God... Look at that screenshot above. See the score? See how it's a 9% Hard game? Notice that I posted it. That would lead one to believe that I got the score, which is only attainable on a Euro. game. ...Yes. I got it. Thanks to Psychad. You rock.
I tried that, and I get to the last Metroid room before I either get sucked by a metroid because of too many of them, or because a rinka hits me and I get sucked by a Metroid. I also got REALLY DARN CLOSE to beating that room once(one metroid left), but then a rinka hit me and I died.
Update on my 100% hard run: I am saved in Kraid with 6:52, where AJ had 7:31 . The first segment was identicle to his first segment, but in the second one I "skipped" the Varia Suit, (AJ got it) and I nabbed the E-Tank in the ceiling next to the skrees (AJ saved that one for later) .
Why did you get the E-tank next to the skrees? I think it's faster if you save it for later. Anyway, good luck with the heat rooms; I think they're hard to get past in 100% hard without Varia.
Well never fear, I haven't done it either. The hardest run i've accomplished is a 9% normal run, which I finished in about 1:11, and took me a month to finish.
Why did you get the E-tank next to the skrees? I think it's faster if you save it for later. Anyway, good luck with the heat rooms; I think they're hard to get past in 100% hard without Varia.
I've timed that one out extensively...the time is identical wiether you bomb jump early to get it or wait until you have space jump...thus the reason I pick it up early (and helps in a Varia-less Norfair environment )
That post would teach me to IBJ to the e-tank near the skrees, because as soon as I started skipping Varia, I started saving that one until later, thus making the heat rooms harder. That explains why I had so much trouble with the heat rooms
omfg i just got my run sub-hour... cant make a screenshot tho... 00:57:16 41% normal difficulty
im tired of ZM, i dont understand how u folx can work months on one speed run... its plain impossible, id fall asleep... anyhoo, ima cut out playing zm and work on my fusion skills... btw, that secret message isnt that hard, now is it?
I had a really nice single segment run going - I messed up the bomb jump after power grip and I miscounted my missiles on spore spawn, but otherwise it was pretty good. everything from Ridley to the suit was very, very good.
I had been playing for about two hours straight, though, and my hands were hurting. can't stop in the middle of a single segment run, though, so I went on. everything from chozodia on was just me thinking "man, I know these hands are going to make me miss a super missile on mecha ridley."
yup.
now, this wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't really, really stupid. I sat there shooting missiles at him until he died, and by "shooting missiles at him", I mean I just kept jumping and shooting until he died. once he died, I said to myself "oh my god, I have two missiles. there's no way I can shoot that robot."
to make a long story short, I went back and watched my run - I lost 9 seconds on mecha ridley, and -28- seconds waiting for the (insert word) robot to walk his slow ass out of the way.
30:32, 26%. I'd send it to nate but that escape was just embarassing. I'll get under 30 soon.