One shall stand, one shall ball.
And i think he can dish out twice as much damage as normal also.
Actually, he does 100 damage on normal and 200 damage on hard. Talk about pain...
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So let's see... he's twice as hard with 100%, he probably has twice as much HP on Hard, your weapons only do half the damage on that setting, his attacks do twice as much to you, and you have half the available health... so Mecha Ridley on 100% Hard is already 32 times harder than on Normal, and that's not even counting your reduced arsenal. I'm somewhat less annoyed with myself now. :)
Time bomb set get out fast!
Another personal record -- I just got my first sub-hour ZM game. I finished at 0:49:59 with 35% (on Normal). I used all the speed tricks I can pull off... an annoying exception being the Skip Acid Worm trick, Power Grip version, which I tried over and over but couldn't do. Anyone got some advice for that one? Making that whole detour to kill the acid worm cost me more than three minutes, even with two Super Missiles to speed up the fight.
2 Super Missiles on normal there? I usually have 4 of them. Since that allows super fast Kraid kill. But for the skip acid worm trick with power grip, just roll out of the edge, press up twice and then left, and when at the last one, lay 4 bombs to hold you up while you move to the left, and if you have to, quickly unmorph and grab the ledge, be sure to save just before going down there though.
Time bomb set get out fast!
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2 Super Missiles on normal there? I usually have 4 of them.
Normally, so do I -- but after I got the one to the left of the long drop room just before Ridley, I forgot to go back for the one on the right. I was kicking myself for the rest of the run, believe me.
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But for the skip acid worm trick with power grip, just roll out of the edge, press up twice and then left, and when at the last one, lay 4 bombs to hold you up while you move to the left, and if you have to, quickly unmorph and grab the ledge, be sure to save just before going down there though.
Hmm... all 4 bombs? The page said two, but if four helps, I'll certainly try it. What do you mean about pressing up, though? Between the block and the ceiling, that doesn't do anything.
Scarlet: I bet it would, at that. Getting to the area would be faster too, since you'd have a stronger beam to trash the enemies in the way. The catch is that you'd have to use the horizontal bomb jump method for skipping him.
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I'm wondering if it would be faster to do the Acid Worm skip in a 100%, then go back there and kill it with supers later for the items there?
Nah, would end up costing time in the long run. Aside from being forced to bomb jump across the acid pool, you'd also be missing the missile expansion in the room with the 4 morph ball launchers, plus having to save up and extra shine just to get back through the rio room after Kraid.
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Ready and willing.
Heh, well, that's what you get when you make a record... competition. That's why records are kept in the first place.
SDA won't take a run if it A) is deemed to not be very good, B) the capture sucks (webcam, et al.) or C) It breaks the rules in ways that don't just get time penalties.
SDA won't take a run if it A) is deemed to not be very good, B) the capture sucks (webcam, et al.) or C) It breaks the rules in ways that don't just get time penalties.