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Normal: 52:17 41% 0 saves, I'm still working on all the others...
time: 1:00:22
percentage: 36%
difficulty: normal

Well... A FEW SECONDS DANG IT!  Evil or Very Mad  :(
lol no way
I bet you could shave them off from the last save, just try to do it near perfectly, throw in the last shinespark shortcut.
1st run - Easy 2:37 with 67% items
2nd run - Normal 1:35 with 87% items
3rd run - Normal 1:17 with 55% items - Ridley before Kraid

currently working on a Hard Run.
1:18, 46%, Normal. I feel so special.
Difficulty: Normal
Time: 1:07:37
Percentage: 15%

My first 15% game. Quite good imo :)
lol no way
Yeah, that's really good! Especially for a first run! Nice!
Thanks. Nice to hear from someone so established on the ZM scene ;)

The Mecha-Ridley & Mother Brain owned me for quite a while since I entirely skipped Super Missiles & got 3 standard missiles + 3 E. Tanks + Long Beam instead :)
lol no way
Meh, long beam is a good choice, helps a lot for every normal enemy... getting supers is also a good choice, but getting all missiles would be a good challenge I suppose.
What is a 15% run and how to do you (generally) go about doing it?

I figure it's pretty much only getting 15% of items in the game but how many non-essential items can you collect on top of the 'musts' (morph ball, bomb, missile)
You get 6 free items of your choice. 'Cause you must pick up 9% of the upgrades which are the following:

Morph ball
Bomb
1 Missile tank
Power grip
Ice beam
Varia suit
Unknown item 1 (Plasma beam)
Unknown item 2 (Space jump)
Unknown item 3 (Gravity suit)
(Taken from stormeagle6' 15% guide @ GF.com)

In a 9% game you obviously can't pick up anything besides the items mentioned above :) Stormeagle6 recommends getting 3 Supers + 3 E. Tanks on Normal.
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Ready and willing.
Get the Screw Attack. It makes Robo-Ridely and especially MB a skillion times easier.
MB doesn't need to be any easier. Even on hard 15% she's pretty darn simple if you know the "right side of left platform" trick. However, does screw attack make Robo Ridley much easier? 'Cause I just can't kill him. Got 2 e-tanks, 3 supers and the hi-jump, since there's no way I could've gotten out of Tourian in a minute without it.
I think it does, because you can just space jump in the upper-left corner and let the missiles hit you for the refills
Ok, but worth giving up 50 life points for? If I'm going to restart, that's what I'd be skipping.
Well if you just crouch in the down-left corner, Ridley ain't that hard. Just don't hold down the L button when you're jumping over the lasers 'cause he usually tries to swap you right after that. And you need to crouch fast then :)
The problem is that ol' Iron Ted enjoys linking up his attacks, so if I were to jump over the lasers, I'd find him shooting missiles at me at the same time, and then swiping me just for the hell of it. Boy, I wonder how Sess feels about this guy, seeing how he's chock full of gooey random goodness.
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Ready and willing.
Quote from MetalRidley:
Ok, but worth giving up 50 life points for? If I'm going to restart, that's what I'd be skipping.


Oh yeah, in Hard that 50 simply doesn't really matter. The pirates do a hundred each, and when you have the screw attack, you only die from getting hit with a laser into the claw.
Ok, but if I find this more impossible than my current run, it'll be your head!  Wink

EDIT: Ok, I'm in Tourian now, with 3 Supers, high jump, and screw attack. So far, it doesn't seem to be too much harder, though there was little room for error on Ridley. I guess I'll be at Robo Ridley's save point by tuesday. I'll see how it goes from there!
I managed to complete my first sub-2 hours run today.

Difficulty: Normal
Time: 1:56:07
Percentage 100%

This was with practically no Sequence Breaking though I did get the Varia kinda early. But not extremely early. And quite a bit of item searching 'cause I forgot about 10% on my way through it :D And couldn't figure out where they were since none of them were to be seen on the map :)

Better luck next time. On Hard then.
Quote from Alec:
you must pick up 9% of the upgrades which are the following:

Morph ball
Bomb
1 Missile tank
Power grip
Ice beam
Varia suit
Unknown item 1 (Plasma beam)
Unknown item 2 (Space jump)
Unknown item 3 (Gravity suit)
(Taken from stormeagle6' 15% guide @ GF.com)


I don't think the Power Grip is a 'must get' item... or the Ice Beam.... I could be wrong though
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I don't remember exactly where, but if you don't take the Power Grip, a barrier appears and does not let you advance (I think it was at Norfair, but I'm not sure), and disappears when you pick it up. So that makes it a Must-Get item.
Quote from skynes:
I don't think the Power Grip is a 'must get' item... or the Ice Beam.... I could be wrong though


Power grip:

A barrier, which is normally eaten by the little leeches, dissapears only when you have this one. It is located in the big room in norfair, from the elevator: 2 right.

Ice Beam:

Can you say... metroids? :p
Ok yoshi, now I've gotten my full-power suit and working through Chozodia. MB was easier, I guess. I didn't have to recharge using the left platform, I just kept leaping from left to right and back. Now for the moment of truth: to see if 149 energy will be enough for RR, or the truncated escape sequence afterwards...
lol no way
01:02:42 100% Hard.

This was my first 100% hard run, and I basically followed Scarlet's routs with a few of the newer tricks thrown in.