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Alrighty... Question. If I were to skip the first missle in the first 3 rooms of Norfair, fill up my health at least reasonably full each chance I get, including before the speed boosters and after, would it save time going to Norfair first?
Nope. For Norfair first to be fruitful you need to go through it flawlessly, more or less (the major time saved from it is just realtime from less doors anyway, not so much ingame time). You'd have to take the missile at once, you'd have to make do with at most one or two rounds of refill at each pipebug encounter, and if you are going for Wave (which I guess is very inconvenient to skip in a unassisted run), you have to refill to full health and play perfectly to not die. Basically it's not possible to do norfair first in a resonably quick manner without grabbing a bunch of extra E-tanks to begin with. Hell, even with grabbing pretty much all energy possible and playing more or less completely perfectly I still ended up nearly dieing at two points in the norfair run in my TAS.
I think hotarubi goes up through the Red Brinstar shaft on his first visit there and grabs the PB there before going to kraid, which also speeds norfair up a bit. It is not confirmed to be faster to do so though, in the end it is probably very close either way.
Mmm... Well, the only way I can make it out of the first 3 rooms and grab the missle is if I get at least 2 large energy drops in the second room and maybe 3 more in the third room for me to get through. I wouldn't say it is impossible. It would just take a lot of tries really.
In question, if you did get the PB before Kraid, what would the rumored time be saved? Same with going to Norfair first.
