What an outstanding achievement this is! That use of the pause screen is simply genius. I only ever tried pause buffering for the initial crouch. (I was pretty bad at it too, probably lost about 7 frames right there.)
Now I want to practice my pause buffering and try again. :P
i find it weird that there's almost no japanese runners for metroid games since F-Zero games, which are even less popular than Metroid, have several japanese people still setting records. maybe that style just doesn't appeal to them much.
is the 0% going to be faster than 1% or does it lose time eventually due to the missing missiles?