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nn12000:
registered on 2006-01-06 02:18:43 pm.
 
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2008-07-10 07:47:23 pm
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I pulled off my very fist mockball today.  I've skipped over SporeSpawn for now, and am raiding Norfair.  Feels pretty good. 

Now I just need to practice mockball to get the Early Ice Beam. 
uNsane:
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2008-07-10 07:48:55 pm
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Mockball is hell starting out, but once you start doing it more often, it comes naturally.

For some really good mockball practice, try playing the original version of Cliffhanger. :P
tomatobob:
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2008-07-10 07:53:46 pm
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Quote from nn12000:

I pulled off my very fist mockball today.  I've skipped over SporeSpawn for now, and am raiding Norfair.  Feels pretty good. 


That is by far my favorite thing to do in Super Metroid, I don't know why but it's extremely satisfying.
It's also the only mockball trick I can do consistently.
Bolognab:
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2008-07-10 10:41:49 pm
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:-s I understand, but you need left and right handed guitars, too... You can't alternate hands on a guitar. If you just flip a right handed guitar over and play it left handed you'd have your high E string where you low E should be. That's why there's a market far left handed musicians. Same goes for bowed instruments. So Samus is playing a left handed bass. She's using her dominant hand to bow. See what I mean?

You don't understand. There are NO orchestral instruments made for different dominant hands. It's all the same. Left handed people and right handed people play the same instrument. Anyone with a shred of orchestra experience would know. Okay, back on topic now.  :o

Cliffhanger didn't have too many mockball places as far as I remember; try Soup.
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2008-07-11 01:23:21 am
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Actually.... I think Gravy is better for mockball practice. I cut down a bit on mockball quantity in Soup and went for trickier stuff, mostly involving speedball.
Tyjet66:
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2008-07-11 11:00:13 am
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How is this thread still active? lol

I practice mockballing in the landing site room, using the ship as a ceiling and use the same place for speedballing practice (bombable blocks are fun to break with speed ball)

I do find getting ice beam hard for whatever reason.
ICheatAtGolf:
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2008-07-21 10:28:19 am
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There is plenty of space in the original game to practice.  I hope you have a usb controller, mockballing with a keyboard isn't much fun. 
Also, a link to the last time this came up:
http://forum.metroid2002.com/index.php/topic,7339.0.html


Actually, I can do some very low mockballs even in realtime, on keyboard.
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2008-07-21 12:42:04 pm
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Quote from tomatobob:

Actually, it is entirely possible to flip a right handed guitar and play it left handed. I seem to remember hearing that Jimi Hendrix did that.


That's nothing— Tim Armstrong (of Operation Ivy, Rancid, Transplants, et al.) is left–handed but when he learned to play, he took a right–handed guitar, flipped it, and didn't change the stringing. I think he may have since started restringing them, but that's pretty bad ass for a little kid to do.
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2008-07-21 03:16:38 pm
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I wouldn't expect a kid to restring a guitar, it's just too much trouble to be worth their time. It may be more difficult to learn to play backwards, but kids are ridiculously persistent when they want to be.