I got an idea while talking with someone on aim about the various cloning glitches in the pokemon games, for something that may or may not be applicable to metroid.
For those that don't know what kind of glitch I'm talking about, or never played a pokemon game before, I'll explain the concept, and maybe someone with an emulator at their disposal could tell me if it has any possibility to work. See, this possible glitch involves shutting your game off while it is saving. Depending on how mzm saves files, you may or may not be able to save one portion of what you've done, but not the rest.
Assuming mzm saves each bit over the next, sequentially, by turning the game off at just the right time while saving, you can cut off the ending of the save, keeping your old save partially intact. If either the time or collected items were located near the end, and the check for having the fully powered suit were before them, you would be able to preserve a critical part of your old save. There is one last stipulation that I can think of, and that is that the game would have to actually take a few moments to save, so that you can accurately shut it off at the right time... I've got a bad suspicion that most of the time spent on the save pad is just to look pretty.
I'm pretty sure 4% would be the lowest in the game if you used the save room before mecha ridley as your last stop before completing the game. Plasma beam (unkown item #1, conviently), morph ball, bombs, and a missle tank. The funny thing about this is that you would be able to obtain as many missles and SMs as you need to take care of the bosses before chozodia, since they would be wiped after performing the (theorized) glitch.
Now, I'm not really sure how some of you feel about using glitches to obtain a lower percent, or the even grayer area of modifying your time, if it's even possible (and it's probably not), although it would be cool if someone could check this.
For some actual discussion, whether this turns out possible or not, would you consider a run obtained in this way (or a similar one) cheating?
For those that don't know what kind of glitch I'm talking about, or never played a pokemon game before, I'll explain the concept, and maybe someone with an emulator at their disposal could tell me if it has any possibility to work. See, this possible glitch involves shutting your game off while it is saving. Depending on how mzm saves files, you may or may not be able to save one portion of what you've done, but not the rest.
Assuming mzm saves each bit over the next, sequentially, by turning the game off at just the right time while saving, you can cut off the ending of the save, keeping your old save partially intact. If either the time or collected items were located near the end, and the check for having the fully powered suit were before them, you would be able to preserve a critical part of your old save. There is one last stipulation that I can think of, and that is that the game would have to actually take a few moments to save, so that you can accurately shut it off at the right time... I've got a bad suspicion that most of the time spent on the save pad is just to look pretty.
I'm pretty sure 4% would be the lowest in the game if you used the save room before mecha ridley as your last stop before completing the game. Plasma beam (unkown item #1, conviently), morph ball, bombs, and a missle tank. The funny thing about this is that you would be able to obtain as many missles and SMs as you need to take care of the bosses before chozodia, since they would be wiped after performing the (theorized) glitch.
Now, I'm not really sure how some of you feel about using glitches to obtain a lower percent, or the even grayer area of modifying your time, if it's even possible (and it's probably not), although it would be cool if someone could check this.
For some actual discussion, whether this turns out possible or not, would you consider a run obtained in this way (or a similar one) cheating?
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