Embarrasing Fact: Power suit made by lowest bidder
It's about time. :)
It's fairly convulated. The idea is to super jump into an elevator door. In order to do that you have to get below an elevator first. Which means out of room travel. However, to get below a room, you generally have to enter a horizontal door leading to that room... while it is either near the ceiling or near the floor.
Also, some of you may remember the blue suit in Limit that did the same thing... but sometimes wouldn't work. I did some debugging and it turns out it depends on the previous elevator you took - if you last took an elevator moving down (or haven't taken an elevator at all) it will work. If you last took an elevator moving up, it won't. I don't know why the code only manually sets Samus's pose if the elevator is moving down, ask Nintendo that.
Regardless, to do this you need the speed booster and x-ray scope. A good number of energy tanks, plus a reserve tank or a crystal flash, can also make it easier.
First off, go down an elevator from Crateria to Brinstar, or load a saved game in Brinstar. Pass through the room that holds the charge beam while you're at it - that clears up as much out-of-room data as possible. Head to the room right of the powerbomb tube. Do NOT open any of the doorcaps in the room. Here you need to get stuck inside of the super missile gate then x-ray scope up the room. There are two options for this: go around in a circle, open the gate from the right, then close it while standing slightly inside of it (don't stand too far inside it or the gate will reopen automatically). Or freeze a nest enemy while it's just past the center of the gate, then run into it - the game will align Samus to the enemy instead of to the gate if you run quick enough.
Either way, from here x-ray scope up through the roof. Once you're high enough to walk left and right, jump up then start running right.
This next part is long and annoying. But you need to travel right around 88 screens. But first just go around 8 screens.
Once you've gone this far you'll fall into the room if you keep continuing right. If you have plenty of energy (499 is enough to clear the worst of it, but keep it below 1200 so you don't overshoot 88 screens) and the ability to recharge for a second super jump (1 extra tank is plenty), charge a super jump and jump right from here. Otherwise you'll have to trek through a bunch of large pits as you travel to the right. Keep in mind these pits are just part of the room you started in. If you can, you might even want to open the gate as you're x-raying up so it's easier to get out of the pits. If you get stuck in an area where you can't see yourself and you can't seem to jump high, see the picture below for help.
If you do super jump, refill your energy ASAP. Being able to hear your footsteps and jumps is very helpful.
Once you're past those large open pits, keep running right and hopping. Samus will occasionally fall a few pixels and so you'll never reach full speed, but make sure you keep jumping so Samus doesn't ever fall too far - if she does she may eventually fall into a pit that's really a bit of a pain to get back out from.
(This paragraph is explanation, nothing here is required to perform the glitch) That last paragraph probably won't make much sense at first. But Samus's collision detection is glitchy when her position is borderline positive and negative as it is while you're running along the roof (specifically, her center is negative while her bottom border is positive). What's happening is Samus is running over a 1-wide hole, and her vertical collision detection detects nothing below her and starts to make her fall. However, her horizontal collision detection is negative and so kind of in a different universe - it doesn't see anything in front of Samus and so lets her continue going forward past the hole. Once she passes it, her vertical collision detection detects the ground again and stops Samus from falling and lets her continue running, even though her bottom border is actually *inside* the ground at that point. If her center falls enough to become positive, her horizontal collision detection will start checking the same blocks as her vertical collision detection and not let her run through the holes anymore, and so you'll fall *into* the next hole.
Anyways. If you *do* happen to fall into the pit, you need to position Samus precisely to be able to jump back out of it. If you x-ray scope to the left and see this (specifically, the width of the x-ray scope at the door - your y-position may differ), you're in the right position. Otherwise move left or right as needed. You also might need to wall jump up through it if you haven't traveled far right yet.
You have to continue traveling right till you're about here. For easy comparison: Scroll the map left as far as you can, so that it loops around *once* and then stops here.
At this point you've traveled about 87 screens. If you jump up, Samus will be visible (if not you're on the wrong screen, move left or right as needed). You need to jump right (as though you were going through the door you can see) then run right till you hit a wall (only about a screen away - don't jump too far). Jump up, tap right, then wait for Samus to land (You need to get on top of a 1x4 wall - actually, a door cap). Then walk right. If you did it right, Samus will enter a door and start falling. Below the elevator.
The ground here is actually 2 screens below the elevator, and 3 screens wide of space. Run to the right a bit, then run back left, charge, and super jump into the elevator. You're done.
Half the text explaining the concept and procedures, half the text to help get past the rooms without getting stuck. <_< But anyways, my goal of blue-suit obtainable at relatively any point of the game is finally done - my life's goals are finally achieved. :P
It's fairly convulated. The idea is to super jump into an elevator door. In order to do that you have to get below an elevator first. Which means out of room travel. However, to get below a room, you generally have to enter a horizontal door leading to that room... while it is either near the ceiling or near the floor.
Also, some of you may remember the blue suit in Limit that did the same thing... but sometimes wouldn't work. I did some debugging and it turns out it depends on the previous elevator you took - if you last took an elevator moving down (or haven't taken an elevator at all) it will work. If you last took an elevator moving up, it won't. I don't know why the code only manually sets Samus's pose if the elevator is moving down, ask Nintendo that.
Regardless, to do this you need the speed booster and x-ray scope. A good number of energy tanks, plus a reserve tank or a crystal flash, can also make it easier.
First off, go down an elevator from Crateria to Brinstar, or load a saved game in Brinstar. Pass through the room that holds the charge beam while you're at it - that clears up as much out-of-room data as possible. Head to the room right of the powerbomb tube. Do NOT open any of the doorcaps in the room. Here you need to get stuck inside of the super missile gate then x-ray scope up the room. There are two options for this: go around in a circle, open the gate from the right, then close it while standing slightly inside of it (don't stand too far inside it or the gate will reopen automatically). Or freeze a nest enemy while it's just past the center of the gate, then run into it - the game will align Samus to the enemy instead of to the gate if you run quick enough.
Either way, from here x-ray scope up through the roof. Once you're high enough to walk left and right, jump up then start running right.
This next part is long and annoying. But you need to travel right around 88 screens. But first just go around 8 screens.
Once you've gone this far you'll fall into the room if you keep continuing right. If you have plenty of energy (499 is enough to clear the worst of it, but keep it below 1200 so you don't overshoot 88 screens) and the ability to recharge for a second super jump (1 extra tank is plenty), charge a super jump and jump right from here. Otherwise you'll have to trek through a bunch of large pits as you travel to the right. Keep in mind these pits are just part of the room you started in. If you can, you might even want to open the gate as you're x-raying up so it's easier to get out of the pits. If you get stuck in an area where you can't see yourself and you can't seem to jump high, see the picture below for help.
If you do super jump, refill your energy ASAP. Being able to hear your footsteps and jumps is very helpful.
Once you're past those large open pits, keep running right and hopping. Samus will occasionally fall a few pixels and so you'll never reach full speed, but make sure you keep jumping so Samus doesn't ever fall too far - if she does she may eventually fall into a pit that's really a bit of a pain to get back out from.
(This paragraph is explanation, nothing here is required to perform the glitch) That last paragraph probably won't make much sense at first. But Samus's collision detection is glitchy when her position is borderline positive and negative as it is while you're running along the roof (specifically, her center is negative while her bottom border is positive). What's happening is Samus is running over a 1-wide hole, and her vertical collision detection detects nothing below her and starts to make her fall. However, her horizontal collision detection is negative and so kind of in a different universe - it doesn't see anything in front of Samus and so lets her continue going forward past the hole. Once she passes it, her vertical collision detection detects the ground again and stops Samus from falling and lets her continue running, even though her bottom border is actually *inside* the ground at that point. If her center falls enough to become positive, her horizontal collision detection will start checking the same blocks as her vertical collision detection and not let her run through the holes anymore, and so you'll fall *into* the next hole.
Anyways. If you *do* happen to fall into the pit, you need to position Samus precisely to be able to jump back out of it. If you x-ray scope to the left and see this (specifically, the width of the x-ray scope at the door - your y-position may differ), you're in the right position. Otherwise move left or right as needed. You also might need to wall jump up through it if you haven't traveled far right yet.
You have to continue traveling right till you're about here. For easy comparison: Scroll the map left as far as you can, so that it loops around *once* and then stops here.
At this point you've traveled about 87 screens. If you jump up, Samus will be visible (if not you're on the wrong screen, move left or right as needed). You need to jump right (as though you were going through the door you can see) then run right till you hit a wall (only about a screen away - don't jump too far). Jump up, tap right, then wait for Samus to land (You need to get on top of a 1x4 wall - actually, a door cap). Then walk right. If you did it right, Samus will enter a door and start falling. Below the elevator.
The ground here is actually 2 screens below the elevator, and 3 screens wide of space. Run to the right a bit, then run back left, charge, and super jump into the elevator. You're done.
Half the text explaining the concept and procedures, half the text to help get past the rooms without getting stuck. <_< But anyways, my goal of blue-suit obtainable at relatively any point of the game is finally done - my life's goals are finally achieved. :P
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