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So the ZM skype chat (mostly Zx497, Mobiusman and Me in this case) found how to get Power Bombs Early!

It's not really useful for anything right now though because you have to die in order to grab them. Just... watch the video.



Youtube description, because I'm lazy:

You have to die from heat damage while in the door transition. A frame of gameplay will sometimes happen when going through a transition (every other frame afaik, so practically speaking randomly 50% of the time). If you take fatal damage on this frame, the video happens.

You are put in a state that's very similar to NoClip in the debug rom. You can move around freely; L and R will make you go faster. You can however not interact with anything: load triggers, items, terrain, nothing. Whenever you press Start or B the death sequence triggers like "normal", when it triggers you CAN interact with things and you can for some reason still pause (you normally can't when you die).

The next room DOES load around you, but its visuals doesn't. If you maneuver to the power bombs and 'die' you'll pick them up, they are inconveniently located off screen on both axes so you have to find them blind. I used memory watch to look at my position for this, but on actual console you'd need to find a feel for how far off screen they are. After grabbing them you still die, but you DO grab them.

If you go back to the title screen after dying like this, the background graphics get all messed up. We currently have no idea why this happens, it doesn't seem to affect anything else and returns to normal if you go into the game and then back. Either via the title demo or starting a file.
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That moving while dead is the funniest thing I have seen today. How long has this glitch been known? I thought I was up to date on everything, but this is the first time I have heard of it.
I found a video of someone using an alternate escape for mother brain that went all around brinstar.  He did it by hacking and removing the gate that blocks going back after entering the mother brain fight.  Maybe there is a way to despawn this block?  I don't know if Tourian would change if you exit to brinstar backwards and re-enter.  But if it did then you should be able to grab the power bombs then finish the escape.  A lot of ifs though...
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samthedigital: 2014-07-01 08:56:30 pm
It's not possible to get the power bombs before escaping as far as I know. People have done reverse escape without hacking though. It's possible to mess up the sprite limit and have it not spawn. It takes a little luck to do though.
Sadly, tourian doesn't change until you actually escape.
MetaEdge, I was reading a thread a while back where they discussed it, apparently the block spawn is random. He didn't hack to remove it, it just didn't spawn.
My mistake.  I think I read that same topic after.  I experimented and managed to get through without it spawning.  I tried a few things but Mobiusman is right, it doesn't change until after the escape :(