Post your personal fastest times in Metroid Prime here

2005-04-15 10:33:12 am

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Ready and willing.

Quote from Odylg:

i'm a robot....just what is the thermal visor used for besides prime form 2? i mean in a speed run, such as kips 1:04, not what it's actually meant for. wait, did kip even pick that up?

I'm not a speed runner, but I think the answer is nothing. It's apparently not so far out of the way that it doesn't cancel out the time you can get being able to actually see Prime... I guess.

Ekarderif

2005-04-15 11:20:46 am

You can't do the in/out trick efficiently on thermal mode without the thermal visor. I've done it and it's insanely hard and it takes a lot of luck and I only managed to do it for about a quarter of the time.

I forgot the energy tank after Omega Pirate :P. It doesn't add any time. I got the percent messed up though... 28% was Kip's "old" 1:05 without thermal.

graveworm

2005-04-15 11:40:14 am

New time, 1:43. I'll skip whatever missile pack I'm picking up right now. I noticed Ridley holds his hand infront of his face when dashing in this version, is there anyway to hit him? I tried manual aiming, but I still can't hit him. :/ I guess I'll go try the Frigate crash site dash now.

Miles

2005-04-15 03:08:51 pm

try to step aside ridley graveworm.
on this way ridley isn't able to get your direction and so he doesn't do his rush.

iowa

2005-04-15 03:32:33 pm

I just finished my first speed run: 2H45 :?
It was without early space jump.

Krimeless 64

2005-04-16 09:59:12 pm

Version: NTSC

Best Frigate Escape: 4:18

Best 100% Run: 1:56 (currently working on something a lot better)

I saw the 1:38 100% run (Radix) and thought I'd give it a try. I made a lot of mistakes in this run, but I'm not very good as yet, and I was a bit eager to finish.

iowa

2005-04-18 07:29:09 pm

I improved my time, now it's 2H29 with the same strat.

StefanvanDijke

2005-04-19 11:01:41 am

any % (34) single segment: 1:35

luck wasn't realy on my side in this run.

best escape: time left 4:19

graveworm

2005-04-24 02:43:11 pm

Any%: 30% items.
Time: 1:23
Difficulty: Normal.

Tried some new stuff, maybe I should try speedrunning some time.

Miles

2005-04-24 03:46:23 pm

hmmm...good graveworm.
20 minutes better.
now, improve by 20 minutes again :P

graveworm

2005-04-24 04:52:00 pm

Like that's ever gonna happen. :P

Well, I did all of it in one sitting, replayed maybe one or two times when I did huge mistakes, so I am able to improve it, alot, I've even gotten a better time on PAL. I'll try to beat my PAL time when I've got the time to do it, at least I've started to get a hang of the Thardus dash, (stopped failing, taking 10 damage per time though, kip only takes 5, have to practice more, I do the frigate crash site dash, from the grapple point, I'm not in the mood for trying with the sac on the other side of frigate crash site. I've never done that, I don't even know how to do it.

Miles

2005-04-24 04:57:23 pm

yeah, i also think the crash site dash is the hardest dash you have to do. i tried the sap sac trick, and i did it just one time. so it's also hard, and with the grapple point i could do it about 8 times or so.
when i got my ntsc game fresh, i also worked a lot on thardus dash and i also became very good, i could do it almost at first try every time. but i didn't practice the thardus dash for a long time, because i was busy with other stuff in prime, and now i got bad at the thardus dash, hehe. now i can only do it one time in many tries. hehe

graveworm

2005-04-24 05:09:23 pm

I got my 0-00 copy a couple of weeks ago, so I can't say I have much experience with it at all. I do seem to get things right on the first try though. I never watched a movie of the Thardus dash before I did it myself, I only saw the sap sac frigate crash site dash and of course, I did it with a pirate before I did it myself with the grapple point.

silent (((((echo)))))

2005-04-30 06:28:30 pm

My speed run : 2h11 on normal mode with 44% of items collected. :D
EDIT : I play with the PAL version of the game.

StefanvanDijke

2005-05-06 11:18:53 am

Best any % (31) 1:14

I think I will redo the last segment, the Prime fight was horrible.

Mr. Aran

2005-05-06 04:56:39 pm

everybody knows it's true

Nice time. For your next run try to goal at the fabled 1:02-3

Skreemaster

2005-05-06 05:01:59 pm

I'll be back. Maybe...

But kip's 1:04 is already insane. How much further can you go?

Mr. Aran

2005-05-06 05:04:02 pm

everybody knows it's true

Kip himself said that his Prime 1 fight was better do-able.

Skreemaster

2005-05-06 05:09:20 pm

I'll be back. Maybe...

Probably not by a whole minute, though. That's a long time in a speed run. And there aren't any more items which would decrease time if dropped, especially not SJ (T/3BJing and doing odd dashes everywhere takes much longer than space jumping). It probably is just about possible, and I have no doubt that, should emulation of the gamecube ever work, someone would emu-rape a sub-hour, but humanly, I don't think less than 1:03 is possible.

graveworm

2005-05-06 05:58:51 pm

I'm posting this here, because it's a post about getting faster times, and I have a couple of questions, if you find it inappropriate, please move this post. I didn't want to start a new topic.

I've been doing some runs lately, only saving because if I would screw up somewhere like missing FCS dash or the game would crash, doing sub 1:20 on most of them, and I'm thinking about playing Prime on hardmode doing a "real" runthrough as fast as I can, replaying segments until I get what I want, and then I wonder:

What will be faster? Picking up an energy tank, like the one in the room before the first elevator to Phendrana, or skipping all energy tanks except the one after Omega? (The chances of survival is very slim on hardmode without any extra energy, I havn't seen kip's 1:54 hard low%, so I don't know how fast he goes with 99 energy, maybe I'll watch it someday.)

And how many missiles will I need? 20 like kip has, or should I pick up some more since the mini-bosses have more life, and if so, which ones?

I'll go with the 29% route that kip uses, (I don't know who made that route, but to the one who did, yeah, I'll use your route.) + eventual items that may be added for extra speed.

Thank you very much in advance.

I'm posting this here, because it's a post about getting faster times, and I have a couple of questions, if you find it inappropriate, please move this post. I didn't want to start a new topic.

I've been doing some runs lately, only saving because if I would screw up somewhere like missing FCS dash or the game would crash, doing sub 1:20 on most of them, and I'm thinking about playing Prime on hardmode doing a "real" runthrough as fast as I can, replaying segments until I get what I want, and then I wonder:

What will be faster? Picking up an energy tank, like the one in the room before the first elevator to Phendrana, or skipping all energy tanks except the one after Omega? (The chances of survival is very slim on hardmode without any extra energy, I havn't seen kip's 1:54 hard low%, so I don't know how fast he goes with 99 energy, maybe I'll watch it someday.)

And how many missiles will I need? 20 like kip has, or should I pick up some more since the mini-bosses have more life, and if so, which ones?

I'll go with the 29% route that kip uses, (I don't know who made that route, but to the one who did, yeah, I'll use your route.) + eventual items that may be added for extra speed.

Thank you very much in advance.

StefanvanDijke

2005-05-06 06:31:35 pm

there is already a hard mode run, but that one uses a different route. You better whatch that as well, and yeh you need more missles, about 35-40. Finding them isn't realy hard. Think about: Gathering Hall (CR), Elite Control Access (PM) , Transport Tunnel B (TO) and there is probably more. Getting the Ice spreater is also an option since you have more missiles. Anyway, good luck on your run.

I captured my 1:14 run but I don't know if I should upload it. Don't know if anyone's interested. Just let me know and I might think about it.

graveworm

2005-05-06 06:56:39 pm

I've seen Ekarderif's 1:24, and I've noticed some pretty sloppy parts which may be improved. I wont be picking up any combo weapon, so I wont need more missiles than to take out the elite pirates + bring alot of pain to Ridley, to finish him with plasma or ice. So I'm thinking 25-30 missiles.

If you're 1:14 looks just like kip's but with more mistakes, I see no point in uploading it, but if you've add some new things, I guess people would be interested. But really, it's not up to me.

Ekarderif

2005-05-06 07:01:29 pm

Quote from graveworm:

I've seen Ekarderif's 1:24, and I've noticed a lot of very sloppy parts which there is no fucking reason it should not be improved.

Fixed.

graveworm

2005-05-07 05:27:52 am

Are you doing it, or do I get free hands?

Miles

2005-05-07 12:46:24 pm

No graveworm, Ekard is doing it!
and guys:sorry, it's not personally, but i don't think anybody of you can beat kip.
kip is heavenly. nobody can beat kip. he's the king of that game.