melonDS. BIOS is not required for randomizer racing.
Emulator functions that do not provide any sort of advantage over opponents (e.g., input display) are allowed at your discretion.
Emulator functions such as frame advance, savestates, and fast forward / rewind are banned.
General Rules
Time starts upon pressing Start/OK on the Name Entry screen. Time ends on the final hit to True Dracula.
Damage stacking is explicitly allowed, unless players agree not to use it in a race.
Aside from damage stacking, we generally stick to the rules of the Glitchless speedrun category. As such, most major glitches are banned, including quest reward duping, using a Magical Ticket to warp out of Legion, getting extra jumps via partner jumping, and infinite potion exploit (the latter of which seems to be patched out, in any case).
