New 100% SS run

MilesSMB

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2011-08-26 06:06:42 am

I was doing 100% runs for fun, and it turns out I'm actually pretty good at it, so... Yeah, let's see how far I can take it. <_< Here's my current very-very-improvable best (which ties the SDA run):

Anyway, the main reason I'm making this topic is for help finding improvements. I'm sure there's a lot of tricks I'm missing, so if anyone knows of one I didn't do (and it's SS-reliable) it'd be great if you could point it out. Also, I don't know if any improvements to the route have been found; the route I'm using is the same as the segmented 1:24, other than a minor change in Main Plaza. I've thought about going through the pirate labs to get to Supers backwards, which seems to take about the same amount of time as going through the front (maybe a little faster, I'm not sure), but to be honest I'd much rather Thardus Dash than avoid that stupid pirate fight trigger backwards... Hopefully someone else has some other ideas.

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T3

2011-08-26 07:40:06 am

There's a small route change that i've been thinking of. In the current route you do ice speader -> life giver via tallon elevator -> wild -> vault -> magma pool, but it may be faster to do ice spreader -> vault via chozo elevator (you'd also pick up the triclops pit expansions here too now that you have boost ball) -> life giver -> wild -> magma pool via arboretum.

tate

2011-08-26 10:43:21 am

New Route:
frigate>sjf>missiles>mball>charge beaam>mbbombs>ice beam>varia>first magmoor artifact>wave>boost>super missile>phen artifact>thermal>plasma>clean phen including spider exiting after sun>clean chozo>clean mines>ridley>mother.

Its a big route change using ibbf but is more then a minute faster from my tests :) You choose whether you want to enter crashed frigate before or after the mines. the secret world will be a pain in ss

MilesSMB

2011-08-26 05:44:02 pm

Well, that certainly seems faster... Can see a few issues difficulty-wise:

- IBBF duh. >_> It sounds like an absolute pain to speedrun (any wallcrawling in MP1 does...) and I've only ever done it once.
- I'd only have one tank during the pirate labs (unless I got the Ruined Courtyard tank early), and I usually take a ton of damage there. Also, no Plasma, but I think (hope) that wouldn't make too much of a difference.
- Gravity Chamber missile without Grapple, not sure how difficult this is.
- Thardus with only one PB oh God
- Root Cave without Grapple or X-Ray; doesn't seem that hard but it's a pretty big loss if I mess it up. :\
- Going through the lava in Magma Pool sounds annoying (not hard, just annoying).

There may be more, but that's off the top of my head.

A couple of other things:

- You don't have a choice of when to do the crashed Frigate, as you need its tanks for early Newborn.
- What's the exact Mines route? Main Quarry missile > basically the same route as the current second time of the mines, up to PPC > backtrack for Warrior?

Well, that certainly seems faster... Can see a few issues difficulty-wise:

- IBBF duh. >_> It sounds like an absolute pain to speedrun (any wallcrawling in MP1 does...) and I've only ever done it once.
- I'd only have one tank during the pirate labs (unless I got the Ruined Courtyard tank early), and I usually take a ton of damage there. Also, no Plasma, but I think (hope) that wouldn't make too much of a difference.
- Gravity Chamber missile without Grapple, not sure how difficult this is.
- Thardus with only one PB oh God
- Root Cave without Grapple or X-Ray; doesn't seem that hard but it's a pretty big loss if I mess it up. :\
- Going through the lava in Magma Pool sounds annoying (not hard, just annoying).

There may be more, but that's off the top of my head.

A couple of other things:

- You don't have a choice of when to do the crashed Frigate, as you need its tanks for early Newborn.
- What's the exact Mines route? Main Quarry missile > basically the same route as the current second time of the mines, up to PPC > backtrack for Warrior?

tate

2011-08-26 07:33:33 pm

2 tanks for pirate lab if you grab the e tank coming back after ice beam toward flaghra and the one on the way to phen the first time.
gravity chamber is easy when you have ghetto mechanics of the wall figured out, for you, probably about 10 minutes worth of practice and you'll have it down.
thardus - mbball bombs, some sharp shooting, and if your a bad enough aim you might have enough time for a rock to get thrown at you for a pbomb drop lol
Root Cave, fire like crazy with the charge beam to keep track of the invisible platforms
Magma pool? just shoot a box to the right and use the dropping to dash across, might have to jump in on the way back through though
crashed frigate - it is questionable as to whether grabbing the two etanks before the mines is faster then backtracking to newborn and doing the crashed frigate backwards, this is the one part I have not had the time to fully test yet :(
Mine Route - Enter front of mines, scan the two things to open up the lower route but don't go lower, go through the upper to grapple and power bombs then phazon suit then go to warrior backwards cleaning everything up in your path exiting the front of the mines. If you have seen my vid on youtube labeled memory loss you will see that I forgot to scan the 2 signs on my way through so don't forget that part, especially when you are drunk!