Super Metroid - Any% speedrun in 0:22 by Saturn

This is a traditional any% run of Super Metroid, aiming for fastest completion without the use of gamebreaking glitches or cheat codes. It features a new route that keeps backtracking to a minimum, as well as various improved speed tricks and boss strategies exclusively developed for it, to push the completion time down to 22 minutes.

Enjoy!

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Notes:

Video file available for download:
http://www.archive.org/details/SuperMetroid_TAS_22_Saturn

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

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Super
• Metroid
• any%
• speed
• run
• speedrun
• TAS
• 0:22
• Saturn

[Dessyreqt]

How did you encode your movies to preserve the 30Hz motions such as armpumping and taking damage?

[flickflack]

@EmeraldLinkinWolf Tool Assisted Speedrun

[The70sDiscoKing]

How did the high jump boots save you that much time? and does the varia suit reduce damage when using the boots or something because why else would you need it? we need explinations for those new items you picked up and the wave beam and plasmabeam please! thank you :)

[The70sDiscoKing]

i noticed how you place your bombs at the ideal time to destroy walls instead of getting right up to them. excellent way to shave miliseconds. also jumping the water at 10:30. I can't wait to see what you come up with next! great job

[soulhunger1]

I fucking love you, Saturn. This was simply AMAZING. The level of optimization was just brilliant. So many of the time savers you used are things I hadn't thought of, like mock-balling through gaps while waiting for the bomb to blow up the blocks. Very very amazing run.

[EmeraldLinkinWolf]

Excuse me for the stupid question, but what does TAS stand for?

[Weaselsnaps]

Wow! That was an awesome speed run! I'm curious if you tested it out to see if you could have gotten 21 minutes if you had used the murder beam on mother brain. Its supposed to save around 20 in game seconds if I remember correct. Also, just out of curiosity, what is your fastest non-TAS speed run?

[mrmonomonkey]

Jaw-droppingly beautiful, as to be expected from SaturnTAS. Despite the amazing route and time, I still find the most amusing parts to be how he messes around whenever getting a few seconds to mess around, waiting.

[brentmorganmaster]

WOW. If this would have been in the movie theaters for $100/view, it would have been worth it. I've been speedrunning this game for a long time now, but still have not even come close to this level of Mastery. This is Yoda level.

[gravisoft]

@14:55 - Did he just make that whole section without ever touching the ground?!