New Stupid SA-X entry

2006-02-05 06:25:16 am

There is a weird thing you can do at the ARC SA-X encounter after PB's. Bomb wall as you would normally without being seen ie not power bombs. Then lay a power bomb in a certain place, not sure exactly. Try at end of MB tunnel. There are two conditions to doing this:
1) The far right power bomb blocks that the SA-X normally stops at must be destroyed.
2) The SA-X must not see you, and the music must not change.

If this is done correctly, when the SA-X reaches the wall you bombed, then it will just continuously screw attack up & down. Even PB'ing, being hit by it or going in it's sight will not get you detected. If you can survive being hit by it's Screwing, and get in the lower MB tunnel (the dead end), it will just continue. However, rolling to its right will get you detected when it lands on the floor, and the routine continues normally. I also noticed that as it is jumping up, the screw sound effect will not start until it has reached the height of its jump. I apologise that I cannot nab vid or shots, but be sure to credit me for discovery IF this is not already known.

Has anyone managed to make it into the room after the NOC SA-X encounter with it still chasing you? It will just run back and forth when you get into the MB passage. I think my first glitch at least should get on the Stupid SA-X page.

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There is a weird thing you can do at the ARC SA-X encounter after PB's. Bomb wall as you would normally without being seen ie not power bombs. Then lay a power bomb in a certain place, not sure exactly. Try at end of MB tunnel. There are two conditions to doing this:
1) The far right power bomb blocks that the SA-X normally stops at must be destroyed.
2) The SA-X must not see you, and the music must not change.

If this is done correctly, when the SA-X reaches the wall you bombed, then it will just continuously screw attack up & down. Even PB'ing, being hit by it or going in it's sight will not get you detected. If you can survive being hit by it's Screwing, and get in the lower MB tunnel (the dead end), it will just continue. However, rolling to its right will get you detected when it lands on the floor, and the routine continues normally. I also noticed that as it is jumping up, the screw sound effect will not start until it has reached the height of its jump. I apologise that I cannot nab vid or shots, but be sure to credit me for discovery IF this is not already known.

Has anyone managed to make it into the room after the NOC SA-X encounter with it still chasing you? It will just run back and forth when you get into the MB passage. I think my first glitch at least should get on the Stupid SA-X page.

BioSpark

2006-02-05 10:39:52 pm

Quote from MotherBrainII:

If this is done correctly, when the SA-X reaches the wall you bombed, then it will just continuously screw attack up & down. Even PB'ing, being hit by it or going in it's sight will not get you detected. If you can survive being hit by it's Screwing, and get in the lower MB tunnel (the dead end), it will just continue. However, rolling to its right will get you detected when it lands on the floor, and the routine continues normally. I also noticed that as it is jumping up, the screw sound effect will not start until it has reached the height of its jump. I apologise that I cannot nab vid or shots, but be sure to credit me for discovery IF this is not alreadyknown.

Already discovered. Although we do need a vid I believe.

nn12000

2006-02-05 11:26:03 pm

Mister ...

I got a Stupid Sa-X thing that I pulled off today. No vid, sadly.

The Final Fight with The SA-X, I was standing on one of the two floating platforms, and just stood there. The SA-X was trying to get up to me, but kept going back and forth underneath.

Another thing, The SA-X encounter on the way to Varia, when Sa-X plants a power bomb and splodes, get him/her/it to notice you. Roll all the way under the morphball platform, where you are safe. Teh SA-X should jump up on top, and run ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT, 'causing it to fall down way below, where you can point and laugh at it. No video for this either.

DeathNoble

2006-02-06 01:29:42 pm

Pertaining to the final SA-X fight with the SA-X's stupidity, I have one. Lure the SA-X near the door to the save and recharge rooms. Under that little alcove. Shoot with a charged shot to knock backward a block or two, and it'll Screw Attack forward. But the alcove stops it. So when it hits the ground, shoot it again. If you're good, you can manage to keep it under there the entire fight. Until it transforms. A pretty good and useful SA-X trick.

StarmanHaxor

2006-02-06 02:46:52 pm

I've done that, but then after 3 or 4 times it will run back off screen for a second more than normal then vault over your head, hitting you, and getting on the small platform above you. You take 3-5 energy tanks total from that and the resulting downward icebeam shots.