Elfduck's NES Quest

Info

Title: Abbaye des Morts, L' (World) (En,Ja,Fr,Es,Pt) (Aftermarket) (Unl)
Condition: Defeat Satan.
Category: 100-deathless-glitchless
Comment: Aftermarket homebrew and a very good one. The C64 version is my favorite, but the NES version is also very good!

Video(s)

Abbaye des Morts, L' (World) (En,Ja,Fr,Es,Pt) (Aftermarket) (Unl)
Date: 2026-06-10
Length: 00:07:08

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Rules

Winning condition

Defeat Satan.

Deathless

You should not lose a single life.

Glitchless

No glitches allowed.

100%

You need to collect everything listed here.

Hearts

  • Tower Of The Bell
  • Plagued Ruins
  • Cave Of Illusions
  • Pestilent Beast
  • Gloomy Tunnels
  • The Wheel Of Faith
  • Underground River
  • Banquet Of Death
  • Ashes To Ashes

Scrolls

  • The Altar (Twelve brothers hid and died here)
  • Plagued Ruins (Four brothers changed their faith)
  • Lake Of Despair (Jump to death and prove your faith)
  • Hidden Garden (An invisible path over a wood bridge)
  • Evil Church (Glide through the beast cage)
  • Satan!!! (Your doom will come not by my hand, but by human hands)

Crosses

  • Wine Supplies
  • Catacombs
  • Pestilent Beast
  • Lake Of Despair
  • Gloomy Tunnels
  • The Wheel Of Faith
  • Hidden Garden
  • Underground River

Inverted Crosses

  • The Wheel Of Faith
  • Hangman Tree
  • Banquet Of Death
  • Tortured Souls

Actions

  • Ring the bell in "Tower Of The Bell" to open a passage in "The Altar".
  • Hit the switch in "Pestilent Beast" to open a passage in "The Altar".
  • Hit the switch in "Hangman Tree" to open a passage in "Underground River".
  • Hit the switch in "Unexpected Gate" to open a passage in the same room.
  • Turn the wheel in "The Wheel Of Faith" to uninvert the 4 inverted crosses.

Route Notes

Teleport runs through "Pestilent Beast" to "Underground River" and back. I used it twice so I could hop around when needed.

The speedrun routes were a bit different simply because they are allowed to die, so they can teleport back to the last tombstone they touched. The deathless run doesn't have that option, for obvious reasons. There were a couple of deathless runs on YouTube but I think that the routes those used were not as optimized as they can be.

Who knows, maybe some day someone makes a deathless category on speedrun.com and we'll see what they come up with!