Super Metroid (1/5) - 14% speedrun in 0:27 by Saturn

This is a 14% (also known as "glitchless/legit low%") speedrun of Super Metroid, that aims to beat the game with the least amount of items possible if not using any major glitches such as out of room traveling, boss skipping etc. Because of the limited conditions in ammo and equipment, it also allows to show off alot of new and never before seen speed tricks and boss strategies I developed for this run exclusively, such as:

- Horizontal Bomb Jumping over the WS-Lake without collecting the Missile Pack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qaeSaTXAf4

- Phantoon 2-Round kill with only one Missile Pack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPqben1vIls

- Draygon 2-Round kill without Speed Booster:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2DbJrO2Rdo

...and much more. On top of that, it uses a very optimized route to avoid backtracking as much as possible. All this, finally allowed a game completion of only 0:27 minutes, which is the fastest time possible for this kind of run. I even managed to avoid entering the Pause Screen/Menu completely, except to switch off the Suit for the unavoidable Gravity Jump trick, making the run even more entertaining and faster in realtime.

Mainly recorded between July 2007 and January 2008, with a slight improvement added in July 2008 to escape the Big Metroid even faster (thanks to Cpadolf). And now finally decided to upload it here.

Enjoy!

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Part 1:
Beginning until Red Brinstar, heading towards Wrecked Ship. Skipped Torizo and Spore Spawn and collected early Super Missiles and Power Bombs.

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Notes:
This is a tool-assisted speedrun. More info at http://TASvideos.org/

The full run is also available in a high quality AVI for download:
http://www.archive.org/details/SuperMetroid_TAS_14p_27_Saturn

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Super
• Metroid
• 14%
• glitchless
• legit
• low%
• speed
• run
• speedrun
• TAS
• 0:27
• Saturn

[kraus199]

'...not using any major glitches such as out of room traveling, boss skipping etc... kipped Torizo and Spore Spawn and collected early Super Missiles and Power Bombs.' Yeah...

[SaturnTAS]

@kraus199: The key word here is "major" glitches. And Torizo and Spore Spawn are only mini-bosses, not the 4 main bosses that I was referring to. Both of them can be skipped by simply using the arm-pumping tech, which is more a speed trick instead of a glitch.

[turoniner]

How did you get those first super missiles without the speed booster?

[SaturnTAS]

@turoniner: With the arm-pumping trick, as in pressing and releasing one of the aim buttons as fast as possible. Each pump pushes your horizontal position forward by one pixel, allowing to barely run though the gates.

[overmindslive]

can u explain why not lower than 14% is possible in a legit way? Why need so many energy tanks, rockets and gravity suit?

[SaturnTAS]

Gravity Suit to exit Draygon's Lair, Energy Tanks to survive Mother Brain's Hyper Beam, and ammo to destroy her glass cage form.

[FullOfFail]

dude, shut the hell up. these TAS's are a piece of art and require alot of time and preparation. they only compete with other TAS's not realtime speedruns.

[PhoenixFonta]

Samus: "Ma, I'm going to save the world..."

Ma :"Ok, but be back in half an hour, dinner's ready..."

Samus: "...ok"

[Nameless164]

"BRB gonna go fix the Galaxy, I'll be back in half hour".

[P0M0D0R0SAN]

@PhoenixFonta Hrmm, her mother is dead.

[FatesDecision]

so samus knows the arm pumping technique...

but does she know the fist pumping technique?

[jcmario643]

@cowboydan0 Technically, it doesn't. This run used slow down and save states and I'm pretty sure Speed Demos doesn't post runs with save states, slowdown, other utilities, etc

[chillmetal]

What controller do you use or is it a keyboard? config layout?

[RHCPryan30]

i think the amazing part was him getting out of space station in 10.99 seconds!!!!

[lordgirino2010]

or is there a world record time of less than this?

[cowboydan0]

does this beat the one posted on Speed Demos?

That one is a 14% speedrun in 32 minutes

[industrializeit]

Wow... That was awe inspiring. This is my first time watching a Super Metroid speed run... this game is on my top 3 all time favorite video games list. I have beaten it at least 20 times... I thought I mastered this game. Very impressive

[Iamthemole1986]

@turoniner you can also do the mockball for that and the early ice beam, just run outside the door and spinjump and u pass through it, then tap down once so ur crouching in the air, then morph to the ball as hitting the ground and you should be moving at dash speed (if u bounced in the ball u did it wrong)