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| game = Castlevania
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<span style="color:#00FF00">Recommended to newcomers</span><br />
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[[File:Cv1-Stage02 pixel.png|thumb|right|frame|400px||This is the pixel you need to stay at to manipulate an item drop. You can use Simon's front foot in relation to the bricks in the background as a visual cue.]]
*Stand on a pixel perfect location. This will force the bat to force an item as soon as it hits Simon. If no other item drops have occurred yet, this item will be a Stopwatch.
**If you fail the Stopwatch manipulation or you get another item drop, it's recommended to not retry it and continue with the setup instead. Fall back on the backup Axe strats for stage 03 if you leave this stage without a Stopwatch.
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== <span class="mw-customtoggle-2" style="font-size:large; display:inline-block; float:right;"><span class="mw-customtoggletext">[Show/Hide]</span></span> Stage 03 /Bat Boss ==
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*To achieve this, got through the room taking special care to never let go of right, take the invincibility potion, and simply walk off the big ledge, taking a clunk. This will consistently lose exactly 18 frames, providing a good pattern on the boss.
*Once you're at the boss, position Simon on the middle step. Once the bat starts to move, move to the top step and wait. When the bat approaches you, there is a 1-frame window where you can whip and kill the boss in one hit. This is known as the [[Cv1/tricks#Critical_Hit_Glitch | Critical Hit Glitch]]
**A general visual cue designed for people running on original console with a low display monitor (CRT or low delay LCD) in mind is depicted in this picture. This changes from person to person depending on reaction time and input delay, so experiment with your visual cue and try to create your own line a little earlier or later if you feel like it works better .**Some people count the number of wing flaps from the bat as a visual cue ('''Mention that some people use the wing flapsNeeds amounts''').
***If you fail the crit, there's an easy way to tell if you were late or early. If you were late, Simon will hit the boss for 2 bars of HP, and a red sparkle will appear around the bat, indicating a hit. If you were early, SImon will not hit the boss instead and it will stay at full health.
*As a backup, activate the stopwatch and kill the bat there. You need to press either up+B on the same frame, or B 1 frame after pressing up, to avoid climbing the step.
=== Backups ===
==== Rare Double Zombie pattern ====
*Rarely, two zombies will spawn at the start of the room. If this happens, take knockback from the zombie on the back, then perform a jump-clunk off the platform to get the same pattern that the Simple Stopwatch Kills and the 2-frame landing from the Advanced section get from the boss.
==== Late jump on TASCrit ====
[[File:Cv1-MidBat.PNG|thumb|right|frame|260px||Whip when the bat's middle crosses this line.]]
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*If you jump too late on the top platform during a TASCrit attempt, the bat will move slightly from its original position and won't swoop down for a while. To get him to move quickly, go down two steps and then move back up one step. This will allow you to go for a Crit, and it loses about 1 seconds second over the standard TASCrit. The crit has a similar visual cue to the 2-frame pattern.
==== Axe strats ====
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*Position Simon against the bottom platform to the right and wait. There's a breakable block that contains a Double Shot there, you can break this in advance but wait until the boss has moved down before walking in to collect it.
*As soon as you've collected the Double Shot, simply fire off Axes from safety until the boss is dead.
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== <span class="mw-customtoggle-3" style="font-size:large; display:inline-block; float:right;"><span class="mw-customtoggletext">[Show/Hide]</span></span> 2snek Beginner/Race Video Guide ==
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