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Opium: 2010-01-14 10:11:08 pm

2010-01-10 09:42:46 pm

Sharon Needles

yay new personal record! 01:24:11 100%. This is about as good as I can get with the route I'm most comfortable with - getting power grip and hi-jump before Kraid.

YAY just got 1:23:08

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2010-01-26 10:39:06 pm

Sharon Needles

Hell to the yeah. 3 segments, GBP, normal

1:21:25 100%

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2010-01-28 02:48:02 am

Sharon Needles

OK sorry if anyone is getting sick of this, but I'm too excited about it to not post about it.

100% 3 segments, normal mode, GBP

1:19:26

HOO-ray!

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2010-01-28 04:09:17 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

Not at all. Very Happy

This is a speedrunning site, and this is how progress is made. At the rate you're decreasing the time, I suspect that on a perfect run, you'd manage a 1:15.

If you wanted to crank it right down, it looks like you may need to work out a new route.

Congratulations, either way! Applause

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2010-01-28 02:00:08 pm

Aww, Sterrance!

Why is the "New Record" yellow in the last image?

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2010-01-28 02:08:21 pm

Sharon Needles

because it actually flashes on screen, each image caught it in a different flame of the flash.

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2010-02-09 04:38:28 pm

Sharon Needles

Holy sheepshit, batman!

1:17:22 100%, normal, 4 segments, DS Lite

I knew that playing with a D-pad vs. a gamecube controller would increase my time, but I was surprised (quite pleasantly) that it increased by an entire 2 minutes. Morphing/unmorphing is much faster plus I seem to have a much faster firing rate on the DS.

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TheGreenManalishi

2010-02-09 04:52:17 pm

The flesh is spongy and bruised

Really? I've found the DS Lite's spongey buttons terrible for quick manoeuvres in ZM.

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2010-02-09 04:58:34 pm

Sharon Needles

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

Really? I've found the DS Lite's spongey buttons terrible for quick manoeuvres in ZM.

Yes, really. I find the controls to be much tighter all around. Is your DS old and maybe a little worn out? Mine's not spongy at all.

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TheGreenManalishi: 2010-02-09 05:02:16 pm

2010-02-09 05:01:39 pm

The flesh is spongy and bruised

I don't have one (GBA SP is my handheld of choice) but my brothers and dad have ones just a little over a year old. But I've always thought the buttons were squdgy instead of clicky, which I find more responsive.

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BioSpark

2010-02-09 05:37:35 pm

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yeah, ds lite's buttons suck to the old ds and the gba sp. <3 my sp for speedrunning.

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Quietus: 2010-02-10 04:27:54 am

2010-02-10 04:27:40 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

Quote from Opium:

I knew that playing with a D-pad vs. a gamecube controller would increase my time

[nitpick]Decrease surely makes more sense?[/nitpick]

In fact, that sounds a bit iffy too - perhaps 'lower' would be best.

Either way, good job. Have you considered any route changes, or is it now too ingrained?

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2010-02-10 09:00:39 am

Sharon Needles

It does feel ingrained at this point. I make several small adjustments everytime I watch someone's run and find a new idea, but the basic item acquisition order stays the same. I have tried to the sub-hour 100% route, but the HBJ-ing is very frustrating. I would have to completely master bomb jumping to accept that route, and I haven't really had any breakthroughs trying to get better at it. Even now I just mash the button to do an IBJ, there's no precise timing involved other than the rapid button mash. I haven't even gotten good at the normal 1...2,3 rhythm of normal bomb jumping, I'm ashamed to say.
I have thought about looking at dragondarch's and breaking it into sections, practicing each one over and over. Because of the BJ-ing tricks involved, I bet that his route would take me 2.5 hours to complete.

I'm currently doing it this way:

morph ball
long beam
missiles
charge beam
bombs
unknown item#1
power grip
ice beam
high jump
unknown item#2
speed booster
super missiles (the ones that you have to speedball into the left side of the blue brinstar shaft)
varia
screw attack
wave beam
unknown item#3
gravity
power bombs
item cleanup in the following order: crateria, norfair, ridley, norfair, kraid, thru brinstar to crateria, tourian, crateria, and then that last fucking PB tank way up high in chozodia.

I don't want my route to be 'ingrained'. I think I'm just having so much more fun going that route vs. the frustration of trying a new one. Maybe over time I'll get bored enough with it enough that I become more receptive to changing it.

It does feel ingrained at this point.  I make several small adjustments everytime I watch someone's run and find a new idea, but the basic item acquisition order stays the same.  I have tried to the sub-hour 100% route, but the HBJ-ing is very frustrating. I would have to completely master bomb jumping to accept that route, and I haven't really had any breakthroughs trying to get better at it.  Even now I just mash the button to do an IBJ, there's no precise timing involved other than the rapid button mash.  I haven't even gotten good at the normal 1...2,3 rhythm of normal bomb jumping, I'm ashamed to say. 
I have thought about looking at dragondarch's and breaking it into sections, practicing each one over and over.  Because of the BJ-ing tricks involved, I  bet that his route would take me 2.5 hours to complete.

I'm currently doing it this way:

morph ball
long beam
missiles
charge beam 
bombs
unknown item#1
power grip
ice beam
high jump
unknown item#2
speed booster
super missiles (the ones that you have to speedball into the left side of the blue brinstar shaft)
varia
screw attack
wave beam
unknown item#3
gravity
power bombs
item cleanup in the following order: crateria, norfair, ridley, norfair, kraid, thru brinstar to crateria, tourian, crateria, and then that last fucking PB tank way up high in chozodia.

I don't want my route to be 'ingrained'.  I think I'm just having so much more fun going that route vs. the frustration of trying a new one. Maybe over time I'll get bored enough with it enough that I become more receptive to changing it.

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tomatobob

2010-03-12 09:59:36 pm

Never stressed

Decided to race the speed gamers and finished in 56:23 with 32% single segment. Not very good, but my first run in a long while.

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loafasponge

2010-03-18 09:23:22 am

Awww, did I win?

1:02 31% Normal

Not great...but ok considering i had not played the game in over a year.

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2010-03-20 10:51:53 pm

Sharon Needles

1:17:26 100% SS. 4 seconds shy of my record, but I can think of about 5 serious mistakes I made including a not-so-great mecha ridley fight. This is very good news to me, because a few weeks ago I had thought that my skills were gone completely, but now it looks like they are better than they were before. This makes me happy.

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samthedigital

2010-03-21 02:22:54 am

I really wish that I didn't keep losing my copy of MZM (or at the very least get a good GBASP, I've gone through 6 or so). I'd so have sub transcience any% and 54:xx 100% by now. >_>;;

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Chozoid

2010-03-23 07:04:31 pm

Clear Time 2:02:02
Your rate for collecting items is 47%
Easy

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Chozoid

2010-03-28 07:26:42 pm

1:44:44
51%
Easy

I'm getting better Dancing

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BioSpark

2010-03-28 08:17:44 pm

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why are you doing it on easy mode? do it on normal mode.

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2010-03-29 03:55:25 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

Everybody has to start somewhere, right?

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2010-03-29 04:50:00 am

Never stressed

Easy sort of insults your ability though.

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