Two techniques without the Grappling Beam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXlcEJLNUo
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qaeSaTXAf4
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Super Metroid |OT| Prequel to Other M
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Two techniques without the Grappling Beam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXlcEJLNUo
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qaeSaTXAf4
SteelYoshi
Neo Member
Dammit Maridia is a maze. cannot find my way. could sombody give me a few pointers?
From say the starting point of the broken tube at brinstar?
From say the starting point of the broken tube at brinstar?
The Xtortionist
Member
Your goal is to access the large middle section, which leads to the boss. From the broken tube, you want to head up and eventually to the right, so you're just above the upper left corner of the middle area. It should be a vertical purple-colored room. Break the floor to access the middle area. You should be good from there.
olimpia84
Member
I see. Will go back and check the area you mentioned. I think I remember where it is now.
That's really cool but I don't think I'll be able to pull those tricks like ever xD
SteelYoshi
Neo Member
as in the room with the rock snail thingys and the save point and grapple assisted wall jumping? i already made it there. i fell though both sand pits in went into the shine spark area.
The Xtortionist
Member
BassForever
Member
As long as you carefully scan every room with the x-ray scope you should be fine. I can only think of a few power ups you might miss due to shenanigans of having objects you can walk or roll though but no indication that you can walk though them (Ridley's lair probably is the most guilty of this).
I laughed when I saw the videos he linked, as if those were actual options for you right now.
The first one, though... if you keep playing the series you'll be able to do shinespark tricks like that. The second one.... is incredibly difficult and frustrating until you've mastered it.
SteelYoshi
Neo Member
What i meant is the first area i described had a small area with missile packs you can only accsess with shine sparks. and i found where i was going now 
Just practice a lot and you're fine
The shinespark method is easier to pull than the bombjumping one
The Xtortionist
Member
What i meant is the first area i described had a small area with missile packs you can only accsess with shine sparks. and i found where i was going now
Cool. You should be good now. The tricky part is
breaking the floor to access that whole area in the first place
Would have really liked under an hour. Funny that I ended up with the exact time of that one from Japan posted a few days ago.
About 5-10 minutes slower than my usual times but oh well. A couple of bad mistakes really cost me time, I probably wasted at least 5 minutes between the wall jump for the spazer and the the sequence break jump into Kraid's lair lol. Played only on the gamepad which was quite a bit different than normal, so that threw off a lot of my mechanics. Totally blew it during my run at
Mother Brain, I came up a missile short for the first form after opening the red door, thanks to blowing an extra super missile or 2 during the run through torain. Had to double back for a refill.
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAABAAD4UV51IEd3PA
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAABAADbUV57satHXw
Poor Samus, she ended up with a cheap ass suit.
Sir Ilpalazzo
Member
No, it's based purely on your completion time.
Just time. It was the games after Super that started factoring collection percentage into it.
Ohhh... I'm not getting a good ending, then.
shadyspace
Banned
christ I had no idea that people didn't walljump to get the spazer makes me feel legit
This is the best way to do it.
Really wished Prime games would have done it though. Still great games, just saying.
Megatron
Member
Thanks!
SteelYoshi
Neo Member
4:13 and 70%, okay I guess.
And I didn't save the animals,. because screw em
And I didn't save the animals,. because screw em
And I didn't save the animals,. because screw em
You monster! What was it all good for then?
Neff
Member
..back then?
Haha, well to be fair to them they've made enormous improvements since then. They made 60hz a priority shortly after the Gamecube release, and near-mandatory from the Wii release. We went from getting games months late to getting them worldwide day and date, and now we're getting them earlier in the case of W101. We even get them when the US occasionally doesn't. Other than this Wii U VC 50hz debacle, I think they're making a very good effort these days.
Also, while I was rather dismayed by the apparent lack of protest posts on the Super Metroid board, the popular posts have been calculated today and the huge majority of them are bemoaning stutter, slowness, forced subs and garbled music. So a Reserve Energy Tank goes out to all my fellow protesters for their efforts. Here's hoping it has an effect.
Robin64
Member
You monster.
Robin64
Member
No. Time only passes while you have control of Samus. Map, inventory and room transitions pause the clock.
Excellent.
Edit: I only wish you could skip the intro.
I made a separate save after landing on Zebes specifically to skip the intro. I'm pretty intolerable to Metroid intros for some reason... Curse you, Metroid Fusion!
So you only save using restore points?
I copied the save in the main menu, so I have always one at the start of Zebes and another one with the current playthrough.
RoninChaos
Member
Yeah but that would be modern and make sense and Nintendo doesn't do either of those things.
...how did you manage to do that? Did you reset the game accidentally?
I think I spent too much time dicking around relearning the wall jump/shinespark/power bomb combos and I might have boned myself out of a good ending. But I think I'm just going for 100% this time anyways, since I never did that my first run many years ago.
4:13 and 70%, okay I guess.
And I didn't save the animals,. because screw em
Just got there in 1:16, I think this time I will be able to finish it under 3 hours.
Ridley is the only one that gives me problems from time to time. Largely depends on how many energy tanks I collected. Well, and I just survived Phantoon with 13 energy left, but that was my fault for not replenishing energy before the boss fight.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
GOD I love this game! Even though I'll never be good enough to do a real speed run I am still amazed at the brilliant design!
Robin64
Member
Most disheartening is that at 1:10 I am heading to Norfair Depths and it feels like I've been pretty damn quick and yet 7 minutes before that, Instro had finished the game.
Usually means problems with their payment server. Just have to keep trying, I'm afraid.
Usually means problems with their payment server. Just have to keep trying, I'm afraid.
Robin64
Member
Robin64
Member
And a much better time than before. Impressive!
Thanks, I blame the sand for doing a "poor" time in the first try. Let's see if I can give some use to that second column.