Amazing Stories

2004-02-26 03:33:25 pm

Post your amazing stories-records that you hold, events that you have encountered, rare glitches, and other feats. Share something and be proud of it. Tell the world that you have accomplished what you wanted! I'll share some of my own.

This happened to Nate as well. Yup, you guessed it. The ghetto jumping Plated Beetle. Pretty simple. I have also encountered the Whiteout Glitch. I bet many people have as well.

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The Last Metroid

2004-02-26 09:54:19 pm

Aren't there like a zillion other threads on this?

Erm, yeah, but if I can brag...

I got a new best time in Prime today -- 1:38. Finally beat that god damn 1:40 barrier.

Light of Day

2004-02-26 11:34:38 pm

Can we share amazing feats of stupidity here? If so, I have a pretty good one:

It happened the first time I played Super. Now, Super was only my second ever Metroid game (my first being Prime), and as finding both a SNES and a copy of Super are pretty hard hard these days I was playing an emulated version of Super, so I had no instructions. That was OK, though, as between my experiences with Prime and looking at the screen to customise the controls I was pretty much able to work everything out. Everything progressed smoothly until I found my first red door. My experiences with Prime had tought me that different coloured doors open with different weapons, so I shot it with every weapon I had to try to open it. A shot from the beam, nothing. A shot from a missile, nothing. At that point that was every weapon I had, and I figured they weren't going to open it, so I would have to come back later with another weapon to open it. I spent at least an hour (probably at least 2) combing every area I could get to for a way to progress, but there was none. Eventually, I gave up, and about a week later found out at GameFAQs that red doors open if you shoot 5 missiles at them. Needless to say, I was rather embarrassed that I had been stuck at a missile door - quite possibly the simplest barrier in the whole game, for a week.

Can we share amazing feats of stupidity here? If so, I have a pretty good one:

It happened the first time I played Super. Now, Super was only my second ever Metroid game (my first being Prime), and as finding both a SNES and a copy of Super are pretty hard hard these days I was playing an emulated version of Super, so I had no instructions. That was OK, though, as between my experiences with Prime and looking at the screen to customise the controls I was pretty much able to work everything out. Everything progressed smoothly until I found my first red door. My experiences with Prime had tought me that different coloured doors open with different weapons, so I shot it with every weapon I had to try to open it. A shot from the beam, nothing. A shot from a missile, nothing. At that point that was every weapon I had, and I figured they weren't going to open it, so I would have to come back later with another weapon to open it. I spent at least an hour (probably at least 2) combing every area I could get to for a way to progress, but there was none. Eventually, I gave up, and about a week later found out at GameFAQs that red doors open if you shoot 5 missiles at them. Needless to say, I was rather embarrassed that I had been stuck at a missile door - quite possibly the simplest barrier in the whole game, for a week.

Yoshi348

2004-02-26 11:45:13 pm

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Ready and willing.

Wow. I have pretty much the exact same story, Light, except I was playing the original through the MP bonus rather than SM through emulation.

Sarah

2004-02-26 11:47:06 pm

How about an amazingly stupid story?

First time I ever played through Prime, I got beat by the Hive Mecha....TWICE! Yeah, I suck. ph33r.

Light of Day

2004-02-26 11:54:20 pm

Quote from Yoshi348:

Wow. I have pretty much the exact same story, Light, except I was playing the original through the MP bonus rather than SM through emulation.

Thanks, I don't feel like such an idiot anymore. :)

Quote from Sarah:

First time I ever played through Prime, I got beat by the Hive Mecha....TWICE! Yeah, I suck. ph33r.

The first time I faced it, I only won through luck. I have no doubt that if I had died, then I would have only won the second time if I was lucky too.

Yoshi348

2004-02-26 11:58:26 pm

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Ready and willing.

Quote from Light of Day:

Quote from Yoshi348:

Wow. I have pretty much the exact same story, Light, except I was playing the original through the MP bonus rather than SM through emulation.

Thanks, I don't feel like such an idiot anymore. :)

Heh, well, it depends. My memory's fuzzy, in SM, do the missles make the "item not working" tink noise until the last one, just as in the original? If they do, you're not an idiot. :P

Light of Day

2004-02-27 12:22:18 am

Quote from Yoshi348:

Quote from Light of Day:

Quote from Yoshi348:

Wow. I have pretty much the exact same story, Light, except I was playing the original through the MP bonus rather than SM through emulation.

Thanks, I don't feel like such an idiot anymore. :)

Heh, well, it depends. My memory's fuzzy, in SM, do the missles make the "item not working" tink noise until the last one, just as in the original? If they do, you're not an idiot. :P

They don't, but nor does a beam shot at a missile door. The door does flash blue for a second after you shoot it with a missile, though, I'm guessing I somehow didn't notice that the first time.

Dark_T_Zeratul

2004-02-27 01:39:55 am

Quote from Light of Day:

Can we share amazing feats of stupidity here? If so, I have a pretty good one:

It happened the first time I played Super. Now, Super was only my second ever Metroid game (my first being Prime), and as finding both a SNES and a copy of Super are pretty hard hard these days I was playing an emulated version of Super, so I had no instructions. That was OK, though, as between my experiences with Prime and looking at the screen to customise the controls I was pretty much able to work everything out. Everything progressed smoothly until I found my first red door. My experiences with Prime had tought me that different coloured doors open with different weapons, so I shot it with every weapon I had to try to open it. A shot from the beam, nothing. A shot from a missile, nothing. At that point that was every weapon I had, and I figured they weren't going to open it, so I would have to come back later with another weapon to open it. I spent at least an hour (probably at least 2) combing every area I could get to for a way to progress, but there was none. Eventually, I gave up, and about a week later found out at GameFAQs that red doors open if you shoot 5 missiles at them. Needless to say, I was rather embarrassed that I had been stuck at a missile door - quite possibly the simplest barrier in the whole game, for a week.

Whereas I'm SO used to missile doors requiring 5 missiles to open that the first time I played Zero Mission I wasted 4 missiles by rapid-firing them into the first missile door I found.

[quote="Light of Day"]Can we share amazing feats of stupidity here? If so, I have a pretty good one:

It happened the first time I played Super. Now, Super was only my second ever Metroid game (my first being Prime), and as finding both a SNES and a copy of Super are pretty hard hard these days I was playing an emulated version of Super, so I had no instructions. That was OK, though, as between my experiences with Prime and looking at the screen to customise the controls I was pretty much able to work everything out. Everything progressed smoothly until I found my first red door. My experiences with Prime had tought me that different coloured doors open with different weapons, so I shot it with every weapon I had to try to open it. A shot from the beam, nothing. A shot from a missile, nothing. At that point that was every weapon I had, and I figured they weren't going to open it, so I would have to come back later with another weapon to open it. I spent at least an hour (probably at least 2) combing every area I could get to for a way to progress, but there was none. Eventually, I gave up, and about a week later found out at GameFAQs that red doors open if you shoot 5 missiles at them. Needless to say, I was rather embarrassed that I had been stuck at a missile door - quite possibly the simplest barrier in the whole game, for a week.[/quote]
Whereas I'm SO used to missile doors requiring 5 missiles to open that the first time I played Zero Mission I wasted 4 missiles by rapid-firing them into the first missile door I found.

skynes

2004-02-27 04:33:17 am

You wanna hear a dumb thing I did!? I got BEAT by the Parasite Queen!

I got stuck in SMs Ghost Ship for sooo long until I found Phantoom. EVEN then I still didn't know how to get the gravity suit (These days I do it by instinct tho... Scary that.)

The Last Metroid

2004-02-27 11:14:37 am

Once, while on a speed run, the scarabs killed me while in the tunnel to the ruined shrine. That was sad.

skynes

2004-02-27 11:19:52 am

Is your name Houston by any chance?

The Last Metroid

2004-02-27 11:22:48 am

No, but that incident sure as hell made me feel as if I was... :D

nate

2004-02-27 12:10:07 pm

what about tzyr?

SABERinBLUE

2004-03-16 10:31:17 am

Cook of the Sea

Quote from skynes:

You wanna hear a dumb thing I did!? I got BEAT by the Parasite Queen!

I'm in awe. How?

skynes

2004-03-16 12:08:45 pm

The room before where the two laser cannons are and theres the hole in the floor for the morph ball.

I was trying my very first speed run using SBs. Wasn't a main run just a kind of get to know it run.

Anyway I ran in, jumped in the hole. Ran through the room getting blasted to bits and then got killed on the first hit from the Queen....

Embaressing...

In future I've found it faster (and healthier) to just shoot the Turrets as I go in!

SABERinBLUE

2004-03-16 12:29:39 pm

Cook of the Sea

I hate Turrets. I hate them. The ones that take two missiles always manage to get shots off into me before I can kill them.

chinchillax13514

2004-03-16 11:42:14 pm

This one beats you all for sheer stupidity! I once didn't make it off the Frigate in time! Oh...I got another stupid one too:

I got to the top of the Arbetoreum with minimal health. I had scanned three runic symbols, realized I missed one. So, I jumped down to the ground, forgetting I was about to die. Well, I landed on one of the reapers, it got me down to about...25 health, then it wacked me into the tree, I fell in the water, got out with just a smigen of health left. Then I went very carefully to the Save Room to get my health back...I accidently jumped up to go to the Furnace cause my mind does that sometimes (I once went all the way to Phendrana...then I realized I took the wrong elevator, I was supposed to go to the Chozo Ruins!). I managed to take no damage before I realized I was going the wrong way...so I jumped off and...fell in the water, killing me. A very stupid, and bad ending...

The Last Metroid

2004-03-16 11:52:54 pm

Quote from skynes:

In future I've found it faster to just shoot the Turrets as I go in!

Uh, no.

Light of Day

2004-03-17 09:11:51 am

Quote from chinchillax13514:

This one beats you all for sheer stupidity! I once didn't make it off the Frigate in time!

Been there, done that. I lost time in the Ridley room. It was my first time using the grapple beam and a fell off, maybe twice. Anyway, I took forever to get across the room, THEN still took the time to scan the two scannable things about Ridley before leaving the room. I got all the way to the airlock before running out of time, though.

SABERinBLUE

2004-03-17 10:18:32 am

Cook of the Sea

I like the tied bit at the end of Fusion because it seems that no matter what I do, I always finish at about one second. And I always think that I won't make it, so it's new fun each time.

MetalRidley

2004-04-06 02:42:36 am

In ZM hard, I actually got killed by a geemer. In the first room. Shocked

Now you have to give me some credit: I don't have SP, and visibility was poor at that moment. But still. I fancy myself a metroid pro (or at least a knowledgable intern) and here I die in the first room. Quite a shock to the system.