yay new personal record! 01:24:11 100%. This is about as good as I can get with the route I'm most comfortable with - getting power grip and hi-jump before Kraid.
YAY just got 1:23:08
YAY just got 1:23:08
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Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!
Not at all.
This is a speedrunning site, and this is how progress is made. At the rate you're decreasing the time, I suspect that on a perfect run, you'd manage a 1:15.
If you wanted to crank it right down, it looks like you may need to work out a new route.
Congratulations, either way!
This is a speedrunning site, and this is how progress is made. At the rate you're decreasing the time, I suspect that on a perfect run, you'd manage a 1:15.
If you wanted to crank it right down, it looks like you may need to work out a new route.
Congratulations, either way!
Holy sheepshit, batman!
1:17:22 100%, normal, 4 segments, DS Lite
I knew that playing with a D-pad vs. a gamecube controller would increase my time, but I was surprised (quite pleasantly) that it increased by an entire 2 minutes. Morphing/unmorphing is much faster plus I seem to have a much faster firing rate on the DS.
1:17:22 100%, normal, 4 segments, DS Lite
I knew that playing with a D-pad vs. a gamecube controller would increase my time, but I was surprised (quite pleasantly) that it increased by an entire 2 minutes. Morphing/unmorphing is much faster plus I seem to have a much faster firing rate on the DS.
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I knew that playing with a D-pad vs. a gamecube controller would increase my time
[nitpick]Decrease surely makes more sense?[/nitpick]
In fact, that sounds a bit iffy too - perhaps 'lower' would be best.
Either way, good job. Have you considered any route changes, or is it now too ingrained?
It does feel ingrained at this point. I make several small adjustments everytime I watch someone's run and find a new idea, but the basic item acquisition order stays the same. I have tried to the sub-hour 100% route, but the HBJ-ing is very frustrating. I would have to completely master bomb jumping to accept that route, and I haven't really had any breakthroughs trying to get better at it. Even now I just mash the button to do an IBJ, there's no precise timing involved other than the rapid button mash. I haven't even gotten good at the normal 1...2,3 rhythm of normal bomb jumping, I'm ashamed to say.
I have thought about looking at dragondarch's and breaking it into sections, practicing each one over and over. Because of the BJ-ing tricks involved, I bet that his route would take me 2.5 hours to complete.
I'm currently doing it this way:
morph ball
long beam
missiles
charge beam
bombs
unknown item#1
power grip
ice beam
high jump
unknown item#2
speed booster
super missiles (the ones that you have to speedball into the left side of the blue brinstar shaft)
varia
screw attack
wave beam
unknown item#3
gravity
power bombs
item cleanup in the following order: crateria, norfair, ridley, norfair, kraid, thru brinstar to crateria, tourian, crateria, and then that last fucking PB tank way up high in chozodia.
I don't want my route to be 'ingrained'. I think I'm just having so much more fun going that route vs. the frustration of trying a new one. Maybe over time I'll get bored enough with it enough that I become more receptive to changing it.
I have thought about looking at dragondarch's and breaking it into sections, practicing each one over and over. Because of the BJ-ing tricks involved, I bet that his route would take me 2.5 hours to complete.
I'm currently doing it this way:
morph ball
long beam
missiles
charge beam
bombs
unknown item#1
power grip
ice beam
high jump
unknown item#2
speed booster
super missiles (the ones that you have to speedball into the left side of the blue brinstar shaft)
varia
screw attack
wave beam
unknown item#3
gravity
power bombs
item cleanup in the following order: crateria, norfair, ridley, norfair, kraid, thru brinstar to crateria, tourian, crateria, and then that last fucking PB tank way up high in chozodia.
I don't want my route to be 'ingrained'. I think I'm just having so much more fun going that route vs. the frustration of trying a new one. Maybe over time I'll get bored enough with it enough that I become more receptive to changing it.
1:17:26 100% SS. 4 seconds shy of my record, but I can think of about 5 serious mistakes I made including a not-so-great mecha ridley fight. This is very good news to me, because a few weeks ago I had thought that my skills were gone completely, but now it looks like they are better than they were before. This makes me happy.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
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Not really.
I tend to play all games on easy, get used to the game,
I tend to play all games on easy, get used to the game,
Most games just make the enemies weaker n easy, that I can understand. This game removes enemies from the game on easy because it doesn't believe you can handle multiple Zoomers on screen at once.