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UNHchabo: /* Variations */ Walljumps up Post Crocomire Shaft

2019-06-24T01:38:52Z

‎Variations: Walljumps up Post Crocomire Shaft

UNHchabo: /* Caveats */ Stop on a Dime through a door

2019-04-07T08:13:10Z

‎Caveats: Stop on a Dime through a door

UNHchabo: /* Explanation */ More settings are being added to the autosplitter

2019-03-22T01:56:16Z

‎Explanation: More settings are being added to the autosplitter

UNHchabo: /* Caveats */ Control Schemes

2019-03-08T02:42:28Z

‎Caveats: Control Schemes

UNHchabo: /* Variations */ Brin Reserve is an option if you get Early Supers

2019-03-05T15:54:32Z

‎Variations: Brin Reserve is an option if you get Early Supers

UNHchabo: /* Caveats */ Adding Stop on a Dime and Walljumping as mechanics that need explanation

2019-03-05T15:49:46Z

‎Caveats: Adding Stop on a Dime and Walljumping as mechanics that need explanation

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 # Charge Missiles (39.78s)
 # Charge Beam (04.82s)
-# '''Can mockball to skip Spore Spawn.''' Even with several failed attempts at the mockball, it will still be faster than fighting Spore Spawn. If you forgot to practice at [[Landing Site]], you can practice one room south in [[Dachora Room]] when you enter.
+# '''Can mockball to skip Spore Spawn.''' Even with several failed attempts at the mockball, it will still be faster than fighting Spore Spawn. If you forgot to practice at [[Morph Ball Room]] or [[Landing Site]], you can practice one room south in [[Dachora Room]] when you enter.
 # Enter Spore Spawn Room (42.50s)
 # Spore Spawn (1m19.12s)

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 # Finish Ridley (26.52s)
 # Ceres Escape (18.12s)
 # Blue Brinstar (41.22s)
 # Morph Ball (10.75s)
 # First Missiles (10.75s)
 # Blue Brinstar Missiles (10.72s)

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 == Explanation ==
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 A few mechanics I think may not come across by watching the video:
 * [[Control Schemes]] -- Set your own control scheme based on what makes sense for you. You can switch later, the choice is not permanent
 * [[Stop on a Dime]] -- There are many times during the run that I'm holding an angle button and tapping the d-pad to scooch Samus forward a small amount without wanting her momentum to carry her further. Also, you can hold an Angle button as a room loads in order to stop immediately
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 If you're already familiar with some tricks of the standard run, you can save a substantial amount of time over this route by implementing some aspects of Mishrak's route. Over time you can drop these safety items to speed up your route, as long as you're comfortably able to complete a run without that safety.
-* Even with several failed attempts at the mockball in [[Early Supers Room]], it will still be faster than fighting Spore Spawn
+* Even with several failed attempts at the mockball in [[Early Supers Room]], it will still be faster than fighting Spore Spawn (you can practice one room down in [[Dachora Room]] when you enter, if you forgot to practice at [[Landing Site]])
 ** Taking the Reserve Tank in [[Brinstar Reserve Tank Room|the next room over]] is also a commonly-recommended safety if you need more health during the run than you currently pick up
-* Walljumping up [[Bubble Mountain]] is significantly faster than taking the long way through [[Volcano Room]]
+* Walljumping up [[Bubble Mountain]] is significantly faster than taking the long way through [[Volcano Room]]. You can also damage boost once you have [[Speed Booster]] and are leaving [[Bat Cave]], to get to [[Green Bubbles Missile Room]] and [[Norfair Reserve Tank Room]].
 * If you're able to do the shinespark across [[The Moat]], you can skip [[Grappling Beam]], including the need to fight Crocomire. If you have trouble with the [[West Ocean]] shinespark or can't afford the health, you can just turn off [[Hi-Jump Boots]] and jump across those platforms
-** Skipping the Grappling Beam also means that you'll need to kill [[Draygon]] with some other method, such as the "Beginner" strategy listed on Draygon's page
+** Hardest parts of not having Grappling Beam:
 * If you are still getting [[Grappling Beam]], it's faster to walljump up [[Post Crocomire Shaft]] than going through the Grapple Tutorial rooms
-* If you can do the [[Zebetite Skip]], you can skip several missile packs, which can save substantial time from both traversing to the location, and the item fanfare
+* You don't need to fight [[Golden Torizo]] or get the [[Screw Attack]], I'm not sure why this was recommended. Time savings when jumping through enemies?

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 * If you're able to do the shinespark across [[The Moat]], you can skip [[Grappling Beam]], including the need to fight Crocomire. If you have trouble with the [[West Ocean]] shinespark or can't afford the health, you can just turn off [[Hi-Jump Boots]] and jump across those platforms
 ** Skipping the Grappling Beam also means that you'll need to kill [[Draygon]] with some other method, such as the "Beginner" strategy listed on Draygon's page
 * If you can do the [[Zebetite Skip]], you can skip several missile packs, which can save substantial time from both traversing to the location, and the item fanfare

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 A few mechanics I think may not come across by watching the video:
 * [[Control Schemes]] -- Set your own control scheme based on what makes sense for you. You can switch later, the choice is not permanent
-* [[Stop on a Dime]] -- There are many times during the run that I'm holding an angle button and tapping the d-pad to scooch Samus forward a small amount without wanting her momentum to carry her further
+* [[Stop on a Dime]] -- There are many times during the run that I'm holding an angle button and tapping the d-pad to scooch Samus forward a small amount without wanting her momentum to carry her further. Also, you can hold an Angle button as a room loads in order to stop immediately
 * [[Walljumping]] -- Many casual runners don't realize that the walljump inputs must be pressing away from the wall ''then'' jumping, and instead try to do those inputs simultaneously

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 I was inspired to create this video because of the recently-added [[Nintendo Power%]] category, which follows the route laid out in an issue of the magazine. The problem is that the route is very inconsistent in the skill level that it expects out of the player -- it makes you get Grapple Beam before you can pick up Wave Beam, even though that's a fairly simple walljump, but it expects you to get the Norfair Reserve Tank before Grapple Beam, which means you need to get there through either a very precise walljump, or by using a [[Bubble Mountain#Randomizer|Damage Boost]]. This run collects largely the same set of items, but doesn't require even a moderate level of skill to do so. Compared with Nintendo Power%, this run collects one less missile pack (the [[Post Crocomire Jump Room|Grapple missiles]]), skips [[Spring Ball]], skips [[X-Ray]], and collects one additional Energy Tank ([[Lower Norfair Fireflea Room|the Fireflea E-Tank in Lower Norfair]]).
-I uploaded my splits file [https://splits.io/2p5g here]. I use the [https://github.com/UNHchabo/AutoSplitters/tree/master/SuperMetroid autosplitter script], which is included in LiveSplit. For the video, every split setting is enabled, except for "Spore Spawn RTA Finish" and "100 Missile RTA Finish".
+I uploaded my splits file [https://splits.io/2p5g here]. I use the [https://github.com/UNHchabo/AutoSplitters/tree/master/SuperMetroid autosplitter script], which is included in LiveSplit. The Autosplit settings used for the video included splitting on every item pickup, as well as certain door transitions.
 == Caveats ==

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		+	Two mechanics I think may not come across by watching the video:
		+	* [[Stop on a Dime]] -- There are many times during the run that I'm holding an angle button and tapping the d-pad to scooch Samus forward a small amount without wanting her momentum to carry her further
		+	* [[Walljumping]] -- Many casual runners don't realize that the walljump inputs must be pressing away from the wall ''then'' jumping, and instead try to do those inputs simultaneously

	Some mistakes that I made in the video:		Some mistakes that I made in the video: