I've been preparing to go for a new any% run, and I've just found a pretty big timesaver. It's always bothered me how before fighting Ridley you have to backtrack to get that second Super Missile. I was messing around in the tall room before the save point with the horizontal row of crumble blocks. I always thought it might be possible to get to the top from the bottom (without shinesparking of course), and after some very tricky bomb jumping, I've managed to do just that. It's VERY hard... I've only been able to do it once in about 20 minutes of playing. This means that for any% runs, the best way to take care of Ridley is to go into the fight with two Supers and 30 missiles, and hope for a very rare Super refill. You must get a Super refill, or else you won't have enough missiles to kill it. Then after the fight, do the crazy bomb jump up the crumble block room, and get the Super + missile without any backtracking at all, saving about 20 seconds! It takes about 25 seconds to backtrack to the Super and missile, and about 5 seconds or so for the bomb jump (haven't timed it out exactly, but it looks to be about 5 seconds). This also means you'll be finishing the game on one tank... but that shouldn't be hard at all.
I can't record anything until at the earliest Sunday (both GBP and capture card are in my dorm at school), but I'll try and have a video of this up asap... as long as I can replicate it :?
I hope this hasn't been discovered already, or else I've just wasted my time with a big post.
I can't record anything until at the earliest Sunday (both GBP and capture card are in my dorm at school), but I'll try and have a video of this up asap... as long as I can replicate it :?
I hope this hasn't been discovered already, or else I've just wasted my time with a big post.
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